CH 402

It could be said that Lin Xiao put in a lot of effort all for this moment.

He knew that this plague was surely related to the enlightened society, if they just randomly investigated, it wouldn’t go anywhere. The best way was to catch someone and interrogate them!

In order to lure them out, Lin Xiao didn’t have the others come help because if they were too strong, the enemy would hide and not come out and that way the enemy would get a grasp of their strength, and all their cards would be exposed.

That’s why he told Yao Zi and Elena to hide somewhere far away, pairing Yao Zi’s strength with Elena’s perception, they made the perfect hunting squad.

Flaming meteor was large-scale magic, it may be strong, but its drawbacks were evident and that was it wasn’t very accurate. This meant that quick enemies could easily evade it, but Elena perfectly covered up that gap.

“Damn! Does this rock have eyes?”

Every time he wanted to escape towards a certain direction, the meteor above him would instantly adjust itself towards that same direction like it had eyes and was staring at him. He even suspected that there was a magnet on him and that there was some metal in the meteor, so that’s why it was being attracted to him…

It couldn’t be helped, he had not much time left and he would be crushed if he tried running, so he could only just take it head-on.

He clenched his fist and the blackish purple mist seeped out and enveloped his entire body as the large meteor came crashing down.

There was a loud explosion and the intense shock waves sent the rock fragments in all directions taking care of the nearby living dead and the scorching hot flames lit up the dim forest.

“Did it work?”

“No, he blocked it… what the hell, black magic again?”

As the dust settled, darkness slowly stood up within the flames, although he looked to be in a wretched state with holes riddles in his clothes, burns on his arm, he, unfortunately, didn’t receive any serious injuries since that black mist blocked most of the impact.

Not just Lin Xiao, Elena never expected this either as she quickly continued on with the next attack.

“Yao Zi, tighten the lightning circle!”

“Yes!”

The lightning current crackled as that circle tightened as it tried to catch Darkness.

But they were still a beat too slow… even if Elena was able to let Yao Zi know as soon as possible, Yao Zi wasn’t able to react as quickly and there was an opening.

The instant the circle began tightening, Darkness leaped up and the mist dragged his body and he flew out like he was weightless.

“Did you forget about me!”

Lin Xiao swung his hands and several gorgeous purple balls shot out and quickly caught up to that black mist.

“Mystic bullet? Not good…”

He shivered as he saw those crystal balls and tried to use the thick mist to block them, but although his mist could resist the meteor explosion, it couldn’t do anything against the mystic energy erosion.

Every time a light ball exploded around him, he could feel the intense magic vortex that disrupted his control. The little balls were far more fatal than the huge meteor.

What should he do? Try to avoid them?

Impossible, he saw Lin Xiao’s control with magic, so he knows that no matter whichever direction he goes, they’ll keep following him…. the only choice was to take the initiative to attack!

Darkness grabbed his arms and dug his fingertips into his flesh and pulled creating several bloody scratches on his scorched arm, at the same time, all the blackish-purple mist abruptly changed to a bloody red.

“Black magic… voodoo life claim!”

He endured the pain in his arms and gathered all the bloody mist in front of him and let out unbelievable power.

A thick blood red light pillar shot out and swallowed all the light balls along the way, even if it couldn’t swallow the power of the balls, all the mystic bullets were forcibly detonated.

That was his plan, no matter how strong the mystic bullets were, they were nothing if he forced them to explode away from him!

“Hmph, nice try… but too naive!”

Lin Xiao didn’t panic as all his mystic bullets were rendered useless, all he did was lightly curl his index finger.

Using the rebound from his attack, Darkness quickly flew backward and he was about to escape the danger zone but he suddenly heard a swish from behind.

“What? Behind?”

He never would have expected that Lin Xiao would prepare that counterattack, he silently floated one mystic bullet to a distance and then gave him a fatal strike when he let his guard down.

This time he had no more room for counterattacks and could only take it.

Crack…

The glass-like bullet hit him square in the body and instantly exploded, the vortex shattered his defenses and shred through his body…

“Ahhh!!!”

A miserable cry echoed throughout the forest and his fresh hot blood splattered from the night sky… he endured the pain and took a look and saw that his entire abdomen was completely mangled and he could even see through to his intestines. He almost passed out from the pain and could only slowly fall down and then escape into the forest while clutching his stomach.

But that wasn’t the end.

Perhaps he was hallucinating because of the pain but when he landed, he saw poignant cherry blossoms fluttering in front of him.

“Cherry dance, blossom!”

“What? An assassination technique!?”

Even though his vision was blocked by the cherry blossoms, he could still feel that cold and sharp killing intent.

There was no doubt that this was a genuine assassin! They were going to give him a fatal strike from his blind spot when he was the weakest, so there was nothing he could do to avoid it.

“A long-distance magic sniper team, a silent assassin, Lin Xiao, who are you…”

He became more fearful the more he thought about it.

Not only did Lin Xiao possess terrifying strength, but he also had reliable teammates. Under his lead, who knows how much more trouble they would cause for them if they were left alone.

Right now, he was just vexed that he underestimated the enemy. Now that he was seriously injured with his life hanging on a thread, he had no way of reporting back to the apostle and this will probably lead to an unimaginable disaster…

The cherry blossoms fluttered and what replaced them was a shiny sword, but Darkness didn’t move as if he had already given up.

Was it over?

As he was watching ShenDai Ying about to cut his legs off, and Darkness soon to become their prisoner, Lin Xiao felt that there was something off. He glanced back and noticed that Elena was waving at him like there was danger.

Elena had Yao Zi to protect her and with her perception skill, they shouldn’t be in danger, so the reason she was nervously waving was because…

“Something’s wrong… Sister Ying, run!!!”

“Eh?”

As an assassin, since she had already unsheathed her blade, there was no reason to take it back. As long as she cut, his legs would surely be amputated, but… Lin Xiao was someone she trusted, not just running, even if he told her to cut herself, she would do it.

There was a clang as ShenDai Ying threw her sword down and kicked back and disappeared like she teleported.

At the same time, a strange black object silently fell down next to her sword.

Bang!

The object exploded and a thick blackish-purple mist exploded out that was even eerier than the black magic from earlier as it tumbled and rose like it was alive.

ShenDai Ying was stunned as she stared at the mist from a distance. If she didn’t avoid it in time, who knows what would have happened to her.

“What… is that?”

When the mist dispersed, Darkness was already gone and there was not a single blade of grass left where that mist touched.