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Neris shouted as she chased after Salin. "Master, this guy wanted to steal His Highness Rex, but he didn't succeed. Don't be too impulsive …"
Salin really wanted to turn around and punch Neris, but he didn't have the time. If he lost the target, even his Elemental Eye wouldn't be able to detect a level-10 assassin hiding.
Agares was probably already in the belly of the big fish. After he entered, he didn't notice Agares' presence. This already proved that his worries weren't unfounded.
Agares's laughter completely disappeared. Salin was affected by Nelis's words and really lost track of Agares. It was as if Agares had never existed. Under the observation of the Elemental Eye, there were no traces of humans passing through the space tunnel.
Salin immediately slowed down. No matter how strong his defense was, he couldn't block Agares' dagger. That dagger didn't suffer any damage from his Eye of Thunder attack.
As Salin slowed down, Sicar and Neris immediately rushed to his side, one on the left and one on the right, protecting Salin.
Sue didn't dare to show off. Agares' kick didn't hurt him. The star-patterned cloth armor Salin gave him blocked Agares' attack very well. However, if he moved forward, it would affect Salin's battle. He and Trish were only defending from the back, afraid that the enemy had other tricks up his sleeve.
Eleanor held her longbow and followed at the back. She regretted not burning her life force to shoot the assassin. Agares wasn't Salin's strongest enemy, but he was the most dangerous.
Even until now, Salin had not figured out how Agares had managed to keep his two subordinates by his side and hide them. The two women were at the peak of level-9. Their equipment didn't look eye-catching, but it was definitely harder than crystallized metal.
Sicar's weapon couldn't defeat the combined attack of three assassins. The triangular bone piece might be small, but its attack power wasn't much weaker than Sicar's rod. The powerful knights around the Third Inquisitor all died under the attack of the triangular bone piece.
"Don't split up," Salin cautiously reminded the people around him. He, Sicar, and Neris wouldn't be killed by Agares in one blow, but it was hard to say for the others.
"Master, do you want to summon the devil?" Nelis asked for Salin's opinion.
"No, the assassin will possess the demon. The more people there are, the more advantageous it is for the assassin." Salin stopped Nelis. If they were dealing with ordinary people, the human wave tactic would still be useful. Even an existence on the level of the Pope, wielding a divine artifact, would consume energy to kill.
But what were assassins best at? It was a sneak attack that instantly erupted with a powerful attack power. If this place was full of demons, Agares could even pass through the shadows of the demons, lurking near Salin and waiting for an opportunity.
Salin cast three Level-7 Water Shield on everyone. These shields couldn't block Agares' attack, but they could reduce the attack power. They could also be sensed by Salin the quickest.
Salin couldn't afford to use the Level-10 Water Pattern Shield, and only by using it on himself could it reach the Level-10 effect.
Agares disappeared into the darkness. Salin raised his hand and released hundreds of fluorescence spells, illuminating the surrounding two hundred meters. Assassins were good at using darkness, and Salin made the darkness disappear completely.
For a level-10 Salin, this fluorescence spell didn't consume much more energy than him walking.
The spatial passage in the belly of the big fish led to a vast temple. Salin walked for more than ten miles before he saw the temple's gate.
The gate was tightly shut, and there was a hole as tall as a person. It was obviously newly opened. Beside the hole, there was a word written in the Qin Yin language — Coward.
This was the Qin slang. Agares obviously didn't plan to ambush Salin on the road. Instead, he went straight ahead and broke through the gate when he saw the temple. If Salin sped up, he could still catch up to Agares when he broke through the gate.
After all, it was extremely difficult to destroy the gate of the temple. Agares didn't have Salin's divine spells, so he could only force his way in. And this process of destruction required time.
Of course, Salin wouldn't be angered by Agares. He just released a cleansing spell. When the light of magic fell on the word, the black ink suddenly turned into a viper and pounced at Salin.
If Salin wasn't careful enough and went straight through the hole, the viper would come to life and attack.
Salin released a cloud, and the snowflakes in the cloud instantly cut the viper into pieces. Salin then released a water ball, wrapping the pieces of the viper in it.
This water ball was more than two meters in diameter, and in the blink of an eye, it turned completely opaque black.
The level of this viper wasn't high, but its venom shocked Salin. Salin patted the Gods at his waist, and the water puppet Lawson walked out. Salin pointed at the poisonous water ball and asked, "Can you eat it?"
The water puppet nodded. "It's just venom. It only hurts the body, and has no effect on energy."
Salin immediately understood. This venom sacrificed its ability to damage the soul in exchange for a powerful attack on the physical body. Once the venom touched the body and couldn't be detoxified, the only way was to abandon the body and transfer the soul.
But unless the Chief Inquisitor was here, transferring the soul would definitely cause serious damage. Not only would the strength decrease, but the person who transferred the soul would also become stupid.
"Wait a minute, Master!" Nelis hurriedly stopped the water puppet. If the water puppet absorbed the venom, it would certainly give the water puppet an additional attribute. But the water puppet was a mage, and it could release venomous magic, so it wasn't worth it.
Nelis grabbed a demonic insect egg from her hand and threw it into the poisonous water ball.
The demonic insect egg melted immediately, and Nelis said awkwardly, "Master, add ten water balls to dilute it."
Salin couldn't catch up with Agares anymore, so he simply released ten more water balls to make the venom more liquid. Salin observed with his elemental eyes, and he found that the venom was alive. In other words, the venom itself had life and could replicate itself. So after adding ten water balls, the venom's power was only reduced by less than half.
Nelis then took out a second demonic insect egg and threw it into the venom. This time, the demonic insect egg hatched directly from the magic liquid and turned into a cute green bug.
This bug did not grow as it swallowed the venom. It was about the length of a human's middle finger before it stopped growing and began to lay eggs in the venom.
Salin thought it would take a long time, but the demonic insects died immediately after laying eggs, and new eggs quickly hatched in the venom. Again and again, the number of venomous insects increased dozens of times each time. After only five hatches, apart from the insects that disappeared after swallowing each other, the number of remaining demonic insects had exceeded ten million.
At this time, Nelis let out a sharp whistle, and the sound waves entered the venom. The demonic insects immediately stopped swallowing each other and laid no more eggs.
Nelis then made short and strange syllables, like the sound of a mouse gnawing on wood.
If one of those demonic insects was taken out, it would look like a silkworm, and even the peasant woman would not feel afraid. But the feeling of tens of millions of demonic insects crowded in the huge water ball made everyone's heart go numb.
These demonic insects began to absorb the last bit of venom, and then fell to the ground.
Nelis continued to use sound waves to command the tens of millions of demonic insects to rush into the hole in the door and quickly burrow through it. Salin and the others felt a lot more comfortable. Nelis said, "Don't worry, these demonic insects will not attack us. Just don't attack them. If the demonic insects are attacked and explode, they will spray venom. "
Everyone was relieved. Demonic insects were generally demons' food, but some demonic insects were so powerful that demons did not dare to prey on them. The most powerful attack of these demonic insects that Nelis hatched was spitting venom, and their lifespans were quite long. If they were not forcibly catalyzed and produced offspring, they could live for about 20 to 30 years.
"Master, these demonic insects can be found in every temple. I will know if one dies." Nelis said proudly to Salin, "The venom of these demonic insects has already mutated. Even if Agares is not afraid of the original venom, he will be afraid of this."
Although Nelis's method was somewhat ordinary, it was the best method at the moment. Salin could naturally do this, but it would consume a lot of magic strings. Agares left the poisonous snakes that attacked him in order to put pressure on him. As a result, Nelis used this highly toxic venom to cultivate a large number of demonic insects.
No matter how powerful Agares's Assassin skills were, he could not attach himself to a finger-sized insect, let alone use the shadows of these insects.
If he could do this, Agares would not be a Level 10 Assassin, but a Level 13 one.
There were indeed Level 13 Assassins in history, but compared to Level 13 Mages, they were nothing. In the end, any profession would seem weak to Mages. After surpassing Level 13, Mages could continue fighting for a longer time, and this advantage of Warriors would disappear.
Salin followed the venomous insects into the temple. This temple was not the same as the other temples that Salin had taken. Goddess Myers did not know why, but there were no duplicates in the design of the temples. The temples were connected, and Agares was not in the first temple. Salin watched the demonic insects drill into the first temple, so he simply bypassed the temple and walked to the second temple.
"Master, no …" Nelis could not control all the demonic insects. She could only know if the demonic insects had been killed. Two consecutive temples were already full of these small verdant insects, but there was still no trace of Agares.
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