If a Level One Divine Official were to die here, the Church would definitely investigate. If he was going to die, then so be it. It didn't matter whether he stretched out his head or withdrew his head. Cang Hong's face twisted into an abstract pattern. The whip in his hand was straight and stabbed towards the mage like a spear.
The light on the mage's body grew stronger and stronger. Even his clothes seemed to be burning. A ferocious black snakehead suddenly emerged from the tip of the whip. It opened its mouth and bit into the mage's chest.
The black snakehead had shrunk after passing through the holy light. The bite didn't hurt the mage. The mage just trembled and continued chanting his prayers.
Lucas's iron feather was deflected by the holy light. Sala's sword couldn't even cut through the mage's clothes. The worst was Kuck. His steel claws stabbed into the mage's stomach, but even his wrists were broken.
"Sicar, go with Pino …" Sarlin was worried about leaving Pino alone. But if Sicar didn't help, it would be impossible. Once the mage finished the summoning process, everyone here would die. As for whether there were still people lying in ambush, Sarlin couldn't care less.
Pino didn't say anything. He raised his sword and rushed towards the mage.
Sicar followed behind Pino. Just as Pino's sword was about to pierce the mage's throat, Sicar suddenly sped up and swung her huge stick down.
Boom!
Both hit their targets at almost the same time. The sword slid to the side, while Sicar's stick bounced up vertically, sending Sicar tumbling backwards. The light on the mage's body dimmed. He fell forward, his face hitting the ground with a frightening sound.
Lucas was very fast. As an archer, he also had the ability to fight in close combat. It could be said that he was the more balanced force in the team. He picked up the triangular sword on the ground and stabbed it into the back of the mage's head. The light on the mage's body was completely extinguished. Everyone panted heavily and stopped in exhaustion.
The triangular sword pierced through the mage's head and stabbed into the ground, forming a palm-sized wound. Even an oracle couldn't heal such an injury.
The mage writhed on the ground, still unwilling to die. Only then did Sicar stop rolling and look at the mage nailed into the ground in surprise.
"Shika, good job!" Cook turned around and praised him.
"It wasn't me!" Sicar was still confused. His stick definitely didn't break through the mage's defense. It only slowed him down.
"Watch out!" Cang Hong shouted. Her whip whistled and lashed out.
Lucas simply used his short bow to hit the mage, but it still didn't stop the attack. A black shadow drilled into Cook's abdomen. Cook violently bounced up, almost three meters high, and then fell heavily to the ground. There was a large hole in his abdomen. Blood slowly flowed out.
There was a large hole in his abdomen. Everyone was at a loss. Cook was writhing on the ground. His abdomen was no longer in pain, and he was starting to feel numb. However, the feeling of his life slipping away was still very clear. The creature in his abdomen was desperately releasing its venom, and at the same time, it was sucking Cook's bodily fluids. Soon, the wound on Cook's abdomen had expanded to more than a foot in diameter.
Salin held a level-three magic core in his hand, desperately trying to recover his magic strings. But only a minute had passed. He couldn't even support a level-one spell. Salin regretted it a little. If he knew this place was so dangerous, he would've bought a few magic scrolls.
"Kuck …" Sarah crouched down, wanting to help. A black creature suddenly sprang out of the wound on Kuck's abdomen and pounced at Sarah. Sarah rolled on the ground. Pino's longsword had already hit the black creature.
The black creature squeaked and flew towards the stone wall. Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a black spider. Its fist-sized body was covered in black bristles. Six eyes darted around.
A similar spider also crawled out of the dead mage's back. These two spiders slowly leaned against each other, with no intention of escaping.
"It's a hunter spider!" Salin shouted. Cang Hong and the others were furious. Kuck wouldn't be able to survive. The mage was also killed by a hunter spider. Shika's attack only caused the magic to pause. The hunter spider found a gap and burrowed into the mage's body.
Salin tried his best to control the three bubbles to protect him. At the same time, he desperately absorbed the magic core in his hand. As long as he had ten minutes, he would be able to recover his combat strength.
Cang Hong and the others seemed to forget the danger and pounced at the two hunters.
Salin sighed and said in a low voice, "Shika, go help. I'm fine."
He knew that the remaining four people should have no problem dealing with the two spiders. But the hunter spiders were hard to kill and fast. If the battle dragged on, accidents might happen.
Hunter Spider: Level-Four creature, no magic core. Characteristics: Venomous, high speed, fangs that can gnaw through magic or magic shields. Good at concealment. Doesn't know how to weave webs. Likes to wander in caves and kill monsters. It burrows into the monster's body and releases its venom, turning the organs into juice. Usually, the hunter spiders act alone.
The eight claws of the hunter spiders were extremely sharp. They could instantly tear through the skin of a monster and burrow into its body. These things were the favorite pets of mages. But now that Cang Hong and the others were in a killing frenzy, Salin didn't dare to say anything about keeping them alive.
What a waste of two magic pets!
At this time, the pale red whip had already tied up a Hunter Spider. The Hunter Spider moved its forelegs and cut off the whip's tip, rolling backwards. Shika rushed over and smashed the Hunter Spider's body with his stick. With a squeak, the Hunter Spider screamed in pain as it was smashed flat, but it was not dead yet. It spat out black venom with all its might. Schica dodged to the side. The witcher spider, which had almost been turned into a meat patty, waved its eight claws and stood up again.
Salin felt that he had recovered a little and tried to prepare a spell. As he finished the spell, a white light shone on the ground and trapped the other hunter spider.
First-level spell, Instant Frost.
The hunter spider's magic resistance was very high. This first-level spell could only stop it for less than a second, but it was enough. The most troublesome thing about it was its speed. The two's attacks almost all missed. Salin's spell instantly froze the surface of the hunter spider's body. Lucas' iron feather shot out in time and nailed the hunter spider to the ground.
Salin knew that he didn't have any spells he could use. He could have cast two second-level spells, but in order to speed up his casting, he had to overuse the magic strings in his body to successfully kill the spear swordsman. After the magic strings were used up, he could only rely on the magic core to recover quickly. But casting second-level spells was out of the question. He could only cast first-level spells, and a pitiful number of them were water spells.
Without the swordsman's cooperation, he would never have been able to kill this kind of hunter spider. And without Salin's spells, these swordsmen wouldn't have been able to kill such a fast level-four creature.
Salin began to understand why mages were so valued. Even a first-level mage could change the outcome of a battle.
He stopped Cang Hong and the others from dismembering the corpse and said, "I need a complete hunter spider corpse to make a puppet. You can sell the other one for money."
Cang Hong and the others calmed down. What Salin said made sense. Cook was already dead, so there was no point in destroying the hunter spider's corpse. Everyone quietly retrieved the luggage they had left in the cave, and Salin retrieved the flattened Witcher Spider.
He couldn't even draw scrolls now, not to mention making a puppet. That required a lot of knowledge about magic arrays. But hunter spiders were very rare materials. They liked to move alone and were hard to find in dark caves. Even without a magic core, the claws of a hunter spider could break through magic or divine defenses. It was one of the best materials for making puppets.
After putting the black hunter spider into his leather bag, Salin's magic strings had recovered by one-fifth. He could probably cast four first-level spells now. At this time, his Water Pattern Shield had disappeared, and the three huge bubbles seemed to have never existed. Salin silently calculated. After the Water Pattern Shield mutated, it could only last for less than three minutes in the air.
This spell could last for a battle, but not long enough for long-term defense.
The remaining four members of the Grey Falcon mercenary corps began to dig the cave and bury Cook. Salin began to collect the spoils of war. The armors of the people killed by Shika were completely broken, so they were no longer worth collecting. There were no magic arrows left on the archer, only a few gold coins.
After collecting the corpses, Salin finally found a letter on the mage's body, as well as a badge belonging to the mage. There were a few lines written in Tanggulas on the back of the badge. Salin read it and didn't say anything.
The badge clearly stated the priest's position – Salvatore Cathedral, Level One Priest, Cauchy.
What was worse was the letter. The person who wrote it used a commanding tone to order this level one priest to enter the Chaos Swamp and cooperate with the Holy Church's operation. There was only a code name for this operation, but no description.
Cauchy himself didn't know what the code name "Humility" meant. He was only a pioneer, using the Vulture mercenary corps to enter the Chaos Swamp and wait for orders.
The person who wrote the letter had an unfamiliar signature – Faka.
At the end of the letter, there was a seal. Although Salin didn't know much about the Holy Church, he still recognized this seal. It represented Cauchy, the unlucky priest, who was under the command of the Holy Church.
Salin passed the letter to everyone, and the atmosphere in the cave became even more tense.
The Holy Church controlled the Tanggulas Empire on the Myers Continent. After more than 200 years of operation, it was already a huge force. Not to mention the Holy Knights that were stationed on the Bright Plain, the Religious Court of Inquiry that was outside of the Privy Council was enough to make most people afraid.
These were only the regular forces; the most terrifying ones were the seven God's Messengers under the Pope. It was heard that the seven God's Messengers were blessed by the gods and had powers that didn't belong to this world.
Every God's Messenger had the power of a level 9 mage. The person that Salin and the others killed was the vanguard of the seven God's Messengers. After thinking about that, Cang Hong had the urge to commit suicide.
If it was just an unimportant priest who went missing, the Holy Church wouldn't come all the way here to investigate. However, this priest suddenly disappeared while he was on a mission. Even an idiot would know that something bad happened to him.
Even though Blue Falcon Mercenary Group didn't leave any special traces in the Professional Union and only hired two level one mercenaries, the problem was that someone must have seen Cang Hong and the others in Didips. The problem was that someone must have seen Cang Hong and her companions appear in Didips. If the Church investigated, Cang Hong and her companions wouldn't be able to conceal this fact.
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