The enemy had come faster than they had imagined. The clattering of iron hooves had just sounded in the distance when strange noises came from the rooftops.
"Come, let's leave the room and go into the yard!" Trunks' expression was calm as he hefted a longsword and led the way into the yard with the manticore.
There was a wide yard in the center of the shop, surrounded by several large and small houses that surrounded the yard. If the enemy came to attack, and the power of their attacks directly passed through the walls and into the houses, they would be forced into a passive position if they wanted to leave after adding fire magic to it.
In addition, the yard had been meticulously decorated by Han Shuo. Han Shuo had once told them that the six pillars contained great danger, but if they stood in a special position next to the pillars, they would instead be unaffected by the formation. The formation hadn't been activated yet, but if the six pillars were fiercely attacked, the formation would automatically react even without Han Shuo's orders.
"We're not familiar with the things in the yard, so don't act rashly unless we have no other choice. But if we really can't withstand it, we'll attack the stone pillars and quickly hide in six safe places. Let's gamble! "Emily walked into the yard and took out her staff as she spoke to the three.
The Canopy of Necromancy that Han Shuo had cast last time was no longer effective because it had been two days. Specks of starlight were embedded in the night sky like diamonds, adding a few scattered glimmers to the pitch-black night, allowing the people in the yard to roughly make out everything around them.
Suddenly, a sharp whistle tore through the air as a small bone dagger, glittering with cold light, abruptly shuttled through the rooftops like a drifting ghost.
The sharp whistle of the small bone dagger tore through the silence of the night. The dim light was extremely conspicuous and carried a cold, icy aura of death as it flew in an irregular, mysterious trajectory above the rooftops around the yard.
A few soft puchi noises sounded in the dark corners where the little bone blade flew past. In those places where it was difficult to see, a hair-raising scream suddenly sounded. Then, three pitch-black figures fell to the ground in a sorry manner, falling from the roof to the courtyard with three putong noises.
When Trunks and the other two saw this, they immediately understood what had happened. When they saw the three people lying on the ground not far away, they didn't even think about it and went forward to stab them a few times.
The three of them staggered as they tried to stand up, but under the two slashes of Trunks and Phoebe, their knees gave way and they fell down forever.
With the three dead, Trunks and the other two looked at Han Shuo's room in shock. They saw that a corner of a window in the tightly shut room had been lifted open. The Purple Demon Eye in the left eye of the Little Skull was spinning and flashing with a strange purple light. It was like a ball of purple will-o '-the-wisp dancing behind the dark window.
A white bone claw that was as white as jade leaned against the window, and the five white bones swayed continuously. The small bone dagger that was flying on the roof seemed to be controlled by the five bones of his hand, spinning in a random pattern.
"What a terrifying Little Skull!" Trunks couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile as he sighed.
"Look over there!" Gilbert suddenly yelled. Following Gilbert's direction, the three saw three gray balls of air float out from the heads of the three people who had just died. When the three gray balls of air left their bodies, they seemed to be drawn by some kind of power and were sucked into two stone pillars at the side.
"If I'm not wrong, those three gray balls of air should be the souls of the three people who just died. When an ordinary person dies, their soul will return to the earth. Without the use of magic, ordinary people can't see it at all! " As a dark archmage, Emily was a bit more knowledgeable in this area than the others. She frowned as she explained to the other three.
"Then why can we see it, and why can the stone pillars absorb the three gray balls of air?" Phoebe asked in confusion.
Shaking her head with a wry smile, Emily turned her head to look at the room Han Shuo was in and said, "How would I know what's going on? If you want to understand all of this, wait until he wakes up and ask him yourself. This yard is full of oddities anyways, and it's all his doing!"
"I don't think I'd understand even if he explained!" She and Emily found it equally difficult to understand the mysteries surrounding Han Shuo. When Emily said this, Phoebe could only shake her head with a wry smile.
As the four spoke, the small bone dagger continued to whirl about on the roof. The three fellows who'd planned on ambushing had been caught off guard before they'd even gotten a clear look at the situation, and died a horrible death in an instant. It was truly an unjust injustice!
However, these three were only scouts who'd come to investigate. Although they'd died, the enemies behind them hadn't been affected.
Trunks and the others knew that the true battle was finally about to begin when the originally silent sounds of iron hooves suddenly died down.
Suddenly, the whistling of the small bone dagger became even more intense. When the four looked over, the small bone dagger had already left the vicinity of the roof and was slicing through the night sky even further away. In the direction where the little bone dagger flew, two faint shadows gradually turned from blurry to clear. In the starry night sky, the two shadows were like two drifting clouds that were blown over by a light breeze.
"It's two archmages, we need to be careful!" Emily's heart jumped as she warned gravely.
A scorching flame suddenly appeared in front of the small bone dagger as soon as Emily's words had sounded. The small bone dagger sparkled even more coldly under the illumination of the flames, and the surface of the bone dagger lit up with a blinding light.
Suddenly, a few crossbow bolts tore through the air from below. Five of the crossbow bolts missed, but only one accurately hit the small bone dagger, sending it flying into the distance. With a ding dong sound, it landed on the street not far away.
The sound of the door shattering suddenly sounded at this moment as footsteps rapidly approached. A line of more than ten people wearing armor and wielding weapons such as swords, spears, axes, and bows filled the courtyard in an instant.
The two archmages who'd floated over also stood on the roof without the threat of the bone dagger, watching the scene with cold eyes.
"Trunks, you're here as well!" The fire archmage who'd saved Florida last time in front of the Valley of Sunshine stood on the roof and looked coldly at Trunks.
"Andy, you traitor, you still have the face to see me? The old chief treated you well back then. The magic staff in your hand was forged by someone else at great expense. To think that you'd be with that animal Florida after the old chief died!" Trunks pointed the longsword in his hand at the fire archmage Andy and rebuked coldly.
"The old chief's death was an accident. He died at the hands of bandits in the surrounding mountain ranges and had nothing to do with Florida. It was all because you were jealous that Florida had become the chief of the Rainbow Sickle mercenary band that you framed him." Andy looked disdainfully at Trunks and mocked him.
"I think that with your intelligence, you should be able to tell what the truth is. Now that I've returned, I'll make all of you traitors pay the price! "
Andy first laughed loudly and then shook his head at Trunks with pity. "Today is the day you die. You won't have another chance in the future!"
"Don't waste words with him. Laureton's men can appear at any time. We need to kill them immediately!" The other mage who'd come with him said expressionlessly.
There was a lightning pattern on the chest of this person's magic robe. It looked like he was a thunder archmage. He was around thirty years old and had a head of long grey hair. His body was as thin as a bamboo pole as he paced back and forth on the roof.
"Got it!" Andy replied impatiently. It seemed that he didn't have a good relationship with this lightning archmage. He then looked down with a slightly strange gaze and said in a strange tone, "Do it!"
There were more than ten people in the courtyard, all of them made up of swordsmen, knights, and archers. The weakest among them were journeyman swordsmen and knights. There was also one person wrapped in a long green robe with a pointed hat up. His appearance couldn't be seen in the darkness, but there was a strong presence coming from his body.
When Andy had spoken just now, he'd looked at this person indistinctly. His calm voice didn't sound like an order, but rather like he was seeking the opinion of an elder.
The person's body suddenly moved as soon as Andy's words fell. An enormous silver sword light abruptly emanated from his body.
The sharp sword light cut through the air as his body rose. The pointed hat on his head flew backwards, revealing a face that even Emily and Phoebe were familiar with.
"Gabriel, it's you!" Emily couldn't help but exclaim in shock.
Gabriel was Clark's master and had the extraordinary strength of a great swordmaster. He'd always been by Gryphon Legion commander Ascher's side. Who would've thought that he'd appear here?
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