Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 237

Chapter 237

"General, there is nothing wrong with the magic arrays," a mage reported to Miorich as he glanced at Anfey . He wanted to see Anfey make a fool of himself .

"Check it again," Miorich demanded before he even turned around to look at him . The worst thing a leader could do was to change his ideas all the time and never hold firm in his position . When a leader listened to someone and believed in him, and then later started to offer different opinions on the same issue, the leader would doubt him . If the leader could not make his own judgement from the information given, he could be taken advantage of and misled by others . Miorich was an excellent general . He would not be indecisive . Since he believed in Anfey, he would not contradict him easily .

The mages looked at each other and then checked the magic array again, because they knew they could not disobey Miorich’s command .

Anfey and the suspect looked at each other for a while, but he did not find anything suspicious in that mage . The mage looked at him confused . He seemed to sneer at Anfey . Everything seemed normal about the mage . Someone else might doubt himself and think he had made a mistake, but not Anfey . Anfey was very determined and confident . He never second guessed himself .

Anfey slowly turned around and walked to the magic array . After the magic array started, it would slowly suck the magic crystals’ energy to keep the magic array running . It only took a little while to see some smog above the magic array . The smog was getting thicker .

When Anfey walked only five yards away from the magic array, he saw exactly what he expected . The smog seemed to be blown away by the wind and moving towards Anfey . Anfey knew the Heart of Nature was sucking the energy .

Anfey slowly closed his eyes, and got into Samadhi state . He suddenly started to see his surroundings clearer . Anfey focused all his attention on that suspected mage, looking for anything unusual .

Anfey scanned the suspect from head to toe and from toe to head, but he did not find anything unusual . Anfey turned to check the magic array . Suddenly, he saw an amazing new world . An invisible but clearly sensed energy was moving among all kinds of spells . The whole magic array was divided into sixteen sections . The energy stayed in each of the sections without interfering with each other . All the energy merged onto sixteen points . Anfey had never learned about magic arrays before, but he started to get the hang of how a magic array worked . Those sixteen points were the hinges for the door to the space . Anfey believed if he could continue to be able to see the magic array, he could build a magic array on his own .

"General, there is nothing wrong with the magic array," a mage turned around and told Miorich .

This time, Miorich did not respond . He only turned to look at Anfey . Anfey was totally lost in the thought . He did not hear anything around him .

It was people’s nature to want to have control in life . For instance, seeing the snowflakes falling, people could not help holding their hands out to catch them and watch them melt in their hands . Seeing beautiful flowers, some people would sniff, touch, or even pick them . People were just passerbys in the world, but wanted to prove their existence or leave their footprints . When they were touched or sentimental, most people would have the desire to do something .

To the people in that world, magic arrays were just magic arrays, but Anfey had a sense that magic arrays were integrated circuits . Watching the energy slowly moving in order, Anfey subconsciously used his ability mastered in the Evil Abyss . He used his mental power to communicate with that power .

The magic array suddenly shined with white light . The mages who were still checking the magic array were all startled by it . Anfey could clearly sense the energy oozing out of the spells . He immediately stopped using his mental power once he realized what he did to the magic array . He also woke up from his thoughts .

"What happened?" the mage who reported to Miorich before said, wide-eyed . The magic array itself had shown there was something wrong by running at a crazy speed .

Miorich turned to look at the suspected mage with a scolding look . "What else do you want to say?"

The mage smiled bitterly . "Master, I was not feeling well yesterday . I did not come and instead rested at my daughter’s house . You can check on it if you do not believe me . I did not start the magic array . I had nothing to do with it . "

Anfey looked vicious . He looked at Suzanna first and then blinked at her . He turned to give Christian a look and then walked slowly to the mage who was arguing for himself .

He did not find anything unusual before, but as the mage talked more, Anfey could see what was wrong with him . The vision Anfey had with the Heart of Nature had not totally disappeared yet . Anfey still could clearly see the air coming out of his mouth . It seemed normal . When the air passed through the throat, the air constantly changed the position of the throat muscles and tongue . By changing the position of their mouths, people could make sounds . The problem with that mage was that he only breathed out . Normal people had to breath in intervals to get oxygen for the body . It was not possible to keep talking without breathing air in .

Anfey stood in front of that mage again . It was easy to figure out what was wrong him once he found something unusual on him . That mage’s chest was moving slightly up and down, but there was no air passing through his nose and mouth . The chest movement was only to prove he was normal . That mage could not completely stop breathing in unless he was a Samadhi practitioner as Anfey, or had reached the level that he could breathe through his skin .

"What is your name?" Anfey asked quietly .

"My name is Thore, Master . " The mage looked respectfully at Anfey .

Anfey nodded . He noticed another unusual thing about the mage . The mage in front of Anfey neither breathed in nor had any pulse . Judging from every angle, the mage in front of Anfey must be dead . Anfey felt it was amazing and could not make sense of it .

Anfey moved his body sideways . A bright white sword radiant passed over Anfey’s shoulder . With a metallic whooshing sound, Suzanna’s sword thrust into the mage’s throat .

The mages around the magic array were startled . They had noticed Suzanna slowly walking up to Anfey, but they did not expect her to kill the mage . They were worried and angry when they saw their fellow getting killed for no reason .

Christian had stood in between . He did not mean to fight with mages . Neither could he . He had to stop the altercation before Miorich could say something .

Suzanna pulled her sword out with a backhand move . The mage held his throat with one hand and stumbled back with shock and anger . The way he looked definitely got compassion from the others .

"Stop it . " Anfey pointed at him and raised his voice on purpose . "Your blood should have oozed out when you were stabbed in the throat . You neither breathed in, nor had any heart beat . In other words, you have been dead . "

The mage slowly fell to the ground with one hand on his throat . He looked like he was in a spasm and kept twitching his legs as he opened his eyes wide . He looked like he could not die in peace .

Two mages with hot tempers had already started to chant . Element surges started to get tense . However, all these activities stopped after Miorich cleared his throat . The world seemed to become quiet .

"Anfey, what happened?" Miorich walked over .

"He has been dead . " Anfey shrugged . Things were more than he could imagine . He thought the mage would resist after he was found out . Who would know he played his original role, dead on the floor . It was not easy for Anfey to convince others to believe him .

"Dead?" Miorich said .

"Yes, I have said before that he neither breathed nor had any heart beat . What was he if he was not dead," Anfey said, walking forward .

"Anfey, stop . " Hui Wei rushed out behind Blavi .

"What is wrong?" Anfey asked .

"He must have been created by a necromancer with puppet spells if he did not breathe or have a heart beat for a long time . " Hui Wei had rushed next to Anfey and grabbed him to stop him from getting any closer to that mage’s body . "It is too dangerous . We need to get away from him . "

"Bullsh*t!" A mage was so enraged that his eyes turned blood red . "Thore chatted with us this morning . How could he be a puppet?"

"Right! If he were a puppet and we did not sense it, wouldn’t General Miorich sense it?" another mage said . He was smarter, knowing to use Miorich’s reaction to prove his point .

"What if he was a Servant of Death created by masters with puppet spells?" Hui Wei refuted .

All the mages were startled by what Hui Wei said . Low-level puppet spells could only change the target’s body . Advanced-level spells could be divided into two extremes . One was to make the body of the target become more powerful . The target could even have some counter ability for magic and combat power . The other was to avoid making any change to the body of the target and only intervene with telepathy and mental power . A perfect Servant of Death would look no different than a regular person, have the basic magic and combat power skills, or even get married and have kids . It would be hard to notice anything wrong with Servants of Death among people .

Miorich suddenly looked seriously concerned after hearing about Servants of Death . Servant of Death was the tamest puppet spell among other spells of necromancers, but could also be the most terrifying one . A long time ago, there were two necromancers who had successfully turned half of the city into Servants of Death in a year . A Servant of Death could slowly turn his family into Servants of Death in an unnoticable way . It was impossible to keep track of who got affected by this spell . Later, people found out by an incident . Back then, the Church of Light was powerful and influential . Two travelling priests performed Magic of Light to try to convert people, but the people on the street attacked them like crazy . One of them was torn into pieces while the other one luckily got away . This incident got the attention of the Pan Continent, and Church of Light became famous afterwards .