Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 354

Chapter 354: Bone Nymphs

"Anfey!" Blavi called hurriedly as he burst into Anfey’s room, panting . Anfey jumped off his bed and hurried after Blavi . He knew that something must have gone wrong, or else Blavi wouldn’t be so panicked . The two left the house and rose into the air with levitation spells, quickly flying towards the mage tower at the center of the town .

"What’s wrong?" Anfey asked when he landed . One of the mages moved aside to show him the Eye of the Sky . In the Eye, a mage was fighting a group of zombies . Nearby, a few necromancers were observing the fight . The necromancers’ identities were unclear, but the mage was very familiar .

"Is that Entos?" Anfey asked . Blavi nodded .

The only time Anfey had seen Saul fight was when Saul attacked the bone dragon in an ambush, and he did not consider it a real fight .

Mages who use dimensional magic were the hardest to fight . Even though a lot of people did not know why dimensional magic was the most dangerous, everyone agreed that it was the most powerful . There were only a few senior magisters in the world, and senior magisters who focused on a single branch of magic were even more rare .

Entos was Saul’s best student and spent years training in the Forest of Death and Wilderness Plain . His every movement and every attack was a display of power and a reminder of why dimensional magic was considered the most powerful magic .

The three necromancers fighting against Entos were all very powerful as well . None of the spells they used needed buffer time, including spells to summon bone lances . Dozens of bone lances streaked through the air towards Entos . Dozens of Nets of Decay covered the ground, layered on top of each other . Walls and cages made of bones appeared out of the ground like trees . The necromancers pelted Entos with other spells as well, hoping to slow his movements . Aside from magic, the necromancers also had thousands of zombies on their side . The zombies surrounded the mages, growling and clawing the air .

Entos, however, held on . He ducked the attack from the necromancers and fired occasion spells at time . He was skilled at dimensional magic and was not afraid of being trapped in cages . Every time he teleported, he would teleport to a location where he would not be discovered easily . After the necromancers spotted him again, they would have to change their formation to attack him .

If Entos wanted to escape, the necromancers would not be able to stop him . However, he was not escaping . He wasn’t even using a magic shield . Was it because he could not or because he was overly confident? Without a magic shield, even the zombies’ attack could be deadly .

Entos appeared to be at a disadvantage, but in reality he was the one controlling the flow of the fight . He only teleported when the necromancers’ spells materialized . Then he would flee and use a spell to cancel out the effects of the spell used against him . This way, Entos was depleting his magic at a much slower rate than the necromancers . Sooner or later the necromancers will use up all of their magic .

The necromancers were not cooperating with each other at all . They would protect themselves first and attack Entos, trying to slow his movements, then they would try to kill him . Because of this, Entos was able to cancel out all three necromancers’ magic with just one spell .

Entos must have decided to fight alone because he knew the necromancers would not cooperate with each other . As long as the necromancers fought as individuals, they would not post a threat to Entos . Had the necromancers cooperated and fought together, Entos would have been forced to seek help .

"Christian," Anfey turned and said, "can we dispatch some backup?"

"Ernest is on the way," Christian said .

The mages suddenly gasped . Entos grabbed a nearby tree and was trapped by a bone cage . A pool of green mud appeared under him . It was an acidic swamp, a staple of death magic . Rumor was that an acidic swamp turned a man into a pile of bones in a few minutes . Two bone lances flew through the air towards Entos .

Suddenly, Entos disappeared from the cage and reappeared from behind a tree after a few seconds . He waved his hand and used a flame spell that easily killed more than a dozen zombies .

One of the necromancers waved his hand impatiently . When his two companions were using negative-effect magic, he summoned a bone lance . Entos froze, then quickly teleported away . He reappeared behind the necromancer and smashed his magic staff into the necromancer’s head . The sword shattered the necromancer’s shield and went through his neck, sending the man’s head flying . Strangely, there was no blood . The necromancer did not fall, either . Instead, he only kept flailing his arms .

Entos was clearly shocked by this . He took a few steps back and teleported again, reappearing far from the necromancer he had just beheaded .

The headless necromancer stumbled for a few moments then crouched down, hands searching through the grassy ground . After a few minutes, he stood again and held a skull . He held the skull carefully and placed it back onto his neck . Then he shook his head, testing if the skull was going to stay on his neck this time .

Entos stared at the necromancer with a mixture of horror and shock .

"My god," Christian whispered in horror . "That’s a bone nymph!" The other mages turned, gaping in horror, when they heard what he just said .

The wounded bone nymph appeared to be very angry . He ripped off his cloak and looked around, searching for Entos . Suddenly, a bright sword radiance ripped through the air and flew towards the bone nymph, slicing through the surrounding zombies . Before the bone nymph could properly react, the sword radiance had already reached it . The creature disappeared in a flash of blinding light .

Entos appeared behind another necromancer and raised his sword . He brought the staff down onto the necromancer’s head . Clearly, he already realized what he was dealing with . The bone nymph’s head fell to the ground and rolled into a bush . Entos jumped away and waved his hand, sending bolts of lightning towards the skull, trying to destroy it .

The third bone nymph jumped, shocked by the speed of its companions’ demise, and tried to flee . However, it was not as fast as Ernest’s sword radiance . Before it could get to the forest, the sword radiance caught up to it and shattered its body .

"Why is he here?" Christian asked, curiously . "Did Ling and Long already arrive at Blackania?"

"They only left two days ago," Anfey said, frowning . "Maybe something happened . Let’s hope it’s not something horrible . "