Chapter 36
Seeing their companions' heads rolling to the ground, the remaining humanoid monsters finally reacted. But before they could even scream, the sword lights came and chopped their necks.
In just a moment, several more corpses appeared on the ground.
Only then did Leafa realize that the black-haired boy who had been quietly staying on the roof with her had gone among the monsters without her knowing, with blood oozing from the tip of his knife.
Treating them in their own way, the anger in her heart was dissipated by such a quick and decisive defeat. She took a deep breath and said calmly, "It seems that they will organize an attack on the city tonight..."
"I know a secret passage leading into the city that won't be discovered by monsters. Let's go back first—"
"No, it's you who's back."
The black-haired boy interrupted her and stood up. Leafa noticed that he seemed to have taken something from the monster.
Leafa was slightly startled, unable to follow the other person's train of thought, and subconsciously persuaded: "Only the teacher and I can open the secret passage. Apart from us, only His Majesty the King knows about it."
"The most important thing is that once this secret passage is opened once, it will be completely closed!"
In other words, if Su Xingyuan didn't go with her, under such circumstances, he would never be able to enter the royal city.
It is easy to imagine that there must be a large number of monsters gathered in front of the city gate, and opening and closing the gate takes time. No matter how powerful Su Xingyuan is, the city guarding knight would not take such a big risk to open and close the city gate for him.
By then... no matter how strong a person is, he will die of exhaustion due to the constant round-robin battles.
It might be possible to defeat a hundred with one, but what about one with one, one thousand, or one with ten thousand?
Those are all powerful monsters.
He will die.
Thinking of this possibility, Leafa couldn't help but tremble. Although she had only known the black-haired boy for a short time, when she was isolated and helpless, she would subconsciously rely on the person who protected her from danger.
She couldn't handle another being who protected her like her teacher did, dying in front of her.
Su Xingyuan looked back at her, then looked at the mini-map. On the mini-map, there was a frightened emoticon on top of the NPC's head.
So the next task is to send Leafa back to the city first?
He thought about it and decided that after all, she was an important character in the plot, so it wouldn't be a big deal to send her back.
Moreover, he speculated that the doctor would play a very important role in this mission, especially a pharmacist like this who could revive the dead. As long as she was alive, the soldiers who were still guarding their homes would be full of hope because they believed that someone would come to save them.
Players can't place such hopes, they just want to be output.
"If you feel uneasy," Su Xingyuan looked at her, "I will send you to the secret passage before leaving."
He asked, "Do you need help?"
This seemingly formulaic sentence almost made Leafa's sad brain tangled up.
She forced herself to regain her senses and shook her head, "That's not what I meant. I have traveled with my teacher, and if I need your protection even for the last leg of the journey, then I am such a loser."
She raised her head and smiled: "And... I don't know why, but I always feel that you don't look like a knight, or even like someone from our world."
The strong will be blessed by God, she thought.
The blond senior pharmacist knelt down to him and finally said:
"I hope everything goes well for you."
After she finished speaking, she raised her head and prepared to leave, but she found that the black-haired boy had quickly put on something while she was talking.
——Those were a pair of sharp claws that exuded a rotten smell.
He lowered his eyes, and his gaze was emotionless as he stared at the pair of sharp claws, even giving people a sense of a hint of coldness. He put his hand into the claws without blinking, then put a stone in his pocket.
【Name: Vanishing Stone】
At this moment, Leafa's breathing stopped abruptly, and she was almost frightened to take a few steps back. If she hadn't been able to return to the royal city soon and her mind had stabilized a lot, she would have almost stabbed with the only dagger she had for self-defense.
...Is the person in front of me really not a monster disguised as a human?
Noticing her behavior, the black-haired boy raised his eyes and paused.
Then, he slowly narrowed his green eyes.
The sky had darkened, and the compelling green in his eyes was like the bright scales on the cold-blooded creatures of the jungle.
Leafa knew rationally that the person in front of her was unlikely to deceive her all the way and expose himself before successfully entering the royal city, but she still felt cold all over uncontrollably, her limbs were almost stiff, and the fear and despair she felt were even greater than when she was dealing with those monsters in the forest.
“It seems to be working well.”
Su Xingyuan finally put on a mask as thin as a cicada's wing.
【Name: Strange Mask】
[Description: It seems to be the mask of the owner of the skin bag that the skin thief once used. Its purpose is unknown.]
When he held the Skin Thief's Claws in his hand and put on the mask, the faint magic power from the two items instantly connected and formed a film-like outer layer that enveloped his entire body.
Before putting on the mask, his aura was no different from that of a monster, and his face was still the same. But after putting on the mask, Leafa could no longer recognize that the person in front of her was the black-haired boy who had been traveling with her all the way.
No matter how she looked at him, she felt that he was a...bloody, horrible monster.
Leafa suddenly realized something: "You want to..."
Hearing this, the "monster" raised an index finger, put it to his lips, and winked at her.
The words Leafa wanted to say suddenly got stuck in her throat.
...He changed his face to make this expression, and for some reason, it made me want to hit him.
It must be that the monster's appearance was too disgusting, not that the black-haired boy deserved a beating, she brainwashed herself.
Having almost understood Su Xingyuan's purpose, Leafa did not linger any longer. She nodded and headed towards the royal city along the route she remembered.
Su Xingyuan opened the small map and took a look. There were no red signs representing hostile creatures in that direction for the time being.
Then, he should hurry up.
*
It was already late at night, but no one could sleep that night.
Outside the royal city, the monsters were preparing for another attack. The soldiers defending the city could see every one of their moves clearly.
Their so-called preparation was to pick up corpses on the battlefield and take them back for a feast. Even if some soldiers who were not completely dead woke up from a trance, they would not be able to escape from so many monsters.
Cary was one of these unfortunate soldiers.
His eyes were blocked by the dirty blood and he could not see clearly. He could only feel the severe pain coming from his arm.
He vaguely remembered that it was bitten off by a worm-like monster during the day.
Realizing that he was still alive, he instantly fell into despair. Even if he died on the battlefield, he did not want to be picked up by those monsters and dismembered to become their food.
Just as he was thinking this, he sensed a monster coming.
In his blurry vision, he could vaguely see that it was a monster with arms like sickles, and its mouthparts kept opening and closing like an ant. It soon smelled the scent of flesh and blood, and happily stabbed its sickle arm into his thigh as if it were food.
Then it began to drag him back.
Kari was shaking with pain, but he didn't have the strength to scream out, let alone resist. He tried several times to take out the knife hanging on his waist, even if it would leave a scar on this damn monster, but he couldn't do it.
His consciousness slowly faded, and he thought of the only goddess that the kingdom believed in, who represented peace and protection.
The guardian goddess taught their ancestors how to create potions with special effects and how to build indestructible walls. They had no enemies, the king loved his people like his own children, and diseases were no longer a problem in the hands of pharmacists.
It was not until now, when these monsters appeared, that they suddenly realized that the goddess had taught them a lot, but had forgotten to teach them how to fight - how to fight with hatred and the determination to kill the enemy.
"squeak?"
In a trance, he heard the monster that had dragged him all the way utter a syllable with some confusion.
The next moment, a breeze blew by, and he even had the illusion that he was reminded of the cool summer nights and the twinkling stars in the night sky.
The sound of something being split in half was heard along with the sudden gust of wind. Kari was startled and tried to open his eyes to look over.
What appeared beside him was just another monster.
He was overwhelmed by despair and closed his eyes again, allowing the monster to lift him up and move him quickly.
The monster had human warmth on its body, and he thought it was probably the blood shed by his compatriots.
I don’t know how long it took, it seemed like just a moment, he was thrown directly onto the cold and hard ground, almost vomiting blood.
The feeling was not pleasant, and his internal organs began to hurt again. But before he lost consciousness, his mouth was pried open and a bitter medicine was forced into his mouth.
His mind suddenly became clear.
This is a medicine...
It's a life-saving medicine!
He could feel that his fatal wounds were healing rapidly, and even his bloody severed arms were beginning to grow new flesh.
In just a short moment, he seemed to be reborn, as if he was pulled out of the abyss, and his eyes were filled with physiological tears uncontrollably.
Saved...someone came to save him!
——Only humans, fellow human beings, can bring him back from the monster's hands and allow him to continue living!
He tried to open his eyes.
Here was the familiar city wall, where the disciple of the most respected pharmacist in the kingdom was using every suitable potion to repair the soldiers' wounds.
With her disheveled blonde hair and determined eyes, she looked like the kind and compassionate guardian goddess in the mural.
It was she who gave him the potion, Kari knew.
But the one who really saved him... was definitely not just her!
Amid the voices of those who cried with joy at the arrival of the blonde girl, he stood up suddenly, stumbled to the edge of the city wall, propped himself on the wall to steady his shaky body, and looked towards the camp of those monsters -
The moment his eyes reached it, the flames shooting up into the sky illuminated his eyes red.
And in the firelight, above the corpse, was a young man who looked like an evil ghost.
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