Although it was a bit far away for Richard.

But people always have to plan ahead.

It seemed that because Richard had been shown many scenes, the light red light on the surface of the Nightmare Stone suddenly dimmed, just like when it was sealed before, it became dark and ordinary.

Richard sensed it and found that although he had just been distracted, the actual time that had passed should only be a few seconds.

At this moment, the familiar man in black robe was slowly retreating into the shadows.

"Want to run away again? I let you slip away last time, but this time you brought me into a big trouble and almost caused me to flip over!" Richard glanced at the octopus giant who was about to die on the ground, and thought to himself.

"This time, I must keep you here!"

Suddenly, under Richard's instructions, the three thick iron hooks that the wicked spirit hated suddenly "clattered" and swept towards the man in black.

Mathis had long been wary of Richard.

He stretched out his right hand, with his palm vertical to the ground and fingertips pointing upwards. As a rapid spell sounded, a strong transparent wave suddenly appeared in front of him.

“Ding ding ding!”

The three sharp iron hooks seemed to have encountered an invisible wall and were blocked outside by Matisse without hurting him at all.

At this time, Richard had already placed Stephanie, Fana and Angeles in a safe area to avoid being affected by the upcoming battle.

Just when Richard was about to join the evil spirits and attack the black-robed man, he was shocked! He suddenly found a message in the inspiration panel: [Gained 95677 energy points.]

Richard turned his head to look at the octopus-headed swamp giant who had just held his head and struggled in pain. At this moment, the giant was lying motionless on the ground, and a burnt smell was emitting from his body from time to time.

Obviously, it was undoubtedly him who contributed so many energy points to Richard.

Richard thought for a moment and said, "It seems that if my guess is correct, this guy should also be a cultist."

"Because according to my last experience, only cultists who believe in evil gods will provide me with energy points."

At this moment, the situation on the field changed suddenly.

The man in black robe took out a white glass bottle from his arms and smashed it on the ground with a "bang".

Suddenly, a pool of transparent liquid emitting a wisp of mist appeared on the ground.

The vengeful abomination that was rushing towards the other party realized something was wrong in time and was about to raise its leg to step over the strange liquid, but in a second, it staggered.

Suddenly, two large white ice crystal hands stretched out from the liquid and grabbed the evil spirit's calf.

In an instant, strands of ice crystals began to spread from the calf where the evil spirit was caught.

The ice crystal hand pushed hard on the edge of the liquid. After a while, an elemental creature made of ice crystals, which looked like a human and was over three meters tall, appeared in front of the evil spirit and confronted it.

"roar!!"

The vengeful abomination was obviously very angry at the monster that suddenly blocked its attack. It roared at the opponent and rushed forward waving a giant iron axe.

The ice giant also roared, raised his hand and released an ice storm at the evil spirit.

In an instant, frost mixed with strong wind blew towards the evil spirit, greatly slowing it down.

Looking at the two monsters fighting each other, the man in black robe showed a relieved smile, but soon, the smile froze.

Because Richard had already taken out several bombs from his arms and threw them at the ice giant.

The vengeful abomination, which had already received Richard's order, had already wrapped the ice giant with iron chains, but he himself took several steps back, his narrowed eyes revealing a smile of success, and he looked at the ice giant leisurely.

“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!”

The continuous explosions mixed with the ice giant's roar instantly drowned it out! When the smoke and dust cleared again, only the upper half of the ice giant's body and one right hand were left, still struggling on the spot.

At this time, Mattis's face was filled with astonishment, and at the same time, he immediately realized why the other party was able to defeat Mr. Mobutu. Perhaps the other party's sharp alchemical bomb attack was a crucial link.

When the vengeful spirit saw that his opponent had met such a miserable end, he couldn't help but grin, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and laughed happily. At the same time, his hands did not slow down at all, waving the hammer and prepared to smash the opponent's body completely!

But the next second, the situation suddenly changed! The ice giant chanted a short syllable, and the whole person suddenly exploded, forming a large area of ​​mist and ice crystals that impacted in all directions. Richard and the Wrathful Abomination immediately dodged this huge shock wave.

After the shock wave passed, the entire place was in a mess, and the figure of the man in black was nowhere to be seen.

Richard couldn't help but feel a little regretful that he still failed to keep the other party this time.

After confirming that the other party had indeed escaped, Richard treated Stephanie and the other two separately.

Fortunately, the three of them seemed to have suffered mental trauma and fell into a coma, but they soon woke up one after another.

The first person to wake up was Fana. She groaned, then rubbed her head and looked around.

"Richard, you saved us, right?"

"I didn't expect the opponent's attack to be so strange that it could pull us into the dream space. This method seems to be the method of the Nightmare Cult. I have only heard of it before, but this is the first time I have encountered it."

"I was lucky, otherwise, I'm afraid all of us would be in trouble this time."

Then Stephana and Angeles woke up.

When Angeles woke up, he rubbed his brow in pain while looking around. When he saw the tall octopus-headed swamp giant lying beside him, his eyes widened in surprise and he said:

"Mobutu, the priest of the Nightmare Cult!"

"So he attacked us by surprise. No wonder we were pulled into the dream space even though we were prepared."

"Richard, you are so amazing. Mobutu was once a top-level wizard and a priest of the Nightmare Cult. He was killed by a second-level wizard and escaped. There has been no news since then. I didn't expect that you would kill him this time."

Richard immediately raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect the other party to have such a background. He originally thought that the other party was a master in the organization to which the night elf assassin belonged, but he didn't expect that he was actually a priest of the Nightmare Cult.

But this made Richard even more alert.

Could it be that the Night Elves' assassin organization is colluding with the cult?

It seems that I should return to the surface as soon as possible and hide for a while.

After all, in the Underdark, whether it is the area of ​​the gray dwarves or other places, the night elves are omnipresent, not to mention that this time the other party seems to have been involved in a cult.

"By the way, it seems that the Tug City officials have offered a reward for Mobutu, and the reward is quite high." Angeles added after patting his head.

"Huh, there is such a good thing?" This was something Richard had not expected.

At least the Fana guards don't have to pay for their pensions out of their own pockets! After discussing with each other, they quickly got up and returned to Tug City to avoid any more trouble.

Before long, a large number of Tug City Guards surrounded the farm.

As Angeles said, the reward offered by the Tug City Lord's Mansion for Mobutu was extremely generous. After offsetting the compensation for the deaths of the Fana guards, there were still a lot of magic stones left.

Richard used these magic stones to purchase some unique materials in the gray dwarf area.

For two consecutive days, Richard was actively preparing for various matters before leaving.

The original villa had been renovated, and Richard thought about it and decided to sell it.

After he and Stephana left, Fingate would continue to stay with Fana in Tug City. At the same time, he also left a sum of magic stones to Fingate so that Fingate could use them to resettle his people who were originally in Dark Water Lake.

Most of the remaining magic stones were used by Richard to set up the teleportation array.

Richard had already copied out the teleportation array before, so it was not too difficult to set it up again. He just had to prepare a few high-level magic stones.

Because the city of Tug is farther away from the teleportation point on the surface than the original blind murloc tribe in the Dark Water Lake, the energy consumed by the teleportation array increases exponentially.

As for the fact that he was about to leave Tug City and return to the surface, Richard did not mention it to anyone else except briefly talking to Fana.

As for the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood, Richard left a letter, which Fana would pass on to Hawkins, the vice president of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood, after he left. ——The last night before leaving.

In Richard's bedroom in Fana Villa in Tug City.

As Richard fell into a deep sleep, after a while, an inexplicable light red light flashed on his body, and his whole body strangely became transparent, and gradually, he disappeared out of thin air on the bed.

My forehead hurts! Richard suddenly felt dry mouth in his sleep and wanted to drink water.

But when he opened his eyes, he keenly discovered that his surroundings seemed a little different from before.

Although he was still in the bedroom, the scene was clearly different from what it was before he fell asleep.

There was already a thin layer of dust on the coffee table not far from him, and further away, a large spider web had formed in the corner of the room.

"But how is this possible! Not only do servants come to clean my room every day, but I also walk around the room before going to sleep, so I have a deep impression of it. There is absolutely no way there would be a large spider web."

"Could it be that I slept for a very long time?

That's even more impossible. If I sleep for a few days, Stephanie and the others will definitely come and call me!"

This strange change immediately made Richard's pupils shrink, and he lost all sleepiness.

However, Richard did not get up immediately. Instead, he sat on the bed and looked around the room carefully again, then touched the quilt on his bed.

The strange thing was that the surface of his quilt was very clean. He looked down at his fingers that had rubbed the quilt twice, but there was not a trace of dust on them. It was very strange that there was a thin layer of dust on the coffee table a few meters away from the bed, and on the chair as well! But his bed was so clean.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed through Richard's mind. It seemed that the farther he was from his bed, the more he felt that no one had been there for a long time. Ancient? After confirming this, Richard slowly stood up, put on his clothes and equipment, and began to pace around the room, further observing his surroundings.

The several potted plants in the room had turned black and withered, as if they had been dead for several years.

There is a thick layer of dust on the bookshelf.

Suddenly, Richard frowned, as if he had discovered something.

He casually pulled a hardcover book out from the bookshelf and dusted the cover.

The next second, Richard was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

Because what was extremely strange was that he had never seen the cover of this book in the study before, and the words on the surface were all twisted and entangled lines, which were completely different from any kind of words he knew.

Richard's heart suddenly palpitated! After putting the book in his hand back, Richard quickly took out the second and third books from the bookshelf. However, he could not understand the words in any of the books.

The cover and content of each book are composed of these irregular lines.

This made Richard feel inexplicably worried.

Things seemed to be beyond his imagination.

If this is an illusion, then it is definitely not an ordinary illusion.

Could it be that he was targeted by the cult again and was dragged into that mysterious dream space again? If so, he had to find the core of the illusion and break it like last time to leave the illusion. Otherwise, he would be trapped to death in the illusion.

After thinking for a moment, Richard made a decision.

Obviously, there was nothing left to check in the room, so the only thing to do now was to open the door and go out to take a look.

“Crunch!”

Richard opened the door lock which was a bit rusty and walked out of the room. He saw milky white mist all around and various trees and flowers were dim in the distance. It was not very clear, but he could roughly tell that there should be a garden in front.

Richard took two steps forward and then stopped suddenly.

Because he found that although this was also a garden, the strange thing was that the shape of this garden was completely different from the garden of Fana Villa.

Richard did not dare to take the unknown environment lightly, and immediately used the magic armor technique. Suddenly, a black, hideous bone armor covered Richard's entire body, making him feel much more at ease.

It seemed that Richard was the only one in the entire garden.

Richard walked slowly. The soft grass absorbed the sound of his footsteps. The surroundings were so quiet that Richard could almost hear his own heartbeat.

Suddenly, a slight sound came from the front.

The slight sound was particularly clear in this quiet environment, and it seemed to come from the left side of the garden.

Richard narrowed his eyes, and the mimicry wrist guard on his left hand turned into an arm shield, while the one on his right hand turned into a knight's sword.

At the same time, Richard became more alert, raised his arm shield to his chest, and slowly walked forward.

(End of this chapter)