Someone Behind Them

Just as everyone was stunned, Coles' somewhat hoarse voice could be heard.

"Give me back my big guy, you give me back my big guy."

He roared as he thrust the broken wooden shard in his hand into the alchemist's body.

The alchemist, who had been incredibly powerful and brought endless disaster to Hui Dun City, was now so easily killed by Coles, and with just a broken piece of rotten wood. This was something no one had expected.

Even if this alchemist was useless, he shouldn't have been killed by a piece of broken wood, right?

Perhaps this wasn't the real alchemist, but just a lackey by his side?

Everyone could only think this way, as his death was too casual, lacking the gravitas of a major villain pulling the strings.

When Isabel arrived beside Coles, she saw that he was covered in dirt and grime.

Tears mixed with dust streamed down his face, and the alchemist he was pinning down was so thoroughly impaled by the wooden shard that not a single piece of flesh was intact.

However, no blood flowed from the wounds on the terrifying, withered body.

Isabel sensed the strangeness of the body and also feared that the alchemist might have placed some unknown magic potion on this person. If Coles were to be contaminated, it would be quite troublesome.

She yanked up Coles, who was still crying and roaring. Although she was worried about him, she couldn't help but speak with a cold and stern tone, thinking of his previous actions:

"What's the use of crying here? You brought the death of your big guy upon yourself. You knew how dangerous it was outside, yet you dared to run out alone."

After speaking, Isabel unceremoniously threw him towards the Academy.

Honestly, Isabel really wanted to give Coles a good thrashing. If he hadn't inexplicably run out of the Academy, the alchemist wouldn't have had the chance to turn his big guy into that monster.

Now, because of his big guy, the houses and streets wherever it passed had been reduced to ruins.

It could be said that in this crisis, the most severe destruction to Hui Dun City was caused by the big guy beside him.

The next moment, she also left the collapsed house, carrying the corpse. At this time, Pembez and the little giant had also fought their way there.

Pembez saw that the giant monster had lost its previous obsession, and now only endless violent killing intent emanated from it. He knew that the person controlling it from behind was either dead or had given up control.

At this moment, the appearance of this giant monster in the city also caught the attention of Adolf and the others. Previously, due to the undead army outside, they could only leave everything here to Pembez.

Now that the shield was activated, it was time to find the alchemist behind all this and bring him to justice.

At this moment, Adolf was unaware that the alchemist had already been killed by Coles with a piece of rotten wood.

Adolf used short-distance spatial teleportation magic, and in a few flashes, he arrived beside Pembez.

He looked at the big guy in front of him and knew that this was a giant monster created by forcibly stimulating its bloodline with an extremely vicious magic potion.

Seeing that the uncontrolled giant was about to wreak havoc in the city, Adolf and Pembez exchanged a glance.

Then, everyone saw a faint light emanating from their bodies, and magic runes spread out from them like ripples on water.

The magic runes released by the two did not repel each other when they met in the air but merged perfectly.

Those who studied magic would immediately recognize that the two were resonating their magic domains. The spreading magic markings were all the magic outlined within their bodies, and these markings formed the foundation of their domains.

The resonance of the true magic domains formed by two Platinum Rank mages was something that even Epic Rank mages would find very troublesome.

This was not simply one plus one equaling more than two, but the perfect fusion of their understanding and mastery of magic.

It could be said that they were one with each other at this moment.

This method was different from using super-class magic; it was a fusion of domains.

It was like one person cultivating two different magic systems and developing unique domains in both, and then being able to fuse these two domains to fight.

And such a person had never appeared in the entire history of magic users. Although there were geniuses who could cultivate several different systems and develop domains, they could not fuse two domains.

And the stronger the genius, the more difficult the fusion.

For example, Legendary Mages could no longer be called geniuses. After cultivating to the Legendary Rank in one system, they would often cultivate other magic systems and could quickly reach Platinum Rank.

But even they had never heard of anyone who could fuse domains.

The reason for this was the limited computational processing power of the human brain. For a mage who cultivated to the Legendary Rank, the magical knowledge of their own system was not just vast; it was immeasurable.

To integrate their knowledge into another system or to have another system integrated was too much information for the brain to handle.

And with just one mistake, even a Legendary Rank expert could suffer irreversible damage to their spiritual power from a failed fusion.

It could be said that this fusion method was useless to many powerful individuals, but when truly successful, it became their strongest trump card.

Then, everyone saw the two chanting a complex resonance magic incantation:

"Karasu Kon—Space Storm."

Following that, under their combined domains, space shattered, and a gale wind, like the sky collapsing, swept out from it and towards the big guy.

The big guy's monstrous recovery ability could not repair his body under this gale wind. Without any surprise, its ten-meter-tall body was instantly torn to shreds in front of everyone.

Meanwhile, Coles, who was squatting beside Isabel in the Academy, saw the big guy turn to dust, and his tears began to flow like a dam breaking.

After dealing with the big guy, the two immediately withdrew from the resonance state.

After all, it was a bit strange for two old men to be so in sync.

And just as the two were preparing to jointly use the tracking magic to find the alchemist behind everything, Isabel approached them with the corpse in her hand and said:

"Principal, Professor, don't be in a hurry. This guy suddenly appeared and attacked Brown earlier. I think he might be the alchemist's helper. Perhaps using him will save a lot of effort."

Adolf and the other man thought for a moment before taking the corpse from her hands. In the next instant, their expressions changed drastically, and they exclaimed in unison:

"This is a puppet."

Their words stunned everyone. The instructors who had just returned to help kill the Walking Dead were also surprised to hear them.

Because no one who had seen the corpse would have thought it was a puppet.

Although there was no obvious blood flowing from the wounds, the flesh and blood within the wounds were clearly visible.

Furthermore, Isabel had touched the body and could clearly feel that it was a corpse that had died, definitely not a puppet created by magic.

However, everyone also knew that in front of a Platinum Rank mage who had formed a Domain, the distinction between life and death, or puppet and corpse, was very clear.

Adolf and the other man didn't offer much explanation, as they already realized the situation had escalated.

If it weren't for the fact that the magic markings within the puppet were completely damaged, they wouldn't have discovered anything amiss.

And an Alchemist capable of such advanced puppetry skills was definitely not to be underestimated.

Suppressing their other thoughts, the two used the puppet as a medium, along with the flesh and blood cut from the large man's body, to search for the mastermind behind this disaster.

However, when all their combined tracking spells pointed to the puppet in front of them, they truly couldn't sit still. They were so scared that they immediately retreated, moving far away from the puppet.

Then, they exchanged a look, knowing that the matter behind this was not simple and could very well lead to the emergence of an old monster.

They calmed their minds and suppressed their fear. For now, they had to act as if nothing had happened.

Then, the two of them pretended to head out of the city with the puppet. Not long after, a deafening explosion was heard from outside the city, and then they were seen flying back in a rather disheveled state.

Seeing everyone's anxious faces, Adolf and the other man chuckled and said:

"The Alchemist behind this was hiding in the mountain forest outside the city. We've already dealt with him. Now, let's see how long it takes for Jamir to deal with that Undead Knight outside the city."

The truth of what had just happened was that the two had only eliminated the Headless Knight that Adolf had dismembered and moved outside the city earlier. As for the puppet, they had naturally kept it to study thoroughly later.

After all, this might involve an extremely terrifying existence, and publicizing it like this could provoke the mastermind.

However, Adolf and the others failed to notice a subtle, sinister smile on Coles' face as he sat there weeping. He then continued to cry for his miserably deceased large companion.

Meanwhile, at the front of Hui Dun City, the Undead Knight, no longer under the Alchemist's control, began to act with impunity.

Not only did he order the undead to assault the shield, but he also deliberately killed some of them from behind, using their souls to enhance his own power.

With the need to hold back the defenders gone, Bishop Jamir unleashed his true strength.

A boundless radiance descended, turning the undead attacking the shield into ashes. Even the souls about to be plundered by the Undead Knight were heavily damaged under this light.

Following this, a cage of holy light was cast. After that, Jamir began chanting an extremely long spell. Upon its completion, a meteor of holy light appeared in the sky. He then shouted:

"Holy Light Flowing Clouds."

The meteor of holy light descended upon the Undead Knight, whose strength was already nearing Platinum Rank. The entire meteor then exploded. In the setting sun, the exploding holy light, like auspicious clouds that dispelled all calamities in the celestial palaces of legend, annihilated all the Undead Skeletons into nothingness.