"Will these annoying puppets disappear as long as we kill their controller?"
A slender figure appeared beside Nicaton Earl's corpse. It was a Dark Elf, holding a palm-sized Source Crystal Stone.
The gray mist spilling from Nicaton Earl's severed neck was swiftly absorbed by the Source Crystal Stone.
Cecile watched her father be beheaded with her own eyes, and her emotions briefly spiraled out of control. The Spellcaster named Snow Leopard beside her sensed her loss of control and began chanting an offensive spell.
The Dark Elf rushed at Cecile, moving too fast for human eyes to follow.
But his dagger did not slice through Cecile's throat. Instead, it struck a longsword...
Cecile turned her head in surprise, suddenly remembering that the warrior called the Kindler of the Flame had been standing beside her all along.
"At last, an elite monster with dialogue! Hey! Where's your boss?!"
Joshua shouted his question at the Dark Elf, who seemed equally startled that his attack had failed.
He tried to leap backward and widen the distance between himself and Joshua... but he found that his body simply could not obey him, as if it were being controlled. The only thing he could do was swing his dagger and attack his opponent.
Cecile quickly retreated after recovering her senses, while the character controlled by Joshua exchanged several blows with the Dark Elf.
Joshua's skill inputs were a little slow, so to the onlookers... it seemed as if the Dark Elf kept driving his dagger into fatal spots like the female warrior's neck, yet no blood spilled out...
Instead, glowing particles emerged from the wounds. They were faith particles from the World Tree!
They were also the energy source that made up the figures within the World Rift.
The forced attack lasted only three seconds.