A Slim Chance?

Smiley hurriedly backed away.

Two threads pulled taut, yanking him diagonally through the air.

But one Death Shackle seemed to have anticipated his position. It doubled back from behind a tree trunk and clamped onto his left wrist.

Smiley's expression changed. Icy death energy burrowed into his skin.

His Health Points began to fall!

He struggled desperately to pull away. Several threads wrapped around the shackle, trying to sever it, but the sharp threads only stirred wisps of black mist. They could not cut through it.

More black energy crept up his arm.

Fear finally flashed in Smiley's eyes.

"Catch!"

A card appeared in his right palm, and he hurled it toward Ling Chu.

Ling Chu caught it. Smiley gritted his teeth.

"Ling Chu! You'd better have a plan!"

"If you lied to me, I'll drag you down with me before I die, even if it kills us both!"

"Got it."

Ling Chu brushed him off and activated the card on the spot.

A storage selection interface visible only to her appeared before her eyes.

Her gaze swept over the items stored in the Ring of Bones.

Soon, she found something that had been gathering dust in a corner for ages.

An orb of soft white light.

The Light Mage class inheritance.

After she had forcibly seized this Special Profession from Xia Chunying, its inheritance had automatically become a class orb and remained in her Ring of Bones.

She had meant to deal with it when she found someone suitable. She had never expected to keep it until now.

[Use the Item Retrieval Card to retrieve the "Light Mage Class Orb"?]

"Yes."

White light flashed.

A fist-sized orb appeared out of thin air in Ling Chu's palm.

The moment its pure white glow lit up, the entire death-shrouded