This Isn't Over

Sshk!

A masked head shot into the sky!

Gao Jing had just pulled off a beautiful counterkill, yet instead of feeling the slightest joy, he frowned.

Something was wrong!

It had been far too easy, far too simple—and the feeling was all wrong.

The attacker's head rolled to the ground, its mask shattering into four pieces and revealing its true face.

Its skin was deathly pale, as though it had been soaked in water for a long time. Its face had only a pair of narrow, slitted eyes—no nose, mouth, ears, or any other features!

It looked exceedingly bizarre!

The headless body remained standing, and what showed through the severed neck was not flesh, blood, bone, or sinew.

It was some kind of metallic material, its center crisscrossed with densely packed blood-red lines!

A Blood-Soul Puppet!

Gao Jing immediately understood. This attacker was not a real person, but a puppet under someone's control.

No wonder it had managed to evade his senses during its sneak attack.

Stowing his warblade, Gao Jing swept his sharp gaze across the surroundings.

Among Wizards, there was a particularly unusual kind of existence.

Puppeteers!

Great Wilderness Wizards were divided into Battle Wizards, True Knowledge Wizards, and Creation Wizards. In terms of combat ability, Battle Wizards were naturally the strongest on average, while True Knowledge Wizards possessed the greatest cultivation and the broadest knowledge.

Creation Wizards, meanwhile, gave most people the impression of being Transcendent craftsmen. They excelled at forging equipment, making talismans, and refining medicine, and were far weaker than Battle Wizards and True Knowledge Wizards in combat.

Yet Puppeteers were the oddballs among Creation Wizards!

A Puppeteer first had to be a Grand Refining Master. Otherwise, they would lack the ability to create a Blood-Soul Puppet that perfectly matched them.

Blood-Soul Puppets differed from