Kidnapping Lillisa (Part 2)
Seeing this formation, those two kidnappers panicked a bit. This truly meant wolves in front and tigers behind. Although the two of them were vicious and daring, they were still afraid of death. They could handle ordinary people, but right now they were facing mages possessing transcendent abilities.
The two looked at each other, cowardice showing in their eyes as they lost the will to fight.
Yet at that moment, the man driving the carriage suddenly gave a fierce shout, leaping down from the carriage with agile movements. He raised a foot and kicked one of the men in black to the side, snatching Lillisa from the other's grasp. At the same time, he pulled a revolver from his waist, pressed it against Lillisa's temple, and barked harshly, "Get out of the way, you old busybody, or I'll blow this brat's brains out!" Immediately afterward, he yelled at the two men in black beside him, "You two idiots, we've kidnapped a noble lord's daughter! What do you think our fate will be if we fall into his hands? We have no way out now except to go down together!"
It turned out the carriage driver was the boss!
The two men in black were caught in a dilemma. They dared not attack the mage, yet neither did they want to be captured without a fight.
At this moment, Green also hurried up from behind, a flash of coldness in his eyes. Then, holding his magic staff and pointing it forward, he cast Bone Spikes right away.
At this moment, Green was about five or six meters away from the kidnapper boss, which was precisely the casting range of Bone Spikes. However, this time Bone Spikes was somewhat different. Having recently undergone his diligent practice, Bone Spikes had reached LV5, and Green had newly developed many ways to use it. Seeing Lillisa being held hostage, if it were an ordinary Bone Spikes spell where a single cast summoned a whole patch of spikes, it would certainly have accidentally injured the hostage. But this time when Green cast Bone Spikes, he summoned only a single bone spike that accurately appeared right above the kidnapper boss's head from top to bottom. With a loud bang, it instantly pierced in through the boss's crown and shot straight out between his legs.
Everything happened too suddenly. The kidnapper boss had no time to react and, before he could even let out a miserable scream, was skewered like candied fruit on a stick. As the spike dissipated and vanished, blood, brain matter, and excrement spewed rapidly from the piercing wounds—especially from the top of his head where his carotid artery was severed, causing the blood to form a small fountain right on top of his head that splattered all over the two adjacent black-clad kidnappers, scaring them out of their wits.
On the contrary, little Lillisa was much more clever. She immediately broke free and ran toward Doctor Wilkins.
Seeing True Aim hit, Green was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when he unexpectedly encountered another sudden twist. The two black-clad kidnappers, who had already been frightened out of their wits, suddenly let out muffled grunts and grabbed their heads as if in extreme pain, while a pale green magical halo simultaneously rippled across their bodies.
"Not good! It's Demonic Beast Parasitism!" Doctor Wilkins caught the running Lillisa, and upon seeing the green light wash over those two, his expression immediately shifted as he shouted a warning to Green. With exceptional decisiveness, he then unleashed an Arcane Missile that blew the carriage body to smithereens with a loud boom.
Generally speaking, for this kind of demonic beast parasitism magic, a mage must control the demonic beast from nearby, and the most likely hiding place among them was that carriage.
Unfortunately, the carriage was blasted to pieces with no one inside, which spelled trouble. The enemy was hidden while they were in the open, leaving them in an extremely passive position.
At the same time, the two kidnappers parasitized by demonic beasts no longer looked human. Their skin cracked and their bodies hunched over, while the palms and wrists of both arms transformed into a pair of dark red blades. The two leaped up, soaring three to four meters high; one charged toward Doctor Wilkins, while the other dashed straight for Green's location.
Across the street, about twenty meters away on the second floor of a street-facing building.
A man with a gloomy expression looked viciously at the battle not far away, wishing he could tear Doctor Wilkins and Green—the ones who had ruined his plan—into ten thousand pieces. Unfortunately, he was only an Intermediate Magic Apprentice; Doctor Wilkins alone could beat him until he could no longer take care of himself. Moreover, he had to flee immediately, otherwise once the battle ended and they followed the trail to find this place, it would be too late for him to leave!
"You two meddlesome bastards, how dare you ruin the good deeds of our Tower of Yin Spirits! Just you wait, I'll be back!" the man muttered viciously. "Still, since you forced me to unleash the parasitic demonic insect, don't expect it to be easy for you either. My Demonic Insect Parasite is not so easy to deal with..."
However, before this person could even finish speaking, his expression suddenly changed drastically. He stared dumbfounded out the window, as if something incredible had happened!
The next moment, a sudden Arcane Missile crashed directly through the window, making intimate contact with this sinister fellow who had only dared to hide in the shadows.
With a loud bang, the Arcane Missile exploded. Its formidable shockwave and explosive force were even greater than that of an ordinary cannon, directly collapsing the wall around the window. The body of the man standing by the window was blasted to smithereens, leaving not the slightest hope of survival.
On the other side, the Demonic Insect Parasite that this person had pinned high hopes on was being beaten up by eight fully armed elite Skeleton Soldiers.
Earlier, when Green noticed those two men in black about to transform, he sensed something was wrong. Doctor Wilkins possessed even richer experience; he recognized it at a glance as demonic beast parasitism and struck to blast the carriage to pieces, yet failed to find the main culprit. Green could no longer afford to hold back his strength and immediately summoned all his Skeleton Soldiers, entangling the two Demonic Insect Parasites to let Doctor Wilkins figure out a way to locate the enemy hiding nearby.
Doctor Wilkins truly lived up to his reputation as an old-school powerhouse in Landon City and a ruthless figure preparing to advance to a Formal Mage. He quickly found the correct direction and followed up with an even more ruthless strike—a single Arcane Missile that nearly brought down the building where the enemy was hiding.
Hearing the commotion, Green turned back to take a look, and could not help feeling a tingling sensation across his scalp as he thought to himself, Is this the strength of an Advanced Apprentice Mage from the Evocation School? This is simply too overpowered; he's practically a walking human artillery piece! And this is just a magic apprentice. If it were a Formal Mage or even an Archmage, what kind of majestic power would they wield? Could they casually toss out a nuclear bomb?
His mind was filled with surging emotions, making Green yearn even more to become a higher-level Transcendent.
Simultaneously, Doctor Wilkins's arrogant voice drifted over, "Hmph! You cowardly dog who only knows how to hide your head and tail, did you think that by hiding there, Lord Wilkins wouldn't be able to find you?"
Green watched with a trace of envy as Doctor Wilkins lowered his staff. Only Evocation School mages could pull off such violent output; it was utterly impossible for a Necromancer.
Yet just as Green was envying someone else, he similarly received an envious gaze from Doctor Wilkins.
Doctor Wilkins withdrew his staff, intending to help Green deal with those two Demonic Insect Parasites. In his youth, he had encountered a similar situation where a single Demonic Insect Parasite had massacred a thirteen-member Junior Apprentice squad. Doctor Wilkins knew Green's background—having just become a Necromancer not long ago, he definitely couldn't handle them. In his view, even if Green's undead creatures could stall for a few seconds, it would already be impressive.
Yet who would have thought that when he turned his attention over there, the battle was actually already over!
The two Demonic Insect Parasites lay miserably on the ground, already at their last gasp with more outgoing breath than incoming, covered from head to toe in dark red gore and looking quite pathetic. Meanwhile, Green's Skeleton Soldiers had only paid a minor price; there wasn't even a single casualty. Were these really fragile Skeleton Soldiers?
A moment later, Green recalled his Skeleton Soldiers, and those two Demonic Insect Parasites were already dead beyond a doubt.
To his pleasant surprise, the very instant he killed the Demonic Insect Parasites, a prompt popped up from the Graveyard reporting the discovery of Psychic Energy!
Green hurriedly bent down, pretending to inspect the corpses while actually looting them. He obtained a total of six points of Psychic Energy, bringing the total reserve of Psychic Energy in the Graveyard to 35.