The Death List Novel - Chapter 671
Chapter 671 Intercept
‘”You’ve already helped us a lot. If it wasn’t for you just now …” Elaszo shook his head slightly and declined Qin Lun’s suggestion. “Besides, if you use that thing now, it would be very dangerous to participate in the battle again!”
As the voter of the Goddess of Magic, Elaszo naturally knew what the strand of golden divine power Qin Lun was holding in his palm was. It was a lucky gold coin forged by the goddess of luck and the divine blood of the unlucky girl!
“The side effects of this thing can’t be avoided just by wanting to avoid it. Taking advantage of the enemy’s unwillingness to fight, even if there is an opportunity to kill me, it would be better to let the misfortune dissipate faster.” Qin Lun lowered his head to look at the lucky gold coins in his hand and smiled softly.
“Then … do you have any suggestions?” Elaszo thought for a moment and felt that Qin Lun’s words weren’t unreasonable, so he nodded in agreement.
“Lord Elaszo, are these vines decorated in the palace tonight?” Qin Lun raised his head to look at the fruit vines hanging like beads above his head.
“This is a special breed prepared for the celebration, only available in the banquet hall.” Elaszo’s eyes lit up and he immediately understood what Qin Lun meant. “However, there is no shortage of green plants everywhere in Supreme palace. Before the celebration began, there were quite a few large plants that were transplanted from the outside world to decorate the bonsai.”
‘”You want to use a protective wood-type spell … Is that necessary? I’ve already activated the Lock Barrier, and the assassins of the Santalin Society have become turtles in jars, unable to escape the palace!” Ellastor frowned slightly.
“You’re too confident, Lord Elaszo!” Qin Lun sighed. “Since Santalin will be able to enter, he will naturally prepare a way out for himself. Although I’m not sure what their specific methods are, I’m afraid the Confusion Lock Spirit Formation won’t be able to trap them.”
As a Misra voter, Ella Strauss had shown extraordinary talent for magic since she was young. Although she had experienced countless adventures when she was young, she had never suffered any major setbacks.
To put it another way, this Magic Goddess’ beloved brought her own protagonist template. Every time she encountered danger, she would transform into a gorgeous figure, break through, or meet the rescuer just in time.
Just like this assassination, such a desperate situation could not harm a single hair of her. She had enjoyed the benefits of the lucky gold coins, but Qin Lun was willing to bear the side effects. After spending the rest of his life like this, it was no wonder that Elaszo had unparalleled confidence.
However, perhaps it was this too thrilling experience that caused her to waver. Hearing Qin Lun’s words, she finally frowned and asked curiously, “What kind of wood magic do you plan to use … Don’t cause too much damage!”
“It won’t. I’m just adding another layer of insurance to the Confusion Lock Barrier!” Qin Lun smiled as he took out an ancient scroll and tore it apart. Immediately, a powerful and evil aura rippled out of the space around the two of them.
“Eye Devil’s magic aura?” The magic fluctuations emitted from the scroll caused Elaszo’s expression to change slightly as he looked at Qin Lun with a puzzled expression.
“The Eye Demon Will is only a supplementary Magic Scroll!”
At this moment, Qin Lun’s attention was already focused. He answered with some difficulty and closed his eyes. Countless earthworm-like veins rose from his forehead, and with great difficulty, he raised his palms and slapped them on the floor of the banquet hall.
“The Tree Realm has descended!”
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A figure wearing a hooded mage robe was running rapidly in the long corridor of the palace. His appearance was very strange. The mage robe on his body seemed to have been sliced through by numerous sharp blades, and he had completely turned into a beggar’s outfit.
The skin beneath the clothes was pale and bloodless. In many places, wounds could be seen that were like baby mouths. Even his face was seriously injured. A few pieces of his face were hanging down.
Surprisingly, however, none of these wounds had blood oozing out, and there was another layer of skin beneath the dead skin that could be seen in some places, as if this person had two layers of skin.
This person was Angelo’s camouflager who had assassinated the Centaur Lord, a sub-legendary expert in the Santalin Society who had changed his name to “Crow”.
The Crow’s combat profession was not a mage, but an assassin. It was a powerful profession that combined the characteristics of a Thief and a Ranger. Not only did he possess the stealth and agility of a thief, he also possessed the perception and overall combat ability of a ranger.
As the vanguard of this operation, Crow was the most capable of escaping. He was responsible for attracting the large number of guards arranged by Elaszo near the banquet hall.
However, the plan couldn’t keep up with the change. The Silvermoon City Lord didn’t arrange many patrol guards near the banquet hall, but there were experts like Storm Queen and Garanold Druid among the people protecting the banquet hall.
The wounds on his body were the result of a hurricane spell that the Storm Queen had just used. Fortunately, his speed was still a bit faster than Ella Silver Hand’s, so he almost escaped from the scope of the hurricane spell.
The crow only felt two powerful auras following behind him, as if they were sharp on its back. His heart, which had been without any fluctuations for a long time, was beating violently, and his body involuntarily surged with excitement and throbbing. People who walk in the dark love the excitement of being on the verge of death the most.
The human figure flashed into the corner of the corridor like a wisp of smoke. The crow did not choose to break out of the palace. Not to mention that the silver guards who had received the news had already surrounded the entire palace, it was not something that he could break through by himself, even the layer of Confusion Lock Barrier that enveloped Supreme palace.
At the end of the corridor was the area where the servants lived, and there was a tunnel leading to the underground floor. The underground part of Supreme palace has twelve floors, the top four of which include food storage, wine cellars, cells and armouries.
The fifth floor contained a large collection of miscellaneous items and large-scale equipment, from river boats to stairs, hammers and ropes, as well as various tools. The sixth floor was the tomb of the great man who had made a great contribution to Silvermoon City. The mages and druids who had ruled Silvermoon City were all resting here.
The next six floors were Silvermoon Treasury, which contained an astonishing amount of treasures, magical items, and legendary equipment. However, the treasury was shrouded in an independent identification magic array. Any forced entry into the treasury would be detected by the Iron Demon Statue and the expulsion mechanism set up within their bodies would be activated.
With the strength of these steel statues, without a complete five-man legendary squad, they were simply unable to contend against a large number of statues. This was a situation where the Silver Guards did not intervene.
The crow’s current destination was the third floor of the basement, where there was a cell for prisoners.
The Santalin Society had many Death Warriors, but most of them were low-level members. Even Legendary members who had reached a high level of strength were basically high-ranking. Most of these people were self-interested, and they were not willing to be corpses who would never return.
The Lock Barrier that the Silvermoon City Lord spoke of was a spell shield formed from multiple magic shields. It was indeed a war-level shield, as Elaszo had said.
Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to break through Supreme palace’s Confusion Lock Barrier, but it was not without loopholes. If there were two mutually exclusive magic arrays, it would still be able to open a small gap in a short period of time.
For army-level battles, this kind of breakthrough that could only pass through a few people in a short period of time was useless, but it was most suitable for receiving assassins.
Of course, if they were well prepared, it would be extremely easy to set up a small magic formation somewhere outside Supreme palace, but it would be very difficult to do so inside the palace. The Santalin Society could send people to sneak into the palace in advance, but the number of people was limited after all. It would also take a certain amount of time for the magic array to be set up, so no one would be able to discover it.
It was risky to disguise as a servant and set up magic arrays in places like warehouses and wine cellars.
This kind of place often had servants entering and leaving, and it would be cleaned up regularly, so it was very difficult for them to not be discovered. Although they had already set up a spell formation in a servant’s room through their efforts, they still had another backup plan.
It was an uninhabited, dirty, and sloppy underground cell! There were a total of two prisons in Silvermoon City. One was beside the guard post of the Silvermoon Corps, and the other was on the third basement floor of Supreme palace.
The two prisons are used differently, the former for lesser offenders and the latter for dangerous prisoners facing the death penalty. Because the majority of those facing the death penalty for heavier crimes were professionals, ordinary cells were not able to trap them, which was why cells were built underground in Supreme palace.
Elaszo practised an enlightened code of law in Silvermoon City and did not deal with prisoners on a personal preference basis. Even if the prisoners are sentenced to death, they have a long probation period.
The Santalin Society took advantage of this and had a high-ranking mage deliberately kill him two months ago, imprisoning him in the underground cell of the palace.
The black-robed mage would use these two months to carve out a small concealed magic array bit by bit in the cell. After the assassination plan was carried out, it formed a chain reaction with the magic array outside the palace, opening a small hole in the Confusion Lock Barrier to receive the others to withdraw from the palace. This is a retreat for the riskiest crows.
Just as the crow approached the corridor leading to the underground floor at high speed, a tall figure stood at the entrance of the corridor.
“Someone really came!” When the figure saw the crow pouncing towards him, he muttered mockingly, “That fellow can always guess so accurately. Could it be that a psychopath also possesses the innate ability of divination?”
When the crow saw someone in front of him, its pupils couldn’t help but shrink. It slowed down and looked up.
The silhouette was a blonde woman with a curvaceous figure. The woman’s eyes were cold and indifferent. She wore a strange short dress and a short skirt with a pair of black and white revolvers in her left and right hands.
The black and white spears looked a little like a dwarf’s magic crystal spear, but the crow had never seen such a style before.
“Sir, stop the assassins behind you! They want to kill me!” Countless thoughts flashed through the crows’ minds, and in the blink of an eye, they made up their minds. A panicked expression appeared on his face as he pointed at his back, but he didn’t stop at all as he quickly approached the strange-dressed woman.
“Oh, really?” Pycnoda’s gaze crossed the crow’s shoulders and looked behind the corridor. Sure enough, she saw a figure wrapped in a storm rushing towards her.