Chapter 129 Void Creatures
Li Wen glanced at the magic map and noticed that the light spots within the Security Bureau were blinking out one by one, and soon only a few remained.
He hoped it was players killing each other, rather than some high-level native transcendent brutally slaughtering newbies.
Li Wen put down the magic map and focused his attention on the matter at hand.
Both of these players were transcendent, but definitely not beta players. It was hard to say how strong they were; whether the two of them working together could defeat Takebitori was debatable.
Another thing was this blonde player who dared to choose the Dark Lineage path in a country where Glor was the primary faith. You had to admit he really knew how to step on landmines.
The traitor’s mind went blank.
What’s wrong with the Dark Lineage? What’s the problem with the Dark Lineage?
He knew that professions in the game could affect faction favorability. But he had no idea how it affected it or how much. In his opinion, at most, mission rewards would be discounted, or he would have to pay more for things when buying them. Other games were like that anyway.
He wouldn’t even dare to imagine something like being killed by a displeasing NPC just by walking down the street. What kind of game would target players like that?
Moria did not act immediately because he could see that the person before him was not like the Dark believers he had encountered before. At least this person did not possess that coldness, cruelty, and power.
The Dark Lineage was a path of corruption, impurity, mystery, and cruelty. When a person embarked on this path, they would lose the compassion, kindness, justice, and morality that sentient beings should possess, transforming into demons more cruel than beasts.
The person before him clearly did not seem like such an existence, which made Moria confused and unsure whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
“Who exactly are you people?”
Moria asked again.
Before the traitor and his companion could retort, a missile made of mana, almost invisible in the air, shot towards Moria. Moria did not use any abilities; he merely drew his longsword and, relying on the mana resistance granted by being a Spellbreaker, shattered the mana missile with a single sword strike.
Bai Xing Fangs, who used magic to sneak attack, was slightly stunned. Seeing that Li Wen and the other two were standing closer to the traitor and his companion, he mistook them for members of that group of unaligned players. Seeing an opportunity to sneak attack, he acted without much thought.
“And who are you?”
Moria looked at Bai Xing Fangs. This White Elf, who used magic for a sneak attack, was somewhat similar to the other two. He looked like a Mage, but in reality, he lacked the intelligence and erudition that a Mage should possess. Instead, he seemed like a disgruntled middle-aged man who had been dismissed from his post.
But if he was to be called a Wild Mage, judging solely by the size and purity of the mana missile he used, it didn’t seem like it.
With his sneak attack failing, Bai Xing Fangs felt a sense of dread. Especially Moria’s sword strike that shattered the mana missile, it had indeed given him a small shock. When their plan began, they had prepared an escape route, and they had chosen a resurrection location near the ritual. As soon as Bai Xing Fangs resurrected, he immediately used magic to rush back, but now it seemed like a wrong choice.
He should have waited for reinforcements from his Guild to arrive.
But fortunately…
Bai Xing Fangs glanced at the Security Bureau, and the dense fog continuously emanating from within it, and felt a little comforted. At least their efforts were not in vain.
“How long are you going to wait, damn it! Hurry up and come out to kill them all with me!” Bai Xing Fangs shouted loudly. He knew Bai Xing Potato Chips was inside. The reason he hadn’t shown himself was not that he was afraid of being killed, but because he had a peculiar habit of watching his teammates get killed before coming out to save the day.
“What’s the rush.”
Bai Xing Potato Chips walked out of the dense fog, surrounded by strange incantations, and his rapier emitted an ominous glow.
Looking at the current situation, two players, and two beings of unknown origin, be it NPC or something else. With only him and Bai Xing Fangs, this good-for-nothing, they definitely couldn’t win in a fight. But if they included the monsters in this grey fog, it was hard to say…
With a thought, the incantations surrounding him flared with light, and the viscous, humid mist within the Security Bureau immediately rolled outward, merging with the fog outside. The street, which originally had a visibility of more than ten meters, now allowed one to see only a very close range.
This change made Moria frown slightly. The concentration of Aether in the fog had risen to an unprecedented level. In this fog, not only was his vision suppressed, but even his usually unfailing perception was greatly diminished.
But Moria’s premonition of danger was as usual. The moment he felt a slight itch on the back of his neck, he drew his sword and slashed backward. However, accompanied by the metallic sound of iron rubbing against iron, Moria did not see or even perceive the enemy’s existence.
Invisibility? Existence concealment?
Moria dismissed these ideas. The opponent seemed more like they didn’t exist. They could attack him, but he couldn’t retaliate.
Moria was very familiar with this ability. It was a way of using one’s power in the Shadow Path of the Dark Lineage – dissolving oneself into the shadow.
Powerful transcendent beings on the Shadow Path could plunge themselves into the shadow realm and walk the world in a shadow state. This was a very powerful ability. All reconnaissance spells would be ineffective against this ability, and it was more hidden, safer, and flawless than any form of invisibility.
Because once the enemy plunged into the shadow, you and they were not in the same world. All you could face was the opponent’s shadow.
But Moria was still a little puzzled. With just their group of weak transcendents, they shouldn’t be able to exert the ability to plunge into the shadow.
“It’s Void Creatures,” Li Wen’s indifferent but clear voice came from behind. “They must have performed the ritual, The Grand Feast for Parathana, in exchange for a gate ticket to the Void, and used it to summon a group of Void Creatures as servants.”
Moria didn’t understand rituals, but he had heard of Void Creatures.
They were life forms residing in the outer Void. Whether they were truly life forms was still to be verified by Void scholars. What was worth mentioning was that these creatures had no specific form. From the perspective of the five senses, they actually did not exist; they were more like some sort of mental hallucination or illusion.
However, they could attack sentient beings by using existing entities, mostly gases and liquids. Therefore, when they appeared, they were often accompanied by damp and sticky dense fog.
Dealing with Void Creatures was not troublesome. Just because people couldn’t perceive their existence didn’t mean that spells couldn’t harm them.
After blocking another attack from a Void Creature with his sword, Moria quickly took out ruby powder, ginkgo tree seeds, copper crystal fragments, horsetail juice, scarlet animal fat, and other materials from his pocket, threw them on the ground, and then chanted an incantation. Using his Knight’s Sword as a casting medium, he launched the second-level magic – Blazing Enchantment!
Crimson blazing flames wrapped around the sword body, sweeping forward with Moria’s slash. The damp fog was instantly decomposed and burned by the high temperature upon contact with the scorching flames, becoming fuel for the fire.
In the collision of fire and fog, sounds resembling shattering glass continuously came, which were the sounds of Void Creatures dying.
