Summoning

Just as she stepped onto the southwest city wall, Yuffie saw a large number of low-level magical beasts charging towards it.

Yuffie’s spiritual power noticed a one-meter-tall Earthfire Lizard behind the beast tide, emitting the aura of a Sequence Four.

Its entire body was covered in a thin layer of red scales.

Its two eyes were fixed on the city wall, motionless, letting the low-level magical beasts at the front of the beast tide die to exhaust the human defenders.

In fact, the Earthfire Lizard itself was eager to act.

Its bloodthirsty instincts made it crave battle, but the command in its mind was paramount, forcing it to endure the discomfort and stay put, letting out occasional roars.

However, the moment Yuffie appeared, this Earthfire Lizard moved!

It began to charge towards Yuffie’s position.

Faced with a Sequence Four mutated magical beast coming for her, Yuffie was not surprised at all.

Such a thing had happened the previous few times a Sequence Four magical beast had appeared.

The Sequence Four mutated magical beasts had been given orders to attack Yuffie as soon as she appeared.

This was a blatant, open scheme by the shadow witch.

Faced with Laita City’s lack of Sequence Four defensive power, Yuffie had no choice but to personally deal with these magical beasts.

Before the Earthfire Lizard reached her, a spear constructed from magic essence appeared by Yuffie’s side.

The Spear of Judgment was the most powerful single-target magic Yuffie had mastered.

The spear’s body, constructed from magic essence, was sharp enough to tear through the flesh of any magical beast below Sequence Five, allowing the battle to be decided in a short time.

After the Spear of Judgment appeared, the magic essence in Yuffie’s body was instantly drawn out, continuously constructing the shape of the entire spear.

Faced with the Earthfire Lizard that had already leaped high, preparing to close in, Yuffie, after constructing the Spear of Judgment, no longer had enough spiritual power to see much more.

Most of her spiritual power was locked onto the Earthfire Lizard.

Swish. Under Yuffie’s command, the Spear of Judgment left a white streak in the air.

The next second, it pierced through the Earthfire Lizard’s body, carrying a few drops of blood, and dissipated into nothingness.

The Earthfire Lizard’s body stiffened in mid-air.

Having leaped high, it now lacked the strength to continue and fell straight to the ground.

Yuffie paid no more attention to the Earthfire Lizard’s condition.

The mutated magical beast had no magic core.

It was merely the corpse of a Sequence Four magical beast, not worth Yuffie’s spiritual power to focus on.

The moment the Earthfire Lizard’s corpse hit the ground, Yuffie keenly captured a trace of a witch’s aura.

Her bare feet tapped lightly on the ground, the scenery around her flying backwards.

Yuffie followed the city wall and came to the southern wall, leaving everyone behind.

The defenders on the southern wall, seeing the sudden appearance of the Holy Maiden, stopped what they were doing at once and all looked at the suddenly appearing Holy Maiden.

Yuffie ignored the surrounding defenders and instead looked at the black-robed figure standing on a treetop outside the southern city wall.

Yuffie’s sudden appearance startled Shadow.

Then she quickly calmed down and gave Yuffie an elegant bow.

“Thank you, Lady Holy Maiden, for the splendid performance. Now, please wait on the stage for the curtain call!”

As Shadow’s voice fell, several blood-red rays of light instantly rose from all around Laita City.

Faced with the blood-red magic array, the people trapped inside Laita City panicked.

The entire magic array was maintained by flesh-and-blood energy and magic essence.

For the time being, there were no casualties.

But later, when the magical beasts’ flesh-and-blood energy was not enough, it was hard to say.

Yuffie’s face turned ugly as she sensed the nodes where the magic essence was surging.

They were all located where the corpses of the Sequence Four magical beasts were, and the corpses of the other mutated magical beasts nearby had become the energy supply for these nodes.

Yuffie did not have much magic essence now.

The only trump card in her hand was the Holy Stone.

‘After ingesting it, I will use the power of a Sequence Six to find a way out for the people of Laita City.’

She stared at the shadow witch standing on the treetop, her eyes gradually becoming dangerous.

“Even if they’re temporarily promoted to Sequence Four magical beasts, with the pills as a catalyst, something interesting should happen, right?”

Not noticing Yuffie’s gaze, Shadow looked at the red light filling the sky, and her face suddenly turned pale for no reason.

She felt with horror that the thing appearing in the magic array was constantly absorbing the remaining magic essence in her body.

“This is not right! With the pills as a catalyst, why is it still absorbing my magic essence? This is unreasonable!”

‘Using the flesh and blood of several Sequence Four magical beasts as a sacrifice, plus a massive number of magical beast corpses, the magic array constructed should allow the thing to appear stably.’

‘But now it still needs to absorb my magic essence, which means the level of the descending creature is higher than Sequence Four!’

‘Such a creature will not care about my life or death, nor will it obey my commands.’

‘Perhaps to avoid being controlled by me, it will first suck me dry before appearing, to gain its freedom.’

To save her own life, Shadow made a decisive move.

She took out a magic scroll and tore it open.

A thick fog, as viscous as petroleum, rose from under her feet, enveloping Shadow and at the same time severing her connection with the magic array.

Enveloped in the thick fog, Shadow left the treetop she was on without looking back.

Seeing Shadow turn, Yuffie quickly took out the Holy Stone, preparing to swallow it to stop Shadow from leaving and force her to undo the magic array.

However, someone was faster than Yuffie!

Four wind blades flew out from behind Shadow, locking all her escape routes.

A witch, completely wrapped in purple light, slowly walked through the air.

“So it was you who was behind the beast tide in Laita City. As it happens, we still have a score to settle.”

Su Ran twirled the flintlock in his hand and leisurely walked to the edge of Laita City’s sky.

On the mission bar before him, [Investigate the truth behind the beast tide 1/1] had changed, indicating that he had found the mastermind of the beast tide.

Next, as long as he resolved the beast tide in Laita City, he could complete the second task.

[Isa needs to kill ten Sequence Two magical beasts alone, without the help of any external means, 1/10]

As for Isa’s mission, it still needed a little more time.

Seeing the purple witch appear in the sky, Yuffie’s hand, which was about to swallow the Holy Stone, paused.

Even if she swallowed the Holy Stone, she was not confident she could defeat the purple witch.

Judging from the current situation, the shadow witch and the purple witch did not seem to be on the same side.

This made Yuffie have the thought of continuing to observe before acting.

At this moment, within the magic array constructed by the blood-red light, a crack opened.

Countless flesh and blood on the ground formed a broad skeleton for it.

Two eyeballs appeared in the empty skull, turning left and right, surveying the surroundings.

In Laita City, some people couldn’t help but look out of curiosity.

Those who were looked at by the eyes turned into a pool of blood in the blink of an eye, and were then absorbed by the magic array.

The remaining people watched in horror as everything happened around them, screaming out loud.

In the next second, they were the ones who turned into pools of blood.