Chapter 671
One revealed, and one hidden.
The Evanescent Arrows were truly annoying to deal with!
There was no more dodging this time. Rimura paused for a moment, and the arrow instantly pierced her forehead.
A crisp splat rang out in the air and the witch’s skull shattered. Red blood and white brain matter splattered in every direction like raindrops.
A pungent rain of blood suddenly fell from the skies as a headless corpse twitched and dropped from above.
The Fourth Grade witch had been killed?
The elves who were watching the battle from a distance were about to break out into cheers, but the two elven god messengers standing in the air didn’t seem to be showing any joy. They looked at each other with solemn faces and closed the distance between them. Then they started to look at the empty air around them.
If these evil witches from the World of Adepts were truly this easy to kill, then they wouldn’t have become the terrifying tumors of Faen that they were today. That was why the two god messengers didn’t let down their guard, despite the scene they had just witnessed. In fact, they became a lot more alert.
Though her Divine Shield had helped her mitigate all of the damage, the unstoppable shock from the impact still interrupted her Nature’s Light.
Nearly half of the accompanying spirit’s body had been burned away. She howled sorrowfully and used dense negative energy to extinguish the nature energy remaining upon her body. She then stared resentfully at Zyvere, with eyes that burned with ghostly green flames, and hatefully concealed herself once again.
The two god messengers swept the skies with True Sight but failed to find any signs of the spirit. They had no choice but to set their sights on Rimura herself, resuming their battle above the skies of Echo Isles.
Two Fourth Grade elves were fighting against a single Fourth Grade Pale Witch. It looked as if they held the advantage due to their numbers, but the god messengers were still incapable of obtaining any absolute advantage during the fight. After all, every Pale Witch had an accompanying spirit that they cultivated from their youth. The spirit’s power was proportional to their own, and their minds were linked as one, allowing for seamless acts of cooperation.
That was why a Fourth Grade Pale Witch was equivalent to the combination of two Fourth Grade witches. The only caveat was that one had a physical body while the other was merely a spirit!
Witch Rimura herself was skilled at a variety of powerful dark magic, while her accompanying spirit was a master of soul abilities. The two of them complemented each other, and the sum of their combined force was far stronger than the teamwork of the two god messengers!
However, the god messengers were backed by gods and could obtain the support of some powerful divine magic. Meanwhile, the Pale Witch had her back against the adept’s tower and could easily slip into the tower’s defensive barrier whenever the winds turned south.
Both sides had their advantages and trump cards. It was hard to utterly defeat the enemy before they could muster an absolute numerical advantage.
There might be five Fourth Grade god messengers in Greenwater City, but if they were to all swarm out at once, Rimura would turtle within the tower, refusing to show herself. With a Fourth Grade witch hosting the tower, the elves would not be able to break into it, even if they committed all of their forces.
Moreover, even if they were willing to raze the tower at great cost, they had no way of stopping the Fourth Grade witch from escaping. With the witches’ abilities, they could easily build a new base even if the Echo Isles were to fall out of their control. When that happened, the elves would be the ones faced with more problems.
That was why, after a few attempts, the elves gave up on the idea of utterly exterminating the enemy. They chose instead to use a massive garrison and number of defending troops to wait out the Calamity of Witches.
At any rate, these foreign witches couldn’t stay in Faen forever. Once they all started to leave, the wicked Pale Witches would have to settle down again!