Chapter 668
The dark forest was deathly silent. Only an odd chattering sound remained.
A vast army of insects traveled within the Fantasy Forest. The roars of ferocious magical beasts fighting with magical mantises rang out every so often from the darkness in the distance.
The weak beasts were smart enough to run far away the moment they sensed the arrival of the swarm. Only those brainless magical beasts that lacked sharp instincts would ignore the strength of the swarm and charge out of their dens to ‘defend’ their homes.
Sadly, they were fated never to return!
It seemed Lady Mary was not optimistic about this hunt. She had quickly cleared the battlefield once the fighting had ended and left with all her vampires. Bug Adept Billis was left behind and despite all of his efforts, clearing out the elven town still took up one and a half hours of his time.
Now, as he commanded the swarm to take away the three dozen elves he had specially selected, along with the troves of previous resources, it was difficult for him to move as stealthily as he had arrived. Thus, Billis had no choice but to march above ground, spreading the magical mantises around the perimeter to chase away and exterminate any idiotic magical beasts that couldn’t recognize the threat that he posed.
As the insect army quickly traversed a clear and shallow stream, Billis suddenly turned his head and looked back at the blazing battlefield in the distance.
Fifteen kilometers of obstructing forests made it impossible for him to see what was happening there directly, but the explosion of energy caused him to frown deeply.
The scene that came into her sight caused her to pause for a moment before stomping her feet in absolute fury.
What cunning and sly and enemies!
The enemy would definitely not be able to flee too far if they brought the prisoners and the spoils along with them.
If the enemy had chosen to kill all of the elves, Eijae would only have increased the intensity of her pursuit, even as she boiled with even more rage.
Wasn’t it just perfect now? The enemy had left her with a ground sprawled full of critically injured elves. If she didn’t quickly attempt to save them, several of these elves might bleed to death here. However, if she were to stay here and rescue the injured, then the enemy would be able to escape her grasp at leisure.
Eijae angrily gritted her teeth. She wanted nothing more than to eat the enemy alive at this moment. Just then, a crisp and loud call came from the distant horizon.
As a veteran elven powerhouse, Eijae immediately broke into a smile upon hearing this call.
It was a hippogryph!
Eijae’s wrist waved, and a blinding purple light pierced through the canopy and shot straight up into the skies.
The bird calls quickly converged upon the spot with this clear signal as a guide.
A short moment later, the ancient tree above her shook as several lithe silhouettes descended from above.
“It’s Lady Eijae.”
“We found Lady Eijae.”
“The prisoners that were taken away are here as well! Everyone come down!”
Rustling noises rang out, and more forest elves leaped down from the trees.
These elves were clearly from Skywater City. They might not be very powerful, but their speed when riding upon the hippogryphs wasn’t much slower compared to Eijae.
Their arrival had helped Eijae deal with this tremendous trouble. At least she, the ‘butcher,’ no longer needed to tend to a chore like saving the wounded.
“Leave some people behind to save the injured. The rest follow me to chase after those bastards!” Eijae roared furiously and immediately leaped up the canopy.
There, upon the canopy, several four-meter-long hippogryphs with bodies full of tough feathers were peacefully resting upon the branches. All these hippogryphs shifted uncomfortably upon seeing Eijae close in on them. Their eagle-like gazes focused sharply on this crass intruder.
The hippogryphs might be the tamed mounts of the elves, but they weren’t creatures that ordinary people could hope to ride. Hippogryphs were plenty hostile toward strangers that they weren’t familiar with.
Still, due to the urgency of the situation, Eijae had no time to stare down this bunch of ‘livestock.’ She grunted, and her entire body was shrouded in purple inner power. The powerful aura of a Third Grade powerhouse was instantly invoked to suppress this rowdy bunch of beasts.
Her outline flashed as she leaped onto the largest and most muscular hippogryph of the flock.
“Go.”
The hippogryph was extremely unwilling, but under her cold and unyielding coercion, it had no choice but to kick off with its legs and beat its massive wings. It took the bird all it had to ascend to the skies, barely.
Those who were selected as hippogryph riders were typically light and slender elven girls. They also usually only wore light leather armor and carried bows and arrows. That was the only way to limit their weight to a range tolerable for hippogryphs. Meanwhile, the Spear of Vengeance was a barbaric person whose body could put to shame even the most muscular of males. Her body was also covered in all sorts of belts, shoulder knives, shortswords, throwing spears, daggers, and other melee weapons.
This particular hippogryph was in for a lousy time when such a severely overweight giantess with so many weapons rode upon it!
It flapped its wings painfully and tried to maintain its height, desperately gliding in the night sky.
Eijae seemed to be utterly ignorant of the calls of protests from the hippogryph beneath her; she just scanned the dark Fantasy Forest below with her sharp eyes.
All of a sudden she turned her head as if she had heard something strange in the forest.
She tugged at the hippogryph’s head with her throwing spear and the beast intelligently changed directions.
Eijae raised her throwing spear as they closed in on the position where the chattering sound was coming from. Blinding purple light instantly gathered on the spear. She roared furiously, and the spear shot downward at lightning speed, disappearing into the dark, dark forest.
“Die!”
The next second, a purple energy storm enveloped the entire forest.