Chapter 439
Chapter 439 Spiritual Spell
As night fell, the tower gradually became shrouded by a cloak of darkness.
Sabrina and Billis hid in their rooms after filling their stomachs, determined not to come out tonight.
The dark tower was deathly silent, and only a trace of a dim light shone through the narrow windows. The shadow of a tall figure flickered, and it seemed the person was checking on all the rooms in the tower.
Greem strolled through the empty, narrow, and dark corridor. He held a small candelabra in his hand, the five candles radiating a faint and weak yellow light. The light from the candles wasn’t even enough to illuminate the walls. In fact, it was barely enough to envelop Greem completely.
Greem muttered silently under his breath as he slowly progressed through the corridor.
“Come out. It’s about time you came out; you can’t keep hiding like this, can you?”
“Ouch…this hurts. What is this? This hurts too much.”
Billis scrambled up from the ground, squealing and crying in pain. He started batting away the flames on his body as if he had just woken from a dream. Yet, when Billis opened his eyes, he found his body perfectly untouched. It wasn’t being burned to cinders as it had in his dream.
While Billis looked around in confusion, the trembling Sabrina suddenly sat up. A fearful crimson light glowed in her mechanical eyes.
She immediately stood up when her eyes fell upon Greem.
“Sir, were you the one who saved me?” Sabrina couldn’t help but ask.
“Save?” Billis clearly still hadn’t understood the situation, “Did an enemy come by earlier?”
“Mm. It was a strange adept that looked like a fox. They seemed to be particularly skilled at spiritual magic. Even I almost fell to his tricks.” An angry light flashed in Greem’s black eyes.
“Aren’t there magical defenses in the tower?” Sabrina asked fearfully, “How were we ambushed without any knowledge when we had the defenses?”
Greem laughed coldly.
“Perhaps because the ones working against us were the magical arrays themselves?”
“Ah…”
“Ah!”
An expression of horror appeared on Sabrina’s and Billis’ face at the same time.
“If I’m not wrong, that fellow has probably known for quite a while that we were coming.” Greem narrowed his eyes and explained, “So they touched up the arrays in the stone tower before we arrived.”
“How did they have control authority over the tower?”
“Control authority isn’t required. Most of the defensive arrays had already shut down due to the lack of energy. The guy just needed to add a little something extra to the array during that opportunity. This way, they would know when we arrive and activate the tower’s core. Moreover…” Greem narrowed his eyes further when he reached this part.
“Moreover what?” Billis didn’t suppress his curiosity and asked.
“Moreover, this enemy is extremely sly. They truly spent a lot of effort to take me down. They secretly carved a magical character in my room on the third floor and baited me into reading it. This way, they gained access to my soul coordinates and could specifically target their attacks at my soul. The two of you weren’t their target and just happened to have been in the tower and affected by the aftershocks of the spiritual magic.”
“Then… sir, how did you save us? Do you also happen to know some spiritual magic?” That was the most significant point of interest for Sabrina and Billis.
“Hmph! I’m a fire adept. Why would I ever dabble in the strange and mysterious spiritual magic?” Greem let out a cold laugh, “Recall how you broke free from the illusions and you will know how I did it!”
Billis scratched his head when he heard this. His gaze became unfocused, and he tried to remember what happened.
“I remember running into a horde of terrifying zombies while I was adventuring in the Black Forest. There were too many of them, so many that it was impossible to kill all of them. In the end, I ran out of magic power and was dragged into their graves,” A terrified expression appeared on Billis’ face at this point of his story, “Just as I was about to be torn to pieces, a massive cluster of flames fell from the skies and ignited my entire body. Those fires burned my body. It was so painful, so agonizing; so much so that I woke up from my dream!”
Sabrina listened to Billis’ story, compared it to her own experiences, and had a vague idea of what Greem had done.
Sir Flame Demon’s fires had the strange characteristic of burning the soul. It was undoubtedly the most suited for pulling the two of them out of their slumber.
However, she still clearly remembered how she had been reduced to ashes by the strange fire in her dreams. Her mind and consciousness were so sharp that she still remembered every detail of her body being incinerated. The painful experience might have saved her, but it was an unbearable memory to recall!