Chapter 365
Chapter 365 The Girl Hidden By Fate
The battle raged on.
Meanwhile, the mysterious girl continued to drift through the chaotic battlefield like an invisible god of death.
She wasn’t actually invisible. Nor did she have any defensive spells cast on herself. A misfired throwing spear would have killed her in an instant if it had struck her frail body. Even the apprentices frantically running around would have severely wounded her if they crashed into the girl.
However…
It was almost like everything was within her design, and that a spell of Mass Hypnotic Suggestion had been cast upon all the witches here. No one seemed to have noticed the strange irregularity that was this girl. It was like she was only the background; like she was just thin air that was not worth seeing.
And everywhere she went, there was a severely wounded apprentice hanging by a thread of their life.
A delicate body, plain robes, and an unenchanted dagger. Yet she still managed to steal away the lives of five apprentice witches. The other surviving witches and apprentices only thought of them as natural deaths from blood loss.
It was a Minor Arcana. The picture drawn on the card was that of a hideous dark skeleton construct. Two small runes glowed in the corner of the card. The mysterious girl recognized these two magical runes that contained profound arcane knowledge. The runes meant ‘Shadesteel.’
The mysterious girl chanted the name of the card under her breath. The card then lit up when she touched with her fingers. This special tarot card disappeared without a trace.
The next second, four strange black silhouettes emerged from the shadows beneath the mysterious girl.
Shadesteel animated statues. These were a type of powerful construct creatures with power rivaling that of an elite adept. They were made of a metal that could only be found and forged in shadow planes, and were sturdy and stealthy guards.
Shadesteel statues were easily mistaken for undead creatures. They had the appearance of skeletons and moved about silently like ghosts and spirits. Unlike other constructs, shadesteel statues were extremely good at concealing themselves. They could freely blend into the shadows.
A Shadesteel statue was approximately two meters in height. Despite their appearance of hovering in the air, they were seven hundred kilograms in weight.
Judging from their looks, the metal used to create the Shadesteel statues seemed to absorb almost all light. They appeared to be completely and utterly black. Mist filled the insides of their skeletal ribs, while sharp metal claws hung at the ends of their arms. A sinister skull-like head was fixed right above their bodies. These constructs didn’t seem to possess necks. They moved slowly but silently, circling above the ground without making a sound.
“Go! Stop them and kill them all!” The mysterious girl spoke for the first time.
Her voice was chilly, exquisite, and even ethereal. However, there was an odd trace of depth and maturity to it. There was a sense of time that didn’t fit her young age.
The four Shadesteel statues calmly blended into their surroundings after receiving their orders. They vanished without a trace.
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Alice frowned at the same time the girl had summoned one of the rare few trump cards left in the tower. She stopped moving.
Snowlotus, who had been traveling with her but keeping a certain distance, also stopped. She asked coldly, “Why are you stopping? I can sense that place. It isn’t far away!”
Sofia, who had been leading the way, smashed apart the stone wall in front of them and turned back in disdain, “Why else? She must be afraid! Of the five of us, she’s the one with the weakest body. Who else would be afraid if it wasn’t her.”
Two other witches followed behind the three favored candidates. They appeared to be Amanda and Doris, the two witches that had clashed with Alice earlier.
The five of them had formed a temporary team and seemed like they wouldn’t stop before they managed to split the mastermind into pieces. However, their faces betrayed their wandering thoughts. All of them had sinister plans of their own.
The muscular and unrefined Sofia was about to insult Alice further. However, just then, some of the more sensitive witches put on an expression of surprise and fear. Someone yelled, “Watch out…”
Four strange shadows emerged from the darkness around Sofia as she tensed her muscles in preparation.
Eight dark claws stabbed towards her body from every direction.