Chapter 211
Chapter 211 The Target Enters the Web
The battle in the woods raged on.
Only now the battlefield had shifted fifteen kilometers away from the original hill.
This was entirely a path of death paved with the corpses of voodoo beasts, leaving an indelible mark in the hearts of every witcher-knight that trod down this road.
Neither party could sustain the battle at this point!
On the side of the humans, less than two hundred witcher-knights had successfully made it here from the hill, and each of them carried some injuries. The mental and physical stress they had to bear had reached the limit. Almost all of them were on the verge of breaking down.
On the other hand, on the adepts’ side, nearly thirty thousand voodoo beasts had been lost since the start of the battle. This was already the entirety of the voodoo beasts that the adepts had created in this past month!
Even after paying the price of all their voodoo beasts, the only harvest the adepts gained was a bunch of dispensable witcher-knights. The only decent returns were the heads of some spellbreaker knights.
Perhaps because he considered this possibility before he came, Meusel had stopped his old friend and come here himself. Looking at the scene, Meusel knew that the scenario he feared most in his heart had finally turned into the reality he saw before him. Meusel was still unfazed. He calmly walked out of the dark forest.
“Call all your allies out!” Meusel lightly waved his longsword as the hot flames once again engulfed the sword.
Even though he was completely exhausted, even though he was covered in burns everywhere, even though he was now surrounded by powerful enemies– when the runic energies once again surged through his body, the Radiant Knight Meusel stood tall with his sword before him, still possessing the strongly imposing aura that frightened all who looked upon him.
However, this had absolutely no effect on the adepts, whose wills were so tough that they could hardly be affected by external factors. In a wave of cold cackling laughs, Evil Bugs, Hyde, Marionette, and Mary appeared in the woods behind Meusel, surrounding him in a triangle formation.
Phantom and Demon Shadows were nowhere to be seen.
Their spells were mostly supportive in nature. Hiding in the darkness and casting their spells when they were most needed was much more threatening than appearing on the battlefield and assaulting the enemy head on.
Even though the one they caught in their web was not the knights’ leader that they had expected, it was still a Second Grade knight after all. No one dared to drop their guard. Instead, they immediately used their most ferocious attacks as they had planned on before this.
Six adepts and six single-target spells instantly consumed Meusel’s form.
After the first wave of attacks had been completed, everyone quickly shifted positions, preparing their second wave of attacks as they did so.
It was an utter fantasy to try and kill a Second Grade knight with a single wave of attacks, especially with the limited might of their attacks. Everyone was already prepared to grind the radiant knight to his death!
As expected, a brutal flame blade slashed forward, staying close to the ground and slicing right past Greem’s side with millimeters to spare, before striking a row of large trees behind Greem and setting them on fire.
The next second, Meusel charged out from the swirling elementium vortex with his energy shield in front of him.
Adept Hyde sprinted forward in response to Meusel’s charge.
As the only mechanical adept (a branch of esoteric adepts), he had to be the meat shield when no body refining adepts were present.
As the two quickly approached each other, Hyde’s thick mechanical left arm started to vibrate slightly before a dome-shaped energy shield appeared in front of him. His mechanical right arm, on the other hand, suddenly started to rotate rapidly, turning into a deadly awl, shooting towards Meusel’s chest.
The skin on Hyde’s back split apart silently, and six spinning round discs the size of a palm flew out from within, slicing towards his opponent’s ribs from both sides of his body.
Adept Hyde deserved to be called a mechanical adept specializing in close-quarters combat. It was just the start of the fight, and he already had a complete and continuous set of attacks.