Chapter 419 - Murder
Then, Adelo saw a beautiful snowflake…
Nobody knew how many icicles sliced through the air in that instant as a piercing sound rang out, sending a chill down their spines. The crystal-clear icicles painted an ethereal picture against the backdrop of a blood-red evening sun, yet beneath the facade of this ethereal beauty were heart-wrenching cries.
There was originally woodland with short shrubs at the end of the mountain path. It was jade-green, but as the beautiful snowflakes fell on it, the picturesque jade-green was painted with spots of bright red, almost as if a careless artist had splattered paint on his canvas.
The scary thing was that these bright red spots were growing in numbers at a frightening speed, and in a split second, more than half of the jade-green had been covered in bright red…
The word quieted down all of a sudden, and it was as if time stood still at that instant. Everyone was shocked by the gruesome sight as they knew that every bright red spot meant that a life had been lost to the icicles. They were unable to imagine how many people had to have died to the icicles in that short period of time for half of the hill to be painted bright red…
Lin Li was the only who knew that there were 137 of them.
That was the difference between level-18 and level-19. While a level-18 Archmage was powerful, their mental strength was somewhat slower, but this would all change once they reached level-19. Their mental strength was now akin to another eye for them, and an incredibly sharp one at that. They would be able to clearly tell what was going on with just a glance.
This was great—he had not even had the time to seek them out himself, and they came to him instead…
“But there are too many people. It’ll be bothersome for me to do this myself,” Lin Li muttered to himself before retrieving an oil lamp from his pocket…