Age of Adepts

This Dark Witch clearly had hostile intentions towards him!

Moreover, if Greem wasn’t wrong, her main objective in participating in this mission was none other than to kill him.

Greem had only been suspicious of this possibility initially, but his opinion had changed after the last battle. Even though the Dark Witch had not shown herself during the battle at all, Greem had distinctly picked up on her restrained, but intense, killing intent.

Perhaps even Dark Witch Shani would never know that the reason Greem had placed himself in the danger of battle was to tease out and gauge her true intentions.

In that one instant where Greem was in danger, her unconcealable and overwhelming killing intent was like a volcano in the dead of night. No one could ignore it even if they wanted to.

Thus, Greem didn’t mind taking a little detour.

He brought the party to Maple Forest Town with the intent of using the rural and remote geography to deal with some private matters!

At the thought of this, Greem lightly pushed away his dinner tray. He smiled as he said, “I’m finished with dinner. Gentlemen, take your time! I want to go and take a rest.”

When ten panthers appeared, the spinning of the portal started to slow. The vortex trembled slightly and spat out a humanoid shadow creature.

A panic broke out within the panther pack when the humanoid shadow creature appeared.

The shadow panthers could no longer care for personal space. They squeezed together and made enough space for the humanoid creature.

No eyes or features could be seen on the humanoid shadow creature’s face. It was only black. When the creature stood in the house, the shadow substance in the air around him bubbled like boiling water and soon formed a strange armor as shiny and solid as black diamond.

Unlike the shadow panthers, whose bodies were somewhere between immateriality and materiality, the humanoid appeared to be fully solid. In fact, his body was tougher than most steel that could be found in a material plane.

More importantly, when this humanoid shadow creature opened his eyes, it wasn’t the light of chaos and confusion, but the light of intelligence and brilliance.

It was a light that only intelligent creatures possessed!

The humanoid shadow creature strode to the simple wooden window the moment he materialized. He stared through the narrow window at the brightly lit building in the darkness.

His target was there, but his master’s orders were to remain in hiding.

This humanoid shadow creature grabbed his long, thin blade out of the shadows and plunged it into the ground. He started to wait in silence.

The energy aura he radiated was Third Grade now!

Maple Town Forest was silent and brooding in the darkness.

However, over a hundred other shadow portals similar to this one were opening in countless hidden places across town. Moreover, the entrances were still operating, sending over a shadow army of shocking proportions from the Shadow World.

The weakest of these shadow creatures were still Second Grade. They all cautiously and carefully went into hiding all across town, quietly waiting for their master’s orders. As time passed, the Third Grade elites in the shadow army started to grow in number.

In fact, fearsome spirit shadows of Fourth Grade even appeared from one or two of these portals.

These spirit shadows were once tragic undead creatures. However, after ending up in the Shadow World for some reason, they were forcefully modified by the nearly solid shadow substance and turned into these unusual creatures that were half-undead, half-shadow.

The town at night was still as silent as before.

However, an impending storm of death was hidden beneath this silence!

Countless shadowy eyes peeked in and out of the darkness as a terrifying killing intent filled the town. It was almost as if the village itself had been moved into the Shadow World. Not only did moonlight not shine down from above, but the only lights in town turned dark and dim, like will-o-wisps from a dead man’s body.

Not only did they give off no warmth at all, they even caused one to feel a chill from their very bones!

Adept Holly stepped on the creaking stairs and arrived on the second floor. He looked at the two paths before him and shook his head with a bitter smile. Finally, he walked to the right, found the closest room, and shut the door firmly behind him.

“Dammit! This is the bad thing about going out on errands. It’s hard just to find a place to sleep in peace. Hmph! I don’t care who you are. You can do as you please, but if you disturb me, I won’t hold back!”

Holly shouted at the roof before throwing himself into bed.

Cherisha, who was still enjoying her feast in the dining hall, suddenly shivered. She felt a mysterious chill throughout her body.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry…why do you have to be in such a hurry? Can’t I just eat in peace!”

Cherisha mumbled through her mouth full of food as she waved a hand and put out the candle on the table.

As the last light in town vanished into the darkness, the whole land came to life.