Chapter 967 - The Vanished Dark Knight
Chapter 967 The Vanished Dark Knight
After giving chase several kilometers, Kennet finally caught up to Rena in a clearing in the woods.
Rena was only a Second Grade witch that had attained her level through potions and resources obtained due to her connections. She typically lived in comfort and luxury and had never really experienced real combat. That was why her decision to flee had appeared to be hesitant and indecisive.
By the time the Dark Knight discovered the enemy approaching, Rena was no longer able to escape from a berserk Gold Knight with her Physique.
Rena turned her head and looked behind her. The blinding radiance that emanated from the Gold Knight when he sprinted only made Rena even more flustered and terrified.
She secretly took out a small vial of potion, opened the cork, and started chanting a strange spell. A completely black, three-tailed scorpion climbed out of the bottle. Its three tails stood straight up and shot a gray beam at the towering Dark Knight.
The Dark Knight froze on the spot.
“Go, stall him with your life.”
His plentiful tracking experience told him that Essi Daven had not left on his own. Rather, he had been saved by an outsider. Moreover, the person who saved him was not only powerful but also possessed a unique means of stealth. Otherwise, something would have been left behind; there was not even a single trace or clue.
The witch’s companion?
Kennet picked Rena up and lifted her before his eyes. He glared at her viciously.
“Speak! Do you have any other companions here? Who saved Essi Daven?”
Naturally, since the Gold Knight had snapped Rena’s spine, she had no means of resistance. She lifted her terrifying face covered in blood and scratch marks and screamed curses at the holy knight.
“Let me go! Let me go! Kill me, and my companions will avenge me!”
He slapped Rena twice across the face brutally before she could finish her words. Bruises instantly appeared on her face, and most of her teeth also became loose from the impact.
“I don’t want to hear another useless word from your mouth. Speak! Who are your companions? Where are they hiding? Tell me this, and I will give you a quick death. Otherwise, wait to bathe in the Holy Light!”
The enemy’s savagery instantly broke Rena’s spirit. She was no longer as fierce and unreasonable as she had been before. Her entire body trembled as she spoke.
“No more. There are no more! There were three of us this time, but an accident happened when we were traveling through the spatial rift. We were split up.”
“Where have the other two gone?”
“I don’t know! I really don’t! I am just here to transport the materials for the magical array. Where they landed in this plane from the space storm, I…really don’t know!”
There were divine spells that allowed the holy knights to discern truths from lies. Kennet finally gave up his interrogation after confirming that the broken witch was not lying.
Since it wasn’t the witch’s companion, then it was very likely a native magical creature of the Forest of Darkness!
Essi Daven’s aura of darkness matched this place very well, indeed. Was he devoured by a magical creature that passed by? Or had he been brought back to the magical creature’s den?
Kennet found no answers, no matter how hard he thought. In the end, he gave up on searching for Essi. Instead, he picked the captive witch up and sprinted out of the forest.
Once his silhouette completely vanished from the forest, a pale face suddenly appeared on the ancient tree where the dark longsword was embedded. The face gazed in the direction where the Gold Knight had disappeared.
It blinked a few times and opened its large mouth, spitting out Essi Daven from within the tree.
His two legs had mysteriously been reattached.
After much difficulty, Essi Daven finally got up from the damp ground and looked at this face in silence.
Ever since he embraced the darkness, he felt like his soul had been covered with a thin veil. Everything he heard and saw and thought was completely different from before.
This human face gave him a similar feeling of peculiarity.
“Hehe, that little witch has quite some tricks up her sleeves. To think she managed to activate the talent for darkness hiding within you. That’s a win for this Lord. I never expected to pick up a decently talented Dark Knight in such a lowly plane. Good, good, good. Come with me now, you!”
The human face on the tree opened its mouth as wide as it could, opening a spatial tunnel in the tree that led to a mysterious space.
The still confused Essi Daven only hesitated for a moment before diving into the dark tunnel and vanishing completely from Henvic Plane.
Kennet, having left earlier, was utterly ignorant of everything that had just transpired.
All his attention was focused on the captive Witch Rena.