Synthesis Wizard-Chapter 196

“Attend the ceremony? What’s going on?”

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Tagara stared at her friend in disbelief, grabbing her arm and urgently asking, “You’re one of the most elite Dark Elf warriors in our family, why would they choose you as the sacrifice for the ceremony?”

Vinia shook her head, “This ceremony is different from the past, the Goddess’ messenger will descend and save the Spider City.”

“Only Dark Elves with the most devout faith can participate in this ceremony, we will become part of the messenger, kill that wizard, and then return to the divine realm with the messenger!”

Looking at her friend with fervent eyes, Tagara’s face turned slightly pale, filled with incomprehension.

Why were they so enthusiastically worshipping an entity that had disappeared for over twelve hundred years?

It was like they had lost their minds!

“Vinia, you’re going to die!” Tagara couldn’t bear to watch her friend go to her death.

“It’s alright, Tagara,” Vinia displayed a genuine smile of joy, “Death is not scary, as long as we return to the divine realm, I will be reborn under the power of the Goddess, and gain eternal life.”

Seeing Tagara wanting to continue persuading her, Vinia waved her hand to interrupt her.

“Don’t say anymore, Tagara!”

“We are the Goddess’ most loyal subjects, we should naturally obey her orders, it is my honor!”

After saying this, Vinia turned and walked towards the central temple.

Tagara stood frozen in place, her expression filled with bewilderment and daze.

At the same time, Dark Elf warriors rushed from various parts of Spider City to the central temple.

Dark purple demon fire burned and surged between the stalactites hanging from the cave ceiling, illuminating the outline of the temple below.

The gigantic temple was like a monster lurking in the darkness, opening its bloody maw, waiting for its prey to willingly walk into its grasp.

Bank City.

As the closest city-state to Spider City, it was also the first line of defense against Spider City.

To delay the advance of the Star Alliance, the Dark Elves evacuated before taking away all the slaves in the city, and also destroyed the city walls and most of the buildings.

The Star Alliance was forced to pause their advance and repair the city-state.

However, this was exactly what Xieman wanted.

He didn’t want to attack Spider City too quickly, and he could now take a month or two to repair the city walls and buildings.

Emerging from his meditation chamber, Xieman went straight to his study.

Although he had to command the war, he didn’t neglect his cultivation and studies.

This was the foundation for a wizard apprentice.

Participating in war was to earn more contribution points, exchange for resources to improve his strength, the latter being the ultimate goal.

Xieman wouldn’t get his priorities mixed up.

Entering the study, Atil was reading battle reports inside, so focused that she didn’t notice anyone approaching.

Only when Xieman walked into the study did she come to her senses, raising her head and smiling, “You’re just in time, there are a few documents here that need your signature.”

As the commander of this army, Xieman was in charge, and Atil was only his deputy, so many documents needed Xieman’s signature before they could be approved.

Xieman took the documents, glanced at them, quickly signed his name, and then asked, “How about the two puppet creatures?”

“The new batch of magic stones have just been shipped, they went to ‘recharge’.”

What was called recharging was actually stuffing magic stones inside.

Atil only learned later that those two puppet creatures were powerful, but their energy consumption was terrifying.

One battle would consume about ten mid-grade magic stones, costing nearly ten thousand gold coins (the Star Alliance supplied all the magic stones at ‘market prices’)!

It was truly a bottomless pit!

“Which puppet creature should we deploy for the next battle?” Atil asked.

Xieman thought for a moment, “Number 1 just killed a spiderized elf two days ago, and its injuries haven’t fully recovered, we’ll send Number 2 out next.”

To avoid scaring Spider City and make the Dark Elves lose their will to fight completely, Xieman had been deliberately avoiding deploying both puppet creatures on the battlefield at the same time.

He only deployed one against spiderized elves each time.

Anyway, both puppet creatures had the ability to change their appearance, as long as they maintained the same appearance, the Dark Elves couldn’t tell the difference.

“By the way, the teacher has a new order,” Atil handed over a scroll of parchment.

Xieman took it and looked at it, his expression immediately became strange.

Atil had already read the contents of the document and was puzzled, “What does the teacher intend to do? We were told not to push Spider City too hard before, but now we’re ordered to surround but not attack.”

Xieman was also confused, but he still said, “The teacher must have his arrangements, we just need to follow them, and we can have more time to cultivate.”

“That’s true,” Atil nodded readily.

It was not often that they had such a good opportunity to earn contribution points and cultivate at the same time.

“I heard that Corey and Ethan are making good progress, they’ve won a few big victories.”

“They have two medium-sized golem legions on their side after all, the so-called Falling Star Alliance has no chance against them.”

“Maybe the war in the northwest region will end faster than ours.”

As the two were chatting, a soldier suddenly hurried to the study door, bowing to them.

“Sir, scouts report that the Spider City army is marching towards us.”

Xieman was startled and looked at Atil, the latter also showed surprise in her eyes.

Spider City had abandoned its vassal city-states to avoid the Star Alliance’s offensive, concentrating its forces to defend Spider City, but now it was abandoning its defensive advantage and taking the initiative to attack, what were those Dark Elves up to?

“They’re not coming to surrender, are they?” Atil joked.

“Even if they were, it would be a feint.” Xieman had no trust in the Dark Elves known for their cunning, “Moreover, they wouldn’t come to surrender with their entire army.”

After joking for a few sentences, the two didn’t delay and immediately rushed to the city gate.

When they reached the city wall, they happened to see the Dark Elf army deploying their forces in the distance.

“This number… Spider City has emptied its entire city!” Atil’s face became more solemn.

Xieman’s brows also furrowed.

From the looks of it, the Dark Elves were treating the next battle as their last stand?

But what he couldn’t understand was, where did the Dark Elves get their confidence?

They were even putting themselves at a disadvantage by being the attacking party.

This move was undoubtedly strange.

However, seeing the puppet creature that had arrived beside him at some point, Xieman’s heart relaxed slightly.

No matter what the Dark Elves were up to, with two puppet creatures, there was no need to worry too much.

Soon, the Dark Elf army launched their attack.

As always, the slave troops acted as the vanguard, and when the cannon fodder had been consumed, the minotaur troops and lizard riders charged ferociously.

Bang!

The city gate opened, the golem legion marched towards the battlefield in unison, like a giant wall blocking the enemies’ tide-like charge.

The two sides clashed in an instant, and the battlefield was instantly filled with deafening shouts.

Xieman stared intently at the rear of the battlefield.

The Dark Elves dared to attack Bank City, not because of these armies, they must have other trump cards.

More spiderized elves? Or something else?

Xieman didn’t have to wonder for long.

A dark shadow suddenly shot up from the direction of the Dark Elf camp, paused briefly in the air, and then darted towards this side like a bolt of lightning, stopping above the battlefield.

The light from the fluorite quickly revealed the shape of the being.

“Spiderized elf? No, that’s not right,” Atil’s pupils constricted, “What kind of monster is this?”

The monster above the battlefield looked very similar to a spiderized elf, but upon closer inspection, one could see that its lower body spider form was larger than any spiderized elf they had seen before, its color was even darker, looking from afar, it was as if a black hole was floating in the air, its eight long limbs swaying slowly in the void, like blades emitting a chilling gleam that made one’s heart skip a beat.

Above the spider form was a graceful Dark Elf female body.

The body was naked without any clothing or armor, its jade-like skin was covered with strange, crimson patterns, vaguely intertwining to form ferocious blood-red spiders, which under the illumination of the fluorite light, had a perverse beauty.

Xieman looked at the half-spider monster with a sense of unease.

For some reason, this monster gave him a strong sense of threat, far stronger than a spiderized elf!

Just when Xieman and Atil were bewildered, the half-spider monster shrieked, and then shot towards the city wall like a cannonball, pausing briefly in mid-air.

On the way, two elite iron golems noticed the half-spider monster, the light on their chests flashed, and sonic blasts and magic missiles roared out simultaneously.

However, the half-spider monster didn’t even look at them, its huge spider body crushed the sonic blasts and magic missiles like foam, then its eight limbs crossed and slashed, eight crescent-shaped light blades fell from the sky, cutting the two elite iron golems into pieces!

An elite gold golem activated its levitation spell and soared into the air, blocking the path of the half-spider monster, its two iron fists, under the boost of magic, struck out with the force of a mountain, but were cut off by the half-spider monster swinging two scimitars.

Then the cold light flashed, and the huge gold golem was instantly cut into pieces.

All this happened in the blink of an eye, Xieman hadn’t even had time to react.

Not caring about the loss of golems, he quickly ordered the other golems to stay away from the half-spider monster.

This monster was clearly stronger than a spiderized elf, ordinary golems were no match for it.

Seeing the golems retreating, the half-spider monster didn’t bother with these miscellaneous troops, it continued to fly towards the city wall, its gaze fixed on the puppet girl the entire time.

Without Xieman’s orders, the puppet girl had already thrown back her grey robe and leaped from the city wall to meet the half-spider monster.

In an instant, raging flames and violent lightning swept out simultaneously, blasting onto the half-spider monster.

The spells cast by the puppet girl were not comparable to those of the elite iron golems, the half-spider monster didn’t resist this time, but nimbly dodged, approaching the puppet girl like a ghost, wielding its scimitars and lower limbs to strike at the same time.

The puppet girl didn’t show any fear, she brandished her magic-enhanced longsword and met the attack.

The two sides instantly engaged in a fierce battle in mid-air, and the battle quickly reached a fever pitch.

The puppet girl fought with one hand holding a sword and the other casting spells, using both physical combat skills and spells, her momentum was awe-inspiring.

The half-spider monster might not be able to cast spells, but it had many weapons, and those crimson patterns on its body seemed to have some kind of defensive effect.

Every time a spell hit the half-spider monster, the crimson patterns on its body would flash, annihilating the spell without a scratch.

The two sides were deadlocked for a while.

After a long stalemate, the half-spider monster seemed to be getting angry, letting out a shrill shriek, its body suddenly ignited with violet demon fire, its aura suddenly exploded.

The eight limbs of the spider body were also enveloped in violet demon fire, slashing out dense blades of light towards the puppet girl.

Each hit caused a subtle distortion on the surface of the puppet girl’s body.

Xieman and Atil couldn’t help but be startled when they saw this.

Only they knew that this was a sign that the defensive power of the Extreme Guard Ring was plummeting rapidly.

It hadn’t been like this when resisting the half-spider monster’s attacks before, how could the violet demon fire be so powerful?

Xieman frowned as he stared at the violet demon fire on the half-spider monster.

For some reason, the aura emanating from the violet demon fire gave them a sense of heavy pressure.

“It’s not elemental energy, nor is it spiritual power, it’s an unprecedented energy type!”

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Xieman was puzzled in his heart.

As the half-spider monster deployed its demon fire, the puppet girl was quickly put on the defensive!

Atil widened her eyes in shock.

They knew that the puppet girl was a puppet on par with a formal wizard, what kind of existence was this half-spider monster, that it could suppress the puppet girl?

At the same time,

In the Dark Elf camp, the matriarchs of the twelve families also fixed their gazes on the battle in the sky, watching the performance of the half-spider monster every second.

When they saw the half-spider monster completely suppressing its opponent and firmly holding the upper hand, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, their faces filled with relief and joy.

“As expected of the Messenger, that wizard is no match at all!” Filial Matriarch’s eyes shone with fanaticism.

“It’s worth all the sacrifices we made…”

Aurory’s words stopped halfway, she suddenly came to her senses, quickly shaking her head, dispelling this disrespectful thought towards the Goddess.

How could this be called a sacrifice?

It was an honor for those Dark Elf warriors!

Thankfully, the other matriarchs were so filled with joy that they didn’t notice her words.

Lesta Matriarch smiled, “After killing that wizard, the Star Alliance will be leaderless and will definitely be in chaos for a while, we can take advantage of this opportunity to counterattack!”

“That’s right!” Filial Matriarch nodded heavily, “As long as that wizard dies, the Star Alliance will be no match for us!”

The others were also full of excitement.

With the Messenger, Spider City would surely unify the southeast region, no, it would unify the entire underground world!

Boom!

A figure smashed down like a meteor, smashing more than ten Dark Elf warriors and golems into debris, instantly creating a huge crater on the ground.

The puppet girl lay in the crater, her body covered in wounds, her left arm was severed at the shoulder.

The half-spider monster hovered in the air, its eyes coldly overlooking the puppet girl, with an air of aloof indifference.

“We won!” Filial Matriarch showed a triumphant smile on her face.

In the Dark Elf camp, cheers rang out, with occasional hymns of praise mixed in.

The Dark Elf matriarchs didn’t reprimand their soldiers, they all showed expressions of delight.

The outcome was decided!

In the sky above the battlefield, the half-spider monster raised its scimitar, and the spider body beneath it also raised its sharp limbs.

In the next instant, she suddenly descended, crashing down towards the puppet girl like a falling star.

By the looks of it, she was going to end the battle with one blow!

Clang!

To everyone’s surprise, the half-spider monster’s attack was blocked.

A tall, slender figure stood in front of the half-spider monster, holding a sword in both hands, simultaneously blocking the scimitar and the limb that were about to strike.

In the distance, Filial Matriarch looked at the girl lying in the pit, then at the other girl blocking the Messenger, her face showed a mixture of shock and bewilderment.

(End of Chapter)