NOVEL NEXT Chapter 53
Chapter 52: Where Are the Teammates? Help Me Out Here!
【Tattered Robe of the Dead: Purple Treasure】
【Created by the necromancer Jean Sol hundreds of years ago, this magical long robe was originally intended to be a golden-quality spirit artifact. Due to insufficient conditions, it ultimately reached only the peak purple level, but it still possesses some advanced abilities.
Its shape can change with the user, usually manifesting as a white cloth form, a top-tier magical gear combining offense and defense.
Later, the necromancer unexpectedly fell, and this item ended up in someone else’s hands, eventually making its way to the Eternal Mage, Deimos Yang.
Using this item as a medium, he allowed the unwilling spirit of the powerful Balcare to attach itself, becoming the spirit of the Tattered Robe, forming a special soul life form, achieving the grade of a golden spirit treasure, known as the Fourth Throne of the Throne of Immortality, the Twin Soul Reapers.
Later, the Twin Soul Reapers was obliterated in battle by some entity, causing the Tattered Robe’s core to suffer excessive damage and revert to its original grade; it has now lost the ability to contain souls in a physical body, leaving only basic offensive and defensive capabilities.】
Huh? This introduction is so long! Much more detailed than the last godly gem shard, even the backstory is clearly laid out.
Why is there such a big difference for another purple gear?
Is it because the latter is somehow related to a “God”?
After all, look at this; the description clearly lists all the names involved, but the one who took it down, Miss Vilyric, is just vaguely referred to as “some entity,” indicating that not everything can be casually written down.
Speaking of which, suddenly I feel quite impressive.
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Just when the Priestess was mulling over all sorts of chaotic thoughts, the scenery around her quickly shifted, and she found herself back on the battlefield in the Tapeia Basin.
Vilyric hurriedly packed the dropped items into her backpack, stood up, and dusted herself off as if nothing had happened.
The once deafening stronghold was now deserted, with only wooden houses and great halls engulfed in raging flames.
Numerous bodies lay scattered around, including members of the Throne of Immortality dressed in black cloaks, silver-armored royal soldiers, and even several fallen Shadows, all indicating the severity of the previous battles.
Most crucially, Vilyric spotted a female beastman in the pile of bodies, sporting gray pointed ears and a tail, looking somewhat like a fox.
She had several fatal wounds and was definitely dead, and the fallen Shadows were mostly located near her corpse.
“A beastman, huh…”
Carelessly gathering Plakaka’s body, Vilyric didn’t have time to dwell on it. Although her item pouch couldn’t carry living beings, corpses were another story.
The pressing matter was to find Princess Liliya and confirm her condition.
Thanks to the light fairy’s visuals transmitted while hiding on Kunier the Tiger-Human, Vilyric had already spotted the old fox, who appeared to be the commander of the beastman army issuing orders earlier.
While there were many discrepancies in age, appearance, fur color, and aura, there was no doubt this corpse belonged to the same race as that guy.
The beastman reinforcements had already arrived.
With a multitude of strong individuals in the Beast Kingdom, such an important operation might even have legendary warriors on standby, and with both herself and Hua absent, it would be a bit overkill for Liliya and the Shadows to deal with legendary figures alone.
Although Xiao Guang, observing from high above, still hadn’t sent an urgent message via their contract, suggesting that the princess was presumably safe, it would be best to locate her quickly.
“Directional sensing, activate!”
Vilyric closed her eyes, and an invisible thought expanded, rapidly gathering under the guidance of a certain target, constructing clear direction and distance information in her mind.
Found her; not far from here.
The universal skill, 【Full Map Directional Sensing】, was an incredibly useful godly ability for exploratory quests.
The user needs to hand over an item bearing their own mark to another person; no matter where the person runs off to, as long as the item isn’t lost, obscured, or out of the maximum detection range, they can easily find that person’s location.
Generally, in the 【Illusionary World】, this skill is often used for NPCs who can’t communicate via public channels or unique monsters required for protection quests.
When Vilyric had given the princess the 【Ascension Box】 earlier, she specifically reminded her not to place it in storage but to carry it close, largely to ensure she could find Liliya at critical moments.
After quickly determining the location, the Priestess glanced back at the fallen Shadows, faces she had seen before.
While they maintained a respectful and taciturn demeanor in front of Liliya, Vilyric knew they each had their own lives, unique personalities outside of that.
Should she try to revive them?
In the end… it wouldn’t be possible.
Even divine grace isn’t without its costs, and Vilyric herself was no exception.
Life is fragile, a unique and precious treasure each person possesses only once.
From Plakaka’s reaction and the bits and pieces she had seen and heard recently, Vilyric could understand how coveted and yearned for the concept of “resurrection” was in this world.
But precisely because life is a once-in-a-lifetime miracle, it deserves more cherishing; recklessly using resurrection powers would only plunge both parties into chaos.
Well, let them rest in peace; these young women have likely made their respective resolves in giving their lives.
Offering a quiet apology in her heart, the Priestess turned away, unfurling her flawless and holy wings, ascending into the distant sky.
…
“Huff… cough… cough cough…”
Liliya braced herself with her long sword, her slightly dazed beautiful eyes fixed intently on the still form of the pink-white figure, her chest heaving heavily to calm the dizziness from magic depletion and blood loss.
She had given it her all, but the gap between the princess and true legendary status was still far too wide.
Even though Liliya was confident she could match a sky-level warrior in prowess, facing the assassin Mavis, with her pink-white fox ears and large tail, she was still completely suppressed.
From start to finish, Mavis had only used that one move, 【Fox Spirit Secret Art: Charming Soul Slash】, but the headache for Liliya was that no matter what she did, she couldn’t find a way to break it.
As soon as her opponent made a move, she would involuntarily lock eyes with those pink vertical pupils and get trapped in a daze, allowing Mavis to easily rake her claws across her.
Even closing her eyes in advance did nothing; the pull was so bizarre that she would unavoidably result in “eye contact,” even if Liliya consciously tried to avert it.
If it weren’t for her fluid armor and the finely crafted gear she wore, along with of the Wind Shadow’s automatic blocking, Liliya would have already been dead.
Even so, the princess was now covered in countless wounds of various sizes, appearing battered, and her breath held a faint iron-like bloody tang.
“Ugh… Seriously… going this hard on a girl like me will leave scars, you jerk…”
Liliya forced a self-deprecating smile, stubbornly lifting her long sword once more; while she knew it might be futile, attacking was the only way to minimize the blows.
Having mostly achieved the target, the kingdom’s forces and Shadows had retreated outside the basin, with cavalry coming in as planned. As long as they could head for the designated escape route before the beastmen on wolf-back arrived, they should have no issue withdrawing.
Now the remaining question was… how to keep her life safe from this fox?
“Sis, where are you? If you don’t hurry up, your employer might really meet the ancestors!”