Chapter 105: A Helpless Escape
Finally, he had learned three more practical skills. Chen Ran was very satisfied. He cast a Light of Serenity on Johnson, making the guy’s speed even more terrifying.
A big guy was not scary. What was scary was a big guy who was faster than a rogue…
As for the other two skills, they were team-specific and not useful at the moment. Chen Ran cast an Elemental Communication on himself. Specks of starlight-like light points swam around him, exceptionally colorful, greatly enhancing his ability to communicate with the light element and accelerating his magic power recovery speed. Of course, this skill could also accelerate the recovery and circulation speed of fighting spirit, shamanistic power, and star power, not just magic.
Chen Ran looked at the few necromancers over there who were making a final, desperate stand, and they actually began to summon high-level skeletons from the netherworld. Chen Ran was completely unfazed. Although these semi-living skeletons from another world would not be immediately dispelled by Holy Purge, the influence of the holy power still restrained their existence. Johnson only needed to hit them once to shatter them, making it impossible for them to heal again.
The subsequent process was as he had expected. Under the restraint of the purifying electricity of the Holy Purge, Johnson easily blocked the pile of netherworld skeleton soldiers with ghostly green fire in their eyes. Looking at the continuous stream of blood essence power, Chen Ran was not in a hurry. He unhurriedly cast various support and healing spells on Johnson, who was blocking in front of him. Those fourth- and fifth-tier skeletons were all providing him with blood essence. Although it was not as good as the extra green crystal blood essence bonus from killing a necromancer, the quantity was unstoppable.
In just a quarter of an hour, more than a hundred netherworld skeletons had died under the ravages of the enhanced berserker Johnson. Without Chen Ran’s support, no matter how strong Johnson was, he would not have been able to withstand the siege of the skeletons. If a necromancer did not encounter a restraining holy mage, they were almost an unsolvable existence after gathering a certain number of undead.
Just as Chen Ran was balancing the situation on the field and enjoying the thrill of grinding skeleton soldiers, his positioning map suddenly showed a group of people rushing toward them.
Chen Ran raised his eyebrows. When he saw the special point prompts on that group of troops, he quickly realized that those guys would most likely not be friendly. Seeing that they were numerous and moving quickly, they should be a type of cavalry with good strength.
“Johnson, save that guy who’s not dead yet! They have reinforcements coming! Prepare to retreat!”
Chen Ran quickly made a judgment. He couldn’t deal with the few necromancers in a short time, so he didn’t dare to linger in battle. He was mainly curious about what that guy who wasn’t dead yet had done to make the necromancers unhappy.
After receiving the order, Johnson burst out with the strength of a bull in an instant and broke through the group of skeleton soldiers. The bandit lackeys didn’t dare to block him. Johnson rushed into the crowd, carried the half-dead bearded bandit out, and then quickly ran away.
With Johnson’s bull-like strength, the skeletons couldn’t keep up with his speed. And under the effect of Chen Ran’s Holy Purge, although the skeletons couldn’t be broken apart, they were stopped in their tracks, allowing Johnson to put the bearded bandit on Chen Ran’s horse.
The cavalry rushing over from the distance seemed to have noticed the situation here. A total of more than thirty masked, black-armored cavalry accelerated toward them.
The sound of horse hooves gradually became clear. The necromancer leader turned his head and, seeing that they were his own people, his brow relaxed a little. He shouted to the two despicable sneak attackers not far away, “Chase them! Don’t let them get away!”
Several attendant mages mounted their mounts and chased after the few who were escaping with a group of black-armored cavalry. The leading black-armored cavalry leader jumped down from his mount and walked toward the necromancer leader.
He glanced at the messy scene, the remains of the netherworld skeletons on the ground, and his expression was a little surprised.
“Your Excellency, what happened before? Who are those two guys?”
“It’s a good thing you came,” the necromancer’s tone was a little annoyed. “The two just now, one has the strength of a seventh-tier berserker, and the other is a holy mage of unknown strength.”
“A holy mage?” the cavalry leader was stunned. “When did the church’s influence penetrate here?”
“That’s what I’m surprised about,” the necromancer’s tone was a little unhappy. “Although I haven’t figured out that guy’s strength, to have a seventh-tier berserker as a subordinate, and to be able to easily suppress my high-level undead summons, and to be able to kill my assistant with a single Holy Light Arrow, if I’m not mistaken, that guy should have the strength of a grand high priest of the Holy Church. I just don’t know how many people the Holy Church has sent this time. Could it be that they are specifically here to obstruct our plans?”
He turned his head and looked at the black-armored knight. “Why did you come this time?”
“The elder sent me to ask you to return to Diya City, Your Excellency. There’s a new situation there, and some details need you to handle them, Your Excellency. So he sent me to inform you and to take over things here.”
The necromancer nodded. “Alright. As for that holy mage, you must capture him and find out their motives. He’s too much of a counter to my necromancy. I’ll leave this matter to you.”
“You can rest assured, Your Excellency.”
Chen Ran’s situation was a bit awkward.
He hadn’t expected a group of reinforcements to appear halfway, which had disrupted his entire plan. With Johnson’s help, he could have easily dealt with those few guys. But because he was greedy for the blood essence of the small skeletons, he was now being chased like a rat.
The group of cavalry chasing behind them were all of the fourth or fifth tier. Johnson alone was not enough to fight so many of them.
“Boss, running like this is not a solution…”
Johnson had lost his warhorse in the previous battle and could only run with his two legs enhanced by Wings of Light, which affected Chen Ran’s escape speed.
“A miscalculation, a miscalculation,” Chen Ran said, tapping his temple. “Can you turn back and deal with all those guys?”
“I’d like to, but there are too many of them…”
“Alright…” Chen Ran sighed helplessly. “It seems there’s no other way but to run. My horse is fast, they can’t catch me. As for you…”
“How about…” Johnson compromised and said, “Let’s split up here for now. Your horse is fast. If you run at full speed, those guys definitely won’t be able to catch you. As for me, if I hide in the woods, it will be hard for them to chase me. If they split half of their men to chase me, I can deal with them. If you can’t find me then, we’ll meet up in Diya City.”
“Then it’s settled.”
Chen Ran sighed. This was the only way for now.
At an intersection, Johnson and Chen Ran suddenly split up and fled in opposite directions. Chen Ran had originally thought that the cavalry would split up and chase both of them, but unexpectedly, under the command of the few necromancers, none of the bastards behind them chased after the faster-to-catch big guy, Johnson. They all chased after him with a clear purpose.
