Chapter 245: A Chaotic Situation
Just as Chen Ran and the others were about to escape the encirclement, the Witch Clan Mistress took out a crystal ball flowing with strange colors from her cloak.
The crystal ball flowed with a strange ghostly blue light, as if a soul were swimming inside. The Witch Clan Mistress opened her hand, and the crystal ball in her hand naturally flew up, and a quiet blue flame ignited in the outer circle.
Looking at this scene, Chen Ran in the distance suddenly felt a trace of unease…
Suddenly, the earth began to shake violently, not only inside, but also outside. Even the people of the Witch Clan couldn’t help but retreat far away.
The shaking sound became louder and louder, like a violent earthquake. Chen Ran suddenly found that huge stone arms were stretching out from the ground.
Looking at the giant hands like small mountains grabbing toward the passage, Chen Ran finally realized that something was wrong.
Several stone giant arms that had come alive from the ground grabbed the light path they were on and lifted it high. Livens knew that if he didn’t cancel the magic, they would face the consequence of falling from a high altitude. He reminded everyone and immediately withdrew the light path. Everyone fell from the not-so-high mid-air.
Countless giant rock hands suddenly stretched out from the ground. The palms like city gates kept slapping at the people who had landed, with amazing momentum. At the same time, walls like small mountains began to rise, trying to trap everyone inside.
“Old witch, you’re ruthless!”
Frustrated by the continuous setbacks, Chen Ran faced the power of these summoned elements. His Holy Purge could dispel those stone arms one by one. But he couldn’t withstand such a large number. Their mission was still mainly to break out.
Livens’ Heavenly Wheel Mirror shone again. The powerful holy light impact blasted the giant hands into pieces one by one, and also leveled the raised earth walls, buying everyone space to escape.
Chen Ran knew that the thing in the Witch Mistress’s hand must be a rare super magic item, maybe even an epic-grade item. The loss of this mission was due to bad luck, and he hadn’t expected that a small Witch Clan would have such powerful strength.
Just after breaking out from one side, they entered the encirclement of the other side. Blood bats flew in the sky, occasionally coming over to cause some trouble for everyone.
The tenth-tier blood-patterned giant bat found an opportunity. Its pupils stared at the little girl in red in the field. Finding the right time, it turned into a blood shadow and flew down quickly.
“Dongfang, be careful!”
Nicole discovered the intention of the blood-patterned giant bat. She jumped back and forth between the raised stone pillars, approaching Dongfang. A Holy Light Slash in her hand swept toward the blood bat, but it was dodged by the fast-reacting blood bat. Its momentum did not diminish, and it pounced straight at the weakest little girl in the field.
Dongfang turned her head and finally discovered the huge blood bat flying from behind. But at this time, the phantom beast armament she was in was not an agile-type armor, and she had no time to react…
“Ah!”
With a scream, the blood bat’s two claws easily grabbed the little girl’s arm. It flashed past at a distance that Nicole couldn’t reach.
The blood-patterned giant bat sneered proudly. Its ugly face was full of ridicule as it looked back, carrying the little girl and moving quickly on the ground.
“Damn it!”
Nicole’s face was full of anger. On an impulse, she used her fastest speed to chase the blood bat directly. With Chen Ran’s Wings of Light, her speed was very fast. In just a few blinks of an eye, she was about to catch up…
On the other side, Chen Ran was dispelling this damn spell in a sorry state. He suddenly discovered Nicole’s move to chase the giant bat. He found that in the direction the giant bat was flying, a magic trap was appearing.
“Nicole, don’t chase!”
Chen Ran shouted loudly to her, but the sound of the rising rocks was too loud, drowning out his voice infinitely. Nicole over there didn’t seem to hear Chen Ran’s shout. The power of the Holy Radiance Slash flashed in her palm, and it seemed that she would soon be able to cut down the giant bat with one sword…
Several stone walls rose at the same time, instantly trapping Nicole firmly inside.
Both Dongfang and Nicole were captured. Chen Ran was extremely upset, but the scene was not something he could control. If this continued, everyone would be captured. Although Chen Ran was confident that he could escape alone with Instantaneous Movement and other skills, it would be meaningless.
The Holy Child Livens looked at the uncontrolled situation with a helpless expression. Finally, he said to the people nearby, “I can still cast a large-scale forbidden spell, but there is only one chance. Those who can escape should escape in the chaos as much as possible. I have no other way.”
Livens did not hesitate. His hands changed various hand seals, bringing up a phantom afterimage.
“Heavenly Wheel? Shining World!”
The whole world seemed to freeze for a second, giving people the illusion that space had been squeezed.
After this second, the earth stopped shaking, and everything became extremely quiet. Those rock palms stopped moving and turned into sculptures, and no other stone mounds popped up.
“Go quickly, we don’t have much time.”
Livens reminded again. At this time, his face was pale, obviously having no ability to fight again.
Othello reacted immediately, grabbed the exhausted Holy Child, and began to flee. The others also reacted and fled along the nearest path.
Chen Ran also said to Seiya beside him, “There’s no other way. Let’s go first and see the situation then.”
After speaking, he found an intersection and used the power of Instantaneous Movement to flash between the mounds. The two of them escaped from that area one after another.
Because of the existence of the anti-magic space, the power of the Witch Clan Mistress hindered the people chasing from behind, making her furious. Looking at the crowd who had broken up into parts and escaped completely, her face was full of anger.
“Chase them for me! You must catch that child and the young man with him. You can let the others go, or deal with them as you please!”
The main targets of the Witch Clan Mistress were naturally the Holy Child and Othello. As for Chen Ran and Seiya, they had been defaulted to the type that could be ignored.
Chen Ran and Seiya ran for half a day and finally escaped from the encirclement. Seeing that there were no chasing figures on the map, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
This was depressing. He had thought that he could complete the task relatively easily, but now the whole team was scattered completely, leaving only him and the little white knight beside him.
In Chen Ran’s calculation, although Othello and the Holy Child had the most pursuers, with their cleverness, the people of the Witch Clan should not be able to catch up with them for the time being. Although the Witch Clan had the largest force in the Black Swamp, the entire Black Swamp was not completely their territory. Otherwise, the Holy Child would not have been able to escape a disaster by entering the high-risk creature area last time.
In Chen Ran’s eyes, he was not too anxious about the others falling into the hands of the Witch Clan. But the problem was that the most important Dongfang and Nicole were captured at the same time, which made him a little flustered. This time, no matter what, he had to go back and rescue the two women, no matter what!
Seiya shook the dust off his head and said depressedly, “What should we do next?”
“We must go back. I must rescue my little sister and Nicole,” Chen Ran stood up and said without hesitation.
“Are you crazy? You’ve seen their power before. Whether we can get in now is a problem.”
“How do you know if you don’t try?”
Chen Ran looked up at the sky.
The sky was already brightening. A night had passed just like that.
This was the most failed night in history.
Chen Ran put himself and Seiya under the Light and Shadow Art, and at the same time sprinkled powder to hide their aura, ensuring absolute safety.
The light bird flapped its wings and left again. At this time, he had to confirm the safety of Nicole and Dongfang first. If anything happened to the two women, he would not let the Witch Clan go no matter what. But if they were temporarily safe, he would make his own decision.
Even the powerful Witch Clan could not break Chen Ran’s such a hidden reconnaissance spell. Because he knew the Witch Clan’s home, Chen Ran’s light bird arrived at the Witch Clan in a short time.
Through the reconnaissance of the light bird, Chen Ran saw the captured people.
More than half of the Templar Knights were recaptured, including the bound Dongfang and Nicole.
Seeing that the two girls were not in danger of life, Chen Ran breathed a sigh of relief.
The Mistress looked at Dongfang for a long time, seeming very interested in her, but Dongfang stubbornly turned her head away and answered nothing. A Witch Clan attendant wanted to make her behave, but was bitten hard by Dongfang, leaving him a row of clear teeth marks.
After that, the fat woman of the Witch Clan forcibly fed the two women some drugs, probably some unclean things to control their power, and then made them wear a pair of thick shackles respectively, and then ordered the servants to take them away.
It was still the same underground dungeon, but this time, except for the few insignificant Templar Knights, Nicole and Dongfang were locked in the deep Witch World secret room, the cells where various special creatures were imprisoned.
The two girls were locked together in a room with a huge toad.
One could imagine the mood of the two imprisoned women.
Because of the shamanistic barrier, the light bird controlled by Chen Ran could not enter further to report. Seeing that the disgusting big toad chained up did not look like an aggressive creature, Chen Ran could feel a little relieved.
Dispelling the light bird spell over there, Chen Ran used a new round of light bird spell again to look for the whereabouts of the Holy Child.
Because he knew the specific direction, and the Holy Child and Othello were the two key targets for capture, Chen Ran found their direction without difficulty.
The two of them obviously did not have the treatment Chen Ran had at this time. A large row of Witch Clan warriors were tracking them behind. Fortunately, Othello was quite clever, carrying the Holy Child back and forth between various magical beast dens, trying to hinder the pursuit from the rear. But the direction was getting further and further away from Chen Ran. Chen Ran could not meet up with them for the time being. His current main task was to rescue the trapped Dongfang and Nicole as soon as possible.
Just as he finished the reconnaissance of Othello, a large red dot appeared in the map positioning, approaching them, which aroused his vigilance.
Chen Ran was sure that that guy already knew their direction. What puzzled him was that there were no other existences around that creature. It was alone, and it didn’t look anxious.
In the field of vision, the winding figure gradually became clear.
The Snake Demon Queen, Medusa.
