I'm a forest ranger, why would I enslave a succubus?

Chapter 658 The Doll and the Disappearance

The mist clung to the dead trees like rotting cotton, and dark red resin seeped from the cracked bark, emitting a stench of rust and decaying flesh.

Sticky dampness seeped from the ground, and the four figures were raised by the mist. Occasionally, the soles of their boots crushed unknown white bones, making a soft, teeth-grinding crunch.

The pale, pitted moon cast a sickly bluish-gray shadow through the mist.

"I really don't understand why you listen to him so much."

On a pure white cloud, Medlin initiated the conversation.

Because she had lost a leg, she could only move around by sitting on Lyra Star's cloud.

Hayley, having just finished a fierce battle, was almost completely drained of magic and, feeling embarrassed to interact with Rhodes in front of others, also sat on top.

At the very front was Rhodes, who was clearing the way.

Leila Xingyu followed him around with a small notebook, asking him all sorts of questions.

He rattled off a whole bunch of things, but Rod only managed to reply with a word or two after a long time.

But the big star still enjoyed it immensely, excitedly writing and drawing in his notebook.

"what?"

Hailey exited from her meditation recovery state and didn't hear clearly.

"I'm telling you, if you need something avant-garde, just tell me. Why bother looking for random people outside?"

"Rhodes is my friend, and besides, you're telling me? You'd give it to me if I told you?"

"Haven't I introduced it to you? It's just that you never go."

"Won't you just laugh at me then? What's the point of using it?"

"I was just kidding! How can you be such a grown man and still be unable to take a joke?"

"Get lost."

As she spoke, she saw Medlin take out a handful of green herbs, crush them, and try to apply them to her injured eye, but she couldn't quite get the aim right.

Hailey frowned, snatched the item, and held her shoulder to handle it for her.

Medlin's expression was conflicted. She glanced to the side and said unhappily:

"My mother said she would pay your father's nursing fees. Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't pass the trial."

Hailey was taken aback: "Your mother said that? Is your family that generous?"

"Our family has always been very generous; it's just that another family doesn't know what's good for them. Actually, if your father hadn't wronged my mother back then..."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. What do you mean my father betrayed my mother? It was your mother who betrayed me first."

"What are you talking about? If your father hadn't failed to show up, we would have just let it go. There's no need to bring up what happened back then."

The two looked at each other and fell silent.

Madeline stubbornly turned her face away, letting Hayley bandage her.

Although things remain the same, the two have largely let go of their previous dissatisfaction and friction.

"Okay, okay! What are you doing?"

Hailey had just finished bandaging up.

Suddenly, she noticed that Leila Xingyu was also sitting on the cloud, and she looked at the two of them with emotion.

"The grudges from the previous life were resolved between life and death, and the good sisters put an end to their past grievances. Sob sob sob. As long as I stay by Rhodes' side, even if I don't have to be related to him, I can still have a lot of thoughts flowing freely."

"Who's her best friend?!" "Exactly!"

Rod, who was in front, suddenly stopped.

A large hand suddenly swung over, signaling for silence, and the fighting stopped abruptly.

His gaze pierced through the mist, fixing on the unknown area ahead.

"A high-backed throne."

He said.

Medlin's expression was solemn: "It's the Silent Throne. As I just told you, the silence zone within it has become exceptionally powerful and has a significant mental influence. Even an eighth-tier mage cannot concentrate once inside."

"Where are the spell slots in the magic network?"

"I have spell slots, but I've already used them all once, so I'm afraid they won't be of much help. Besides, my magical puppet is under mind control; perhaps I can lure her out first."

Lyra raised her hand: "I can go with Rhodes."

Medlin immediately objected: "You stay put. You dared to indulge in whispers and listen attentively before. You're no different from a madman."

Rhodes shook his head.

“You all stay here, I’ll go check it out by myself.” Medlin objected again: “No, what if you die in there? We’re already very weak, we can’t afford to lose any more fighting strength.”

Leila looked at her strangely: "He won't die, he is..."

"Cough cough!"

Although he had been called by his name countless times, Rhodes remained steadfast in his intention to conceal his identity.

Rod is a very common name, so there's no problem.

"Masked heroes?! This is a great theme!"

Leila was excited and buried herself in writing again, ignoring everything else.

Rod waved his hand and walked into the mist without looking back.

As Madeline watched the man disappear into the mist, she immediately became anxious: "Hey Hailey! He's supposed to be your friend, right? Stop him!"

"He will be fine."

"As the squad leader of the security department, you should have basic situational awareness. You're getting him killed, do you understand?! I really misjudged you!"

Bang! ! !
Puff puff puff——

The voice just fell.

From the depths of the distant mist came a metallic, buzzing sound, like hundreds of strings snapping simultaneously.

The sound wasn't like the clash of swords—too faint, too dense, it sounded like something was cutting through the air, through flesh, through bone, but Rhodes' roar was nowhere to be heard.

Perhaps he was simply unable to make a sound within the silence zone of the Silent Throne.

Medlin's fingers gripped her robes tightly, her face pale.

Another sickening cutting sound followed by the dull thud of a heavy object falling to the ground.

"We're doomed. I'm the only normal person in our team."

A silver thread suddenly pierced through the thick fog and landed right in front of everyone's feet, its end wrapped in wood chips, reflecting a dazzling silver light.

Then, there was no further movement.

The entire process should not exceed five minutes.

call--

Suddenly, a figure burst through the mist, crashing to the ground like a tattered rag, leaving a long scratch.

Wood-textured skin, doll-like metal joints, a dark green velvet corset dress, and bundles of knotted silver threads.

The arms, which had been forcibly broken off, were still connected by silk threads and hung haphazardly around the body.

The doll has not lost its ability to move.

With a blank expression, she tried to break free from the tangled mess of silver threads binding her.

Medlin's scream, which was about to erupt, froze instantly.

"Click."

She looked up in surprise in the direction from which the footsteps were coming.

The man named Rod slowly parted the cotton-like mist, his expression calm.

Not to mention the wounds, even the clothes on his body were completely undamaged.

"you you."

"Never mind you for now, let me ask you, what are the contents of this Silent Throne trial again?"

Rhodes noticed that the multifaceted eyeballs of the magical doll on the ground suddenly turned to Medlin, then opened its mouth, flashing with silver light.

He casually stepped on it.

With a loud thud, dirt flew everywhere, and the doll's head sank into the mud, twitching intermittently.

Medlin shrank back, looking at Rhodes with suspicion and uncertainty.

"As long as the mechanism on the throne is successfully activated, who exactly are you? My puppet possesses a defense comparable to a high-level eighth-tier invincible body style; how could its arm be broken like this?"

Rhodes interrupted her again: "The mechanism on the throne? What is it?"

Seeing her old rival's astonished expression, seemingly still not quite recovered, Hailey took the initiative to say, "That's a crown inlaid with half a skull, the Crown of Silence, that's the token."

Rod shrugged.

"That's strange. The throne surrounded by twelve stone pillars is completely empty, without even the so-called skull, let alone the Crown of Silence."

(End of this chapter)