Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 132 Crying and Laughter

As the two finished speaking.

A series of clanging sounds echoed from the strange building, and one after another, humanoid puppets emerged from the shattered hidden door. Each puppet resembled a young girl, with varying postures and attire, yet they all exhibited a relatively uniform standard of production in terms of height and other details. Each puppet was also connected to the light emanating from the strange building by a glowing thread.

Ruger looked at the old wizard apprentice with a questioning gaze, and the other nodded, indicating that these were the items below.

Meanwhile, the old wizard apprentice was also very curious about Dasoya Star, who was laughing hysterically. He looked like he was about to die laughing, let alone do anything.

Twenty-six puppets emerged from the underground door.

Ruger suddenly dodged to the left, and three puppets joined forces to throw one of them at him like a sharp sword.

“What do we do next!” Ruger shouted, still clutching the dice in his hand.

The old wizard's apprentice was also dodging the attacking puppets.

Suddenly, both of them were startled. The three puppets they had dodged suddenly turned around and raised their hands like knives, aiming at Dasoya Starlight, who was laughing wildly in place. Clearly, Dasoya had prepared everything for herself, but she didn't do it directly. Using her own puppets to kill herself might not be a good choice for the ritual.

"Protect her first," the old drunkard muttered under his breath.

Ruger charged forward, smashing two golems away like a bull. The two golems, shaped like young girls, were heavier than he had imagined, nearly killing him. Another golem was blocked and knocked away by a gem, but it was a step too late, leaving Dasoya with another wound, blood spurting out with a maniacal laugh.

Before they could catch their breath, a dozen or so puppets in the distance had already taken their positions in a peculiar arrangement, each with their hands outstretched and an arm raised.

A barrage of fireballs, like a rain of fire, flew toward the two of them, and of course, Dasoya herself was also within the range of the fireball spell.

Ruger didn't care about anything else and dragged Dasoya away. As he ran, he estimated the time. How long did it take for Baant to finish dancing last time? The mental strength of the two people should be about the same. He wondered if the time affected by the demon dice would be the same.

"Disrupt their location."

As the old drunkard spoke, several gems flew over and crashed into the pile of puppets that were constantly firing fireballs.

Luger waved his hand and summoned Big Fool Heng and Aiskin. The magical pet Squeaky Bug was currently asleep, so he didn't summon it. He simply instructed the two kobolds not to worry about anything else, just to ensure their own safety and disrupt the gathered magical puppet formation.

At this moment, a group of puppets surrounded them, and Ruger suddenly threw the laughing Dasoya at the old wizard apprentice.

A puppet burst into flames and leaped into the air, attempting to intercept her, as if to embrace her and let her die in the warm embrace of the flames.

The old drunkard was quite shrewd; he summoned three gems in advance to catch Dasoya.

The barrage of fireballs that had been raining down on the sky finally came to an end.

“I haven’t found the puppet she’s going to upgrade to. It must be a very high-level and sophisticated puppet. After the upgrade is successful, that puppet will be her new body,” the old drunkard roared. “That puppet should be among these puppets.”

Luger had a sudden inspiration.

Since the old drunkard says so, what would happen if he forcibly took the puppets one by one into the Abyss Bedroom space? Could this ritual continue to be completed through a small space fragment connected to him?
Alternatively, you could simply throw Dasoya Stars into the Abyss Bedroom space.

It's worth a try, but it will expose his personal bedroom space to the two wizard apprentices.

He hesitated for a moment.

He decided to take the risk anyway. Just as the old wizard apprentice turned around, Ruger skillfully opened a portal, grabbed a pounced puppet, and shoved it into the bedroom. Just as he was congratulating himself on his cleverness, the threads of light connecting the puppet touched the edge of the portal, instantly distorting and dissipating it. The puppet in his hand seized the opportunity to attack, but he forcefully slammed it away.

At this point, he also noticed that, as time went on, the old wizard apprentice in the distance seemed to be genuinely panicking.

"No, this isn't it either, it's not any of them!"

Surrounded and protected by various gems, the old drunkard roared as he checked each of the golems.

At this moment, the old drunkard threw Dasoya, who was getting in the way.

Ruger's stubbornness surged up as he caught Dasoya with one hand and opened a new spatial portal with the other. Just then, his eyes widened as he stuffed Dasoya into the portal, a beam of light dozens of times thicker than the light behind all the other puppets appeared behind her, and the portal vanished once more.

Although the thick beam of light only appeared for a moment, it successfully attracted the attention of the old wizard's apprentice.

Ruger also clearly saw that each of the twenty-six puppets present sent out a beam of light that connected with Dasoya, and the beams eventually merged to create that thick end.

"Hahaha!" the old drunkard laughed.

Ruger instantly understood that, guided by those fleeting rays of light, each ray of light connecting Dasoya to the puppet was pointing to a different location; some were connected to the palm of one puppet, while others were connected to the lower leg of another.

Dasoya Starlight disassembled her ultimate puppet and hid the pieces in the twenty-six puppets.

Ruger recalled the old drunkard's earlier assessment that Dasoya might have a way to conceal her strength for a short period after becoming a formal wizard, and that method might involve similarly splitting herself apart.

Excitedly, the old wizard apprentice, relying on that fleeting memory, began attempting to dismantle the key parts of the puppets one by one. If enough parts of the puppets' true forms were destroyed, the ritual would inevitably be affected. Furthermore, if he succeeded, he would not only save his own life and the City of Stars, but also amass a considerable fortune.

The old drunkard's excited laughter finally allowed Ruger's tense nerves to relax a little.

He understood the old drunkard's intentions, and despite his increasing injuries, he led Dasoya Starlight in a planned and frantic escape, scattering the puppets to create a better environment for the old drunkard.

The light of hope is shining.

Dasoya Star's maniacal laughter suddenly grew louder, then abruptly stopped.

All the puppets also stood still at the same time.

A soft light emerged from her body, hazy and indistinct, gradually rising into the air and twisting into a human shape. The human shape moved slowly, and its face was indistinct, yet it bowed to Ruger and the old wizard apprentice respectively. The slow movement added a profound sincerity to the bow.

The old wizard apprentice was dumbfounded, seemingly even more frozen in fear than the puppets themselves.

After bowing, the luminous figure suddenly dispersed, transforming into twenty-six small arrows of light that flew into different parts of the twenty-six puppets.

The clicking sounds continued, and now they no longer needed to painstakingly disassemble them. The puppets made sounds as they separated into twenty-six different parts.

Luger looked to the side and saw that Dasoya Star's true form had lost all life.

He glanced at the devil's dice in his hand, and a description came to mind: the dice were formed by six playful and mischievous little devils under extremely strange circumstances. It would have a deeper effect on people in different states. It could cause people with weak willpower to become permanently blind, make people with psychological trauma so afraid that they could hardly move or even be frightened to death, make lazy people dance endlessly until they were exhausted and on the verge of death, and make those who were grieving laugh until they suffocated.

A four-point roll signifies wild laughter.

(End of this chapter)