King of the North: My Lord's Diary Weekly Summary

Chapter 98, Rachel Leads the Team

Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was knocked back by the ripples, the necromancer shaman did not hesitate at all. With a layer of dark green mist under his feet, he quickly swept past Wayne.

Then, the remaining stitched beasts seemed to be drawn by the power of its bone staff and flew towards the team members in front of them.

Wien witnessed this scene, but for a moment he was unable to do anything.

All the team members were knocked away by the Stitches monster, leaving only Ronald peeking out of the hole.

But when faced with the undead shaman charging at him wielding a bone staff, Ronald didn't hesitate for a second. He flashed out of the cave and slashed the monsters that had knocked his teammates away but were still writhing in their claws!

His choice failed to save the undead shaman, but it also prevented Sean and Wright from being scratched.

Caleb and Red Flame were the ones who were injured—they failed to imitate Wayne's "burst" in time like Annie and Yukikaze, and black wounds were left on their faces and bodies.

Annie and Yukikaze, after unleashing their power and counterattacking, had exhausted their strength—it was Wayne who shattered the monsters on the man and wolf.

Furthermore, he took out a special wooden jar from his waist and applied herbs to their wounds to remove the poison.

This jar was a return gift from Renee; the skill was also taught to him by Renee over the past few days; and the herbs themselves were the "purifying potion" that she had brought with her at the time, bound with a black rope.

"You all stay here and keep watch!"

Wayne's mind raced as he quickly gave the order: "Wright, go to the village now, explain the situation to Raymond, and assist in the village's defense—the cave is right below the village, and it could launch a surprise attack from below!"

"Guard the cave entrance and the village. I'm going to find Rachel now!"

After saying this, Wayne disappeared from the spot and ran towards the stable in the west of the village.

He hadn't expected the "residents" below the cave to be such a formidable enemy, but since he had already alerted them, he had to eliminate them directly.

Moreover, upon closer examination, the danger of the cave should have been common knowledge within the Duke's faction.

……

In the command room of the Northwest outpost, Rachel listened to Wayne's account, her icy blue eyes growing colder and colder.

"Undead Shaman".

A stitched-together monster.

She stood up, walked to the wall, and took down her sword: "What's the situation now?!"

Wayne responded, "My men are still guarding the cave entrance."

It's injured, but it could come out at any time.

Rachel was silent for a few seconds, then looked towards the door.

"Karen."

She shouted.

Karen pushed the door open and came in.

"Get ready, come with me."

Rachel said, "Call Qin too."

……

Qin was a man who covered the lower half of his face with his collar. He rode his horse at full speed alongside the three men, remaining silent throughout.

Rachel only brought the two of them—because the cave was not suitable for cavalry to fight in formation.

Similarly, that man's individual combat ability must also be extraordinary.

……

When we returned to the cave entrance, it was just past noon.

Anne and Caleb were sent back to the village by Wayne to reinforce the defenses.

Ronald and Sean followed Wayne and Rachel's team down into the hole a second time!

However, as soon as they entered the cave, they found that it was no longer as dark as before:

Aside from the stench of rotting corpses, a faint blue light emanated from ahead.

It wasn't until they reached the stone chamber where they had encountered the bat lizard that they saw the source of the blue light.

That was… a precise, shimmering, and transparent… blue magic circle!

Its patterns are intricate and complex, flowing with a pale blue light, like a machine composed of countless rotating gears.

Rachel walked over to Wayne, who was stunned, and looked at the blue barrier with a furrowed brow.

"This is……"

She paused for a moment: "A magic circle."

She closed her eyes, as if sensing something. After a moment, she opened them, her expression even more grave than before.

"The precision of this magic array has exceeded the scope of ordinary witchcraft."

She said, "This is definitely not something a wandering shaman could set up."

Wayne's face also turned grim—such a menace had been living beneath them all along: "What is that?"

Rachel did not answer.

She sheathed her sword and took the bow and arrow from Karen's hand—the arrow passed through the magic circle without any hindrance.

"Enter."

Seeing this, Rachel did not hesitate for long—this was the confidence of the border knight commander.

"As long as it hasn't reached the second order, there's no problem."

Karen and Qin trusted Rachel just as the wolf pack, knights, and followers trusted Wayne, and stepped into the magic circle without the slightest hesitation.

Wayne, Ronald, and Sean followed.

However, the moment he passed through the light curtain, Wayne felt a bone-chilling cold.

The chill felt like countless tiny needles piercing the skin, but it disappeared in just one second.

They stood on the other side of the magic circle.

Looking back, the array of light was still slowly circulating.

Sean drew an arrow and shot it outside the light array.

However, the moment the tentative arrow touched the light barrier, it instantly froze into ice, then shattered into countless ice shards, scattering across the ground.

Everyone's expression changed.

"You can only go in, not out."

Wayne sensed the seriousness in Rachel's tone.

"What should we do then?" Ronald asked.

Rachel looked into the depths of the cave.

"Keep going."

She said, "Since it has this effect, we are actually safer—no matter how sophisticated the magic array is, it can't be omnipotent."

……

The journey ahead was a living hell.

Deep inside the cave, the remains of stitched-together creatures were everywhere—some still moving, others completely dead.

Further in, various experimental instruments gradually appeared on the stone walls—chains, knives, and suture needles and thread.

Human skeletons were scattered on the ground, some dressed in the tattered clothes of bandits, and some in the coarse cloth clothes of commoners.

"These are the people who went missing in the western part of Phip Forest..."

Karen's voice trembled slightly.

Qin remained silent, but his blade never missed its mark.

He always walked ahead of the group, and every time he was seen, there would be a few more Stitched Monster corpses between the group and him.

His blade always had a transparent sheen—that was the ultimate application of qi.

Rachel's strength is even more terrifying.

She walked ahead of the rest of the group, her sword tip gleaming with a pale blue light, and even a casual slash could cleave through the hard scales of the bat lizards deep within the cave.

Wayne, Ronald, and Sean teamed up to eliminate the remaining fugitives.

They fought their way through, killing for who knows how long.

Finally, the cave came to an end.

It was a huge circular stone chamber, larger than any of the previous ones.

In the center of the stone chamber stood an altar, upon which were placed various strange objects—bone staffs, skulls, and dried bloodstains.

But the altar was empty.

There is no undead shaman.

There is no stitched beast.

There was nothing there.

"strangeness……"

Rachel frowned: "Where's the shaman?"

Wayne walked to the altar and examined it carefully.