Wizard: This witcher is neglecting his duties.

Chapter 285 Shocking News

There's a saying that goes, "Only those in the same industry truly understand each other."

Before Kayla and the others could prepare, the seemingly corrupted sorcerer used a spell to break the magical barrier.

A tongue-twisting incantation rang out, his voice hoarse as if he hadn't eaten or drunk anything for days, or as if he were a rotting corpse crawling out of a coffin.

A beam of red light shot out from its staff and then quickly merged into the magical barrier a dozen meters away.

With a crisp crack, the barrier that Kayla and Kalxtan had been trying to maintain shattered, and the two were also injured by the backlash of magic, temporarily losing their ability to cast spells.

Seeing this, Letso remained silent, his eyes showing no negative emotions.

Facing the onrushing dozens of fully armed Fallen warriors, this man, as strong as a bear, did not flinch. He drew his Serpent School steel sword, stood guard in front of the two sorceresses, and shouted:

"Prepare for battle!"

Then, without fear, he joined the other two witchers and the few survivor mercenaries who were already somewhat terrified, and faced the fallen warrior, engaging in a fierce melee.

However, as mentioned before, these fearless Fallen warriors possess physical strength exceeding that of ordinary humans. If Wayne were to fight them head-on, even he would not be able to withstand an attack from dozens of them.

After all, he hasn't completed the transformation from an ordinary person to a superhuman being; he can only be considered a slightly special human being. He can die if he gets injured, and he can feel pain if he gets hit. The scenario of "too many ants can kill an elephant" is something that can really happen in reality.

Indeed, the gap in strength cannot be bridged by courage alone.

Even though Letho was already a fairly powerful witcher, he still couldn't cope with the Fallen warriors' fighting style of trading lives for injuries, and soon he was at a disadvantage, with two bloody wounds appearing on his face and forehead.

The mercenaries, whose strength was far inferior to theirs, had one man who, the moment he made contact with the enemy, was stabbed in the throat by a sword because he couldn't react in time. He collapsed, clutching his neck, causing his companions around him to let out desperate roars like trapped beasts.

At this moment, the number of Fallen warriors surrounding Kayla and the others exceeded fifty, while Letho and his group only had ten people with melee combat abilities. This numerical disparity of more than five times not only made their battle extremely dangerous, but also made it impossible for them to resist the enemy's flanking attack on the warlocks they were protecting behind them, no matter how hard they tried.

Once they get close to a warlock who has no melee combat ability, Kayla and the others will basically either be captured or killed.

The battle, which had been relatively peaceful, turned into a life-or-death situation the moment the enemy sorcerer appeared.

Wayne, who had been keeping an eye on the battlefield out of the corner of his eye and was about 60 or 70 meters away from them, felt a struggle flash through his mind when he noticed this situation.

Leaving aside the lives of the mercenaries and Kalxtan, Margarita and Keira were women he had been intimate with, while Letho and the others were his fellow witchers, whom he had brought to this mission.

Regardless, saving their lives remains the top priority.

Thinking of this, he no longer cared about keeping his secret and directly activated the Ancient Blood's blinking ability, instantly flying dozens of meters away and appearing beside Letso and the others.

The soul warhorse Udis, which he had abandoned on the spot, automatically turned into white dust and returned to the magic bell on Wayne's waist after being more than ten meters away from its master.

Upon arriving here, due to the urgency of the battle, Wayne didn't even have time to greet the others. His magic surged wildly into Excalibur, and before the sword could be fully charged, he gripped the powerful holy sword and unleashed a powerful horizontal slash at the enemy in front of him.

Infused with magic, the eight- or nine-meter-long lightsaber, accompanied by a magical roar, instantly sliced ​​through a semi-circle in front of him.

A dozen or so corrupt warriors, their faces contorted with fanaticism, who were besieging Leto and his group, were instantly cleaved in two, cut in half at the waist.

Besides the constant gushing of blood and internal organs from their wounds, a strong smell of burning flesh also emanated from them.

The battlefield was quiet for a moment, but Wayne had no intention of wasting any time. There were more than a dozen fallen warriors rushing towards Kayla and the others, and even with his great strength, he couldn't stop them all.

However, in the blink of an eye, he had already come up with a solution. After teleporting to the side of Kayla and the other two, Wayne now had several magic scrolls from the ancient scrolls in his hand.

As he channeled his magic, five skeleton mages and five skeleton archers immediately appeared beside Kayla and the others.

It wasn't that Wayne didn't want to summon the skeleton warriors, but rather that his warrior scrolls had already been used up in Middle-earth, and he had no more in stock.

However, although these skeletons are not strong and are not warriors, they do not have the fatal flaws of flesh and blood. Their bodies are made of hard bones, and even if a few bones are cut off, it will not affect their combat power.

Under Wayne's control, he can temporarily act as a meat shield without any problem.

At this moment, Margarita, the only one still capable of casting spells, had completed her prepared magic. Under her control, a dozen or so lightning balls flickering with magical flames appeared above her head. These lightning balls seemed to have an automatic aiming ability. After condensing above the headmistress's head, they immediately flew towards the fallen warriors who were besieging Letso and the others.

The powerful electric current ignored their armor and poured directly into their bodies. The intense electricity caused smoke to billow from their mouths and noses, their bodies to tremble violently, and they quickly lost their ability to fight.

With Wayne and Margarita as strong allies, nearly half of the fallen warriors were instantly dealt with, and new meat shields were provided. The pressure on Letho and the others was greatly reduced, and they no longer had to be in such dangerous situations.

However, after summoning the skeleton archers and skeleton mages, Wayne did not join the battle with the fallen warrior. Instead, he immediately used his Blink ability to appear a few meters behind the fallen warlock.

Without any attempt to persuade him to surrender or any other verbal communication, two North Wind Bombs were thrown from Wayne's hands, instantly freezing the corrupted warlock Carlisle, who was preparing a spell, and several heavily armed men with metal shields beside him in place.

However, Wayne did not use the Alder sign to blow the frozen people to pieces.

Regardless of the circumstances, warlocks are highly skilled individuals. Even if he has already defected to the enemy and has been corrupted and fallen, killing him directly would be the most wasteful decision.

Keeping his body alive might allow us to use necromancy to extract information about the enemy's internal workings from him later.

After eliminating the biggest destabilizing factor on the field, the tide of battle quickly turned.

Despite the pain of the magical backlash affecting their bodies, Kayla and Kalkstan also joined the battle.

With everyone working together, and after another ten minutes or so of fighting, most of the fallen warriors who had been lying in ambush were killed in the battle.

However, those corrupted archers who initially besieged Wayne, and the commanders who did not appear in this battle, have all vanished without a trace at some point.

This unusual phenomenon cast a shadow over everyone's hearts.

………………

After the battle, everyone was heavy-hearted, including Wayne.

Others may not know, but after fighting these fallen ones, Wayne has come to realize the horrors of the dark world.

Although he didn't pay much attention to the storyline when he played this game before, there was one thing he was clear about.

In that desperate world, the power of the demons of hell was immense. Although they could not come to the human world through corpses, their evil power could easily bewitch the mortals of the human world.

Not only that, even the protagonists of each generation of games, those heroes who are controlled by the players and are invincible, will be corrupted by the hellish power of the demon god's clones after defeating them, and fall from heroes back into demon kings.

What's even more terrifying is that these monsters that have traveled from other worlds are most likely just projections of power. Even if they are killed countless times in other worlds, they cannot cause any real damage to their original bodies that exist in Hell.

As long as the rift connecting to the dark world exists, they will endlessly project their power, eroding every aspect of this place with the power of hell.

Just as Wayne was pondering these load-bearing issues, Margarita walked over with a serious expression.

This beautiful woman, who always wore a smile, spoke with an unusually serious tone:

"Wayne, we interrogated Carlisle using necromancy."

"We received a shocking piece of news from him."

Wayne was startled; he realized he had underestimated the difficulty of this mission.

"What news?"

Margarita frowned, crossed her arms, and said with a hint of doubt in her voice:

"He told me that one of the members of the Supreme Council had also been corrupted by the otherworldly forces and had betrayed us."

"And this bounty competition is a huge conspiracy orchestrated by that congressman."

"The purpose is to send the elite forces of our world here, then ambush them, so that the spellcasting power of our world will be severely damaged."

"To ensure the invasion plan from another world proceeds more smoothly."

"While we cannot rule out the possibility that this is a lie, intended to sow discord within our Warlock Brotherhood."

"But if this news is true, it would be terrifying."

"Throughout the history of our world, apart from the time when the elves descended, there has never been such a severe invasion by an alien race."

"And they are a race with such a strong aura of evil, even more terrifying than the monsters that appeared during the celestial conjunction."

"We must bring this message back to the Warlock Brotherhood."

(End of this chapter)