Netheril’s Glory
chapter-38

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A cold wind blew across the wasteland under the curtain of night. In the silent night, Punk's eyes in the shadow of his robe's hood almost burst out with blue light, and his cyan robe was quietly flashing with a faint light, which was the magical formations of the enchanted robe. Under his feet was the Staff's head with red ruby that begun to dim. Under the moonlight, the faint outline of Punk's cold white face could be seen!

Kane also stopped not far away from Punk, and his golden battle qi covered every inch of his armour, and his lance was ready to go at any moment like a sharp sword out of its sheath.

Only Putt seemed to be stunned, and his face became pale, and he started to shiver while standing in the back.

Just now, the system warned about a trace of abnormal flow in the air, and Punk quickly stopped.

However, even with the mage armour on his body, Punk still had to sacrifice a precious trainee-level magic tool such as his Staff to defend against a full-power attack from an assassin. More specifically, Punk defended against the Assassin's knife, which, Punk sensed, was covered with some kind of magical poison. In this perilous Pheren Plane, magic poison couldn't be taken out in ten days or in half a month as it depicted in earth's martial art novels. All the mainstream magic poisons, without exception, could kill instantly. And if it's level was sufficiently high, even a scratch was enough to kill a professional. So Punk tried his absolute best to avoid the attack; otherwise, the consequences could be unimaginable!

"An Assassin! No! Maybe several of them!"

Punk's expression was unprecedentedly solemn. Because, An Assassin, who uses shadow energy, the night-time was like their home ground, so Punk had to fight an uphill battle from the very beginning of this confrontation.

But, Punk, after suddenly experiencing the attack of an Assassin, was somewhat puzzled..........

"How did you know our path of retreat!"

Yes, this was his biggest doubt. Judging from this Assassin's action, she had been ambushing here for a long time, but how did she know that he would retreat from here?

"There are 28 paths suitable for your retreat. We have a total of 7 groups of assassins, So the probability of you guys being in ambush was as high as a quarter."

A kind of ethereal and weird voice came from all directions in that area. So without the help of a spell, even with the system's analysis, Punk could not distinguish the enemy's position. But now, surrounded by Assassins, it was undoubtedly unwise to cast a spell that would take at least two seconds to chant.

"It seems that the enemy ambush really depended on chances, and I was unfortunate enough to be hit by them!"

Punk was very unhappy in his heart!

"Why do I always find myself in such troublesome things? I really shouldn't have participated in this night attack."

The enemy, who was still hiding in some unknown place, started to speak some useless nonsense.

"You mages do always have some strange and weird methods. I can't figure out how you sensed my attack!"

"It looks like you were too confident in yourself!"

There was a hint of sarcasm in Punk's tone. After this, the dialogue between them came to an end. The reason why both sides were talking nonsense just now was to distract the enemy in the hope that the enemy would reveal some flaw. But now, whether it was Punk or the unknown Assassin, both understood that the opponent was not someone who could be disturbed by such cheap tricks.

So, now the only way was a life-and-death battle without any chance of negotiation or compromise!

"Be prepare, mage and you the knight, this time, I won't miss............"

With this last threat drifting away in the wind, the atmosphere of the whole night became solemn. Punk and Kane stood motionless, tensing their nerves, ready to deal with the poisoned dagger that could come out at any seconds from the dark!

Time passed by, unknowingly, Punk and Kane had been facing each other in the cold and dark night for nearly ten minutes, but the Assassins showed no sign of attack.

Punk's face was very gloomy, and Kane's face had long lost that heartless smirk. With the passage of time, the situation was becoming more and more unfavourable for them.

The enemy seemed to be experienced and patient. Even after all this time, not a single flaw was revealed! Punk didn't know if the enemy had the means to notify the "main forces" at the camp, and... If the enemy's reinforcements arrived, Punk and Kane would definitely die. Moreover, judging from the attack power of the Assassin just now, the opponent was at least a level-eighth advanced trainee, and they also have the environmental advantages, as being in the night could also reduce the energy consumption of Assassins to a certain extent. He and Kane were now really in a very disadvantageous position.

While being hyper-alert to the surroundings, Punk thought carefully and decided to take the initiative; otherwise, it would only get more difficult with times

Punk released an apprentice-level summoning spell within one second. And a large cloud of colourful smoke was summoned into reality from his soul. Just after a few seconds, a thick smoke enveloped an area of about half of a basketball court, which completely enveloped Punk and Kane, and their silhouette could no longer be seen from the outside.

"Since you can't find the enemy, then make yourself also undetectable."

But this was not enough. Although the smoke was thick enough to cover up everything inside, Punk's magic fluctuations could still be discovered by skill, such as the "shadow perception", which was often used by the Assassin class! Although the perception from such skill was relatively vague, still a vague perception was enough to locate Punk's location in such a limited area.

In order to confuse the Assassin's shadow skills, Punk released a new apprentice-level summoning spell—"mana distortion" at his fastest speed. With a hoarse incantation sound from the colourful smoke, palm-sized balls started to come out from the floating spell symbol in the air. Slowly, six such blue light balls started to float in a random trajectory around Punk.

These little light balls looked very cheerful and cute.

But Punk, As the summoner, knew that these cute little balls not as harmless as they seemed! From several white lightning flashes from these little balls, and the faintly revealed violent energy fluctuations, people could guess their destructiveness!

Punk ordered the Mana Distortion balls to disperse in the smoke, and he himself quickly left his original position. The Mana Distortion balls carrying some mana had the ability to imitate Punk's Mana fluctuations after slight adjustments from the system. Although it was a bit off, but it was enough to distract the Assassins for some times!

These mana balls scattered in the thick smoke, would most certainly delay the Assassins, who were already having some problem distinguishing Punk's accurate location. And if an Assassin mistakenly came too close to a mana ball, Punk would manipulate the mana ball to explode. That would indeed be a great surprise to her!

In this way, as long as Punk's luck was not too bad and didn't be guessed randomly by the Assassin, there would be no danger.

And Punk didn't think that the enemy would have the guts to dive into the smoke arranged by a mage to carry out a surprise attack! Also, the place where Punk and Kane were ambushed was not that far from Konola City, so even if he wasted a little bit of time here, Punk was confident that he could go back to Konola city before the arrival of any reinforcements!

As for Kane... Punk didn't bother to care about his life or death. Although this guy's habits were a little silly, Punk was pretty sure Kane has plenty of methods to save his life. Like, how in the beginning, Punk clearly perceived Kane's location in the fog, but now his battle qi fluctuations disappeared completely.

"Sure enough, This fox Kane will not die easily! Now, Let's see what Ms. Assasine will do!"

Punk thought calmly!