Rise Online: Return of the Legendary Player
Chapter 133 - 133: The Witcher

The explosion near the center of the housing district was so loud that all the surrounding neighborhoods could hear it as well.

This explosion did not cause much damage to the district, despite its huge shockwave. Even so, a huge green cloud with a dense interior was created at the site of the explosion. Despite this, the cloud was not poisonous, nor did it present any health hazards to those who entered it, because if this were the case, all players within it would hear a warning about a physical condition being applied.

This being the case, everything led the Blood Lily to believe, from her experience, that the smoke from the explosion was for whoever caused all this to also be able to hide to escape or remain hidden.

The Blood Lily had sharp eyes, so she felt confident that she could find the mage who was protecting the Blood Wolves.

'He is a mage, but every mage needs to see the target to be able to use magic, well, it means the individual must still be around.' She thought, already holding the tensioned string of her bow.

Soon, she saw within the greenish smoke a hooded figure behind a wagon. Yes, it could be an NPC with his name hidden by wearing a hood, or it could just be a player, but even if it was either of those two options, there was a catch, this figure was wiggling his fingers in an unusual way while looking at the Blood Wolves.

To the Blood Lily, there was no doubt, this person was bewitching the Blood Wolves.

*Zimm*

She shot the arrow, which shot through the smoke at an impressive speed.

The hooded person could briefly hear the whir of the approaching arrow, and all he could do was move a little to the left. This lucky move made the arrow miss his head, but hit the figure's right shoulder.

Quickly, the figure tried to look for which direction the arrow came from, to know where to run, but the smoke from the explosion proved to be a problem for the stranger as well because he couldn't see anyone.

'Where did that arrow come from? I can't die here! I won't die here! I'm not going to die today!' Wisely, the hooded person opted for the plan of running away rather than insisting on a fight with a mysterious enemy.

Just as this person got up to start running, his hood got tangled in a hook of the wagon, gasping for air the person just started running without caring. The hood ripped, revealing short hair and when the mysterious witch turned back to see if anyone was following him, he revealed himself to Kaizen and Lily, it was a middle-aged man with an almost completely bald head.

At the end of the spell, the group of players equalized their power level in the battle. The swordsmen coordinate their attacks with the hits from the woman's crossbow and managed to kill the Blood Wolves, however, Kaizen and Blood Lily were not watching this event, as their goal now was to run after the witch.

The man in the black cloak was running weakly and felt that something was wrong. The arrow that had hit him was still stuck in his right shoulder, but despite this, he shouldn't be feeling so weak, because he hadn't lost much blood yet. Not losing blood actually was the reason he hadn't pulled out the arrow.

Suddenly he thought of a possibility, and although it was not the most recommended course of action, he stopped his escape as he entered the alley to get the arrow out of his shoulder.

Grabbing the shaft of the arrow with his left hand, he pulled it out, and an instinctive howl of pain came out.

"Arghh!"

Immediately, he looked at the tip of the bloody arrow and saw something that confirmed his greatest fear. At the end of the arrow, there was a thick purple liquid, it was in fact a poisoned arrow.

"Damn them..." He muttered breathlessly.

His vision was slowly turning red, his heart was beating faster and faster, and the left side of his body was numb. The poison used was probably some natural poison, toxicological, and very strong.

"Oh, Hermodr... I won't be able to live to see the world you will bring to us..." He said, looking up with regret. "No. I can't think that way. If I can only get to Barbara, I might have a chance." The wizard thought and ran back.

The man was not fast and was walking through the narrow alleys of the labyrinthine city like a child going through a maze without thinking much about where he was going.

When the wizard heard footsteps coming from the buildings above him, he tried to increase his run speed, but it was in vain.

Using only the sounds of his footsteps, Blood Lily and Kaizen managed to make the man run away to an empty alley, far from the center and with no exit. As soon as the man came across a huge brick wall in the alley he entered, he tried to go back the same way he got there, but two people landed in front of him.

One was a redheaded woman wearing majestic scarlet armor, she had a neutral look.

The other person was a man amazingly tall, for most, with arms of stringy muscles, he was wearing the usual lancer's armor, which had a side cape and shining steel components.

Facing these two people head-on, the wizard knew that he had no chance of getting out alive if his opponents were these two people. Still, an uncontrollable urge within him, a dream, or rather an obsession, to want to see the world his great master would one day create, made him cast magic against his pursuers almost instinctively.

The man opened both hands and spaced each of his fingers wide apart. A green aura began to envelop him as he gradually lifted off the ground.

Kaizen clenched his eyes watching this and then also clenched his right fist, which he used to punch the man as hard as he could, right into the man's face, canceling the sorcerer's magic before he could finish what he was doing.

Falling to the ground with half his face dented and the mark of Kaizen's fist on the left side of his face, the man had his collar pulled by the Psyker, who lifted him by the collar to his height and said:

"Did you really try to use magic with such a cast time, that close to your opponents? You are a disappointment. I thought you would have more to show me."

The sorcerer smiled bitterly. "No... I was just buying time for the rest of the staff to get to where... they wanted..." He said weakly and finally lost consciousness.

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Edited by: DrHitsuji

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