Chapter 1160: A Trap
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"Margie!" Ashes screamed and stepped between the Magic yer and the other witches.
Margie responded with a series of hacking cough.
She was still alive, but barely.
"You’re pretty fast, Extraordinary," the Magic yer said in a calm voice, casting her a sorrowful look which did not usually appear on a demon’s face. "If you didn’t try to block me, she could have died painlessly. You’re only making her suffer."
At this point, Andrea suddenly came to the realization that it was not by a pure coincidence that the Magic yer targetted Margie. He had taken everything into consideration before this move, including Margie’s limited fighting capacity and her unique ability of maneuvering the Magic Ark. As Margie was the key to their transportation, eliminating her was pretty much cutting off their retreat.
Andrea bit her lip and stole a backward nce at Margie. A bone spear had prated her shoulder, blood oozing out of her wound and trickling down the corner of her mouth. Apparently, the spear had hurt her lung. Had Ashes not blocked the demon in time, Margie would have probably died on spot.
Given such circumstances, Margie definitely could not operate the Magic Ark anymore.
But how did the Magic yer know Margie’s ability?
"You’re the ’eye’ of human beings, right? You really created us a lot of trouble by directing that fiery rain." The Magic yer pointed at Sylvie and then at Andrea, whose heart dropped even faster as the demon continued, "And you must be that genius shooter. You probably wouldn’t be able to do much harm to us 400 years ago, but things be different now. You appear to be more difficult than Transcendents. It’s good that you’ve finally met each other."
At this words, he ced his right hand over his chest and then said, "Please let me introduce myself. I’m Ursrook, themander of the Expedition Corp, as well as the very person who’ll give you eternal rest."
Beyond a doubt, this was a well-nned, carefully-calcted trap.
Andrea’s face turned a nasty shade of green.
When did they start to associate the Magic yer with great magic power?
Right... After Leaf had been attacked in the north of the Misty Forest, everybody had the impression that the Magic yer possessed extraordinary power.
In fact, they had started to think that way even before that incident had urred.
When Lightning had encountered the Magic yer for the first time, she had sensed his stupendous magic power, so powerful that everybody just naturally believed that the Magic Eye could easily detect it.
They were thus further misled by their predetermined impression, firmly believing that the Magic yer was continuously upgrading himself and that Sylvie had everything under control.
Nevertheless, everything was a false illusion created by the Magic yer.
He enticed them out of hiding.
Had he known their n all along?
But this did not make any sense! Even if the demons noticed Sylvie and Andrea and decided to set up a trap to eliminate them, this Senior Demon named Usrook did lose Taqu and sacrifice thousands of demons on the Fertile ins! He might not care that much about the lives of his subordinates, but how could he just abandon the ruin? Without the God’s Stone, the demons would not be able to erect the Obelisk, which meant they would lose their foothold on the Fertile ins in the next 400 years. Wasn’t the cost a little too dear?
Were they really worth the demon making such a huge sacrifice?
Andrea felt her head swimming as a multitude of thoughts crammed into her head. It was Sylvie who asked the question that bothered her.
"... Why? Taqu should be more important than us!"
The Magic yer was surprisingly patient this time. He shook his head and replied tersely, "I can’t tell you."
"Can’t you just indulge a dying person’s curiosity?"
"But you aren’t dying," Ursook jeered. "You aren’t giving up even in this desperate situation, are you?"
"What’s he waiting for?"
"Is he awaiting his God’s Stone of Toss to be recharged?"
His arm did not shrivel either.
Anyway, this was a chance. Andrea swallowed hard. She knew there was no chance for Sylvie, Cami and Margie to stop the Magic yer, but she and Ashes might more or less hold him back, although she barely had any magic power left.
The only person they could now rely on was Lightning.
The fact that she had not shown up yet indicated that she had noticed something wrong. If she could send the ’Seagull’ to support them, there would still be a chance to snatch a victory out of defeat!
It would be simply more advisable to y for time by asking more questions.
There were indeed so many questions burning inside her.
At this thought, Andrea turned to the Magic yer and asked heavily, "I don’t understand... Even if we were misled, it isn’t likely that we’ll miss a lurking enemy. We checked everything before firing. You were eight or nine kilometers away from Taqu, and you couldn’t possibly get here within a second. Where did you hide yourself?"
"We’ve dug many underground passages over the past years at the rear of Taqu instead of the front," Ursrook answered leisurely. "The entrance of the passage is hidden among the God’s Stones, so it’s hard to spot. Plus, the passage forked out deep down underneath the ground, so it’s perfectly normal that you failed to notice them." He looked up at the sky and said, "Human beings are monitoring the area above, right? You did do a good job. That’s why you fell into our trap without realizing it."
"There are passages nearby?" Andrea felt a jolt of uneasiness in the pit of her stomach. "Even though you were hiding underground, it still isn’t easy to spot us on such a vastnd. We constantly moved from one ce to another. How did you find us?"
"I didn’t find you. You found me," the Magic yer drawled as a malicious smile suddenly flutter over his face. "Right, not only one person saw me... Where’s that flying little girl? If you have a n B, your reinforcements should have arrived by now, right?"
A dreadful leaden feeling prevailed Andrea instantly.
"It sees you the moment you see it" — that was exactly what the Eye Demon did. Had she just shot an Eye Demon? But an Eye Demon should be muchrger than the Magic yer. Did Ursrook somehow make that decoy have the Eye Demon’s ability?
Regardless, this did not even matter now. At this moment, Andrea realized where her uneasiness came from.
There must be demons other than the Magic yer hiding underground.
The Magic yer must be waiting for his reinforcements so that they could kill them all.
Just then, several grenades whizzed out of the woods and darted toward Ursrook!
The Magic yer shot up in the air and dodged the grenades gracefully. The grenadesnded magnificently on the ground with an almighty crash.
Before the stirred air around them tranquilized, bullets had hailed down at the Magic yer.
Ursrook climbed higher, and his body emanated a ghostly blue glow.
"The God’s Punishment Witches are here!" Sylvie eximed with excitement.
"Are you all OK?" Zoe dashed out of the woods and stepped between the demon and the witches, followed by the other seven God’s Punishment Witches who immediately shielded the defeated witches.
"Go. We have to get out of here — "Andrea shouted at the other witches, having no time to provide further exnation.
Meanwhile, Ursrook slowly raised his arm.
There came two muted, distant whooshes.
Sylvie paled, who knew better what that sounds meant than anyone else. "Watch out. It’s the Spider Demons!"
Two gleamy ck stone pirs flew past above them and showered down long needles after they exploded.
Andrea summoned what remained of her magic power, whipped the air around them and attempted to wrench the falling needles away.
However, nothing happened. Her magic power was shattered by a ck sh.
The Magic yer generated the anti-magic area!
Elena, who was closest to Andrea, scooped her up and sprinted up to a tree nearby.
It was a fraction of a second that seemed to stretch into years.
Andrea felt her body rising and her eyes streaming. By the time she finallynded, her legs were numb.