Ch. 118 - Seeking Your Own Death

When Adele and Nashura arrived at the camp, they were about to torture a priest again. Instead, they heard a few priests say in a jealous tone, "This fellow Paladin, what makes him so appreciated by the Archbishop? Isn't he just of noble birth? With his entire family wiped out, he's only left with a family name." "Ay, don't say that. Although this guy is in the limelight these days, it's just a moment of prestige. Although the archbishop took him to the castle's banquet and spent the night there. But it's also a temporary scenery." Adele and Nashura, who were about to make some preparations, immediately froze when they heard this. Following that, they looked at each other and smiled, suddenly blending into the dark shadows, and there was no evidence that the two of them existed.

Not long after, the figures of the two appeared in front of the huge gate of the fortress. Adele glanced at the ten iron gates that were suspended from the top of the gate, and then glanced at the dozen or so guards who were squatting at the gate, drinking a little wine around the campfire and chatting happily. When he was about to sneak in with Nashura behind him, Nashura's foot was just about to step into the inner gates, just a split second around this corner! He suddenly glared with both eyes, darted a hand to pull Adele, looked back at her who was puzzled, and whispered with a grave face, "I just sensed it, an elemental shroud."

"What’s that?" Adele immediately asked as she lowered her voice. She looked at Nashura's grave face and knew that he wouldn't be aimless. However, she heard Nashura raise his head slightly and point with his chin on the open space of the city gate in front of him. Adele suspiciously turned her head to look at it, and was getting more and more puzzled when she wanted to ask Nashura what was going on. Nashura became more and more serious and lowered his voice and said: "Look carefully at this empty space in front of the city gate. Stare at a grain of sand stone on the ground. Then gently walk back and forth from side to side. Don't relax your concentration to see." Adele immediately arched her body and stared at the grains of sand on the ground and moved back and forth according to Nashura's words, but just after walking twice, those originally puzzled eyes were immediately filled with incredulity!

"My god, is this magic?" Adele looked at everything in front of her and whimpered in surprise. Because in front of this city gate that should have only been air, as Adele moved, she actually saw an unsteady center! It was like a twisted refraction, the wooden bar inserted into the water was twisted in a way that was not a straight line in and out of the water. But this is air, such an almost invisible shroud, exactly. Just as Adele was shocked with confusion, Nashura said with resignation, "This is elemental shroud magic. It's not harmful to people, it's as harmless as sight. However, unlike the naked eye, it is like a huge spider web, once a caster with the same spell ring touches the field of this magic. It will be sensed by the mage who cast this magic."

"You mean..." Adele was a little frightened, but she saw Nasura nodding seriously and said: "That's right, this elemental shroud covers the entire fortress. There must be a knowledgeable mage sitting in the fortress, guarding the fortress with elemental shrouds, and monitoring all mages with the four elements! Simply put, I can't go in! Otherwise, I will be discovered by this senior immediately."

Adele swallowed deeply, turned her head and looked at Nashura playing with the dagger in her hand, and said helplessly, "In other words, do you want me to go in alone to find Father Paladin?" "There's no other way, I'll leave this to you first. You are an assassin, as long as you don't get discovered by Paladin. And the magic of Elemental Cage can't do anything to a non-caster without the favor of the four elements." Adela could only roll her eyes and said, "Well, I'll go. I'll come back and let you know as soon as I get some news from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel episodes."

After saying that, her figure was blurred for a while, and only a black shadow flashed faintly, followed by Nashura's concerned soft call of "be careful", and entered the fortress. But Nashura, who looked at Adele who disappeared in the streets of the fortress, felt an uncomfortable feeling in the fortress. That feeling was not from the fortress, but from something, someone in the fortress. It's like the strange cold feeling of countless people screaming and crawling on the ground, but unable to stand up. This kind of feeling gave Nashura only worry about Adele. But thinking that no matter how you say it, she is also the assassin who won the title of hound from the H-asassin Alliance, she can be regarded as a master at any rate, even if there are twenty ordinary soldiers, they will be killed. There is no need to worry.

And at this moment, Adele, who was darting through the shadows between the buildings and the walls, finally drilled into a window and entered the castle after a long half hour. Slightly poking her head out to see that there were still some guards and maids ambiguously walking into the kitchen to eat their evening meal. Adele then knew it was still early. Intending to find some innocent people to find out where Father Paladin was. And get into action.

It went even smoother than expected. After Adele stunned the three threatened maidservants with the power of thunder, Adele finally knew the whereabouts of Father Paladin, and immediately separated herself! Seeing that the room in the information was right in front of him, Paladin, who was reading a book inside, was taken aback for a moment. His hearing, which had been strengthened many times, could vaguely hear a series of footsteps from far to near outside the room! It is so subtle that it has to give people a feeling of lurking! Paladin turned off the light decisively, jumped to bed, covered the quilt tightly and closed his eyes. Immediately, he opened his hands hidden under the quilt, and he grabbed two golden light magic arrows in his hands, waiting for this mysterious person who might be looking for him.

Click click click click. With a series of scalp numbing, yet very faint clicking sounds, this wooden door slowly opened, and without making a single footstep, Adele bowed her body and walked in, dagger in her hand. At the first glance, Adele saw Paladin who was shrouded in shadow and covered with a quilt and was sleeping. But it was also because of the shadows that Paladin's face could not be seen clearly.

Adela slowly moved to the front of his bed, although she was a little worried that this Paladin was not a fuel-efficient lamp. However, until now, she could still feel that this Paladin's breathing and heartbeat were very normal and regular through the Breath Convergence Method. There was absolutely none of that nervousness and fear or excitement. Adele didn't believe that he was awake and could only be truly asleep. Because being able to openly and calmly face the person who walked into her room with a dagger and still not have the slightest mood swing. That wasn't even human, it should be called undead.

"Hmm!" Adele took a slight step back, and a sudden light came on before her eyes, as if an infinite sea of water had sprung up in front of her eyes, a sea compiled of thick golden light! Adele's face changed! The original thought of waking up Paladin for a proper interrogation dissipated! This vision, wasn't it exactly the one that was felt in Fenrir, the evil man that escaped! In other words, this Paladin was the culprit who framed O’Neill and killed the Flamel family! She no longer has the intention to stay still, no matter whether it is for the sake of Nashura's injustice, or this bizarre and horrible illusion, this Paladin will have to die!

But at this moment, when Adele embraced the consequences of blood splattering all over her body, she wanted to cut off the head of Paladin who was sleeping soundly with his eyes closed. Paladin's closed eyes, which were originally very peaceful, suddenly opened! Dazzling golden light burst out from the eye sockets!

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