blueteamnovel Chapter 181 The Labyrinth, the Labyrinth, the Labyrinth
Chapter 181 The Labyrinth, the Labyrinth, the Labyrinth
Chapter 181 The Labyrinth, the Labyrinth, the Labyrinth
Magnubie's ass!
Despite all their calculations, they never expected the peacock to ambush them here.
As Gebu frantically ran through the green maze, he secretly cursed his luck. He had planned to outsmart the peacock, but the old lady had a backup plan!
That tall, thin guy, Geb couldn't be mistaken, was the witch hunter Vulture! This guy hasn't given up yet!
It seems that Peacock is really desperate. Regardless of the possibility that the witch hunter might discover her secret, she still colludes with him. It seems that she really wants her life.
If the guide had been the female knives, none of this might have happened. But since Gebu had regained his freedom, Peacock had no more worries. Rather than having Gebu lead them to retrieve the book, it would be much more controllable to extract the information directly from the goblins.
Those witch hunters are said to be able to extract information from the mouths of the dead; they are truly terrifying.
"Over here!"
A voice sounded behind Geb, and the halfling shuddered. He turned right at the T-junction in front of him and simultaneously cast a minor illusion, creating the illusion that a shadow was running to the left.
The vulture and five beaked mercenaries caught up with him at the crossroads in no time. The witch hunter glanced to the left and then to the right.
"Look this way!" a mercenary pointed to the left.
Another mercenary immediately retorted, "They clearly ran to the right!"
After a moment of contemplation, the vulture gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "The maze has only one exit; he can't escape."
You and you, stay here and guard this place, don't let a single bird escape!
"The rest of you, follow me! Remember, keep your right hand on the wall and don't move it. Keep walking along the wall, and sooner or later you'll corner the goblins!"
"You mean halflings?" the mercenary interjected.
"No matter what they are, kill anyone shorter than waist-high!" Vulture roared. On this night, his cold and ruthless exterior had vanished, leaving only uncontrollable rage.
After leaving two people behind, Baldy led three mercenaries to the right, chasing after the goblin wizard.
The scene shifts, and Gebu darts and weaves through the maze, soon penetrating deep within the green walls. The hedges are intertwined and dense, impenetrable, like two dark walls in the pitch-black night, oppressive and suffocating.
Right hand, right hand, right hand.
Gebu used the same method as the vulture to explore the maze, but this method was not suitable for situations with pursuers—after all, it was a brute-force solution. If you reached a dead end, you would have to turn around 180 degrees, which would result in a face-to-face encounter with the pursuers.
By the time Gebu realized this, he had already crashed into the wall. Turning around, he saw the pursuers' figures emerging at the far corner of the corridor. Gebu had darkvision, while the pursuers relied on torches for illumination. The halfling had spotted the enemy, but the enemy had not yet seen him.
With more than ten meters still to go before entering the range of the torchlight, Gebu quickly thought—how to solve this predicament?!
The most troublesome problem: the leader of the witch hunters, Vulture, can see through my invisibility spell. He must have some kind of item or potion that grants him true sight. In that case, illusions might not be effective against him.
A direct confrontation is impossible. His magic would be completely suppressed by the witch hunters. If magic were removed, how could a small goblin like himself possibly be a match for a group of human giants?
Damn it, what do I do?!
As the torch drew closer, Gebu pressed his body against the surface of the bushes, wishing he could transform into a beetle and burrow into the gaps in the greenery.
Beetle, grasshopper — frog?
By the way, if a two-dimensional path doesn't work, you can try a three-dimensional one!
Gebu suddenly realized what was happening. He slapped his thigh and began chanting an incantation:
"Saltus!"
The halfling's legs suddenly swelled up, veins bulging. He gathered his strength, squatted down, aimed at the top of the hedge, and jumped!
In that instant, the lead vulture heard the sound of chanting incantations; he smelled the scent of magic like a bloodhound!
In the darkness before us, a small shadow rose into the air!
"above!"
Vulture pulled out his crossbow and fired, a dark silver bolt whistling as it flew towards Gebu, who had just jumped to the highest point.
Magnubie's ass!
Out of the corner of his eye, Geb saw a thin line flash by. The goblin instinctively ducked his head as the crossbow bolt grazed the top of his head, grazing his scalp.
Sting!
The goblin adjusted its posture in mid-air and landed on top of the hedge, the leaves rustling.
At this, the other three mercenaries also heard the sound above them. They rushed to the source of the sound, and the edge of the torchlight illuminated Gebu's figure.
"shooting!"
"Goodness!"
Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Several crossbow bolts came hurtling toward Gebu’s face, but he didn’t give them another chance to threaten him. He flipped over and jumped off to the other side, fleeing in the opposite direction.
"He's on the other side!" the mercenary roared.
But shouting didn't help. The hedge was over three meters high, dense and impenetrable, with countless tiny branches tangled together, leaving no foothold. They couldn't climb it, nor could they break through it. The group looked at each other in bewilderment.
The vulture wrinkled its nose, drew its longsword from its back, and chanted a prayer.
"We are the Lord's justice. His anger and vengeance transform the contempt for the wickedness of this world into a blazing sword, with the name of our Lord engraved on its blade—"
"lustitia, Furia, Vendetta!"
As the vulture chanted, a layer of golden light appeared on his longsword. The dazzling golden light pierced through the night, and the three bird-faced mercenaries were frozen in place, unable to speak properly.
"Obak above—" A mercenary drew the shape of a triangular holy symbol on his chest.
The vulture held the sword horizontally at his waist, pushed off the ground with both legs, and used his waist and abdomen to slash diagonally upwards in mid-air. Then he pulled back the blade and slashed an X shape in the opposite direction from top to bottom!
The golden light pierced through the hedge, the hot knife sliced through butter, and a burnt smell wafted from the edge of the branches. A half-meter-wide gash was carved out of a meter-thick shrub!
Without uttering a single unnecessary word, the vulture used its sword to clear a path, crossed the hedge, and chased after Gebu's retreating figure!
Under the moonlight, a small figure leaped between hedges and the maze, closely following behind. The witch hunter, like a sharp knife, disregarded the maze's twists and turns, piercing through its barriers with unstoppable force, chasing after Gebu in a straight line.
Panting, Geb jumped onto the hedge and looked down to see the witch hunter hacking away at the well-preserved maze, chasing after him from below.
Are you fucking a pangolin?!
Gebu had hoped to use the maze to wander around with Baldy and his group, capture a few who had fallen behind, and then attack them one by one, but he didn't expect that this guy would not give him any chance at all.
this----
Gebu dared not stop and continued hopping forward like a rabbit. Just as he was feeling troubled, he glanced ahead and saw the center of the maze—a small square plaza about twenty meters in size, in the middle of which stood a white stone statue of a nude woman surrounded by wild roses.
Wrong? That's right.
"When the nightingale sings, a trap is set for the peacock before the statue of the Rose Saint in the garden."
The Rose Saintess statue—isn't that the one?
Gebu's eyes lit up. He planned his route and skipped and hopped toward the statue.