ushernet Chapter 281: 275 The scam
Chapter 281: 275 The scam
Chapter 281: Chapter 275 The scam
A fierce light burst from that small clay bottle, blinding all the enticing demons instantly with its brilliance. At the same time, a loud bang echoed in their ears.
The demons, stricken with fear, threw themselves backward, dodging the violent explosion they imagined was coming.
Mud splattered on them as the ground undulated like the surface of a lake swept by a fierce wind. It took quite some time before the enticing demons recovered their vision. They lifted their heads and discovered that where the human knight had stood, there was now a large pit, and the prisoner the Abyssal Lord had ordered them to bring back had vanished without a trace.
“It’s all your fault, you idiot! It’s because of you that we couldn’t bring back the child!”
“Exactly! It’s your responsibility, and we will report today’s situation ‘verbatim’...”
“Prepare for Lord Cang Ye’s wrath!”
...
The already fragile unity among the demons quickly crumbled. They started arguing over who should bear the responsibility for the failure, but unlike the trip there, there was no common goal to distract them now.
Without a doubt, the quarrel would soon escalate into a brawl, and probably only half of the enticing demons would survive and make it back to Bone Castle, pinning the blame for the failure entirely on their dead companions.
But none of these matters concerned the human knight who had made a miraculous escape anymore. Hundreds of feet away from the ‘explosion’ center, Lancelot was sprinting through the dense forest, his peculiar form gliding past like a wisp of blue smoke.
“Wow! Have we already escaped? That’s so great!” Little Isa looked around and finally relaxed completely. Despite her great confidence in Lancelot, the young girl was genuinely scared that the next hand to reach in might not be Lancelot’s.
“Hm, the plan was a success, and you cooperated very well,” Lancelot said, smiling as he pattered the little girl’s head, “I pulled you out just to reassure you. We’re about to leave this dense forest, and it’s daytime right now; you should go back into the bag and rest for now. You can come out again tonight.”
“I don’t wanna...” Little Isa pouted, “I want to stay outside a little longer, let’s go back when we reach the edge of the dense forest...”
“Uh... alright then,” Lancelot thought for a moment and felt it should be relatively safe, so he nodded. “Bruto and the others should have gone quite far by now, but we should be safe after crossing the river, so there’s no need to rush after them.”
The two of them moved through the dense forest calmly but in entirely different states. Lancelot walked as if he were a noble lord strolling after dinner, leisurely striding across the muddy swamp as though he was in the garden of his own castle. Whereas little Isa was like a... puppy full of curiosity about the world, darting around Lancelot, exploring every corner that caught her attention.
Gradually, the tree canopy above began to thin, and occasionally a slender ray of sunlight would make its way through the leaves’ gaps. If an inattentive little vampire touched it, she would let out a cry of pain as if scalded by hot water.
“How can you be so careless?”
Lancelot shook his head and draped a piece of Shadow Armor over little Isa. Although this thing also feared sunlight, it could at least block it a bit, preventing her from, without a care, turning herself into a pile of ashes, which would be too embarrassing for a vampire.
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