After work, start to speedrun the other world-Chapter 112 - 22 Coward_2
He looked with satisfaction at Xi Mu.
Until Xi Mu conjured up a greatsword out of thin air, his palm caressed the blade, igniting the black flames symbolic of death.
"Hey... human!" Hald exclaimed in shock and anger, but Xi Mu did not say much and swung directly at him without a hint of hesitation.
There was no prior intent to kill nor any sign, and the assassination attempt was executed in one fluid motion, more professional than a hitman.
Bang bang bang bang!
Several successive sounds, like the snapping of guitar strings, the Hunting King’s Greatsword stopped right in front of the dwarf Hald’s face.
It almost split him into two.
The atmosphere grew tense.
"Hmph... human, you don’t think that just by approaching me you could kill me, do you?" Hald sneered, his hand trembling slightly.
A cold gleam flashed through the air, an invisible slash grazed past Xi Mu, and the ground was instantly scarred.
Xi Mu cast a cold glance at the ground that had opened up, then shifted his gaze back to Hald, this boss’s ability was the hard-to-detect "silk thread" attack.
The reason the previous assassination failed was that Hald was surrounded by silk threads, though with his ability it wasn’t very difficult to avoid the silk threads and carry out a lethal attack.
However, the Hald in front of him was not the real body, just a puppet indirectly controlled by silk threads.
To be more precise, aside from the landlady, the blindfolded nun, and himself, everyone here was... puppets.
"Where is Aier’s father?" he casually asked, observing the fully armed guards whose faces could not be seen on both sides.
Among them was Hald’s real body.
This boss chose his hiding spot randomly each time, one could not rely on experience to find his true form, and this boss also controlled the commonly used second-stage transformation later on.
"Aier, isn’t that my new daughter?" Hald smiled, then snapped his fingers, only to see a dwarf woman in a white dress step out.
He stepped back a few steps and pinched the chin of the dwarf woman in the white dress.
"Darling, it seems your daughter has come looking for your ex-husband."
"..." The dwarf woman in the white dress had a vacant look and shed tears, but she remained silent.
Well... broken.
Xi Mu paid no attention to the crying dwarf woman, as he was just looking for Hald’s real body among the guards on both sides.
However, the landlady couldn’t help but step forward.
"Musa is my brother’s wife!"
"No... Musa is my wife." Hald shook his head, pinching the dwarf woman’s chin and looking at her beautiful face with conviction.
"Being so beautiful, of course she’s my wife, and your brother dared to steal my wife, he deserves to die a thousand deaths!"
He eyed the landlady’s furious gaze, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"Since you are siblings, you might as well die together."
"Bastard!" The landlady cursed angrily, and Hald didn’t care, as they were just commoners; even if they stole, they could only get mad and swear.
And just then.
"Guard a nation, resist a thousand armies, unbroken for ten days, stop the coronet’s heroes, with my blood, with my Magic Power... appear."
The Spell echoed as shadows behind Xi Mu writhed, birthing soldiers with bare torsos wielding long spears and great shields.
Ten Shadow Magics number four, from the past heroes who stopped the empire’s assault, they held for ten days and even stopped the King called the Sun’s Son.
Defense, could safely be left to them.
"Ha... a Summoner?" Hald’s eyes narrowed as he watched the shieldmen crawling out from human male shadows, his fingers twitched lightly.
An indistinguishable fine thread flashed by, slashing towards the human male’s neck but was blocked by the protecting shieldmen.
While it left marks on the shield, it didn’t break through.
"Found you!" Xi Mu suddenly turned his head, his gaze icily locking onto one of the guards, and directly hurled the Hunting King’s Greatsword in his hand.
How did this guy find me?
Hald’s real body leaped backward, his fingers moving instinctively, using barely perceptible fine threads to block the incoming greatsword.
Then he saw the human male pulling out a great bow, shooting a purple arrow at him.
"Wait!" Hald shouted, instinctively protecting his head, but the incoming arrow would not stop for that, hitting his expensively forged armor head-on.
It was like being kicked by a horse’s hoof, sending him flying out.
Whoosh.
Whoosh.
Whoosh.
Three meteor arrows followed in quick succession, hitting the flying Hald consecutively, sending him crashing through the hall’s wall and out into the open.
"Wait here for me." Xi Mu said offhandedly, then picked up the Hunting King’s Greatsword and ran out of the breach in the hall.
After he left, the guards in the hall collapsed to the ground one after another.
"What... exactly is this?" The landlady was dumbstruck, completely baffled by the turn of events, wondering why it had become like this.
"Lord Ash merely made the right choice," the blindfolded nun explained briefly, then under the landlady’s questioning gaze, she said:
"Please take your family and leave." With that, she vanished on the spot, her destination unknown.
Meanwhile.
Outside the hall.
Hald held his bleeding eye with one hand, looking at the approaching knight clad in silver armor, his body shaking with anger.
"I know who you are now." He painfully stood up, removing his helmet to protect himself, using his only remaining eye to watch the approaching knight.
