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Chapter 73 Complete Victory

The archer was intently aiming at Xiuqi below when he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

Years of experience living on the edge of a knife made him instinctively lunge forward.

But it was too late.

A massive hammer covered in jagged spikes emerged from the void and cleaved down vertically.

boom! ! !

The hammer struck the archer squarely on the back of the head.

Without the protection of a helmet, a skull is as fragile as an egg in the face of a hammer imbued with dark red flames.

Red and white, splashing together in a chaotic mix.

The archer's body went limp and he collapsed, his longbow slipping from his hand and rolling off the roof, landing on the stone pavement with a dull thud.

The silver-gray goblin stood on the edge of the roof, gripping a massive, disproportionately large mace in both hands. Dark red light danced between the spikes on the mace's head, and a faint glow of undying embers lingered around it.

The "princess" lowered her head and looked down at the battlefield. Her clear eyes held no bloodlust, only an almost mechanical calmness.

It pushed off the edge of the roof with both feet, and its petite body leaped down like an arrow, landing as lightly as a cat, almost without making a sound.

The situation on the field was reversed in an instant.

The three against four became three against two.

Moreover, there was an unexpected variable—the silver-gray goblin.

The axe warrior and the spellcaster stood back to back, their faces extremely grim.

"That goblin... the employer mentioned it, but said it was just an ordinary contracted creature..." The spellcaster's voice trembled. "This is what they call ordinary?!"

"The intelligence was all wrong," the axe warrior gritted his teeth.

Just then, Xiu Qi spoke, his voice eerily calm: "Who sent you? Old Fernand, or Fernand himself?"

"You think I'd say that?" the scarred man gritted his teeth.

"It's alright if you don't want to talk about it." Xiuqi raised his hand. "Ado, Princess, leave no one alive."

Ado and "Princess" moved almost simultaneously.

The ogres advanced like mountains, each swing of their maces creating a howling wind that forced the axe warriors to constantly dodge and parry.

The oak shield protected his vitals, and the cold gleam of the Blade Protection shimmered in the moonlight, making Hodor a mobile fortress.

The "princess" wanders around like a ghost.

Its petite body appears and disappears in the shadows, and its talent [Void Walk] allows it to traverse distances of dozens of feet in an instant.

The heavy hammer felt weightless in its hands, and each time it appeared, it chose the most tricky angles—the bend of the knee, the elbow, the back of the neck.

The axe warriors quickly found themselves in a fierce battle.

He needs to deal with Ado's powerful frontal assaults while also guarding against the "princess's" unpredictable flanking attacks.

In less than a minute, he had multiple injuries.

Although not fatal, the bleeding was uncontrollable.

"Damn it!" the caster cursed, pulling a scroll from his robes—[Fireball], a third-circle evocation spell.

But the moment the scroll unfurled, Xiuqi raised his right hand.

The force field was no longer in a defensive form, but extended like tentacles, instantly wrapping around the caster's wrist holding the scroll.

Then, with a sudden tug.

The spellcaster's arm twisted uncontrollably to the side, and the flames that erupted from the scroll did not shoot towards Xiuqi or Ado, but towards—the Axe Warrior.

"No!!!" The axe warrior's eyes widened in horror.

boom!!!

The fireball exploded, and flames engulfed most of the axe warrior's body.

The smell of burnt flesh filled the night air.

The axe warrior screamed and rolled around, trying to extinguish the flames on his body.

At that moment, Addo's hammer arrived.

This time, the ogre didn't choose to chop or smash; instead, it used its hammer to deliver a fierce upward slash from below.

The hammer struck the axe warrior squarely in the jaw.

click-

The sickening sound of bones cracking.

The axe warrior was sent flying, arcing through the air before crashing heavily onto the stone path five zhang away. He struggled to get up, but the comminuted fracture of his jaw prevented him from even screaming; he could only let out a series of gasping "hoarse" sounds.

Blood gushed from his mouth and nose, quickly pooling into a small puddle beneath him.

He twitched a few times and then stopped moving.

Now, only the spellcaster remains.

The level 1 mage was deathly pale, his staff trembling. He looked at Ado and the "princess" slowly approaching, then at Xiuqi standing not far away with his sword, and finally broke down.

"I surrender!" He threw down his staff, raised his hands, and exclaimed, "I surrender! Don't kill me! I can tell you about your employer, I can—"

His words came to an abrupt end.

Because the "princess" appeared behind him at some point, and a large hammer gently pressed against his back.

The caster froze, unable to move.

Xiuqi walked slowly forward, the "Bavarian Moonlight" in his hand gleaming coldly in the moonlight. Not a drop of blood stained the blade; it remained as pristine as ever.

"Is the employer Fernand?" Xiuqi asked.

"Yes, yes!" The spellcaster spoke very quickly, "Old Earl Fernand offered 500 gold coins for us to retrieve the spatial ring, and you... life or death is at stake."

"Anything else?"

"And... he said you might have other trump cards, so he gave us the crystal ball to break the initial contract scroll, and warned us to be careful of that goblin..." The spellcaster's voice trembled, "but we thought it was just an ordinary goblin..."

Xiuqi remained silent for a moment.

Then, he made a gesture.

The princess gently raised her hammer forward.

The spellcaster grunted as a jagged spike instantly smashed his head to pieces.

Xiuqi stared at the four corpses on the ground, his face expressionless.

The night wind carried a strong smell of blood.

Ado walked over to Xiuqi, making a worried gurgling sound in his throat.

It has many small wounds, but under the dual protection of Hardened Skin and Blade Protection, they are all superficial wounds and do not affect its movement.

The "princess" squatted down next to a corpse, curiously poking it with a hammer, then looked up at Xiuqi with her big eyes full of questions like "What should we do next?"

Xiuqi took out the Crimson Oath ring from his pocket and infused it with magic.

The dimensional space opened, and he put the equipment and items of the four corpses into the ring.

Then, he walked to the spellcaster's corpse and picked up the black [Contract Dissolution Crystal].

The crystal had shattered, but magical energy still lingered within the fragments. Xiuqi carefully collected the fragments, hoping to deduce something from them later.

Finally, he checked the four men's belongings—some gold coins, a few magical items (of average quality), and several bottles of healing potions and antidotes.

The total value is around 20 gold coins, which is not a small amount.

After doing all this, Xiuqi looked up at the end of the street.

There, a dark figure was rapidly disappearing into the distance—was it the archer? No, the archer was dead.

Was that person hiding in the shadows?

Could he be the leader of this group?