Chapter 247: Surprise Attack, Silver Needle and Falling Down

Laosen did not witness the whole process of the fire dragon's descent.

The 【Curse】 magic scroll from the Morton family's Knight Commander "Cornell" caused his physical attributes to drop by 30% in all aspects.

Perhaps it could be compensated by his combat experience and skills, but facing Cornell, who was only slightly weaker than himself in actual combat strength, such a weakening was enough to make the scales of victory tilt completely toward the other party.

Falling into a desperate situation, and the extremely terrible encounters over these days, made his extremely extreme personality adopt a near-self-destructive way, trying to perish together with his opponent.

His choice was a "Signal Crystal" enchanted by a spellcaster.

The crystal itself did not possess any power; its function was to fire a dazzling crimson beam into the sky that could be seen for more than ten kilometers around.

Under normal circumstances, no one knew the function of this beam, and even if they saw it, they would at most be puzzled, without knowing the meaning it represented.

But Laosen knew clearly that when he crushed the crystal in a desperate situation, and the crimson beam illuminated the sky...

Fire would bring destruction to himself and his enemies.

A few days ago, when the Tooth Team led the safe infiltration of the Longchao for Bogu, and lured the Hong Long "Klaff" out of the nest.

The light emitted by this "Signal Crystal" was its iconic feature.

Laosen could be 10,000% sure that when that four-legged lizard, which considered itself noble and had an extremely irritable and angry personality, saw the signal light again.

It would definitely be unable to resist flying over to check—even if the price was the Longchao being stolen again.

Of course, whether it was ordering followers to keep watch or rearranging magic traps using scrolls, this time it should have made further preventive measures before going out.

Cornell seemed not to want to die just like that.

It was understandable; such a young Knight Commander, even if he grew slowly step by step in the future, "Transcendent" was not unreachable.

Naturally, he was unwilling to agree to perish together with him here.

In the next second after the signal beam erupted, realizing the meaning it represented.

Cornell didn't even have any extra movements, decisively giving up the behavior of continuing to attack while he was weak.

Just cursed "Madman," and retreated violently, trying to escape this place before being discovered by the Hong Long.

The situation reversed instantly.

"Madman" naturally couldn't let the other party run away just like that.

Thanks to the professional ability of 【Veteran Blood-Seeker】, even if his physical fitness was greatly weakened, Laosen still followed the other party closely, and even deliberately made noise.

In such an open environment, as long as it flew over, it was impossible for that Hong Long not to discover it.

But strangely, although the Hong Long "Klaff" was indeed lured over by the signal beam.

But its huge and hideous body, after spitting dragon breath, seemed to have discovered something, and landed directly behind the hillside in the distance.

What kind of thing would make the Hong Long, which had fallen into a state of rage after its treasure vault was stolen, temporarily abandon the trail of the thief?

Laosen had some guesses in his heart, but didn't dare to be sure.

Just deliberately pretended to be exhausted, and let the escaping Cornell go.

Then activated the stealth mode of 【Veteran Blood-Seeker】, and touched toward the other side of the hillside.

All his family wealth, teammates who had been with him for many years, were all invested in the plan.

He had nothing left to lose.

As long as there was 1% possibility left... everything was worth it.

And it was precisely because of this bold and near-crazy decision that when he climbed over the hill, he saw that slightly familiar team, the dragon breath scorch marks remaining on the ground, the Hong Long figure that had inexplicably disappeared for no reason, and...

That silver-white metal block, the family treasure of the Morton family, which he had been dreaming about, had spent countless efforts over two years to get his hands on but lost immediately, with strange characters flickering on the surface.

His pupils shrank, and his breathing was more rapid than on the night of his coming-of-age ceremony.

After being weakened by 30%, his refined body, which was still far beyond ordinary professionals, erupted with an exaggerated speed.

Maintaining the stealth state of 【Veteran Blood-Seeker】, he arrived at the falling point of the silver-white metal from a farther distance, faster than the Dragonborn who rushed out from the team.

At the same time, he mercilessly sent the bee-stinger-like thin sword in his hand accurately and fiercely into the neck of this ignorant bastard who dared to compete with him for the treasure.

Ending their life.

"Thump."

The tall figure wearing metal armor and covered with variegated yellowish-brown scales on the skin surface fell heavily to the ground.

Dragonborn Sawa, this "big shot" who would make great contributions to the alliance in the future, but later defected, causing an entire large human city to fall and become a dead city, with countless living beings turning into wailing undead souls, and stirring up trouble in the Pan Yun Province.

At this critical juncture when she was about to rise, she died in a short, absurd, and extremely abrupt way in the hands of a desperate man with a deranged mind.

Not a regrettable defeat after thousands of rounds of fierce fighting, nor was there any ups and downs story worth praising and commemorating.

It was just simple, just that one stab.

She lost all possibilities from now on and died completely.

"Enemy attack!!!"

Tense shouts came from the front.

Laosen didn't care at all, just treated it as if he hadn't heard it.

At this moment, all his attention was focused on the silver-white metal in the mud and water on the ground.

The haggard face, filled with the traces of time, was pale from the effects of the 【Curse of Descent】, yet beneath the cheekbones on both sides, a flush of excitement bloomed.

His eyes were straight, his lips were moving, and he didn't know what he was muttering.

His hands trembled as he picked up the oval metal block from the mud, looking as careful as if he were holding the most precious treasure in the world in his palm.

"Whoosh!"

The sudden sound of breaking through the air broke the posture of a near-devout fanatic he had displayed.

The physical instinct practiced under years of adventure made him subconsciously tilt his head.

Immediately, a wooden arrow with a white tail feather at the end, rotating at high speed, shot past his nose.

Grabbing the treasure tightly with his palm, Laosen turned his head violently, his eyes filled with killing intent staring at the silver-haired half-elf at the end of the team who was still maintaining the posture of pulling the bow.

The fanatical demeanor cooled down instantly, replaced by the immense pressure naturally released by a senior professional facing an enemy far inferior to him.

"Shameless and base, you deserve to be chopped into minced meat to feed the dogs, and even your soul should be sent to hell to serve as devil's rations, you thief."

"You... deserve to die!"

Boom—

The air was compressed, and in his ears was the scorching noise of objects moving at high speed.

The fierce figure who was still standing in place just now disappeared instantly as if invisible.

Xia Nan, who was standing at the very front of the team because the two front-row members had already died, felt an inexplicable sense of danger in his heart.

The decapitation longsword in his hand, which was maintaining an offensive posture, was suddenly lifted, instinctively crossed in front of his body.

"Clang!"

Sparks splashed. ===== CHAPTER 248 =====