Chapter 943: Plague Cardinal

Plague Cardinal

"The stinky rat has arrived."

When Chun found Cheng Shi, this former 【Prosperity】 God-Chosen gritted her teeth and said, "He probably noticed that you are very interested in this trial, so he brought a plague to the 【Order】 camp."

Plague?

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow, suddenly realizing that with the 【Decay】 Fading Authority in his hands, he had almost ignored the threat from 【Decay】, but these threats were still tricky for others.

Lin Xi's profession was a 【Decay】 mage, a Plague Cardinal, a profession that could be called the king of AOE in 【Faith Game】.

The other party chose to take action against the left-wing camp at this time; it seemed he was really coming for him. 【Annihilation】 was indeed not prepared to let him go.

Lin Xi's purpose in doing this was no different from snatching Ke Yinlaoer; it was nothing more than wanting to interfere with the normal progress of this trial, forcing him to "deal with" the source of interference first, so that he could increase his chances of winning the duel through advance arrangements.

A Plague Cardinal spreads plague very quickly. Once the plague is allowed to spread wantonly, even if the Grand Judgment Court responds, the result will only be countless knights rotting in place or withdrawing from the encirclement area.

But if a gap appears in the encircled front line, where history will develop is uncertain.

What Cheng Shi cared about was not the direction of history, but whether the few 【He】 he was concerned about would still have the same reactions as in history when history changed direction.

Everything experienced from the beginning of the trial to the present was telling Cheng Shi that this trial, which should have been from the perspective of a bystander, might be a projection of the truth of that faith dispute back then. So, in order not to let Lin Xi erase more clues, Cheng Shi really had to find a way to stop all this.

And no one knew if this was Lin Xi's means of weakening his own camp from a distance. Even if Cheng Shi had the Fading Authority and could be safe in the plague, the other two didn't. If they were hit in this plague, the balance of combat power might tilt.

Although the probability was small, for the sake of stability, it had to be guarded against.

So no matter what, the time to act had arrived. Only by dealing with Lin Xi could this trial be continued steadily.

However...

Sister, what's with this tone of yours?

Why does it sound like you are very dissatisfied with the attitude that "Lin Xi appeared to find me instead of finding you"?

Cheng Shi looked at Chun with a strange expression, thinking that since Chun didn't rush up directly, it meant she didn't smell where Lin Xi was. In this way, he still had to gamble on whether Xiao Qi's tamed beast left any clues.

It was obvious that Lin Xi wouldn't be stupid enough not to find a helper in this confrontation, and the only one he could find was Xiao Qi.

These two people could be considered "birds of a feather."

So Cheng Shi took out the personal knight whose soul had been extinguished from the Molten Coffin and asked Chun, who looked slightly puzzled:

"I guess my old friend is cooperating with that rat you hate deeply. Finding him might lead to where Lin Xi is.

This is his tamed beast. Do you have any way to find clues through this tamed beast?

Although it was Lin Xi who issued the challenge, if we can get rid of his rhythm and catch him off guard, our chances of winning will be greater.

If not, we can only go back and ask the Master."

"Yes!"

Chun's response was concise. Although she was an assassin, she had accumulated a lot of tracking means and props in the long process of tracking Lin Xi's traces.

The moment Cheng Shi took out this tamed beast, Chun had already taken action. She took out a palm-sized white bone compass and placed it gently on the corpse. Then, a needle made of broken bone on the compass began to spin wildly, and after a while, it pointed out a direction for the two of them.

Chun's eyes lit up, and she immediately put away the compass and rushed in that direction.

This scene stunned Cheng Shi. He used the contact prop Sun Miao gave him to summon help at the first opportunity, and then hurriedly followed Chun's pace, falling half a step behind her, asking curiously as he ran:

"Is this a 【Death】 prop?"

"Not bad, S-rank holy artifact, Compass of Violent Death. Although the name has 'violent,' it doesn't point out the murderer, but discovers the death aura similar to it. This was a gift from a Scarlet Hunter friend of mine, but she... has already died in Lin Xi's hands."

"..."

To be honest, Cheng Shi didn't care how much other resentment was mixed into the hatred between these two. He only knew that the name of this prop called "Compass of Violent Death" could never have been taken by that Lord; it must be a distortion of His great naming art by later generations.

According to that Lord's style, this should clearly be called "Compass of the Bone-Breaking Tracker."

Cheng Shi curled his lips, shook the messy thoughts out of his head, and then frowned slightly:

"Things are progressing too smoothly, I fear there might be a trap.

That old friend of mine is a beast tamer. Since he knows I detained his tamed beast, he must not be unable to deal with the aura on his body.

Is this broken bone... Compass of Violent Death of yours reliable?"

"Not necessarily accurate.

It is very likely that it is locating another victim's corpse, or his other tamed beasts, but we can repeatedly use this as a clue to narrow down the area and lock onto the target.

Believe me, I have done this kind of thing no less than a hundred times."

At this time, Chun was high in fighting spirit, completely without the seven-year-old appearance from before, looking somewhat like a big cat.

Seeing this, Cheng Shi was in a trance for a while, wondering if the big cat helping this 【Prosperity】 peer was really just out of camp interests and personal kindness?

Wouldn't she feel that she had finally found a peer who also recognized the concept of "fighting, refreshing"?

Tsk, hard to evaluate.

The two soon came to a dense forest under the Boro Highland. Here, they indeed found a dead spotted leopard, but it had been dead for a long time, at least a day ago.

Cheng Shi frowned when he saw the corpse of the tamed beast and didn't speak, but quietly watched Chun take out the compass again and point out the next direction.

The two shuttled through this dense forest for a long time, until they met up with Sun Miao and found several different tamed beast corpses, before stopping in front of the last young eagle corpse.

Because the Compass of Violent Death no longer moved, which meant there was no more identical death aura around.

Seeing the compass lose its reaction, Chun was not impatient, but took out a pile of other props for tracking traces, 【Decay】's, 【Annihilation】's, 【Truth】's, 【Silence】's, 【Memory】's, and even 【Fate】's...

Compared to the Crown of Thorns, Chun at this moment was more like a 【Prosperity】 hunter, a gourmet.

She was indeed good at tracking traces, but after many operations, she also recognized that Xiao Qi was also a master of traces. At least beyond the existing traces, no more traces could be found no matter what.

And upon learning this, Cheng Shi's brows were tightly locked together.

Controllable traces meant that either the three of them had fallen into a trap designed by Xiao Qi, or Xiao Qi was playing with them in this way.

He had confirmed again and again that there was no risk in this dense forest, so it seemed this was another scam?

Was he playing with the pursuers behind him in this way?

No, not right.

Cheng Shi shook his head, always feeling that things might not be that simple. And just when Chun was at her wit's end and Cheng Shi was deep in thought, Sun Miao, who had been silent all the way, suddenly picked up the electronic beeper and typed:

"Lin Xi is in the mountain col of the battlefield before the Boro Highland front line."

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