Chapter 2795: Halfling Assassin

From the air behind Emilia, a short figure jumped out abruptly from the void, and the black dagger in his hand stabbed directly at the back of Emilia's neck.

But the elf, who had experienced so many things, had already made progress. She fell down before she even had time to say a word, but then the "corpse" immediately merged into the ground and turned into a small tree, while Emilia herself was nowhere to be found.

"There's an assassin!"

The girl protecting Emilia shouted. The next moment, at least five different miracles landed on the position of the short figure, but he also disappeared immediately.

"Damn it, Grandma gave me five 'Substitute Tree Seeds', and I've already used one."

In the forest one kilometer away from the battlefield, Emilia walked out of a tree hole that had split open in the trunk of a large tree, looking a bit annoyed. Elves possessed ancient alchemy skills, allowing them to make some precious alchemy items.

"Substitute Tree Seeds" were one of them. Once the holder encountered danger and could realize it, they would automatically replace their body with the sapling, and they themselves would appear in a safe area within one kilometer. This item was not only troublesome to make, but also had strict site requirements for a "forest environment", but it was just right for use in the Vesta forest.

"The person who wanted to kill me just now used space jumping to appear directly. This kind of assassin really can't be stopped... Where is this?"

Because it was a random transfer, Emilia couldn't identify her current location for a while. But soon she found the direction where the battle was taking place, and then calculated the approximate orientation.

Just as she was hesitating whether to move towards the city or stay in place and wait for the battle to end, the sound of wind appeared behind her again. However, Emilia, who had already suffered a loss once, did not fall for it this time. As a turquoise light curtain flashed behind her, it was immediately shattered by the dagger, but it still allowed Emilia to stagger and dodge this attack.

She turned to look at the attacker, but only saw the short figure disappear into the air again. The elf girl was shocked:

"Not human, a halfling?"

This time, the cold light of the dagger appeared directly in front of her. And when she wanted to retreat, she found that her head was already surrounded by more than ten daggers. These attacks from different time points were almost about to hit Emilia at the same moment, but a light flashed on Emilia's right arm, and the daggers that did not belong to this space-time disappeared.

Emilia herself turned her head at the last moment to dodge the dagger stabbing from the front, but still let a bloodstain be drawn on her left cheek.

The poison and curse power attached to the dagger immediately invaded her flesh and soul, but fortunately, the power on her right arm quickly expelled them.

The halfling disappeared immediately after missing a hit, and Emilia touched her right arm with her left hand for the first time. Under the spell, the dead leaves at her feet were rolled up like a whirlwind, and hundreds of leaves rotated rapidly around her to expand her perception and limit the space changes nearby to a certain extent.

Therefore, when the attack from behind was about to hit her back, Emilia, who already had the crown on her head, activated its power very accurately. So the shock wave composed of pure energy that burst out suddenly forced the attacker out of the gap in space.

Emilia's originally golden long hair had a few more strands of emerald green, and the 【Elf Sovereignty】 crown on her head was shining brightly. The golden gem in the center radiated a turquoise light towards the front as she turned around.

The halfling, who was forced out by this unreasonable and powerful force without preparation, immediately felt that the surrounding space-time was so stable that no gaps could be found. He summoned a shield to block the ray, but it only shifted its direction, allowing him to barely dodge the attack.

But immediately, the large trees under the autumn afternoon sun all moved under the power of the crown, and the ancient tree guard warriors surrounded him. Looking at the young elf from the gaps of the tree people, she looked exceptionally majestic with the crown on her head.

The halfling with brown hair and a height of only about 1.2 meters then smiled:

"I originally thought that encountering a Thirteenth-Tier witch casually in the Sixth Era was already a very excessive thing. I didn't expect to encounter even a treasure like 【Elf Sovereignty】. So, is the space-time you went to the heyday of the Elf race?"

Although he spoke in Karsenrik, his accent was very strange, as if a foreigner who was completely unfamiliar with this language was repeating Karsenrik.

Emilia did not answer his question. With the help of the power granted by the crown on her head, more and more tree people were revived by her, and she herself was slowly retreating.

The halfling who was surrounded was not panicked at all. Since the space-time rift could not be opened for the time being, he jumped into the shadows of those tree people.

"Light!"

Emilia hurriedly summoned light again, wanting to drive away all the shadows around, but it was too late. From the shadow behind her, the halfling holding a dagger stabbed accurately at the back of her head. But with a clang~, silver light splashed everywhere, and the weird, crooked dagger collided head-on with the silver moonlight greatsword.

Before the halfling had time to see where the greatsword came from, he felt a huge force bounce his dagger away. He did not lose his balance because of this, but used that force to flip backward and jump away. After standing firmly on the trunk of a large tree behind him, he saw that it was a young human holding a moonlight greatsword protecting the elf.

The owl flew over the forest area, and with the moonlight, Xia De also saw clearly what the enemy was. The short man's ears were slightly pointed but not as exaggerated as the elves', and his feet were exceptionally wide relative to his body, which was a typical halfling racial characteristic.

He looked like a male, and because he was not human, Xia De could not accurately judge his age. But looking at his posture of holding a dagger in each hand, he knew that this was a seasoned assassin.

"Be careful, he is good at space-time power and can use shadows to jump."

Emilia whispered behind Xia De, but she had already taken off the crown on her head, as this power was also a burden for her. But the revived tree people did not disappear, but guarded her left and right.

The halfling on the tree did not intend to talk nonsense with them. He jumped backward and fell from the tree like a back dive, and then disappeared into the air.

Xia De turned around and performed a spin slash without thinking. With a clang~, while parrying the dagger, his right foot stepped heavily on the ground:

"Space Stabilization Halo."

The black chain in his hand without the sword shot out with a swoosh~, but it only passed through the halfling's phantom.

"Truth Crystal!"

Then the glowing white crystal was thrown out by Xia De. The light swept across, but did not reveal the enemy's figure, but it reflected his footprints on the ground.

So the silver-white thunder spear was thrown out, but it was immediately swallowed by a large group of shadows. Emilia controlled the tree people to try to hug the shadow, but the halfling waved his dagger at his side, and the power of cutting space split the three-meter-tall tree person in two.

He said to Xia De again:

"You can also manipulate space? Well, I admit you are the type of enemy I hate the most."

Xia De ignored him, reached out to pull Emilia, and appeared at a height of twenty meters directly. The owl flew over and grabbed his shoulder, shaking its wings with all its might to keep the two from falling. At the same time, flames rotated in Xia De's left hand, and then he fell to the ground and detonated the entire forest.

The impact of the air wave almost made the owl fail to grab the two. When the smoke and dust fell, the ground under his feet had turned into a small magma lake.

The owl grabbed Xia De and flew in the air for a while, and only after Vanessa brought people over did it flap its wings and put Xia De and Emilia down.

The Witch of the Earth looked at the magma lake and shook her head in distress:

"Don't use this kind of miracle casually."

She said and manipulated the earth to send this magma to the underground, then closed the earth to make the deep pit disappear. Emilia whispered to the tree people that the mission was over, so the tree people took root again on the "flat ground". In this way, although the trees in the vicinity became much sparser, at least it couldn't be seen that the vicinity had been destroyed.

They did not stand in place to communicate. Vanessa didn't even tease Flora's current owl form. Seeing that only two or three of the girls were slightly injured, the group immediately transferred from the spot. Almost at the same time they left, the Church's ring warlock squad in the city and the teams of the three major academies stationed in the forest area also heard the news and rushed over.

The location at this time was very close to the city. Xia De originally wanted to let the group enter the city first, but Emilia said in a dilemma:

"I seem to have been tracked by something. If I enter the city, maybe they will know where we live."

The elf girl grabbed Xia De's sleeve. She didn't want to implicate others, but Xia De and Vanessa felt it didn't matter:

"Then are you going to wander around in the forest because of this?"

The witch even said:

"She ran fast this time. If I meet her again next time, I will definitely make her look good."

In fact, Vanessa didn't really defeat the "Clockmaker" just now. After all, Vanessa had just advanced to a Thirteenth-Tier Great Witch, and the Twelfth Ring "Clockmaker" was a candidate for the Chosen One.

But it was true that Vanessa said she had the upper hand. No matter how powerful the time power was, it was helpless when facing a Mystic Lock. The space constructed by the Mystic Lock was completely the caster's own world, and the difficulty of time power affecting the Mystic Lock was much greater than in the real world.

Although she told Emilia not to worry, Xia De didn't take them directly into the city in the end. After checking Emilia in the forest and even letting her change all the clothes on her body, the group returned to the Accordion Hotel.

The injured girls went for treatment, and Emilia whispered an apology to them. It wasn't until Xia De and Flora sat down on the sofa in Ms. Dannister's room that they discussed what had just happened. ===== CHAPTER 2796 =====