The Truth of Magic

Chapter 382

382 Traceless killing

The moment someone fell, the other commoners, who were originally envious of the group of professionals joining in the fun, instantly changed their expressions. Their survival instincts made them immediately look in the direction of their families.

A few quick-witted parents immediately picked up their children who had just fallen asleep and carried them.

“ah!”

“Someone’s dead,”

Immediately, the commotion spread like waves on the surface of a Lake. The civilians who were slow to realize it also hurriedly got up and looked at the powerful adventurers for help.

most of the professional adventurers around the dead man had gloomy expressions.

with their class abilities and the ability to see their own character cards, they were already extraordinary.

although it was rare to see a dead person, they would not be scared to death like the civilians.

The improvement in the immunity of will, reflex, and endurance in the class abilities were all real.

At this time, a few people walked over and dragged the Bard’s body out of the fire, and a mage put out the fire with a ‘freezing ray’.

Since it was almost midnight, it was a waste to keep their spell slots, so they began to cast spells.

A cleric apprentice lowered his head. After making a judgment with his unfamiliar medical skills, he stood up and shook his head helplessly at the crowd. he’s dead.

At this time, Vivian also went over and stretched out her hand to check it. She also gestured to Zhao Xu and said, ” it’s already a little cold. I’m afraid that the time of death is more than an hour.

the feeling of being next to a corpse for a period of time made the civilians cry out in surprise, but it did not knock down the hearts of the adventurers.

More professionals gathered around and repeatedly squatted down to examine the dead Bard.

any experienced adventurer outside of this wilderness would believe in their own judgment and would not rashly accept the conclusions of other teams.

Therefore, unless the Bard used a feign death spell to disguise himself, he couldn’t be deceived.

However, after coming to this conclusion, everyone looked at each other in dismay.

they sat in a circle around the bonfire for at least a few hours.

The location of the deceased was not near the center, but it was not remote either.

this was an invisible murder in front of everyone!

at this time, another soldier who had volunteered to work as a coroner for the church also stood up and called several people to carry the body into the tent together. then they began the basic external wound examination on the spot.

The rest of the people could only wait outside the tent while vigilantly watching their surroundings.

If he died at home, it could be considered a sudden death.

it was strange to lose one’s life in the desolate ruins.

At this time, Vivian had already pulled out the Holy Avenger in her hand again. The cold light of the sword flashed across everyone’s faces in the bonfire.

” poor boy, he finally became an official bard last month. he wanted to save enough money to go home and marry a wife, but he encountered such an unlucky thing. ”

another middle-aged bard who was with the dead man also sighed.

Hearing this, the other adventurers in the ruins also felt sad. Their hearts were like the red-hot firewood in the bonfire, constantly crackling.

“I don’t think I can go offline safely.” a player suddenly exclaimed.

All the players who were still carefree as if they were outsiders couldn’t help but look back at their character stats.

“What’s this?”

Zhao Xu also suddenly realized that the ‘safely offline’ button had disappeared.

only the ‘forced offline’ button was still active, as if it was coldly mocking the players who thought that they could stay out of it.

safely going offline was a method for players to leave the battle for five minutes, then quietly wait for a minute without doing any strenuous exercise to go offline.

The five-minute limit was also to prevent players from abusing this method and leaving the battle in an emergency.

however, if the players had to go offline, they could also choose to forcefully go offline.

just like that, the body in the game would remain in place, as if the whole person had lost consciousness and become a vegetable.

“i feel like it’s a big battle.”

At this time, the highest-level warrior in the crowd, a Level-3 warrior, stood up. He kept looking at the people around him as if he was guessing something.

at this moment, zhao xu was also silent.

he didn’t expect the barren wasteland to be so extraordinary. with just a small disturbance, the system had determined that they were in a dangerous state where they couldn’t go offline safely.

in the four months since arthur’s server was launched, many players were unable to log out safely without being injured or seeing any monsters.

They were in the same situation as Zhao Xu and the others.

as the few players who knew the inside story explained, the other players slowly calmed down.

in the end, they could just forcefully log off.

however, in the barren lands, this was no different from handing over a lifestone.

more than 50% of the players who had encountered the same situation in the past had died.

this was because the fact that they were able to go offline without being noticed meant that the place they were in was extremely dangerous.

“i don’t think it’s possible to kill someone without making a sound.” The Level-3 warrior, one sword in ten steps, who had just stepped forward, said. He had just briefly introduced his identity and level, trying to grasp the leading authority of the current situation.

even if it was only the players.

“What, you suspect that there’s a mole among us? is someone trying to take revenge?”

Sword in ten steps laughed confidently. we’ll know whether or not he’s a mole after the autopsy.

“if you knew, you would know that it’s useless to say anything more now, and it’s not up to you to make the decision.” Another level 3 rogue player retorted.

he looked at vivian as he spoke.

it was obvious that the strongest person on the field was the female knight who was suspected to be a saint samurai.

Whoever’s sword was sharper would naturally speak louder.

“What’s your name?” the warrior raised his eyebrows slightly. he was a little dissatisfied with the rogue’s interruption of his momentum.

“Blood.” the wanderer said indifferently.

He, who was in a chaotic neutral position, was already walking on the edge of danger. If he wasn’t happy, he could just fight. They were already playing the game, so there was no need to be afraid.

as soon as the rogue’s voice fell, the warrior’s companion, one sword in ten steps, immediately explained to him that the other party was also an outstanding rogue in luca city.

As for the Rogues with higher ranks, they had basically handed in a Lifestone.

however, the warrior’s heart was at ease. a rogue without the ability to sneak attack and the damage that affected the balance of victory, what else could he do?

At the same time, he pulled out the battle axe on his back, intending to teach this rogue whose fist was harder.

however, the soldier who first went in to do the autopsy came out of the tent and shook his head with a heavy expression. ” there are no wounds on the body. ”

” and we’ve done a simple toxicology analysis. it doesn’t look like he was poisoned. ”

in an instant, almost everyone’s suspicion was eliminated.

they didn’t have a monk on the scene who could use penetrative force attacks. a group of level two and three people couldn’t kill a person without using magic.

“it’s a corpse devil.” suddenly, an adventurer from arthur in luca city could not help but shout, ” the corpsedemon has returned for revenge. ”

“don’t talk nonsense.” The steward of the trade caravan, Gaud, could not help but tap his staff. there hasn’t been any news of the corpsedemons for at least ten years. Luca city already thinks that the corpsedemon has been killed or left.”

“Corpse devil?”

When the players heard this unfamiliar term, they couldn’t help but look at the other adventurers of Arthur in surprise, curious about this past.

[ adventurer zhongxia, you’ve gone through a knowledge (local) check and passed the exemption. The information you’ve obtained about corpsedemon is as follows. ]

In an instant, all the legends about the corpsedemons in the barren lands were revealed, and Zhao Xu immediately started reading through them.

corpsedemon was a crazy murderer who single-handedly kept killing passer-by caravans in the desolate ruins.

His method of killing was extremely unique, which was to kill silently while everyone was sleeping in the tent or when the fog was getting thicker.

at the same time, there was no blood on the body of the deceased, and there was no damage to the internal organs and body. it was as if he had died of a sudden death without a trace.

it was only when the deaths in the barren lands became too frequent and the causes of death were the same that people noticed these deaths.

for a time, no merchant group dared to rashly pass through the safe relay roads of the desolate wasteland. It was only after the city of Luca, which could not sit still from the shrinking trade, intervened in the investigation that it was confirmed that there was a murderer and named him ” corpse demon.

However, when Luca city invited powerful mages and priests to assist in the capture of the ” corpse demon, ” the other party’s criminal record stopped abruptly from ten years ago.

slowly, people lost their impression of the mysterious murderer who had once intimidated the desolate land. their memories were once again occupied by other stories that had emerged from the land.

If Zhao Xu and the others only had the keyword ” corpsedemon “, then they would really have to rely on Zhao Xu’s knowledge and skills for everything.

but now, on this road in the fog, there was no lack of people. immediately, there were people who volunteered to recall the history.

as this mercenary who had participated in the transportation of goods during the demonic corpse rampage in the past recounted the events, everyone slowly heard about the history of that year.

the version wasn’t too different from what zhao xu had received.

“It’s a little mysterious.” The warrior, who was full of confidence at first, finally showed a little unconfident.

“did the bodies of the deceased show any signs of loosening or aging?” Suddenly, Vivian, who had been silently protecting Zhao Xu with her sword, spoke up.

The mercenary immediately shook his head. no, just like the poet today. He died peacefully like he was in a dream, without any signs of struggle or pain.”

“you have an idea?” Zhao Xu was using Vivian’s telepathy ability as a succubus to communicate with her.

” this technique is very similar to the techniques of us evil creatures, and the kind of evil creatures with some skills. ” Vivian laughed at herself without much shyness.

Zhao Xu agreed with her. Even Vivian, a succubus, didn’t have the ability to kill someone directly.

when succubi killed people, they would transform and kiss lustful men. then, through the process of kissing, they would use the supernatural ability of ” energy absorption ” to make the other party lose an entire ” level 1 ” of life energy.

a prostitute’s kiss cost money, while a succubus’s kiss was useless. this was the reason.

Even though Vivian had become a ‘pure and kind’ Paladin succubus, she still kept this weapon that could teach perverts.

At the same time, after the kiss, the succubus would also use a spell-like ‘suggestion’ that she could use at will to ask if she wanted an extra kiss.

until death.

That was why Vivian had asked if there were any signs of aging to see if there was any physical damage or life-force absorption.

“Vivian?”

zhao xu suddenly realized something.

as a pure and kind paladin, vivian would not change her succubus nature.

The reason why the Otherworld creatures living in the plane outside the evil camp were called demons was that even if their camp had changed, they were still considered evil subspecies.

succubi were the subspecies of chaos and evil.

This meant that when it came to faction calculations, she would also be included.

“In that case, aren’t you going to eat everything?” zhao xu asked.

Vivian also nodded bitterly. These were the thorns that one had to carry forward when one’s heart was moving towards the light.

Vivian was considered a chaotic and evil subspecies. At the same time, as a Paladin, she was also in the ” order ” and ” good ” camp.

That was why the blasphemy that attacked those outside the evil camp could hurt the succubus, and the Holy words that attacked those outside the good camp could also hurt her, not to mention the spells of the other two camps.

The four major camp protection spells, Tongli protection from evil, were all effective on her.

Not to mention, the legendary ‘good-breaking slash’,’ evil-breaking slash’, ‘order-breaking slash’, and’ chaos-breaking slash ‘were all eaten by Vivian.

arthur was very particular about factions, and weiwei had been at a disadvantage in this aspect.

At this moment, the surrounding crowd kept recalling the story of the “corpsedemon “. Even some civilians who had experienced and heard of the past ten years ago were invited to come over and tell them.

However, they were also relatively shy, and the content of their memories was also fragmented, so everyone did not gain much.

is there no first-hand information from back then? ” the warrior, one sword in ten steps, could not help but complain.

these contents have been sealed. The officials of Luca city might still know. The Butler said. He originally didn’t believe that the corpsedemon had returned, but now his heart was in a mess because of everyone’s discussion.

” he disappeared after the investigation. in the end, even the initial report of the corpsedemon was not released, so no one knows what the corpsedemon is. ” The soldier who performed the autopsy said. At this time, he was squatting in front of the bonfire, a pipe filled with tobacco in his mouth.

“What method do you think can achieve such a silent killing effect?” the butler gaud raised his head and looked at the group of adventurers.

The civilians standing in the distance did not dare to sleep. They all looked over, hoping that these powerful adventurers could solve the problem.

After hearing the story of the corpsedemon, no one dared to sleep at this moment.

However, upon hearing the Butler’s question, even the ambitious adventurer players were confused and did not rashly open their mouths.

“it might be an instant death effect.”

Zhao Xu suddenly said as he looked at the tent in the shadows where the corpses were placed. His voice wasn’t loud, but it pierced through the fog and reached everyone’s hearts.