Ning appeared on the outskirts of a village with no one living in it. He looked around, wondering where the people were, and came to the conclusion that they must've moved once the demons launched their invasion.
Ning ignored the emptiness and looked towards the castle up north and walked towards it. The red arrow that had appeared in his vision had already turned yellow and was now slowly turning green.
'I should be close,' he thought. He could tell that the castle in front of him was most likely where everyone was hiding, just like they did back in Highcastle.
As he got close, suddenly an arrow flew from somewhere, landing next to him. "Hmm?" Ning looked up. Then, he saw a dozen different arrows in the sky, whistling their way down at him.
Ning dashed without a moment's hesitation and not a single one of the arrows landed on him at all. When he got close to the castle, a bunch of humans walked out, wearing full-body armor and holding swords and spears.
"Move away, I'm not here to hurt you," Ning said. He couldn't waste his time fighting these people since he needed to go down quickly.
"Hah! Do you think we would ever fall for a demon's trickery? Men, charge!" one of them shouted.
Ning frowned and looked at the men coming here. Since they were so intent on attacking him, he cared not much for them either.
A bolt of lightning escaped from his hands, a skill from the Thunder Lizard's Blessing necklace that arced between the humans, dealing 120% of his 800 INT to every single one.
The men looked at the damage they just took with a shocked and pained expressions on their faces. The leader who had asked them to charge immediately noticed the damage in their morale and spoke up.
"Don't worry, he can't use that for lon—"
Another bolt of lightning struck the man, and the lightning arced in between everyone, once again dealing over 1000 damage to them.
"What?" the leader looked back in shock. How could anyone possibly use such strong skills so rapidly?
After 3 seconds passed, Ning used the lightning bolt again.
He had already used a card that lowered the mana cost of his spells by 80%, so he wasn't even using much mana for the lightning bolt. And since the Thunder Lizard's blessing gave him Chain Lightning with a 3-second cooldown on it, that became the best spell to use right now.
Aside from that, there was also the fact that he had lowered magic damage reduction on all enemies in a certain range as that was the debuff he had set.
Thus, every time a lightning bolt struck the humans, it did far more damage than it ever could to them under normal circumstances.
The men were stubborn, but even they could see how futile what they were doing was. So, when Ning continued spamming Chain Lightning, they had to retreat.
Ning continued forward even as the men retreated and he finally arrived at the doorway to the castle. The men had nowhere else to retreat to, so they attacked him one last time as a final do-or-die attack.
They died.
Ning entered the castle and saw the green arrow pointing downward. 'I knew it,' he thought. 'So there is a dungeon down there.'
He searched for a way down but was unable to find any. As such, he was forced to use a card to show him hidden traps and doors.
Once he found one along the wall, he entered it and started going downstairs.
The archers flooded the room behind him and rushed down the stairs to attack him. Once again, Ning used his Chain Lightning skill to deal with them, while he himself evaded every single one of the arrows.
A few skills landed on him as they were too big to avoid simply, but it was barely any damage to Ning. Once he dealt with the many archers, he finally arrived at the underground dungeon.
The people in there had already heard of the commotion and were ready for Ning.
Ning looked at the group of people that blocked his path from getting over to the other room and frowned.
So, he finally took his spear and pulled out a single card. He activated the card and suddenly had quite a lot of STR.
Then, Ning started fighting.
He weaved through the group, cutting those he could, and dodging those that were far away. Bolts of lightning shot out from him and hit the other people, and his Zap skill also dealt a good bit of magic damage.
The people around him were strong and did quite a lot of damage when they did hit too, but Ning was more elusive than any they had come across and it was incredibly hard to hit them all.
Ning stabbed one man, then ducked a weapon before stabbing the man behind him. He swung his spear at the first man while shooting a bolt of lightning at the second man.
He then moved on to the third man and continued.
It was nearly 5 minutes before he managed to clear the hallway of his assailants and finally got to go forward.
'I've wasted too long,' Ning thought as he rushed over to the room where the ritual was happening.
2 strong men guarded the room, but before Ning, they weren't very strong at all. They fell within a few hits and died.
Ning pushed open the door and entered inside to see a scene that seemed out of this world.
20 men and women, 10 demons, and 10 angels were tied on the ground, unable to move. They had their eyes closed, so Ning assumed they were unconscious for now.
Instead, his eyes shifted from them to the chains on their back. The chains floated to the sky and wrapped around 20 different figures.
Ning recognized one of those figures, a woman with shards of glass for wings.
Trenzelgor.
