Chapter 1040 Arcane Shield

The arcane mage cast an Arcane Shield on himself. This was the strongest shield an arcane mage could use. While protected by it, control magic was nullified. It should hold for a few seconds, enough time for him to save himself.

But ideals were beautiful, and reality was cruel.

Nie Yan’s Zennarde’s Sword came crashing down. The Arcane Shield shattered into pieces, and his health instantly plummeted to zero.

Instant kill!

Even as he was being killed instantly, the arcane mage still wore an expression of disbelief.

In his past combat experience, something like this had never happened before. For a Thief to instantly kill him while he had an Arcane Shield active was just too inhuman. The Crazy Thief Nie Yan was too monstrous.

His pupils gradually lost focus. Though very unwilling, in the end, he could only accept his fate.

After taking down the arcane mage, Nie Yan stabbed the flamingo in the back of the head. The flamingo let out a miserable shriek and was instantly killed by Darkwing.

After devouring the flamingo's life core, Nie Yan sensed some changes in Darkwing's body. Its body had changed from black to dark purple, becoming increasingly crystal-clear.

Darkwing's strength became more abundant, and its skin became harder. It was as if a layer of glaze had been applied, giving it a smooth feeling.

Advancement was still a long way off, but the increase in Darkwing's strength was significant.

Nie Yan, riding on Darkwing, looked down below. Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains were beneath his feet, and a feeling of looking down upon the world arose in his heart.

At this moment, the Essence Devil, riding the Azure Skybird, flew up shakily, covered in wounds. Its body was covered in blood, and it was no longer possible to tell whether it was its own blood or the blood of the Butterfly Demon. In any case, the Butterfly Demon had been taken down by the Essence Devil, and its corpse was scattered all over the ground.

"Boss, got a life core," the Essence Devil said, panting. He was exhausted. With just a little more, it would have been him and the Azure Skybird who had died, not the Butterfly Demon.

The Azure Skybird's claws grasped a blood-red life core, emitting a dazzling light.

"Keep it yourself," Nie Yan said, looking into the distance. When Darkwing fought the Wind Serpent and the flamingo earlier, the owners of the other two flying mounts saw that the situation was not good and had already ridden their respective flying mounts away, not daring to stay any longer.

Of the six flying mounts from the Mage Union, four were dead and two had fled. Faith's first aerial battle ended in this way.

Nie Yan's Darkwing and the Essence Devil's Azure Skybird would also leave a strong mark in the history of Faith's guild wars, with two against six, causing four deaths and two escapes. Such a record was absolutely glorious.

Nie Yan rode Darkwing to lower its altitude. When he returned to the ground, he discovered that the battle below had already ended.

"How did the battle go?" Nie Yan asked, looking as far as he could see. The ground was densely packed with corpses, mostly from the Mage Union. There didn't seem to be many from the Ni Ren Guild.

"So far, we've eliminated a total of two thousand five hundred and sixty enemies. Crazy Magic ran away with some people. Those guys slipped away pretty quickly. We lost a total of three hundred and seventy people," Brilliant Knife Edge said, revealing a smile. This was the most beautiful battle they had fought. The strength of the Ni Ren Guild had been preserved. Their opponents were the elites of the Mage Union, Sacred Guardians, and various studios. Logically speaking, their strength should have been slightly stronger, but they only suffered this little casualty, which was much better than everyone expected.

"Fortunately, Nie Yan whittled away so much of the Mage Union's strength before, plus the explosion of the Frost Impalement and Sea of Flames. The Mage Union definitely couldn't withstand it. We were chasing after them, and they couldn't organize a counterattack at all," Waterside Smoker analyzed. Towards the end, they were basically chasing after the Mage Union, constantly charging forward, taking down one after another. Those people from the Mage Union didn't dare to turn around and resist. If they ran a little slower, they would be taken down. At that time, the people from the Mage Union only regretted not having two more legs.

Everyone picked up the equipment dropped by the players from the Mage Union. There were as many as six thousand pieces, and all of them were top-quality equipment. The Mage Union really suffered heavy losses this time. The losses from so many players from the Mage Union being killed were enough for them to bear. In addition to that, they had to compensate for the losses of other people. This was a major hemorrhage, and it was estimated that it wouldn't be less than two million gold coins.

Although Crazy Magic and the others escaped, dropping five levels was unavoidable. As long as Nie Yan occupied ten castles and maintained them for more than an hour, the Mage Union would lose and still have to drop five levels. It wouldn't matter how well they hid in this map.

Next, the Ni Ren Guild launched a major pursuit of the Mage Union. Nie Yan rode Darkwing, speeding through the sky. If he encountered any straggling players from the Mage Union, he would control Darkwing to pounce down and take them down. In addition, Brilliant Knife Edge, Xie Yao, Tang Yao, and others each led eleven teams to encircle and intercept the remnants of the Mage Union, causing another chaotic scene.

The Mage Union had already been completely defeated. The remaining people fled in panic, only able to hide and stay in some corners, not daring to come out. Crazy Magic was unable to gather these people together at all. He himself had become a stray dog. After running thousands of yards away, he still didn't feel safe at all, because Sun was following him like a ghost.

He was already alone. He wandered through the empty jungle.

"Damn Ni Ren Guild!" Crazy Magic cursed angrily, waving his staff and releasing a fireball.

With a bang, the fireball blasted a large tree away.

He wanted to vent the anger in his heart. He was also a bit uncertain about the future of the Mage Union. At this moment, the Ni Ren Guild's catapults were pressing in, heading towards Moonshadow City. The Mage Union had already suffered heavy losses from this battle and would also have five fortresses taken away by the Ni Ren Guild. In this way, the Ni Ren Guild would have a bridgehead in Moonshadow City, able to attack and defend.

Those clauses in the agreement made Crazy Magic want to kill someone. The five fortresses that were ceded could not be attacked within a month. In this month, the Ni Ren Guild could use these five fortresses to do many, many things! The Ni Ren Guild could leisurely attack the Mage Union's main fortress!

At this moment, the desolate and quiet jungle suddenly gave him a feeling that he was a hero at the end of his road.

He took off all the top-quality equipment on his body and put on a set of trashy decorative equipment. After only a moment, a dagger suddenly appeared in front of his throat.

Finally, it came. Crazy Magic closed his eyes.

With a puff, blood splattered.

Seeing Crazy Magic fall to the ground, Sun revealed an expression of confusion. He thought that Crazy Magic would fight him to the death, but he didn't expect that he would commit suicide in this way.

Crazy Magic understood that any struggle he made now would be futile. It was better to die quickly and rush back to Moonshadow City to stabilize the overall situation. With such a big move from the Ni Ren Guild, if he wasn't there, Moonshadow City would probably be in chaos.

Crazy Magic had surrendered, but some other people didn't stop. There were about fifty or sixty of them. They were from the Wild Wolves Studio and the Blood Fiends. They used guerrilla tactics to fight with the Ni Ren Guild. Although they understood that defeat was certain, it was better to fight to the death and kill some people from the Ni Ren Guild, taking some equipment from them to use.

The Ni Ren Guild was killed by dozens of these players, and their losses were not small either.

King of the World was lurking and flying through the dense forest. He had his eyes on some people, a total of eight, led by Crow and Crowe of the Wild Wolves Studio.

"Crazy Magic surrendered," Crow said, looking at the message bar.

"That idiot, we've been ruined by him. In this damn place, we can't even run away," Crowe said depressingly, his choppy Chinese occasionally mixed with some English curse words.

"Let's take it one step at a time. We can probably still kill a few people from the Ni Ren Guild," Crow said, glancing at the jungle in the distance.

"What's wrong?" Crowe noticed Crow's strange expression and asked in the team chat.

"We're being followed. It's a Thief!" Crow said. Although the other party's movements were very secretive, he had still noticed it.

Crow had always maintained a very cautious habit, which was to leave something called a conductive rune in the places he passed. If the conductive rune was placed on a tree, it could detect whether someone was following.

King of the World was exposed as a result. Crow knew King of the World's approximate location, but it was still difficult to capture him.

Crow, Crowe, and the others maintained their usual expressions and continued to move forward. The two Thieves in their team slowly entered stealth.

Seeing the two Thieves in the group from the Wild Wolves Studio disappear into stealth, King of the World frowned. He felt that something was not right. Should he continue to follow them?

Watching the people from the Wild Wolves Studio walk further and further away, King of the World hesitated for a moment, but still continued to follow them.

"Nie Yan, I'm currently following behind the people from the Wild Wolves Studio," King of the World said in the team chat.

"Keep a close eye on them. I'll bring people over in a few minutes," Nie Yan said, as he was commanding Darkwing to kill one player from the Mage Alliance after another.

Just as King of the World was reporting the news to Nie Yan, suddenly, dust filled the air, fluttering and falling. King of the World was startled. It was revealing dust! He had seen this thing before with Nie Yan. Nie Yan had always kept it without being willing to use it, but he had some understanding of the effect of the revealing dust.

These dust particles stuck to King of the World's body, and the outline of King of the World's body slowly appeared.

These things exposed King of the World's position!

Just as King of the World was about to run away, two Thieves pounced towards him like two bolts of lightning, attacking him from the left and right!

"See where you can escape!" one of the Thieves from the Wild Wolves Studio sneered.

Not good, he was being attacked from both sides! King of the World's heart sank. Two sharp daggers were coming towards him, flickering with a chilling light that devoured people, like the summons of death.