nownovels Chapter 160 Abyss Marauder! Sneak Attack, Sneak Attack!
Chapter 160 Abyss Marauder! Sneak Attack, Sneak Attack!
"The hunting merchant caravan of Harklu Town? They finally arrived."
Little Saintess poked her head out and squinted her eyes at the galloping caravan.
"You're the Saintess of the Holy See, don't you have any impression of the map?" Chen Yu asked. "If you had even a little sense of direction, we wouldn't have had to wait so long."
"I have a general idea of the direction," Little Saintess said softly. "But it's too dangerous to wander around in the Abyss-corrupted area."
"There are fallen ones everywhere, as well as incoming Abyss demons."
"If we rashly enter the territory of the Abyss demons, we're done for!"
"That's true," Chen Yu nodded.
Down the mountain.
The caravan from Harklu Town had reached the end of the road.
The uneven ground in the wilderness was no longer suitable for horses and carriages to gallop.
The fallen ones driving the carriages held onto the reins and slowed down the pace.
"Let's go."
Chen Yu prepared to catch up with the caravan.
Little Saintess tugged at the corner of Chen Yu's clothes.
"What's the matter?" Chen Yu turned around.
"Hold me."
Little Saintess opened her arms towards Chen Yu, raised her head, and looked at Chen Yu with her big watery eyes full of anticipation.
Without hesitation, Chen Yu picked up Little Saintess with one hand, holding her under his arm, and chased after the caravan.
...
After half a day, the caravan from Harklu Town entered another fallen town.
This fallen town was slightly larger than Harklu Town.
Chen Yu waited outside the town with Little Saintess.
Shortly after, the caravan departed.
The number of carriages increased from over ten to over thirty.
The caravan continued on.
At midnight, they entered another fallen town, which had grown to over fifty carriages.
Chen Yu and Little Saintess followed behind the caravan from a distance.
For three consecutive days, they passed a total of eight fallen towns.
By this time, the number of carriages had reached over two hundred.
On the fourth morning, the massive caravan stopped in front of a fallen city.
Outside the city walls of the fallen city, four caravans were parked, totaling over a thousand.
"Do you recognize this city?" Chen Yu turned around and asked Little Saintess, who was lying on his back.
"There are many areas corrupted by the Abyss, and there are countless fallen cities," Little Saintess mumbled while nibbling on fruit. "Only the giant cities are marked on the map of the Holy See."
"I can't recognize cities of this scale without any landmarks."
"What use are you then? All you know is eating!" Chen Yu lightly flicked Little Saintess's forehead with his hand.
"Hehe~"
Little Saintess giggled foolishly, dropped the fruit core from her hand, and quietly rubbed her face, which was covered in fruit juice, against Chen Yu's clothes.
"These caravans were obviously summoned by the city," Chen Yu said.
"Their actions should be coordinated by the High-Level fallen ones in the city."
The problem now is, if we are in the rear of the fallen ones, and they use teleportation arrays to go to the front lines, what should we do?"
"You actually know about teleportation arrays?" Little Saintess exclaimed.
"Teleportation arrays are not a secret, why can't I know about them?" Chen Yu said speechlessly. "Even small, insignificant cities have teleportation arrays, right?"
"Do all small cities have teleportation arrays?" Little Saintess showed a shocked expression. "Is your hometown an incredibly powerful wizard kingdom?"
"Um." Chen Yu suddenly remembered that Little Saintess was just a character in a trial mission.
Perhaps, in this world of tasks, teleportation arrays are really high-end things.
"Wait, why does the Wizard Kingdom have teleportation arrays?"
Wizards are a professional series that includes various individual professions, such as potion wizards, shape-shifting wizards, spellcasting wizards, and so on.
Each profession has a different main focus.
But no matter what kind of wizard, they have no relationship with teleportation arrays.
"Because wizards are the ones who set up the teleportation arrays," said Little Saintess matter-of-factly.
"Wizards possess the power of magic."
"The Church does not welcome wizards because they do not believe in deities."
"But the Church needs the power of wizards and has to hire some powerful ones."
There are very few wizards who can set up teleportation arrays, and the entire Church has only a few of them!
"I understand," Chen Yu nodded.
The wizards mentioned by Little Saintess should be a general term for practitioners of the magic system.
In the medieval Western Church on Earth, people who could potentially undermine faith were called wizards and their evil was propagated.
The Church in the trial mission follows the same pattern.
However, the wizards here truly possess powerful magic.
The Church can only cooperate and dare not proclaim to burn all the wizards.
Since teleportation arrays are high-end products in the task world, the probability of this small city having a teleportation array is very low.
The carriage team gathered, possibly to wage war against non-Abyss forces or to go on a raid.
As long as they follow behind, they will definitely be able to leave the Abyss-infested area.
The caravan that set off from Harklu Town arrived at the Fallen City in the morning.
Around noon, another caravan consisting of over a hundred carriages arrived.
After this caravan stopped, a fallen army of over a thousand people emerged from the Fallen City and dispersed among the carriage team.
Then, a massive procession of over a thousand carriages finally set off.
"They are Abyss raiders," Little Saintess suddenly said.
"Although I haven't seen them with my own eyes, I have read related descriptions."
"Abyss raiders are not strong, but they are extremely wicked."
"They often do not launch attacks on fortresses and cities with defensive forces, but instead attack villages around the cities, slaughtering and plundering civilians, spreading fear and death everywhere."
"In other words, if we follow them, we can definitely leave the Abyss area, right?" Chen Yu asked.
"That's right," Little Saintess said, "The gathering of Abyss raiders indicates that we are very close to the frontlines."
"Very good!"
...
Abyss raiders do not move quickly in the wilderness.
For a full five days, they did not leave the range of the Abyss-infested area.
It wasn't until the sixth day that the caravan began to disperse.
Small groups of Abyss raiders kept leaving the majority and heading in different directions.
On the morning of the seventh day, the entire caravan was left with just over forty carriages carrying fallen soldiers.
In this area, the Abyss magic permeating the space had already become very weak.
"We finally made it out," Chen Yu couldn't help but sigh.
The trial mission has taken more than ten days so far.
Now it is finally approaching completion.
"Be careful!"
Little Saintess, standing beside Chen Yu, jumped up and bumped hard into Chen Yu's shoulder.
Little Saintess's strength is not high.
But at this moment, Chen Yu's attention was not on her, and he had no defense, so he was knocked to the ground.
In the next moment, a crimson stream of light struck, piercing into the ground.
"Boom!"
Where Chen Yu had just stood, dust and smoke filled the air.