This time, I won't be the devil.

With the cooperation of the five people, they successfully broke through and eliminated several vengeful spirits along the way.

However, due to the limited effect of taunting, even with two tanks, one or two will occasionally slip through the net, requiring the remaining three to avoid them by moving.

Unlike the well-trained adventurers, Shiloh had poor physical strength. After running for ten minutes, she was already out of breath and her speed dropped significantly.

When another escaped ghost attacked her, Shiloh had no time to dodge.

"Ew, ew (move, move)!" Wright reminded quickly.

Just when the vengeful spirit's attack was about to succeed, Frey simply picked up Shiloh's thigh and carried her on his shoulders.

"Um...Mr. Frey..."

"This is an urgent matter. We can't afford to worry about formalities. Stop talking nonsense and pray!"

At Frey's reminder, Shiloh continued to chant the Light of Purification to deal with the vengeful spirits.

But Frey himself was consumed by distracting thoughts.

In order to maintain his balance and move quickly, Frey grabbed Shiloh's lower waist tightly, and his face inevitably pressed against him.

And as he continued to run, Shiloh's body rose and fell violently, and the soft and warm touch slapped Frey's back again and again through the thin nun's uniform that became a little damp due to heavy sweating.

Soft and soft...

But now is not the time to enjoy. In order to eliminate the unnecessary emotions in his heart, Frey bit his lips until they bled to create pain.

After regaining his composure, Frey relied on his agility and extremely fast speed to merge directly with Shiloh on his shoulder to form a mobile turret that could continuously emit purifying light.

More than ten minutes passed like this, and when they arrived at a spacious quicksand area, half of the evil spirits had been eliminated.

Seeing that Shiloh's strength had almost recovered, Frey, exhausted both physically and mentally, put her down.

Next, we just need to cross this quicksand to leave the gathering area of ​​​​the evil spirits.

Seeing victory in sight, Wright shouted:

"Los! Los! Los! (Sprint, sprint, go!)"

But at this moment, the quicksand suddenly exploded, and a desert butcher appeared.

Immediately afterwards, several more quicksands exploded one after another, 3, 6, 9, a total of 9 crocodile men blocked their way.

Behind the nine desert butchers stood a crocodile man holding a staff, who was obviously the leader.

In fact, when Frey saw the quicksand area, he already had a bad premonition, but he didn't expect that they would be so unlucky.

[Desert Priest, Rank 4]

The Desert Priest, who has reached the fourth level and can use magic, is one of the most difficult monsters in the third level.

Several people planned to retreat, but the desert priest had already chanted magic.

Relying on his extremely high magical attainments, Frey immediately understood what the priest was using.

"I'm super, ice!"

In the Aiden continent, ice magic does not belong to the conventional six-element magic system. It is an extremely rare magic that can only be mastered by a very small number of gifted people.

I didn't expect that this desert priest holding a staff could actually use ice magic.

In other words, this is a rare ice wand crocodile.

"Everyone, jump immediately!"

As the words fell, the Ice Staff Crocodile activated the third-level magic [Ice Ground], and a layer of ice floor was spread along the quicksand under his feet.

At Frey's reminder, several people jumped up, but Noelle was a little slow for some reason.

At the critical moment, Frey pushed Noel away, stepped into the quicksand, and his feet were fixed by frost.

Of course Frey has a way to break free from the control, but now there is a crocodile in front and a vengeful spirit behind, even a delay of a second can be fatal.

It seems that the Ice Cane Crocodile is indeed right and is not messing around...

Based on the current situation, Frey immediately made a judgment:

"Wright, Palu, lure the ghosts away and take Shiloh away first. Leave these crocodiles to Noelle and me."

Light and Palu acted without hesitation because according to their employee contracts, they had to obey Frey's reasonable orders within the maze.

Seeing that Shiloh was still hesitating, Frey gave her a confident smile.

"Believe me."

After the three left, the crocodile people took action.

The reason they paused just now was because the leading desert priest was a little afraid of Frey after his magic was discovered, so he was happy to see them split up.

Now, the two troublesome tanks had left, leaving only Noelle and Frey, who was still frozen in place.

Following the order from the Desert Priest, nine Desert Butchers used [Sand Assault] to escape into the sand.

The desert priest himself chanted a new magic, and a large number of sharp ice crystals shot towards Frey.

The third-level magic [Ice Break].

After using this tactic of combining both physical and demonic means to encircle the enemy on both sides, the Desert Priest thought he had a sure win.

However, after shooting the magic, it found that Frey still had a relaxed smile on his face.

"Come out, Honey!"

Frey used the space ring for the first time in a long time to release Hanizi and block the magic of the desert priest.

"Hani roar~"

Frey has told Noelle about the existence of the space ring and said that it was found in the cult's stronghold.

In fact, he did get a ring from the demon clan from the cultists' stronghold.

However, although he had a reasonable excuse for the origin of the ring, for such a rare item, in order to prevent others from coveting it, he had only told Noelle.

This is also one of the reasons why he wanted to send Shiloh away in advance.

The sudden appearance of Silver Honey startled the Desert Priest greatly, but it quickly calmed down.

Even though they can ignore magic, they can still use the terrain to launch physical attacks.

In the quicksand area, crocodiles are the masters.

At this moment, nine desert butchers had already come to Frey through the sand raid. They broke through the quicksand and launched an attack together.

During this period of time, Frey was also ready and poured magic power into the sand under his feet.

"Today I will show you who is the true emperor of the desert."

As the earth magic was activated, a wall of sand suddenly appeared, helping Frey block the attack and trapping the Desert Butcher's hand in the wall.

At the same time, Noelle also completed the charging of the Thunder and Fire Sword, and with a Flame Volt Slash of maximum power, he killed 9 crocodiles at the same time.

Seeing this, the Desert Priest immediately realized that he was no match for the opponent and planned to escape by hiding in the sand.

But how could Frey give it a chance?

"Hmph, want to run away?"

"Sand-bound coffin."

The quicksand shot out and turned into a giant hand that grabbed the Desert Priest. Noel's slash followed closely, ending its life.

How could a mere Ice Staff Crocodile be a match for the Desert Emperor?

……

Unlike Frey's side, the three people who led away the vengeful spirits were caught in a tough battle, with more than 20 vengeful spirits chasing them relentlessly.

"Olianfe! (Stop chasing!)"

Although the number of vengeful spirits was reduced by half, without Frey's restraint, Wright and his men's flexibility in battle was greatly reduced.

And unlike at the beginning, their status has been greatly depleted now.

Wright, who has amazing endurance, and Shilo, who had just rested on Frey's back, can still hold on, but Palu, who is only at the bronze level, is almost at his limit.

Being inexperienced, he was already in a state of confusion in the face of the continuous crises. Adding to the mental burden of constantly using [Taunt], Palu became somewhat confused and his movements showed flaws.

The pursuing ghosts seemed to have noticed this as well, and they set their sights on Palu.

After suffering several [Undead Shocks], Palu fell down.

The last 10 remaining vengeful spirits gathered together at this time, burning their own spirits and launching a new attack together.

Wright immediately understood that they were going to use [Soul Devouring Shock].

Unlike the Undead Shock, people hit by the Soul Devouring Shock will be possessed by vengeful spirits and suffer powerful mental attacks that are fatal. This is their real killer weapon.

The 10 vengeful spirits gathered together and transformed into a huge burning spirit body, attacking Palu on the ground.

At the last moment, Wright flashed in front of Palu and opened his arms to block the vengeful spirit.

"Captain? What are you doing, Captain?"

Wright was still speaking the meaningless ancient language of the gods, but through his eyes, Palu understood what he wanted to convey.

"I am the leader of the Black Knights, Light Don Quixote. It is my duty to protect the members of the order!"

……

By the time Frey and Noelle finished dealing with the crocodile and reunited with Shiloh and the others, the group of evil spirits had all disappeared, and Wright was lying on the ground.

"Captain, you actually saved someone like me..." Palu said with a sob.

At this moment, a ferocious expression suddenly appeared on Wright's face, and he pounced on Palu beside him.

Frey quickly bound him with sand and learned about the current situation from Shiloh.

"The vengeful spirit has taken control of the body. At this rate, Mr. Wright's mind will collapse in three minutes at most. It will be too late for me to purify him."

Frey looked at Shiloh, and her anxious look didn't seem fake.

There was actually another purpose for Frey to act separately from them, which was to test whether Shiloh would show any hidden strength in a critical moment.

Since he still hasn't taken action at this point, it means that Shiloh probably doesn't have the ability to use the top miracle [Soul Cleansing Light] like Stella.

After confirming this, Frey said:

"Don't be afraid, I have a plan."