The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

Then, just as Du Feiya said, from the gap in the full-covering helmet of the construct warrior, from the gap just created by the spear, a few tiny black flames suddenly rose from the construct warrior's head. These flames spread rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, the construct warrior's head was completely covered with flames, turning him into a human-shaped torch.

Li Yin shouted excitedly, and all the frustration he had been feeling disappeared. He pulled out his spear very smoothly and aimed the tip of the spear, which was blazing with black flames, at the next target.

Then, as he continued to swing his spear and retract his thrusts, the construct warriors fell one after another.

The same was true for the surrounding dark elf soldiers. Although their killing efficiency was not as good as Rein's, their magic-enhanced weapons also allowed them to fight against these indestructible constructs, and the battle location specially selected by Cassia gave them an advantage in both offense and defense.

The balance of war was tilting towards Nevile at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Despite this, the constructs seemed unaware and continued to rush towards the alley entrance one after another without stopping, attacking Li Yin and the others one after another.

This is one of the biggest advantages that distinguishes constructs from ordinary soldiers. They will always faithfully execute the instructions in their "heads" and do not know what fear is.

Chapter 161: Invisible Enemy

This was the case when facing Cassia's fear spell before, and it was also the case now when facing the dark elves' extremely sharp spears and swords.

As soon as one of them fell, another would take his place, leaving Li Yin no chance to breathe.

Fortunately, he didn't need to catch his breath.

However, other dark elves were not like him, possessing the unique physique of a ghoul. Under the desperate attack of the construct warriors, some of the dark elves gradually became exhausted.

Cassia paid close attention to the battlefield situation and promptly arranged for the reserve troops that had been ready to go, allowing the front-line troops to take turns to rest and prevent the soldiers from being broken through by the enemy due to exhaustion.

About half an hour later, the heavily damaged construct troops finally stopped attacking and turned around to flee the battlefield.

However, the dark elves also launched a counterattack under the orders of the princesses. They relied on their lightness and agility to easily catch up with the fleeing warriors and knocked them to the ground cleanly.

In the end, the dark elves won the battle with only moderate damage, most of which was caused during the fighting and evacuation in the square. There were very few dark elf corpses left at the entrance of the alley.

Cassia and Dufia, accompanied by their personal guards, inspected the battlefield after the battle.

The soldiers scattered everywhere spared no effort to collect the spoils. They picked up the fine gold weapons that fell to the ground, and happily stripped the armor from the dead construct warriors. The armor was much better than their own in terms of both material and craftsmanship. Although many of them were damaged in the battle, due to the dark elves' accurate and deadly attacks, most of them only had one or two cracks in the key places, and they could be put back into use with a little repair. In Nevre, this was usually equipment that only nobles could afford.

The armor-stripped construct warriors' bodies, one after another, lay in the dark streets. There was no blood in their wounds, so they did not look bloody. If someone who did not know the situation came here, at first glance, they would probably think that someone had abandoned so many statues in the square for some inexplicable reason.

To be fair, if we ignore the eerie atmosphere brought by these milky white bodies lying everywhere, the sculpting techniques of these "statues" are quite excellent, and their still bodies are filled with a beauty that is no less than the works of Nevève's exquisite craftsmen.

"What are the origins of these guys?" asked a personal guard of the Borgia family, "Why did they appear here for no reason?"

"In my opinion, they have most likely always been here. They should be arcane guards created by the original owners of this city." A personal guard of the Dinitya family responded.

The guards on both sides turned their eyes to their princesses, hoping that they could give them a definite answer, but neither Cassia nor Dufiya responded immediately.

"Arcane Guards?" After a while, another female dark elf warrior saw that the princesses did not answer, so she inferred, "No wonder those scarlet spiders were afraid before."

"They can only gnaw on the soft flesh of living things. As for these constructs, let alone the layer of adamantium armor on the outside, even their hard bodies are probably invulnerable to the Scarlet Spider's teeth."

"When these construct warriors face them, they just need to crush them regardless of the consequences."

"I see," another personal guard warrior continued, "Is this the test the goddess has given us?"

"The Scarlet Spider must have fought with these constructs before, and suffered heavy losses."

"That's why the goddess guided us here to avenge her favorites."

"And this lost city and all the treasures within it," she looked forward with burning eyes, opened her arms wide, and said excitedly, "is the reward the goddess gave us for passing the test!"

After hearing her words, many warriors became excited. They all looked forward with fiery eyes and licked their lips excitedly.

"Why are they retreating?" At this moment, Cassia, who had remained silent and just looked around, asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

Many dark elves were stunned when they heard this.

Cassia turned her head and looked at Du Feiya, who knew the most about constructs among the elves present, and continued to ask: "Don't constructs know fear?"

Du Feiya thought for a moment and then answered, "Their retreat was not due to fear."

"You can notice that even when they were retreating, they were very orderly and not panicking."

Indeed, Li Yin thought carefully and realized that just like the dark elves' previous retreat, this mysterious construct army also maintained a relatively complete formation during its retreat.

However, unlike the dark elves, they did not retreat in time. The damage at that time was too severe, so the retreating troops were bitten hard by the dark elves, which were more than ten times their own, and no one was spared in the end. Of course, their retreat was just a retreat, without any purpose, which was also an important reason. When the dark elf troops retreated to the designated location, they launched a firm resistance under the command of Cassia. The retreat of the construct troops did not see a glimmer of hope, but only prolonged the line of death.

"If it's not fear, then what is it?"

"Perhaps it's just a pre-existing mechanism," Du Feiya answered clearly. "In order to reduce losses, their creators may have implanted a holistic self-protection mechanism in their logic core. When they detect that the number of troops has dropped to a threshold, the battle will be considered impossible to win. At this time, they order the constructs to retreat to avoid annihilation and stop losses in time. Perhaps their creators think that this is a more appropriate approach in this situation."

Cassia nodded.

Indeed, this hypothesis sounds more reasonable than the construct running away out of fear.

but……

She frowned slightly, then turned her head and looked at Du Feiya again.

"Maybe... If it's a maybe, then Princess Dufiya, do you mean that there may be other possibilities?"

Du Feiya hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Another possibility is that they received an order to retreat."

"But this possibility is extremely slim, isn't it?" She looked at Cassia and the dark elves around her, and said comfortingly, "After all, this is a long-lost city, and there are no elves living there at all."

The gloomy expressions on the faces of the many dark elves only lasted for a short while before they dispersed after her explanation, and they all nodded in agreement.

However, almost in an instant, Rein and some sharp-eyed dark elves noticed that Du Feiya's smile became a little stiff.

The stiffness lasted only for a moment, and then - her entire spirit disappeared right on the spot.

The next moment, they suddenly heard a series of puffing sounds coming from all around them, like the sound of some liquid gushing out.

At the same time, beside the place where Du Feiya had just disappeared, a personal guard who was originally standing next to her suddenly disappeared from the waist, and his entire upper body completely disappeared. Scarlet blood gushed out from the newly appeared cross-section, like a bursting spring, spraying straight to the dome in an instant, and then turned into a splash of blood rain, spraying down!

Everyone looked up, and in the midst of the falling blood rain, they subconsciously looked towards the dome that was splashing with blood, and were stunned and speechless for a moment.

Then, they reacted, lowered their heads again, and looked in horror at the lower half of the body of the personal guard who was still gushing blood.

"Enemy attack!" At this moment, a terrifying scream came from an unknown direction.

"Du Feiya?" Li Yin was startled at first, and then delighted. He recognized that the panicked cry came from Du Feiya. She did not die like the personal guard. Her disappearance should be due to the emergency use of space magic to transfer herself to another place.

But then, his surprised expression froze completely, because he watched helplessly as another series of "puffs" and "swooshes" sounded, and two more half-broken bodies suddenly appeared not far from the half-broken female dark elf warrior, with scarlet blood gushing out of their gaps like an upside-down waterfall, straight into the air.

The two incidents happened very quickly, almost in the space of a breath. The only thing that connected them was Du Feiya's scream. At this time, most of the dark elves finally reacted and screamed in panic, moving away from the three lower bodies gushing blood.

However, in the blink of an eye, before the dark elves could even take a few steps back, there was another heart-pounding sound, and a waterfall of scarlet blood rose up from the group of soldiers who were hastily retreating.

Instantly, a series of screams broke out beside the newly appeared half body, and the surrounding dark elves scattered in panic.

"Puff", "Puff"... The strange sound of blood gushing out was endless, and every time it appeared, it would be accompanied by one or two new victims. In the blink of an eye, Nevelle's troops were like a well-watered scarlet fertile field, blooming with strange flowers of life.

Cassia was protected by a group of personal guards and evacuated with the main force. She was also pale, but she had not completely lost her mind like the other dark elves. Instead, she held the holy emblem of the Spider Goddess in her hand, muttered a chant, and released several detection magics in succession.

"It's useless!" Du Feiya's anxious reminder suddenly came, "The other party has a means of shielding detection."

Cassia frowned slightly. The suspicious nature of the dark elf made her instinctively consider the truthfulness of Dufya's words.

However, almost at the same time, a strange yet familiar, heart-pounding "puff" sound suddenly echoed in her ears.

Her face suddenly changed, and she jumped up and shot to the side. When she hastily looked back, she saw that several of her personal guards were thrown to the ground, and one of them, although still standing, was left with only the lower half of his body, which was spewing blood. As for her face, which was still alive and well beside her just now, her upper half of the body had disappeared without a trace!

This disaster almost happened to her, but she was totally unaware of it. The series of detection magics she had just cast on herself had no effect at all, and only then did she completely believe Du Feiya's warning.

"The other party used spells to eliminate sound and invisibility," Du Feiya's voice once again penetrated the noisy screams and came from afar.

Li Yin, who was following Cassia, looked past the fleeing soldiers and looked in the direction of the voice, but there was no trace of her at all.

"Ah!" Suddenly her scream was heard, causing Li Yin's heart to jump suddenly.

"There is also a spell to detect invisibility!" Her panicked voice rang out again, this time sounding particularly panicked.

At the same time, following the sound, Li Yin finally saw her dark blue figure suddenly emerging from the void darkness a few dozen steps away in the southwest, but her figure only appeared for a moment, and then a flash of white light shot out from her figure, and her figure disappeared again.

The next moment, Li Yin caught a glimpse of a huge rock next to her, which was almost immediately cut in half, silently.

The invisible force frightened him. He tried his best to activate telepathy, trying to sense the other party's location, but just like before, there was no result. So, he could only focus on his body, keenly sensing the changes in the air flow around him through his skin and pores, and he dared not relax a bit, for fear that if he didn't pay attention, only half of his body would be left.

"Use the demon fire!" After a while, Du Feiya's anxious voice suddenly came from another completely different direction. She waved her hand casually, and a ball of light purple flame appeared from the bottom of her sleeve, shooting towards the direction of the nearest body.

The ball of demonic fire swept across the lower body that was gushing blood, and landed on the ground several feet away, flickering and swaying alone, and it seemed that it had not hit the target.

"That's right, use the demon fire!" However, at this moment, Cassia beside Li Yin suddenly shouted loudly.

She stared intently at a nearby body, staring at the wound that revealed more real traces after the blood had spurted out.

"The target is a huge beast." Her voice was still extremely serious, but she had lost her panic and regained her composure. "All elves, listen to my command and use demon fire to attack wherever it may be."

"We will definitely make it disappear!"

After Cassia finished speaking, the dark green flame in her hand lit up, ready to go, and her sharp eyes scanned the surroundings.

However, the next second, her expression suddenly changed.

Before she could react, her entire body was dragged up by a tremendous force and flew into the air.

Chapter 162: Crystal Shape

She screamed once, just once. Then, the moment Li Yin's face appeared before her eyes, she was slightly startled, and she understood what was going on.

Li Yin had been concentrating on sensing the changes around him. Just like how Du Feiya had frequently reminded everyone and was therefore attacked several times by the invisible monster, when Cassia suddenly spoke out and gave orders to the dark elves, he also realized that this might very likely bring her an attack from the monster, so he was even more focused and vigilant.

Sure enough, at that moment, the hair on his skin suddenly sensed the disturbance of airflow caused by a huge monster coming down. Therefore, even though the opponent was invisible and silent, he still reacted in time, grabbed Cassia with one hand and jumped out.

Without caring about the embarrassment in front of her servants, Cassia turned her head without thinking, and a dark green flame flew out of her hand and shot towards the place where her body had just been.

The two of them followed the demonic fire with expectation. If it was this time, if it was timely, maybe the monster could be revealed.

However, the next moment, the expressions of both of them suddenly changed at the same time.

Because the demonic fire that streaked across the sky like a meteor suddenly turned and shot back towards the two of them in the completely opposite direction.

Immediately afterwards, a violent airflow rushed towards them, wrapped around their bodies, and blew them away in mid-air.

When Cassia finally managed to stabilize her body in the distant air with the help of levitation, she was surprised to find a layer of dark green flames rising from her whole body - it was the demonic fire she had just launched, which was swept away by the violent hurricane and not only failed to hit the target, but also rolled back to herself.

Feeling lost and shocked, she once again followed her memory and looked towards the place where she once stood on the battlefield, and a hint of hope suddenly rekindled in her eyes.

Countless colorful demonic fires, like a colorful rain of flowers, were rising from every corner of the battlefield, covering the place where Cassia was previously.

Although most of the dark elves had panicked and were running away blindly, the reason they did so was not only because the monster's methods were extremely cruel and bloody, but also because the monster was invisible and silent. They had no way to resist and could only let it slaughter them. In other words, their fear mainly came from the unknown. Now that they knew a way to break this fear, most of them regained their sanity. Although they were still running away, they also began to pay attention to the movements in the field and prepare to find the traces of the monster.

The moment Cassia suddenly flew into the air, how could they not understand what was happening there? They all attacked in that direction.

The violent airflow from the invisible monster blew away the demon fire launched by Cassia, but it was unable to defeat all the demon fire attacking from all directions. After a violent storm, dozens of demon fires still fell on the ground near where Cassia was before.

Yes, on the ground... disappointment appeared in the eyes of many dark elves. With so many demonic fires, not a single one successfully hit the invisible beast and made it appear.

However, at this moment, the eyes of many dark elves suddenly lit up.

In the pitch-black sky, there was a little bit of lavender demon fire moving quickly - it was not moving in a straight line, but changing direction constantly. In the blink of an eye, it had already flown over several dark elves. Just as those dark elves looked up in amazement, suddenly, with a "puff", a fountain of blood gushed out from the waist of a dark elf who had only half of his body left.

The scene was extremely bloody, but when many dark elves saw this, their faces were filled with excitement and joy.

Because... they finally found their target.

Not all demon fires were ineffective. One demon fire hit the target. However, after hitting the target, the general demon fire will spread quickly, covering the target's entire body, thus outlining its shape. There is only one exception, which is the split demon fire launched by Princess Du Feiya. She can launch multiple demon fires at a time, but each one is condensed and does not disperse, and cannot show the target's shape. It only serves to mark the target's position.

She had demonstrated this technique to many dark elves in previous battles against constructs.

"Be careful!" Du Feiya's sharp warning suddenly sounded, but it was too late. She looked at the newly added corpse in the distance, and a trace of pity flashed across her pretty face.

Then, she frowned and looked at the purple demonic fire that was still changing its position rapidly in the air. She changed her tone and ordered loudly, "Aim at that demonic fire!"

That’s right, it was she who had released the evil fire earlier.

At the moment when Cassia and Li Yin suddenly took off into the air, she happened to be staring in that direction, and like the other dark elves who noticed that direction, she instantly realized what was happening there.

However, unlike other dark elves, she had foreseen that many demonic fires would attack Cassia's previous location. Therefore, based on her prediction, she did not attack directly in that direction, because the attack in that area was already saturated. She instead used scattered demonic fire to block the directions in which the enemies around her might escape.

Sure enough, while all other demon fires missed their target, one of her demon fires captured the monster that had dodged "in time".

The invisible monster continued to move at a high speed, but all the dark elves were aiming at the demon fire marked by Du Feiya at this moment. Those who could use the demon fire continued to use it, and those who could not use it simply took out their crossbows and shot in that direction.

Wherever the monster passed, the dark elves shot demonic fire to chase its figure, leaving a colorful light band behind it, which was a spectacular sight.

If it weren't for the life-and-death moment, these missed demonic fires would have looked like a pleasing sight.

However, in the next round, the dark elves adjusted their attack mode. They no longer rushed to attack in excitement as they did when they first learned of the monster's whereabouts. Instead, they began to predict the monster's next course of action based on the movement trajectory of the monster indicated by the demonic fire, giving full play to the elves' talent for archery.

Then, the dense demonic fire was no longer concentrated in one spot, but was scattered over the entire area. The monster's huge body soon appeared under the coverage of the ubiquitous demonic fire.

The colorful light band disappeared, and in its place, there was a colorful waterfall about 20 feet high, hanging from the sky straight to the ground. The colorful demonic fire was like a gorgeous robe, draped over the giant monster's body, highlighting its huge body like a mountain!