The Players And The Protagonist Want To Kill Me – Volume 1, Chapter 60
Chapter 60: Protect Her
Inside Winterkeep, except for the patrolling guards, everyone was sleeping soundly, but suddenly they were awakened by a roar and a roar.
“Insects! The great Salaken will burn you to ashes!”
“Tremble! Wail! Volcanic Eruption!”
Boom!
The entire Winterkeep shook, also waking up Sivey and Lori cuddled together.
They went to the window and saw the public area outside the castle’s main hall, where a small volcanic eruption had replaced the fountain.
Magma continuously spewed out of the volcano, while eleven figures around it dodged the flying lava and attacked the Hellfire Chieftain.
The light of Qi dazzled the entire public area as if it were daytime.
“Can anyone tell me why there’s a lava creature in the Eagle Lord’s castle?”
“The intelligence department’s people are really useless! Pope’s crown should burn them all!”
“Barda above, quickly dodge those spewing lava!”
The Temple knights dodged the Hellfire Chieftain’s Lava Strike while exchanging annoyed remarks.
The huge fiery stone man in front of them was extremely sinister. Not only was he powerful, but the green flames on his body would corrode their Qi, even a slight touch causing unbearable pain.
Just as they were speaking, a Temple knight exposed a flaw under the continuous heavy punches of Hellfire and was drenched in lava.
The ghostly green flames were like a festering sore, and he immediately screamed and rolled on the ground.
Salaken then showed a fierce smile, taking the opportunity to punch the Temple knight on the ground into minced meat, his maniacal laughter echoing throughout Winterkeep.
“Pain! Fear! The ultimate delicacy!”
“Kekeke…”
…
But Sivey couldn’t laugh at all. Salaken was undoubtedly a powerful underling, but if they continued to fight like this, his Winterkeep would be destroyed.
He instructed Lori to hide in the room, then, under the worried gaze of the maid, picked up his Greatsword and leaped off the balcony.
Feeling the terrifying pressure overhead, the Temple knights looked up and couldn’t help but exclaim in shock:
“Another Sky Knight!”
“It’s the Eagle Lord, our assassination target, but isn’t he an Earth Knight?”
“This time the intelligence is really messed up. If we can go back…”
“Don’t think about anything else, fight desperately!”
The Temple knights unanimously reached a decision, as if they had activated some kind of switch. With a surge of blood mist, they began to undergo various changes.
Most of them had crimson eyes, their bodies expanded, their speed and strength increased greatly, and their reaction speed became extremely keen.
A few turned into monsters with beast heads and human bodies, dropping their Longswords and pouncing towards Sivey and Salaken with steel claws.
But their desperate counterattack was doomed to be in vain.
Blessed by the Dragon Vein Power, Sivey, with his immense strength, was like a tyrannosaurus, already charging forward.
With a horizontal swing of his heavy sword, there was a dull sound as he slammed forward, and a beast-headed Temple knight who had pounced nearby was sent flying like a torn sack, blood gushing from seven orifices, and then fell silent after a few twitches.
One sword killed the enemy, shocking the surrounding Temple knights.
They had fought against Sky Knights before.
But a Sky Knight who could kill a Temple knight of the earth level with one sword, how could that be achieved without those old monsters who had been Sky Knights for many years?
But how old was the Eagle Lord in front of them? Twenty-five?
“Where are you looking?”
Sivey sneered and slashed vertically with his sword at a Temple knight who hadn’t yet regained consciousness.
The sword’s strike carried immense momentum, like a mountain collapsing, terrifying the Temple knight, who was immediately stunned. He raised his sword to defend, but it was only a dying struggle.
With a loud “boom,” when the smoke cleared, he had already tragically fallen into the pit of the sword, his body crushed and broken under the heavy sword’s force.
In the nearby battlefield, Hellfire Chieftain Salaken smirked as he chased five Temple knights, throwing Lava Strikes at them.
Not far away, three humanoid Ashes manifested the ferocity and power of this Demon creation.
In the castle’s main hall, Baine Bloodhoof, with the Bloodhoof Clan and Clement, hurriedly arrived.
Seeing more and more people around, and sensing the presence of two equally strong Earth Knight levels, the remaining Temple knights began to have second thoughts.
They were not afraid of death, but they could not accept such meaningless sacrifices.
Each of them was an indispensable force in the upcoming plan.
Returning to the temple in the capital to report to the pope, having the pope send stronger Elite Temple knights was the best strategy.
“Retreat! Go and join Lord Wade. This Quest has failed.”
The Temple knights exchanged glances and suddenly turned back, fleeing in different directions from the castle.
Sivey snorted and pursued with his sword.
Salaken chuckled and continued to throw Lava Strikes, enveloping several nearby Temple knights with large lava rocks wrapped in green flames.
One or two knights, too focused on fleeing, couldn’t avoid them. Their bodies were engulfed in green flames, but they dared not stay, gritting their teeth against the burning pain, and ran with all their might.
“Keke…”
The green flames flickered in Salaken’s eye sockets. He didn’t continue to chase Sivey but turned back into the fountain and resumed his form as a burning statue.
His Quest was to guard the castle, and he wouldn’t interfere with Sivey’s pursuit unless Sivey said so.
Sivey continuously caught up with and killed several Temple knights. He could tell with his toes what these average level forty-five Temple knights were here for.
They were here because he had disrupted the pope’s plans and affected the production of the next batch of Temple knights, so they had come to settle the score.
As they chased and fled, there were only three Temple knights left who Sivey had killed. The group had already reached the outer city of Winterfell. Sivey keenly sensed another surging clash of Qi.
He focused his gaze and saw in the distance flickering Qi lights and Qi swords flying everywhere. The streets of the outer city seemed to have been devastated by a tornado, shattered and fragmented.
A figure covered in blood was being besieged by three Temple knights, surprisingly the familiar old Parker.
However, Sivey was puzzled. Last time he saw Nyx Parker, he was just a Common man.
How could he still be alive under the siege of three Temple knights?
Curious, Sivey focused his gaze on old Parker.
[Name: Nyx Parker (Life Overdraft)]
[Identity: Great Alchemist]
[Strength: Sky Knight Level 51 (Temporary)]
[Skills: Advanced Potion Making, Intermediate Fire Elemental Mastery (Unavailable), Basic Swordsmanship]
[Equipment: Lisna’s Rapier (Superior)]
[Cologne Empire Reputation: 121 (He was once a renowned alchemist in the country, but now he is just a poor creature who lost his wife and went into hiding for revenge)]
[…]
[Eagle Territory Reputation: 102 (Many people in Winterfell are grateful to kind old Parker)]
…
“He actually used a special method to overdraft his life, forcibly elevating his strength to that of a Sky Knight?”
Sivey murmured to himself. He knew that old Parker was probably not going to survive, despite having a great fondness for the old man.
“Numbers five, seven, eleven, why are you back? Is the Quest completed? What about the others?”
Wade was originally playing with two Temple knights in front of old Parker.
They were like brave bullfighters, and old Parker was the foolish, brute force bull.
But unexpectedly, he caught sight of three Temple knights chased by Sivey.
“Wade, quickly retreat. Eagle Lord has advanced to a Sky Knight, and our intelligence is completely wrong!”
“And there is also a powerful lava creature in Winterkeep, at least at the Sky Knight level.”
“What!?”
Wade was horrified at the news, suddenly feeling an astonishing killing intent locked onto him.
Turning his head, he saw a sword light carrying golden Qi already slashing down.
After all, Wade was an old Earth Knight. He instantly judged that he couldn’t contend with this sword. Immediately, he dodged sideways, but following the sword strike was a mighty elbow strike that he couldn’t avoid.
With a loud “boom,” despite the protection of Qi, under the terrifying brute force, Wade was still smashed into a concave chest, his eyes bulging, staggering back a few steps, kneeling with his sword on the ground, his entire aura gradually weakening.
Seeing their captain also incapacitated with one blow, the few remaining Temple knights didn’t say a word and immediately fled. But they forgot that there was still a crazed old Parker.
Old Parker rushed up like a mad dog and grabbed the legs of two Temple knights, refusing to let go no matter how much they kicked and beat him.
Although he lacked the combat experience of a Sky Knight and didn’t possess advanced knight skills, with the blessing of his Qi, holding onto two people tightly was no problem.
Sivey didn’t hesitate either. He swiftly beheaded two Temple knights with two slashes, then quickly pursued and killed the others.
When he returned, he found old Parker collapsed on the ground, and beside him lay Wade, the Temple knight, chopped into pieces.
Old Parker was dying.
His whole body was injured, with not a single spot intact, but his eyes were still bright, gazing at Sivey as he approached.
“My lord…” Old Parker’s voice was weak, with some panting. “I heard… I heard that you also have a special fondness for a demi-human girl, is it true?”
Sivey looked at old Parker with a complex expression and nodded affirmatively.
“Hehe…” Old Parker smiled, his eyes somewhat unfocused, as if recalling something beautiful.
A tear of blood ran down his cheek as he looked at the starry night sky, speaking to Sivey and seemingly to himself:
“Then you… you must… protect her…”.
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