Chapter 378 Puppet of the Night

Justin, whose arm was grabbed by the girl, subconsciously wanted to throw her away.

However, at the moment of resistance, his body stiffened unexpectedly, a trace of unnaturalness appeared on Justin's face, and he finally followed Nina's pace.

"Who am I? Where is this? What am I doing?" Three questions came to Justin's mind.

Before he could think about it urgently, a strange cry suddenly came from the misty forest. On the branches of a thick tree not far away, a red-eyed crow was preening its feathers and made a strange cry from time to time.

"Red-eyed crow, it seems we are really lucky!"

After discovering the mission target, the girl named Nina's eyes lit up, she let go of Justin's hand, and said with a somewhat proud expression, ": Let you see my new witchcraft!"

"Arcane Missile!"

Nina chanted a spell softly, and the thin light element particles in the air condensed into a ball of energy, and then turned into arcane missiles and shot towards the red-eyed crow on the branch, knocking it to the ground.

"How's it going? Aren't you awesome?" Nina raised her head with a proud look on her face.

On the same spot, Justin stood there with a blank expression on his face, but the luster in his eyes flickered slightly. He was crazily recalling certain memories in his mind, and finally his expression returned to calm.

"This is the Misty Forest, the domain of Crow Phantom Academy."

"When I was an apprentice, due to my poor talent, my fellow apprentices were unwilling to team up with me to perform tasks. Except for Nina, her existence was also the only light in my life."

"But it's a pity that in order to be promoted to an official wizard, Nina has been killed by me."

The expression on Justin's face was completely cold. As his thoughts returned to normal, the surrounding foggy forest began to dissolve like an oil painting. Nina, the originally pretty girl, slowly turned around.

"I used to love you so much, but you killed me with your own hands in order to be promoted to a wizard!"

Nina turned around, a hint of gloom appeared on her pretty face, her eyes were shiny and cold, two lines of blood and tears slowly flowed over her, and a black dagger was inserted into her heart from her chest.

Justin's face was calm, but he couldn't help but feel a twinge of pain in his heart.

The dagger was a gift from Nina after he was promoted to a third-level apprentice, but Justin used this dagger to pierce his lover's heart and take away all her power, thus being promoted to an official wizard.

"Everything is just an illusion, I will never be affected in any way!"

Justin had a cold expression on his face, forcing himself to calm down, but memories kept reappearing in his mind, and those things that Justin thought he had forgotten turned into steel needles and pierced his heart.

"Why do you want to kill me? Is being promoted to an official wizard really that important to you?"

Nina's eyes were filled with blood and tears, and she was asking stern questions. The surrounding scenes kept changing, and Justin seemed to be in a dream, experiencing everything inevitably.

"Illusion! It's all just an illusion!"

Facing the questioning of the person he once loved deeply, Justin's chest heaved up and down, and his body couldn't help but tremble slightly. As Nina, who had tears in her eyes, slowly walked over, he finally let out a low roar.

"Damn Illusion, get out of here!"

Justin roared, swung the wand in his hand, and a huge dark claw suddenly grabbed Nina, and immediately tore her into pieces.

However, the next moment.

In the melting illusion around them, Nina appeared one after another, with blood and tears flowing from their eyes, and the exact same dagger stuck in their chests. They slowly walked towards Justin and questioned him about his life.

"why why why!"

Under the questioning of Nina in the fantasy world, Justin's expression gradually became ferocious, his broken arm and shoulder trembled slightly, and the blood that had stopped flowing remained again.

"Get away!!"

Under the oppression of the illusion, Justin roared furiously, waving the wand in his hand like a cross sword, and the black magic turned into sharp claws to shred the surrounding Nina phantom.

But all this was to no avail.

The illusion created by the Meditation Method of Phantom Crow and Thousand Spirits unearths the deepest memories in Justin's heart. As long as Justin remembers everything that happened, Nina, who was killed by him, will continue to appear.

"No! This can't go on like this!"

In vain, Justin stopped. His face was covered with cold sweat, but his eyes flashed with calmness, and he muttered to himself, "Nothing that happens in the fantasy represents reality."

"I must find a way to dispel the illusion in order to break the current situation!"

As a second-level wizard, Justin was extremely strong and tenacious in both willpower and spirit. Even the illusion created by Phantom Crow Qianling could not completely succumb to him, so when he calmed down, he quickly thought of a way to break the illusion. .

"Black Eye Gaze!"

On the same spot, Justin slowly closed his eyes and allowed Nina around him to walk towards him. When he opened his eyes again, there was a black light in his eyes, like two deep whirlpools.

Second Ring Witchcraft, Black Eye Gaze!

This witchcraft is Justin's strongest trump card. After being promoted to the second-level wizard in the dark night maze, it took him thirty years to fully master this second-ring witchcraft.

After the black-eyed gaze was activated, the surrounding illusion began to fade away.

"It really works!" Justin's eyes flashed. The second-level witchcraft black eye gaze is not a strong attack skill, but it has the properties of breaking illusions and spiritual attacks, and can barely break the illusion created by Enzo.

After escaping from the illusion, Justin looked extremely pale.

Although everything that just happened took less than ten minutes, it was far more tiring for Justin than a fierce battle. After the deepest secrets in his heart were dug out, he felt naked.

"Fortunately, the illusion has been lifted."

Justin breathed a sigh of relief and raised his head, but his pupils suddenly shrank. The Cyclops in front was walking quickly, but Enzo was nowhere to be seen.

"Not good!"

Justin secretly said that it was not good, and the chill rushed straight from his spine to the top of his head. Just when he wanted to react, it was too late. Before the Cyclops approached and waved his palm, he gritted his teeth and jumped back.

Justin barely avoided the attack of the Cyclops, but the throbbing in his heart still did not disappear.

Swish!

The long sword with a dark luster slashed in a strange direction. Justin decisively raised his wand to block it, but under the attack of the sharp blade, the top magic item wand in his hand broke in an instant.

"Ugh"

Justin's face showed a painful expression. His arm was scratched by the sword of night. It was not fatal, but a strange force attacked him like a maggot.

"How could this happen?" Justin's face changed.

At the same time, the Cyclops had attacked again. Its huge body seemed to cover the bottom like a shadow, and its four thick palms gathered into fists and smashed down fiercely.

"Dark Shield!" Justin quickly launched witchcraft.

The dark element condensed into a shield, covering Justin's whole body, but under the full force of the cyclops hammer, the dark shield shattered and turned into elemental particles that dissipated in the air.

"Cough!!"

Justin spit out blood and fell to the ground. Originally, as a second-level wizard, Justin was not afraid of the Cyclops under normal circumstances, but at this moment, he had just experienced a fierce battle, and he consumed a lot of energy in the illusion, so he broke the defense under the attack of the Cyclops.

"Goodbye, Lord Justin!"

The sudden voice sounded in vain, and Enzo's figure appeared not far away. Facing Justin who was seriously injured, he did not choose to continue attacking, but focused on the sword of night in his hand, resonating with the power of the artifact.

"This breath."

Justin's face changed, and the wound on his arm caused by the sword of night crawled out like a tadpole, and then quickly spread all over his body, forming a curse-like mark.

"Goddess of the Night!"

"Could it be the sword of the night that symbolizes the authority of the goddess of the night in the legend?"

"By the way, that kid has also stepped into the labyrinth of the night, and even has an inexplicable relationship with the goddess of the night. It is not surprising that the artifact appears in his hands."

Justin's skin was covered with spells, and his expression changed.

As a second-level wizard promoted in the labyrinth of the night, Justin was very familiar with the breath of the goddess of the night, so when the power of the sword of the night spread in his body, he immediately understood something.

"The power of the artifact is irresistible to mortals."

"Am I going to die here today? I'm so unwilling! I finally got promoted to a second-level wizard. If it weren't for Freeman's wrong information, I would have gone further!"

"It's over, everything is over."

"Oh! A lifetime of planning, but in the end it's just such an ending. Maybe I shouldn't have done it to Nina. A life with the one I love may not be bad."

As the power of the Night Sword completely devoured the body, the luster in Justin's eyes became dimmer.

In the end, the second-level wizard lost all life characteristics, and the cold body was covered with black spells. Enzo walked forward and gently paused the Soul Bone Magic Staff in his hand.

At the top of the Soul Bone Magic Staff, the Soul Devouring Crystal glowed!

After devouring the soul of the second-level wizard, the Soul Bone Magic Staff exuded black light all over, and the powerful energy even made the magic wand a little unbearable. It took a long time to calm down.

"The soul of a second-level wizard is enough to be worth countless ordinary souls!"

Enzo looked at the Soul Bone Wand, and the light in his eyes flickered slightly. The Soul Devouring Crystal gave the wand the ability to devour souls, and at the same time gave it the opportunity to evolve to a higher level.

In the forty years of fighting in the Forest Spirit World, Enzo killed more than 100,000 lives.

But the quality of alien souls is extremely flawed. Even if there are more of them, it is difficult to transform the wand. Therefore, even after fighting in the Forest Spirit World for forty years, the Soul Bone Wand is still at the level of high-level magic items.

However, now that Justin's soul has been devoured, it finally has the opportunity to transform!

Enzo put away the Soul Bone Wand. After he was promoted to a second-level wizard, it was difficult for high-level magic items to bear the magic power, but when the Soul Bone Wand completes the transformation, this problem can be solved.

Then, Enzo looked at the ground.

Justin's body lay quietly on the ground, with spells covering his skin. Enzo raised the Sword of Night in his hand, and after resonating with the artifact, Justin's body slowly stood up.

"Justin, who was enslaved by the artifact, will become another trump card of mine!"

Enzo's lips slightly raised, and a smile appeared on his face. After being promoted to a second-level wizard, Enzo used the power of the Sword of Night to transform the enemy into his own puppet without too many restrictions.

"Chip, scan!" Enzo ordered in his heart.

"Target: Justin (puppet)/Level: Second-level wizard/Skills: Black pupil gaze, twisted barrier, dark claws."

As the chip started scanning, a familiar data panel appeared in front of Enzo. After Justin became the puppet of the Night Sword, he still retained the level of a second-level wizard, but only three spells were left.

The most important of these was the Black Eye Gaze, followed by the Distorted Barrier and Dark Claw!

Enzo nodded with satisfaction. As a second-level puppet, Justin would become another trump card for himself. Summoning him at a critical moment would be equivalent to two second-level wizards fighting together.

Everything was finally over, and Enzo was ready to leave the forest and join Fiana and others.

However, at this moment.

A chip alarm suddenly sounded in his mind, making Enzo alert. As the forest next to him shook, a huge black python suddenly came out and bit down with its bloody mouth at a very fast speed.

In an instant, Enzo seemed to be shrouded in shadows, and a strong sense of crisis surged from the bottom of his heart.

He wanted to use the shadow stealth technique, but his body seemed to be locked and unable to move. Seeing the bloody mouth biting down fiercely, the Cyclops not far away suddenly rushed over.

Bang!

Even though he was five meters tall, the Cyclops looked a little short compared to the black python. The violent impact could only make the black python pause slightly, but this time was enough for Enzo to dodge.

"A third-order life form! Definitely a third-order life form!"

Enzo quickly dodged to the side, with a solemn expression on his face, looking at the black python that appeared in the forest. Even without using the scanning function of the chip, he could feel the breath of a third-order life form on the python.

Aohou!

The black python's target was interrupted, and it roared immediately, then swung its body violently, wrapped around the Cyclops, and then suddenly exerted force to crush the Cyclops's entire body bones.

Bang!

The Cyclops, whose bones were broken, fell limply to the ground. The corpse that was originally enslaved by the power of the Night Sword was now completely unable to move.

Enzo took a deep breath, his eyes were extremely solemn.

The black giant python that suddenly appeared was a third-order life form. This creature must have wisdom, so it would never attack for no reason. It obviously had a certain purpose.

The next moment, the black giant python began to change.

The huge figure squatting on the ground slowly turned into the form of an old man in a black robe. The unique vertical pupils made people feel chilling, but Enzo recognized the other party in an instant.