After work, start to speedrun the other world-Chapter 65 - 38: The Sword Falls, The Head Rolls

At this moment,

At this very second,

Inside the mouth of the volcano,

The dwarf girl sat on the stairs at the edge of the altar, her eyes lifeless as they gazed at the sky, her body occasionally shaking uncontrollably.

The cold look in that Silver Knight’s eyes flashed through her mind often, and the way he regarded her as nothing... filled her with fear, keeping her from sleep.

She pursed her lips and clenched her teeth, fighting back the fear:

"I will kill him for sure!"

"Once the seal on the Sword of Light is broken, the old man will take care of him personally," consoled a handsome male dwarf in black armor standing beside her:

"If you can’t wait, I can kill him right now."

"..."

The dwarf girl looked his way, seeing his smile was confident and bright. She shook her head and said:

"Phili, you can’t beat him."

"You’re too afraid of him," Phili scratched his head, feeling helpless about the dwarf girl’s fear, "Don’t worry, killing that Knight is not hard."

He dropped the hand that had been scratching his head and clawed at the air, leaving behind bestial scratch marks that soon vanished without a trace.

This was his unique ability, to leave marks in the air that only he could see. If an enemy came too close to where he left those marks, they would be wounded by them.

Of course, each set of marks could only take effect once.

Even so, that was enough for him, as many an enemy unaware of his technique had fallen to this move.

The dwarf girl fell silent for a moment, her reason telling her that Phili’s strength had reached the stage where he could awaken abilities unique to him, enough to crush the Silver Knight.

But the lingering fear in her heart disagreed.

"When the Sword of Light is unsealed, father will deal with him personally," she said, shaking her head and hugging her knees with her one arm.

Phili was silent then, looking at the one-armed dwarf girl with a sigh of distress, "It’s a pity we can’t find someone in these backwaters to regrow your arm."

"It’s okay, I don’t need to fight now anyway," the dwarf girl murmured, burying her face in her knees as if recalling some terrible memory, her body trembling uncontrollably, even though she didn’t want to be afraid, she wanted to kill that Silver Knight.

Why was her body reacting so weakly?

And just at that time,

A dwarf came running in hurriedly, his expression one of panic, "A Knight clad in silver armor has invaded the temple with twelve summoned creatures!"

"Where is Lord Barry?" Phili frowned and asked. Within the range of the volcano, the red-haired dwarf could move at will without any distance limitations.

Someone daring to invade the Volcano Temple should have been killed by Barry long ago.

"Uh... Lord Barry is standing motionless at the base of the volcano, not letting us pass," the dwarf soldier said with confusion, clearly seeing the Silver Knight forcing his way into the Volcano Temple, and yet doing nothing about it as if he did not care at all about the temple being invaded.

After a moment’s thought, Phili realized, "This must be Lord Barry’s test for us, wanting to see if we have the ability to resolve the situation."

He started walking up the stone stairs along the edge of the volcano.

"Pali, I’ll go kill that guy who scares you right now!"

"I’m not afraid of that guy!" the dwarf girl roared in anger, denying any fear of the Silver Knight.

Phili, with his back to the dwarf girl, waved his hand and laughed, "I’ll be right back, it’ll just take a few minutes."

The dwarf girl watched her companion’s retreating figure and found her body no longer shaking, as if she had gained some inexplicable courage.

She knew Phili very well, since she was very young, he had even personally changed her diapers, snuck her out to play, and she had always trusted Phili completely, seeing him as a reliable elder.

Meanwhile,

In the midst of the Volcano Temple,

"Offer up your souls." A whisper accompanied by a broadsword wreathed in black flames sweeping horizontally, splitting a disbelieving dwarf in two.

Xi Mu turned his wrist, his great sword deflected incoming arrows. He calmly surveyed the surroundings, finding dwarves infected by Sulter’s fire, becoming kindling, and charging at him without fear of death.

However, most couldn’t come within a step of him. The twelve Knights around him would preemptively slay any enemy that got close.

The occasional one that slipped through was also cut down by him with a single stroke.

This was the power of the Ten Shadow Magics, also crudely known as the manual for creating invalids: one didn’t need to train in combat skills or think too much, as long as one had enough Magic Power to summon.

The creatures summoned by the Ten Shadow Magics were not only more adept at fighting than players, they also had many strong passive mechanisms.

Compared to struggling in battle oneself, for players with poor hand-eye coordination, using shadow magic was definitely more cost-effective. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

This thing, other than requiring Magic Power, needed nothing else.

Nevertheless,

Rampaging was a hobby.

Xi Mu broke free from the protection of the twelve Knights, kicked a soldier in the head at the front, grabbed the spear of another soldier stabbing at him and, with a pull, swung his black fire great sword, beheading the ambushing soldier.

Then he spun the great sword, piercing through the chest of the soldier under his foot, and with a surge of black flames, reduced him to ashes.

However, by that time, he was already on to chopping other kindling soldiers, with each movement his sword fell, splattering hot blood as more soldiers were laid on the path to the temple.

He needed not to think, nor to be concerned too much, the kindling soldiers had simple behavioral patterns and were easy to kill with one slash.