Chapter 632: 632

After two minutes, Abel had lost count of the number of arrows he shot out . He probably killed a lot already if he had to guess . Since he had run in a full circle, he could see that he was riding into a bunch of dead wolfriders .

Before the mount wolf king was about to be stopped by the pile of corpses, Abel switched into his steel sword and “contract of the ancient” shield .

BANG

One of the corpses beside him suddenly exploded . If he didn’t block with his shield in time, the fire element that was bursting towards him would’ve gone straight towards his flesh .

Some damage was dealt to the mount wolf king he was riding . The “corpse explosion” was an area attack, and Abel’s shield wasn’t big enough to cover every part of the mount he was riding . Luckily, the wound wasn’t enough to slow the mount wolf king down .

“They got me!” Abel gasped . He really underestimated these orcs . After they found out about his excellent archery skills, they instantly developed a counter-strategy with the corpses that he laid with his bow .

There were corpses all around Abel . The twenty orc priests had completely surrounded this area . To track Abel’s every moment, they had the blue falcon continuously flying over him . He could run and run and run, but he was just going to go back to the spot that he started at . It’s quite embarrassing, actually . He was trying to lure the orcs to the reinforcements that were coming, but he was the one that ended up being cornered .

These orcs were very experienced against fighting wizards . The circular trap they had for Abel was three hundred meters in radius . It was designed to stop him from escaping with his “instantaneously movement” spell . Normally, the instantaneous movement spell could only move at about 200 meters at max .

There was no easy exit for Abel . The orc priests weren’t giving him the time to think, either . While he was still trying to come up with a plan, several of them started drawing spell runes with their bone staffs .

BANG

BANG

BANG BANG BANG

One after another, the corpses around Abel continued to explode . Before Abel decided to do anything else, his first response was to put the mount wolf king back to his portal beast ring . If he let stay here, it would’ve died within seconds .

After doing that, he shielded his entire body with the “contract of the ancient” shield . It wasn’t really good enough . The explosions happened in all directions, and the shield was a flat object . The best he could do was to block where the explosion was the worst . For the parts that were not as severe, he tried to defend with his defensive spells and passive defensive magic items .

Despite all this chaos, it was easy to tell that the grey-hooded, skeleton-riding priest did the most damage with his “corpse explosion” spells . After activating it for two times, he even activated a “poison explosion” spell, which released a huge cloud of poisonous mist that trapped Abel into it .

Abel had never been this devastated in combat . That being said, he could still neglect the attacks that were doing the most damage . For the attacks that he couldn’t, he had to take the hits right on with his equipment .

Soon, all his defensive spells and the two passive defensive magic items were destroyed . The poisonous mist dyed his skin into green, but the “hidden secret” armor he was wearing gave him a +30% resistance against poison . Added with the effect of his shield, he had a total poison resistance buff of +48% . As awful as it looked, the poison was doing surprisingly little harm .

As the dried soil around Abel blew into the air, and it became even harder to see . By this point, all the corpses around Abel were detonated . The orc priests weren’t too worried, though . They were just waiting for the dust to disperse . Once it did, they believed that they would see either a dead wizard or a heavily-injured one .

At the same time, a messenger rode right next to the grey-hooded priest, “Commander! The reinforcements are closing in on us!”

The grey-hooded priest ordered, “Heed my command, soldier! Send five thousand wolfriders to stall these humans . They must succeed at all costs!”

“Yes, sir!” the messenger replied, then quickly rode away with his mount wolf . Many wolfriders began to follow him . It was about half of the number that was used to surround Abel .

The grey-hooded priest ordered, “Call the skeletons! Use them to find this wizard . ”

To search for a supposedly-dead Abel, the twenty orc priests summoned one hundred skeletons behind them . After that, they all ran into the area that was surrounded by dust and poisonous mist . The area wasn’t big, so it didn’t take much time for them to finish their search .

The result was negative . The skeletons couldn’t find Abel at all . The orcs didn’t know what was going on, but he was using the invisibility cape to hide .

The grey-hooded priest pressed on, “We can’t wait any longer! Priests! Follow me to join the search! It doesn’t matter if the wizard is dead or not . We must find him, and we must collect him!”

It was the right call . The grey-hooded priest knew how little time he had . He understood the rules of the orc battlefield . Given the size of his troop, the humans were bound to send a force that was equal in number . He didn’t think that the five thousand wolfriders would buy much time . It was the right call to end this operation by retrieving the human wizard’s corpse .

Meanwhile, Abel had burn marks all over his body . The armor he was wearing was full of scorches . Even the mask on his face was like this . He didn’t just have external wounds, either . The internal wounds he sustained were also quite severe . He did manage to get it all sorted with a bottle of the “full recovery potion,” but the humiliation he suffered wasn’t so easily fixed .

Ever since Abel got into this fight, he’s been forced to think about all the blunders he’s made . It was his ego that got him into the state that he was in . More importantly, he just wasn’t giving credit to how well the orcs could fight .

It was very simple, really . If the orcs were really that weak, they would’ve been destroyed by humans a long time ago, but no, they’ve kept up the fight for thousands and thousands of years . Just because Abel hadn’t lost to them before, he still had no reason to look down on them .

Abel was very disappointed in himself . He was disappointed in himself, but after hearing what the grey-hooded priest said, he was also starting to feel very angry . He didn’t think that they would go this far to see him dead .

“Oh, is that how it is?” he murmured to himself under the mask, “So you like poison . I’ve got something for you, then . ”

While still hiding under his invisibility cape, Abel took out a green potion that contained streaks of blue lightning . It was the first reward he got for stepping into the battlefield . After synthesizing it with the Horadric Cube, he turned it into a blue-quality poison potion .

After opening the cap, he started splattering the potion all around him . Then, by using his dark-golden combat qi as a thin whip, he started beating the potion’s content before it fell to the ground . This way, it started mixing with the poisonous mist that was surrounding him .

It was at this point that the grey-hooded priest walked in . After “tagging” himself and the priests that followed him, he made sure that they wouldn’t be harmed by the poison he released .

In his mind, Abel was already a dead man . Any beginner wizard, no, intermediate wizard would’ve died from the attack he set up . Even if the target had a lot of items, there was just no way that he could go unscathed .

The grey-hooded priest kept his composure, “Stay calm, comrades . He won’t escape this . We want to push him in slowly and steadily . ”