Purgatory Artist-Chapter 142: Escort and Escape!

(TN: Xiao Mengluo means: desolate little sprout, that's why I kept the Chinese version.)

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The water in the fountain quickly drained away.

The entire fountain rose upwards, revealing the wide and sturdy buildings below.

Xiao Mengluo stood at the entrance of a large door, following the instructions of the metal pipe and entering the corresponding password.

Beep beep beep!

'[Verification successful!]'

Rumble rumble — —

The door opened to both sides.

One by one, 2-meter-tall robots walked out from the door.

'[Order received, immediately send reinforcements!]'

'[Ready for deployment — —]'

'[Deploy!]'

The robots held large firearms and quickly took to the sky, heading north of the city.

On the ground.

Liu Ping and Xiao Mengluo stood still, stunned for a while.

"Oi, these are the robot guards we released, at least leave us two helpers" Liu Ping grumbled.

After a round of [Sacred Chant] healing, his arm had recovered quite a bit, at least the bleeding was no longer visible.

— — -But it wasn't enough to use in battle.

[Sacred Chant] was a beginner-level healing spell, so it could only do this much.

A cold metallic voice resounded:

'[For this battle, the guardian robots are extremely useful. I have to place them where they are needed the most, and not leave them for you]'

'[You've defeated the Iron Giant, awakened the backup guardian robots, and contributed an important turning point for the entire battle]'

'[For your Contributions, the corresponding supplies have been prepared]'

Two metal pipes appeared from the void of space, slowly expanded, and placed something in front of them.

In front of Xiao Mengluo was a brand new metal bow, as well as a set of light leather armor.

She tried out the new bow. It was light in the hand and easy to use. It was much better than her original novice bow. The leather armor also fit her well, as if it were custom-made for her.

Liu Ping received a stamina recovery and healing potion. After drinking it, his physical strength was instantly restored to a full state, healing the wound on his arm completely.

Next to the potion was a dark blue spear. picking up the spear Liu Ping jerked his head to see lines of burning text quickly appear:

[Frost Thorn, Frost Wind City's Guardian Spear]

[Spear]

[It has the following abilities:]

[High Sharpness: Normal armors and weapons will not be able to withstand its attacks]

[Frigid Winter: Its attacks have a cold effect that can delay the enemy's attack and movement speed to a certain extent.]

[Friend of Frost: Summon a Frost Warhorse. It is the manifestation of spear's spirit, it can serve as your mount]

[— — As a rank 2 official knight, this spear is the most powerful weapon you can use.]

[It will increase your fighting prowess.]

Liu Ping casually waved his spear.

Frost Thorn's body emitted waves of cold mist, which showed that he had awakened the characteristics of the frost element.

'The power of this spear is indeed extraordinary.'

Coupled with the shield that he had just obtained, the Knight's Protector, Liu Ping felt that his battle prowess had increased by leaps and bounds.

"Seems like I still have to participate in more battles" he said thoughtfully.

"You risked your life for this. It's not easy to risk your life" Xiao Mengluo reminded him.

"But we don't have a choice, do we?" Liu Ping smiled.

"I thought that the Evernight was eternal peace" Xiao Mengluo sighed.

"How did you die?" Liu Ping asked.

"I was born in a world full of forests. Because I was good at archery since I was young, I was specially trained by the clan ... But when the Night Elves came, they massacred our village, and I died in battle."

"How many Night Elves did you kill?"

"All of them."

"To reach such a level at the age of 13 ... You are worthy of the clan's training," Liu Ping said.

"When I died, I felt that I had nothing to worry about. But I didn't expect to face an even more bizarre and terrifying fate after death" Xiao Mengluo said.

She thought for a moment and continued, "Perhaps only those who have lived to the prime of their life or even old age will be able to adapt to Eternal Night."

Liu Ping shook his head and said, "If the soul can be eaten by dark creatures at any time, even those who have lived for hundreds of years will not be able to adapt."

Suddenly, a male voice sounded from afar.

"So you regret it? The guy who fell into the Evernight because of a woman. "

Liu Ping and Xiao Mengluo turned to look.

They saw Libertas wearing a black leather armor, holding a dagger and a short sword. He stood on a wall and smiled at the two of them.

"I thought you were in the library." Liu Ping said.

Libertas said in a proud tone, "In the beginning, I was in the library. But after killing a few evil creatures, the city's War Sequence felt that I was very powerful and helped me become an official assassin. Then, they sent me here to save you two lost lambs."

He suddenly saw the corpse of the iron-armored evil giant.

"This wound — such a monster — did you guys kill it?"

Libertas was shocked. He jumped down from the wall, walked to the corpse, and poked the iron-armored evil giant with his dagger and dagger.

— — Neither the dagger nor the shortsword could pierce through the armor.

Libertas was stunned for a moment before he suddenly let out an angry roar and stabbed the dagger into the armor.

Clang!

With a crisp sound, the dagger was bounced back.

Libertas took a deep breath and slowly raised his head. He immediately saw the spear in Liu Ping's hand.

"This crazy guy ..." he whispered.

"What did you say?" Liu Ping asked.

"Aha, I said that I lost my direction in the Eternal Night. I only understood after seeing you guys. You guys are the lighthouse, and I'm a lost lamb."

Libertas immediately laughed.

"This is your teammate?" Xiao Mengluo asked Liu Ping.

"Yes, he would have become an excellent assassin, but he died young — similar to you and me." Liu Ping said.

After that, Liu Ping said to Liebertas, "This is Xiao Mengluo from Wild Rose's team. She'll be working with us now."

"I heard that Wild Rose's team was wiped out. Is she the only one left?" Libertas asked with interest.

"That's me" Xiao Mengluo admitted.

"Why don't you join us? We have a knight, an assassin, and a summoner. We just happen to lack a long-range attacker" Liebertas said.

Xiao Mengluo glanced at Liu Ping and said softly, "Of course I'm willing. After all, it's hard to do alone. It depends on whether your captain is willing to take me in."

"I'm the captain." Libertas patted his chest and said "Okay, I'll make the decision. You'll join our team."

"Really? You're the captain? "Xiao Mengluo asked suspiciously.

"Really! From now on, you're a member of our team! "Libertas said.

The void quietly cracked open.

A long metal pipe emerged and said in a cold and emotionless voice,

'[Team leader Liu Ping, do you accept Xiao Mengluo's addition?]'

"Yes" Liu Ping said.

'["Xiao Mengluo has joined your team]' the voice said.

"Thank you" Liu Ping said.

'[Please wait for a moment and wait for the results of the battle with the mechanical guards. Then, you will receive a new mission.]'

The metal pipe retracted and the void closed.

The world returned to peace.

"..." Xiao Mengluo.

"..." Libertas.

Liu Ping walked to the grass at the side and sat down. "Take the time to rest. We don't know what the situation will be like later."

Xiao Mengluo looked tired and sat down to rest.

Libertas did the same.

The two of them were just teenagers. Suddenly facing such a harsh situation and fighting with demons, such a high-intensity battle of life and death, they were already mentally and physically exhausted.

About two minutes later.

Flames rose to the sky in the north of the city.

The sound of an intense battle could be heard from afar, resounding through the sky.

Xiao Mengluo said, "The mechanical guards have started fighting the enemy."

Liu Ping said, "Yes, but I don't know how strong they are."

Suddenly, three metal pipes appeared from the void of space.

They gently connected to the backs of Liu Ping, Libertas, and Xiao Mengluo.

A cold voice rang out.

'[Issuing an emergency mission.]'

'[Escort.]'

'[A backup escape tunnel has been opened underground in the south of the city.]'

'[There is a carriage on the bridge south of the city. There is an important person in the city on it. You must escort them out of the city]'

'[Move out!]'

In an instant, the three of them disappeared from where they stood.

... ...

South of the city.

There was a bridge leading to the outside. Beyond the bridge was a vast and boundless wilderness.

In front of a carriage.

Liu Ping, Libertas, and Xiao Mengluo appeared together.

"Is this the carriage?" Xiao Mengluo asked.

"It should be" Liu Ping said.

"The War Sequence sent a bunch of mechanical guards to the north to fight against the demons, but arranged for an important person to stay in the south. Seems like they've put a lot of thought into this." Libertas sighed.

The sound of explosions coming from the north was getting louder and louder, as if the war had reached its climax.

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— — -This is the best chance!

The carriage suddenly moved.

A voice came from inside the carriage: "Thank you for your hard work, we're leaving now!"

The carriage suddenly sped up and rushed towards the bridge.

The three of them had no choice but to speed up and follow the carriage.

A few moments later. The carriage reached the middle of the bridge.

A black stream of light flashed across the sky and hit the carriage with lightning speed.

Boom!!!

The carriage instantly broke apart.

The powerful shockwave sent the three people guarding the carriage flying, crashing into the ground.

A two-winged monster descended from the sky.

It looked like a human, but it had a pair of horns on its head and exuded an overwhelming presence.

Twelve monsters in black cloaks landed on both sides of the carriage, surrounding it tightly.

A broken voice came from inside the broken carriage:

"Stop ... let me go ... I'll give you anything you want!"

The monster didn't listen and simply grabbed the carriage and threw it down.

Clang!

A small robot fell out of the carriage.

"Damn it!"

"Our plan has been seen through! Our plan has been seen through! "

The small robot shouted.

At the same time, a pillar of flame suddenly appeared in the city.

A strange bird descended from the sky and hurriedly said:

"Sir, this is just a distraction — — the target is at the East gate, a large number of humans have gathered there, they're trying to break through!"

"Hmph, so you only got three rank 2 Profession Cards to sneak around here, so it was just a diversion — — - what's the situation at the East gate?" one of the demons asked.

It casually swung its hand and sent the small robot flying.

The attack was so powerful that the small robot broke apart in mid-air.

"Sir, they're about to break through the East gate!" the strange bird hurriedly said.

"We can't let them break through, let's go!"

The humanoid monster hurriedly said, then took to the sky and flew towards the East gate of Frost Wind City.

The other fiendish beasts followed closely behind.

One of the fiends casually threw something down and quickly chased after them.

The bridge returned to silence.

Liu Ping put his shield in front of him and carefully stood up.

Behind him, Libertas said: "Did we manage to keep our lives?"

"It seems so, they don't even want to waste time killing us." Xiao Mengluo said.

"No, look at that thing." Liu Ping said.

The three of them looked towards the bridge and saw that the devil had thrown down a metal disc.

In the disc, a black plant was slowly sprouting.

At this moment, the small robot that had been scattered suddenly made a sound.

"|Quick! Liu Ping, use your halo to move it away! Throw it into the river! |"

Liu Ping didn't hesitate and immediately used his halo to throw the metal disc into the river under the bridge.

The metal disc turned into a black dot and quickly fell down the bridge.

Splash!

It created a small splash on the rushing river before being quickly washed away.

"Can we save you?" Liu Ping walked to the side of the robot and squatted down to ask.

The small robot's body had been completely destroyed, only a palm-sized box remained intact, constantly flashing with red light.

It hurriedly said:

"|Don't worry about me, you must escape from here immediately|"

"|Please note, the escape tunnel is 300 meters away from the bridge, in the wasteland full of white flowers. The way to open the tunnel is to report your group's name and drop a drop of blood on a random flower|"

"|You are the real target, please enter the tunnel immediately!|"