This Necromancer Just Wants to Plant Trees

Chapter 1574: 434 Soul Siphon and Dark Servant_3

"You were so stingy with us before; I can’t imagine what fortune you’ve amassed to give us a raise

Matthew quickly covered her mouth:

"Fight first, settle accounts later!”

They left the side hall and entered the corridor.

Soldier quickly found the tracks of the departing group. There were puddles and slime on the floor, which invariably had something to do with Fishmen.

Sure enough.

In the depths of the hall, Matthew spotted a horde of Fishmen.

These Fishmen were launching a fierce attack towards the direction of the garden, which was one of the exits they had identified earlier as the most convenient for retreat!

Soldier and Peggy each used stealth, and they edged along the perimeter of the hall.

It wasn’t long before.

Matthew could see the panoramic view—

The combatants were indeed the rest of Matthew’s team and a group of astonishing numbers of Legendary Fishmen!

The main area of the battle was at the junction between the hall and the garden.

The entrance here was quite narrow; without damaging the building itself, it could indeed serve as a place that’s easy to defend but hard to attack.

The rest of Matthew’s team was resisting the violent attacks of the Fishmen based on this very point.

However, the situation was not optimistic.

Matthew noticed that his own people were being pushed back by the fierce Fishmen, at least in terms of momentum—

Most of the time, it was the Fishmen who were launching the relentless attacks.

What his side seemed capable of was merely parrying and counterattacking.

Within a few seconds.

Matthew had spotted a clue—

Apart from Matthew.

Among the remaining five people, too few were willing to fight, and too many were slacking!

There’s no need to mention Jassiliven.

She looked so weakened from a long imprisonment, that she only wielded a small mallet to knock at any Fishman that approached or cast low-level crowd control spells like Intimidation or Retreat Technique.

The effects of these spells were quite ordinary, at least nowhere near the help a legendary demigod bard could provide;

The God of Travelers also looked incredibly feeble.

He was huddled at the very back of the team, occasionally casting supportive spells, and the rest was just cheering and rooting for the team—

Apart from that.

Matthew felt that these two were shouting quite fiercely, as if they were about to burst with rage and fight to the death with these evil Fishmen the next second.

If volume could equate to output,

These two would certainly take the top two spots.

Among the remaining three.

Hayek, an illusionist, was greatly restrained by the sheer number of Fishmen and could only relieve the pressure on the front line by creating doppelgangers for his allies.

And Sener, who should have been exerting great effort, was also slacking!

Matthew faintly heard an argument among them—

Sener had suggested several times that they should directly retreat from the scene.

But each of his proposals was promptly refuted by Claire!

The Orc Sword Saint’s method of refutation was also straightforward and forceful, she charged into the Fishman crowd with dual blades and started slashing wildly!

Her swordsmanship was so exquisite that the visual effect it produced was extremely exaggerated.

Everywhere the blades passed,

Even the scale Armor of the Fishmen, which had been enhanced by legendary modifiers, couldn’t withstand much.

Matthew saw several Fishmen corpses lying haphazardly at Claire’s feet and understood the reason why this team hadn’t fallen apart.

"Turns out it’s all thanks to Claire holding the front line!”

"Once the fight starts, the rest of them are f*cking slacking!”

Matthew couldn’t help but worry about Claire.

But he also realized that

Even though the regular Fishmen were enhanced to the Legendary realm, they seemed to be completely unable to handle Claire!

Her swordsmanship had already ascended from the extraordinary to the divine.

Even when facing eight or even ten Fishmen at a time, she could parry them all while maintaining enough strength to counterattack.

This was a crushing advantage in skill,

Completely unrelated to level.

Following this trend,

Claire would probably soon breakthrough to the real Legendary realm after leaving Blood-Drinking Mountain!

Thinking it through, it made sense.

The Orc Sword Saintess, already a top fighter from the Secondary Planes, naturally enjoyed the vast expanse of the material plane where she could soar as high as the birds and leap like the fish in the sea.

Ascending to legendary status was indeed just around the corner.

Consequently, another new name appeared on the roster of invites for Matthew’s guilds of spells.

Amidst these thoughts,

He didn’t forget to observe the Fishmen swarm more closely.

Matthew noticed that

There were about two hundred or more Fishmen blocked in the hall, launching a ferocious attack towards Claire’s group.

Matthew couldn’t find the leader of these Fishmen for the moment,

But he knew well.

If a Fishman assassin really wanted to hide his presence, he would be unable to detect him.

"Looks like I need to find a way to flush him out

Just then,

Matthew suddenly noticed that two squads of Fishmen were circumventing the narrow passageway between the hall and the garden.

They hurried towards another direction of the side hall.

From there,

They could possibly circle to the back of the garden.

"They want to flank us!”

Matthew knew, even if he stood by and did nothing, the remaining four slackers would most likely have the ability to escape.

But just for Claire,

He decided to intervene directly!

Right away, Matthew silently gave Soldier and Peggy their orders.

The trio stealthily moved to the rear of the Fishman group.

He was just about to take action,

When suddenly, from the weak side of the passageway, Sener inexplicably threw a lighting flare in that direction!

Bang!

The fire blazed up suddenly.

All hidden units were instantly revealed!

Matthew and his two companions were stunned as they looked around.

Right not far from them,

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