Camden was gaining more and more power, and the pressure that Carl felt was about to suffocate him. Carl finally realized how frightening a shaman could really be. On top of absorbing all the blood from the dead soldiers, a strange illusion began to form behind the shaman, as if all the blood was helping him conjure a magical beast of sorts.As the illusion became more and more defined, Carl felt like he was being watched by a vicious animal, the sensation of which caused his hair to stand on end. He looked more carefully at the illusion and got a terrible shock.A gigantic bat had suddenly appeared behind Camden. Its eyes gleamed bright red, its jet black wings looked threatening and its fangs were bared. Carl realized that the blood from this ritual was not being absorbed by the shaman, but by this bat. It was greedily absorbing all the blood it could.Carl was certain that this gigantic bat was a very powerful and highly ranked magical beast.To be more accura

Carl's life was in danger, so Pudding had woken up from its slumber. It peeked its tiny head out, bit down on Carl's clothes and dragged him to a hidden area near the eggs.At the same time, the two Desert Bugs were spewing such fiery flames that the sand was beginning to melt like they were merely ice cubes.Carl felt like he was being cooked alive. Even the air he breathed in smelled burned.Pudding flipped its little tail upward and stabbed a little hole through the hard shell of one of the eggs like a spear.A clear and sticky liquid slowly seeped out from the hole.Carl could hear Pudding sending him a message to consume the liquid, so he opened his mouth and sucked the liquid out of the tiny hole. The thick liquid of the egg was slippery and tasted slightly sweet, and the most amazing part was that the burning sensation that threatened to roast him alive felt a lot less terrible now.It did not take long for Carl to finish all the liquid in the eg

Bryant stared in shock at the pile of Desert Bug eggs before him, but managed to conceal the joy in his heart. He looked nonchalantly at Carl as if he did not care and nodded. "So, you're not that useless after all. Always thought you were just a burden."Since Bryant had fought this battle so valiantly, Carl did not argue with him and took it as a compliment. Of course, Pudding had contributed the most by saving him and all those eggs at the same time."This little fellow has done a good job." Bryant suddenly held out a pale yellow crystal covered in cracks. "Here's your reward."Carl looked carefully at it and realized what this was. "This… this is the crystal core of the Desert Bug?""Yes," said Bryant flatly. "The volcanic eruption destroyed the bodies of the Desert Bugs that had already become nothing but puppets, so even their crystal cores were damaged in the process. I have no use for damaged crystal cores, so I don't mind giving it to the snake."<

Carl did not understand what was going on in Bryant’s mind at all. The lich had put in so much effort and paid such a high price just to bring Irina back to life. But now that his daughter had come back to life, he refused to see her and kept disappearing instead. Why?As he thought about these things, he noticed that Irina had opened her eyes. She looked at the magic circle that had trapped her and stretched her hand out. Her palm glowed with a holy aura, which broke the magic circle instantly.Carl was not sure if Bryant had purposely designed the magic circle to work this way or if Irina really had the power to fight Bryant.She looked around cautiously and said, “Carl, Hervor told me to come and help to fight the bad person. Where’s the bad person?”The bad person? Was that referring to Bryant? Carl did not expect that question and felt like laughing. Come to think of it, even Irina herself did not seem to know that a lich was nearby.<

Carl was distracted and got hit by another ball of fire. The sparks alone burned him badly enough to send him yelping. Bryant sneered at him, “How could you let yourself be distracted during a fight? Are you hoping for a quicker death?”Bryant’s behavior puzzled Carl even more now. The lich had a look of disgust and annoyance on his face, but Carl did not sense any ill intent coming from him. However, the young man did not have the time to carefully think this through now. He put these thoughts aside and focused on how to defend himself against the attacks of these fiery bombs. Bryant continued to rain these Spheres of Conflagration on him, making him work so hard he felt like dying.When Carl finally got used to the way the spheres were coming at him, Bryant suddenly switched spells. Sharp fiery arrows began to fall from the ceiling and nearly pierced his arm.“Blazing Arrows!” Bryant chanted and all the fiery balls in the air turned int