I have a Synthesizer

At the front of the group, Strick released six Shadow Arrows at Lance. Afflicted by the Weakness Curse, Lance couldn't dodge and could only barely activate a Shadow Protection Barrier.

However, Lance's Shadow magic was still very unskilled, and the Shadow Protection Barrier's defense could only be described as average, barely able to block one or two arrows.

Soon, it was pierced by Strick's Shadow Arrows. The Shadow Arrows that pierced the barrier accurately struck Lance. Lance suppressed the urge to activate his demon form, choosing to endure the attack with his body.

“Boom!”

After a violent explosion, the airflow carrying Shadow particles scattered around. Lance's upper body was charred black, and his pupils had lost their luster, making him look severely injured and on the verge of death.

Therefore, Lance prepared to play a trick. Creating something from nothing was impossible, but secretly switching positions seemed feasible!

Just as the Bone Spears were about to touch Lance's body, the expected splatter of blood didn't occur. The Bone Spears silently passed through Lance's body, as if they had hit air.

Strick immediately sensed something was wrong. He reacted quickly, wanting to manipulate the skull in his hand to teleport.

But Lance was faster than him, much faster. A blurry figure gradually appeared beneath Strick, and a sword shadow rose from below, piercing through his arm.

Strick watched helplessly as his arm, along with the skull, flew into the air.

“Shadow Strike? You're not from the Dark Crusader, how did you do that?”

Lance waved his hand casually.

“Such a simple trick, I learned it after watching it a couple of times!”

Although this sounded arrogant, Lance was really just stating a fact and not bragging.

As the most outstanding artificial human under Asmond, Lance's talent was a combination of many geniuses. It was difficult for normal humans to possess such talent.

He could really imitate the ordinary moves of the Black Crusader after watching them a few times.

At this time, Strick had already become alert, using a bone shield to protect his body because, although Lance was talking to him, the longsword in his hand hadn't stopped.

The bone shield barely blocked Lance's sword, and Strick quickly retreated using the force of the impact.

Lance grabbed the skull floating in the air and smiled slightly.

“It's actually a magical artifact, not bad, not bad. Too bad, it'll be mine in the next second.”

When grabbing the skull magical artifact, Lance suddenly thought of something: his ring was still with Klein, and Klein hadn't mentioned it. It made him feel like he had a body full of strength but no suitable equipment.

The former Demon Greatsword, the Doom Clock, and the amulet, Klein hadn't given him any of them. He wondered if Klein had given them to Marian. He had to find a chance to ask him about it after this was over.

… …

Klein, who was on his way, suddenly sneezed, feeling strange. Could someone be using a curse on him? o (╯ □ ╰ ) o

… …

Lance had already arrived in front of Strick with his longsword in hand. Strick said very unwillingly.

“Why can you move so quickly?”

Strick couldn't understand this question. His curse was Tier 3 and had been strengthened by soul fragments. Under normal circumstances, Lance should have been weakened for at least 20 seconds.

But the duration of the Weakness Curse just now was less than 5 seconds.

Why was the duration of the Weakness Curse so short? Why wasn't Lance seriously injured when the Shadow Arrows clearly hit him? These were the things Strick couldn't understand. Lance smiled.

“Because my magic resistance is relatively high! Higher than you can imagine!”

Strick wouldn't understand that although Lance hadn't transformed into a demon, the powerful magic resistance in his bloodline wouldn't disappear.

Strong physical fitness, magic resistance, excellent combat skills, and the possession of high-intensity magic power like Fel Energy. The combination of these abilities created the reputation of the strongest Tier 2 in the past.

“Relatively high magic resistance? Isn't that a power that only dragons and demons have?”

“That's right, knowledgeable. But it's useless to tell you this, because you're about to die anyway.”

Lance's figure disappeared again. His speed was too fast for Strick.

Strick, who had lost his magical artifact, was no longer qualified to fight Lance. Lance's swift figure swung a sword with Shadow power, slashing at the opponent.

Strick suddenly felt dizzy, as if he had gone to heaven. Before he lost consciousness, he saw his own headless body.

… …

Klein had already left the team and was rushing towards the direction where the magical fluctuations had come from earlier.

A large number of Bone-Eating Beasts pounced at him. After moving away from the crowd, Klein no longer needed to restrain his power.

Dozens of bone blades extended from his back, killing as many Bone-Eating Beasts as possible. Each swing of the bone blades would take away the lives of several or even a dozen Bone-Eating Beasts.

Klein, running on the road, was like a human-shaped meat grinder, leaving a trail of bloody rain.

Klein's idea at this time was very simple. As long as he killed as many Bone-Eating Beasts as possible, the pressure on Lilith's side would be less.

Suddenly, Klein felt six powerful auras approaching. Two of them were magical, and the other four auras were unknown, very strong, and very fast.

“They're here!”

Looking into the distance, Klein saw the Fear Knights rushing over. He knew that these undead creatures must have been summoned by the magical fluctuations from before.

Six Tier 4s, if Lance didn't transform, he definitely wouldn't be able to deal with them. Even if he transformed into a demon, he might not be able to deal with them.

Moreover, Klein knew very well that according to Lilith's competitive personality, since he had said to hide Lance's identity, she would definitely do her best to do so, and she would definitely not let Lance be exposed unless absolutely necessary.

Therefore, Klein needed to reduce the pressure on Lilith's side. The best way was to kill one or two of them.

Klein was picking his target from afar. Although the Bone Lich was definitely more fragile, its poisonous characteristics and the defensive power of various bone spells were very disgusting.

It wasn't that he couldn't fight, but if he chose the Bone Lich, it might take a long time, and he didn't have that much time now. He had to kill at least one of them in a short time to reduce the pressure on the team.

Compared to the Bone Lich, the Fear Knight was fast, powerful, and its strength was consistent with ordinary Tier 4 warriors.

Although its defensive power and the characteristic of not being injured made it seem difficult to deal with, Klein still decided to intercept the Fear Knight.

The reason was very simple, the Fear Knight was really just an ordinary Tier 4 warrior, without the Bone Lich's poison and bone shield.

The Fear Knight, when attacked, could only rely on dodging, blocking, and enduring, which just met Klein's attack conditions and was clumsy enough.

Silently taking out the candlestick, activating Spellburn, Arcane Empowerment, urging magic power, a Bone Spear appeared on Klein's left arm. Looking at the Fear Knight that had already appeared, Klein made a gesture ready to launch the Bone Spear at any time.

To his surprise, after seeing him, these six Tier 4 creatures actually chose to disperse, without any intention of fighting Klein, and continued to travel quickly towards Lilith and the others.

Taking a look at this formation, Klein knew that the person holding the candlestick had given the order to attack the team. He couldn't delay here, but he didn't want to let these undead creatures pass so easily.

So, he attacked, and the Bone Spear was launched again like a cannonball.

“Bang!”

The huge Bone Spear was blocked by the opponent holding the sword hilt with one hand and supporting the sword body with the other. The Fear Knight's body slid back a bit and stopped.

The power of Tier 4, even undead creatures, was far from comparable to Tier 2 professionals.

The Bone Spear, which had been invincible in terms of offense before, was blocked like this. Although it couldn't be said to be easy, it didn't cause any substantial damage to the Fear Knight.

But the role of the Bone Spear was not only that. After the impact gradually dissipated, the Bone Spear made a beeping sound.

“Boom!”

The spear exploded in front of the Fear Knight, and the close-range impact instantly tore the Fear Knight's armor to pieces.

Taking advantage of this gap, Klein clasped his hands together, silently casting a spell, instantly casting it. Ten Tier 2 Bone Warriors appeared around the Fear Knight.

Although these Bone Warriors were not the opponent's match at all, the Fear Knight swung his greatsword, and the bone skeletons were immediately chopped into piles of bone slag, but this was exactly Klein's purpose.

The Bone Warriors that were shattered by a sword continued to collapse, gradually turning into floating bone fragments. Klein's battle plan was very simple, it was the Undying Bone Chains.

Between the shattered bone fragments, the linkage of magic power began to be established, and strands of silk appeared between these bone fragments.

It was precisely because of the Fear Knight's power that Klein had to spend a lot of magic power to summon so many skeletons at once, and consumed even more magic power to create more Undying Bone Chains.

Undying bones could only be created by dying bone creatures. Using summons to create Undying Bone Chains was a huge waste for others, but Klein could afford it.

This method allowed him to create enough chains as quickly as possible to control the enemy, just like what was happening in front of him. Dense threads tightly bound the Fear Knight's body.

Klein walked up to the Fear Knight. The soul fire flickered in the opponent's empty eyes, staring at Klein.

“Big brother, your posture feels like Asian bondage. Forget it, you don't know what Asia is. Let's kill you first.”

The Bone Spear gathered again on his left arm, but this time, it was covered with Shadow Flames. Klein wanted to ensure that this attack was enough to kill the opponent, so he didn't hesitate to consume magic power.

“Go!”

… …

Jason, who was meditating to restore his magic power, suddenly woke up in shock. One died? It came so quickly? It shouldn't be, right?

【What's wrong? Jason?】 The voice of the candlestick sounded in his mind.

Jason didn't intend to tell the candlestick about the death of the Fear Knight, because he and the candlestick had already developed a kind of inexplicable distrust because of this matter.

Although they were both well aware of the estrangement that had grown between them, neither of them voiced it. The most important thing at hand was obtaining Klein's candelabra and Perona's wick.

Jason shook his head, indicating he was fine, and changed the subject.

"I'm alright. How are the Bone-Eating Beasts doing?"

[I've used up nearly half the candle wax. I can probably split off 40,000 to 50,000 of them. That should be enough, right?]

"Enough. Thank you. Once this is over, I'll be sure to compensate you handsomely!"

[Before thanking me, you should deal with the guy in front of you first.]

Jason was immediately startled. Before he could react, a bone spear shot towards him. But Jason's strength was not comparable to that of his subordinates.

He was a genuine Tier 4 professional, and a rare dual-class warrior and necromancer. He caught the exceptionally large bone spear with one hand.

"A bone spear with immense power, but so what?"

Jason's words had barely faded when Klein's voice echoed out.

"Heh heh! How naive!"

"Boom!"

The bone spear exploded directly in Jason's face, and the shockwave sent him flying. Even he would be injured at this distance.

Jason looked at his bloodied hand, both furious and astonished.

"Why did the bone spear explode?"

"Because it ate Dali!" That voice appeared again.

"Dali?"

"Yes! Because miracles happen with Dali!"

Following the sound, Jason turned his head towards the corner of the ruins, only to find Klein crouching on the wall, leaning down in a somewhat strange posture. The bone spear from earlier had been launched by him.

Klein didn't speak because he was truly exhausted. Dealing with the Bone-Eating Beasts continuously, killing the Tier 4 Fear Knight, and then rushing over here to find Jason had not only consumed a great deal of his magic power but also a great deal of his physical strength.

However, seeing Jason, Klein relaxed slightly. A necromancer who had just summoned six Tier 4 creatures should have very little magic power left.

Therefore, he wanted to take this opportunity to rest and recover some strength.

But looking at the other party's face, Klein was a little surprised. He actually recognized him.

A face full of scars, a tall stature, dense death energy… Although he had only seen him once, these characteristics had left too deep an impression on Klein.

"This person… what was his name again? Jason, the captain of the Palomiya branch of the Dark Crusader, right? My memory isn't bad, I think I should be correct."

Jason laughed, the scars on his face twisting together with his smile as he slowly walked towards Klein.

"So it's Mr. Klein. We meet again. What a coincidence. I just wonder when you'll return my soul stone to me?"

Klein's pupils constricted slightly. The white soul stone was one he had bought himself, so what Jason was talking about was definitely not that one.

Then, corresponding to the same Skull Society, the same Dark Crusaders, the same death energy, the same necromancer… the person behind Hector should undoubtedly be Jason. It seemed somewhat coincidental, but it was also inevitable.

He never expected that Jason would obtain candle wax that could split off creatures. If the information the Dark Crusaders gave the Security Department was false, then Jason must have orchestrated it all.

The missing people here… was it all a play directed and acted by Jason? Where did so many soul fragments come from?

Klein had many questions, but now was not the time to ask them.

"I also didn't expect that Hector's soul stone would be Captain Jason's thing. If I had known in advance, I would have returned it to you long ago.

But I'm really sorry, I accidentally ate the soul stone. So, regarding the soul stone, I estimate that there's no way I can return it to Captain Jason."

Suddenly, Klein felt the candelabra at his waist tremble, sending him a warning.

At the same time, the voice of the candle wax echoed in Jason's mind.

[The candelabra is on him. I can feel it.]

Hearing the candle wax's words, the smile on Jason's face became even more twisted, even more sinister.

"Hahaha, just a soul stone. It doesn't matter, Mr. Klein. You have something on you that's even more valuable than a soul stone.

Give it to me, and I'll let you go. What do you think of my proposal?"

Klein couldn't understand how Jason could say such nonsense. Let me go? Even TV dramas wouldn't dare to portray it like that. If an author wrote it that way, they'd be blasted to death in minutes.

"Captain Jason is talking about the Candelabra Demon weapon, right? Such precious items like candelabras should of course be kept safe and not shown to others casually.

If you want it, then it depends on Captain Jason's strength."

Saying that, Klein provocatively took out the candelabra and tossed it in his hand.

Jason looked at the candelabra, his eyes revealing a greedy gaze.

"It seems you want to resist, Mr. Klein. Although I can't sense your magic power, judging from your performance just now, you shouldn't be above Tier 3.

Although your fighting style is very impressive, the difference in tiers cannot be compensated by combat skills.

Moreover, after continuously casting magic, your magic power should be almost exhausted, right?"

"You saw through me, Captain Jason. So, are you ready to attack me?"

"Heh heh, Mr. Klein is joking. You must be very tired after continuous battles. I'll give you a chance to rest a little longer."

As soon as Jason finished speaking, a war blade appeared in his hand, and his figure instantly merged into the darkness, moving quickly towards Klein like a wave of black air.

The Dark Crusaders' commonly used charge skill, Shadow Strike.

Klein was slightly nervous. He hadn't expected that Jason was not only a necromancer but also had very strong close combat abilities.

The strength of this aura was several times stronger than the Tier 4 Fear Knights from earlier.

The blade, carrying a strong wind pressure, had already arrived in front of Klein. At this distance, at this speed, Klein couldn't dodge at all and could only grit his teeth and activate Static Field.

"Buzz!"

The war blade struck Klein's Static Field, pausing slightly.

The intense vibration instantly shattered Klein's eardrums, and then, a huge impact force broke through the defenses of the Static Field, sending him flying.

"Cough cough!"

Klein crashed heavily into the roof of a building not far away, spitting out a large mouthful of blood. He slowly took out Luo Chun, his face grave as he looked at Jason, who was facing him.

"Super speed, super strength, super skills… Fighting someone two tiers above is really difficult!"

Seeing Jason, who was already wielding his blade and coming again, Klein decided to strike first. Several bone hands stretched out from different angles, carrying Luo Chun, which had been placed in the corner, and stabbed towards Jason.

However, Klein's preemptive strike didn't exceed Jason's expectations. With a slight twist of his blade, he severed Klein's bone hands. Luo Chun, having lost the support of the bone hands, also seemed to have lost its direction.

Although Jason was excessively cautious, sometimes even cowardly, it didn't mean that his strength was weak or his combat experience was lacking.

With a single probing exchange, he had already discovered that although Klein's abilities were very strange, his raw strength was definitely inferior to his own. He only needed to crush him head-on.

Seeing Jason rushing straight towards him, Klein released both palms, and two Shadowflame Bursts erupted simultaneously.

Although this move was powerful, its speed was simply unattainable in this kind of long-range attack. Jason blocked one and dodged the other.

Jason's figure had already taken advantage of this gap to advance rapidly. In a few breaths, he had already arrived in front of Klein, and the war blade was coming down again.

"Demon Slash!"

"So fast!"

Klein ducked down, dodging the war blade. A bone spear appeared in his hand, meeting Jason's blade again.

"Boom!"

The previously incomparably hard bone spear shattered easily like a dry twig in the collision with Jason's war blade. Klein had no choice but to detonate the shattered bones at close range, trying to delay Jason's advance as much as possible with the explosion and the extending Bone Chains.

The Dark Crusaders' signature dark battle aura appeared on Jason's body, and the surrounding bone shards were instantly blown away. Klein didn't even have a chance to establish the Bone Chains.

"Mr. Klein, don't you think our fighting styles are very similar? We're both mages who can fight in close combat.

However, your close combat ability is a bit lacking. It doesn't seem very wise to fight me like this!"

Klein's heart sank slightly. Dual classes were indeed troublesome. Such people were rare but not uncommon, like his sister Mira, an assassin-warrior, and his mother, Katie, a swordsman-mage. They were all dual-class professionals.

However, Klein hadn't originally intended to overpower the other party in a direct confrontation. Now, he just needed to stall for time.

If Jason was just a warrior, then Klein, who hadn't made sufficient preparations, would have almost no chance of winning. But the key was that Jason was a warrior and a mage, which gave Klein an opportunity.

He could rely on the Burning Heart to trigger chaotic arcane energy contamination, thereby causing a huge arcane explosion.

This kind of arcane explosion would only have a huge impact on creatures with magic power. If Jason wasn't a mage, then even if Klein's arcane explosion could cause damage, it wouldn't kill him.

But sometimes, the goddess of luck would favor him. Jason was a mage, so Klein had the conditions to kill him.

This was the wilderness, and it was spacious enough, with enough magical beasts as basic fuel. If successful, he could not only defeat Jason but also instantly kill most of the Bone-Eating Beasts.

Furthermore, he could use the life force of the large number of Bone-Eating Beasts eroded by the arcane contamination to allow his arcane talent to complete its second evolution and break through Tier 3. This was Klein's ultimate goal.

One idea, three goals. Although it was somewhat dangerous, at this moment, it was truly a rare and excellent opportunity.

"Captain Jason is really amazing! He knows both magic and martial arts. Listening to you, I feel like I'm doomed!"

Klein retreated, smiling as he distanced himself from Jason.

Thank you to many book friends for the rewards. I've been too busy coding recently. I'll take some time to sort it out and thank you all collectively.