Dimensional Codex - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Traps and Conspiracy

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

“You are…?”

“I am Fang Zheng, a squire knight of Starlight City church. I am here with Great Knight Shidon to help you guys.”

“Starlight City… You mean to say Great Knight Shidon is also here?”

But the next scene took Fang Zheng by surprise. After hearing this reply, the knight’s expression changed dramatically, instead of being a look of joy. 

“No, you shouldn’t have come here! This is a trap. Damn it, we all have been fooled…”

Perhaps because he was too anxious that the knight started coughing blood before he could even finish his sentence. Immediately, after seeing this, Fang Zheng stepped forward and pressed the knight’s shoulder. After carefully examining the knight’s condition, he discovered that there was a deep, gaping wound on the knight’s waist.

“Alright, don’t be so agitated. Now that we are here, we can’t go back now, can we? In short, we should treat your injuries first.”

Fang Zheng, while speaking, raised his hand and cast a Holy Light at the knight. Immediately, a pure white radiance enveloped the knight as the gaping wound on the knight’s waist started healing at a rapid pace under that radiance. And after a while, it was already as good as new.

“So fast?!”

Feeling that warm and comfortable feeling and watching his injury healed so rapidly, the knight looked a little surprised. He might have been an ordinary knight, he might not have been as strong as Shi Dong, but he had been fighting for the church for many years; he had ample experience at the very least. He could say for sure that the healing spell cast by Fang Zheng had already exceeded the level of trainee priests in the church. An ordinary healing technique could also heal the wounds but the healing technique cast by Fang Zheng had not only healed his wounds in a short period of time but also made him feel that his strength was recovering at a tremendous pace… This is a bishop level healing technique!

‘Who is this young man?’

At this moment, the knight felt more and more puzzled by Fang Zheng. He had indeed noticed the insignia worn by the opposite party. It had the church’s marking which could not be forged, obviously. If Fang Zheng was a priest, a healing specialist, he would not have found it unacceptable. But after having seen Fang Zheng display a powerful combat power in the recent battle, the knight was finding it very hard to believe.

A knight, who specializes in healing and fighting, and still so young?! Why have I not heard on him?

“It looks good now.”

Fang Zheng was completely oblivious to what the knight in front of him was thinking. After taking a glance and confirming that the opposite party’s injuries had mended for better, he stretched his hand out.

“Can you stand up?”

“Of course, thank you, young man.”

The knight was momentarily started after hearing Fang Zheng’s words. He smiled and reached out, taking Fang Zheng’s hand and standing up.

“I am Conan, a knight of Bishops’ Conference’s thirteenth division… Mhmm, why are you looking at me like this?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

Fang Zheng just smiled and shook his head in response to Knight Conan’s inquiry. Having let go of his hand, Fang Zheng took two steps back without a word. It wasn’t that Fang Zheng was planning on doing something to the knight before him. Rather, the knight’s name was really terrifying. Fang Zheng was instinctively startled the moment he heard the knight’s name… Although he didn’t know what was up with this knight, Fang Zheng felt that it was better to keep a little bit of distance from this man.

After all, this name was very famous in his world; Conan, the destroyer who had killed countless people. Just his name would scare the hell out of everyone…

“Right, what about others? Why are you the only one here?”

“Sigh…”

Knight Conan heaved a long sigh upon hearing Fang Zheng’s question before answering.

“It’s like this…”

The cause of the incident wasn’t far from what Fang Zheng had expected. This knight happened to be one of Fang Zheng’s pursuers. In the first place, William was the enemy of the church. After Fang Zheng had somehow fought off the opposite party and killed several of his companions, this matter had grown bigger and bigger, naturally. And the rest of them started looking for Williams’ clues in order to avenge their colleagues.

And because Fang Zheng’s had used the power of Lich King in the wilderness, these knights naturally came to the conclusion that the cultists had to be related to the undead such as the necromancers. And thus, they searched and investigated all the way. Then, these knights found a clue from an old farmer in the town that undead creatures had been seen in Shadow Valley recently, and there was a terrifying Lich King among them! Recently, the Lich had been seen lingering here, kidnapping children everywhere. Many children in the villages and towns had mysteriously gone missing! The team immediately relayed everything back to the church after getting this clue, waiting for the order from their superior. Although they had determined that this Lich was quite likely their colleagues’ murderer, they had to follow the orders as knights of the church.

But while this team was waiting for the reply from the church, the old farmer, who provided them with the clue, came knocking at their doors crying, hoping that they could save his grandchild. Naturally, these knights could not refuse the pleadings of the old farmer with a cold heart. And keeping mind to their own revenge, these paladins decided to venture deep into the Shadow Canyon to investigate in the end. Even if they didn’t have a conflict with the Lich, it would still be better as long as they found some clues.

But what they didn’t expect that it was all a trap from the beginning. The old farmer, who gave them the news, was a cultist, in fact!

He led the team into the Shadow Canyon, taking them left and right. It didn’t take long for the team of knights to get lost. When they finally realized something was wrong, the old farmer had already disappeared and they were already surrounded by the enemy!

When hundreds and thousands of undead creatures swarmed these knights from all directions, they really realized that something was wrong. Naturally, these knights desperately wanted to break through the encirclement but the enemy was drowning them with numbers. In addition, someone had sealed the transmission channel, so these hapless knights were unable to escape this ghastly place. Their main force was divided and surrounded by these undead. Knight Conan was also one of the people who was separated by the undead attack. He was also desperate to leave this place but had failed at the last step in the end and was blocked by the undead. If Fang Zheng had not appeared in time, he would have ended up dead.

“So, that’s the case.”

After listening to the other party’s story, Fang Zheng finally came to know what happened. A furrow appeared on his brow as he sunk into his thoughts. Meanwhile, Knight Conan glanced at him before looking about, doubtfully.

“Anyway, let’s converge with Great Knight Shidon first… Mister Fang Zheng, didn’t you say that you came with Great Knight Shidon? By the way, how did you come when space is blocked here?”

“We came here through a star path. As for why we aren’t together… I don’t know.”

Speaking of this, Fang Zheng could only sigh helplessly as well. The few teleportations he had experienced after coming to this world seemed to be unreliable. He had directly been sent to the boss in the world of Diablo. Whereas this time, there were three of them but now, he didn’t even know where in the bloody Hell he was…

Forget it, too much thinking about this will pan out nothing.

“What are you going to do next?”

Thinking about this, Fang Zheng decisively cast all these troubles to the back of his head and looked at Knight Conan. Obviously, he could not solve this problem by himself. Now, he could only hope that the other two were teleported to the same place. If they too were separated like he was, Great Knight Shidon would be perfectly fine but as for Miss M… Well, Fang Zheng would remember to light incense sticks for her next year.

“Well…”

Knight Conan seemed to be a bit hesitant in response to Fang Zheng’s inquiry. A frown appeared on his forehead as he pondered for a good long while before he replied.

“Originally, I was planning to escape these undead’s pursuit and then meet up with the commander and the others. After all, this is Shadow Canyon. It wasn’t a good idea to act alone when space was blocked here. Moreover, I am unable to leave this place by myself…”

“Do you know where they are?”

“Of course! We were withdrawing to the Blood River Beach before we were separated. If they could break through the undead siege, we should have met up there.”

“Very well.”

Upon hearing this, Fang Zheng nodded in acknowledgment and unsheathed his sword before gesturing to Conan.

“Then, let’s go to Blood River Beach.”