Synthetic Wizard - Chapter 128 - 104: Just Have to Do It (Part 2)

Chapter 128: Chapter 104: Just Have to Do It (Part 2)

“By the way, why do you want to sneak into the city?”

“I want to check out the situation inside,” Sunan said.

Rose was still a bit puzzled, but seeing Sunan didn’t plan to explain further, she didn’t ask more and started talking about the main issue.

“What do you plan to do next?”

Rose was very curious about how players intended to sneak past the Soul Devourer Hunter’s perception into the city.

However, Sunan had no intention of doing so.

If they couldn’t hide, then why bother?

Directly charge head-on and fish in troubled waters!

The two then returned to the lakeside.

When Rose saw Sunan conjure up one hundred Stone Golems out of thin air, she almost popped her eyes out.

“Where… where did you keep these Stone Golems?” Rose’s voice was full of shock.

Even a Micro-Light Level space-type magic item couldn’t store so many Stone Golems.

As for Alchemy Level space-type magic items, they couldn’t even hold one Stone Golem.

How did the player manage to do it?

“Secret.”

Sunan casually deflected the question, then looked towards the island city.

Suddenly, on the open lakeside, a hundred giant figures appeared; anyone who wasn’t blind would notice them.

The human-faced lion guards almost immediately spotted the Stone Golems, and there was immediate commotion on the city walls.

Rumble!

In the next instant, the Stone Golem Legion charged forcefully towards the walls, kicking up dust and with an awe-inspiring momentum.

“What kind of monsters are these?”

“They’re charging!”

“Sound the horn, there are intruders!”

The sudden change caused chaos among the human-faced lions.

Quickly, a human-faced lion picked up a horn and blew, the long, deep sound resonating throughout the cave.

Meanwhile, the Stone Golem army had already reached the base of the walls, crashing into them with overwhelming force.

The solid, thick bluish stone walls collapsed almost instantly, with human-faced lions screaming as they fell, crashing with broken heads and bleeding, only to be stomped flat by the Stone Golems before they could stand.

The piercing screams echoed throughout the cave.

From a distance, Rose was stunned by the spectacle.

She had seen Stone Golems before but had never witnessed their full-scale charging power.

The astonishing momentum and power left her secretly alarmed.

“This is the Golem Legion.”

For a moment, Rose couldn’t help but think about learning Puppet Refining.

“Let’s enter the city now,”

Sunan’s voice brought Rose out of her shock.

The two maintained their stealth mode and quickly headed towards the city walls.

The human-faced lions were busy dealing with the Stone Golems, completely unaware of the two uninvited guests.

Sunan and Rose smoothly avoided the battle zones, their bodies gliding lightly across the battlefield.

At that moment, Sunan suddenly lifted his hand, a silver flash went by, and a muffled thud was heard nearby.

Rose looked in the direction of the sound and saw the Soul Devourer Hunter lying on the ground.

Its head was impaled by a silver spear, pinned to the ground, utterly lifeless.

In Rose’s astonished gaze, the silver spear suddenly shattered, disappearing into the air.

Sunan withdrew his palm, gesturing for Rose to continue forward.

Coming back to her senses, Rose closely followed Sunan, her mind increasingly amazed.

Whether it was the hundred Stone Golems or the lightning-fast, decisive strike just now that even she hadn’t reacted to, the player’s methods so far left her deeply impressed.

Even facing Night Owl, who founded the Forest Cabin single-handedly, she never felt this completely bewildered.

This player… just what kind of person is he?

Taking advantage of the confusion, Sunan and Rose smoothly slipped into the city and passed by a group of human-faced lion reinforcements.

Yet, after running a short distance, the leading tall human-faced lion suddenly turned back, a confused expression on its handsome face.

“Lord Angus?” The nearby human-faced lion cast a puzzled look.

“… Nothing,”

The human-faced lion called Angus shook his head and continued towards the city walls.

After passing through the buffer zone adjacent to the walls, Sunan and Rose finally truly entered the city area.

Calling it a city, it was actually just an island filled with low stone houses.

This seems to be the outskirts where the slaves live. Sunan saw quite a few dirty Kobolds and Ogres peering out from the low houses, gazing towards the city wall.

The air was filled with a stench that made Rose involuntarily frown.

“Where is the place where the key is kept?” Sunan turned his head and asked.

“Up ahead,” Rose pointed forward and said.

The two of them ran further ahead and soon entered a clean and spacious street.

Here it seemed quiet and gloomy, but orderly.

On both sides of the street were various taverns, shops, and entertainment venues.

Almost all the pedestrians on the street were human-faced lions. The occasional other races seen were mostly shackled with chains.

Obviously, this was the area where the rulers of the city-state, the human-faced lions, lived.

Sunan looked up.

At the center of the entire city was a towering stone pillar, about three to four hundred meters in diameter, connected to the cave ceiling, engraved with numerous runes on its surface, and filled with intricate holes, rooms, and vertical tunnels inside.

That was the palace where the human-faced lion nobility resided.

This was the information Sunan had extracted from the mouths of those two human-faced lions earlier.

“The key is placed under a statue of a human-faced lion. I only know the statue is in the Upper City District, which is here, but I don’t know the specific location.”

“A statue, huh.”

Sunan slightly furrowed his brows.

Although they had successfully infiltrated the city amidst the chaos, no one knew when the human-faced lions might react. They couldn’t afford much time to search slowly; they had to find the statue’s location quickly.

Thinking of this, Sunan glanced around.

A moment later, his eyes suddenly lit up.

“This way.”

He said in a low voice, and Sunan dashed into a building on the roadside, entering through the window.

Rose was momentarily stunned but quickly followed.

Once inside, she first saw Sunan grabbing the neck of a small figure, securing his grip tightly to prevent him from making any sound.

“Gray Dwarf!”

After seeing the stubby limbs, gray skin, and long beard, Rose’s expression shifted.

Compared to other dwarves, Gray Dwarves had a much worse reputation, often deemed “evil.”

Thus, they were despised by other dwarves.

Judging from the dwarf’s attire and living environment, his status in the city wasn’t low, likely a subordinate to the human-faced lions rather than a slave.

After a brief reflection, Rose’s eyes also brightened.

Unlike the human-faced lions, Gray Dwarves were considered humanoid creatures.

In other words, Charm Humans could affect Gray Dwarves.

As expected, Sunan soon cast Charm Humans, and the Gray Dwarf quickly stopped struggling, his face turning blank.

Sunan released the Gray Dwarf and asked in a low voice, “Where is there a human-faced lion statue in the Upper City District?”

“Human-faced lion statue… statue… there’s a huge statue at the Central Square.”

“And?”

“No, no more.”

Sunan and Rose exchanged glances, both with a gleam of joy in their eyes.

It seemed, as expected, that the key was beneath the statue at the Central Square.

After finding out the location of the Central Square, Sunan directly twisted the Gray Dwarf’s neck.

The two then immediately left the building, heading towards the Central Square.

The Central Square was only five to six hundred meters away from the towering stone pillar.

From the rooms at the top of the pillar, one could overlook the entire scene at the Central Square.

Sunan and Rose quickly arrived at the Central Square, but then both furrowed their brows tightly.

It was because the human-faced lion statue before them was extremely large, over ten meters high, and entirely made of obsidian. Just looking at it, one could feel its immense weight, which likely couldn’t be lifted by even a great Knight alone.

Such a heavy statue, whether moved or toppled, would certainly create a commotion that would attract the attention of the human-faced lions.

“Why would the key to the Wizard’s legacy be placed in such a godforsaken place?”

“…I have no idea either.”

“I found the information about the Wizard’s legacy in a biography, but the author wasn’t the Wizard who left the legacy. I guess someone else placed the key here.”

“Well, that’s quite the twisted sense of humor.” Sunan twitched at the corner of his mouth.

To deliberately place the key in the city-state of human-faced lions, someone capable of doing this must have been very powerful, but also had a twisted sense of humor.

He truly couldn’t understand such a mindset.

“What should we do?” Rose asked.

Sunan sighed.

“We can only go for it.”