Chapter 334: Escape!

The moment they stepped into the warehouse, they saw an enormous scythe blade burning with faint soul flames descending toward them from above like the blade of judgment.

"Get out!"

Boom!

The timber piled near the warehouse’s side entrance exploded into fragments, sending splinters and stone debris flying everywhere.

A thick cloud of dust quickly engulfed the entire entrance.

As for the goblins that had just rushed inside, they were sent flying backward by the tremendous force, tumbling miserably across the ground.

Taking advantage of this opening, Zich immediately raised his hand.

"Slimy, come back!"

"Bo!"

The little fellow rapidly transformed into a streak of summoning light and returned to the graveyard.

Afterward, Zich turned toward the warehouse’s main entrance.

And it was precisely at this moment!

Buzz!

A green beam of mana suddenly shot toward him from outside the doorway!

"Hmm?" Zich’s gaze sharpened.

However, there was not the slightest trace of panic on his face because, from the very beginning, he had never intended to force his way out through this entrance.

"Spirit Exchange!"

Buzz!

The next instant, faint spatial ripples suddenly spread through the surrounding air!

Zich’s figure instantly disappeared from its original position.

In his place appeared a slender figure covered in dark yellow chitinous armor!

It was Blood Leech!

But before Blood Leech could even fully steady itself, its body rapidly transformed into a mass of summoning light under Zich’s mental command and was immediately recalled into the graveyard!

Boom!

The green mana beam swept past the summoning light before it had completely dissipated, then slammed violently into the stone wall behind it, blasting a large section of rock into fragments!

By this time, Zich was already long gone from the warehouse.

...

Behind the damaged stone corridor.

Buzz!

Accompanied by a faint spatial fluctuation, Zich’s figure suddenly appeared at the position where Blood Leech had previously been hiding.

He landed steadily, still holding Frostgrave in his hand. His eyes briefly swept the corridor, checking for approaching enemies.

Raising his head, he looked down toward the warehouse, which had already descended into complete chaos.

Large numbers of goblins were pouring into the building from different directions.

However, when they discovered that the warehouse contained nothing but corpses scattered across the floor and shelves that had been completely emptied, without even a trace of the enemy remaining, they erupted into even more furious shrieks.

"Gah gah gah!!"

"Garu!!"

For a moment, the entire street descended into chaos.

Some goblins ran around wildly while waving their weapons, others rushed into nearby stone houses to search, and several patrolling goblins even collided with one another while fighting over the same path.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the stone corridor, Nadia was already standing beside the Nether Eye White Tiger, observing the commotion below through the broken stone railing.

Upon seeing Zich appear, she finally withdrew her gaze.

"Let’s go."

"Mm." Zich nodded.

He gave the warehouse one final glance before following Nadia, making sure to keep his footsteps light against the stone.

They quickly retreated along the damaged stone corridor before turning into a more concealed passage.

Only when the furious cries of the goblins behind them had gradually faded into the distance did they finally stop inside a small recess concealed by rubble.

"Phew..." Nadia let out a soft breath.

Then, turning toward Zich, who still looked completely relaxed, she couldn’t help speaking.

"If I hadn’t urged you to hurry just now, were you planning to keep moving things out of that warehouse?"

"Hmm?"

Zich turned toward her and asked in return, "And who was the one who told me to take those pieces of ore as well?"

"..."

Nadia was rendered speechless. She opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to argue, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that she had indeed been the one who insisted on taking those ores after seeing them.

For a moment, she genuinely didn’t know what to say.

Seeing her expression, Zich couldn’t help laughing.

However, he did not continue teasing her.

Instead, he crouched down and began counting the spoils he had just looted from the warehouse.

First were the mana potions.

A total of sixteen perfectly preserved Low Grade Mana Recovery Potions!

Apart from those, there were several bottles of other recovery potions, as well as an entire chest containing more than a hundred Soul Stones!

Although Low Grade Mana Recovery Potions were not particularly valuable items, they were extremely useful to Zich at his current level.

As the strength of his summons continued to increase, the amount of mana he needed to consume during each battle was also steadily growing.

This was especially true for Tiamant and the Myriad Beast Chimera.

Although these two summons possessed terrifying combat power, the mana required to maintain their existence was also far greater than that of ordinary summons.

Once he entered a truly intense battle, even with his current mana reserves, it would be difficult to keep both of them fighting simultaneously for an extended period.

Now, however, with these mana recovery potions, he would at least be able to buy himself more fighting time at critical moments.

As for the other potions whose effects he could not yet identify, Zich did not rush to use them. He placed them separately in another section of his spatial bag to avoid accidentally grabbing the wrong potion during a future battle.

After organizing everything, he glanced at the chest of Soul Stones once more, a satisfied expression appearing on his face.

To think that a single raid had yielded so many resources!

It seemed these goblins had really been plundering quite a few valuable things from the ancient tomb over the years.

Meanwhile, as Zich was counting his gains, Nadia had already taken out the silver gray ores she had collected earlier.

She placed one of the pieces in her palm and gently ran her finger across the tiny silver patterns within it.

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