Necromancer Of The Shadows

Chapter 1228  Another Lunatic

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In the underground area of the central island, Ashley lay weakly on the ground, her eyes spinning as if she'd just experienced a terrifying roller coaster ride.

"Your mental endurance is quite weak," Anastasia remarked in an amused voice, looking at Ashley with a smile on her face.

"Damn it, you pulled me straight out of my space bubble. Do you think it's easy to endure such a sudden dimensional shift?" Ashley cursed, shaking her head repeatedly to clear her dizziness.

The moment she was brought to the central island by Drozon, she had received a telepathic message from Anastasia, instructing her to distract Zalthorak and Drozon for just a second so that she could rescue her.

After hearing about the destruction of Fire Dragon Island, Ashley had already suspected that Anastasia was nearby, so she wasn't surprised when she received her message and decided to cooperate.

However, she hadn't expected Anastasia to pull her out of the space bubble so abruptly—a jolt that nearly knocked her unconscious.

"Since you could pull me out of the space bubble so easily, couldn't you have just brought the bubble here along with me? Why did you choose such a rough method?" Ashley complained after regaining her senses.

Anastasia shook her head at Ashley's words and replied calmly, "Drozon's space lock ability is very advanced. If I had brought you here along with the space bubble, there is a good chance he would have been able to trace it."

Ashley fell silent upon hearing Anastasia's words, as she was well aware of Drozon's space lock ability. It was precisely because of this ability that she had been unable to escape after destroying the Void Tunnel.

"By the way, with all the luxurious life-saving artefacts you carry, you should have been able to escape from Drozon with only minor sacrifices. Don't tell me you let him catch you on purpose?" Anastasia suddenly asked, eyeing Ashley with a scrutinizing look.

"Do you think I am stupid?" Ashley rolled her eyes at Anastasia. "I did everything I could to escape from that guy, but he completely outclassed me in rank. Even after using several artefacts, I couldn't get away."

Anastasia didn't say anything upon hearing Ashley and continued to watch her with an unreadable expression.

"What?" Ashley asked, starting to feel uncomfortable under Anastasia's gaze.

Anastasia sighed inwardly and shook her head.

"You are… really brave," She murmured in a low voice, her eyes now serious. "Now tell me honestly, what was your plan?"

"I—" Ashley was about to repeat what she had said before, but seeing the seriousness in Anastasia's gaze, her voice softened, and she replied more meekly.

"I have never been to the Dragon Islands before, so I thought I would come here and see if I could secretly set up a teleportation formation."

"You—" Anastasia was momentarily speechless at Ashley's response. Although she had guessed that Ashley might have allowed herself to get caught on purpose, she hadn't expected it to be for something so seemingly trivial.

"Do you even realize how dangerous it was for you to come here?" She asked coldly, feeling an intense urge to give her a good beating.

Ashley shook her head upon hearing Anastasia, a smug smile spreading across her face.

"I knew it wasn't too dangerous for me, which is why I decided to come," She said, taking out a small formation plate from her storage ring.

Anastasia looked at the formation plate with a puzzled look, but soon, her eyes widened in disbelief.

Ashley, pleased with Anastasia's reaction spoke proudly.

"I have been working on this for a long time. With this, even if I run into a Peak Rank Six Core Evolver who can restrict space, I will still be able to escape safely."

Hearing Ashley, Anastasia didn't know what to say and simply looked at her oddly.

"To store that much spatial energy in a formation, you must have been infusing it with your space energy for years. Just how long did it take you to store that much space energy?"

Ashley sighed when she heard Anastasia and replied in a low voice.

"Nearly two hundred years. I have been putting my space energy into it every few days for centuries. It's been an arduous task, but well worth it. If the hidden world of the Dryads were ever discovered, this could save all the Drayds living there."

Anastasia was stunned but could understand what Ashley was thinking.

In the past, due to his injuries, Sylvan's rank had dropped to Rank Five, and if the hidden world of the Dryads were ever discovered, it would have indeed posed a great threat to all the Dryads.

Before Sylvan recovered back to rank six, even a single Rank Six Core Evolver could have easily cornered the Dryads, making escape nearly impossible.

But with the formation plate Ashley held, which was brimming with a massive amount of spatial energy, even Anastasia felt it would be hard to stop her if she used it.

'With such a powerful artefact, she could escape even from people like Eldrakar and other top Rank Six Core Evolvers even if she has to take all the Dryads with her...' Anastasia thought, feeling quite surprised.

"All right, I understand you have something to protect you, and I get that you wanted to see if you could set up a teleportation formation here. But was it really worth risking everything just to set up a teleportation formati—" Anastasia stopped mid-sentence as a thought dawned on her, her eyes widening in shock.

"Don't tell me you are planning to..." She said, her voice laced with disbelief, looking at Ashley, who now wore a smug smile.

"Finally, you get it. Did you think all the formations I created around the world were just for travel?" Ashley replied with a shake of her head.

"Damn, I always thought you were a normal girl, but you're as much of a lunatic as the rest of us," Anastasia cursed loudly, though the faint smile at the corner of her lips showed her approval.

"How ironic, the queen of lunatics calling me a lunatic," Ashley scoffed, rolling her eyes as she stood up.

Anastasia didn't say anything upon hearing Ashley and just sighed inwardly.

'I always thought she was the most sensible and grounded person in our group, but now… it turns out she's only a few points behind me in terms of craziness.'

Anastasia glanced at the holographic screen in front of her—showing Zalthorak and Drozon standing in front of the teleportation hall—and her mouth twitched slightly.

'I am afraid if all of us keep acting like this, we will end up destroying all of Utopia sooner or later.'