Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

Chapter 1072: Dark energy corruption



This net of dark energy quickly rose into the air before closing around the two of us.

This was a large net that completely surrounded us, trapping us as soon as it closed in like

this.

The dark energy that made up the net was powerful, it was clear that it was from a very powerful source.

As for what could release this kind of dark energy...I could only think of one thing.

"Pa, pa, pa." A clap rang out before a cold voice said, "You truly worked hard, didn't you? It's just too bad that you fell right into my trap."

The voice was too unique to mistake who it was.

It was the lich that had been hiding the entire time.

After saying this, the lich slowly appeared from the center of the undead horde and showed itself to everyone.

At the same time, it almost seemed like there was a smug look that was on the lich's face. It was as if it had thought that it had won.

Though it wasn't strange that it was thinking this.

With that same smug look on its face, it said, "People always let their guards down when they've figured that they've won and you are the same. You just completely let your guard down as soon as you took down my Death Knight, but you never expected me to make this kind of move, right?"

The way that the lich spoke, it was almost as if it was giving an evil monologue...

The lich didn't seem to care about the way that we looked at it as it continued, "Now that you're trapped like this, it seems like it'll be hard for you to break free. Now that you're trapped like this, the only thing you can do is wait and watch as I slaughter the rest of you." The lich's tone suddenly changed as it said, "I'm sure that you must be thinking that you'll be able to find a way to break out as long as you stall for enough time. But did you ever think that I might be stalling for time myself? Haven't you thought that I might be giving this boring monologue for a certain reason as well?"

As soon as the lich said this, I deeply knitted my brows.

I had indeed been thinking this since I had been trying to find the weak spot of this dark energy net to have Joan break through it, but I never thought that the lich would have such thoughts.

That meant that there was another reason for this net.

It was just that it was already too late to tell Joan not to touch this net.

Not to mention, even if I wanted her not to touch the net, it wasn't possible with how small the net was in the first place. It wasn't as if she could spread her wings and fly in this tiny space, just spreading her wings would have made her touch the net.

So there was nothing that could be done about this, all I could do was see what the effects of touching this net was.

"Ao." Joan gave a soft cry of pain all of a sudden that caught me off guard.

I immediately looked at her and without a word, she pointed out the area that pained her.

I quickly went over to the area and saw that there was a dark spot on her body.

This wasn't a natural dark spot, this was a spot that seemed like it had been corrupted by something. This dark spot was the same colour as the dark energy net that was around them. It was clear that it was related to this dark energy net.

"Ha, ha, ha! Now you see it!" The lich said in a confident voice before going into a monologue once more.

"This net isn't just to trap you, but also to corrupt your wyvern. I will turn her into my zombie and when the time comes, no one will be able to go against me!" The lich said in an almost hysterical voice while still laughing.

This was the most common thing that villains did when they thought that victory was at hand. They would let this go to their head and would spill all the beans on their plans.

But it wasn't as if we could actually do anything to the lich right now.

I ignored it and looked down at Joan to ask, "How much power do you still have left?"

She looked at me before shaking her head and raising a few fingers.

70%.

That was what she was trying to say with these seven claws raised.

But I could also tell that the corruption that was entering her body was spreading and it wouldn't be long before she wouldn't be able to resist it any longer.

I could guess that this dark energy net was the lich's final move, so it must have put quite a bit

of energy into this. This was not a net that would be destroyed that easily, especially since it was already corrupting Joan.

It didn't seem like we would be able to break free of this place before she was corrupted by the dark energy.

At the same time, it didn't seem like the others would be able to help us.

The undead had started surging after the dark energy net appeared and had been keeping Klein and the others back. Even Alidus with his special magic weapon wasn't able to smash through all of the undead that surged forward.

There was even a part of me that wondered if the lich had sacrificed that Death Knight just to lure us in here.

After all, if the undead could fight like this from the beginning, they would have been able to stop us from reaching the Death Knight. They would have even been able to fight with the Death Knight to take us down.

Was this how highly the lich viewed Joan and how much it wanted to corrupt her?