Chapter 116: I'm Really A Necromancer!

"Hurry, kill this madman!" The fallen swordsman shouted.

"Shut up!" The swordsman who had been walking towards Han Shuo suddenly turned his head and stared coldly at the man behind him, saying in a stilted voice, "I'll kill you too if you keep yelling nonsense."

The person on the ground suddenly froze and looked at his companion with a completely alien expression. He asked confusedly, "Fronze, what's wrong with you?"

Fronze, who had drawn his sword and was walking towards Han Shuo, had a look of excitement and greed on his face. His gaze was focused only on Han Shuo as he opened his mouth to say excitedly, "I'm going to be rich. You better not get in my way or I'll let you die with him."

The person on the ground finally understood what was happening. Fronze had been drowned by his greedy heart and no longer had any thoughts of his companions in his mind. All that was left was his desire to get rich.

His brain prickling with pain, Han Shuo was slowly awakening from his demonic state, after a brief period of fogginess, Han Shuo remembered everything that had just happened and immediately understood the urgency of the situation.

"The trophies harvested from the Medusa and the Fruit of Dagmar will all be mine very soon. Go to hell, you evil, crazy madman!" Fronze's gaze was fixed on the space ring on Han Shuo's hand as he said this with a dark look of excitement.

As soon as he said that, Fronze raised the long sword in his hand and stabbed at the completely listless Han Shuo. It looked like Fronze wanted to take Han Shuo's life first before taking the space ring to analyse the contents inside.

Han Shuo quickly chanted an incantation and a bone dagger abruptly blocked the sword in Fronze's hand as it stabbed towards Han Shuo's chest.

"Actually, I'm a necromancer!" Han Shuo looked bizarre and muttered coldly to the shocked Fronze.

The bone dagger thrust forward as Fronze involuntarily recoiled in shock. A small skeleton with a huge eye patch over one eye quickly approached Fronze with the bone dagger. The heroic little skeleton killed the previously injured fighter amidst a wave of metallic clanking.

The other badly injured swordsman, who had earlier called for Han Shuo's death, naturally met the same fate. The small skeleton killed him as well when the order was given.

From the moment this group of people had appeared, they'd used low and despicable actions to deal with Han Shuo. They hadn't shown any kindness at all. Han Shuo was no naive, innocent child, and of course he understood that an eye for an eye was the most appropriate fate for them.

The appearance of the little skeleton saved Han Shuo from imminent death and completely turned the situation around. The bone dagger wielding little skeleton skilfully manoeuvred the three bodies and collected all the valuables from their corpses, and helped Han Shuo store them in his space ring.

Of the three, only the Thunder Adept Mage had some valuable possessions, including an expensive magic staff. There were also a few hundred gold coins and two or three level three and four magical creature cores. Apart from a poor quality sword and some broken gold coins, the two swordsmen had nothing else.

Sprawled listlessly on the ground, Han Shuo's mind had immediately sunk into a violent bloodlust when he entered the demon trance. It was impossible for him to wake up before the magical yuan in his body and energy had been exhausted. This time, not only had Han Shuo completely depleted his magical yuan after entering the trance, but his body had also suffered various kinds of injuries. This was one of the worst times he'd been injured. He was even worse off than Odysseus , who'd been hit by the manticore.

It was a good thing that Han Shuo's tenacity was something that Odysseus couldn't hope to match. Even though Han Shuo was as horrible as a ghoul right now, and his body was so weak that it couldn't support him standing, Han Shuo still understood the condition of his body in his heart and knew that even without the aid of any medicine, he would be able to recover within a short period of time.

Han Shuo had not revealed his identity as a necromancer all this time because hiding some of his powers would be able to save his life in critical moments. If it wasn't for the fact that he still had some mental strength to use when facing his attackers this time, it would be difficult for him to escape death. If these people had known beforehand that Han Shuo was also a necromancer, the outcome of the battle would probably not have reached this current level.

He chanted another incantation as several zombies and skeleton warriors suddenly appeared around him. They raised their weapons and surrounded Han Shuo, planning to deal with any changes that might occur.

After waking up, Han Shuo immediately connected with the original demons and confirmed through them that Trunks, Aphrodite and the others had already regrouped and were searching for him in this area.

Now that Han Shuo was incredibly weak, he couldn't move or speak out loud, but he did have a large number of dark creatures at his disposal. After giving his command, the little skeleton created a huge disturbance, sending bushes and grass flying everywhere.

"There's movement over there, let's check it out!" Trunk's ears were quite sensitive and immediately picked up the disturbance. After pointing out its direction to the others, he led the group to rush towards where Han Shuo was.

Having just summoned the dark creatures, Han Shuo immediately sent them back to the other dimension with his mental power. Trunks and the others arrived in front of Han Shuo after a short while, with Trunks leading the group.

What happened to you?" Trunks shouted, immediately running towards Han Shuo.

Han Shuo looked incredibly ragged as he was scorched and charred all over. Many parts of his body had been burned by huge flames, and his entire face was a blackened mess. It was impressive that Trunks could still recognise Han Shuo.

"I'm fine, I just didn't think I'd meet this group of people halfway." Han Shuo's voice was a bit weak as he said quietly after laughing ruefully.

"It's my fault this time. I was surprised by your unconventional tactics and let my guard down for a moment. That's how this situation developed, but it's no big deal, things like that happen every day in the Dark Forest. I've gotten used to it long ago." Trunks breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Han Shuo was still alive and shrugged.

Gordon and the others all asked about Han Shuo, with Aphrodite saying afterwards, "Looks like things are as Caspian said, Trunks is a good man. At least Trunks only wanted the spoils of the last battle with the twin-headed dragon and didn't attack us from the start. He didn't say he was going to kill us, and he didn't try to defile us. I finally understand Caspian's words after comparing Trunks to these people, I thought he was joking at first.

Everyone remembered their encounter with Trunks after Aphrodite's words, and then thought about what those people had done. Suddenly, they felt that Trunks was quite friendly.

"Actually, I'm not what you think, and I've been changing all the time. When I first arrived in the Dark Forest, I was as simple as all of you and once trusted the companions by my side, but after continuous operations, I came to realise that I could trust no one in the Dark Forest but myself. The dangers that exist everywhere mean that you must harden your heart to face everything around you. Otherwise, whenever you have feelings of kindness or weakness, it may very well lead to your death. Trunks shrugged and explained briskly.

"What happened to you just now?" Nia asked Han Shuo with some trepidation after hesitating for a moment.

Everyone's eyes shifted to Han Shuo after Nia's question, seemingly waiting for a reasonable explanation from Han Shuo. After all, his methods had been a bit ruthless just now. His expression had been very different from usual, prompting these questions from those gathered.

"The martial arts technique I'm training sometimes causes me to sink into a terrifying stupor when I suffer a strong shock because it's not yet fully completed. I'm very sorry for worrying you all because I was so angry earlier. I don't want to be like this either, but this is something I can't control at the moment." Han Shuo was unable to explain anything to them about sinking into a demonic stupor and could only explain it in this way.

"So that's the case. You were very frightening just now. If you can't control this kind of martial arts technique, you should give it up while you still can. If you continue on this path, it could lead to unpredictable consequences." Aphrodite looked sincerely at Han Shuo and spoke a few words of concern.

Han Shuo naturally paid no attention to her persuasion. If falling into a demonic trance was something that could be controlled, then it wouldn't be called a trance. Such a demonic trance wouldn't happen so easily. It would only happen when a practitioner reached a certain realm, and it would be triggered by a certain mental state as well as other reasons. For Han Shuo, he could only remain vigilant against this occurrence, but he wouldn't give up training in demonic magic just because of it.

"Alright, we should get Han out of here first and discuss other matters after we meet with Odysseus again." Trunks stared at Han Shuo a little strangely and then spoke to Aphrodite.

Trunks' proposal was met with unanimous approval. Gordon and the other two swordsmen made a simple stretcher, lifted Han Shuo up and went to where Odysseus was.

On the way, Han Shuo learned from Trunks that this group of people seemed to be the personal guards of the McGrady Guild. Trunks had pursued them, killing many of them, until he saw that they had joined up with more guards. He realised that the strength of the other side wasn't something he could withstand alone, so he backed off, worried about Han Shuo's condition.

Han Shuo had also once heard of the McGrady Guild. It was a merchant guild that had a similar level of power to the Boozt Merchant Guild. Phoebe had been a bit worried about this guild before. It was said that this guild specialised in smuggling, selling all kinds of contraband between different countries. They had close relations with the nobles of all countries.

The McGrady Guild didn't belong to the Lancelot Empire, but to the Brut Merchant Alliance, which was formed by mercenaries and merchants. The Brut Merchant Alliance didn't have much of a reputation, and they had only recently begun to operate within the Lancelot Empire. They'd caused a small loss to Phoebe's Boozt Merchant Guild.

The injuries on Han Shuo's body were so severe that they could be considered too horrible to look at. If any other person had such severe injuries and had to endure the hardships of the fast road, they would have screamed, but after half an hour of being bounced around on the bumpy road, Han Shuo was lying on the stretcher with his wounds simply bandaged, not making a sound. This made everyone admire Han Shuo's amazing ability to endure pain.

Not only that, Han Shuo even had the strength to continuously talk to Trunks and ask him for more information about the McGrady Guild. It was as if the severe injuries on his body caused the others' scalps to tingle with numbness whenever they looked at him, was something he couldn't stand at all.

Once everyone had dug out a cave and cleared away the boulders blocking the entrance, Gordon walked out with a wide, crooked grin. Finally unable to contain himself, Gordon looked at Han Shuo with insatiable curiosity and asked the question on everyone's lips, "Han, what kind of monster are you?

Laughing involuntarily, Han Shuo's tolerance for pain and torment had already reached monstrous levels. He really didn't know how to answer Gordon's question. All he could do was laugh ruefully and shake his head, "I'm just a little more stubborn than you guys".

When Odysseus came out and Nia told him what had happened, the much-recovered Odysseus listened with his heart pounding and was incredibly amazed by everyone's encounters.

"Nia, I think I should go back now. My grandfather will be worried." Angelica realised that no one was paying attention to her, tilted her head and thought for a moment, then spoke out of boredom.

Nia smacked her forehead in sudden realisation as she heard Angelica's words, "I almost forgot about you. Come on, I'll take you to your grandfather. It's too dangerous in the Dark Forest, so next time don't run around randomly."

Nodding, Angelica smiled sweetly and said goodbye to everyone. When she came to Han Shuo, she waved her hand and said, "Goodbye, bad guy!"

"Nia, can you manage on your own? Gordon, you go with her." Odysseus frowned and said to Nia.

Nia shook her head and smiled, "No need, Captain. Your grandfather is very close. I'll call if there's a problem."

After speaking, she quickly left with Angelica and was out of sight in the blink of an eye.

"I think my promise to you has been fulfilled and it's time for me to leave." Trunks looked at Han Shuo and opened his mouth to speak.

After spending some time together, Han Shuo had discovered that Trunks wasn't as bad as rumours had it. At least his actions during this fight didn't make Han Shuo feel uncomfortable. In fact, Han Shuo had subconsciously begun to think of Trunks as one of his companions and was a little unaccustomed to the situation now that he had heard that Trunks would be leaving immediately.

"Be a good Samaritan until the end. Look how badly injured I am now! You should stay and take care of me at least for a little while. It won't be too late for you to leave once we're out of this dangerous area!" Han Shuo looked at Trunks as he joked.

"That wasn't what I promised you before. To be honest, our agreement should've ended as soon as you had the fruit in your hand. Helping you against enemies after that was already an extra service. Don't be too greedy!"

"Look, now I am injured and Odysseus cannot move. It's going to be quite difficult for the rest of the party to get out of this dangerous area safely. I don't think you'd be so cruel as to just leave us, would you?"

Trunks was silent for a while after these words and finally opened his mouth to say, "How about this Han, promise me one thing and I'll protect you and help you get to a relatively safe area.

"What thing?" Han Shuo was startled when he asked Trunks.

"I won't tell you what it is for now, but just remember that you promised me."

"Aren't you afraid that I won't keep my word? Heh heh, I'm not a man of my word!"

"I believe you!" Trunks looked deeply into Han Shuo's eyes as he carefully pronounced each word.

Han Shuo suddenly calmed down and exchanged a look with Trunks. Although he still had a cheeky grin on his face, he nodded and replied, "All right, I promise you!"

Odysseus looked at them with a look of satisfaction, suddenly feeling that these two people were similar in many ways. They both had mysterious origins and were both strong. Their personalities were similar in that they were calm and composed when the unexpected happened, and they showed no hesitation when they should make a move.

As Odysseus stared at Han Shuo, Han Shuo also stared at Odysseus. He thought for a moment and said to Odysseus, "You ventured into the Dark Forest this time for the Fruit of Dagmar. I know you didn't originally have high hopes and didn't seem to value the fruit as much as I do. As a friend, I'd like to ask you, Odysseus, do you really need the Fruit of Dagmar?"

"Not really. Our main goal in entering the Dark Forest was to increase our strength. Of course, if we were lucky, we would also gain some valuable items. I think we've now completely fulfilled our wishes. The Fruit of Dagmar was just a vague goal, we didn't think we'd actually be able to get it. Ordinary people go mad when they eat this fruit, so we have no use for it. We just promised someone we'd come and try our luck". Odysseus also explained seriously when he saw Han Shuo's serious face. He then looked at Han Shuo in confusion, "Han, what are you asking for?"

Breathing out a sigh of relief, Han Shuo smiled and nodded his head, "Because I want to claim the Fruit of Dagmar. The martial arts technique I'm training in confuses the mind, as I mentioned. I can improve this condition with the Fruit of Dagmar, so if you don't really need them, I'd like to keep all three for myself, but I can compensate you with gold coins!"

"Then take them all for yourself, heh heh. We've already received too much. You've given us the Twin-Headed Dragon and the Medusa Core. These are enough to exchange for gold coins. If you need the Fruit of Dagmar, then take them all. There will be less point to all this if you talk more about repayment. Odysseus smiled dashingly and said sincerely to Han Shuo.

Aphrodite, Gordon and the others all told Han Shuo not to stand on ceremony and said that they didn't really need the Fruit of Dagmar.

"All right then, I won't hold back. " Han Shuo really needed the Fruit of Dagmar in the demonic realm of the "Moulded Spirit Realm", so he didn't make any more hypocritical protestations. He accepted it resolutely and happily.

Over the next few days, the group travelled back on their original path, with Han Shuo's original demons scouting the way and under Trunk's protection. They planned to leave the depths of the Dark Forest as soon as possible.

Han Shuo had originally been so weak that he had to rely on others to carry him around. After a few days, he was actually able to get off the litter. A pair of slender arms and jade-like cheeks were revealed after the old skin had scabbed and sloughed off his originally badly burned arms and cheeks. There wasn't a trace of burn to be found.

The burnt parts of his body and the charred parts of his hair also returned to normal after a few days. The miracle of it all made Odysseus and the others wonder once again, "What kind of monster are you?"

With his magical yuan also recovering quickly, Han Shuo carefully tucked away the Fruit of Dagmar during this process. He planned to consume it when he was alone after returning to the cemetery of death. The injuries in his body also healed quickly with the circulation of the magical yuan. Han Shuo's injuries healed quickly with each passing day.

On that day, Han Shuo's original demons detected the passage of a large group of people travelling with earth dragons in the distance. He spotted the adept mage Leon in this group and suddenly discovered that these people were part of the McGrady Guild.

Counting the days and the distance they had travelled, Han Shuo discovered that they were approaching the area where the forest trolls lived. He suddenly remembered that these famous robbers and villains were still awaiting instructions from their great Datara. Connecting the dots to those McGrady Guild guards and the despicable acts they'd committed against him, a slightly cold and cruel smile involuntarily appeared on Han Shuo's lips.