Deep Green basin beneath ascetic Crowe.
Silver runes appeared above the swamp. As the runes shattered, the black-robed man walked out from the cracks formed by the runes. He had just taken a step when he fell into the swamp.
It took him a full minute to recover his spirit. He crawled out from the mud and used magic to clear the mud on his clothes.
It was not easy to escape from a chaos demon and an ice dragon. The black-clothed man paid a huge price to barely escape from the ice dragon’s imprisonment.
He was the one who had been banished by ascetic crow, so he could not enter ascetic Crow’s elven settlement through teleportation magic.
But he had to return to ascetic crow now and tell the Council of elders what he had seen and heard.
The defiler had established his own stronghold in asgolos! He had also imprisoned a group of high elf patrols, and to make matters worse, elder Sindonar had become a member of the defiler.
