A strange world

Chapter 1156 Section 78. Body without a soul

Aliana wanted to say something, but was signaled by Teddel to keep quiet.

"Why do you want to block your last chance?"

Annan tried to stay calm and did not say this threatening sentence. Instead, he said: "This is not the Prince Aidan I know."

"We haven't known each other for long, right?"

"But I can feel that you are not an evil person..."

Annan somewhat understood why the succubus could still smile at fat, dirty and bad-breathed guests, and he is almost the same now. .

"Evil? Of course I am not..." Prince Aidan looked compassionate: "It's just that on the road to success, someone must sacrifice..."

"Even if it's your like-minded companion?"

"Even if it's me."

This road is blocked... Prince Aidan doesn't think he has any problems.

"Then what if I tell you that the path you took is wrong?"

Prince Aidan's phantom smiled: "How much older are you than me?"

Annan's age is indeed not convincing, but they all know that this is not the key, because even if an old man said this, Prince Aidan would say that the old man is stubborn and outdated.

"Then exchange hostages, you return Irelanze to me, and I return the 'king' to you."

The "king" who was listening suddenly opened his eyes wide, and then struggled violently, wanting to commit suicide so as not to burden Prince Aidan, but could only make a series of mournful sobs.

Prince Aidan's phantom looked at the "king", and it was his turn to experience Annan's entanglement.

"Okay."

Unexpectedly, Prince Aidan agreed: "She was in the tree house before us, I think you are familiar with it."

Annan tilted his head and said to Ariana: "Let him go."

The legendary elf wizard did so, and when the "king" was released, there was still disbelief on his face.

"Go quickly, the farther away the better. You are no longer involved in this matter, and no elves will catch you." Annan said to him.

Prince Aidan said: "Do as he says."

The "king" first saluted Prince Aidan, then bowed slightly to Annan with a complicated expression and walked out.

Prince Aidan's illusion gradually faded, leaving him with a last look.

They both knew in their hearts that if they met again, they would be mortal enemies without friendship...

"Why don't you want Lord Emerald's child?" The legendary elf ranger said.

"He is not important enough."

It was a pleasant surprise to be able to exchange for Irelanze. Annan thought Aidan would use her to force him to withdraw from the pursuit.

His original idea was to let the "king" see Prince Aidan's true face and find out their plan...

"You are not keeping an eye on the 'king'?" Annan asked.

"Do you want to withdraw?" Aliana replied.

"Well... not yet, let's go find Irelanze first."

Prince Aidan's goal was still achieved - he still managed to delay Annan.

Quickly rushed to the wooden house where he lived before, as soon as he approached, Annan saw Irelanze leaning against the tree house where he used to live.

Annan breathed a sigh of relief, but found that Taidel and others around him fell into silence.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Annan..." Taidel showed a trace of pity.

Annan then realized that Irelanze's chest did not rise and fall...

Stupified, Annan walked to Irelanze and squatted down, reaching out to touch her mouth and nose. The soft skin was cold to the bone, without a trace of breath...

"She..."

"Her soul is not here." The Skeleton King whispered.

Annan raised his head from his trance: "Do you mean her soul has dissipated or..."

"I don't know."

The scene of Prince Aidan using the Eye of Rudolph to capture the soul of Lord Emerald's child emerged in his mind. Annan had a glimmer of hope. Maybe it was the same for Irelanze...

Annan picked up Irelanze with difficulty, opened the portal, and sent her back to Liberty City.

Watching Abby and the maid frantically taking Irelanze, who seemed to be sleeping, to the bedroom, Annan retracted his gaze.

"Where is the 'king'?"

A few minutes later, Annan and his friends appeared outside a dark tree hole.

Deep in the tree hole, the 'king' leaned against the wall, his head hanging, holding a bloody stone in his hand, and the blood stained his clothes and his body.

He committed suicide.

With no time to sigh at the loyalty of the members of the Ideal Country to Prince Aidan, Annan accelerated his pursuit of Prince Aidan.

But every time they were about to get close, Prince Aidan would teleport again, flashing several miles away, and then leave a companion to delay their steps.

Those who stayed behind did not make the same mistake as the "king" and activated the trap immediately.

But as the elves summoned by Annan arrived, the time they could be stopped by this method became shorter and shorter.

In order to escape, Prince Aidan had to teleport continuously in a short period of time, bearing a heavy price - his bright golden hair lost its former brilliance and gradually became stained with an indescribable gray and dead air.

There was only one person left with him, and Prince Aidan did not let his members die for a few seconds of delay, but directly activated the trap when Annan approached.

The terrifying flames rose from all sides, forming a wide wall of fire around the giant tree where Prince Aidan was.

But the elves who followed Annan reacted quickly, and the elven wizard group chanted collectively, condensing a rain cloud over the burning forest.

The heavy rain, with a cold touch, penetrated the thick smoke and flames, suppressing the blazing flames.

"Aidan! Where is the soul of Irelanze!?"

Annan shouted at Prince Aidan in the center.

"The 'king' committed suicide, your companions died, and even you are bearing the price of the artifact. Is this what you want? Aidan Hernand!"

Annan shouted at Prince Aidan in the center.

Prince Aidan stood in the rain, letting the rain wash his face. His gray hair and once luxurious clothes were close to his body, which seemed particularly heavy.

He cast a glance, raised the Eye of Rudolph, and disappeared again.

"Damn..."

Annan's patience almost disappeared in this cat-and-mouse game, and he couldn't understand what was the point of Aidan using human lives to stop them?

"Is he deliberately delaying time?"

At this time, Aliana used magic to condense a three-dimensional map of the Verdant City, with red lines representing the route they were chasing Prince Aidan.

The route seemed to be tortuous and purposeless, but there was still a significant pattern: approaching the center of the Verdant City little by little from the periphery.

It was as if...

"They are approaching the World Tree!" The pupils of the legendary elf ranger shrank suddenly.

"But if the World Tree is Aidan's goal, why doesn't he go directly there?"

"There is no time." Taidel said.

Annan and his men were chasing very closely. If they ran directly to the World Tree, they would only be caught up, and they would be surrounded and blocked because they were too obvious...

"So what does he want to do by approaching the World Tree?"

Teddel said in a heavy voice: "Whatever it is... it is definitely not a good thing."