'Should I try scanning this bird and finding its true strength?' He thought multiple times but chose to abandon it. If somehow that red bird sensed his human-like spiritual power and woke up from its deep sleep, the whole group might get annihilated.
'Wait! Why shouldn't I use this opportunity to kill all of these guys?' He suddenly thought of a bold idea but soon shivered as he heard Azolla's reply.
'Don't even try it. You wouldn't even have any chance to escape if it opened its eyes, kid. Also, don't forget Goddess Nyara's warning.' Azolla's words were like a bucket of cold water pouring onto him. Before Abium could ask more questions, Azolla started to speak to him in his mind.
'This bird has strength equal to a peak third-tier mage. But for some reason, it seems to be restricted from moving away from this treasure mansion house.'
'Wait, that guy wasn't shocked by this Redbird but the thing restricting this redbird?' Abium drew a deep breath.
'Yes. Also, its strength should be enough to wipe out the royal city in seconds.' Her words caused him both shock and puzzlement.
While he was discussing, others started to make their move.
First, Rilos signaled everyone not to make any noise while placing his forefinger on his lips and stealthily walked towards the two-meter tall rectangular stone pillar like a sneaky cat.
Meanwhile, others also nodded their head and followed behind him quietly. Even Ulzez showed a grave expression and held Aliza's hand tightly!
As soon as the group moved closer to the rectangular pillar, the red bird opened its crimson eyes slowly and looked at them.
The next moment, Abium felt the Redbird's stare could even see through his soul and trembled.
While everyone was frozen in stiff, it slowly moved its other leg and placed it on the red soil. But when Redbird's long leg landed on the ground, a raging flame started to spread in all directions!
"Grazius! It's your turn." Rilos shouted solemnly and quickly shifted his gaze toward that crimson Redbird. At the same time, he took out the emerald pendant, which he borrowed from Abium, and cast the ' Soul Slaver' spell.
The cavern suddenly turned gloomy as he held the pendant in his right hand.
After that, he took out a strange pebble-like black stone and placed it on the top of the emerald pendant.
'Soul gem! He is using the soul of another third-tier being to enslave this red bird!' Azolla said as she guessed what Rilos was planning to do.
Following that, an invisible force came out of the emerald pendant and stopped the fire from spreading everywhere. Not only that, but this invisible force even tried to restrict the Redbird from moving!
Meanwhile, Grazius turned his face solemnly and took three undead skeletons from his spatial ring. Even though they looked like ordinary skeletons, Abium noticed a minute amount of divine power hidden in them.
All three skeletons held some eerie black swords in their hands and sprinted towards the rectangular at an incredible speed.
A banging sound echoed the next second, followed by a shockwave.
The next instant, the top rectangular broken pillar fell on the ground with a loud thud and released dense spatial essence.
Hum!
A moment later, a two-meter radius void-like portal appeared above the half stood broken pillar and started to suck the surrounding air.
Upon seeing the strange portal, the necromancers' complexion grew pale!
"It's not the seal!" Rilos shouted in shock.
But before he could step back, an invisible power pulled him towards the void and swallowed him like a devouring mouth.
'Strange.' Abium noticed something was off about Rilos and muttered.
'What's so strange?' Azolla asked.
'Instead of scared, he looked excited!'
Indeed, Abium saw an excited expression on Rilos's face as he was sucked into that bluish void!
At that moment, he knew Rilos was hiding something from others!
"It's a dimensional trap." While Abium was in deep thought, Ulzez muttered solemnly, grabbed Aliza's hand, and jumped into that portal voluntarily.
Other necromancers were startled by his action and looked at each other in confusion. Even two out of five remaining sixth second-tier necromancers stood hesitant and didn't enter the portal.
On the other hand, Abium also heard Azolla's voice and walked into the portal while grabbing Yozis with his other hand.
Following that, Grazius, Ubrauqir, and Britta also dashed toward the portal and jumped in.
Only five first-tier necromancers and two second-tier red-robed necromancers stood there dumbly.
The change was too sudden, which caused everyone to hesitate.
But all of a sudden, everyone sensed a massive amount of pressure smashed on their bodies and soon became horrified. Due to the sudden portal appearance earlier, the necromancers had entirely forgotten about the Redbird that just got released from the third-tier soul slaver spell!
"Let's hurry." A red-robed necromancer spoke as he snapped out of the daze and tried to move forward.
But to his shock, the Redbird's spirit force surrounded his body like a metallic chain and completely shackled his movement!
"No good!"
At that moment, he also noticed that the portal was shrinking slowly and went pale.
With no other choice, he took out his undead skeletons, sent them toward the Redbird, and tried to fight it.
SCREEEEECHHHHH!
A raging screech came from the Redbird's crimson beak, followed by increasing room temperature.
At the same time, the Redbird opened its crimson wings wide and flapped while infusing more fire into the crimson feathers.
The bird glowed in crimson light the next second and looked more like the legendary phoenix, making the necromancers take a step back in fear.
Following that, a single half-meter-long crimson blade-like feather separated from the Redbird's right-wing and flew toward the necromancers. In a blink, that crimson feather appeared in front of an official-tier necromancer and neatly decapitated his head. Before others could understand the situation, it moved at light speed and decapitated everyone's head.
A second later, they all felt that the world began to spin and soon realized that they were decapitated!
...
While the Redbird was busy killing the necromancers, a small Black Cat strolled into the underground cave and soon leaped on the broken pillar while fixing its gaze at the almost vanishing portal.
Then, it swayed its tail and showed a haughty look.
At that moment, the Redbird also noticed the Black Cat's arrival and tilted its head in confusion.
But the black cat didn't even look at the Redbird and licked the golden necklace attached to its' neck. If someone looked at the necklace closely, you would find three yellow-colored trinkets attached to it.
Upon seeing the cat's arrogant attitude, Redbird got annoyed inside and slashed its claw toward the black cat. But to its astonishment, Redbird suddenly found that its attack had missed!
Before it could think of what had just happened, the Black Cat was nowhere to be seen!