pitfall
After a chaotic battle on the second floor, Darko and his party were no longer sleepy, so they simply continued to hurry and marched towards the third floor. After that, there were no accidents on the way, and everyone made it to the third floor, which was a mess of rocks full of large and small rubble. Stones of different shapes and sizes filled the entire layer, and I don't know what caused it. There are irregular like demons and monsters, and there are regular ones that look like carved spheres. The large stones are two or three stories high, while the smaller ones are the size of a fingernail.
By the time everyone had gone up to the third floor, the light was shining from behind the stairs on the fourth floor, and it was already dawn. When they went up to this level, everyone's expressions were obviously much more serious, because the level of prey in this layer was not low, and they were all swordsmen and magisters. But there aren't many people on this level, after all, whether it's prey or hunters, it's hard to find them after reaching this level. The crowd quickly continued to move forward in an orderly manner according to the previous formation, with only the occasional small demonic beast and tenacious plant scurrying between the rocks, but there was no prey in sight.
While he was walking among the rocks, Tasa suddenly drank, "Stop!"
The crowd looked at Tassa suspiciously, only to see him take two steps forward, then lean down and gently twist a thin thread from the pile of rubble. Following the thin line and looking to both sides, I saw that one side was pressed under a large stone, and the other side was connected to a magic scroll. Seeing this, Phyllis hurriedly shouted to Darko, who was behind the end of the team, "Darko, come and see, there is a magic scroll here!"
Darko heard Phyllis's call and hurriedly ran forward, he was also stunned when he saw this trap, because when he was in the Mercury plane, he also used a similar trigger trap against VitB12. This kind of simple trap is used when there is a lack of materials and time, and it is easier to be triggered by the outside environment or animals than the trap of alchemy machinery, but it has the advantage of being simple and cheap.
Then Darko shifted his gaze to the magic scroll, and quickly recognized that it was a scroll of the earth-based earth trapping technique, so he said to Phyllis, "It's just an earth-based third-level magic earth trapping technique, a magic scroll belonging to the auxiliary class, it's not a big deal." ”
Everyone was cautiously hiding ten meters away, and they were all relieved to hear Darko's words, for most of them, there was no big threat to third-level magic, and even if they stood and resisted, they would not be too seriously injured.
"Cut, it's a false alarm! I thought I could earn a powerful magic scroll. Phyllis patted her breast, which was not full, and then sent a dark arrow with her hand, and shot the thin line accurately.
Darko was also wondering why the trap setter had placed a trap here, and he took a closer look around the area, and suddenly noticed that there was a large oval boulder not far from the scroll, and the bottom seemed to be not very securely fixed. Darko was suddenly startled and hurriedly tried to stop Phyllis, but it was too late, and the dark arrow hit the thin line and already activated the scroll of the Earth Trapping Technique.
"Get out of here!" Darko barely had time to shout before pulling Phyllis back behind.
There was a screeching sound of falling rocks as the rubble above fell into the cavern created by the Ground Subsidence, and then the fragile balance beneath the oval boulder was broken, and the boulder rumbled and rolled. Due to the irregular stones all around, the boulder only rolled to the side for about five meters before stopping, but in the end it was pressed against the end of a strip of stone. The slate acted as a lever, throwing a pile of irregular stones at the other end of the road, which smashed into the place where Darko and the others were.
Darko had been keeping an eye on the trap even though he had retreated quickly, and when he saw the magical light on the flying rubble, he finally panicked and shouted, "Be careful!
Otto's reaction speed was extremely fast, his shield was erected in front of him, and the radius of five meters was enveloped under the radiation of the fighting energy, and several other priests such as Darko were under his defense.
A dull sound came from the fighting qi released from the shield, and the stones exploded into a cloud of dust when they touched Otto's fighting qi, causing a wave of fluctuation on the fighting qi shield. But Otto's vindictive shield could not protect everyone after all, and several Stuart archers, who were hit by the bursting stones, immediately screamed, and it seemed that they were not lightly injured. Fortunately, most of them dodged back in time after being alerted, and not too many people were injured.
Darko leaned over and picked up a bit of the stone debris, feeling the remnants of the magic in it, and said, "This is the inscription of the second-level magic landslide, this person carved the inscription on the stone, which makes the stone much more powerful, and it is a good trap." ”
While in the Mercury plane, Darko also copied the Elemental Martyrdom inscription on the floor of the mine, and later played a key role in the fight against VitB12. However, it is obviously more efficient to copy earth magic on a stone, and it can use the earth element of the stone itself to activate the magic in the inscription, making it much more powerful.
"Is it just second-level magic? second-level magic can only do damage, but it can't kill, so ......" Otto thought about it when he heard this, and immediately shouted, "Don't let your guard down, the prey that set the trap is likely to be not far away!"
Everyone immediately became vigilant, and Wendy immediately rose into the air to watch the surroundings. After a while, Wendy spotted a clue, and a wind blade flew silently into a mess of rocks. At the same time, a figure also quickly ran out of the rocks, jumping up and down at a rapid speed, and escaped with the help of the cover of the rocks. Wendy saw that the other party had noticed it, so she exclaimed, "Over there!"
The Wind Blade was a little faster, striking the figure's vest like a ghost. The man was also aware of the danger, and as soon as he lowered his body, he burrowed into a hole formed by the rocks, and the hole still led to another place, and the man was not slow to escape in it. But Wendy's wind blade seemed to have an autonomous consciousness, and it flexibly flipped an angle, and it drilled through the rocks, and disappeared in a flash. At the same time, the figure rushed forward directly, and there was already an extremely thin wound on his back, which could not even be seen if he didn't look closely, but the internal organs and other organs inside the wound had been completely destroyed by the wind blade. For Wendy, who has a divine soul, she knows all the obstacles in the distance, and she can let magic pass through the holes that people can pass through, and in terms of magic control, Wendy is even above Darko who has the ability to control magic.
Wendy was about to fly over, but was stopped by Otto, "Don't go alone, I don't know if this person has a companion, be careful of being ambushed!"
Wendy listened to Otto's advice and stayed in the air to continue her work. In an enclosed space, if there is a trap like the one just now, it is difficult for anyone to be immune. Even if Wendy has wings, it's not foolproof, and it's better to be careful on the hunting island.
Otto and the others surrounded the pit where the man was located in a large group, and then explored it little by little, making sure that there were no traps before moving the man's body out. It was a skinny man, who looked like a monkey, but his hands were disproportionately larger.
Otto quickly recognized the man's characteristics, "This is an all-attacking and all-sensitive assassin, with a pitifully low defense, no wonder one of the wind blades died." ”
Darko looked at this man's hands, shook his head and whispered, "This person is not an inscriptionist who sets traps, his hands are calloused, so he can't use the magic pen flexibly." ”
"It looks like someone else has set up this trap," Otto deduced, "and this Assassin saw us approaching, so he lurked near the trap to see if he could take advantage of it." ”
"Is this inscriptionist not nearby?" Darko frowned and asked Otto again, "Don't you know this inscriptionist?"
Otto hesitated and shook his head, "After all, I have been away for too long, and the metabolism of Hunting Island is too fast, and I didn't know that such a powerful inscriptionist existed in the twenty years I was Hunting Island. ”
"This kind of trap is really unguardable, how can we deal with it?" everyone thought it was strange at this time, because usually hunters set traps to catch prey, but now the situation is reversed.
Otto thought for a moment and said, "Me and Tasa are at the front, the others are behind, keep a proper distance, Dako, you help me and Tasa cast the Frost Armor." ”
Tasa is the one with the best eyesight, and Otto is the most defensive, and the two of them are at the forefront, which is the safest solution. And the prey in the third layer is also much less, and if you keep a reasonable distance, you don't have to worry about being split and attacked, but you can prevent the mass destruction caused by the alchemy trap.
The crowd continued to walk cautiously, observing the strangeness in the boulder at all times, but they really found three more traps in advance. Two of them were discovered by Tassa and the other by Faulk.
As they walked cautiously, Otto's feet were on a fist-sized rock, which was also somewhat shattered by weathering, and Otto cracked and fell when he stepped on it, and at the same time a wave of magic came from beneath the stone. At the same time as he felt the fluctuation of the magic power, Otto had already reacted, and his other foot slammed on the ground, making a muffled sound and his body soared into the air, and at the same time completed half a front flip in the air. He had used the weight of his shield to lean forward to do so in such a short distance, so his entire shield was pressed down towards the ground. He still had the strength to kick Tasa away beside him, and at the same time shouted, "This is a trap, retreat!"
It was only then that clusters of thorns rose under Otto's shield, and the sharp spikes made a sonorous sound as they clashed with the shield. Due to the distance between the formation, the five-meter radius of the ground thorn only pierced a few sailors and archers who were closer to Otto. A few sailors died in an instant, but the archers of the Stuart family were of a higher level, and it was even more troublesome to be attacked by this low-level magic that they would only be injured but not killed.
After the leg and foot are injured, it has a huge impact on combat effectiveness, and if a lone hunter falls into this trap, he will inevitably be attacked by the prey immediately, and it is difficult to escape. A few people in their team were injured, and supporting the wounded would not only affect the overall combat effectiveness, but also greatly hinder the speed of travel, and they were short of time to go to the Death Ruins, and the last thing they could not waste was time.
Tasa made a timely decision, "You wounded, follow the group, if there is an attack, we will not help." If you can't catch up before we sail, stay on this island. ”
Darko and the others were all stunned, but the archers did not complain at all, nodded and limped slowly behind the team.
Kevin picked up the rock that Otto had stepped on and sighed, "Using the rock's resistance to compression, it will only be triggered if you step on it if you exceed a certain weight." Presumably because hunters are heavily armed and weigh a lot, and these prey have little equipment, and stepping on them may not trigger traps. Borrowing all natural conditions to set a trap that can hide from us, the prey of the trap is not only an inscriptionist, we should call him an alchemist. ”
"It's just a matter of intrigues, and this person is still shameless?" Phyllis pouted in displeasure, in her opinion intrigue should be her patent, and anyone else should be despised if they were used.
"The key question is how do we deal with the pitfalls that are coming up in the future. Kevin is also at a loss for this kind of tricky trap, although he often arranges some simple traps when doing trial tasks, but compared to this kind of interlocking alchemy traps, it is simply pediatric.
Everyone looked at each other, and they were all at a loss, in terms of combat effectiveness, any of them could kill the inscription master, but for the trap set by that person, they didn't dare to guarantee that they would be unharmed.
"I can try to trigger those alchemy traps with air magic. Wendy's words made everyone's eyes shine, if there is anyone in this team who is most likely to create a miracle, it is Wendy who has a divine soul, except for Darko.
Wendy soared into the air and stopped at a height of 100 meters, and then the wings appeared behind her. When the wings flapped, the air flow between heaven and earth also slowly moved, like a huge invisible creature breathing. Wendy's breathing wings gradually increased their fanning speed, and the pressure of the air flow gradually increased, and when it reached a certain level, it actually formed some kind of coercive attack power. This is the effect of the combination of Breath Wing and the Law of the Storm, although it is only equivalent to an attack of less than a level of magic, but the coverage area is all over the entire third layer, and it is enough to trigger some alchemy traps.
For a while, the earthy yellow brilliance rose to the sky one after another, and it was one after another, which was the light formed by the triggering of the earth-based magic scroll. Everyone was a little stunned when they saw such a scene, they didn't expect that there would be so many alchemy traps on the third layer, and if they rushed forward, they might increase the casualties in vain.
Phyllis muttered to herself, "With so many traps, how do the other prey go about their daily lives?"
Kevin thought for a moment and said, "Maybe the prey in this layer can distinguish the alchemy traps set by this person through the markings, and these traps are most likely specially used against hunters." ”
The air flow gradually calmed down, and Wendy's voice came again, "You can move on, but don't let your guard down, the large area of air pressure I manipulate can only trigger the contact and implicated alchemy traps." Heavy pressure traps like the one Otto had just stepped on required too much force to trigger them, and my magic couldn't trigger them. ”
The crowd looked at each other, and then continued on at the same time. Sure enough, with Wendy's magic, the road behind was much better, and occasionally some traps that were not triggered were also discovered by Tasa, or saved by Otto's rich experience. After half a day's journey, they finally came to the cliff where they had reached the fourth floor. At the same time, several screams were heard from the rear in the distance, from several wounded Stuart archers, who had apparently been killed by their prey.
Dakko and the others all looked at each other, they fought wits and courage with that alchemy genius, but in the end they didn't even see the other party's people, although they successfully passed through the third layer, but in Darko's opinion, they also lost. This made him know that there are people outside the world, and he can't feel that he is the best in the world just because he won the Alchemy Grand Prix. Compared to this unknown inscriptionist, he was far from setting traps and using magic scrolls.