Chapter 4: The Little Mage's Strategy
Mages have a high demand for wisdom, and compared to warlords and priests, mages who have more than a dozen spells to choose from at the lower levels are quite flexible and changeable. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info and how to apply their limited spells to create infinite possibilities is a problem that every mage is thinking about.
Monia is certainly one of them, and while she hasn't done a great job of it, this mage's mindset has somehow changed the outright violentist aesthetic of her previous life. For example, now, her knee-jerk reaction is not to transform into a humanoid self-propelled cannon to fight the wolves to the death, but to choose everything she can use to block the wolves.
And in this forest, the most valuable use is obviously the ruins of the ruined temple occupied by a swarm of spiders. Not to mention the surging sea of spiders, in the face of the traps and spell traps inside the ruins, as a mage, she will definitely be able to better avoid risks.
That's it.
Monia ran with the two of them, listening to the howl of the wolf getting closer and closer, Monia threw the two little girls into the tree with the mage's hand: "Lil, Fana, wait here for me to come back, when you are hungry, pick some fruit from the tree to eat, and if I don't come back in three days, you will be careful yourself." ”
"Understood, you must come back, Sister Monia!"
"Come back alive."
Concerned words came from behind him, and the little mage smiled unconsciously, without looking back. As the object of the wolves' bloody revenge, if it weren't in this dangerous forest, the farther away from them, the safer it was.
Perhaps because of the relatively intensive battle during this time, Monia, who was preparing the ice shield, was surprised to find that she was not much slower than the usual chant chanting in the run, and just ran a few hundred steps away, the three-sided ice shield condensed and formed around her body, and with the chanting of the last incantation, the three-sided ice shield began to swirl around the little mage.
"Whew!"
Now was not the time to be surprised, the little mage, who was fading away, roughly estimated the distance between the wolves and her, and glanced in the direction of the temple - at her current speed, I am afraid there is no way to get to the ruins before the wolves!
Slowing down a little, the little mage concentrated, thinking with all her strength about what to do, and when the figure of the wolf pack was faintly visible, she no longer hesitated, and chose a tall tree to climb up, and before she could stand firm on the canopy, more than a dozen demon wolves surrounded her below.
"Looks like I'm going to be an ape."
Looking at the pair of scarlet eyes below, the little mage held his forehead and sighed. Then find your way and start running along the branches. One step, two steps, three steps...... The branches were gradually depressed, and then ...... Jump with all your might!
Stand.
"It's a little bit of a thrill."
Monia looked back, and where she had jumped, the branches had been broken by the full force of the jump. If she had taken a few further steps to be on the safe side, she might have fallen to the ground from a broken branch and been forced to use her life-saving cards.
After calming down a little and adjusting his breathing, the little mage finds the right direction, estimates the distance, runs again, and jumps again. Although she has small arms and legs, her strength is actually no worse than that of an adult man, and her body coordination is above that of most people.
Like a little forest elf, he plays with the forest as his home.
Of course, Monia is not really a forest elf, and the forest is not her home. So, naturally, when she jumped onto the last tree, she stopped when she saw the familiar ruins, and the flat ruins in front of the temple.
Squatted down in some distress, silently looking at the demon wolves that were forming a ball under the tree.
One two three four five...... No more, no less, exactly twenty.
While picking the fruit, the little mage counted the number of demon wolves. Although he can constantly bombard the wolves below with spells on the tree, the little mage still knows how much effect it will be for the demon wolf with extreme speed.
From here to the ruins of the Grand Temple, it is about fifty paces. Step is Aarons's unit of measuring distance, one step is roughly equivalent to the distance of one step on each foot of an adult man, and even if Monia can jump far, the distance of fifty steps will be caught up by the demon wolves.
What to do?
Holding his chin, the little mage pondered the question.
While the little mages were trying to figure out how to solve the problem, the demon wolves were not idle. They gather together, and although they do not have the ability to climb trees, they can cut off the trunk little by little with their claws. Clever or cunning, they didn't choose the big tree Monia was in now, but cut down the big trees near her in batches.
After so many jumps, the demon wolves learned a lot smarter, at least estimating the approximate jump range of the little mage, and also knew her means of escape. In Monia's deep dying, she quietly cut off all possible retreats.
When the little mage heard the sound of trees falling, she was surprised to find that the trees around her were falling one by one, and several demon wolves under the trees looked at her with fierce eyes.
"Well, there's no way back, that's the only way to try."
Monia laughed to herself, and smashed the fruit in her hand at the demon wolves who stayed on the ground. The demon wolf didn't know what kind of attack it was, so they dodged one after another, and at this opportunity, the little mage quickly sprinted and jumped up from the branch with all his strength.
Even if he was made by the little mage's pile of fruits for a while, the demon wolf's reaction was still very fast. Before the little mage had barely jumped out of the canopy and had not yet had the momentum to fall, the demon wolves had already given up what they were doing and galloped towards her.
Looking at the wolves approaching closer, the little mage spat out incantations in the wind. A simple syllable, a huge palm took shape in front of her, and then aligned with ...... Herself! Slam!
- Azik's flying high-five.
Fly your hands at your own attack!
An ice shield shattered, and the impact enveloped Monia forward. Just as he was about to land, the little mage repeated his old trick again, summoning Azik's flying palm, picking an angle diagonally downward, and striking another slam.
The wolves were much faster than Monia in the air, but they could only watch the little mage get closer and closer to her destination in mid-air.
However, the wolves are not stupid, and it is not difficult for them to roughly guess where the little mage has landed, and they sit quietly not far from the gate of the temple, waiting for the moment when the little mage approaches the ground.
That will be the moment when the attack is launched.
Monia didn't plan to force herself to displace herself with a flying palm again, but it didn't help at all. As long as she doesn't move as fast as the demon wolf, she will definitely face such a result. Instead of always thinking about escaping, prepare for it now.
Her response was actually quite simple.
Although there are a lot of demon wolves, there are twenty of them, and the range that may attack her is so large, and the number of demon wolves that attack her must not be many, probably the ones in the front row. The moment she entered the range of the demon wolves, the spell that had been prepared in her hand was shot.
It's mud feet deep!
Monia casts a mud foot sink on a leaping wolf, and casts a greasy spell on the feet of a nearby wolf. The demon wolf, who jumped up to the little mage to pounce, suddenly sank and staggered past her.
Under the inexplicable gaze of a group of demon wolves, the little mage's ice shield smashed to the ground, landed smoothly, and then made a grimace at them, and walked leisurely towards the temple.
"Whew!"
The wolves howled angrily and rushed in the direction where the little mage had left.
But the ground became extremely slippery under the effect of the greasy technique, and the powerful limbs suddenly exerted force on the ground, and there was only one result—none of the wolves kept their balance well, and one by one they fell to the ground and looked for teeth.
Lying on the ground, they could only vent their frustration with their scarlet eyes.
The Greasy Technique was so successful that the little mage had imagined, and she stood in front of the temple door, not knowing for a moment whether to go in or not. There were so many spiders in the ruins that she wasn't completely sure she could guarantee that she would be safe and sound for even a few breaths.
So, she turned around again and waved at the wolves lying on the ground: "Don't send it." ”
Animals are more agile than humans, and they can still walk freely with a little attention to greasy techniques. After the demon wolves led by them landed, the wolves attacked Monia again.
Just keep up.
Monia glanced at the approaching wolves and stepped into the temple again. Sure enough, just after stepping into the dilapidated temple, all kinds of spiders spit silk down from the sky, colorful, from a distance it looks like there is a touching beauty, a deadly beauty.
"Well, I hope we can lose both."
Monia, who was watching the movement of the spiders and the distance between the wolves, finally found the right time. At the same time that the wolves rushed into the temple, they activated the ability of the Circle of Deception to travel in phase, disappearing from the surface of the world in a ripple.
Enter the shadow side of the world with only black and white.
Here, the little mage can leisurely watch the battle between the spider and the wolf.
Individually, this is not an evenly matched battle, the demon wolf is twice as tall as the normal wolf species, and there are few places where these spiders can bite except for the lack of protection from the hard and iron-like wolf hair on their abdomen. Even if you bite into it and inject venom, with the size and resistance of a demon wolf, it will not fall for a while.
But on the whole, it's a close battle. There are quite a few demon wolves, there are twenty of them, but they are just a small boat in the vast ocean compared to the dense and creepy swarm of spiders, and they can only struggle powerlessly in the tide.
The key to this battle is to see whether the demon wolves will fall down first, or whether the spider swarm will be slaughtered first. However, no matter which side wins, it is destined to be a pyrrhic victory, no, not a pyrrhic victory, but a complete defeat.
Because Monia, the fisherman, is still watching from the sidelines.
After waiting for about ten breaths, the little mage quickly left while he could stay in the shadow plane for a while after seeing the possibility of the battle ending in a short time. She didn't dare to guarantee that the demon wolves were halfway through the fight and saw that the culprit suddenly appeared in front of her, and they would not be desperate to hunt down her.
If that's the case, it's not fun.
Twenty breaths of time is not fast or slow, and not long after walking out of the temple ruins area, Monia appeared in the forest. She didn't go to Lil and Fana in the first place, she couldn't be sure if it was the spider swarm that won in the end, and if there were still demon wolves alive and followed her scent, it would definitely be a disaster for the elf twin Lori.
After about five Mushas, the demon wolf did not come out of the ruined temple. The little mage, who had roughly guessed the result, jumped down from the tree and walked towards the temple area again. Walking to the dilapidated temple door, she paused slightly, then moved her steps slightly.
The expected attack did not come, and the little mage frowned slightly, which was not good news. The battle inside ended sooner than she had estimated, and it seemed that the number of spiders far exceeded her previous estimates.
But there's not much left.
The strength of the wolf pack of twenty demon wolves is not weak, and those who have just entered the upper professional may not be able to clean them up. Although for the demon wolves who do not have the ability to kill in a large area, a large group of poisonous spiders is quite an opponent to restrain them, but restraint does not mean that they have no power to fight back, and the wolves' desperate madness must have caused very big losses to the spider group.
Sure enough, as soon as I stepped into the temple, I saw a dense swarm of spiders gathering in front of the wolf corpses everywhere and sucking their flesh. Although there are still so many of them, they are not the scale of terror that covered the sky and the sun before.
Without hesitation, Monia summoned a flaming hand and incinerated the wolf corpse along with the spider swarm.
After filtering every corner of the temple with flames, leaving a trail of embers, the little mage looked up at the cobwebs that had almost become the new dome of the ruined temple. The Burning Hand doesn't have enough cast range, but if you don't want a spider to descend from the webs above and land on your neck out of sight, giving you a hard bite, destroying the webs is the best option.
After hesitating for a while, Monia chose the Red Lotus Arrow as a spell to destroy the cobwebs. As the incantation continued to be chanted, the fiery breath condensed little by little on the palm of his hand, and the little mage spit out the last incantation, and the red lotus arrow in his hand was completely formed.
Aim at the very center of the cobweb, throw!
Like a red lotus, as fast as an arrow!
The moment the flame met the cobweb, it exploded like a beautiful red lotus. However, the little mage at this time did not have the heart to enjoy the beautiful scenery, because an angry voice sounded from the dome, and the whole world seemed to tremble under this sound.
"Who is it! Disturbed my restful sleep! ”
A voice roared, invisible sound waves radiating around, Monia barely stood still, trembling and looking upwards, where what had once been a spider's web, once the sky, had been occupied by a huge figure.
Is that......
A name came to mind.
How can it be......
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