Chapter 20: The Battle I

Xena sighed helplessly and regretfully, and just as she was about to open the last short-range teleportation scroll, Niltina's agile figure had already caught up. The thief's superb speed allowed her to minimize the distance between the two in a very short time.

Her dagger cut a deep groove of blood in Athena's arm, and the latter also pointed at her body, and the black mist corroded her clothes at once, burrowing into the cracks between the flesh and bones.

But neither of them said a word, and at such a close distance, Niltina's dagger had been pinned to the other's neck with unmistakable accuracy, and Athena condensed a ball of death in her hand.

None of them dared to move, blood trickling down Athena's arms, and Niltina's already pale cheeks faded to the last of their blood, and a dead gray mist was rolling around her, trying to spread.

Not far away, footsteps sounded.

The calm and calm rhythm seems to be deliberately so that the two of them can notice.

Both of them saw the tension and suspicion in each other's eyes for a moment.

Was it a member of the Council of the Dead or a member of the Monks' Council?

In the golden-red woods, Luo Lan's figure appeared in sight from hazy to clear, and with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he walked towards them.

Luo Lan's appearance made Athena nervous, and Niltina let out a hearty chuckle.

Luo Lan only took two steps closer, and his heart moved. Suddenly stopped.

Because, he felt a strange fluctuation from the two people.

Niltina's fluctuations were obscure, as if she were covered in an opaque layer of dark water, thick and thin, and her dagger hand was the most viscous.

The female necromancer's body gave him a different feeling, and the swirling dark elements wrapped around her like a thick mist, converging in her palms like life, ready to move.

That's perception, but he's not mature yet. If it weren't for the highly tense confrontation between the two people, he would not have been able to detect it so clearly and unmistakably at this moment.

Indeed, if Luo Lan can fully master this ability, he will be able to judge the enemy's attack intent one step ahead. And what precautions you should make.

Suddenly, a bold thought flashed through his mind, and he slowly walked behind Athena, nodded at Niltina, and said, "Let her go." ”

Niltina looked at him in surprise. But he slowly put away the dagger according to his words, and carefully retreated a few steps, his expression still on guard.

Athena felt the looming threat behind her, and she didn't dare to move. Let out a sneer and said, "You actually helped the outsiders in the council." ”

Niltina's eyes rolled, she shook her head and chuckled, "He's just my new employer." I didn't betray the council. And it is you who are suspected of betraying the council. So I didn't seem to be at fault for helping him deal with you. ”

Luo Lan smiled. He also took a few steps back and said, "Your Excellency can't escape anymore, but I can give you a chance......" He deliberately stopped, and then said: "We can fight alone, if Your Excellency can defeat me, I will let you go, and if you lose, leave the Holy Blood." ”

Athena clearly didn't trust him, she looked around and sneered.

Luo Lan turned to Niltina and said, "What do you say?"

The latter shrugged his shoulders lightly and said, "Don't forget your promise, I don't care." ”

Luo Lan smiled and nodded, and said to Athena: "In the hands of the two of us, you have no chance of escaping, but there is still some hope for fighting me after all, otherwise it will not be easy to wait for your companions to catch up, you have to think about it carefully." ”

There are three reasons why Luo Lan did this, one is because as he comes into contact with more and more forces on the ground, it also means that he is about to face a more powerful enemy, he must constantly improve himself and improve his ability in actual combat, and this necromancer in front of him is undoubtedly the best choice; second, the other party has been injured, and he has a great chance of winning; third, the holy blood is obviously in the opponent's spatial ring, even if he kills her, if he can't find the space mage, it will be in vain.

Athena's face under the hood drooped slightly, and she was silent, obviously considering the gains and losses, and from her point of view, she had no choice in the face of a thief of her rank and a priest who couldn't see the way.

After a moment, she glanced at her bleeding arm and nodded reluctantly, "Okay, I agree." ”

Luo Lan glanced at her wound and signaled that there was nothing he could do, because the dark element of the other party's body and his light element were mutually resisting and repulsing.

"It's okay, it'll be over soon. Athena turned to face

She raised her chin slightly, her dignity and pride as a mage were doubtful at this moment.

A faint strange fluctuation fell on Luo Lan.

Is it perception? Luo Lan sneered in his heart, probably because of the thief's talent and Dennis's teaching, he was the most proficient in concealment skills.

Athena was slightly surprised, she didn't notice any fluctuations of the light element on Luo Lan's body, obviously the other party hid it, which was rare for people who had not yet reached the upper middle level.

At the same time, Luo Lan's body leaned forward slightly, also trying to sense the other party, but it was empty, and the surging and tumbling dark element just now disappeared as if it had sunk into an endless abyss.

With neither of them being able to perceive each other's weaknesses and energy distribution, they can only rely on their strength to decide the winner.

Athena flipped her wrist, the ground under her feet churned, the dirt and grass turned over, and two miserable white bone hands poked out of the ground first, and then crawled out of two skeletons one left and one right, and the smell of decay and unpleasantness suddenly drifted into the air, their bones were incomplete, and the two swaying bone legs barely supported the tattered body, as if they would fall apart with a random step.

Luo Lan was stunned, could such a skeleton also be used as a means of attack?

But then he overturned his thoughts, Athena stretched out her finger and clicked a few times, and a black mist erupted from the bodies of the two skeletons, and a glowing green light immediately appeared from their empty eye sockets, and the originally thin skeleton also grew like a plant-like bone, thickly protecting their originally fragile joints, chest and abdomen.

Luo Lan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, he hadn't waited for the skeleton to be fully formed, he had already crossed the distance between the two, and the white blade that emerged from his hand swung towards a skeleton.

Athena hurriedly recited a few spells, accelerating the evolution of one skeleton, while the other took the initiative to meet Luo Lan, obviously to be cannon fodder.

"Click!"

As if shattering a broken jar, the skeleton shattered into a quick fragment of bone where the Bright Blade swung it.

At the same time, Luo Lan also heard a dull sound, which was like a low hum pulled out of the blower box.

His heart sank, and he turned his eyes with a wary gaze.

The remaining skeleton had life and soul like a living thing, and it was roaring at Luo Lan and rushing up, and its feet were actually agile and agile.

Is this still a skeleton?

Even Niltina was amazed this time, she had never seen a skeleton warrior become like a living being.

Necromancers are really a bunch of guys with endless tricks.

Luo Lan made a flexible turn, dodged the skeleton's forward lunge, and raised his hand to slash at the latter's neck.

However, the result surprised him very much, the skeleton was like a skilled martial artist, and it bent its arms in time to block it.

"Bang!"

A black mist erupted from the seemingly fragile arm bones like a steaming hot pot, completely blocking Luo Lan's hand blade attack.

The skeleton warrior only tilted his body for a few steps, and then quickly stabilized his body and turned his head, the green fire in the two eye holes pulsing and letting out a louder roar, as if the attack had angered it.

Luo Lan suddenly realized, he turned his head in time, and a pale green ball of acid brushed past the side of his face.

There was a scorching smell from the sideburns, and a few strands of white gray hair fell.

Before he could stand still, a condensed "hand of darkness" appeared in front of him.

Athena didn't give Luo Lan any respite, and attacked one after another, one move after another, without a gap in between.

She had already distanced herself from Luo Lan, although it was not very far, but the skeleton warrior and the two low-level spells just now had bought her enough time.

The air began to waft and chant loudly, like weeping, and the grass on the ground shook like a shudder.

She decided to do it quickly!

At the moment, the other end of the woods.

Lokimond, the soul hunter who was galloping, suddenly felt himself enveloped by an overwhelming pressure of terror.

He immediately stopped, an unprecedented solemn expression appeared on his face, he held his longbow hard, slowly turned to look, his pupils couldn't help shrinking, and said, "Who are you?"

A man with loose hair, deep-set eyes, and bloodless cheeks crouched on a branch, his eyes looked ahead in distraction, and when he heard Lokimond's question, his eyes moved, slowly moved down, stretched out his bright red tongue and licked his chapped lips, and said without emotion: "Stick, cutter Stick." ”

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