While mages are usually more concerned with their knowledge, for non-spellcasters, the most important factor in measuring a mage's level is combat effectiveness.

Rod's flash just now made Ike cheer up his spirits.

In Valoran, flashing is a must for mages, but the way mages flash is different.

Ezreal the explorer relies on magic items, the wandering mage Ruiz wields the power of runes, and the trickster Queen LeBlanc combines magic and illusion......

As for the flash in the summoner's rift, it was a pure summoner skill, and had nothing to do with the caster himself.

Rod's flash, on the other hand, uses pure arcane power to directly change his coordinates - you can understand that Rhodes uses arcane to adjust his positional parameters.

Ike, who is extremely sensitive to time, realized for the first time that Rod's flash was a teleportation in the true sense of the word, and Ike had never heard of anyone who could do it to this extent!

It seems that this opponent is a lot trickier than I expected......

Even though Ike raised his vigilance, the famous Time Assassin was still a little stunned when his Z-drive smashed into the thick ice.

What's that? Why did he freeze in an instant?!

And Rhodes grasped this opportunity perfectly, and the ice ring technique was completed at the moment of breaking the ice!

The circular ring of ice spread rapidly from Rod's feet, and the moment it touched Ike, it fixed him in place, and Ike wanted to break free, but it was too late.

As a result, Ike watched as a series of fist-sized, lilac missiles flew towards him.

"Arcane Missile!"

After being locked by the arcane missile, Ike tried to dodge but had no chance, and the Time Assassin could only let the string of missiles hit him in the chest, and then coughed up a mouthful of blood.

The next moment, without waiting for Rod to pick up an Ao explosion, Ike directly started his Z-type drive!

Space-time broken!

Ike's personal time begins to rewind, and he takes himself back to the moment when Rhodes had just finished launching the Flame Blast.

Although the reverse flow of time can help Ike recover to a certain extent, the concussion caused by the arcane missile just now still makes him a little breathless.

Originally, Ike was planning to do it all over again and deceive Rhodes's ability to protect himself, but when he flew into the air, Ike suddenly felt that his body was stagnant.

What's going on?

Ike had never encountered such a strange situation, as if time was starting to get out of his control!

After the completion of the Z-drive, Ike had never encountered such a situation!

Ike, who has become accustomed to traveling in the flow of time, is directly disrupted in the face of the sudden time disorder.

The most direct manifestation of this is that after Ike's phase dive is over, his position is different from his ideal position.

So, the Z-drive went short.

This time, Ike made the right choice for the first time, and he simply increased the power of the Z-drive and activated the space-time interleaved effect.

A distorted stance of time and space appeared around Ike, enveloping Rhodes in it.

Under the effect of the Z-shaped drive, the time and space in the stance are severely distorted and intertwined, although this distortion is not enough to directly tear the body of the person in the stand, but it will bring strong vertigo, and Ike hopes to use this as an opportunity to capture the rhythm of the battle back into his hands.

But this time, Ike's plan failed again.

Rod didn't seem to be affected by his stance at all, and instead looked at Ike with a smile.

"Don't try, you're not the only one who can use your time!"

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As a mage who pursues truth, time and space are unavoidable topics for Rhodes.

Of course, Rod's understanding of time and space is extremely limited - but in any case, Rod can still do this kind of operation by distorting his personal time in battle to increase his speed.

Rod's time-warping effect directly interfered with Ike......

Ike is a genius at Hextech, but he relies on external forces to master the power of time - the core of the Z-drive is a crystal shard, and this shard is the same crystal as the crystal on Victor's staff and Jace's weapon.

The artifact of Shurima, which the Gilpara family found in the desert of Shurima.

If Rhodes faced the original owner of this crystal, I am afraid that he would be killed in an instant - but if the opponent was Ike, then the drunken wind time warp still had a small advantage.

At least most of Ike's skills won't work on Rod......

In this case, the outcome of the battle seems obvious, after losing the power of the Z-drive, Ike is just a young man with quick hands, and he has no chance of winning against a great magician.

Ike prepares to slip away.

I thought it was an easy temptation, but I didn't expect to meet a guy I didn't seem to be able to mess with, Ike is not a knight, and his first choice is to retreat if he can't beat it.

But Ike, who wanted to slip away, was immediately fixed in place by Rod's ice ring.

"Your Excellency the Time Assassins, or the leader of the Zaun Lost Children, I have something to discuss with you."

"......" Ike raised an eyebrow and looked at Rhodes with a smile on his face, "I'm just being asked to test your depths - you don't have to kill them all, do you?" ”

Ike was ready, and if Rhodes really wanted to make a death move, Ike wouldn't mind the fish being killed - Ike who grew up in Zaun would never leave anything to chance!

"Well, I think you may have misunderstood something." Rod waved his hand, "I'm not hostile—or I'm here with good intentions, and even this cooperation with Takeda, my main purpose is you." ”

"To put it simply, I want to join forces with the Zuan fans to get control of Zuan from that group of alchemists."

"Nice idea, but we don't have enough people." Ike pursed his lips, "Zuan is not a place where any cat or dog can stand on the table. ”

"You don't have to worry about that." Rod showed a well-known expression, "I still have a lot of helpers!" ”

"Oh?" Ike touched his Moxican hairstyle with his hand, and his face finally showed interest, "If that's the case, then I really want to get involved—you know, I hate the Leather City Guys first, and the second thing I hate is those alchemy barons!" ”

Seeing Ike take the bait, Rhodes finally smiled, and he tossed a gold hex to Ike.

"Take it, when it shines and heats, come to me in the Violet Dream of Shangzuan, I promise you will have a huge surprise!"

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Ice Ring: Using the mage itself as the origin, creating a rapidly spreading ice ring, this is a classic control skill of the mage, which has almost no damage in itself (if you have to say that temporary frostbite is also damage, I can't help it), but it can temporarily immobilize the target in place with the power of ice.

Phase diving, space-time interlacing, and space-time breaking are all Ike's skills.

The crystal on Ike's Z-drive is Victor's, this crystal is a product of Shurima, with huge energy and all kinds of incredible magical abilities, the energy source of Victor and Jace's weapons are all fragments of this crystal, the crystal was broken by Jace, because the overall crystal energy is too large to be processed.