The sheer amount of magic items used by Hammerstone for money did cause Rhodes a lot of trouble - even Rhodes was weakened by a series of spell traps.

But it is a pity that this weakening is not enough to cause much and substantial damage to Rhodes' combat effectiveness.

This is one of the characteristics of spellcasters - their combat effectiveness is only related to factors such as environment, preparation, and their own state, and many negative interferences with other classes are not a matter in the eyes of mages.

For example, slowing down, burning, weakening, and separating the soul and flesh - these ordinary weakenings have extremely limited effect on mages as long as they do not involve spell destruction.

So don't look at Rhodes now miserable, but in fact his combat losses are not serious.

(Especially since Rhodes is also a person with a specialty of "calming spells", and it is difficult to control these big road goods even to cause some disturbances.) ）

However, in front of Hammerstone, Rhodes perfectly hid his state - when Hammerstone's hook attacked, Rhodes tried his best to show that he wanted to dodge but couldn't, and was temporarily deprived of spellcasting ability by the curse, and was bound by the hook of Hammerstone and the chain behind it.

Seeing that Rhodes was hit, Hammerstone's hideous face was full of pleasure.

"Aha, next, you're going to enjoy sweet torture."

Rod's acting skills are quite good, and even Yorick and Mokai are deceived - they want to turn to support Rod, but they are stopped by Karthas, who is desperate after seeing the dawn of victory.

"Don't think!"

Vast expanses of barren energy spread out completely around Karthas, eroding everything in its reach.

Under the erosion of barren energy, the inherent magic circle originally used for defense was seriously affected, and the stone slab ground attached to the defense magic in the entire guard hall cracked inch by inch, and irregular cracks began to spread rapidly.

Smoke and dust are everywhere.

In this case, even if Yorick and Mokai tried to help, it was still limited.

Under the desperate resistance of Karthas, Hammerstone finally succeeded in catching the "struggling" Rod to his side.

"Let me see—what an interesting mage, but it's a pity that you chose the wrong enemy, and that friend of yours named Lucian apparently didn't make it clear to you about the horror of the Soul Lock Warden."

"But that's okay, it looks like you'll be able to get a feel for it soon."

"Don't look at me like that, torture is just part of my job - I prefer desperate souls to superficial torture, so next, you might ...... It hurts a little bit - I'm talking about the kind of pain on the soul level. ”

"That indescribable trembling, that experience of self-denial, that desire to banish oneself into nothingness...... Infinite suffering. ”

"Come on—let's go!"

The last guy who talked so much in the middle of a battle...... The name was Yugsaron - the Thousand-Throated Demon had been whispering in Rod's ear for nearly a month, successfully activating Rod's speech potential.

And as a price, after defeating Ulduar, Rhodes popped all the mouths of the Thousand-Throated Demon.

I have a lot of words to call you!

And now it seems that these fragments of Hammerstone actually have a lot of similarities with Yugsaron's - they are all trying to break through the enemy's psychological defenses with words, and use a lot of hints and repeated lies to achieve the goal of shallow hypnosis.

But Yugsaron did this to control his mind and prepare to minimize the resistance of his target, while Hammerstone did it to inspire fear and satisfy his sadism by the way.

It's a pity that this kind of little trick is basically useless for Rod - not to mention that Rod is pretending to be arrested now, even if he is really caught, these words of Hammerstone can only make his heart fluctuate and even want to laugh.

Of course, the superficial kung fu Rhodes still has to be pretended.

Rhodes showed his acting skills to the fullest, successfully showing that a mage "does his best to maintain his demeanor while not being completely indifferent" in the face of difficulties.

Hammerstone had met a handful of spellcasters before, and Rhodes behaved in the same way as the stronger of these spellcasters.

Hammerstone let his guard down.

Now it's time to enjoy the torture – what? Is Karthas still struggling desperately?

Oh, deserved it - who made Karthas choose to sell his teammates before?

One of these guys on the Shadow Island is counted as one, and the heart eye is smaller than the other, basically belonging to the kind of "you cheated me, I have to go back", and Karthas's previous actions were enough to hammer the stone back to pit him.

As a result, Karthas could only suppress Yorick and Mokai desperately, and the aftermath of the battle was the complete destruction of Experiment 4395.

And although Yorick and Mokai seem to be able to only dodge and defend passively under the erosion of barren energy, they have actually slowly figured out the way of Karthas, and it is only a matter of minutes to counterattack.

The only hope for Karthas now is that Hammerstone doesn't go too far.

Unfortunately, this wish is destined to be unfulfilled.

Because it can't be overdone, it's no longer up to Hammerstone.

Seeing Hammerstone skillfully pull out a small box and take out a knife of various colors, Rod felt that it was time for his play to be finished.

Just as the hammerstone proudly showed the function of his knife to Rod, the iron rope on Rod's body fell directly to the ground with a thud.

Hammerstone was stunned.

How so?

The spell-breaking curse should have sealed Rod's spell-casting ability, how could this guy still break free from the chains?

It's a pity that Rhodes won't explain to Hammerstone what magic limits are and what silent spells are - let this bastard who only knows how to waste valuable magic items repent in confusion!

The next moment, Rhodes directly turned into a flame and wrapped the hammerstone with a bewildered face.

"Come on, feel the heat of Safron!"

After a powerful roar, the blazing flames of Safron directly wrapped the hammerstone tightly.

The Safron Flame is a lava flame, and the disadvantage of this wrap is that if the flame is extinguished rashly, the slag formed will turn into a lava boulder when it cools down rapidly, enveloping the recipient in it, causing a backlog of secondary damage.

Unfortunately, Hammerstone is not aware of this.

As soon as he was enveloped in the Saffron Flames, the Hammerstone activated the cooling protection, and the sudden cooling did extinguish the Saffron Flames, and at the same time made the thick slag restrain the Hammerstone - when he finally got rid of the slag, the hammerstone was greeted by Rod's continuous Saffron Flame Explosion.

"Die, bugs!"