Volume III: Turbulent Beginnings (Remastered) Chapter 46: Arugao (1)
Although Yu Bin had not personally faced the Golem Guards on the third floor of the Mage Tower, in his previous life, as an ambulance team, he had helped those players who attacked Shadowfang Castle to treat those who were injured by the Golem Guards and were still worthy of treatment. To be honest, it was not a nostalgic experience, most of the commando members who attacked the third floor turned into a puddle of rotten meat, and those who barely escaped were either missing arms and legs or the small half of their bodies were smashed flat, and their intestines and waists were mixed together to be considered minor injuries.
In the face of this kind of enemy, a silly head-on confrontation is the stupidest way, even with the help of two zombie axemen, facing two high-level golems is nothing. Fortunately, their numbers are small enough, and if they give up the battle and just want to break through the defense of the third layer and rush directly to the fourth layer, it will not be a difficult task.
This is also the opportunity that they have now seized the opportunity that Arugao can't doppelgänger, otherwise just a few of them rushed into the fourth layer, and they would simply send people's heads.
Yu Bin took the lead, and after the Alan Palace, Lei Guang and Keldila controlled a zombie axe hand and rushed up with Yu Bin, and Sui Feng had already ghosted and went to the fourth floor to explore the way.
Sensing the presence of an intruder, the golems guarding around the mana pool activated one after another from their static state and walked towards the entrance of the staircase, their huge bodies filled them with a sense of power with every step, if it weren't for the fact that the entire mage tower was very strong with the support of magic, the weight of these golems alone would have crushed the entire tower into ruins.
Without hesitation, they threw down the two zombie axe hands to attract firepower, and Yu Bin and the others directly crossed the magic pool that had just passed through the surface of their feet under the protection of the Shadow Protection Enchantment, and rushed into the entrance to the fourth floor.
Holding the black wing blade in his hand, Yu Bin nodded silently to a few teammates around him, and resolutely pushed open the door in front of him.
Compared to the lower floors of the Mage Tower, the top floor where Arugao is located is not very large, and the windows around it show that it is not just used as a place for experiments.
Because it was the middle of the night, the night of the Silver Pine Forest shrouded the scenery outside the window, and the light in the room protected the area against the darkness outside the window, thanks to the magic torch inserted in the surrounding walls and the large chandelier on the zenith.
"Aha, look who's coming!" A male human dressed in a purple ornate mage robe stood at the other end of the room, watching Yu Bin and several mermaids enter, and said, "Little undead, I can smell the rotten stench on your body from several kilometers away. ”
This male human mage is Arugao, as a mage from Dalaran, Arugao naturally looks down on other existences, in his opinion, he is destined to become a famous archmage of the continent, and he does not need to get along with other inferior people on an equal footing.
Yu Bin didn't care about Arugao's reaction, but looked at the environment in the room.
Just behind Arugao, on a stone pedestal carved out of marble, lay a thick ancient book that was half-opened. Behind the stone seat is a wooden door that appears to lead to the lookout outside the Mage's Tower. On the ground centered on the stone seat, a huge magic array was depicted, occupying most of the room. Other than that, there were bookshelves against the walls and a few wooden tables for experiments.
"The Book of your!" Yu Bin immediately thought of what that ancient book was. The tragedy of Shadowfang Castle, the mystery of the Silver Pine Forest, and the horror of the werewolf plague all originated from this ancient book, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the source of it all.
Yu Bin kept an eye on Arugao while assigning their respective tasks to Alan.
On the other side, the invincible Arugao found that these little ant-like undead in front of him had ignored his majesty, and a wave of anger immediately surged from the bottom of his heart.
Who is he? He is the best archmage in the world, the most gifted genius, and Arugao, who is destined to become the world-famous hero of the Entagri continent in the future.
In order to prove this, Arugao did not hesitate to give up everything, and took the Book of your, which he found in the violet treasury of Dalaran, to the corner of the Silver Pine Forest to study how to control the werewolf army.
And now, he's about to succeed! He had mastered the use of the Book of Your, and had succeeded in summoning a shadow werewolf from the Shadow Plane. As long as he was given enough time, he could summon an invincible army of werewolves, destroy all enemies in his way, and completely unify the continent of Ntagre, accomplishing a great feat that no one in history has ever accomplished.
At that time, the old diehards who clinged to dogma and did not know how to be flexible in Dalaran will kneel at the feet of his Arugao and repent for their contempt and suppression of him in the first place.
But now, what do you see? A few ant-like undead have ignored his presence!
This behavior deeply pierced Arugao's arrogant heart.
"Die! Filthy undead! Arugao waved his hands, and five ice arrows instantly took shape in his hands, and then flew towards Yu Bin and them.
Even if the past is with the wind, you can feel the terrifying magic contained in the cold ice arrows that flew in, not to mention Yu Bin and a few of them, they gave up the plan to resist hard at the first time, Lei Guang and Keldila didn't even bother to put protective spells, and learned from Yu Bin, a donkey rolled, and avoided the result of being directly hit by Arugao's spell.
It's just that although he dodged the ice arrow, Arugao is a hero-level archmage after all. The empty ice arrow did not dissipate into elemental power and disappear like the low-level ice arrow that Yu Bin had encountered before, but because it hit the ground, it detonated the ice element in the ice arrow, turning a small area of the door into a frost-covered place.
Feeling that his body was covered with a layer of frost power, Yu Bin had to admit that Arugao, as a high-level NPC with a name and surname, was worthy of his strength.
Fortunately, before they rushed into the room, they added all the buffs they could add, and drank a bottle of all the potions they could drink, so although they were affected a little, it didn't put them in danger.
As the figure slowly disappeared from Arugao's sight, it merged with the surrounding shadows, meaning that the two of them would become fangs hidden in the shadows, ready to hand the deadly dagger in Arugao's hand at any time.
However, Yu Bin is not optimistic about them, regardless of the detection spells that are everywhere in the mage tower, just Arugao himself, the low-level spell of detecting invisibility, I am afraid that it is also the same as the ice arrow just now, it can be instantaneous, therefore, Yu Bin just has the mentality of giving it a try, and let Ailan and them use stealth to threaten Arugao, no matter how bad it is, forcing him to use a detection invisibility, it will also consume a little Arugao's mana.
"Boring trick!" He didn't care that his ice arrows were dodged, and Arugao didn't care about the two sneaking undead thieves, in his opinion, the only one who could bring him a little fun among these ants was the undead warrior wearing a suit of plate armor and holding a one-handed short sword, and as for the other two small things that seemed to be necromancers, in Arugal's opinion, they were not even Dalaran's low-level apprentices.
Waving his hand, he didn't even bother to use the gesture, Arugao instantly fired three more ice arrows, shooting at Yu Bin and the three of them who got up from the ground and were about to rush over, and then an arcane impact, a layer of arcane energy centered on Arugao spread around, blowing up the two undead thieves who were sneaking towards him.
This is the strength of an archmage, unlike those low-level and rigid monsters with no intelligence, a native like Arugao, whose IQ is even higher than that of the player, wants to rely on some small tricks to win, that is simply insulting Arugao's wisdom.
Thunder Light and Keldilla, who were less agile, had to dodge as hard as they could, and at the same time use their staff to fend off the ice arrows that were shooting at them, and even then, they did some damage in the end, at least ice cubes had begun to appear on their hands, and their health was significantly lowered.
Only Yu Bin, after dodging the first ice arrow at the beginning, did not get up as Arugao imagined, but used a rapid tumbling method to follow an irregular forward route, trying to get close to Arugao's side.
Because Yu Bin deeply understood how stupid it was to let a mage unscrupulously cast spells there. Even if Arugao's main focus at this time was to control the mage tower and Melganis to shoot spells, just a small amount of means just now was enough to make them difficult and dangerous.
Therefore, the second ice arrow shot by Alu Gao towards Yu Bin was naturally unexpectedly empty, and the landing point was at least several meters away from Yu Bin.
Frowning slightly, Arugao was about to use the ice arrow to kill the ant that would only roll around on the ground again, but the little alertness left alerted Arugao, allowing him to dodge a dagger from the right side with a sideways turn.
Realizing that his attack had failed, Alan immediately kicked his leg and pounced sideways, narrowly dodging an ice arrow from Arugao at close range.
Although it was a pity that the attack just now failed, after all, this was a sneak attack that he launched at the moment when he was blasted out by Arugao's arcane impact, but Alan also knew what kind of character this guy in front of him was, so when he found out that the sneak attack failed, he didn't have any idea of pursuing at all, otherwise, he would now be a real corpse because he was hit by an ice arrow in the chest.
Relying on the time gained by Ailan's sneak attack, Yu Bin finally succeeded in shortening the distance between him and Arugao to about five meters.
The distance of five meters is a dividing line recognized by players.
For mages, unless they have mastered the ability to instantaneously, it takes a process to release any spell, mobilizing magic, chanting spells, waving gestures, no matter how skilled these processes are, it takes a little time, this is the rule, and it is also a constraint, and when the mage breaks free from this bondage, that is when he really masters the instantaneous ability of spells.
And at a distance of five meters, it is difficult for a mage to complete a spell with sufficient power before the opponent's attack hits him, so five meters is a safe distance for mages.
For fighters, five meters is also an important indicator, and only within this distance can some short-distance skills, such as jumping, chasing, or supporting, etc., be used to the fullest. Most importantly, within five meters, there are very few targets that can evade the lock-on of the Charge skill.
Therefore, in previous lives, one of the main criteria for judging whether a melee player is a master is to see if he can master this distance.
When it comes to fighting, melee players who rush to use skills like charging or jumping at a distance are either idiots or stupid, and of course, most of them end up as a corpse.
And now, for Yu Bin, when he finally narrowed the distance between him and Arugao to five meters, it meant that he was finally able to hand over the weapon in his hand to this damn archmage.
didn't even make the move to get up, Yu Bin directly charged close to the ground, aiming directly at Arugao's legs.
For a humanoid creature, no matter how agile he moves, his legs are definitely the last to move, which is why Yu Bin chose this type of attack.
Of course, Arugao can also choose to jump, so Yu Bin's attack will naturally fail.
However, Yu Bin would be very glad that Arugao chose this most stupid way of dodging, because it meant that he would have nowhere to borrow his strength in the air, and Alan and the Past would teach Arugao to be human.
The self-proclaimed archmage Arugao naturally would not make such a humiliating move, if he was forced to jump up by such a few little ants, it would be a great shame for him.
Arugao chose a different approach.
As if it was a matter of an instant, a long-handled staff appeared in Arugao's hand, and then he slammed it to the ground, blocking Yu Bin's face.
The short sword in Yu Bin's hand slashed at the staff as expected, obviously it was a wooden staff, but it made a sound of gold and iron clashing.
Then Yu Bin was blown away by Arugao with an arcane explosion.
However, Yu Bin, who was blown out, did not have any anger or disappointment, but looked proud. Because the past is a killer story, it has touched the stone seat where the Book of your is placed.
In fact, from the very beginning, Yu Bin never thought about actually killing Arugao. This is not the time when Yu Bin was in that small swamp, and Arugao is not the zombie who broke his leg at the beginning, and it is not too simple for a hero-level archmage to kill a few players who are less than 2 levels. Even if Arugao is fighting a spell against a mage who is even more powerful than himself!
The only thing Yu Bin could rely on, apart from their own skills, was Arugao's contempt for them.
And Yu Bin's real goal is the book of your. Whether Arugao summons the Shadow Werewolf or launches the Werewolf Plague, what does it have to do with Yu Bin? Their only purpose is the Book of your!
At the same time that Yu Bin was blown away by Arugao, an almost transparent figure was reaching out to the Book of Your on the stone seat.
Before, Ailan immediately launched a sneak attack when he was blown up by Arugao's arcane impact, and the past was not idle with the wind, after the sneak was interrupted, he instantly switched to ghost mode, and while Yu Bin and Alan attracted Arugao's attention, he secretly went around Arugao's back, preparing to steal the Book of your.
With the hidden bonus brought by the ghost constitution and the almost transparent fuzzy figure, Arugao didn't notice this "ant" for a while.
At this moment, the past was very excited as he watched his hand get closer and closer to the Book of Your.