Chapter 77: First Strike
At the same time, the perspective of the picture shifts from our protagonist to the bandit squad who visit the Shadow Cave this time-
Fluorescent moss grows on the rock walls flanking the main passage deep in the Shadow Cavern, which serves as a light source for the druids to illuminate the hideous and menacing side faces of the bandit leader of the Jagged Camp.
Angdor's grip on the double-edged battle axe in his hand, the alertness he had cultivated during his raiding career made him detect a little abnormality around him at this moment, and the unpleasant feeling was as if the eyes of the dark were looking at him with malicious intentions, otherwise he would not suddenly untie the heavy axe as a weapon from his back and hold it in his hand for no reason.
"Get out, rats, don't think you'll be able to get past my eyes!" He stood still, and after a second, he suddenly snapped his gaze to the corner of the wall where the young squad's squad was, and yelled, gesturing to the four bandit retinues beside him, with swords in hand, to approach with him.
But the bandit leader hadn't fully discovered the existence of the Thorn Squad.
He just realized something.
Urs knew that it was only a matter of time before his group was discovered. Considering that the two sides were about to meet officially, the black-haired young man immediately grinned with a belligerent and confident look in his eyes, and said in his heart, then come on.
Then he shushed his voice and briefed his nameless companion on his tactics.
In the dimly lit cave passages, Angdor's keen sense of hearing helped him vaguely catch Urs's words. The leader of the robbers held the great axe in his hand, and with a cautious thought, he stopped for a moment, and raised his hand to signal the two bandit retinues standing behind him to replace the long swords in their hands with two short bows that he carried with him.
In this way, the distance between the two sides fell into a brief stalemate between the blind spots of the adventurers' vision, and this stalemate was immediately turned into a battle when the crow suddenly rolled out of the corner of the rock wall with a dodge and raised its hand to throw a dazzling white glare into the bandits' field of vision.
It was the 1-ring spell "Flash" of the Plastic Energy Department.
The crow's flash technique snatched the first attack in the battle for everyone. The five-member bandit team led by Angdor, in the already dim light environment in the cave, was suddenly flashed into the eyes by the magical strong light, and everyone suddenly involuntarily gritted their teeth and glanced to the side.
The bright light fell in the next moment, and the figures of Urs, Stonefist, and Groeldon also appeared in front of the bandits' field of vision, and the old thief's sour tooth crossbow was aimed at one of the bandit retinues holding a short bow beside Angdor, and the arrow struck the latter's eyebrows with a straight line in the air between the two sides.
Kudos to Lady Luck – the perfect headshot, one-hit kill!
Groledon is a part-time thief trained as a warrior, and his weapon skills are much more sophisticated than that of a pure thief, and this arrow also comes with a temporary "Divine Guidance" spell that Xia temporarily applied to him, so that his attack check for this blow also has a +1 bonus bonus.
Divine Guidance is just a 0-ring apprentice priest magic of the prophecy department. Thea's memories still had some formal magic, and the bandit archer who had been shot in the head by Groleiden immediately threw his head back and died. Another archer on the bandit team's side reacted immediately, and quickly pulled the bowstring to shoot past Urs and Stonefist, and fired an arrow directly at the crow.
I have to say that the fighting skills of the guy who is qualified to follow Angdor's side are not bad. The robber archer, who had four official warrior class ranks, would have struck the head of the Sparrow with precision if it hadn't happened - but the dwarven warrior had just in time to lift the large door-like tower shield on his left arm and block it in front of Miss Poet, and the arrows fired from the short bow made a crisp sound and were bounced off by the hard tower shield.
"With the fire on the fire, no one can harm his companions under the protection of a dwarf! Oooooooo Koto's eyes widened like brass bells, his cannon-muzzle voice roared with his high fighting spirit, and a throwing axe in his right hand immediately struck back at the bandit archer's face from a distance of twenty feet or so.
Throwing axes swirl in the air. The robber archer instinctively rolled to the side to dodge, but he completely misjudged the path of the axe, and realized that the axe had actually slashed into the leg of another swordsman, the bandit who was about to engage Stonefist.
The robber with the sword in hand immediately let out a muffled snort in his mouth, his left leg limped, and he cursed in his heart.
"Good technique, shorty." The hoarse voice of the crow expressed praise for Koto's subtle counterattack.
"Uh... Yes, not bad! There is nothing wrong with the axe-throwing skills of the clan warriors! Koto was stunned for a moment, then accepted the compliment embarrassedly, and reached for his melee one-handed hammer at his waist, thinking to himself that the object he had just aimed at was the enemy with the short bow in his hand.
How is this going on? Could it be that he is actually a squint?
Belch...... Forget it, whatever, the result is good anyway!
Probably none of you present knew how bizarre his agility stats were, including the amazing dwarven warrior himself.
And so the battle continued. Stone Fist quickly came to the swordsman robber who had been thrown by Koto by mistake, and seized the opportunity of the opponent's lame leg and foot to strike a shock punch forward, trying to directly paralyze the opponent's mobility.
The robber swordsman who was found by the orc warrior staggered to parry the long sword in his hand, but the warrior monk's fist came quickly and ruthlessly, and then he felt that his face was smashed by a strong force and his facial features were almost sunken, and the consciousness in his brain fell to the ground with his body with a whirling dizziness.
Gloriden's crossbow bolts would soon deliver a fatal blow to him. After disposing of the guy, Stonefist immediately turned to the bandit archer who had dodged the axe, and the other remaining swordsman bandit was left to Crow's spells or Koto's warhammer.
Bang ——!!
On the other side of the same moment, Urs's greatsword had collided with Angdor's greataxe. The young man's brown eyes had turned murderous blood red at this time, and two seconds ago, he directly activated his expert-level furious expertise to rush out, and directly picked up the cursed blade and slashed at Angdor, who was about the same tall and burly as him.
The metal hiss of tooth acid resounded heavily, in the clash of two heavy weapons.
The double-bladed axe was in Angdor's hands, unafraid of the power of the cursed blade. The bandit leader from the sawtooth camp calmly clenched the handle of the axe in his hand, firmly held his breath, raised the long handle of the giant axe in his hand, and took the terrifying blow of Urs, glared at the young man in front of him with a fierce face, and squeezed out a vicious "looking for death" from between his mouth with his teeth, and then the color of his eyes with a brutal anger also turned red.
The berserk abilities of the Barbarian profession are not exclusive to young people.
Angdor is also a level 16 Barbarian, and like Danar Beareye, he has the stat template of a boss-tier creature!