Chapter 332: The Mind Trap
"Your 'funeral song', sing it to yourself!"
When Veronica saw him start singing, she immediately burst out and pounced, this time she found a trick to deal with Stepan, and specifically swung her knife at him, forcing the other party to move, so that Stepan could only stop singing, but without singing to increase her combat power, Veronica had reason to believe-
"In terms of swordsmanship alone, you are not my opponent!"
Stepan responded with a roar. The high-frequency, high-pressure, concussive air currents of the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion erupted from the depths www.biquge.info of his throat, turning into an invisible cannonball that sent the female ninja flying upside down.
Blood gushed from Veronica's earholes, and only one last thought left in her buzzing mindβ
"It's not poetry, it's arcane ......"
"Not only can I chant poetry, but I can also chant arcane spells, you guessed it, but it's too late."
Stepan sneered as he walked over to Veronica.
The damage dealt by the 2-ring Plastic Arcane "Sonic Boom" is not severe, but the additional "Shock" effect temporarily paralyzes the recipient.
Veronica wasn't a fool, and if Stepan unleashed a "sonic boom" with her normal spell casting motion, she would have been aware of it in advance.
Therefore, Stepan added a super-magic technique "Spell Silence" at the same time as casting the spell, omitting the casting action and only retaining the casting element of chanting the spell.
Arcane spells are of course different from poetry, they don't have such beautiful melodies and sound rather obscure, but when you're dealing with a poet, a poet who sings endlessly from beginning to end, how can you tell if he's chanting an arcane spell or a ballad with a different style? Even if you don't understand his mantras, you'll only suspect that you can't appreciate this overly avant-garde art style.
That's the mindset, that's the mental trap.
"This is my 'funeral song,' do you like it?"
Stepan squatted down beside Veronica, reached out and grabbed the girl's swan-skinny and slender neck, and slowly increased his strength, still smiling on her feminine and handsome face, but there was a tyrannical look in her eyes.
The suffocation blurred Veronica's newly awakened consciousness again, and she knew that she would fall into a coma if it continued for a few more seconds, after which she ...... Stepan would not have dared to strangle her in front of more than 40,000 people, but being forcibly teleported out by the referee was also an unacceptable outcome for her.
"Didn't do anything to help, just quit with a disgraced face, damn it, Mr. Roland will laugh at my ......" Veronica was reluctant, gathering the last of her strength to move her fingers, trying to touch the magic bracelet on her wrist.
Of course, she didn't want to use Parnia's artifact, the Black King Armor, in front of everyone, which would cause her to reveal her true identity and cause countless troubles.
But she didn't want to admit defeat, and she didn't want her teammates' efforts to end up in vain because of her failure.
Just as her fingertips were about to touch the bracelet, a ghostly hand floated from the darkness and slowly pressed against her back.
Stepan's eyes flashed, he stared at the ghost hand and shook his head and laughed: "Gennady, I'm done here, let your 'ghost hand' go to Ampisa, maybe she needs help." β
Just as Veronica saw him start singing, the first thing that came to mind was not a spell but a poem, and when Stepan saw the ghost hand, he subconsciously thought that it was the spell of Gennady, the "Pale Lord", after all, the "ghost hand" was Gennady's living sign.
Of course, he knew that the enemy red-clothed witch could also cast this spell, but was the "ghost hand" coming for him? Apparently not, the ghost hand had no intention of attacking him at all, but instead touched his enemy Veronica, presumably to conduct the "paralyzing touch"? Or Ghoul Touch? Vampire Touch?
Anyway, Stepan couldn't tell how many touch flow spells there were, and he wasn't a mage or a warlock anyway, so he didn't understand the twists and turns.
It wasn't until Veronica's body began to swell after being touched by the ghost's hand that he realized he had been fooled!
That's right, the ghost hand can pass contact spells, however, contact spells are not all "xx touches", and not all spells are harmful to the recipient, for example, at this moment, the spell that the ghost hand applied to Veronica is actually a ......
Transfiguration!
"Whoop~~"
Veronica's body swelled violently, and in the blink of an eye, she transformed from a slender and pretty female ninja into a huge snake lizard beast, nine hideous heads let out an earth-shattering roar, dragging her long neck and shaking violently, easily breaking free from Stepan's restraint and swooping down on him.
The 40,000 spectators witnessed the dramatic change in the situation in the venue, and the beautiful girl turned into a hydra lizard in an instant, and everyone immediately exclaimed in an uproar.
Stepan in the field was equally stunned. He once used his blind spot to defeat Veronica, and the irony is that he also fell into the same psychological trap at this moment, carelessly misjudging the meaning of the "ghost hand", and as a result, he was in trouble.
"Damn, is that the witch in red doing the trick?" Stepan didn't dare to confront the mad hydra lizard, and hurriedly retreated, intending to cast a spell to protect himself from a distance, and slowly wrestle with the beast.
In his hurry, he made another fatal mistake. The Hydra lizard looks like a irascible and brainless beast, but her body is Veronica, and the Transfiguration only changes her physical body, neither lowering her intelligence nor depriving her of her professional abilities!
What is the best thing about the ninja profession?
Take the opportunity to attack and sneak attack!
After transforming into a hydra lizard, Veronica did not lose her professional instincts, and when she saw Stepan's panicked retreat and messy footwork, she immediately shook her nine long necks and pounced down, and the nine blood basins took turns to bite the unlucky guy and bite wildly, and each bite also added additional sneak attack damage, and the sharp teeth fell and blood splashed, and Stepan could still scream at first, and he was silent after three bites.
The referee hurriedly opened the teleportation array to rescue him, the original handsome bard, at this moment has been bitten flesh and blood blurred into a human form, the referee glanced at it and immediately turned his head and retched, couldn't bear to witness this indescribable tragic situation, closed his eyes and touched Stepan, and used magic to hang his last breath for him.
In the arena, the hydra lizard found out that Stepan was missing from her mouth, and felt very angry, and roared to vent her anger.
Nikita walked out of the "Any Door" and came to her, looking up at her with a playful smile: "Thank me, dear Ronnie, Miss Ben not only rescued you in time, but also helped you out of the limelight and became the most watched star in the audience today." β
"Whoop~~"
Miss Snake Lizard shook her nine heads in anger and roared in unison to express her strong displeasure with Nikita.
"You have other spells to use, so why do you have to turn me into such an ugly monster? Turn me back in, bastard! β
PS1: The mystery of Stepan playing and singing
Bards usually have to stay focused when performing and are unable to fight at the same time.
Stepan was able to sing while playing because he had mastered a special specialty that allowed him to stay focused with movement so that he could fight and chant at the same time, but his movement was greatly limited, and he could only do one 5-foot brisk walk per round.
The tragedy is that I forgot what this specialty is specifically called, so I won't mention it in the text. (To be continued.) )