One of the most interesting unofficial statistics in the world of Azerahi is the composition of close friends by class.

According to this unofficial unscientific statistic, priests are the majority of the warrior's friends, while priests rarely have any affection for the warrior; A mage's closest friend must be a mage who can exchange ♂ ♂ ♂ ideas with each other on a regular basis, and thieves often join hands with each other to study the techniques of the Shadow Dance and the philosophy of death, which is referred to as The Deep♂dark♂Fantasy within the Thieves' Guild.

Lucky E's spearmen's best comrades are druids who can handle all kinds of unexpected situations, and the lone rangers and beast tamers often don't need any friends - in fact, the latter trust their big meow buddies more than stupid humans, as for the death knights...... Their friends usually have a lot and one thing in common, and that is...... These people must always be ready to die without a corpse, or spend the rest of their lives as ghouls.

Zombies, nuns, priests, shrine maidens...... These classes are often paired with each other because of their uniqueness, and the tribal symbols of Berserker and Shaman always appear in droves...... Well, of course, in most cases the shaman will only be treated as an honor ATM and a large bottle that can be recharged after running out of health, as for the maid...... If you have such a teammate in your friends list that you can rely on and trust, then congratulations, you will never be lonely and lonely again in the future.

Compared to the rest of the classes, the three-line differentiation brought about by the talents of the three lines of paladins is particularly strict. An excellent milk rider is the object of everyone's pursuit, the anti-riders are often not trusted and recognized because of their congenital deficiencies, and more time is spent working silently but without a clue, as for the punishment riders, the path they have chosen is already difficult, and there are even fewer people who can walk with them, most of the time, they can only be accompanied by the light and faith, with the will as the banner, and forcibly carve out an uneven path among the thorns.

Interestingly. In addition to the "most cases" mentioned above. In statistics, there is another interesting phenomenon, that is, the so-called "the person who knows you best is often your most powerful enemy".

Let's take the simplest example. As a representative of the caster. The magician profession is brittle and thin-blooded. It is often the preferred target of the Rogue class, which is known for its high outburst of lurking assassinations, in combat.

On the other hand, a good magician's damage and control also make them a thief's nightmare - a thief who can't touch his enemies is doomed to be useless. And the experience of suffocating to death under the endless control of zhì, I believe that no one will want to try it a second time.

It is precisely under this kind of mutual restraint that there are many examples of magicians and thieves who have unwittingly formed an indissoluble bond, and in the process of falling in love and killing each other, they have become close friends.

Because of this, when Takakazu saw that the "friend" summoned by the magical girl Kyoko was an orc thief, he didn't express too much surprise at this, but more of a matter of course.

"Hello, I'm Paladin Abu."

He kindly stretched out his palm to the female thief, who had concealed her face under a veil, revealing only a pair of wary red eyes and a pair of cat ears, but the latter was clearly not impressed by his politeness.

"Why, you have the confidence to defeat me, so you take the initiative to call me to fight the battle of fate?"

She turned to Kyoko, a magical girl with a slightly embarrassed expression on the side, and her tone was cold and slightly expectant.

"No, no, no...... The old lady doesn't have the leisure to plant a flag with you, and the old lady with that kung fu might as well bring a few more broken pieces to earn some milk powder money......"

"Wait......"

Takawa interrupted the magical girl Kyoko in surprise.

"Milk powder money...... Are you married? ”

"it! How could an old lady entrust her life to others casually at such a young age? ”

"Then you just said ......"

"Women, you have to plan for the future in advance, don't you say?"

"Boring."

In response to the remarks of the magical girl Kyoko, the orc female thief named "Eight Feet Moon" just let out a soft snort.

Seeing that the topic was about to be abducted by the two women to daily gossip and firewood, rice, oil and salt, Gao He had to cough lightly and interrupt the conversation between the two again.

"This time I asked Kyoko to invite you to come, and I want to invite you to join us in the Savage Gladiator Arena Tour......"

"Not interested."

To Gao He's surprise, before he could finish speaking, he was coldly rejected by the cat-eared female orc.

Then, Takawa watched her dumbfoundedly pull out the tribal battle flag and plant it in front of the magical girl Kyoko, no matter how much the female magician refused.

"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, from the moment you invited me to come, you have already made the corresponding consciousness in your heart, right? Come on...... Let me see what your practice in the Outlands has come to fruition! ”

“……”

In Gao He's private communication, Kyoko's helpless voice sounded.

"So let's just say it, I just said not to call her."

"Anyway, they've already been called, otherwise you can promise her a duel, and just let me see how strong she is......"

"It's a little worse than the old lady, otherwise why do you think she keeps pestering me......

Under Gao He's persuasion and frequent eyes, the female magician finally began to prepare for the duel helplessly.

"Wait...... What are you doing here? ”

"Prepare for a duel......

"I didn't say it...... You're fighting a thief like this? ”

Seeing that the magical girl Kyoko stripped off her robe and trousers in one go, leaving only a shirt to cover her shame and no attributes, she was about to confirm the start of the duel, Gao He was at a loss for the second monk on the side, and hurriedly asked.

"Ah...... You think that dueling equipment will not lose durability, huh?"

“…… Now is not the time to think about the slightest repair cost! ”

For the perfunctory appearance of the magical girl, Gao He was obviously a little annoyed. Soon, however, he discovered something else that left him even more stunned.

"You...... What are you holding in your hand? ”

He was stunned and pointed at the orc female thief Eight Feet Moon, because just now, he had noticed that the two epic weapons in the female thief's hand, which originally emitted a purple light, were suddenly replaced with two......

"Weapons."

That's right...... For thieves, that's two weapons, but here's the ......

Those two are just skinning knives! Sure enough, it's a skinning knife!

It's a must-have tool for professional skinning players who can buy a handful at a grocer for just one silver coin, but for more casual players, especially women like Kyoko, a magical girl who is on a budget. Skinning knives, miners' pickaxes, wrenches, and fishing rods are collectively known as the "Four Artifacts of Replica Annihilation". It is used to replace the weapon in the hand at a critical moment, so as to reduce the durability consumption of equipment caused by death and save repair costs.

Anyway, this is a skinning knife with a base attack power of 1-1. Using it to fight a duel with someone is like Takakazu wielding a fishing rod to challenge an upside-down man - of course. At least when the thief is holding a skinning knife, he is better than him. Because according to the setting of the world of Azerahi, the skinning knife can be regarded as a dagger at all......

"Is this how you two usually duel?"

Seeing these two serious women, one holding two artifacts. The other was bare-assed and empty-handed, and he was about to start a so-called "fateful duel" at the gate of Shattrath City in such a grand manner, and Gao He finally failed to control his strong desire to complain.

"Why don't you both strip naked and fight with your fists?! That's more straightforward, isn't it?! ”

"That's not fair."

The female thief glanced at Gao He with a foolish gaze.

"Huh?"

"The thief's unarmed attack has 350 points, and I don't even know about it, no wonder Kyoko said that you are just a novice."

“……”

All right...... was complained about again, and this time it was really painful to be slapped in the face by a stranger on the spot.

As one of the few races and classes in the game that can use fist weapons, the orc thief's weapon skills naturally include "bare hands", and if it is really empty-handed fighting, it is really a female orc named Eight Feet Moon who has the advantage.

"Alas, so it's okay to say that no matter what you wear, Xiaobai is hypocritical."

The magical girl Kyoko also followed at this time.

"Anyway, that's how the battle between thieves and magicians is, whether it's the old lady or her, as long as they are caught, they will definitely die!"

“……”

That's right.

Suddenly aware of something, Takawa closed his mouth knowingly.

3……

2……

1……

The duel begins!

When the tribal battle flag fluttered in the breeze of the Teroka Forest, the female orc Eight Feet Moon had already quietly disappeared, and the bare-bottomed magical girl Kyoko had lost her usual swagger at this time, and her expression looked so engrossed.

There is no doubt that this duel is something that Gao He has never imagined and seen, eliminating the equipment gap between the two sides, and only relying on the most basic attacks and skills to fight the winner under the premise of the same level.

Although the Rogue's attack ability is low, against a naked mage with no armor, as long as they are skillful and even right, they can deal lethal cumulative damage.

And without equipment and weapons, a magician who is unable to injure the blessing of nothing, if he wants to subdue a thief, he can only rely on the most basic damage in spells, and if he wants to survive this duel, he needs to be the dual guarantee of control and escape that is almost impossible to slip through.

In fact, from the very beginning of this duel, Gao He already understood that if he could really pull these two women to team up this time, maybe not only would he not be held back, but he would still ...... Found a treasure.

“…… Ah, here we go again...... The sneaky personality has never been changed, and the old lady's time is very precious. ”

Standing next to the duel battle flag, the magical girl Kyoko complained one by one, but the skills in her hand never stopped for a moment.

Gao He can clearly see the skills that this woman uses to decipher the thieves' stealth. It's the magician's most powerful AOE skill in the dungeon, "Blizzard", however, her mana value has also lost the equipment bonus in her naked state, so if she uses her skills so frequently, won't she fall into passivity because of empty blue when she actually enters the battle?

"No...... right"

He originally thought this in his heart, but soon changed his opinion.

Without him, nearly 20 seconds have passed since the duel began, and the blizzard has never stopped, but the magic of the magical girl Kyoko has hardly lost anything.

"That's right...... This woman has not entered the battle until now, and. The ...... she uses I'm afraid it's just a level 1 blizzard. ”

Without entering the battle. The caster's mana recovery will be five times that of entering the battle, and even if there is no equipment bonus, just with the support of her own intelligence, such a recovery speed is enough to support the magical girl Kyoko to endlessly use the extremely low mana cost of a level 1 blizzard.

And. When she consciously begins to use skill overlays to compress the range and space that the stealthy thieves may dodge. As the active attacking side in this duel. The orc Eight Feet Moon finally ran out of patience to continue looking for opportunities, and from a strange angle, he brazenly launched a surprise attack!

"There it is!"

Gao He almost cried out - no one saw it more clearly than he, a bystander. Because, the moment the figure of the eight-foot moon appeared, its location was not in any direction he had speculated before, but an area after the female magician had just released the blizzard!

In a sense, this is almost equivalent to a blind spot, and no one would have expected that she would quietly move to such a dangerous area in a stealth state, and find a perfect opportunity for herself to attack without being affected by a blizzard!

He was surprised, but the magical girl Kyoko seemed to have expected this early on, and almost at the moment when the skinning knife pierced her skin, a cold arc had burst out of her body.

Frost Nova!

Click!

Almost at the same time that Kyoko herself was knocked unconscious by this sneak attack, the Frost Nova she cast also froze the Eight Foot Moon in place.

"This ......"

Gao He's brow furrowed slightly—in fact, this skill response was undoubtedly a magician's wrong demonstration against the thieves, because the freezing of the Frost Nova only had a movement restriction effect, which did not prevent the thieves from continuing to attack the magician who had fallen into a coma after the sneak attack.

More often than not, the magician's response to sneak attacks is to absorb this batch of damage with guò frost armor, and then use Flash to disengage and disstun the attack when the Rogue has accumulated enough energy points to unleash the longer stun Kidney Strike.

And handing over the frost nova with a cooldown of 15 seconds too early means that in the next 15 seconds, the magical girl Kyoko has no effective skills that can get rid of the thieves' close entanglement, and the key now is that she who handed over this skill, she still can't avoid this round in the future......

"Huh?!"

Originally, he had already expected the next series of confrontations in his heart, but he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

That's right, the magical girl Kyoko did fall into a coma after the sneak attack, but she didn't use the flashing technique again.

That's because Eight Feet Moon, who was frozen in place by her Frost Nova, tried several times with the skinning knife in her hand, but it was only so close to her back!

"It's ...... What's going on? ”

His doubts were quickly answered by Kyoko, a magical girl who woke up from a coma.

"So let's just say, the old lady's habit of suddenly turning around and continuously releasing a blizzard after releasing a blizzard has really been discovered by you, but what...... This habit is deliberately added by the old lady in the last 200 duels! What do you think! Ariki was surprised?! ”

“……”

Really, just for such a duel, I have been secretly planning for so long, and I still keep saying that I am "unwilling...... Sure enough, a woman's mind is really unfathomable.

When a thief's trajectory has been deliberately guided in such a subtle way, then it is also possible to predict the direction of his attack in advance, and because of this, at the same time as the sneak attack of the eight feet moon, the magical girl Kyoko's response, in addition to a frost nova that had been planned for a long time, was also a step forward at the moment of the sneak attack.

One step, one yard, for the battle between ordinary players, this yard distance is not important, however, it is this yard distance that makes the magical girl Kyoko out of the range of the eight feet moon melee attack while she is unconscious, so that her next series of attacks that could have lasted completely failed.

And now, after 4 seconds of coma, the effect of the frost nova has also been lifted, and it seems that the two of them have returned to the starting line at the same time, but the actual situation is ...... Eight feet of moon, who broke away from stealth and entered the battle, fell into a big disadvantage that could barely turn over at this moment!

"So fast!"

Although her mouth was proudly showing off, the magical girl Kyoko's hand was not ambiguous in the slightest, and almost in the blink of an eye, an ice arrow landed on Yachizuki, who was trying to break through and attack again, causing her to condense the cold frost all over her body.

Gao He, who watched the battle from the sidelines, was amazed - although the female magician's usual frugal and almost petty personality often made him feel meaningless, but now, the fighting methods used by this woman were also consistent with this style and often worked wonders.

What she had just used was a level 1 ice arrow with negligible damage, but it was obvious that she wasn't using this skill to deal much damage, but only to slow down Eight Feet Moon's movement speed again!

With the increase of skill level and power, the caster's chanting time also increases accordingly, the same ice arrow, the level 1 chant time only needs 1.2 seconds, and the level 8 ice arrow lull time is as high as 2.5 seconds, this 1 second or so, in a duel, is the difference between victory and defeat!

"Hmph...... Boring tricks. ”

Seeing that the distance between the two was widened again after his footsteps were slowed down, Eight Feet Moon snorted coldly, and almost without hesitation, he turned on the thief's signature skill - sprinting!

Known for its speed and agility, the Thief's Sprint is a nightmare for many ranged and French classes, with an additional 100% movement speed increase after sprinting enabled, allowing the Thief to easily go behind anyone and unleash a dazzling set of attacks, while also meaning that the Thief himself can also take advantage of this time to dodge most of the attacks and spells that can only be used and chanted when facing the target.

That's right, in the hands of a true master thief, sprinting is not just an escape and pursuit skill, but an equally excellent defensive skill, and now, in Gao He's eyes, Yachizuki is a master who can use sprinting as a dual skill of defense and offense!

"it! I'm most annoyed by you brainless thieves! Not at all technological! ”

The 40% slowdown of the Ice Arrow is almost negligible under the effect of sprinting, and the distance that has just been opened up is immediately overtaken, and when the chant of the next Ice Arrow of the magical girl Kyoko is interrupted by the gorgeous arc of the Eight Foot Moon, it also means that she must face a new round of the thief's stormy attack! (To be continued......)

PS: P.S1: The second day of continuous updates...... Ariki was pleasantly surprised?!

P.S2: Actually, our goal for this month is to be full-time attendance...... Well, let's do it!

P.S3: People always ask us about our new book...... Ahem, isn't it the end of the New Year? Wait for February 2nd to raise your head......

P.S4: PS is not forced enough!