Chapter 16: The Magic Bullet Shooter
"Mom,... Lachry, the goddess of luck, was on top of me, and my head was almost blown out! Arroyo trembled and raised his hands to touch his scalp, as if his back was blown by a cold wind.
Suddenly, at the moment of congratulating that he was still alive, Arroyo suddenly felt that the atmosphere around him was not quite right.
The young thief quickly came to his senses, and suddenly noticed a few dark green fires shaking in the darkness deep in the tunnel.
"That's the soul fire in the eye socket of the undead creature!" Arroyo reacted immediately.
By the time Arroyo came to his senses, Finn had untied his greatsword from his back and stood at the front of the group, and Arya had taken a crossbow and a scimitar from each side of her belt with her left and right hands and stood in front of Jefferson.
"Uncle Jefferson, stand back." Arya said with her back to Jefferson.
"Ahh Good! Jefferson was so frightened that he hurriedly hid at the back of the group.
As Jefferson stepped back, Lilith stepped forward to meet him, then raised her left hand in the face of the five skeletons in the darkness.
"Lilith, keep the magic." Seeing Lilith raise her hand towards the five skeletons in front of her, Finn hurriedly stopped Lilith's movements.
“… Oh. Hearing Finn's words, Lilith tilted her head, and then extinguished the flame that had just appeared in front of her palm.
If Fein hadn't stopped Lilith, Lilith would have thrown a large fireball and blown all the green bones in the dark into ashes.
The thrill of killing a group of monsters in seconds is good, but with the lesson learned from the initial fight against Molk's giant tarantula, Finn hopes that Lilith will not squander her magic as much as possible.
Besides,
[Skeleton Warrior,? /Undead, total level 2 (level 1 undead/level 1 warrior), HP 32/32]
[Skeleton Shooter,? /Undead, total level 2 (level 2 undead), health 24/24]
The information of the five skeleton-type undead creatures that appeared in front of the tunnel was the same as Finn's memory.
The skeleton warriors of Ferdia are basically the standard blueprint for cannon fodder classes, like the setting of most fantasy worlds.
As for the skeleton shooter, it's not a headache monster. These skeletons of bones, armed with short bows and loins and loins at the waist of quivers, are traded for ranged striking capabilities with limited range, but the ability to fire continuously is unspeakably sluggish.
These two cannon fodder-level undead creatures, Finn believes that he and Arya, who is a silver-level adventurer, can easily deal with them.
"Arya, can you see our enemies?" Finn gripped the hilt of the Whistling Blade with all his attention, slashed the second arrow the skeleton archer had fired at him, and then spoke to Arya, who was standing beside him.
"Well, five skeletons, I see it." Arya Ping raised her crossbow, "What do you want to say?" ”
"I think the two of us can finish them off." Finn smiled sideways.
"Coincidentally, I think so too." Arya tilted her cheek slightly and smiled back in the same way.
"So, can you show me the strength of a silver-level adventurer?"
"As you wish."
As the words fell, Arya opened her eyes, pulled the trigger of the crossbow with her left hand, and an arrow of light composed entirely of light was placed on the crossbow out of thin air, and then shot out of the dark skeletal archer with a "whoosh".
"Magic Catapult Shooter?!" Finn was taken aback.
Arya's low-light vision can't ignore the effects of the dark environment like Finn's dark vision, but the soul fire in the eyes of the undead creatures is the source of light that betrays them.
With this light source alone, Arya can aim her crossbow at the only skeleton archer of the five skeletons with ranged strike capabilities.
However, Finn's surprise was not Arya's vision, but the arrow of light that she fired with her crossbow.
That arrow of light shows that Arya has an exclusive personal specialty called it.
[Personal Specialty (Exclusive) - Magic Catapult Archer: Creates 1 temporary arrow or ammo with X-point magic attribute damage for X points of mana for X points of mana no more than 10% of the current mana]
This is a very powerful and exclusive personal specialty.
Any ranged pro player who has acquired this specialty will have little to no need to worry about reloading ranged weapons in fast-paced combat, and will be able to inflict different stats of magic damage on arrows or ammo depending on the type of enemy.
Before setting off for the Melor Mine, Finn learned one thing from Arya in the carriage, and that was that Arya's profession was not the most common in elven society, but was born specifically to fight against evil creatures led by demons.
The Witcher's weapons are mainly light melee cold weapons and bows, and he knows a little sorcery, and is a versatile profession with a wide range of development directions.
In his past life, Finn remembered that many of the game's Witcher players had held a multi-party debate on the game's forums about the main gameplay of the Witcher.
Among those Witcher players, some people think that Witchers can play the virtual online game "Ferdia" directly as a guest creed like assassination thieves, some think that Witchers can also focus on long-range output like Ranger, and some even think that Witchers can completely go off the rails and become a battlemage-like existence.
However, in addition to these methods, The Witcher also has a very powerful way to play, which is melee combat, ranged, and spells!
It's just that the thing that is most needed for this kind of gameplay is the exclusive personal specialty named.
The most testing part of this gameplay is not the skill of the game, but the face, because the exclusive personal specialty can only be learned in some adventures or special events.
For example, Finn's most famous exclusive personal specialty in his previous life was that he accidentally received a mission with a small probability of triggering as the first paladin in the whole server in his previous life, and then led ten Templar legions in the name of the god of justice, Gazteth, to defeat the Abyss Demons, and personally killed several Abyss Lords and a Purgatory Demon Dragon.
Finn didn't know how Arya had acquired this coveted personal specialty, but after confirming that Arya had it, Finn felt a little happy instead of jealousy.
After all, Arya was now his teammate. The stronger Arya's strength is, the easier it will be for the team to have the rest of their adventures.
With a "whoosh", Arya's light arrow flew through the gap between the bodies of the two skeleton warriors, drawing a straight ray of light in mid-air, and then pierced into the right eye socket of the skeleton shooter hiding behind the four skeleton warriors with a "snap".
The two soul fires in the skeleton shooter's eye socket poured out for a while, and then extinguished along with the light arrows.
After that, the skeleton of the bones crooked and fell apart on the spot.
The undead are a race that has no feelings of fear. When the skeleton shooter fell to the ground, the remaining four skeleton warriors realized that their ranged shooter had been killed, and rushed towards Arya without fear.
Seeing the four skeleton warriors rushing towards Arya, Finn immediately stepped forward to block Arya's body.
The four skeleton warriors fit in a row in a tunnel with limited space. As the four skeleton warriors rushed in front of him, Finn gripped the hilt of the Whirling Blade and swung a slash forward.
The four skeleton warriors hurriedly raised their worn wooden shields to protect themselves, but the four wooden shields were immediately slashed by the whistling blade in Finn's hand.
The upper half of the four-sided wooden shield quickly collapsed from the hands of the skeleton warriors, and the four skeletal heads with dark green flames burning in their eye sockets were suddenly exposed to Finn's eyes.
Finn gritted his teeth and smiled, and immediately turned his wrist and stepped forward, swinging his greatsword to slash a second horizontal slash in the opposite direction.
A second later, the blade of the giant sword slashed the neck bones of the four skeletons standing side by side with a flash of light generated by the skill, and the heads of the four skeletons rose into the air almost at the same moment, and the eight soul fires were then neatly extinguished in mid-air.
The four headless skeleton remains scattered at Finn's feet, and the battle ended.
"Yes, I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't help anything." After the battle, Arroyo walked behind Finn from the back of the line with an embarrassed look on his face, and apologized with his hands outstretched.
After tripped over Finn and saved his life, the young thief with only ordinary vision lost the courage to fight the undead for a moment, and then witnessed Finn and Arya kill all the skeletons.
Therefore, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart, after all, he did not want to be a burden who could only sit at the back of the line and watch the play.
Hearing Arroyo's apology, Finn turned around and found the young thief who had volunteered to follow him with a very ugly smile.
"Don't take it personally, Arroyo." Finn patted Arroyo on the shoulder and comforted.
"But......" Arroyo clenched his fists.
"Nothing." Finn interrupted Arroyo's self-reproach, "Don't forget, you're the only thief in the party. Your main duties in the team are to scout the enemy, find your way, find traps, and remove traps, and I should be tasked with frontal combat. ”
“…… I see, sir. After a while, Arroyo put away his ugly smirk, pursed his lips and nodded, "I will definitely not let you down in the future." ”
Then, the young thief adjusted his breathing, and then stepped aside with the glowing stone in his hand.
After making sure there were no other enemies around, Arya turned around and walked over to Lilith's side, bending down to pull up Jefferson, who was already sitting on the ground with his legs limp.
"Uncle Jefferson, if there's nothing else to do, you can go back first." Arya pulled Jefferson up and said, "Next, we're going to go deep into this tunnel and explore the depths of this pit, it's too dangerous for you to follow us, uncle." ”
"Hmm......" Jefferson nodded a little awkwardly, "then...... I'll go back to the elevator and wait for you. Everyone, please be careful. ”
After that, Jefferson reassured Arya and watched as Finn, Arya, Arroyo, and Lilith walked into the depths of the tunnel.
After Fein and his party completely disappeared from his field of vision, the uncle in charge sighed, then turned around and took steps in the direction of going back with the oil lamp.