Chapter 62: Assassination IV
At the cost of a heavy blow to his hand in exchange for an immediate opportunity, the vampire Sir Kill Rivers freed himself from Raymond's containment in one go, only to find that a new blocker immediately appeared in front of him.
Arroyo was almost attacked from behind by Killerivers not long ago, but he was not intimidated by that thrilling moment, but made the right choice and action at this moment when he needed to step up.
The young thief with the twin swords still had a basic sense of battle in his head, and even if Finn didn't remind him loudly, he knew that he had to fill Raymond's void at this time, and continue to contain the vampire enemy who might prevent Finn from killing Jackson the Redbeard.
So, he grabbed the hilt of a pair of short swords in his hand with both hands, and after finding that Raymond's defense line had been broken through by the vampire enemy in his vision, he immediately took steps to block the path of Kilrivers' advance, making a necessary and timely fill-in.
Arroyo bravely confronted the vampire Sir who was rushing towards him, and he raised his two short swords in front of him, shouting, "Stop, vampire! You don't want to start hereβ"
Before he could finish his shouting words, the enraged vampire Sir yelled "Get out of here", and the blood flowing from his hand turned into a terrifying scythe and slashed at his head.
Arroyo's eyes barely popped out as he looked at the terrifying blood-colored scythe in Kilrivers' hand, and his self-knowledge warned him at that moment: "Get out of the way, don't die!" β
Arroyo gave up on the idea of being handsome, took a breath of cold air and chose to dodge rather than attack, and the blood-colored scythe in Kilrivers' hand then shattered the air with an unstoppable momentum.
The nimble young thief dodged the attack of the vampire sir, but at the same time, like the young swordsman before him, he made way for the latter.
Kilrivers didn't care that Arroyo dodged his attack, he didn't pay attention to the young thief at all, but just broke through the resistance of Raymond and Arroyo in a row, and continued to rush towards Finn and Jackson who were in the midst of a fierce battle at an alarming speed.
Sir Vampire kicked his feet, and his body flew like a cannonball to Finn's weakly guarded shoulder, and his right hand, which was constantly soaking dark red blood, transformed the blood scythe in his hand into a pointed retro knight's spear in midair.
Kilrivers stabbed the young paladin who was already not far away from him with a knight's spear made of blood, but this time he finally didn't notice an arrow and a bullet flying towards him at high speed from the other direction, and immediately felt that his right shoulder and waist were hit by two destructive ghosts at the same time.
The two things that hit Sir Vampire were Arya's third giant arrow of light shot from her crossbow, and an arcane missile that Lilith fired at him.
Arya's arrow hit Kilrivers in the waist, Lilith's missile hit him in the shoulder, and Sir Vampire, who was still in mid-air, was intercepted by the volley of two young girls and was pushed in a direction he didn't want to go at all.
With a loud bang, the hapless vampire Sir slammed into one of the walls of the cabin again, and the dull sound seemed as if the whole room was trembling with him, giving people the illusion that if this guy was a little harder, he wouldn't just crash through that wall and fly outside.
As Kilrivers was knocked out of mid-air by Arya and Lilith, Finn's whistling blade slammed into Captain Jackson with great brutality.
Jackson's good fortune saved his life at this fateful juncture. The already helpless pirate captain stumbled in a brief moment of panic and fell to the side of his body.
His neck, which should have been slashed by the Whistling Blade, was so short that the greatsword in Finn's hand only cut the skeletal tricorn hat on his head, which symbolized his captainship's status, in half, and swept away, instead of killing him.
The embarrassed pirate captain was saved by his injured ankle, but he also fell in front of Finn, completely losing all initiative in the battle for a while.
At the same time, Kilrivers, who had been hit by the combination of Elven Maiden and Miss Warlock, was not feeling well, and a series of blockades by Raymond, Arroyo, Arya, and Lilith finally made the vampire sir realize the brutal truth that it was difficult for him to break free from this entanglement and go to the aid of the red-bearded pirate captain, who was no match for Finn.
Sir Vampire leaned against the crumbling wall to support his body, and his unwilling eyes crossed the gap between the bodies of Raymond and Arroyo to look at the fallen Redbeard Captain, and then turned back to see Arya and Lilith on the other side, and suddenly made a decision in his heart.
Because he realizes that he can't break through the four people to help Jackson fight off Finn, he plans to take a gamble.
Cilrivers clutched his injured waist with one hand, his crimson eyes wandering over Arya and Lilith twice, and then locked his gaze on the warlock girl holding the staff of the wolf's soul like a hunter who had identified his prey.
"The target is the spellcaster." The future Red Lord reminded himself in his mind, and then with a shake of his body, he jumped up with a light leap of his feet, and then let two feet wrapped in long leather boots kick hard against the wall of the cabin behind him, and two dented cracks cracked in the wall of the cabin, and Kilrivers fired his body as a cannonball.
This time, instead of charging in the direction of Finn and Jackson again, Kilrivers swooped down on Arya and Lilith.
Seeing Sir Vampire's behavior, Raymond and Arroyo were immediately stunned, and they didn't expect that the other party would give up the idea of supporting Redbeard Jackson, and instead temporarily changed their intentions and made the choice of attacking Arya and Lilith.
Lilith and Arya saw that the vampire enemy they were trying to contain actually attacked them at this time, so they defended and fought back after a brief surprise of half a second.
Sir Vampire, who was in mid-air, turned his blood into a javelin and threw it at Arya, who immediately ordered the ghost wolf she summoned with the Staff of the Wolf's Soul to pounce on Arya.
The blood-colored javelin "poofed" through the ghost wolf's body, and the magical creature let out a "whoosh" wail, and then evaporated along with the blood javelin it had blocked with its body.
Taking advantage of the opportunity Lilith had ordered the Ghost Wolf to gain for herself, Arya continued to use her expertise to craft the fourth giant arrow of light in the battle and attach it to the string of the giant crossbow.
The elven girl's emerald green eyes locked the vampire Sir in mid-air, and the hand holding the giant crossbow pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the strings of the giant crossbow tightened forward with a "poof", and the arrows on the strings were pushed out towards the vampire sizzles again.
Lilith cooperated with Arya's attack, raised the staff in her hand and quickly replenished two arcane missiles in the direction of the positions on both sides of Kilrivers' side, which made the vampire Sir flying in mid-air have to bite one of the three ballistic blows, basically losing the possibility of retreating.