Chapter 19: The Trap
Gnosis is very convenient, but it is not without limitations.
First of all, she can't summon more than ten Shikigami at the same time; Secondly, every time you make a Shigei, you have to consume a lot of mental power and time; In the end, these painstaking Shikigami are not powerful, they can only last for a maximum of two hours, and once they are attacked or touched by water, they will be damaged and turn back into pieces of paper, which can only be used to confuse the public. To sum up, Gnosis is not able to summon a large number of Shikigami in an instant during battle to assist in battle.
However, it's not that there is no way to address these shortcomings. The Gnostic Shikigami is a small person made of rune paper as a carrier, and once the zuò is successfully made, it will remain in the form of a paper figure until it is activated, locking the spiritual power attached to Gnosis and can be stored for more than two weeks at most. Taking advantage of this feature, Gnosis entered the Hunger Games again and began to prepare non-stop preparations for the Zuò style of God.
It stands to reason that after entering the general mission world, the environment is dangerous and dangerous, and as a mage, the gnosis should try to maintain the full amount of mental power, so even if you make a zuò-style god, you don't dare to be too fast.
But this is different, the Hunger Games are dangerous, but before the competition officially begins, as long as the adventurers don't interfere too much in the plot, then they are absolutely safe. Because of this, Gnosis spared a lot of energy to make zuò-style gods, and even did not hesitate to use rare spiritual power recovery elixirs to assist in the preparation of zuò. Anyway, after starting The Hunger Games, these things can't be used, so it's better to turn them into combat power as soon as possible.
In this way, after a crazy production of zuò, plus the previous reserves, by the time The Hunger Games officially began, Gnosis had hundreds of inactive Shikigami in his hands. And these Shikigami are all set to Katniss, Peta, and her own appearance. Of course, there are some of them, but most of them have been used by Ma Le.
After entering the arena, Gnosis led the two plot characters into the forest in accordance with the tactics discussed with Ma Le in advance, and then began to paste the small paper figures on the trunks of trees and under the stones. And just like that, after a series of seemingly aimless wanderings, the gnostic Shikigami spread out to all corners of the forest.
The maximum number of gnostic gods to summon is ten, so a maximum of three groups of people can be summoned at the same time, and counting their own true bodies, there are a total of four groups wandering in the forest. Each Shikigami is a Gnostic creation, and although she can't know the condition of Shikigami, she can still feel the damage of Shikigami. As soon as one group is detected to be damaged by an attack, Gnosis immediately activates the other group, keeping four groups active at all times. This way, unless you attack four groups at the same time, it will be difficult for the enemy to catch a few gnostics.
And after several killer bee attacks, Gnosis also guessed that most of the enemies are summoners who manipulate animals, so every time she is attacked by killer bees, she will try her best to destroy these bees, and then quickly evacuate.
On Soros's side, although he has the ability to possess other creatures to listen to information, his body can't act during the period, so even if he gets first-hand information, the enemy will be far away when he rushes to it. And if the troops are divided to attack the four groups of centaurs, unless Soros himself happens to encounter the essence of Gnosis himself, it will be difficult to deal with the trio of the 12th District with only a few mutated wild dogs. And according to the damage of Shikigami, Gnosis can probably judge the search range of Soros and begin to consciously avoid Soros. As a result, it is even more difficult for Soros to find the essence of gnosis.
Putting aside the hide-and-seek between the old man and the girl with glasses in the ponytail, Ma Le had already run to the edge of the arena and came to the upper reaches of the river.
Ma Le calmed his breath for a moment, and saw in the distance that there were several wooden stakes inserted in the river, and on the stakes hung a dozen cloth bags made of the cloak of tribute. The cloth bag was bulging, and it was frequently shaken by the river, and there was constantly red liquid oozing out, presumably it contained the life-seeking fruit.
Ma Le did not rush forward recklessly, but first picked up a pebble and threw it over. With a bang, the rocks hit the stake, but no traps were triggered. Ma Le picked up another relatively large piece and threw it out with all his might. With a thud, the stone struck a stake like a cannonball, and the stake shook but did not break or fall, and it seemed to be deeply inserted and the wood was strong.
Ma Le had planned to wait a little longer and observe the situation. But as if urging Ma Le, two more cannon shots were heard over the arena, and it was the death of two plot tributes, most likely from drinking river water.
I can't wait any longer, the injuries I suffered before, after the replenishment of food and such a long time, have almost recovered. As the so-called artist is bold, Ma Le gritted his teeth and walked towards the stake with more than 700 points of life and more than 50% damage reduction.
Standing in the water, Ma Le pulled out the stake, removed the sack of the requisition, and threw it on the shore. The action was surprisingly smooth, and he pulled out five or six wooden stakes in a row, and no one interfered, which made him a little suspicious, there was actually no trap, but he was nervous......
Suddenly, Ma Le felt a heat wave behind him, and he subconsciously threw himself into the river, only to feel as if his back was burned by flames. When I looked up, I saw a huge fireball flying forward, crashing into a tree and bursting open, igniting the tree and causing a small fire.
"Adventurer's skills?" Ma Le's first reaction was this, but then, the same fireball flew from the other two directions, and it was impossible for three adventurers to have the same skills! "Is it a border warning?" Ma Le suddenly thought of the source of the fireball, in the movie, the boundaries of the arena are installed with fireball launchers, and once a tribute tries to cross the border to leave the arena, they will be attacked by the fireball. Even if they linger at the border for a long time, the staff will take the initiative to set off a fireball to warn them and keep the tributes away from the border.
Thinking of this, Ma Le raised his legs and wanted to leave, he didn't want to be a live target here. But at the moment when he took a step, a totem suddenly appeared out of thin air by the stream and flashed with electric light on the ground. The moment the totem appeared, it burst open, and a ray of light crossed Ma Le's body. Ma Le felt a surge of energy like a strong electric current rushing through his limbs, and he was immediately paralyzed, unable to take a step, let alone dodge the huge fireball.
With two booms, two fireballs exploded on Ma Le's body, and the blazing flames engulfed his body, Ma Le was temporarily unable to move, only holding his head with both hands, and relying on the operation of the Jiuyang Divine Skill to resist the invasion of flames.
But fortunately, the power of these two fireballs is far less than the combined skills of Andy and Ruth, plus Ma Le fell into the stream before and was soaking wet, these two blows are mainly the power of impact and explosion, and probably only killed less than 300 lives. Affected by these two blows, Ma Le simply lay down in the river, so that he could not only avoid the fireball, but also not be afraid of the flames, killing two birds with one stone.
Most of the totems that suddenly burst are skills like paralysis traps, although Ma Le doesn't know much about it, but this skill has such a strong control effect, the time will definitely not be long, and after a few seconds, you should be able to move freely!
Ma Le was right, the paralyzing effect was only the strongest in the first moment, and in the next few seconds, the paralysis continued to subside, and after two or three seconds of kung fu, Ma Le could move freely.
The fireball was still flying by, and Ma Le continued to swim and crawl downstream along the river, not wanting to climb out of more than ten meters away, when a figure suddenly appeared in the void by the stream, and shot out a ball of light with his hand. Ma Le was lying in the river, inconvenient to dodge, and the light ball hit him in the shoulder, not painful or itchy, but left a strange pattern.
Ma Le took a closer look, and the figure was Helias's partner, Ophelia! After this woman saw Ma Le's move, her hands changed and sealed, and there were words in her mouth, obviously she was planning a big move!
Although he had only climbed out of a dozen meters, this was no longer within the sensing range of the fireball, and Ma Le boldly stood up and threw himself at Ophelia. Although I don't know what this woman is doing, it's definitely not a good thing, so I'll interrupt her first!
Ophelia watched Ma Le pounce, but she didn't dodge or dodge, and still sang persistently. Ma Le saw that he had rushed to within five meters, and a tall man suddenly appeared in front of Ophelia, holding a sword and stabbing at Ma Le!
This man was Helias, and he appeared so suddenly that Ma Le didn't have time to react, so he could only stupidly crash into the tip of his sword. With a thud, the long sword stabbed into Ma Le's chest. This sword is not only the strength of Helias, but also the momentum of Ma Le's forward rush, the combination of the two, the stabbing is fierce and ruthless, knocking out more than 100 points of Ma Le's life!
Marle screamed in pain, punched Helias back, and then drew his dagger and continued to charge at Ophelia.
How could Helias let him get his wish, swing his sword and continue to attack Ma Le, and Ma Le also swung a dagger and slammed it! Although Helias is brave, but the strength is too poor after all, Ma Le shot out with hatred, the dagger collided with the long sword, only to hear a loud sound of "dangchang", Helias was shocked and flew out!
Ma Le knocked Helias away, his feet strengthened, he jumped up, and stabbed the dagger at Ophelia in the air! However, when Ma Le's dagger was only less than 30 centimeters away from Ophelia's neck, he suddenly felt that the knife was cut in front of him! Looking at Ophelia again, it is already more than ten meters away.
"Teleportation ability?" Ma Le looked around, "No, it's me who moved, someone pulled me back!" I saw that in the forest not far away, a figure appeared again, it was the Moon Lake who was proficient in illusion.
"I said that everyone can be invisible, it turns out that you are the ghost!" Ma Le sneered and said to Moon Lake.
"Do you still have the heart to talk to me, and forget Ophelia's tricks?" Moon Lake said with a smile.
Ma Le reacted suddenly, and then looked at Ophelia, who had finished chanting and mudras, and pointed at him in the distance......