Chapter 17: Cold War on a Moonlit Night

Qin Lun stood on a huge swamp banyan tree, his figure hidden behind the branches and leaves. His palm was glowing with a faint green light invisible to others, clinging to the trunk of the tree, which was the form of the High Elf Story.

The Death Swamp is sparsely wooded and full of moisture, and even Elven Story can only get some vague information here. It was possible to roughly locate the other party's position, but it was very unclear, and Qin Lun needed to reconnoiter every other way.

"Click~" Qin Lun kicked hard under his feet, and his body drew a graceful arc in the air, landing on another banyan tree not far away.

Even though it's only the outskirts of the Land of the Dead, the ground is muddy and there are a number of small, inconspicuous puddles. Although it will not be without a top, it will inevitably make a lot of noise, alarming the tailgators in the distance.

When the clever elven ranger tracks the enemy in the forest, he usually takes the same action as Qin Lun, using the tall arbor as the fulcrum to slowly approach the enemy. Due to the winds in the forest, it is easy to ignore the occasional movement on the tree branches.

After leaping for a distance in the forest, Qin Lun once again pressed his palm to the trunk of the banyan tree under his feet. This time, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and the other party seemed to be keenly aware of something, and began to change his hiding position, playing hide and seek with him.

After another moment, Qin Lun finally showed a look of surprise.

"Safari...... A high-level ranger? "Judging from these elven story explorations, the other party's movement route is not scattered, but presents a regular arc.

Qin Lun had obtained the life inheritance of an ancient elven hunter from the Jondar Moon Elf Tribe. It contains fragments of the memories of the ancient elf and the inheritance of martial arts. Combined with the inheritance memory, it can be seen that the other party's movement is the safari behavior of a high-level ranger or elven hunter.

The so-called safari is the unique fighting mode of the intelligent races of the grasslands and forests, which first originated from the centaurs. Centaurs have the highest movement speed in the forest, and their archery and javelin skills are no less than those of the Elves.

Due to their large size, they are unable to sneak close to their prey while hunting. He had to rely on his strong and powerful hooves, constantly running and pursuing, keeping a certain distance on one side so as not to hurt the prey, and on the other side blocking the escape direction of the prey on all sides, and finally shooting with bows and arrows and javelins.

The nomadic way of fighting has evolved to the point where it is no longer the preserve of centaurs. Elves and humans systematized this skill and turned it into a specialization for the three combat classes of Ranger, Hunter, and Nomad Knight.

"Interesting!" A smile appeared on Qin Lun's face, and he began to feel excited.

This was the first time he had fought a jungle battle with another Ranger class since he became a Jungle Hunter.

Even if he used to fight with that beginner female archer Qing Ming in the world of Nars, it was actually not a real hunter battle. Qin Lun, who has the heart of a hunter, naturally will not refuse to compete with this kind of opponent.

"Do you want to call Venus out?" Qin Lun tilted his head and thought about it, and finally decided not to summon the two hunting partners for the time being.

Cyberbullus is a hellish demon dog, not very adapted to the terrain of the Death Swamp, and now after reaching the seventh order, his size is getting bigger and bigger, his speed has decreased, and he can't keep up with the rhythm at all in the way of fighting in the hunt.

The Shadow Wind Leopard is the best aid in this kind of battle, but Venus has already made an appearance in the underground temple of the Church of Ambori.

Although it is unlikely that the other party is Amberi Church, it may also be a pioneer who has been hired to tempt him, and there is no absolute certainty of sniping, so it is better not to expose it for the time being.

Realizing that his opponent would no longer run away like he had done a few days ago, Qin Lun became more and more cautious. Pay more attention to hiding traces while getting close to the opponent, and when you are still and still, immediately use the Hunter's camouflage and stealth skills.

In the jungle, elven hunters have an advantage over other races of rangers and hunters due to their excellent night vision and elven story, but this does not mean that ranger hunters of other races have no advantage in the jungle.

The Human Ranger sometimes combines the skills of a mage and a thief, compensating for his weaknesses with lightweight, probing, and stealth, and today, the Elven Hunter has no absolute advantage.

Qin Lun and the other party circled each other, slowly approaching, the silent night of the land of death, suddenly filled with a solemn atmosphere, and even some underground insects and ants no longer hissed.

The cold moonlight in a sparse forest field on the periphery of the land of death, under the projection of patches of mottled patches, every qiē in the forest looks ghostly, the branches and leaves swaying under the night wind seem to be ghostly, a hundred ghosts walk at night.

"Whoosh~" Suddenly, a black light swept through countless shrubs like lightning, bursting into a black shadow in the forest, and a strange arc was drawn during it, surprisingly bypassing a few banyan trees blocking the way.

The black shadow that looked like a tree stump to ordinary people suddenly jumped up, and avoided the black light inexplicably. At the same time, a bright silver light burst out in front of it, and it sped away in the direction from which the black light came.

"Duh, duh!" Two crisp voices rang out almost in no particular order.

With these two soft sounds, the black and silver rays in the two opposite directions began to stagger, although the direction of the attack was constantly changing, but the only constant was the increasingly solidified tension between the two sides.

Qin Lun stared at the front intently, in his opinion, the battle that originally belonged to the game had now changed its nature. A few times he almost shot the throat and eyebrows, and he finally realized that the enemy on the other side was very powerful, at least not inferior to him in long-range combat.

The silver-white dial of Qin Lun's right eye and the yin-yang fish pattern of his left eye had already appeared at the same time, in fact, in terms of the fighting method of the safari, he was even at a disadvantage. Because he didn't rely on the help of the two pupil skills, he couldn't be the first to spot the other party just now, and his dodge of the silver arrow had to rely on the space-time stagnation effect of the Eye of the Clock.

In other words, his dodge ability is not as good as that of his opponent, or he does not have the opponent's natural ability to predict danger.

A bit of silver light gradually enlarged in Qin Lun's eyes, and under the skill effect of the Eye of the Clock, the speed of the silver arrow was slowed down, and the magic carvings plated with a layer of Mithril on it were clearly recognizable.

"Humph!" Since he understood that he could not defeat the other party in the safari, Qin Lun did not plan to entangle any further, he took a deep breath, stood up from the bushes, and slowly pulled the World Tree longbow.

Of course, this kind of slow motion under the effect of the eye of the clock, when put back into the real world, seems extremely fast.

Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and he took out a black arrow from the quiver behind him and put it on the longbow, shooting towards the silver mang. Black and silver arrows staggered by a fraction of a second.

Qin Lun tilted his head slightly, the silver light almost brushed his cheeks, and a few strands of silver hair on the young man's sideburns fluttered down, and the sharp arrow wind blew his skin painfully.

The hunter on the opposite side didn't seem to expect Qin Lun to dodge the silver arrow in such a thrilling way, and his movements actually slowed down for a while, and he didn't continue to shoot.

However, it quickly reacted, and an iron bridge fell to the sky.

"Duh~" The black arrow shot by Qin Lun made a soft sound, and a small round hole appeared in the trunk of the banyan tree where the hunter was hiding. Perhaps it was because Qin Lun didn't shoot in the running this time, this black arrow contained enough power to almost ignore the obstacles and skim above its belly.

The first time he took the lead, the light in Qin Lun's eyes skyrocketed, and one by one the black arrows were drawn out of the quiver and put on a longbow, almost forming a whip, shooting at the other party endlessly.

The most important thing is that Qin Lun is still slowly approaching the opponent, and under the amplification of the Eye of the Clock, he is not afraid of the silver arrow that the opponent shoots at him, and only uses the smallest body swing to dodge the silver mang.

"Oops!" As an experienced ranger, the other party had already realized that the shape had taken a sharp turn, and suddenly threw down the longbow in his hand, pulled out a pair of Xueliang scimitars at his waist, and with the help of the alternating cover of the banyan trees in the forest, he quickly pounced towards Qin Lun.

Qin Lun's fighting style is called "Yan ~ Shot", which is face.to.face.

When two high-level rangers or hunters feel that they can't decide the winner in a parade style, they will adopt this duel mode. No longer rely on cover, only dodge the opponent's arrows with the smallest body swing, and then slowly approach the opponent to fight for life and death in the shortest time.

It's just that the "Yan ~ Shot" battle is extremely dangerous, and even a legendary ranger may be killed by an arrow from his opponent in this duel. And the enemy Qin Lun faced at this time, for some reason, seemed to be unwilling to start a "Yan ~ Shot" duel with him.

Of course, although Qin Lun had accepted the ancient inheritance of the elven hunter, he had not really mastered this technique, and most of his "Yan~ejaculate" relied on the assistance of the Eye of the Clock.

It's just that tonight's thrilling arrow battle seems to have completely inspired the inheritance memory of the ancient elf hunter. Qin Lun finally comprehended the archery skills of the ancient elf hunter under this stimulus, and a piece of starry sky information quietly appeared in the prompt bar of the death list.

"Melee?" Looking at the opponent gradually approaching in front of him, Qin Lun's focused eyes finally came to his senses, and the consciousness that had just fallen into the inheritance memory receded like a tide, making him lick his dry lips with some annoyance.

Two snow-like sword lights slashed head-on, but Qin Lun showed a smile on his face. His melee martial arts skills are indeed very weak, but the opponent is not the kind of warrior who is proficient in martial arts, and through the arrow battle just now, he already knows the biggest weakness of the opponent in front of him.

Qin Lun lifted the World Tree longbow and slashed directly at the sword light, his World Tree longbow was already very different from the original, the bow body was also attached to the metal feathers that had been decomposed by the Wind Chasing Frost, and he was not afraid of being cut by the scimitar at all.

"Dang!" With a crisp sound, the opponent immediately stumbled under his feet, although he made the first move, he was directly forced back by Qin Lun's huge strength. Its weakness is obvious, that is, its strength is insufficient, and Qin Lun's explosive power of breaking a hundred attributes is enough to crush this kind of ranger who mainly attacks from a distance.

"I hope you can continue to surprise me!" A trace of coldness flashed in Qin Lun's eyes, and the World Tree Longbow took advantage of the opponent's loss of body balance and slashed forward fiercely, the metal feathers of the bow body glittering in the moonlight.

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