Chapter 57: Franks (End)
Brunei's body was centered on the position below the ribs in his chest, and the skin and flesh within a radius of about ten centimeters were burned into black charcoal in an instant, and because the distance was closer than before, the blown wind blade technique did not have time to be too open, and six thin slits of different sizes were opened on his body, and when he broke it with his fingers, he could directly see the scenery behind him.
And this is only a direct trauma, and the concussion and sound and light effects caused by the explosion of a fireball at close range are by no means beneficial to the human body. In addition, given that he originally jumped to a height of about one meter and flew back six meters later, it actually increased to about two meters, and it was foreseeable that there would be another round of damage, and if there was any wound involved, there would be another round.
Although Brunei has completed many feats of forcibly enduring pain and controlling mental power fluctuations to complete spell casting, in his opinion, it is better not to experience such pain.
Fortunately, although his body is injured now, it is not he who controls it, and even if his body becomes tattered, at least now, he will not feel any pain except for heartache and worry, and even, from the perspective of a bystander, he also feels a malicious pleasure from this miserable situation.
【...... That's how you felt when you saw me hurt?]
The system floated in the air, smirked nonchalantly, and said, "I don't know what disgusting and despicable thoughts you have now. The Great Radiance is always right, and even if you become the Cthulhu System, the Sun King will still be great, you know?"
[Phew.] 】
A roar in his ears interrupted their brief conversation, and Brunei realized that although he would not feel the movement and touch of his body at the moment, hearing and sight were basically shared. The system got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and a piece of grass in front of him, which was already somewhat dry, was turned up, pulling out a rectangle of about three meters, and under the moonlight, there was a long black strip on the dark brown soil, which was not very regular, as if it had been soaked by something.
But the pit he smashed was not deep, and if it weren't for the parties, it would not have been possible to hear such a loud noise.
While Brunei was pondering, he noticed a flash of green light on his body, and several obvious wounds began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. That's not "healing minor injuries", it's a level 2 spell "healing" - can the system instantaneously fire level 2 spells?
Brunei didn't know if his thinking system could know at the moment, and the system didn't answer, didn't react, just turned his head slightly, squinted behind him, and seemed to show an evil smile again.
"Using the 'healing technique' in a combat state, you really look down on people. ”
The voice is deep, slow, and soft. It wasn't Franks' voice, it was—the words of "Mister," who hadn't heard a few words in total. In the field of vision, the faint blue light poured down from the neck like water, and did not disappear until it fell to the dry and reflective hand that stretched out from the top and bottom of the black robe's abdomen.
[This guy actually carried such a long knife? I didn't notice that he had walked so far before. 】
The system grinned: "You're the one who really looks down on people, little cutie." Look at your negligent wrists, slashing at them in this position, and still stopping so far away—"
The upper body of the system is tilted to the right, and at the same time, the left foot is jerked back with the right foot as the axis, turning 180 degrees. When he met his eyes, the flickering blade was still a little farther away from his neck than before—and then stopped moving again, for the wrist of the hand that had been waving it in an awkward position had been firmly pinched.
"Little cutie, even if you lack exercise, you have always seen others wield knives, right? With this posture, how can it be possible to make you stronger? Even if you really see the neck, I am afraid it will be difficult to cause fatal injuries. The system grabbed Mr. 's wrist, put his face to his ear, and whispered as if a lover was whispering, "Are you such a gentle person? ”
The left arm hung up, finger by finger bent, and finally clenched into a fist, the head tilted back, and left the gentleman's ear, looking at him with strange eyes, opening his mouth as if to say something—and slamming it into it. Comparing the orientation of the human body, Brunei felt that the punch probably hit the temple.
The gentleman jerked violently, then froze.
Systematically turned his fist into a palm, grabbed Mr. Hood, and pulled it back, revealing a thin head full of white hair. That being said, the gentleman's face was a little ruddy, and his eyes were quite energetic before he lost his mind, and even if he looked eighty percent similar to the old man who was about to enter the earth, Brunei felt that he was only forty or fifty years old at most.
The system let out another strange laugh that made Brunei feel very uncomfortable, and Brunei didn't know that his body had such a huge vocal potential: "Hey, hey, hahaha, little cutie, I didn't expect you to be so cute." I thought you were just cute at being clumsy in combat. ”
At the same time, in the field of vision of his own body at this moment, Brunei crossed the gentleman and saw a distant scene behind him. At first he only noticed some red dots that seemed to float in mid-air, and perhaps by a gust of wind, those red dots suddenly brightened and the color moved closer to yellow, but then they dimmed more rapidly.
This made Brunei pay a little more attention, and after a while, he finally distinguished it from the shadows of the trees around him with the help of the moonlight. It was a muscular man—it was Franks! Franks had been wounded much worse than the Bruneian image had been made, and his whole body was charred, and some parts seemed to have been charred—but he hadn't been incapacitated since then, as the system had imagined! He was still staggering along.
Of course, Brunei doesn't know what the system thinks. But since the landing just now, the system has been teasing Franks as a "three-turn mage", but in fact, he seems to be a gentleman who has no combat effectiveness, and it doesn't look like he takes Franks' threat into account.
The distance between him and the two men here was about twenty meters now, which was not close—it might take him more than a minute to walk at his current pace, but it was not far away. The extreme range of the Fireball Technique is around thirty meters, and for the Wind Blade Technique, which has a longer range, the distance of twenty meters is even within the range of just right.
However, Franks did not use the Wind Blade. Is it because he doesn't want to hurt Mr.? After all, judging from his previous performance, he has been protecting Mr. Or, because he's the type who is better at hand-to-hand combat, would casting the Wind Blade Technique at a distance of twenty meters make him feel uncertain?, in short, it's a good thing, giving Brunei time to react.
Franks stood up and was walking towards us. 】
The corners of the system's mouth were raised: "You mean that big black lump? Oh, my eyes only notice cute things." However, it doesn't matter, with me, everything is not a problem. Hmph, hum, hum, hahaha. ”
【...... system, although I originally thought you were weird. But you seem to have become even more abnormal when you manipulated my body. 】
The gentleman gradually regained his senses from the heavy punch just now, his eyes became clear again, and his gaze wandered around for a while, and finally settled on the eyes of the system, Brunei to be precise: "...... You guy. ”
The system did not respond to Brunei's complaints, nor did it react to the approaching Franks, who had undoubtedly been noticed at this moment, but continued to laugh at Mr. Provocatively: "Hehe, have you woken up? What is the benefit of waking up? Let me think about it, that big black lump seems to have said, you are 'equivalent to a third-turn mage'? At that time, I was thinking, what is 'quite'? Are you a second-turn mage with the protagonist's aura of the same level invincible and killing people?"
At this moment, although Brunei didn't actually see the expression of the system at this moment, but for no reason—or maybe not for no reason, his own face had already appeared in front of him, but the expression on it was vicious, gloomy, and chilling that he couldn't imagine, like a child laughing on the side of a bloody battlefield, and like an office worker smiling when pushing people down the mountain on the edge of a cliff, he smiled seemingly normally, carefully considered, as if he was afraid of hurting people, said half a sentence and swallowed half a sentence, and said cautiously:" But, I finally figured it out, um, sort of. ”
"You're not a 'three-turn mage' because you're not a mage at all—you're not a 'magic manipulator' that would normally be referred to simply as a 'mage'. You...... At least for now, you're probably only able to do the spellcasting ability of a mage's apprentice?or, at the civilian level, you can only control the simplest level 0 spells?And your physical combat power - well, to put it more accurately, should be your athleticism and athletic experience, or even worse, well, basically 0. The key to what Franks said was 'equivalent to a three-turn mage' was that you had the skill to put Brunei into a coma and awaken my magic emblem at the same time. ”
The system's tone had been soft and calm, and despite his definite display of malice, the gentleman had gradually relaxed with his words, and replied as if chatting, "...... It's really amazing. Did you deduce this point from just a casual remark?"
"Poof. The system suddenly laughed sarcastically, "I thought you still had a little brain to make up for the lack of your strength." Of course, it's not just a word, but everyone can hear it, right? The most important of my reasoning is obviously the performance of your and Franks' actions. Isn't your only value in making your opponent stronger?"
"Well, let's not talk about that. Use hallucinations to make people feel pain and fear, trigger escape mechanisms, and make people fall into a coma - too low, isn't it, brother? This is your ability to be comparable to a third-turn mage? It's not shameful to say it, baby. ”
The gentleman's face changed, the taunt of the system did not stop, and while Brunei felt that he had gained a considerable expansion in his vocabulary, he also noticed that Franks was getting closer and closer, and was now about five meters behind him.
[Hey, system, is it really okay?You don't think it's my body, so you can mess with it, right?]
Franks' upper body pressed down, Brunei was quite familiar with it now, this was a precursor to Franks' preparation to exert force, and the next thing was - the foot was violently forced, and the body flew like a cannonball.
[Hey, hey!] Brunei finally mastered the technology that the system originally used to bombard his brain, and he didn't need to speak at all, just a moment, he could convey what he wanted to express in one go.
At the same time, the gentleman finally could not bear the humiliation, and roared angrily: "You give me almost a little!"
In the invisible place, with Mr. as the center, a huge wave that does not exist swept away, and I don't know where to stop. The dry grass, the leaves of the few evergreen trees, did not move, and the flowing water did not add the slightest ripple, but the creatures that were still active in winter felt the power that overwhelmed everything.
The creature that bears the brunt is naturally Brunei. Unlike the previous feeling of being overwhelmed by fear, it was simply swallowed by an incomparable force, not a sense of intimidation, but a direct endurance, and then, crushed to pieces. Brunei, who had no feeling for his body, couldn't understand why he was hurt like this, and he didn't know how long it had been before this huge force finally faded like a tide, but he remained awake.
It wasn't a good thing, but, at least, he saw his situation through his own eyes.
There was a film of water behind the gentleman, and the pitch-black Franks was nowhere to be found - he could easily tear through the defenses of the water film, but the timing just now was so precise that he probably didn't have time to do the whole set of movements, and he was completely overwhelmed by the pain like Brunei, lost his perception of the outside world, and then, he was bounced away.
And the system held Mister's hand from beginning to end, and whether the system was like them or not, Mister failed to seize the opportunity to suppress the system in turn, let alone kill Brunei. And now, the system apparently regained consciousness earlier than Brunei – if he had been in the same situation as Bruneis.
The system raised its other hand and slapped the stunned gentleman in the face: "Little cutie, do you recognize the reality?" Next, it's Q&A time. ”