Chapter 54: Tentacles
"Then what follows is the battle between Faust and Zhanas. The old chief went on to declare, "If he wins, then he will be my granddaughter's only husband!"
When he had finished speaking, the old chief whispered to Faust in the lingua franca, "Your Excellency Faustus, do you need to rest for a while?"
"Not really. Faust directly rejected the mayor's kindness, he knew that Zhannath's fighting power was just between him and Rucas. "Let's finish it as soon as possible, rest early, and have to go on an adventure tomorrow." β
The old chief saw that Faust's state was indeed not a big problem, and seeing the strength that Faust had shown before, he no longer persuaded him, but just nodded.
He turned back and commanded the warriors behind him, "Go and bring Zhanas and get her ready." He hesitated, then added, "Tell her that Tosaka is defeated, but still alive." β
Faust moved his muscles slowly. He didn't consume much physical strength in the battle with Tosaka, but because of the continuous use of psionic energy, his mental energy had been consumed a lot, and he had to use it sparingly in the future.
He had already devised a tactic against Zhanas - he would primarily use the ability of Hud Meier's dentures to manipulate the dirt, and win the battle with dignity without harming her by restricting Zhanas's movements.
It didn't take long for Zhannath to arrive. Her outfit had changed slightly, she had a smaller metal helmet than before, and in addition to her twin knives, she also had two small round shields tied to her arms.
"Miss Zhannath, it's an honor to fight you. Faust greeted her gently, "You are dressed as glamorously as ever." β
"Hmph. Zhanas just snorted coldly, and didn't mean to talk to Faust. Faust noticed that her eyes were slightly red and swollen under her helmet, as if she had cried before.
Faust certainly didn't intend to continue to talk to her in a boring way, his affection for Zhannath was similar to that of admiration, but it contained more possessiveness. Under this premise, he did not have much desire to get Zhannasi's heart.
"Miss Zhannasi, please attack first. Faust made a "please" gesture, "Ladies first." β
Zhan Nasi was not polite, but just put on a posture with a blank face, and circled around Faust like Tosaka before, and even his movements were eight or nine points similar to Tossaka.
"Do you have a good relationship with Tosaka?" Faust asked suddenly, "You seem to have cried, are you sad for him?"
Faust continued to smile and said, "He's pretty good, but he's nowhere near as good as me." Do you know how I beat him? I covered his mouth and nose with dirt and watched him struggle, slowly moving smaller and smaller......"
"That's enough!" said Zhannath, who suddenly ran up and moved quickly, and in the blink of an eye she circled Faust's side, and deftly rushed towards Faust, slashing at his neck with both knives, as if she were killing him.
Faust didn't bother with the blow, and he didn't even bother to turn around and face Zhannath head-on. "Your fighting style is a bit like Tossaka's, and you're very lethal. But...... You know, he just lost to me. β
"Whew!" The sand and dust evenly spread on the ground suddenly shook violently, and the smoke and dust flew up in an instant. Faust deliberately controlled the sand not to fly too high, and from the perspective of the onlookers, the smoke and dust only reached Faust's waist.
Zhanas, who was shorter than Faust, bent slightly forward at high speed, and the dust almost reached her neck. From a distance, it was as if he and Faust were fighting in the middle of a murky current.
Faust didn't just raise the smoke for the sake of visual effect, he did so mainly to obscure the eyes of others. He had used this trick in his previous battles with Tosaka, but at the time he had a much wider range of cover, allowing him to use his machinations to his heart's content.
In the face of Zhannasi, he naturally had to restrain himself.
"Plop. Suddenly, Zhannath seemed to have tripped over something, and suddenly she was caught in a screen of dust and smoke.
"What's going on?" Zhan Nath ...... Fell?" "Is this a spell by the Children of the Earth?"
An old native, with his long beard, said solemnly: "The son of the earth can control the soil, and he must have made the whole ground flow like water." You see, you know the dexterity of Zhannas, and even if you can't see the road, you won't fall. β
He seemed to have some prestige in the crowd, and many people around him nodded their heads in deep opinion.
In fact, it is not to blame for his misjudgment, the previous battle between Faust and Tosaka was shrouded in dust and smoke for most of the time, and there was not much they could see. Moreover, they had never seen any spells before, and even their imagination was very lacking, and it was normal for them to guess that Faust was a warrior.
Faust's tactics were classic, and in the old world, even civilians knew about them. That's the so-called "kind of tentacle".
The mages have a spell called "Eva Black Tentacles", which can play a very considerable role in hindering enemies, and the black tentacles are not afraid of physical attacks, so they can be said to be the nemesis of warriors.
Once the battlefield is planted with tentacles, the warriors who lack supernatural strike power are very dangerous, and if nothing else, the battle can basically be declared over.
Faust also learned this way, causing a mass of dirt tentacles to grow on the ground, which nimbly entwined with Zhannath, tripping her to the ground. When Zhannath kicked the tentacle at first, she thought it was just an ordinary foreign object, and she originally planned to use her strength on it to jump high and attack Faust from top to bottom. Unexpectedly, the "foreign body" suddenly grew and firmly wrapped around her thigh, causing her to fall to the ground in one fell swoop.
She exclaimed, and was about to slash at the tentacles on her thighs, but she didn't expect that her arm was suddenly entangled by a tentacle, and the weapon was entangled by several tentacles, and it flew more than just a few clicks.
Faust's tentacles are far inferior to Evahe's tentacles, and at the very least, they are afraid of physical attacks. Faust suddenly remembered his astral entanglement, which was much better than these dirt tentacles. It's a pity that he doesn't have much spiritual energy, and in this situation where there are alternatives, it's better to save a little.
"As soon as you shout stop, I'll stop immediately. Faust looked like he was winning, "The victory is decided, Miss Zhannasi...... No, it should be said, my lovely fiancΓ©e, Miss Zhannas. β
Zhannath struggled, but was entangled in more and more tentacles, and the strength of the struggle became smaller and smaller. It seems, indeed, as Faust said, that the battle ended before it even began.