Chapter 238: An Arrow for an Arrow
It's not so strange that Atalanta wants to lure the yew people away by herself. Although she had been traveling with Cheese and the others for a while, she had been alone for a longer period of time. Although she already thinks in her heart that Kaylas, as well as Cheese and Losabatu, who has left the team, are people to be trusted, her stress response when she encounters stimuli is still to avoid implicating others. Besides, she really didn't have a good role model to follow, and Cheese, who had traveled the longest with her, was an extreme individualist in his own right, and the solitary nature of the mage had been shown many times on the prairie alone.
So after complaining, Cheese immediately got up and followed. In his heart, he did not reject this kind of behavior of taking the danger on himself, but there was a big premise, Cheese was confident that he could solve most of the problems with his own ability. Atta doesn't have that ability, at least not from a bystander's point of view. In addition to being mercenaries, Yew people are also goblins themselves, and no one knows goblins better than goblins, and killing between their own kind is often bloodier and more efficient than between other races. Since they were so desperate for Atta, there must be a way to deal with the female swordsman.
Thinking of this, the speed under the cheese's feet was a little faster. It's just that as a spellcaster, he is too easy to remember, and the cat goblins once said in small talk that spellcasters like Cheese are extremely eye-catching to goblins, and they don't need clothes and faces, and goblins can naturally distinguish his identity. So as soon as the mage took a few steps, an arrow flew silently towards his torso! The elven poison is as incredible as the rest of their creation, and it is impossible to understand it in a worldly way.
"Do!" the arrow, in the middle of the mage's raised palm, the wooden rod bounced in the opposite direction after a slight bend, as if it had hit not human flesh, but a steel plate. It didn't really hit the palm of Cheese's hand, and certainly not a steel plate, but a leaf stuck to the palm of the mage's hand. This spell was not difficult for Cheese, but he didn't usually like such rough spells.
The blade, after blocking the arrow, fell off, was caught by two fingers, and then flicked lightly, and the soft leaf immediately turned into a deadly throwing knife, spinning in the air and flying in the direction from which the arrow came. This blade is sure to hit the archer just now. It's just that with the Yew people's ability to resist the troubles of worldly things, there is no hope for what damage a magic-infused throwing knife can do.
Cheese didn't care about that outcome, and the defense and counterattack just now were just out of hand. Ever since the Magic Hole happened to him, for some reason, his regained spellcasting ability and the way magic works have improved that he hadn't done before. It's not that the current mages can create a bigger spectacle and cause floods and landslides. On the contrary, cheese is now more able to apply to every plant and tree in hand. This has given him a subtle improvement in his overall combat ability, and it is unknown whether this improvement is a chicken rib or a symbol of his mastery of magic entering a more subtle realm.
What he knew was that if Atta was allowed to distract the Yew people's attention, he would probably not be able to provide timely help to the female swordsman due to the physical disparity. Fortunately, he also ran out of the construction site at this time, and he didn't have to fear the magic light in his eyes from the lumberjacks, and the magic vision that could be cast meant that he could find the yew people hiding in the woods. If you know the location, you can do it.
"Don't think you're the only ones who can shoot arrows. The mage whispered, reaching out to pick up a thin branch from the ground, and with a slight tug of his other hand, he pulled the twig from the tree beside him. He leaned against the trunk of a tree to dodge more arrows coming at him. Batu did teach him how to make a simple bow, and Cheese had long known the principles and details of how bows and arrows worked. No amount of knowledge could make him use two branches to make a weapon that could actually be used for archery. But it doesn't matter, the gray robe never needs additional weapons, and the magic power surging in his body is enough to turn ordinary things into sharp blades.
Bite one end with your teeth and tie a knot with both hands at the other end of the branch. There are many ways to play knots because of their different roles in different uses, and over time, in addition to practicality, different knots themselves also have a certain degree of symbolism and are even used as totems. This is the case for example, the ominous knots that symbolize evil gods encountered on the grasslands, as well as the more widely known hanging knots. The cheese is tied with a knot that communicates the elements, which once appeared as a decoration for priests in the rituals of a certain civilization, and was later collected and recorded by the lord of the Gray Tower.
In order to make the shape of the bow, two knots were tied and they were not the same. Cheese finished the first one without any problems, but he had trouble making the second one, and he forgot how to tie the matching knots for a while. If it is a normal spellcaster, at this time, they will either give up immediately and use other means to achieve their goals, or they will try to recall the knowledge in their heads. The Grey Robes had another option, and thanks to their rigorous training, Cheese turned the knot back in front of him and carefully figured out what it looked like. Those textures, textures, veins, fade away in the eyes of the cheese, leaving a purer and simpler silhouette. From these outlines, the mage was able to get a glimpse of the principles that had been used to give the knot the abilities he knew, and then deduced what it would take to exert that power.
Cheese didn't spend much time in this semi-meditation, but it took a few minutes. The yew people who had shot at the trees where he was hiding had begun to be confused by the wizard's intentions. If it weren't for Cheese hiding behind a tree, the Yew people would have gone around to fight him in close quarters, and that would be the best way to deal with the caster. But the place on their bodies that had been burned by the dragon fire was still aching, and even the goblin mercenaries who were not afraid of death did not want to experience the pain of burning all the insides again. Gradually, with the exception of a few archers who were still pointing their weapons in the direction where Cheese might appear, the others turned their attention to chasing Atta. That's their goal, and whatever the wizard hiding behind the tree wants to do, as long as they can kill the woman first, the problem will be solved.
Knot, finished. Two branches, one rigid and one soft, combined into a humble bow. That's enough. Cheese took a deep breath, grasped the bow with his left hand, and pulled the bowstring slowly with his right hand, and he pulled it slowly, as if the tender branch had an indescribable weight. When the bowstring was halfway open, Cheese took two steps forward, turned to face the tree, raised his arms, and aimed in the direction of the yew people. Across the tree, naturally he can't shoot people, and besides, there are no arrows on the mage's bow, so what is he going to shoot?
Bow, full of Zhang. The magic in Cheese's eyes swirled like a vortex, and his right arm trembled in the excessive tension as he chanted a continuous low incantation in his mouth.
"Boom!" fingers, let go. The bowstring made of twigs made an undeserved sound, and then the entire bow was destroyed by an invisible force, and the two branches were shattered. Did this spell fail?
"Whoosh!whoosh!" the grass was crushed by something invisible. The edge of the trunk was scraped off a little bark for no reason. Fallen leaves flying in the air were pierced and shattered, as if they had hit something invisible. The invisible things that shoot from the bow that are too simple to be called a bow are guided by the eyes of the Cheese and attack their targets at a rapid speed!
"Medium!"