Chapter 24: The Assassin and the Mage (Part I)
At the moment of the great enemy, no one thought that the first person to stand up would be this young mage who had always been inconspicuous.
Looking at Constantine who was holding the crystal staff in his hand and blocking in front of him, the seven dragon vein family warriors did not hesitate at all, and the long sword cut a sharp silver sword wind, gathering into a vortex and crashing towards Constantine.
In their eyes, the brave mage was already a dead man.
The sword wind blew the wind and snow, pulling up the young man's hair, his eyes narrowed slightly, not because of fear, but because he needed to see more clearly, and at the same time, his brain was running rapidly, calculating the trajectory of the sword qi.
In the wind and snow, the number of spheres emitting lilac light increased suddenly, from the first few to dozens to a hundred.
A hundred arcane missiles was the limit of what he could control now.
More than a hundred magical orbs wrapped around Constantine's body, and the young man standing in the arcane missile phalanx was as majestic as the statue of a saint standing in the Great Temple of Radiance.
With a lift of their fingers, numerous arcane orbs sputtered bright purple dots of light, happily catapulting out and crashing into the behemothic silver cyclone.
The arcane barrage and the silver vortex silently intertwined, melting into a glowing silver-purple glow.
Countless soft sounds came from the light, like the sound of parchment being torn apart.
Where the two magical forces collided, the fragments of magic produced by the mutual annihilation of the energy could not help but erupt from the distorted brilliance, kicking up large clouds of dust, and the snowflakes falling from the sky were torn into countless powders.
The sword qi roared unwillingly, but it collapsed little by little under the impact of the purple barrage, disintegrating into a harmless breeze and dying down.
When the light vanished, the silver vortex vanished, as if it had never existed since Ali.
The seven Dragon Vein Family warriors with high-level peak strength were stunned at the same time, and they didn't expect that what would appear in front of them would be such a picture: this young mage actually used the most basic magic skill to hedge off the sword qi combination that the Dragon Vein warriors were proud of!
Freya also had a long mouth, and looked at Constantine as if she were looking at a monster.
Are all magicians from the Principality of France so powerful?
After the martial arts conference, Constantine became more comfortable with the use of arcane missiles, and the power of a hundred arcane missiles was indeed not small, but it was still his valuable combat awareness and experience that came from his hunter career that he could use so easily to disintegrate the sword qi storm of the dragon vein warriors.
However, the strength of the Dragon Vein Samurai is that no matter what kind of accident they face, they can react quickly and not be disrupted.
Two dragon warriors appeared behind Constantine, one in front of the other, and the sword of the first warrior stabbed the boy insidiously in the back of the head.
But in the next second, he was shocked to find that he had turned around in a daze, and then the sword actually poked at his companion behind him.
In a hurry, he quickly withdrew his sword, but the momentum of the charge was abruptly interrupted, and he collided with the samurai who pounced behind him, and staggered backwards at the same time.
Arcane --- Steering
Constantine then lazily chanted a few syllables, and an invisible arcane shock wave spread from his hand.
Suddenly, the Dragon Vein Family warrior who attacked him was pushed out by the [Mage's Hand] along with his companions, and planted on a freight cart not far away, and after two painful snorts, he instantly fell unconscious.
Freya and Natasha both saw this funny scene and couldn't help but laugh, but after thinking about it, they found that they couldn't laugh at all.
Ordinary mages don't have a chance to react in such a short period of time, and even if they do, they probably won't have enough time to complete the spell.
Being able to trick two high-level warriors invisibly proves that this young mage has extremely terrifying spell casting speed and on-the-spot reflexes.
The remaining five warriors were enraged by Constantine's actions.
They were the warriors of the noble Vismal family, how could they be played with so easily, or by a little mage who was less than twenty years old.
In a fit of rage, they did not attack Brillouin on the roof of the car at the first time, but invariably chose to attack Constantine.
The five high-ranking knights struck with all their might, and the furious sword wind suddenly turned into a huge tornado that devoured life, and wrapped towards Constantine.
However, Constantine only used one magic to avoid the terrifying sword energy tornado --- [Flashing Technique].
What was even more unexpected was that he did not dodge in other directions, but appeared in front of the samurai, less than five meters away.
His performance surprised the Dragon Vein warriors.
Normal magicians and warriors try to distance themselves when they fight, the farther away the better, what mage would be stupid enough to crash headlong into a swordsman?
But there really seems to be such an idiot in front of me.
In the face of Constantine, who could almost be said to be sent to the door, the dragon vein warrior only hesitated for less than half a second, and then his eyes showed a fierce light, and the sword beckoned to Constantine, and they all subconsciously thought that it was the result of this young mage's lack of combat experience.
Ready-made cheap, how can you not want it?
If Roland stood here, he would definitely be silent for a few seconds for these naïve dragon vein warriors in his heart.
Constantine was unarmed, but he still had a harmless smile on his face, and his hands were up.
Rumble!
A rich purple light bloomed in front of him, and a dragon vein warrior flew out as if he had been hit by a cannonball, blood spurting from his mouth and nose, and his body slammed to the ground.
It's not that he is not weak, any ordinary person who is hit in the chest by a full ten arcane missiles is probably no different from him.
Even Blaze's physique is still difficult to parry the concentrated fire of the arcane missile, let alone him?
With one less person, the cooperation of the warriors suddenly revealed a flaw, which was not big, but it was enough for a hunter of Constantine's level.
The young man's figure shuttled through the shadows of the swords slashed by the four dragon vein family warriors like a butterfly piercing flowers, and at the same time, a variety of magic was released from his hands, and all of them were instantaneous.
These spells are the most basic of the factions: Arcane Missile, Mage's Hand, Incendiary, Light, Frost......
Except for the first [flash], Constantine never used any magic above the elementary level.
Constantine used spells that magicians could access and master during their apprenticeship, but what was shocking was that he was able to fight with four well-trained high-level peak warriors with these unpopular magic.
The picture was incredible, both for the four samurai who participated in the battle and for the mercenaries and guards watching the battle.
After the warrior reaches the high level, he can accumulate magic power in his body and convert it into lethal sword qi to use, which makes the high-level warrior have a huge advantage when facing the mage at close range, even if it is a crown-level great mage, he is not willing to fight a high-level warrior in close combat.
To the surprise of the samurai, the young magician in front of them not only possessed a rare ability to instantaneously perform magic, but also mastered the mastery of spells.
It is not an exaggeration to call Constantine's spell casting art, and any basic spell that falls into his hands can play an incredible role in close situations.
For example, [Frost], the most basic ice spell, condensed into a slender ice spike in Constantine's hands, stabbing at the warriors' vital points from various tricky angles.
The [Light Technique], which can only be used for illumination in the hands of ordinary mages, often shakes in front of the eyes of the samurai at critical moments, and uses the light emitted in an instant to obscure their vision, causing them to lose their targets.
What drove the warriors even more crazy was that their swords couldn't hit Constantine at all.
The boy who blessed the [Primary Acceleration Technique] was like a ghost, and in the process of moving, he constantly used a [Mage's Hand] to interfere with the movements of the warriors, causing each sword they stabbed out to deviate from the expected trajectory, and finally passed by Constantine, not even rubbing his robe.
How could there be a mid-level mage in this world who was not inferior to a high-level knight in melee combat?
Is he really a magician?
Countless questions swelled up in the samurai's hearts like blisters, and they even felt a little frightened.
In the entire continent, I am afraid that only Roland, who acted as a knight of Constantine's servants, was qualified to answer this question.
In fact, for the past few months, even Roland has been amazed at Constantine's progress, and only he understands what unheard-of path his master is now taking.
To be precise, today's Constantine is a monster that combines two completely contradictory professions, assassin and mage, an unprecedented melee mage.
The dual cultivation of magic and martial arts is not a new concept, for example, Roland has profound attainments in both swordsmanship and divine arts.
However, Roland knew very well that even as a paladin himself, he could not do it like Constantine, who perfectly integrated magic and martial arts, and seamlessly integrated them in actual combat.
Because in the final analysis, magic and swordsmanship are two different systems, magic is in the hands of knights, and it is more used as a tool to assist in battle, and the same is true of the dual cultivators of magic and martial arts in history.
But in Constantine, who was originally a bounty hunter, magic became the main means of output.
Mage and killer, two professions that have not shared the same heaven since the Middle Ages, actually appeared in one person at the same time.
Explaining his spiritual path, Constantine smiled and said to Roland: "When I was a child, I had always fantasized about how terrible it would be for a magician to have the skills of an assassin. ”