Chapter XVII

"Uncle Thorne, how long are you going to see the play?" cried Griffith dissatisfiedly into the distant woods. Griffith didn't even blink his eyes at the roaring fireball, because the siege crab, under his command, calmly stretched out his left chela and steadily blocked the fireball.

Another violent explosion sounded, and after the firelight, the siege crab's large pincers were intact, only slightly reddened.

At the same time, on the top of a cedar tree three hundred meters away, a gray-white owl cooed in response, and then flapped its wings a few times, and flew towards Kyle Osborne and the others who were still entangled in cobwebs as if they were prey.

This owl is naturally a Druid-Thern variation.

Kyle Osborne had no idea that since they left Thousand Sails City, they had never escaped Thorn's surveillance. Birds flying in the sky, voles burrowing on the side of the road, and all kinds of animals that can be found everywhere in the wild, Kyle and the others have no idea that they are being tracked by a druid who specializes in animal transfiguration.

Through the agreed signals, such as the way the golden eagle flies, the information of Kyle and his gang has actually been in Griffith's possession all along.

"Quick, shoot that owl!" Kyle is not the kind of boy who talks on paper, he realized the danger at the first time, and hurriedly let the few orcs who could still stand next to him intercept him, and Kyle himself was not idle to watch the excitement, I saw him quickly chant a few spells, and 4 magic missiles with dim white light drew a few beautiful trajectories in the air and shot towards the owl.

The Magic Missile is a level 1 magic that a mage must master.

Because of its inevitable hit characteristic, it is a good way to deal with agile enemies, and the cast time of this magic is short, and its power will increase as the mage's level increases.

For each level of the Mage, the number of Magic Missiles increases by one, up to a maximum of 5. Kyle is a level 4 magician, and the magic missile he uses is already quite powerful. At the very least, a normal owl will definitely be killed in seconds.

At the moment when the magic missile was about to hit, the owl's body twisted, and with a bang, a stout, almost two-meter-tall russet earth element fell to the ground unabated, plowing a small furrow in the mud.

Although the druids are also spell-casting professions, they can barely be regarded as half mages, but these guys who live in the mountains and wilderness are far from having the rigorous academic attitude of magicians. Therefore, even though there is a loose Druid Council on the continent of Titania, it does not even divide the class ranks, but only roughly divides the previous legends into beginner, middle and high ranks.

Beginner druids can transform into most small and medium-sized creatures, such as ravens, rats, etc., and their means are very flexible, and it is difficult for them to fly or sneak in. However, the combat effectiveness is a bit unsatisfactory, at most it will become a wolf or badger, and when it comes to fighting, it is better to directly put on leather armor and take a wooden stick to knock people on the head.

However, after being promoted to the middle level, the effectiveness of the druid's Transfiguration increased dramatically. Not only can you transform into large beasts such as bears, lions, and pythons, but you can also transform into elemental creatures. Purely in terms of combat effectiveness, turning into a bear is the first choice, and with Thorn's level, becoming a cave bear weighs almost a ton, and one palm can kill a beginner warrior.

However, considering that Kyle is a level 4 mage, and the cave bear is flesh and blood after all, it would be troublesome to be blind, aging, or even immobilizing, so it is safer to transform into an earth elemental that is immune to most magical effects.

Because he was still mid-level, Thern could only transform into a small earth element, but it was enough.

The 4 magic missiles accurately hit Thorn, but apart from a small bit of dirt, the earth elemental was almost unscathed.

"Block it for me!" Kyle exclaimed, using the last of the Fireball Scroll.

As long as it is not used to attack creatures that are out of specification such as siege crabs, the power of the fireball technique is still considerable, even if it is a small earth element, it is hard to eat a shot from the front, and it is also bombarded to take two steps back, and the chest, head and face are blown away by a layer, and a lot of stone slag is dropped.

Kyle Osborne's bodyguards, as long as they could still move, used their last strength to rush towards Thorn's changing earth elemental. Among them, the strongest half-orc iron hand, looked up to the sky and roared, directly using the barbarian's unique madness skill, his eyes were suddenly bloodshot, and the original tendon and flesh of his body were directly thickened, and his muscles were exposed.

These people have been cornered.

The strongest warrior, Lee, is too far away and besieged, and there is no hope at all for a short time, Kyle, a level 4 magician, is already their only hope of turning defeat into victory. Besides, it's their job to protect Kyle.

Running away? That's not a good idea.

Once Kyle Osborne has three strengths and two weaknesses, the wrath of the Osborne family will never spare a derelict subordinate. If you want to save your life, you have to flee to the wilderness, but the dangerous wilderness is not a place where a mere beginner warrior can survive independently.

So, they can only fight hard.

Iron Hand brandished a long knife and rushed to the front, Thorn had no intention of dodging, and directly raised his left hand to block. More than half of the blade of the steel knife was slashed into the left arm of the earth elemental, if it was flesh and blood, if it was injured like this, the combat effectiveness would definitely be reduced, but for elemental creatures who did not have pain nerves, this was not a problem at all.

Not only did he not feel the pain, but the long knife was caught by the arm of the earth elemental, and he couldn't pull it out at this moment. When ordinary people encounter this situation, they must let go and dodge quickly, but the crazy iron hand has lost the ability to think calmly, and just blushes and keeps exerting force, trying to pull out the knife.

Naturally, Sean would not let go of this good opportunity, so he took advantage of the situation to hold the iron hand with his strong arms, and then clamped it hard, the iron hand couldn't even scream, his chest was flattened all of a sudden, he didn't know how many ribs were broken, and blood kept foaming out of his mouth.

While Thorn killed Iron Hand with his sister in his arms, the other guards attacked one after another - unfortunately, most of their weapons were swords, which were very ineffective against the earth elementals.

Whether it is facing siege crabs or earth elements, blunt weapons such as war hammers and flails are the best, and Kyle's lack of intelligence has not fully exerted their combat effectiveness.

Casually tossing aside the broken iron hand, the earth elemental punched one by one, and quickly cleaned up the guys who were in the way.

Thorn's feet had already stepped on the cobwebs on the ground, but these slimy white gelatins were completely unable to hold the powerful earth elementals.

Kyle was really panicked.

As a noble mage and the only heir to Count Osborne, Kyle has been on the battlefield, but he is limited to staying in a safe place, surrounded by his men, and casting a few magic spells from a distance.

With no experience in life-and-death struggles, Kyle suddenly became scrambling in the face of the earth elemental approaching him.

He first used a slow spell on Thorn, and then found that the magic didn't work—which was inevitable, as most elemental creatures were immune to the spell.

Then, he used a stealth spell on himself.

Kyle did disappear in front of Thorn, the problem is, he's just stealth, his feet are still stuck in cobwebs, and he can't even run.

In fact, in this case, the best choice is a level 4 magic portal, which can directly teleport itself to a few hundred meters away. Unfortunately, Kyle Osborne hasn't learned the magic yet, and he doesn't have enough dragons to buy a portal scroll.

Thorne fished out where Kyle Osborne had disappeared and easily touched his body.

It is worth mentioning that Kyle Oss himself still has the effect of stone skin magic, but well, how can a mage be pinched by the neck?

Looking back at the warband on the other side, Lee's initial attack was as sharp as a storm, but the shell of the siege crab was too hard and strong. Although the level 5 warrior has initially mastered the use of "Dou Qi", he is not yet able to release his Dou Qi like a high-level warrior.

Li Te's weapon was a two-handed sword, and the material was also excellent, but it only happened to the siege crab's big claw a few times, and the blade began to crack. This is a magic weapon worth 5,000 gold dragons, enchanted with three effects: sharp, strong, and swift!

Thinking of the price of repairing the magic weapon, Li Teh faintly felt a little pain in his stomach, and his face twitched a few times unconsciously, this time it was really a big loss.

Li Teh didn't dare to fight hard, and fought with agility.

After a slightly distracted glance at the situation on Kyle's side, Litt knew that the situation had become too bad to be worse. I thought it was an easy ambush, but I didn't expect to crash headlong into a trap carefully prepared by Griffith. If you delay any longer, you won't be able to get out of it even if you want to.

The only way: capture the thief and capture the king first!

Leet sped up suddenly, trying to go around the side to the back of the siege crab.

A crossbow arrow, I don't know if it came from Bailey or Vicente, swept in front of Littlet's nose, and Littlet had to brake sharply in order to dodge, and then, Hansen shot a white feather arrow, aiming at Littlet's bare neck. The soldier's premonition made Li Tet take a step to the side, his head slightly to the left, and dodged.

Under repeated interference, before Li Tet could stand firm, the big claws of the siege crab swept over again. Li Teh knew that the general trend had gone, jumped up slightly, kicked his feet towards the big claws of the siege crab, and took dozens of steps back.

"It's not that easy!" exclaimed Griffith.

"Today I confess. If you dare to kill Kyle, the Osborne family will fight you to the death!" said Leet as he ran into the forest without looking back, warning loudly as he fled.