Chapter 40: A Sister's Choice
Although the existence of undead is not common in the world of Yara, adventurers who have been in and out of various inaccessible places or ruins all year round have seen it a few times, among which the best to deal with are skeletons, the most headache is ghosts, the most difficult to defend against is the death knight, and the strongest attack is the corpse witch.
As long as there is no skeleton lord, if there are two or three skeletons alone, a few strong ordinary people can solve it, and the solution is very simple, pick up the heavy weapon and directly smash the skeleton's skull, or use the piercing weapon to pierce the skeleton's eye socket, in short, let the soul fire in the protection of the skull be damaged, and the skeleton will naturally return to death. However, once the number of skeletons reaches a certain size, the difficulty of dealing with them will increase by a square number, and even as the lowest level of the undead, it can injure or even kill high-level creatures.
The speed and defense of ordinary skeletons are close to those of ordinary people, and their comprehensive strength is equivalent to the level of two ordinary people at most, but their attack power is much higher than that of ordinary people, and they are located between the bronze and black iron ranks. The attack power of this rank, if you use all your strength, can still cause shallow injuries on the ** of the unsuspecting gold-level professional, and when there are too many of them, it is completely possible to split the body of a high-level professional who has exhausted his fighting spirit and is encircled, and the threat is even greater for the caster professional who has to reduce the strength of the ** by one or two levels.
"The current situation is our fault. Vivien finally finished dealing with all the magic circles, and after starting to guide the activation of the magic circles, she still had time to chat with the maid sisters: "The undead are also a great threat to us, so you two don't have to feel like a drag, there is not much difference between us, just find a way to get through it together." They'll be coming in a few minutes, and I'll need to channel the spell then, so try to protect yourselves. ”
"Are we going to die?" asked Pansy, biting her lower lip and a little timidly.
"Who knows. Vivien's eyes were a little strange, and she said with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "I hope everyone can survive, don't you still want to leave the city of innocence and go outside to live a peaceful life?" It is not difficult to live a peaceful life outside, but the first thing you have to overcome is yourself. Maybe you don't understand, but sooner or later you will understand, provided that you can live today. All right. The curtain opened, and the show began. ”
As soon as the maid sisters turned around, they found that the skeletons had slowly swarmed a few steps away, and a large number of skeletons were stepping on the circle that Vivien had carved before. But Vivien didn't do any magic, or maybe Vivien had closed her eyes. The arms were spread out to the sides, completely unguarded, except for two lips that squirmed, silent incantations chanting in the flight of lips.
The sea of skeletons slowly approached step by step, and the maid sisters' faces became more and more ugly. Looking back, Catherine was doing her best to keep the giant metal golem's attention at bay. The two sisters glanced at each other, and at this time, if they used the rope to climb the sewer, and took advantage of the opportunity for Catherine and Vivien to fend off the attacks from both sides, they might have a good chance of avoiding the metal golem. Then shake off the chase of the Sea of Skulls and escape smoothly.
The two sisters with the same heart are constantly exchanging opinions in the air with their eyes, to escape, or not to escape? Escape is the reaction that a person in a city of innocence should have, no one is trustworthy, only they can rely on themselves between life and death, and they can abandon everything in order to live, because it is the stupidest act to wait for death here with a promise from others, this is the city of innocence, these are the thinking of the city of innocence.
But what did she mean by that last paragraph? Neither sister understood it in their hearts. First of all, she has to overcome herself? She seems to have seen something before she speaks, this is a warning to herself? No, maybe it's more of a reminder or a hint of how to overcome herself? Why to overcome herself? What to overcome herself?
Eye contact seemed to be insufficient, and the Sea of Skulls was getting closer. The expressions on the faces of the two sisters became more and more anxious. The time to escape is fleeting, and if you don't make a decision, you don't have to decide again. The feet of the two sisters were subconsciously retreating, and the habits and reason they usually developed controlled the two young girls to retreat timidly. But suddenly, the short-haired mimosa grabbed her sister's arm, and her voice was kept to the lowest: "Bet." Sister, the only chance, it is impossible to have it again in the future. ”
Although the words were endless, Pansy instantly understood her sister's intentions, gritted her teeth fiercely, and grabbed her sister's hand with her backhand: "Then bet." ”
The sea of skeletons finally approached Vivian's position, and the skeletons in the front row had already brandished various civilian knives that had already rusted in their hands to attack Vivian, but fortunately, Vivien had already started the magic shield in advance, and all kinds of weapons left ripples on Vivian's magic shield, and failed to hurt Vivian's body. However, there were more and more knives slashing at Vivien, and the skeletons were getting closer and closer, and if they were allowed to rush up like this, they would probably be able to push Vivien down or even seriously injure her with just the thrust and weight.
The two sisters, who had made up their minds, suddenly waved their hands, forcefully tore the stitching on the side of the maid's suit, and each took out a narrow dagger from the outside of their thighs, holding the two daggers in both hands, and clinging to Vivien's side with a fierce and violent face, and swung their weapons at the skeletons.
"Bastards, bastards, let me die. The eyes of the usually cowardly and obedient pansy were full of crazy bloodshots, and the dagger stabbed out from a strange angle like a poisonous snake, and was accurately inserted into the eye sockets of the approaching skeletons again and again: "Don't underestimate us, bastards, even the professionals of the Black Iron Rank have been killed together, not to mention you group of bone frames, die, die, die." ”
As a younger sister, the mimosa, who is usually a little lively and bold but is more timid than her sister in the face of the strong, is expressionless at this time, and her eyes are calm as if she is dead, whenever her sister's dagger is stabbed, the mimosa will fix the head of the skeleton with just the right body or weapon, so that the sister can kill with a smooth blow, and the action is skillfully like the two have cooperated countless times. The sudden and frantic attack of the two sisters made the skeletons unable to move forward for a while, and they were stopped in place for more than ten seconds.
There are too many skeletons, even if most of the skeletons' attacks were avoided by the two sisters with the help of Vivien's magic shield as a shield, but in more than ten seconds, they still left five or six deep wounds on each of the two girls, and blood continued to flow out of the wounds, but the sisters who were stimulated by the unique ferocity of innocence in their blood were still red-eyed and desperate with skeletons, with a momentum that since I didn't give me a way to live, I would drag you to die together.
"Stand back. Vivien's voice seemed to come from heaven, and the two sisters each felt a hand behind their backs and dragged back. The two girls, who were so stimulated by their injuries that they were close to losing their minds, didn't even think about it, and at the same time stabbed backhand in the backhand, until the dagger was bounced off by the magic shield, they came to their senses and retreated behind Vivien's back.
"First of all, it's the impact space. With a wave of her hand, Vivien's magic burst out directly in front of her, shaking the skeletons in front of her back a few steps and gathering them even closer.
"Then, there's the Requiem for Purgatory. Vivien jerked her hands upward. There was no flame, no signs, but in the space of tens of meters and nearly 100 meters in front of him, the temperature suddenly rose by several hundred degrees, and all the skeletons were under the action of high temperature, and the original water in the bones was evaporated in large quantities, and the bones became more and more brittle, and the surface of the bones was also covered with a layer of withered yellow color.
"Finally, there's Vivian mode. Vivien folded her hands back to her chest, formed a spell seal, and chanted aloud, "Funeral Song of the Wind." ”
On the ground covered by the heat, a magical barrier slowly rose along the edge, enclosing most of the skeletons located in the middle of the walking path of the four ladies, and the wind blades formed on the barrier, flying in a straight line without purpose in the barrier, and whenever it collided with the edge of the barrier, it would make a mirror refraction and fly in the other direction. At the same time, more wind blades continued to spawn from the barrier, and inside the surrounded barrier, there were more and more wind blades, and they became more and more dense.
Originally, the power of the wind blade could at most cut off bones such as skeleton joints or thinner arm bones, and could not cause fatal damage to the skeletons' hardest skulls. However, after the previous high temperature, most of the skeleton's bones became more brittle, and the hardness decreased in a straight line, and when the wind blade slashed, it could easily chop the skull, destroying it with the soul fire inside.
The skeletons kept hitting the magical barrier that blocked their way, but the barrier that had been prepared by the gold-level mage for so long to build, and Vivien's continuous guidance and spell reinforcement, was not so easy to break. Under the impact of the skeletons, although the barrier became more and more unstable, the skeletons that could still maintain their mobility inside became fewer and fewer, and countless soul fires emitted a terrible wail from the soul, dissipating in the air without a trace.
"Bang. Catherine flew back from behind for the fifth time, this time striking the barrier directly, causing it to shake violently as it slid off against the barrier and fell to the ground. But this time Catherine did not slowly struggle to get up, but jumped up like a rabbit with an arrow, and quickly jumped to the side, shouting: "Scald, hot, burn me." ”
"If no new undead appear, the passage is open. Vivien looked at Catherine while shaking her palm that had been burned hard, coughing up blood casually, she could only hide her worries in her heart, and pretended not to care and handed over the high-level healing potion: "I used two legendary levels of military-level magic, although it is a simplified version of a small range, and it also uses the assistance of magic circles and potions, but it is very strong against my magic channel, you know, at this time I can only be paralyzed for half an hour, big sister, come on." (To be continued.) )
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