Chapter 38: The Dagger of Darkness
"Dagger of Darkness!How could you ...... so quickly!?"
Turning his head with the last of his strength, Martin wanted to do something more when he saw Barrett, who was wrapped in a black cloak and a face scarf, revealing only a pair of eyes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But the crushed heart could no longer provide more motivation for Martin, and the flamethrower, who was still shouting just now, finally fell to the ground and lost his life completely.
For a thief like Barrett who had once stepped on the silver rank, it was obviously not difficult to sneak attack a mage who had not yet advanced to bronze and was born in a wild road. When there are many professionals guarding him, Barrett has to weigh it up, without the protection of his subordinates, Martin is meat on the chopping board in Barrett's eyes, ready to be killed at any time.
But just as Barrett completed the assassination and wanted to re-enter the shadows, Hunter, who had not left with the large army before, had already rushed over and sprinkled the glitter powder that had been prepared for a long time as soon as possible.
"Finally got you!" With a bloodthirsty grin, Hunter slashed at Barrett, who was stained with glitter powder, with his sword in both hands.
As Luo Sheng expected, from the beginning, the main target of the Judge of Light was Barrett. Whether it is the besieged caravan, or the bandits of the Ash Thieves, or even Martin, a wild mage with some alchemy talent, are all bait to seduce Barrett to appear.
From beginning to end, Hunter didn't care whether the bait was alive or dead, and there was only one thing he really cared about, and that was how to catch Barrett. So at the moment of Martin's attack, Hunter chose not to rescue his allies, but to sprinkle glitter powder on Barrett.
Designed to deal with thieves, this magical dust releases a glimmer of light that can penetrate the shadows. Therefore, once the glitter is sprinkled, even if the thief uses the power of shadow to cover his body, he will still be exposed by the light of the glitter, which is basically equivalent to abolishing the thief's stealth stealth ability. And a thief can't enter the stealth state, and most of his skills are basically wasted.
So after sprinkling Barrett with glitter, Hunter fell into ecstasy. What is really fearing about Barrett is his amazing ability to hide. Being secretly attacked by an experienced thief like Barrett, even a silver-tier master would not dare to say that he could withstand it.
And after losing his stealth ability, Barrett is just equivalent to an agile warrior, or the kind that has passed his peak and his strength has declined. As a warrior standing at the top of the bronze staircase, about to break through the silver rank, Hunter was fully confident that he would take down this aging enemy on his own.
However, although Hunter's idea is very good, there is a considerable gap between it and reality. Although his attack was fierce, Barrett had no intention of fighting him. Relying on the thief's super agility and years of training, Barrett walked like a butterfly among flowers under the Hunter Greatsword, always keeping a distance of about three meters from Hunter.
This distance gives Barrett plenty of room to dodge Hunter's attacks, but it doesn't give Hunter a chance to charge. After all, if you want to launch a combat charge, the distance between the two sides must be at least five meters.
This means that while Barrett's situation looks precarious, he is in fact firmly in control of the battle. Hunter, who looks on the offensive, is actually being led by Barrett's nose.
During the time that Hunter and Barrett were fighting, the caravan and the Ash Thieves finally collided. Although the caravan had a small number of people, they used military crossbows to break up the bandits' formation before the confrontation, and then relied on the tacit understanding cultivated in the army to form an improvised battle formation and rush into the chaotic bandits, and they did not fall behind for a while.
Especially the leader Carey, with his big sword dancing, directly stopped the three bronze warriors, including Dick, and put a considerable amount of pressure on the caravan.
However, both sides knew that the stalemate was only temporary, and the overall situation was actually more favorable to the side of the Ash Thieves. After all, they have more professions, and the number of bronze ranks is far exceeded. As long as they defeat Kerry, or disrupt the formation of the guards, the victory will fall into their hands.
But just when Dick and the others broke out in a fighting spirit, wanting to kill Carey as soon as possible to win the victory, six black figures suddenly burst out of the shadows and launched a sneak attack on the fighting warriors on the side of the Ash Thieves.
Because there were caravan professionals in the front, this round of raids directly put down five warriors, only Dick relied on his rich experience and strong fighting spirit to withstand the sneak attack, but he also paid a heavy price, and was seized by the opportunity to be slashed on the right leg by Carey's sword, leaving a huge wound. Almost instantaneously, the tide of battle was reversed, and the tide began to deflect on the side of Cook Castle.
"It's the Dagger of Darkness! Chief Barrett has come to our aid. Nodding to the reinforcements, Carey shouted as he swung his sword in pursuit of Dick.
The so-called dark dagger originally referred to the two daggers that have been passed down from generation to generation of the Cook family, because they have always been in the possession of the intelligence director in charge of the dark side of the Cook family, and have become a kind of token, so it also refers to the current intelligence director of the Cook family and his subordinate intelligence and thief team.
Everyone at Cook Castle knows that Barrett basically acts with the Dark Dagger Squad. Now that the Black Dagger team has appeared on the battlefield, it means that Barrett has arrived, which is definitely good news for the caravan.
And now the battle is still going on, and although the Cook Castle side has basically leveled the gap in the number of professionals, it is still inferior in terms of overall numbers. Therefore, Kaili announced the news of the arrival of reinforcements, in addition to boosting the morale of his own side, he also wanted to break the morale of the Ash Thieves and end the battle as soon as possible.
Things were indeed as Carey expected, hearing the news of the arrival of reinforcements from Cook Castle, the warriors belonging to the Bright Judge still maintained their fighting spirit, but the bandits of the Ash Thieves Regiment were demoralized. If it weren't for the fact that the total number of people still had an advantage, and the professional level masters had not yet completely decided the winners and losers, those ordinary bandits had even begun to flee.
After noticing the situation on the main battlefield, the impetuous-minded Hunter, who had already been tricked by Barrett, fell into a rage. Realizing that the tide of the battle might be reversed, Hunter no longer cares about attrition, and is ready to use his fighting skills to resolve the battle as soon as possible.
"Thunder Shock!" With a wild roar, the great sword full of fighting spirit slammed into Barrett. This is a rare area attack skill in the early stage of a warrior, even if you can't hit Barrett directly, as long as Barrett is nearby, you will be shocked by the fighting spirit and slow down your movement speed. Losing the advantage of speed and agility, Hunter was sure to kill Barrett.
And if Barrett chooses to retreat and avoid, then the distance between the two sides must be more than five meters, and Hunter can directly charge. Unable to hide and dodge, Barrett can only resist Hunter's attack, and the situation will also be extremely favorable to Hunter.
As Hunter expected, Barrett could no longer maintain the distance between the two sides in the face of the threat of thunder and shock, and retreated ten meters away. And Hunter also seized the opportunity to lock on Barrett and launch a charge.
"Cut! idiot!" Barrett looked at Hunter, who was about to rush towards him, with a look of disdain on his face, and then his body shook, shaking off the black cloak that had wrapped his body, and also shaking off the glitter powder all over his body. In the next moment, Barrett's figure completely disappeared into the shadows, leaving no trace.
"It can't be!"
Seeing Barrett's move 'golden cicada out of its shell' and easily shake off his lock, Hunter almost wanted to go crazy. But by this time, the charge had already been launched, and although it could be fine-tuned, it could not be stopped. Losing Barrett's tracks, Hunter could only rush towards the cloak that Barrett had thrown away.
The charge at full speed only crashed into an empty piece of clothing, and the dislocation of this power almost made Hunter vomit blood. Although relying on the strong control of his body, Hunter used his sword to crutch the ground and avoided the fate of falling to the ground, but the chest and abdomen were extremely suffocated, and his hands were numb from the shock.
Hunter's bad luck didn't end there, and as he prepared to draw his sword for defense, Barrett's figure appeared behind him. The pitch-black dagger, blessed by the power of shadows, stabbed at Khante's neck like lightning.
In desperation, Hunter pounced forward and twisted as hard as he could, and smashed his right elbow behind him with the force of twisting, trying to intercept Barrett's killer blow.
But it was too late, and with the advantage of superior agility and sneak attacks, Barrett's dagger first pierced the back of Hunter's unarmored neck, directly piercing the cervical vertebrae. Then he slashed and cut off half of Hunter's neck.
The gushing blood quickly took away Hunter's strength and life, but relying on the strong physique and vitality of the tenth-level warrior, Hunter lived a few more moments. And in this moment, Hunter looked at Barrett with unwilling eyes, and at the same time did not hesitate to bite open his dentures. In an instant, the mark of death followed Hunter's will and fell on Barrett, who had no time to dodge.
After seeing the death mark take effect, Khante's expression actually became relieved, and finally swallowed his last breath with a smile.
"Death marked, I'm afraid there's a problem!" Sensing the strange change in Hunter's expression, Barrett's heart moved, and he directly took out a 'Curse Lifting' scroll.
Essentially, mark for death magic is also a curse. Curse Removal is not enough to completely remove the Death Mark, but it can also temporarily significantly weaken the Marker. If the enemy has any means to target themselves through death marks, the spell of Dampen Lift will at least thwart the opponent's plans.
But before Barrett could open the scroll, an extremely sharp sword aura roared and slashed at the scroll, directly destroying the scroll that had not yet taken effect. And when Barrett turned his gaze to the place where the sword qi came from, he saw Christopher's gloomy face and a crystal that faintly echoed the death mark on his body.
"Lock my whereabouts with one life, you light adjudicators are really ruthless!"