Chapter 174: The Cruelty of Atas (First Order 400 Plus Update)
The grains of sand above their heads rolled down, piled up into small knolls, and then flowed and spread out in all directions, gradually covering the feet of everyone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Fights now have to take place in the sand, and every movement sinks, pulls up, and kicks up sand. With the wind formed by the impact, it gradually turned into a hazy cloud.
The light emitted by the ball of light was obscured by the clouds, emitting a strange halo. Flames, ice, and lightning weave through the halo, and the sound of weapons colliding is endless. Despite the change of weapons, the Minotaur still failed to achieve results. Not to mention killing someone, not even serious injuries.
Rikas and Butcher became more and more proficient in their coordination, and they didn't need to communicate verbally to know what kind of cover the other person needed, creating a one-plus-one effect that was greater than two. Butcher learned a lot of useful tricks from Ricas, and from Butcher streamlined the complicated tricks and made them more suitable for use on the battlefield. Their tacit understanding formed a suppressive effect that had been hanging over the minotaur, making him completely unable to unleash it.
Zhao Mai is the second blockade, he commands three black-scaled ghost lizards to circle the battlefield, seize the opportunity to make up for the flaws, take over the rhythm of the battle, and give Butcher and Rikas a chance to rest. The Minotaur wanted to kill Zhao Mai as soon as possible, but there was always a black-scaled ghost lizard desperately covering him, and the combined force formed by several beasts made it impossible for the Minotaur to fight. The Minotaur's armor can help him slide through piercing and slashing attacks, and provide a cushion against blunt hits and massive impacts, but it's not an absolute defense for taxis. Even if the minotaur tried to move forward, he would always be beaten to the point of staggering, even backwards, let alone escaping.
Looking at the rising smoke, Satili thought of a good idea to deal with the ball of light. She manipulated the air currents to form a cloud of sandstorms that covered the top of everyone's heads. If dark clouds can obscure the rays of the sun in the sky, wouldn't it be better if more clouds of denser sand are formed? The ball of light cannot be targeted, so even when it gathers, it does not shoot out energy rays. Although this also reduces the light around them, everyone can finally not worry about the attack from overhead.
The sandstorm cloud wouldn't dissipate for a while, but the minotaur couldn't hold on. Several men deliberately focused their attacks near the Minotaur's nose, which was indeed a weak point in the shield. Gradually, everyone could see the difference, and the light near the shield near the tip of the Minotaur's nose began to blur, like a mirage formed by heat in a sea of sand, fluttering and swaying, and it was about to disappear at any moment. Everyone was in high spirits, and Rikas seized the opportunity to slam his sword into the tip of the Minotaur's nose! In a subtle crackling explosion, the shield was finally shattered. The minotaur staggered a few steps, and a deep cut appeared on his nose.
Blood flowed from between the Minotaur's fingers, and the tumbling sand struck him directly on him, rather than being removed by the shield.
Butcher lunged forward, grabbed the minotaur's halberd with both hands, and slammed his head between the minotaur's eyebrows. He lifted his kick and kicked the minotaur down, snatching the weapon from his hand.
"Don't kill me!" the minotaur lay on the ground, his hands raised, his thumb running over the horns. In a moment's trance, the minotaur disappeared from the ground with a thud.
The halberd fell heavily, but only hit the sand. Butcher quickly turned, his weapon spinning around him rapidly, but he couldn't find any sign of the Minotaur. "He ran away?" Butcher pricked up his ears to listen, but still found nothing.
Zhao Mai didn't relax at all, judging from the situation just now, this was not like a teleportation technique, but it also didn't look like invisibility. At this time, he could only rely on the nose of the black-scaled ghost lizard, so he let the three black beasts move.
The black-scaled ghost lizards glanced at each other, then swooped down under the sand. They are creatures that can escape in the sea of sand, and there is enough sand that has fallen from the roof of the cave to make use of this trait.
"I don't think he ran away. Zhao Mai had no trace of the minotaur, but closed his eyes. He focused his senses on magic, radiating psychic abilities like radar waves, while feeling the changes in the natural forces around him.
At this moment, he sensed that Satili was in a very wrong state. At the mage's feet, an expanding vortex was frantically absorbing magical energy, and the nearby life force was wailing in fear. This is a situation that only happens to blasphemer mages, and once this power enters Satilly's body, she will no longer be able to effectively control the power needs of the magic in the future, and each time it will be a blasphemous spell, always causing irreparable damage to the natural environment.
But she's a member of the Masked Alliance, which protects the Guardian Mages and hunts down all the Blasphemer Mages, meaning that Satili will be hunted down by her friends and teachers! But Satili covered her mouth so hard that her grief and remorse would not affect her fighting companions.
She herself was terrified, knowing that the fate of the blasphemer was inevitable, just a matter of a little sooner or later. In fact, if it weren't for the care of the will of the planet, Shatiri would have fallen at this time. A thought appeared in Zhao Mai's mind, and he suspected that it was a ghost made by the will of the planet. But this idea was originally his intention.
Satili belongs to this world, Zhao Mai is not, even if he is spurned as a blasphemer by the people of this world, what can he do? He made a reassuring gesture to Shatiri, and then immediately squatted down, pressed his hands to the ground, and used his attraction to the natural force, and gathered the magic power with all his strength without any scruples! "Obey my will, obey my call." Zhao Mai continued to increase his strength, as if it was endless. He was a druid, and his affinity for life energy was higher than that of a mage, and his deliberate actions led to the vortex of blasphemous energy under Satili's feet.
The female mage was stunned for a moment when she saw Zhao Mai's move, and understood what he was going to do. But soon, she felt a noticeable lightness on her body, and the feeling of losing control suddenly dissipated, and the blasphemous energy curse no longer threatened her, and the control of magic returned. She hurriedly withdrew the spell and looked at her hands with trepidation, just now it was only a moment away from becoming a blasphemous mage, a moment the size of a needle. Her tears flowed down, and Zhao Mai imprinted the figure that all the curses were carried into her heart. Zhao Mai became a blasphemer in her place, forever hated by Atas, and she was spared. After a few sharp gasps, Sadiri still couldn't hold on, and the fatigue of overcasting made her eyes go black and she fainted.
Zhao Mai also radiated his psychic abilities, extending them through the sand. The hatred-filled earth life force transformed into a violent force of nature, burrowing into his body again, and he still held on, as if he wanted to carry on this sucking and blasphemy forever. If Satili saw this scene, she would probably be scared to death by Zhao Mai's crazy actions! No one wants to carry such a huge curse of blasphemous energy, which will affect a caster's control of energy and affect the future!
However, this scene successfully lured the minotaur out, and his target from beginning to end was only Zhao Mai. The bull's head appeared out of thin air, holding a dagger in his hand that shimmered with night and starry sky, and stabbed Zhao Mai's spine from behind.
"Got you!" Zhao Mai didn't see the minotaur, he just sensed the hollowness of the natural force behind him. It's like an obstacle popping out of a continuous space, abrupt and obvious. Invisibility can obscure the sensing of light, but it cannot compensate for other disturbances in energy fields such as the Force of Nature. Zhao Mai did not hesitate, and immediately activated the quicksand spell in his hand, making himself and the sand behind him extremely soft at the same time.
The bull-headed body was crooked, and like Zhao Mai, all the knees were sunk into the sand. However, the minotaur did not give up the attack, he suddenly exerted force in his waist, and suddenly stretched out his left hand to grab Zhao Mai's shoulder, and the dagger in his right hand still struggled to draw a deadly arc. But no one expected that Zhao Mai would be able to suddenly move forward at this time, when his legs were half stuck in the sand and he didn't make any movements, and slipped out of the Minotaur's grasp!
"No!" the minotaur slammed into his thighs, and the sand had covered his thighs, making him completely unable to move! Two black-scaled ghost lizards, one left and one right, emerged from the quicksand and bit him on the shoulder. They don't tear either, they just keep their bite together, just for fear that he will use some method to "disappear invisibly".
Zhao Mai slowly "rose" from the sand. At his feet, a black-scaled ghost lizard curled its tail around his ankles, lurking in the sand. It was it that used its sand movement ability to help Zhao Mai change his position and dodge the fatal blow at the critical moment. However, it was also dying now, after all, when Zhao Mai attracted the Blasphemy Energy Curse, the Black-scaled Ghost Lizard was directly below him, and a large amount of life energy was violently absorbed by him. What's more, there is quicksand after that, and casting spells will consume life force, and in Atas it is an iron law, and there will never be any wavering.
"I'm sorry," Zhao Mai knew that this black-scaled ghost lizard would age quickly, and it would never be as strong and healthy as before. If the minotaur had a little more patience and came out a little late, Zhao Mai might have completely sucked this lizard to death. If that is the case, Zhao Mai can only ...... You can only let the next one take over.
Cruelty? Maybe that's the price you have to pay to win at Atas. The Minotaur's shoulders were bitten to pieces, and the hatred in his eyes burned like flames. "If it weren't for the crash of my magic ship and the loss of most of your equipment, you wouldn't have survived at all!"
"That's right. Zhao Mai picked up the dagger that the minotaur had dropped on the ground and stabbed him in the throat as he finally became terrified. The Minotaur's last words were vague and seemed to be: "For ......"
"It's for my freedom. Zhao Mai said: "It's theirs next." (To be continued.) )