The outer layer of the photosphere glows with a shallow fluorescence, and the eye can see the spiral lines on it if you get used to it a little. As the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info rotated, the light of these luminous vortices began to concentrate on the periphery, but the middle became darker and darker, and in less than a second, it changed into a large hole as black as the night sky, deep and eye-catching.

With the cold air and waves of magic rushing to the face, a figure in heavy armor stepped out of each cave, trampled onto the ground of the woods, and in an instant surrounded the five people and a wolf in the middle of the field—one of the five was lying on the ground.

There were more than two dozen heavily armored warriors, all of whom were tall and mighty. Their armor was covered with a thin layer of rough rust or frost, and they wore hideous and terrifying masks of death, their eyes glowing as if they were burning with flames, followed by a considerable number of four-legged monsters emerging from their holes floating in the ground, they looked like snapping turtles with thorns on their backs, but they had long legs and long claws, and they were more light and flexible, which should be the fighting pets of these strange people.

The tall weird man with a few spikes on his helmet, as if he was wearing a black crown and was clearly the leader, spoke, his voice hoarse and deep, sending an eerie metal echo under the mask: "Our target is the girl, human, get out of here." ”

Rhodes was the most shocked of those who were still standing at the moment, not because he was frightened by the heavily armed eccentrics, but because of the girl who fell to the ground: he thought that "Aunt Yani was picked up by her father during her adventure" was just a joke among the adults, and only then did he believe in the evil - he really could pick up people when he came out on an adventure, and he still appeared in front of him in such a mysterious way!

The girl who fell to the ground was her destined wife...... Or is it a lover? I didn't see her face clearly in a hurry, but it didn't seem ugly.

"Let's go, at least get out of the way. Dieter said with a cold face, he didn't know the strange thoughts in the young man's mind, and his left hand was secretly energetic, eager to strangle the little fox he was carrying - this orc, actually lured himself into bringing Rhodes into a crisis, if it weren't for the fact that this group of strange people appeared too bizarrely, and the target was not his own, he would almost think that this was a trap for the orcs to kidnap the son of the commander of the imperial army.

The little fox who was languishing and was carried in his hand by Dieter obviously caused a misunderstanding, and the mysterious figure in the pile of heavily armored warriors with a heavy hammer in one hand and a shield in the other, the most majestic and mighty figure, walked out and scanned everyone like an ant: "It's just a few mortals hunting, wouldn't it be nice to slaughter them all." ”

With that, the hammer will be smashed at Grom!

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Another astonishing flash, but this time it didn't come from teleportation magic or lightning from the sky, but from Grom. At the same time that the overwhelming battle intent emerged from this great swordsman's body out of thin air, strong energy fluctuations also burst out, and his body seemed to turn into a ball of fire, so bright that it was difficult to look at directly.

There was a loud bang.

The sword collided with the hammer, but the result was unexpected. The heavily armored attacker flew upside down in Grom's counterattack, his weapon flew into the forest without a trace, his shield fell off his hand and smashed to the side, and he himself fell to the ground more than ten meters away, sliding on the ground for a few meters, plowing all the old deciduous layers on the forest floor into a deep furrow before being stopped by a giant tree. Countless small insects living at the bottom of the rotting leaf layer suddenly suffered an unwarranted disaster, and those who were alive and not dead also twisted their bodies and desperately escaped. The other heavily armored warriors who were standing a little closer also rushed back a few steps back from the huge air current, and several four-legged monsters were simply thrown out.

It's not magic, it's just powerful Dou Qi energy that causes concussions and shocks.

Fighting spirit and spells are diametrically opposed uses of magical energy by intelligent beings - not everyone has enough talent and family strength to learn to become a mage, there are such people in the world: the energy in their bodies is not less than that of mages, but either they are extremely sensitive to and manipulate the magical elements of nature, or their family background does not allow them or they are too old to lay the golden time for laying the foundation, of course, there are also lazy people like Rhodes who don't want to bother their brains...... Such a person can choose to use his energy in a vindictive way.

Spells rely on guiding and manipulating magical elements to achieve a specific purpose, while Dou Qi is the ability to squeeze and release energy from the body at a rapid rate to cause destruction. Compared to magic, Dou Qi has an advantage in short, close-range bursts, and cultivating a fighter is less demanding and takes less time and resources.

But along with these advantages, it also has a whole bunch of drawbacks:

Dou Qi can't perform all kinds of functions, and its principle is destined to only be used for destruction—no one can use Dou Qi to heal or repair, and no one can use Dou Qi to open a magic portal.

Also because of its principle, Dou Qi is almost not subject to environmental bonuses. The energy density in the air only affects the recovery speed of the fighting energy, and will not affect the strength in the slightest, in the magic depletion period of the alternation of epochs, the fighter will be stronger than the mage, but as the magic power surges continuously, a large amount of energy pours into this world, and the power of the spell will soon catch up with the fighting energy.

Dou Qi skips the two steps of condensing magic to build a model during the casting process, so the use of energy is extremely inefficient. The most clever fighter can only release eighty percent of the energy in a directional manner, and the rest will be wasted in the air as the light and momentum on his body, and at most eighty percent of the energy will also be volatilized and lost during the attack, which means that the fighting energy cannot be used to attack distant targets.

It is precisely because of the reasons mentioned above that the fighting spirit cannot be used for sneak attacks, and it is very easy to distinguish the strength of the fighter: the greater the momentum, the brighter the body, the stronger it will inevitably be, and once it is used, it is difficult to even disguise the strength. It is also because of the low efficiency that the energy required to cause the same effect is far more than magic, and its user's ability to continue fighting is extremely weak, and often a short period of fierce battle can consume all the energy of a warrior.

Finally, and the biggest drawback: vindictive energy can cause hidden damage to the body.

Contrary to mages, if the spell is cast correctly and properly controlled, it will not cause any damage to the body, and can even be used to repair the body and prolong its life, but the fighting spirit is ...... No matter how skillful and cautious the user is, the user can only reduce the damage through skill or choose to heal the damage immediately afterwards, and it is impossible to eliminate it 100%. Even if the fighter is strong and full of energy, the lifespan is only equal to or even shorter than that of ordinary people, mages who have lived past a hundred years old abound, and there are only a handful of fighters who have lived past the age of eighty, which is caused by the accumulation of internal injuries.

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Fighting spirit has so many shortcomings, but it is not exposed at all in this battle.

If Grom is a mage, he can only defend or dodge in the face of this sudden hammer at close range, and only by using his strength to the limit in a vindictive way can he protect the young man behind him like this and complete the counterattack in an instant!

Engaging in hand-to-hand combat with such a powerful fighter, and attacking head-on at the moment when he was tense and ready to explode with all his strength, was either stronger or extremely stupid. The blow to Grom's sword just now did not hit the shield-wielding samurai's sledgehammer at all, but shook him away with a fighting spirit, and the "warrior" who dared to take the lead was dizzy and bleeding from his ears and nose at this time, and he lay on the ground for a long time and couldn't get up.

"Awesome!" Rod exclaimed excitedly, he was fortunate enough to witness an extreme explosion of fighting energy, because of the injury, few people would show this energy eruption to others. If the fighting spirit that the school's sword teacher once displayed was a big fire, then the light on Grom's body at this time was as bright and dazzling as the sun.

The strength shown by Grom surprised even Dieter, who had worked with him for many years, for a moment, but the situation was still not optimistic, they were drawn into an inexplicable battle, the full force of the great swordsman only caused the other party to lose a few battle pets and a small leader, but it seemed to be a signal for the start of the battle, and the rest of the black-armored people around him raised their weapons and rushed over, he was so nervous that his scalp was numb, and he immediately shouted: "Ruien, take that kid away!"

The monster hunter showed that he was worth the two gold coins, one new and one old, and he used a special extended sword to gently probe the ground, and the steel sword that fell to the ground was picked up and flew into the air and flew towards Rhodes, and the young man caught it in the air with a comprehension, and then turned smoothly to avoid the pounce of a four-legged monster, and split it into two pieces. This monster is much faster than a normal person, but it is still as slow as a snail in his eyes.

There was no blood splashed as imagined, but a wisp of smoke mixed with a strange smell came out, which was extremely choking.

He held his breath for a moment to hold back his nausea and flew to the fallen girl, pulled her up and carried her to his body with his left hand, and quickly retreated, dodging the slash of a heavily armored mysterious man.

"What are you doing!" Dieter is not Grom, who has been practicing with the boy all year round, he only knows that the boy is good, but he doesn't know what his level is, and at the moment he is only frightened by his juggling thrilling moves so that his heart is about to jump out. If anything went wrong with this child, he could have thrown away the dagger in his hand and let these heavily armored mysterious warriors hack him to death—neither the Duke's fury nor the lady's sad and disappointed eyes were anything he could bear.

"Help!" the boy replied with confidence.

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Although the lady's sword in his hand was thin and light, it was extremely close to his hand, so that he almost had the illusion that the hilt of the sword was glued to his hand, and the feeling of "weapon in hand" suddenly gave him infinite confidence. He replied as he used his sword to slash a heavily armored warrior - although the swordsmanship was superb and the strength was amazing, after all, he was fighting with a light lady's sword and a heavy sword, and he carried a person on his shoulder, and he stumbled helplessly to unload the momentum.

"Run away if you save it!" Dieter wanted to say that he would throw the girl away and run away, but he knew that it was useless to say it at the moment, in fact, he wanted to smash the fox in his hand to the ground, but he was afraid that Rod would turn back and save the fox in distress, so he had to be extremely weird and carry a knife in one hand and a fox in the other, dodging the enemy's attacks.

Dieter was only a commoner when he was young, and he didn't need to practice martial arts at all when he became the steward of the Foster family, and as a "caravan captain" at this time, his skills were even more insignificant. Martial arts are common, and he has to worry about Rode, who is already in danger in just a few seconds.

"Whew-" The demon wolf pounced, knocking down a four-legged monster that was attacking Dieter's back, biting its throat with one bite, and immediately filling its mouth with the smell of sulfur.

"Illeris, you idiot!" the leader of the heavily armored warriors roared, not knowing whether to scold his subordinates for being reckless or disgusted that he was sent flying by a blow: "Karanhill, you drag this guy, I'll catch up with the Children of Ancient Blood!"

"Understood. A black-armored man with a staff in his hand muffled his promise and quickly retreated away from Grom, casting spells to attack the Great Swordsman under the cover of his minions.

This kind of close-quarters engagement in difficult terrain has an overwhelming advantage over ordinary combatants with strong fighters, but when one side only has melee combat and the other side has melee and mages cooperate, the situation is reversed.

He hadn't been outnumbered for years, but Grom still had a clear idea: as his wife's appointed bodyguard, it was supposed that he should retreat to Rhodes' side to intercept the attack for him, but it would be a terrible thing to let the enemy mage roam the perimeter like that. Nine times out of ten, the portals around him were opened by this person, and the caster who can use this kind of high-level spell must be very strong, even if he can't solve him quickly, he will have no time to attack others!

The fighting spirit on his body became even more vigorous and blazing due to the generation of killing intent in his heart, and a pair of indifferent eyes widened and burst out with a terrifying light. There was another earth-shattering sound, and the ground under the Great Swordsman's feet exploded into a large crater under the recoil, and Grom stepped on a large piece of fallen leaves and sand, turning into a streamer of light and heading straight for the black-armored mage.

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