143. Duel to life

After Leno flew forward for some distance, there were no more tentacles and corrupted soldiers to trouble him.

He thought it was because Thumik didn't think it was worth fighting him, but later learned that it was the alchemy sage in the alchemy ship who collided with the leader of Shumik's heirs.

Far ahead, alchemical ships, the leaders of the heirs of Shubik, and black tentacles busied among the mass of black shards.

The alchemical ships appeared intact in the Pollution Realm. As its master, the Alchemist is inseparable from it, always in the command room of the ship.

From the moment he entered the Pollution Realm, the "Spatial Shift" did not separate the Alchemist from his ship.

As an alchemical creature dedicated to warfare, its ability to travel was well deserved, and it arrived at the ceremony site at a speed far faster than Li Nuo's.

The scene of the ceremony was the second thing Li Nuo saw in the distance.

In the beginning, the ceremonial scene was a flat pattern made of the blood of Imperial soldiers.

Now, it became a three-dimensional figure suspended in the air, resembling a shattered porcelain plate, black and split into hundreds of pieces.

The ritual of communicating with the alien sky has opened up a gap in the alien sky in the star filter. This gap in the alien sky is equivalent to a portal to the alien sky and can be used by Xiubek. The ceremonial site, located in the polluted realm, acts as an anchor point for the portal, providing navigation services for Subic.

The gap in the alien sky was closed, and the teleportation anchor built by the ritual was shattered.

For the heirs of Thumbik who remain in this tainted realm, repairing the teleportation anchor and opening the gap in the alien sky once again is the most important thing.

The result is a very lively battle scene:

The leader of the heirs of Shubic used his body more than a kilometer in length to tightly wrap around the alchemy ship. It used the swollen bubble to secrete a large amount of corrupted black water, suppressing the alchemy cannon barrel of the alchemy ship, preventing the opponent from firing at the already shattered teleportation anchor.

The battle alchemists, who had been teleported to various parts of the Polluted Realm by the "Spatial Transfer", arrived from all directions. They either waited for an opportunity to enter the ship and help the Alchemist fire energy beams, or they stayed outside the ship and attacked the tentacle leader with the alchemy guns on the alchemy.

While the leader of the heirs of Xiubik was entangled with the alchemy ship, the leader's younger brothers were urgently repairing the ritual circle. They rolled up the pieces of the circle, put them together, and adhered the pieces with sticky vesicular secretions.

A large group of black tentacles ranging in rank 5 to 20, fully immersed in the work of repairing the teleportation anchor.

The battle alchemists, who arrived one after another, received orders from the alchemist to abandon the leader of the heirs of Shubik, who was entwining the ship, and pointed the barrel of his gun at the tentacles that repaired the anchor.

One battlefield, two focal points. The leader of the heirs of Xiubik fights the alchemy ship, and the alchemist fights the tentacle brother.

Artillery fire flew from the scene, and elemental energy beams shot in all directions, cutting through the pitch-black polluted field and lighting up a large area.

When Li Nuo arrived, the intensity of the battle was approaching its peak.

He threw "Soul Suck" at the remains left behind after the death of the tentacles.

[System News:]

[This collection failed.] 】

[There are no soul debris on the target's wreckage.] 】

It's embarrassing.

The soul crumbs on the remains of these tentacles have been sucked away by the battle alchemists.

These combat-focused alchemists are armed with lightweight alchemy made of high-performance alchemy alloys, armed with powerful alchemy cannons, and mounted mechanical arms holding alchemy shields and alchemy energy axes behind their backs.

In the palms of their hands, embedded are sucking spirit crystals that can suck away soul crumbs at any time. As soon as they kill a tentacle, they immediately take away the soul crumbs from it. These soul fragments will release soul energy under the action of the alchemy array, which will be converted into the elemental energy required for alchemy armament.

In Li Nuo's eyes, soul crumbs are spell-casting materials. In the eyes of combat alchemists, it is a supply of energy on the battlefield.

Both sides have a need for soul crumbs.

Li Nuo thought about it, and didn't fight the battle alchemists for soul crumbs, so as not to cause any unnecessary trouble. He believed in the credibility of the Gold Chamber of Commerce, and the other party would definitely reasonably distribute the soul crumbs in the spirit absorbing crystal after the war. Because these soul crumbs are also part of the spoils of war.

"If I hadn't encountered the Mutant Tentacles, I wouldn't have wasted time helping the Mutant Tentacles increase their resistance. I'll be one of the first few people to get here, and there's a good chance I'll be able to grab a lot of tentacles. Where there is a loss, there is a gain. Missed the opportunity to scavenge for soul crumbs, in exchange for "Twilight Breathing". This business is still made in blood. ”

Li Nuo comforted himself in his heart.

He glanced at the melee between the alchemist and the tentacles, and found Darik, who was screaming and shooting energy bullets.

Li Nuo stepped forward to say hello to the other party, and then wisely left the battlefield.

It's not a fear of war, it's that the bullet has no eyes, and he will be affected by the elemental energy bullets and beams fired by the alchemist.

When he threw out the "Soul Drain" just now, he was a little closer to the center of the battlefield. In such a short period of time, he was shot dozens of times, and the strength of the shield fell down.

Due to the tentacles' extremely high elemental energy resistance, a huge amount of elemental energy is required to deal damage to them. All alchemists, including the swords of the gold merchant such as Darik, turned on the output power of the alchemy guns to the maximum.

From this, one can imagine how dense the gun line was at the scene, and how brutal the energy bullets and beams fired along the gun line were.

Li Nuo flew out a distance of about 3 kilometers in one go, avoiding the energy bullets flying around, and patiently waited for the battle between the two sides to end.

In the case that the soul crumbs will be snatched away by the alchemist, he is not going to make a move, lest he end up with a thankless end.

Moreover, most alchemists do not know the details of the Death Wizard. They will subconsciously regard the only skeleton on the scene as their enemy.

Li Nuo was accidentally injured by elemental energy just now, except for the eyeless component of the gun, it was somewhat friendly damage.

Li Nuo didn't bother with the alchemists about this.

He quietly pestled on the periphery of the battlefield and entered a state of spectatorship.

At this moment, a slender metal spike flew in from afar, aiming directly at the direction where Li Nuo was.

Behind the metal spike, several black tentacles were held into balls by metal balls, closely following the metal spikes.

Li Nuo has always maintained the magical vision of "life and death tracking".

He was the first to notice a metal spike with vital signs.

A few rounds of deconstruction were thrown, and Leno nodded secretly, knowing that he was being targeted by Merster, the acting commander of MI2.

When Leno learned from Dinas that Merster would come to the polluting realm, he thought of several ways to deal with it.

He was unmoved at this time, standing in place, waiting for the other party to come to the door.

Merst came up to Lino and changed from a metal spike to a human in a cloak, his exposed skin covered in a silvery white layer of metal.

As soon as he stopped, he asked:

"Which Professor's wizard are you?"

Li Nuo glanced at the other party, and shot an indifferent gaze from the empty eye sockets:

"Shouldn't you introduce yourself before asking someone where they came from?"

"I'm Merst, a metal battle wizard from the Hothams Academy of Magic." Merst's tone was stiff, deliberately accentuating the word "battle":

"Your voice... It feels a little familiar to me. Have we met? ”

The camouflage magic that can change the sound is "Disguise the Living Corpse".

The "breath of the dead" cannot change the voice.

At the same time, Li Nuo could only maintain a disguise spell.

Hearing that the other party was familiar with his voice, Li Nuo had a question in his heart.

He was 100% sure that he had never met Merster, so why would the other person have an impression of his voice.

Leno turned his skull slightly and looked at Merster.

On Merster's metal mask, waves of metal ripples appeared, as if he was thinking quickly.

After two seconds, Merster's tone became deep:

"I know who you are, Leno Jarvis."

Leno turned and stood facing Merst:

"Judging a person's identity just by his voice is a bit arbitrary."

Merst shook his head slowly:

"No, I can't be mistaken. The "metal memory" in my head will never confuse you with other people's voices. My "Identifying Metal Pupil" tells me that the spell you are casting right now is "Breath of the Dead", which conflicts with the spell that modifies the sound. Your voice now is your true voice. You're Leno Jarvis. I really didn't expect that I would have such a harvest when I came to this trip. ”

Merster's left foot stepped back and turned sideways to Leno.

He raised his right metal hand, took the metal wand that came out of the palm of his hand, and said in an unquestioning tone:

"Come with me, Leno Jarvis. I'm going to take you back to the Tatis Empire for review, you are suspected of killing the descendants of an emperor, her name is Kaisha, you should know who I'm talking about.

"Also, I doubt the legitimacy of your wizarding identity. All Unas Ring Wizards who enter the Pollution Realm need to report to the Lecturer and be recorded on the list of Explorers of the Pollution Realm in the Witch Tomb. My professor didn't tell me that another Unas Ring Wizard was going to enter here. So, you are not a wizard of the Unas Ring. You may be a wild wizard, a gray wizard, or even a wizard criminal. Regardless of your specific status, I advise you to give up resistance and not to force me to use violence. ”

Li Nuo said lightly:

"Interesting statement. If I'm really the person you say you say you are, what are you going to do with me? ”

Merster held up his metal wand and said:

"If you are a legal wizard, your rights and interests are protected by the decree of the Unas Ring. Your cruelty to Kai'Sa is enough to make you an unclean sorcerer. I'm going to take you to the Wizarding Law Enforcement Department to turn yourself in. As long as you admit punishment, then I, as Kaisha's brother, but also a member of Hottamus, cannot take revenge on you according to the decree of the Unas Ring. However, the military intelligence in the Tatis Empire is not necessarily the case. Even if you accept the punishment of the Wizard Law Enforcement Department, MI1 will not let you go.

"If you are not a legitimate wizard and your rights and interests are not protected by the Unas Ring, then I, as a direct descendant of the Emperor and the acting commander of MI2 of the Tatis Empire, have the power to execute you as a murderer."

Merst paused:

"Let's get caught. Your death magic may be powerful, but if you know a little bit about it, the metal wizards of Hortamus are among the most powerful wizarding forces. Unless you're a professor-level death wizard, don't try to escape from me. ”

"I've heard of your metal wizard's name." Leno had learned from Dinas about the strength of the metal wizard beforehand.

The wizards of this faction will arm themselves with a variety of magical metals.

The metal memory that Merster mentioned, the metal pupil that he recognized, the metal shell on his skin, the metal wand in his hand, etc., were all products of metal magic.

This is a wizarding faction that highly integrates magical metal with wizarding minds.

Their means of attack are by no means as simple as firing a few metal spikes.

Hothams metal wizards are synonymous with battle wizards, all of whom are full-time combatants who can cross the first to third level of crossover challenges.

Esmere has a sixth-order power, but specializes in maritime research. As a three-ring metal wizard, Merster only needs half a minute to kill Esmere.

That's right, it only takes half a minute for the three-ring metal wizard to kill the sixth-order scientific research side alchemist.

The battle alchemists on the alchemy ships, and the fifth-order gold merchant swords like Daric, can rely on the tough alchemy armament to fight Merst back and forth.

Challenging a fifth-order battle alchemist with the strength of the three rings is the horror of the wizard forces who live by fighting.

The Tomb King, the Night Spirit Society, and the Reborn Esoteric Order that Li Nuo had encountered before were not fighting for a living, they had their own areas of expertise.

Elemental Inquisition, known as "Trial", is a wizarding force that is slightly involved in combat, and its combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of Hortamus's metal branch.

In terms of combat effectiveness alone, the Hothams Metal Branch ranks in the top 10, and the Elemental Trial is around 30.

After carefully learning about the situation in the metal branch from Dinas, Leno came to a conclusion:

This is not a world where extraordinary classes are used to divide combat effectiveness.

The so-called "combat field" is just one of the areas of expertise that the extraordinary can choose.

The sixth-order extraordinary is not necessarily stronger than the third-order, it must depend on what the expertise of the two sides is.

Only for those who are extraordinary in the same field, can their strength in that field be measured by the level of class.

The metal wizard of the three rings is stronger than the sixth-order non-combat realm alchemist, this is the truth of this world.

Facing Merst, who specializes in the field of combat, Li Nuo knew that he had to adopt a backup plan the moment the other party recognized his voice.

Considering that the opponent has the support of Hotamus, the most veteran wizarding force, killing the opponent is not the first choice, which will cause endless troubles.

In contrast, it may be better to defeat the opponent in a duel and conquer the opponent's body and mind.

Li Nuo raised his right hand, hooked his palm, and made a provocative gesture that is common to the universe:

"Shoot with all your might, Merster. Use your strength to prove yourself. Overcome me first, and then talk about it in front of me. ”

Large metal spikes appeared on Merster's metallic skin, and he gritted his teeth:

"Are you sure you want to be an enemy of Hotamus Academy and Tattis? I'll give you another chance. ”

Li Nuo shook his hand and responded indifferently:

"Don't get me wrong. I'm not targeting you, nor am I targeting the wizarding forces and Tatis behind you. I'm just reinventing the world as I see fit. ”

This is not what Li Nuo said, this is the words that Li Nuo found from a memory fragment called "Father's Declaration" after deconstructing Merst and obtaining the other party's recent important memories.

In order to fit the image he was about to create in Merster's mind, Li Nuo invoked these words.

In this place, the "lethality" of Merst is really amazing.

"Reinvent... World..."Merst was stunned, a little dumbfounded, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether the person on the other side was bragging, arrogantly making nonsense, or if he really had the ambition and confidence.

"It's ridiculous. You would say something like reshaping the world. In my eyes, only my father is qualified to say that he wants to reshape the world. He promised me that, too... Are you, an illegal sorcerer who has committed crimes, worthy to say such things? ”

Merster's voice was distorted from over-excitement. It seems that Li Nuo said the same thing as the emperor, which made him very annoyed:

"Enough! I don't want to hear your arguments anymore. Since you don't plan to tie your hands down, let's follow the rules of the duel of Unas Ring and fight to the death. ”

Li Nuo nodded slightly, and drew his wand:

"Come on, go all out, Merster. I've heard how terrifying your metal wizard's projectile magic is, so let me get a good look at it. ”

"You brought it on yourself—" Merst lifted his cloak, revealing his body completely covered in silver-white metal.

Ripples quickly emerge on the silvery-white metal, dense and numerous.

After about 5 seconds, regular fine lines appear on the otherwise smooth and wrinkle-free metal skin.

Li Nuo admired Merster's fighting posture and said slowly:

"Very good 'Active Magic Metal Armor'. You've adjusted the armor parameters that reflect death energy to 90%, right? ”

"Just try it." Müster's voice turned into a shriveled metal crash.

With a flick of his wrist, Li Nuo unleashed two black lightning bolts half a meter thick.

"Crackle, crack!"

“piu~piu~”

The black lightning bolt, which can easily shatter the level 20 tentacles, did not cause any explosion after hitting Merster.

They were deflected by the magic metal armor in two ricocheting sounds, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

And on the metal skin struck by the black lightning, two black scorch marks appeared. The magic lines on the surface of the metal skin squirmed a few times, and the black scorch marks were completely absorbed by the metal skin. The silvery-white metallic skin is as bright as new again.

"Awesome, magic metal armor and metal mind meditation live up to their name. It's no wonder that metal wizards have always looked down on the magic shield spell. With such defensive magical metal armor, you can indeed throw the "magic shield" aside. Li Nuo said with sincere appreciation.

The metal wizard of Hotams connects his mind to the magical metal on his body through a meditation method called "Metal Mind".

With a single thought, they could alter the microscopic deconstruction of the surface of the magical metal in a matter of seconds, allowing them to reflect some kind of energy ray.

The principle is similar to that of a smooth mirror that reflects light.

As a three-ring metal wizard, Merster's active magic metal armor can reflect about 90% of death energy.

The two black scorch marks that appear on the surface of the metal skin are the 10% of the death energy that is not reflected. They are absorbed by the metal compartment in the magical metal armor. Merster somehow stored it and used it as a backup energy source.

The higher the ring level, the more types of energy rays the metal wizard can reflect.

Merster has the strength of the three rings, he can only reflect 3 energy rays at the same time, and the reflectivity is about 90%.

When he is promoted to the Four Rings, the number of reflections is +1, and the reflectivity remains unchanged.

After becoming a seven-ring metal wizard, the reflectivity will increase, and until then it will only increase the number of reflections.

How the metal wizard's meditation method and magic metal worked, Li Nuo did not know, this is the mystery of the metal wizard of Hothams.

But that didn't stop him from affirming the fighting power of the Hottams Metal Wizard.

With a defensive method that can reflect 90% of the energy rays, Merst, as a three-ring metal wizard, is enough to have the confidence to leapfrog the challenge.

After Merst deflected off Li Nuo's death lightning, he tilted his head slightly and said:

"The force feedback of the "Sensing Metal Bone" shows that the combined magic power of the two death lightning bolts you just now has reached 1340 points, which is comparable to an ordinary six-ring death wizard. If I were an ordinary three-ring wizard, even if I cast the "magic shield" in advance, I would still be killed by you. Your magical attainments are indeed high, but you are not a six-ring death wizard. The results of the analysis of "Identifying Metal Pupils" show that your strength is from one ring to three rings. Your strength is so low, but why can you cast a powerful death magic? There are quirks. ”

Merster raised his wand but did not attack immediately, but asked:

"You used the Death Finger, right, a high-level death magic modified from the Death Finger. High-level death magic can only be used by a Professor-level wizard. Your magic power is high, but it's not up to the level of a professor.

"So you used the spell recorded on your wand to cast the Death Finger? Quirky, quirky, quirky. Shouldn't the wand that records the "Two Fingers of Death" be a high-end wand that is luxurious and exquisite? But the wand in your hand is just an ordinary hand-threaded wand, and it will never carry high-level magic. ”

A vertical metal slit cracked in the metal skin of Merster's forehead, and the metal pupils in his eyes looked left and right at Li Nuo.

This is the "Identifying Metal Pupil", a metal magic creation in the body that metal wizards must have.

Cracking the metal eye slit on the forehead is the metal wizard's full urge to "identify the metal pupil" to observe the external manifestation of the target.

It seems that the many anomalies that appeared in Li Nuo aroused Merster's strong attention.

Li Nuo looked at Merster, who had words in his mind, and a trace of envy appeared in his heart.

On his personal panel are the following lines:

HP cannot be measured

You are a pure organism. Your HP status cannot be displayed in a digital way.

On the other hand, when Merst, when Li Nuo shot the "two fingers of death" just now, the passive deconstruction message sent by the system was like this:

[Passive solution constitutes work!] 】

[Your completion of deconstruction of "The Witcher Merster" is increased by 3.5%]

【You have obtained the following solution results:】

[The Wizard Merst panel information has been updated to include content related to the Magic Metal Armor and the Magic Metal Compartment.] 】

[Details are as follows:]

[1.Magic Metal Armor]

Type: Metallic Magical Creation

[Style] active, Merster can actively adjust the energy reflectivity of the armor.

[Item Level] Level 30

[Armor Value] 900/900

[Built-in Resistance] Kinetic Resistance 50%

This resistance is provided by the physical structure of the magic metal itself.

With Reflective Coating enabled, Merster increases Kinetic Resistance to a maximum of 70% instead of 90%.

【Reflective Coating Condition】

Reflective Coating No. 1: Reflecting death energy, 90% reflectivity

Reflective Coating No. 2: Not enabled

Reflective Coating No. 3: Not enabled

Adjusting the type and reflectivity of the reflective coating, or enabling or disabling the reflective coating, requires a 5-second operation time.

(The deconstruction is not complete enough to obtain more information)

[2.Magic Metal Compartment]

Type: Metallic Magical Creation

【Style】Passive, passively absorbs energy that is not reflected by the reflective coating.

[Item Level] Level 30

[Armor Value] 89/90, auto-recovering, expected to return to full value in 10 seconds.

【Energy-absorbing compartment condition】

Energy Absorbing Compartment No. 1: Absorbing death energy at 99%. Death energy that is not absorbed will deal damage to the armor value.

Energy-absorbing compartment No. 2: Not enabled

Energy Absorbing Compartment No. 3: Not enabled

(The deconstruction is not complete enough to obtain more information)

Obviously, since Magic Metal is easier to monitor the extent of damage than Flesh and Blood, the system directly marked the "Armor Value" column on the solution result.

This is tantamount to a digital transformation of the metal magic product to facilitate the monitoring of the degree of damage.

For example, metal magic artifacts such as "Identifying Metal Pupils" and "Sensing Metal Bones" can also be digitized to clearly mark the "Armor Value".

The "armor value" corresponds to the "HP" of the flesh and blood.

If one day, Li Nuo transforms himself into a magical metal man, then his "HP" will be replaced by "armor value".

In this way, he will be able to monitor the combat data at all times.

Visualizing body data is undoubtedly crucial for wizards with combat expertise. Li Nuo thought so, and so did the battle wizards of this world.

In fact, none of the top 10 battle wizard forces in the Unas Ring fought with pure flesh and blood.

Without exception, they modified their bodies, using meditation methods to connect the magical parts of their bodies to obtain visual body data.

Li Nuo closed the solution in his mind and said to the stunned Merster:

"You should be glad I didn't want to kill you. Otherwise, the time for you to wander away is enough for me to kill you. ”

Merster's body trembled, and he came back to his senses and clenched the wand in his hand:

"I see, I know why you're full of weirdness.

"Did you get some extraordinary properties from the starry pollution? It's this extraordinary trait that allows you to cast high-level magic, right? You're in luck, Leno Jarvis, this should be the top extraordinary trait in the Star Stone Rank, "High Magic and Low Ability", or the Star and Continent level "Magic Knowledge" and "Innate Wizard". Whatever the extraordinary feature, you're using it in the wrong place. You shouldn't have used it against me and the dead Kaisha. ”

Li Nuo is too lazy to force the other party, he still has serious things to do.

His eyes were fixed on the metal wand in Merst's hand, a hollow tube, about the barrel of a rifle.

After asking about the information of the Hotamus Metal Branch, Li Nuo has been trying to deconstruct something from the metal wizard.

That's the metal wand for metal wizards. This is where Merster's entire body is thinnest in magical metal armor.

By destroying the wand, Merster becomes a toothless tiger, and Leno gains knowledge about the metal wand.

This metal wand is so powerful that it can be said to be a hand-held railgun on the magic side.

As long as the production drawings do not require the maker to master the "Metal Thinking Meditation Method", Li Nuo is confident that he will copy it.

Li Nuo held his breath and stared, and his wrist shook more than a dozen times in a row, shooting out a dense piece of electric light.

Black python-like lightning bolts of death stabbed Merster's wand in his hand.

The speed of the death lightning is extremely fast, far exceeding the reflexes of the three-ring wizard.

Merster thought that these lightning bolts were piercing his body, and subconsciously wanted to use his body to hard-connect, but suddenly found that the wand in his hand was the target of lightning.

By the time he reacted, it was too late.

A full 30 death bolts, falling at the same point almost at the same time.

The magical metal armor worked to deflect most of the death energy, but black sparks inevitably erupted from the tip of the wand.

"Crackle, crackle..."

“piu~piu~piu~”

"Bang!" The energy of death, which could not be deflected, exploded on the wand.

Merster's wrist was pushed by the force of the explosion and he swung backwards violently, and his body shook with it.

If it weren't for the wand in his hand connected to the root of his palm, his wand would have been blown away by the force of the explosion.

Before Merster adjusted his body, Leno glanced at the news of the battle in his mind.

Passive deconstruction was activated, and he obtained a portion of the panel information for the metal wand.

This wand is called the "Metal Projectile Wand" and has an item level of 30.

It can charge a magic metal bullet with magical energy and then launch it.

The "Two Fingers of Death" can only deal death energy damage, and the damage type is single, so it is easy to be prevented.

Magic Metal Bullets are different.

It has excellent penetration.

In addition, in addition to the kinetic damage of the warhead itself, other types of damage are attached to the warhead depending on the type of magic energy used to charge.

Li Nuo finished reading the solution as quickly as possible, and sighed helplessly in his heart.

The Metal Projectile Wand requires the "Metal Mind Meditation Method". Only by mastering this meditation method can you burn miniature metal magic patterns inside your wand.

From this point of view, the metal magic creations on Merster's body should all need the "Metal Thinking Meditation Method".

This inevitably made Li Nuo feel regretful.

He had discovered when he had killed Jikmando and Grinsau that passive deconstruction could not obtain magical cheats related to meditation.

Without the support of meditation, it would be impossible to create and use metal magical creations.

Li Nuo put aside the idea of deconstructing the metal magic creation, and continuously shook his wrist, suppressing his opponent with a series of death lightning:

"Hey! Merster, can you still charge your wand? The way you shouted before, it was as if you had eaten me. Have you never suffered a defeat since you became a metal wizard, that's why you are so confident? ”

Merster was silent in the face of Linot's taunt.

He resisted the lightning of death that fell on his body and wand, forcibly turned into metal spikes, and flew into a flying state, rushing away from Lino.

Death lightning has no tracking function, and can only point where to hit, it all depends on whether Li Nuo can aim accurately.

As soon as Merst began to fly, his movement speed increased suddenly.

He constantly changes his attitude and direction in the air, flying quickly in an irregular polygonal path.

The distance between the two sides was widened all of a sudden, and the black lightning launched by Li Nuo gradually lost its accuracy.

At this time, the shortcomings of the "spiritual" attribute are reflected.

Li Nuo's mental attribute value is only 22 points, and his control over spells is limited, and his effective range is up to 10 times the attribute value, which is 220 meters.

Once this distance is exceeded, the accuracy plummets.

On the other hand, Merster.

As a standard three-ring wizard, he has a high spiritual attribute value of 95 points. The effective range of his spells was four times that of Lino, reaching 950 meters.

As long as the distance is stretched and maintained, whoever has a long effective range of spells will have a greater chance of winning.

This is something that every battle wizard knows.

After Merster flew out more than 200 meters in one go, he found that Li Nuo's spell hit rate had dropped severely.

He reverted back to his human form, staring at Leno from a distance.

A flash of black lightning struck, grazing a meter away from him.

Merster was at a standstill at this point, but Leno still didn't hit him.

Merst now understood that Li Nuo's magical power was so powerful, not because of the vast spiritual ocean, but because of his extraordinary characteristics.

Judging from the effective range of the spell, Li Nuo's own spiritual ocean is likely to be only at the level of a wizard.

"Your extraordinary characteristics are really peculiar, and you have actually made you a one-ring wizard with a lethality comparable to that of a six-ring non-combat wizard. Fortunately, your spiritual ocean is not large enough, and your control over spells is extremely limited. Otherwise, I may not be able to defeat you. ”

Merster noticed that the strength of the "magic shield" on Li Nuo's body was comparable to that of the Wizard of the Four Rings.

Conventional magic bullets fired with a metal wand are basically unable to cause a one-hit kill.

To do this, Merst must ask the professor to use high-level projectile magic.

Merst called out to his professor in his heart and prayed for help.

He raised the metal wand in his hand and waited for the professor's authorization.

A hint of weirdness came over him.

Why didn't Leno Jarvis chase after him?

He doesn't close the distance, and how can he make the death magic hit the enemy with precision.

Merster was puzzled, but didn't make any more moves.

If the opponent does not move, he will not move.

The first thing to do is to contact the professor as soon as possible and ask for permission to use high-level projectile magic.

There was a strange scene at the scene.

Merster held his wand and aimed it at Lenovo, motionless, anxiously waiting for the professor's authorization.

Li Nuo, on the other hand, put away the death wand in his hand and took out an alchemy rifle instead, not wanting to catch up with the target at all.

The alchemy rifle in his hand, which can be loaded with ice gas bullets and flame bullets, was made by him when he practiced alchemy.

Li Nuo picked up the gun and aimed at Merster, who was more than 200 meters away, put the crosshair of the scope on the opponent's head, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

The alchemy array inside the receiver outputs a large amount of wind elemental energy, creating a high-pressure air flow that pushes ice gas bullets out of the barrel. Oxygen is not required during the entire process, so alchemy guns can be used as usual here.

The ice bullet crossed the open space between the two at a speed of 300 meters per second, and slammed into Merst's metal body with a clang, exploding a cloud of cold ice slag.

Merster used the "Identifying Metal Pupil" to scan the ice slag and analyzed that the main component of the bullet was ice elemental energy.

He ran the Meditation Method, communicated the Magical Metal Armor, and activated the No. 2 Reflective Coating, which increased the reflectivity of the Ice Elemental Energy to 90%.

This way, he didn't have to worry about the ice bullets causing damage to him.

"Bang!"

Another gunshot rang out, and the alchemy bullets propelled by a high-pressure gas array came.

This time, instead of an ice bullet, it was a flame bullet that would produce a blazing flame upon impact.

As an alchemy product, the kinetic damage of the flame bullet is negligible, and the fire damage caused by the fire elemental energy is the bulk of the damage.

Merster activates Reflective Coating No. 3, which increases the reflectivity of fire elemental energy to 90%.

"Are you trying to interfere with me with different injuries? It's useless! Leno Jarvis! ”

Merst shouted:

"I've already calculated your cast distance, two hundred and twenty meters at most! If there's anything else you can do to touch me other than an alchemy weapon, just use it! I'll use magic metal armor to do it! ”

Facing Merster's shouting, Li Nuo smiled disapprovingly:

"Are you contacting your professor to give you permission to use high-level projectile magic, Merster? That's how you want to kill me? ”

"Now that you know what I'm doing? Why don't you stop me? As for whether or not I want to kill you, I'll still say that, you just need to come back to Tatis with me for trial, or confess to the Wizarding Law Enforcement Department, and I'll let you go. ”

Merst shouted. The doubts in his heart grew stronger. Why hasn't the other party caught up yet?

"I've got to tell you something, Merster."

Li Nuo said calmly:

"I don't kill you, it's for the sake of your sister Martha Murfia's face."

"What?! How do you know about my relationship with Martha? How could it be—" Merst visibly stunned.

"Of course I know who you are, and I know that you have a good relationship with Murphy. Considering that I have a good impression of Murfia, that's why I haven't killed you all along. Li Nuo said.

"Then why did you kill Kaisha?!" Merst shouted.

李诺 says:

"Putting aside the fact that Kai'Sa is your half-sister, do you think she deserves to die if she is a person who kills good people and distorts the facts, and frames many people? As the acting commander of MI2, you should be well aware of what MI2 has done in recent years, right? ”

"Then it's not your turn to judge!" Merst roared:

"Who do you think you are? What qualifications do you have to convict a person? What qualifications do you have to use lynching? ”

"Merster, then." Li Nuo faced his angry opponent and said calmly:

"Who can judge someone like Kaisha?"

"Court, of course!"

"Did the court try her? Did you judge people like her? Did you, as acting commander, hand over these people who had committed crimes to the courts? ”

Leno asked:

"Tell me, Merster, how many of those MI2 members who have actually committed crimes have been given the justice they deserve?"

"I—" Merster paused, "and when the time comes, I'll send them to jail!" I'm already revamping MI2! The first thing I did when I became acting commander was to stop my men from taking the plunge! You don't have to ask about these things! You're not in a position to dictate my affairs! ”

"No, I'm qualified." Li Nuo smiled and said:

"I want to kill you, it's a little difficult, but your life is in my hands after all.

"I didn't kill you because of Murphy. And, of course, your own reasons. I know you well, Merst. I know what kind of person you are.

"Your mother, Adella, is a wizard from the Resurrected Esoteric Order and has the strength of the Four Rings. You were discovered by her at a very young age to have a talent for magic. With the help of her identity as a wizard, Adella sent you to the Hottamus Academy of Magic in Unas Ring, and announced that you had gone to the Alchemy Academy of the Golden Federation to study. You have been living in the Unas Ring until recently when you were recalled to China by a secret letter from your mother.

"You've done well at the Hothamus Academy of Magic, you've been at the top of your studies, and you've won the quarterfinals of several house competitions. You are peaceful, honest, study hard, have no bad habits, devote yourself to studying magic, study the advanced laws of the Unas ring by heart, and plan to help your mother transform her kingdom when you return to the empire.

"In my eyes, you are a person with excellent character and learning, good strength, and hard work. There is no guilt in you.

"I'm not going to kill someone like you. For my rule is that the good will end well, and the wicked will be punished. You're not on my kill list. ”

Since Li Nuo mentioned Adella, Merst was stunned, and he said intermittently:

"You... You... How do you know about my mom... How can it be... How could you know me so well..."

Li Nuo put away the alchemy gun in his hand and opened his arms towards Merst:

"I'll admit that I was a little impulsive when I killed Kaisha. At that time, I had just recovered from anger and insanity, and it was inevitable that I would act recklessly. You're right, I really don't have the right to try a person, and I don't have the right to use lynching.

"Now that I think about it, I seem to have unknowingly caused a lot of trouble by lynching.

"I take your advice. In the future, I will put the damned man in the hands of the forces that can judge him. lest I slay one and come another, and come an innocent man like you. ”

Li Nuo maintained a posture of raising his arms flat, and continued:

"Come on, Merst. Shoot at me, use all your might, and pour your anger and hatred for me into magical metal bullets. If it turns out that you borrowed the Professor's high-level magic and still can't kill me, then let our hatred be wiped out, shall we? I don't want to see a man who is on the right path go astray because he is blinded by revenge. ”

Merst was silent for half a second, and the space around him moved.

A sea of lava appeared out of thin air behind him, a fiery red glow illuminating a large area, and a blazing wave swept in, pushing the temperature around him up by several minutes.

A large sledgehammer entangled in flames swung from the sea of lava, and a loud "bell" slammed on Merster's back.

Merst's silvery-white metal body instantly heated up with this loud blow, turning into a red-hot soldering iron.

Merster gripped his metal wand in both hands and aimed the muzzle-like tip of his wand at Lino.

The heat of his whole body was converging on the wand, and the crimson fire poured into the hollow wand like flowing water. Blindingly bright firelight erupted from the tip of the staff. The entire wand turned from silver-white to a red-hot crimson, and then from crimson to a more searing golden-white.

Merster roared:

"Well, it's a deal! If this blow doesn't kill you, then that's the end of our hatred! But you're going to die! Definitely going to die!! ”

"Bang !!"

A magic bullet the size of a grain of rice dragged a huge tail flame with a diameter of three meters and rushed towards Li Nuo.

It only took less than a hundredth of a second for this magic bullet that condensed anger and magical power to descend on Li Nuo's body.

Merst's eyes widened.

As he watched, the massive magic projectile passed through Leno's body and landed on the extremely distant portal anchor fragments, exploding a huge explosion that swept through half of the ritual site.

Looking at Li Nuo, who was pierced by a magic projectile, he was still standing intact. In his skeletal form, he didn't get a single bone hurt.

"No... No way... How so..."

Merst shook his head in disbelief, and the metal wand in his hand softened from the heat, and automatically retracted into the palm of his hand. The silver-white metal shell of his whole body was also covered with dents, cracks, and dull like aging metal at the same time.

This is the price of forcible use of high-level magic.

A normal three-ring wizard must endure negative effects such as a period of weakness, declining strength, and mental malaise before he can use the high-level magic authorized by the professor.

"I said, you can't kill me."

Li Nuo came to Merster's side at some point:

"Now can we have a good talk? I have something you need to do here. ”

Merster was startled, his body trembled violently, and he looked at Li Nuo who suddenly appeared beside him in disbelief:

"You... You... Why do you have nothing at all... How did you end up here..."

Li Nuo looked at him quietly.

Merst shrunk his neck, twisted his neck and said:

"Well, the hatred is written off. But our duel is not over. My magic metal armor still works, you can't defeat me. If you want me to do things for you, you'll have to prove that you can beat me. ”

Li Nuo shook his head slightly:

"Huh. It's really stubborn. ”

Merster was about to say something, but saw the skeleton in front of him swell sharply, turning into a giant skeleton with a height of more than seven meters in half a second.

Merster's mouth opened wide in surprise, revealing a distinct dent in the mask.

A large hand reached out to him, pinched his arm, and twisted it slightly.

"Click.."

The magical metal body, which was not afraid of death lightning and alchemy bullets, was easily bent by this big bone hand.

Now, with a little more effort, Merst's metal arm would be completely scrapped.

"You've lost, Merster."

Li Nuo looked down at each other in the posture of a giant skeleton.

He let go of the metal arm in his hand, looked at Merst who was looking up at him with a blank face, and said:

"I've got at least three ways to kill you in seconds, and I'm not kidding you. For your sake, and for the sake of Adella and Murphy, I won't kill you. Have you calmed down now? ”

Merst swallowed and looked at his arm.

He hadn't figured out the situation at all just now, and he hadn't had time to adjust his magic metal armor reflective coating.

If the other party is bent on pinching him to death, just wrap his head with the palm of a bone hand and rub it hard. Everything he had accumulated in the past would be wiped out as a result.

The body power in the opponent's body was extremely strong, enough to shatter a magical metal body with only 50% kinetic energy resistance with a single punch.

Merst straightened his bent arm. The metal body allows him to have no pain, and he will correct his limbs by himself without any discomfort.

Merst took a deep breath and said in a dull voice:

"You won. The hatred between us has been written off, but whether the people in the military intelligence will let you go or not, I can't be the master. According to the rules of the life-and-death duel of the Unas Ring. The winner is free to dispose of the loser. Since you don't want to kill me, then I will definitely do something for you to repay you for not killing. Say, what do you want me to do. ”

"That's right."

Li Nuo reverted back to a skeleton the size of a normal human.

He glanced at the amount of energy in his mind, which was called a flesh pain.

He had just learned about Adella's relationship with Merst through Dinas.

Strictly speaking, Merst is not a bad person. He is indeed the acting commander of MI2, and there is nothing wrong with that. But MI2's past crimes have nothing to do with him, they were done by the previous commander.

When Merst took office, he did, as he himself said, make improvements to MI2 and prevent more disasters from happening.

Neither from Merster's academic background nor from what he did, Leno had no reason to kill him.

This soul communication with Dinas did not consume Li Nuo's energy.

The energy value is consumed by two spells that turn the tide of battle.

The first spell is to help him dodge the "Perception Tampering" of high-level magic projectiles.

Li Nuo immediately clicked it to level 40.

Level 40 "Perceptual Tampering" corresponds to the magical power of the Four-Ring Psychic Wizard, and only the Four-Ring Wizard and above can resist it.

Wizards below the fourth ring have no idea that their perception has been tampered with. "Perceptual Tampering" with a 20% integrity effect on them for up to 4 seconds. These 4 seconds were enough time for Leno to get close to Merster.

The "Lino" pierced by the magic projectile was just a perceptual illusion left by Lino in the other party's field of vision after he tampered with Merster's perception.

As for the ability to turn into a giant skeleton and bend a metal arm, it is actually a "burst of power".

Li Nuo clicked it to level 50 in one go.

Counting the upgrade effect and additional rewards, after activating this skill, his "Strength" attribute is as high as 72 points!

The "Tenacity" attribute was temporarily increased to half of the "Strength" stat, reaching 36 points. This is the effect of the additional reward.

Li Nuo didn't know how much physical destructive power there was in this order of magnitude of "strength" attributes.

But judging from the feel of bending the metal arm just now, Li Nuo felt that he could easily tear the other party apart.

Suffice it to say, popping Merster's brain with 72 points of "power" is as simple as breaking a wooden toothpick when "power" is only 2 points.

Muscle domineering martial arts, terrifying.

[System News:]

[You defeated the "Three-Ring Metal Battle Wizard Merst" in a duel to the death.] 】

[Passive deconstruction activation! ] 】

[Increases your deconstruction of the target to 25%]

【You have obtained the following solution results:】

[1. The target's "Battle Level" has been updated, and the system predicts that it will be level 35.] 】

[2. The target's personalized panel has been updated, adding items related to "Magic Metal Armor" and "Magic Projectile Skills.] 】

【…】

(In order to avoid the number of words, the solution effect here is omitted for the time being, and will be presented in the plot later.) )

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