Bam, bam, bam!
A series of meatballs smashed into the middle of the road in front of Roddy. The shockwave from the explosion even shattered the wooden door of a nearby tavern into pieces. Three shallow pits with a diameter of more than one meter appeared on the ground.
The advancing Firebolt wasn't an all-terrain vehicle, so Roddy could only quickly brake and change directions to dodge the attacks. The flaw of the chassis was immediately revealed. The right wheel of the Firebolt was lifted off the ground due to the shift in center of gravity, and Merlinsera was almost thrown off the car!
"Watch out!"
Roddy yelled hurriedly. He quickly swung his left hand in the direction of the steering wheel and leaned forward. He reached out with his right hand and grabbed Merlinsera, who was leaning to the side, to help her stabilize her balance.
"Damn it! This guy is getting stronger and stronger! "
This string of attacks was obviously a warning from the ancient behemoth to the attacking Mages. In the sky above, almost all of the attacking Mages suffered similar attacks.
"I can handle it …"
Merlinsera's voice came from above, but it was much softer than usual. Only then did Roddy realize that he was holding her left leg tightly. The tight and elastic feeling made him cough dryly, and he wanted to let go as if he had been electrocuted …
But at this moment, another string of attacks smashed into the buildings on the side of the road. With a loud crack, the collapsed wood and stones blocked half of the road, forcing him to brake again and change directions. Merlinsera was already unstable, and she fell forward. Roddy reacted quickly and reached out to pull Merlinsera, who had fallen out of the car, onto his lap …
"Are you alright?"
Amidst the howling wind, Roddy had no time to look down and could only ask loudly as he drove.
Merlinsera could feel his arm around her tightly, as if he was afraid that she would fall. She couldn't help but smirk. Then, she grabbed onto Roddy's neck and sat up. "I can feel that guy's eyes on me. If we continue like this, we will definitely be attacked again. I'll go to the sky to attract the firepower, you keep going!"
"Alright!"
The two of them tacitly didn't mention what had just happened. After Merinsera finished speaking, she leaped into the air and used the Levitation Spell to send her flying to the side. At the same time, the third flying beast streaked across the sky …
Roddy continued to drive for a few hundred meters. As expected, there were no further attacks. He raised his head and saw that the sky was filled with streaks of different colors. Among them were the projectile skills of the Magisters, and there were also the blood of the Behemoths. Amidst the Mana Mist, no one noticed his whereabouts.
Looking straight ahead, the giant beast with ripples on its body was already right in front of him. Rody opened the 'Map Bar' and confirmed that he was about 800 meters away from the gigantic beast.
This was an area where he could activate the spell formation at any time. Roddy immediately stopped shooting and scanned his surroundings. Perhaps it was because he was too close to the 'matrix', but he found that there were no Merfolk on the street other than some messy debris on the ground. So, he carried the 'activation spell formation' made by Jeremy and ran to the eaves of a nearby building. While avoiding the sight of the 'matrix', he used the 'Climb' skill to climb up the tallest building on the street. When his field of vision was wide open, he activated the 'Demon Hunter Vision' skill and observed his surroundings.
In the blink of an eye, the dark world lit up with a myriad of colors.
The surrounding houses were all in cool colors, but some of the buildings with Magic Crystal Spell Formations had a more distinct silhouette. Looking into the distance, the silhouette of the 'matrix' was like that of a giant tree with lush branches and leaves. However, its hemispherical upper body looked a little 'fat' because Roddy could see that only the middle part of its body had an orange glow like that of a furnace.
This meant that the energy of the 'matrix' was actually more concentrated in the center of its body.
In the city area of Duriel, the 'subsidiary bodies' that were shuttling back and forth were also glowing in different colors. Roddy almost instantly caught sight of the brightest group among them. The 'subsidiary bodies' that had consumed the 'Magic Crystal Ball' and 'Air Expansion Spell Formation' were extremely dazzling because of the high energy they carried. At this moment, they were only 300 meters away from the 'matrix'.
The Great Magician in the sky was also a dazzling individual. Roddy took a glance and confirmed that Merlinsera was casting spells at the 'matrix' in the air more than 300 meters away from him. Just as he had predicted, within a distance of one kilometer, the threat of the ancient behemoth to the individual Mages was very limited. No matter how many spells it shot out, the nimble Mages in the air could easily dodge them.
Of course, these Great Magicians could not pose much of a threat to the behemoth either. This was because the effective range of most spells could not reach more than a kilometer. The spells that streaked across the air were all in long parabolas. When they reached the surface of the behemoth's body, they were neither fast nor powerful. The behemoth didn't even need to use its tentacles to block the spells. Just its evolved protective shell alone could easily withstand the damage of these spells.
After a brief observation, Roddy was about to find a place to hide. However, just as he turned his head, a faint purple glow suddenly appeared on the floor in his' Witcher's Vision '.
No!
Roddy's hair immediately stood on end. He immediately realized that this was not a normal phenomenon. Without hesitation, he used the 'Leap' skill and leaped from the height of a three-story building to the side!
"Crack!"
The wooden floor that Rody had just left heard a shattering sound. The place where Rody had been standing suddenly had a large number of purple crystals in the shape of daggers. If Rody had not dodged in time, he would have been stabbed into a sieve.
What the hell …
As soon as his feet touched the ground, Roddy quickly rushed into the shadows of the nearby buildings. He immediately understood that someone was plotting against him. If it wasn't for the 'Witcher's Vision' that allowed him to see the premonition of a spell, he would have met with misfortune. Roddy narrowed his eyes. Although his expression was indifferent, the anger in his eyes was not concealed.
Why was it that no matter where he went, he would run into people who would stab him in the back?
He was still holding the stone tablet in his hand. Seeing this, he immediately stuffed it into the gap between his quiver and his back. He reached for the bone bow and activated the 'Witcher's Vision' skill to look around, searching for a target.
However, just as he swept his gaze across the empty street, he discovered three people running in his direction from afar. However, these three people were quite a distance away. They looked like fleeing fellows and couldn't be the ones who had just ambushed him. Thus, Roddy directly excluded them and turned his head to look at the sky.
The person who could silently cast this spell might be among this group of Great Magicians.
*****
Lotica gripped his staff tightly and quietly hid behind a building not far from Roddy. His slightly furrowed brows showed that he was puzzled that his attack had missed.
As a core member of the Ballenner Academy, although he wasn't a professional "Combat Mage," he was a powerful Great Magician who had won several actual combat tournaments. To sneak up on an ordinary person in such a chaotic night, yet the other party dodged in advance … To be honest, Lotica was very surprised.
This was because he wasn't an ordinary Elemental Magician, but a very unpopular "Crystal Magician" who used invisible elements to transform into tangible crystals for attack and defense. The greatest advantage of a "Crystal Magician" was that the fluctuations before the spell took shape were extremely small and difficult to detect. After the spell took shape, it came with more physical damage, which ordinary elemental resistance shields couldn't withstand.
Clutching the staff in his hand, Lotica took a deep breath. He knew that he had no way out now. Next, he had to kill Roddy in the shortest time possible to solve the threat of the Kingdom of Karen to the Ballenner Academy once and for all!
Only with Roddy dead could he secure his position. And this chaotic scene was his only chance!
Although he had hired a team of assassins to prepare for the operation, Lotica knew very well that if Roddy succeeded in killing this ancient behemoth that threatened the entire Duriel City, he would become a "hero" in the eyes of the people of Raximan. When that time came, the only thing he could do was to revoke the assassination order, because if something happened to the "hero," the council would investigate thoroughly and blame it on him!
As a politician, he didn't believe that a "foreigner" like Roddy would risk his life to solve the problem for Raximan. In his opinion, Roddy's move was simply to "take all the credit" in order to gain an advantage in future negotiations with Raximan!
So long before the "Magic crystal ball" was thrown out, he had secretly implanted a crystal mark that only he could detect. This way, after killing Roddy, he would be able to grasp the timing to activate the magic circle — and the cause of Roddy's death could be completely blamed on the fleeing monsters.
With this thought in mind, he quietly moved his body and looked at the place where Roddy was hiding. He raised the tip of his staff slightly and silently chanted a spell.
Lotica knew that his opponent was in a state of extreme vigilance at the moment, so he lengthened the spellcasting process by twice as much as usual, just to try his best to completely conceal the magical fluctuations.
But he would never have thought that Roddy had the "Witcher's Vision" skill and could clearly see the traces of elements slowly gathering in the air. Lotica deliberately lengthened the spellcasting process just so that Roddy could follow the traces and quickly lock onto his position!
Just as the spellcasting reached the final stage, Roddy had already raised his longbow and aimed at the building where Lotica was hiding without hesitation. He activated "Cannon Blast" and shot out eight arrows in a row!
Lotica kept his eyes on Roddy while he was casting the spell. When the arrows came directly at the opposite door, he immediately suffered a backlash because of the wrong recitation of the spell.
Apart from the pain of the magic power running amok in his body, the roar of the arrows exploding on the passively triggered "Crystal Shield" made his ears ring on the spot.
"Boom boom boom …"
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