The battle between magicians is somewhat different from that of other professionals.
The biggest difference is that in one-on-one magician battles, there are very few advanced magic duels.
The reason is simple, because the more advanced the magic is, the more complex the magic structure is, and the larger the magic scale is, both the time to build the magic structure and the time to gather power will be greatly prolonged, which leads to an increase in the casting time.
This is an iron law, almost irreversible.
A magician doesn't care about him at all during the period of casting spells, and level 1 magic is more than enough to destroy a magician's body, so magicians seldom use high-level magic when there is no one around them to protect them.
Level 0 and level 1 magics appear the most in battle, and level 2 magics occasionally appear, but that must be under the premise of sneak attack or gaining a huge advantage.
At this moment, the black-robed magician was hiding in the bushes, his body was covered with a level 3 advanced invisibility technique.
The effect of this invisibility technique is very strong. It can almost completely integrate a person into the environment. It can even perfectly hide all kinds of auras on the body. Of course, Link's 0-level aura detection technique can't see through it.
Therefore, he gained the first attack advantage in this duel.
This advantage is very large, and can often directly determine the outcome of a magic duel, because getting the upper hand means that there is a chance to release advanced magic!
With such an opportunity, it is very likely that one blow will determine the outcome!
In order to prevent Link from discovering his whereabouts, the black-robed magician hid a little far away from him. The distance from Link and others was about 80 meters, which was beyond his casting distance.
At the same time, in order to make the third-level invisibility work, he did not add advanced defensive magic to himself, because once the magic was added, a strong magic aura would appear on him, and the third-level invisibility would be useless.
The strongest defense in the world is not the advanced defensive magic that can withstand the opponent's powerful attack, but to hide oneself in a place where the opponent cannot see. Therefore, between defensive magic and invisibility, the black-robed magician does not hesitate Invisibility was chosen.
Because of this, he now has a first chance to unleash advanced magic.
"Should I use defensive magic or offensive magic first?" The black-robed magician weighed the pros and cons of these two choices in his mind. His most powerful defensive magic is a level 3 intermediate protective barrier, which can defend against level 3 magic attacks. Casting time is 2.5 seconds.
In the case of going first, he should be able to successfully cast the spell, but the problem is that the intermediate protective barrier can only defend against pure elemental attacks, and its defense against entity-type attacks is extremely poor, but from the observation just now, the opponent who can attack from a long distance Magic has amazing penetrating power, and his protective barrier may not be very effective.
The next defensive magic is mage armor, but it is a level 2 magic. Its defense against physical attacks and magic attacks is quite good, but facing the opponent's level 1 magic with super magic skills, the black-robed magician is very good at this. Magical defenses don't hold out much hope.
The speed of the opponent's spellcasting was too fast. If he attacked recklessly, the magic armor would collapse soon, but his counterattack would definitely be blocked by the loyal shield warrior beside him.
The end result should be that he dies and the opponent loses a follower.
It is not a good deal to exchange one's own life for the life of one of the opponent's followers.
'It seems that I can only choose advanced attack magic! 'The black-robed mage weighed it up and made a decision.
But here comes the problem again.
The opponent is too far away, and his pure elemental attack magic cannot reach that far. If it is a throwing magic, it will be blocked by the shield warrior around him in all likelihood.
'Hey, if only I could be closer to the opponent, then a level 3 chain lightning should be able to paralyze the opponent. It's a pity for the black-robed magician, but after thinking about it, he feels that this is impossible. With the opponent's vigilance, if he gets too close, he must have been exposed by now.
After much deliberation, the black-robed magician chose the summoning magic that he is best at and the highest level he has mastered so far.
The magic energy poured into the wand, and the sapphire at the tip of the wand slightly moved, and mysterious rune auras appeared in the air. When the fourth rune aura appeared, the black-robed magician stopped inputting magic energy.
Then he pointed at the ground, and each of the four rune auras shot out a jet of runes. These jets gathered together precisely in the air, becoming a thicker and more complex jet of runes, and then the jet sank into the ground.
Then, the ground began to tremble, and finally turned into a mass of surging mud. The mud began to rise until a large soil clod nearly four meters high appeared, and finally, the soil bag began to change rapidly.
It differentiated into limbs, thick muscle lines appeared on its body, and finally turned into a 4-meter-high clay giant. Not only that, many crystallized hard rocks emerged on its surface, especially at each joint. At first glance, it looks like wearing a set of crystal armor.
This is Summoning Magic: Crystal Giant.
crystal giant
Level 4 Magic
Mana consumption: 280
Function: Summon a very powerful earth elemental giant to fight only for you, which lasts for half an hour or is destroyed.
(Note: It is infinitely powerful!)
This is a powerful level 4 magic, and it is also the only level 4 magic that the black-robed magician will have. After using this magic, he let out a long breath.
The magic energy structure of this magic is very complicated, and it consumes a lot of energy. It consumed more than half of the magic energy in his body at once, and it took him 4 seconds to release the magic.
In the mountains and forests, such a big guy appeared, and there were powerful mana fluctuations of level 4 magic, these were big movements that could not be concealed.
In fact, Link felt something was wrong the moment the black-robed magician started casting a spell, but the opponent was hiding in the dark, so he couldn't find where the opponent was.
When he finally determined the opponent's position, the opponent's magic had already taken shape.
'Boom~boom~boom' The ground trembled slightly, and a 4-meter-high crystal giant was striding towards them. Along the way, there were trees blocking its way. Small trees or big trees over twenty centimeters were all broken by his punch.
Such a terrifying power cannot be stopped by manpower at all. Maybe fighters above level 5 can take it hard, but the three of Link can't, not even Yake, who is the most powerful.
Gridan shot an arrow, and he hit it, because the giant didn't hide at all.
With a sound of 'ding', the fine steel arrow shot at the crystal on the surface of the giant's body, making a crisp sound, only a few crystal shards were shot off, and then bounced feebly aside.
Seeing the giant rushing towards him, the pale-faced Yake instinctively stood in front of Link: "My lord, I'll stop him, you go!"
He is ready to fight to the death!
Link didn't make a sound, let alone run away.
He knows the magic.
The crystal giant is a level 4 magic. From the looks of it, it should be just a normal version of magic without any super magic skills. Of course, this magic is still very scary and extremely difficult to deal with.
If he didn't have 59 free points as his hole card, the three of them would really die under this magic.
His mind was spinning rapidly, looking for countermeasures.
This is the magic of the summoning system. To deal with this kind of magic, the best countermeasure is the dispel technique.
However, this is a level 4 magic, and the magic structure is very stable. If there is no dispelling technique above level 4, it will be useless to use it, but even if he can buy it with free points, he does not have enough magic power to use it. It is also useless to be able to release.
So Link immediately rejected the dispersal plan.
Then there is only the second way, hold the summoned object and kill the summoner.
Link thought of a plan.
'Purchase Auxiliary Magic: Might of Colossus! '
The strength of giants.
Level 3 Magic
Mana consumption: 60
Function: Greatly enhance the subject's strength, increasing its strength by 200% in a short period of time for 10 minutes.
Although this is a level 3 magic, because it is an auxiliary magic, it consumes relatively less mana. It only needs 60 points of mana. Link's current mana is 35 points (1 point recovered on the way). With 29 free points left, he did not hesitate to use the 29 free points to buy the upper limit of mana.
As a result, his mana became 64 points, just in time to release the power of a giant.
When the wand shined, it showed blood-red brilliance. The texture of this brilliance was also as viscous as blood, and it kept pouring into Yake's body.
Under the effect of magic, the muscles on Yake's body suddenly swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye. He was very strong at first, but at this time, his muscle lines seemed to be about to explode, and his skin was even more intense. Metallic luster.
At this time, he looks like cast iron, and people will think of those legendary ancient Titans with steel and iron bones.
"ah!!!!!!"
Yake felt the power of rolling in his body, and couldn't help roaring loudly. The roar was like thunder, rolling continuously in the valley.
Two seconds later, the blessing of the giant's power was completed, and Jake's eyes were glowing with magical blood. He felt a terrifying power churning in his body, which seemed to be able to destroy everything.
And at this moment, the crystal giant rushed up to the three of them and punched them.
This punch was very explosive, the air roared, and there was a continuous explosion sound. Before the punch arrived, the violent wind had already pressed the surrounding vegetation and fell down.
"ha!"
Yake desperately lifted the shield on top.
He himself possesses the fighting spirit of the peak level 3, and is born with great strength. At this time, he is blessed with magic, and his strength has been tripled. In terms of pure strength, he is already comparable to a level 5 human warrior.
'boom! With an extremely dull sound, the shield collided with the fist of the crystal giant, and then, there was a stalemate!
Yake tried his best, he clenched his teeth, the veins on his forehead burst out, his body trembled slightly, and his feet sank deeply into the mud of the mountains and forests. It can be seen that it was not easy for him to block this blow, but he finally Still blocked!
This is Link's chance.