At this time—that is, the 6th year of Elon’s calendar, the fighting methods that Francis learned were all "routines" inherited from his master. In this era, because of the scarcity of legal professions and the dignity of the "element master", very few people are willing to clash with the "element master".
As for Francis, who is the Earl, he has not experienced many "all-out" battles. In the past, the training had always been "point to point", so now that this battle has been fought until now, although his response is qualified, in Roddy's eyes, it is not "excellent" at all.
Crazy, this is Roddy's evaluation of Francis.
No matter how fast the spellcasting speed is or how powerful the spell is, a nerd is a nerd—for a ranger who has fought on the battlefield for several years and is familiar with almost all professions and skills, Francis can only bluff Those guys who don't have much experience at all.
In a battle of the highest level, any flaw may lead to death, and in Roddy's eyes, Francis' response at this time is completely "full of flaws"—but from another perspective, this is what Roddy had long ago. The result of the calculation.
The reason why Francis was at a loss was entirely because Rody knew clearly where the limitations of the "Elementalist" skills were, so he had long planned to select the place where this battle broke out in this dark and complicated forest.
Of course, "calculating" in such a complicated event itself has great uncertainty. For example, Rody can choose to shoot Francis directly in the square, or he can choose to kill Francis directly at the city gate on his way to chase Sally - but those are not Rody's priorities...
Sniping an earl in the city square will not benefit the Luciferon family at all, and may even cause even greater disturbances. From any point of view, the quieter Francis dies, the more benefits Rody can get...Adhering to this principle, Roddy had ambushed Suo Deluoer and others in this forest early on. The only thing is to be able to destroy corpses and wipe out traces here
And now, although the plan was somewhat deviated, resulting in a one-on-one situation between himself and Francis, for Roddy, there was really no suspense in such a battle.
Seeing that Francis hid behind the tree as if regaining his confidence, Rody sneered, and took two light steps back. Although there were some noises of fallen leaves and weeds, it did not arouse Francis' vigilance at all... because the "element sentry "The furthest detection range is at a distance of 50 meters, and the current position of Rody's station is 53 meters away from Francis.
"Do you really think that the element sentry has no angle coverage... It's not good to be lazy when learning skills."
Rody drew out a long arrow, slowly and silently nailed it into the tree in front of him, then casually took off his cloak that had been torn off by the ice pick just now, and put his hand on the arrow—because he was behind the tree trunk. , so Francis couldn't see what he was doing at all.
After hanging up the cloak, Rody glanced at Francis, who was not moving in the distance, and felt like he was fighting against players from the opposing faction in the woods...
Francis' spells are powerful, and "Elemental Sentry" is an excellent skill for mastering the first attack, so in his eyes, Rody's appearance is equal to "weakness".
Under the complex woodland conditions, fifty meters is already the limit of the shooting distance, and even if Rody can really shoot himself at such a long distance, the ice shield can block such damage, and at the same time he can confirm that Roddy Dee's position, and give a counterattack
As a result, Francis thinks he has the chance to win. However, he overlooked a problem—although the detection range of the "Elemental Sentry" is very large, there is always a blind spot for detection: above.
So when Rody climbed up the tree without a sound and slowly approached Francis' head, the elementalist who was holding a wand and waiting for Rody to appear was still nervous and concentrated all his energy on " On the feedback from the "Elemental Sentinel", he didn't notice any movement mixed with the chirping of insects and birds above his head.
Time passed quietly like this, and four or five minutes later, Roddy was already close to Francis—at this time, he was fifteen meters away from the ground. If he directly attacked, he would be as close as the opponent after landing. to a distance of ten meters.
This is the limit of the warning range of Francis' own senses.
After stopping his figure, Rody, who used the "Concealment Technique" to hide his figure, looked down at the tree where Francis was hiding, and then turned his head to look at the arrow that he had just hung his cloak on - the angle he was at at this time, Just enough to see a section of arrow tail.
Hope it works once.
He muttered a sentence in his heart, and then raised the short bow in his hand, drew out two arrows, and shot them into the distance quickly one after another...
This short bow from the "Rose Cross" is of excellent quality. Even when the bow is drawn to the full moon, there is not much vibration or noise. At this time, just to be on the safe side, Rody only drew the arrow a third of the way before shooting the arrow. The arrows, so the noise of the bowstring cutting through the air, Francis had no way of noticing.
Two arrows with little power flew out, the first one landed on the edge of the "Elemental Sentinel"'s investigation, and the second one just hit the tail of the arrow with the cloak...
And in the senses of Francis below, when the first arrow landed, he reacted violently—with one step, he jumped out from behind the tree, and the "fireball technique" in his hand originally had a lot of power. He was a little hesitant, but when he saw the corner of the cloak dangling behind the tree, he immediately "confirmed" Rody's position, and cast out
"boom-"
Francis looked grimly at the flames that exploded in the distance. When the fragments of the cloak that were torn apart flashed past his vision, he couldn't help but feel happy...that guy was killed
But before the joyful mood could fully emerge from the bottom of his heart, a "click" sound behind him made him turn his head in astonishment.
A long arrow hit his ice shield at a vertical angle for the second time, shooting out a large white crack mark
Oops
Francis, who thought he was attacked from behind, was just about to wave his hand to restore the "Ice Shield", but when he looked through the shield and looked into the distance, he was horrified to find a figure had already jumped from the tree, straight in front of himself
Two flickering scimitars slashed at the shield in front of Francis with lightning speed.
"Crack-sip"
Rody's first knife made a pit directly along the hole nailed by the arrow, and the second knife directly disintegrated the egg-shaped shield. After taking a sharp step back, I am afraid that his head is already in a different place at this time.
This was the first time the two faced each other at close quarters, but Francis never thought that Rody would launch an attack in such an unpredictable way. In desperation, he immediately turned the scroll he had been holding in his hand upwards to pour magic energy into it. Instantly shouted the activation spell: "Frost Nova"
Rody's reaction was much faster than his. Originally, he could have swung the knife for the third time and continued to attack Francis, but when he saw the blue scroll in Francis' hand, he decided to retreat in the blink of an eye. Before Francis finished chanting the spell "Frost Nova", Roddy even released the professional skill of "Witcher"—
"jump"
A powerful force suddenly filled his legs, Roddy gritted his teeth and kicked, his body accelerated and retreated, and jumped four meters away in an instant—and counting the steps back before, he was already standing eight feet away from Francis. at a position of about meters.
But immediately Rody stopped in his tracks, and watched "Frost Nova" sweeping away from the scroll in Francis' hands...
"brush"
White frost streaks spread from around Francis' body, and the extremely cold force even shattered the flowers, plants and trees on the ground. And after casting this spell, Francis' originally astonished expression turned into a smirk—in his opinion, this first-level "Frost Nova" can definitely freeze Roddy into ice, and even if he can resist the severe cold , the Cone of Ice technique that I cast later will definitely be able to directly shoot him to death
But this expression froze on his face afterward.
Rody stood like that holding the scimitar, the cold air from the frost swept towards him, but dissipated only ten centimeters away from him, losing its original power...
The Frost Nova, whose spell range was only meters, was cast in vain.
And at the moment when the spell ended, Rody had already charged towards him with a scimitar in his hand
"this-"
The horror in his heart could no longer be concealed, Francis hurriedly wanted to release the shield again, but just before he arrived and raised his wand, Roddy's scimitar was already in the nick of time, Francis was quick to think, and directly raised his wand to block it forward, exhausted almost all the magic power to freeze the wand into a big "icicle"...
"click"
The wand that was frozen into a popsicle was directly cut into two pieces, but Francis used this to roll out to the side—but this kind of dodge was futile after all, his martial skills were not worth mentioning in front of Roddy, and the "Shadow Dance" was performed. Later, under the dim light, Francis was caught up by Rody before he could even cast the second spell, and the scimitar cut off his arm mercilessly...
"puff-"
Blood splattered out, and Rody followed up with a kick that directly kicked Francis in the back of the heart. The huge force made him rush out, hit the tree with a "boom", and then rolled to the ground.
"My hand... ah-"
The pain was transmitted to his mind at this time, Francis screamed, he looked at his arm that was broken at the elbow, and before he could continue shouting, he saw the shadow of the scimitar flashing again...
The tendons in the left ankle were severed.
The heart-piercing pain almost drove Francis completely crazy. He shouted "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Killing someone, and killing a traitor who is destined for the future, this kind of behavior will not make Rody, who has adapted to this world, feel any discomfort at all, but the reason why he didn't cut off Francis' head now is because he still has words to say.
"Come on, look at me, stop shouting."
His voice was very calm, "Ah!" Francis screamed in pain and burst into tears, but at this time there was no room for resistance at all. His body rolled violently and wanted to escape, but before turning over, a machete Then "duh" it was inserted into the side of his face.
The blade was pressed against Francis' face, and there was still blood on the cold blade.
Francis' yelling stopped abruptly, but changed to "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I can promise anything not to..."
"Okay, answer me a few questions, I won't kill you."
Rody bent down and looked at the pale count, "Hurry up, or I won't be able to save you if you bleed too much."
He showed a harmless smile, and half of his face was reflected in the orange flame brought by the fireball technique, which was very strange.