Noon, outside Delan City.
Near the exit of the Truth Society branch base, in the vast wilderness.
Under the sunlight, two figures appeared, one was Richard and the other was Rommel in a gorgeous golden robe.
"Director Rommel." Richard looked at Rommel and bowed his head slightly, greeting him politely.
"Wizard Richard." Rommel looked at it and nodded in response.
Just as Richard was about to say something else, Rommel said: "If there are no problems, let's start directly."
"Huh?" Richard was stunned for a moment, not expecting Rommel to be so straightforward. I thought that before the fight, I would have to exchange a few words, but I didn't expect that the fight would start when they met.
Seeing Richard's expression, Rommel said: "Maybe under normal circumstances, we should say something. But I believe that no matter what we say, it will not have any meaning until the result of our fight is known.
In my opinion, as long as you are not aware of your limitations, you will persist. In this case, let's wait until you have a complete understanding before communicating. "
After a pause, Rommel said: "Wizard Richard, take action. Considering the difference in strength, I can let you take the initiative first."
After hearing Rommel's words, Richard opened his mouth and swallowed back the polite words he intended to say. He looked at Rommel with a serious expression and said, "In this case, Director Rommel, I won't be polite."
"Yeah." Rommel nodded.
"Snapped!"
Rommel nodded and ended, Richard stepped heavily on the ground, the surrounding ground sank downwards, and his body rose rapidly. Then, in Rommel's slightly surprised eyes, he flew straight into the distance without looking back.
Richard flew towards the due south - the position of the noon sun. Under the cover of the dazzling sunlight, he burst out at an astonishing speed and flew farther and farther, turning into a black spot and disappearing in less than a moment.
Rommel stood there. After Richard disappeared, he still squinted in the direction of the sun. He kept this action for more than ten seconds, not noticing any movement at all, and could not help but show a hesitant expression on his face.
After more than ten seconds, he still didn't detect any movement. The hesitation on Rommel's face turned into suspicion, and he guessed a little uncertainly: "Is this an escape?"
Run away as soon as they meet? Run away before a fight
This was a bit inconsistent with his guess about Richard, but everything in front of him did indeed prove it.
"You're not really running away, are you?" Rommel frowned, "Or..."
Just as he was mid-sentence, Rommel's ears moved and he heard a faint whistling sound. When he raised his head, golden light flashed in his eyes, blocking most of the sunlight, and he locked onto the five black spots flying in the sky due south.
The black spot flew extremely fast, reaching a few hundred meters away from him in the blink of an eye. He could see clearly that they were five slender arrow-like objects with magic patterns carved on their surfaces. They were obviously magic props for attack.
After seeing clearly, Rommel's expression returned to normal and he no longer had doubts: Sure enough, Richard was not running away, he was just keeping a distance. This is also a routine operation in battles between wizards.
The only difference was that the distance Richard opened was a little too far.
How many meters away is Richard now
Three thousand meters? Four thousand meters? Or five thousand meters
If Richard's strength is high enough, six thousand meters is not impossible.
To be honest, such a long distance is indeed a bit exaggerated, far exceeding the casting distance of ordinary wizards. In fact, at this distance, he was unable to accurately target and attack—unless he borrowed a god-given item.
And how did Richard manage to lock his position and launch an attack from such a long distance
It seems that Richard really has some tricks up his sleeve, that's why he is so confident. But that's it.
Rommel thought of this, and his eyes fell on the five magic pattern arrows flying towards him.
He clearly saw that after the five magic pattern arrows reached a position a hundred meters in front of him, their speed surged, and they struck in front of him almost like lightning, followed by a violent explosion.
"Boom boom boom!"
"Stab it!"
Rommel slashed out one hand and separated the explosion's flames from the middle, allowing the power of the explosion to pass over his body without injuring him at all.
"The attack speed is pretty good and the distance is far enough, but... the power is too low and there is no threat." After Rommel dealt with the first wave of attacks, he commented lightly, then looked at the sky and tried to search Richard's position.
…
Fifteen thousand meters away, in the clouds in the sky.
Richard's eyes revealed a faint blue light, and his gazing eyes were operating at full strength. He used the perspective function to simplify the entire world, turning everything in the world into lines and planes.
Through this abstract vision ability, he was able to see extremely vaguely that Rommel, fifteen thousand meters away, was almost unaffected after being attacked by a miniature spell-seeking missile - the lines representing the opponent remained unchanged.
This was in line with his expectations. After all, given Rommel's strength, it would be strange for him to be injured by a micro-spell-seeking missile. Micro-spell-seeking missiles tend to attack in a range, which is fine against weak targets, but it is not good enough to deal with a fourth-level wizard, or even Rommel, who is stronger than an ordinary fourth-level wizard.
But it doesn't matter, this is just the beginning.
Richard turned his hand, and a new miniature spell-seeking missile appeared in his hand.
Compared with the ones released before, this time the miniature spell-seeking missile is more slender and is an improved model.
With a straightened expression, Richard used free energy elements to quickly activate the micro-spell tracking missile, and then released it.
After that, he quickly converged the blue light in his eyes, stopped the operation of the gazing eye, and turned to use other spells to enhance perception for observation - although the gazing eye is powerful, the more things that are seen through and the farther the distance, the higher the consumption. Even now, he cannot use it at any time and can only use it in compartments. Then, on the premise of locking the target, use other spells to track the lock and lower the average consumption.
Now is just the beginning, everything must be considered in place.
Richard thought about it, flipped his hand and took out a second improved model of miniature spell-seeking missile, quickly activated it and released it.
Then the third one.
…
"call out!"
Rommel searched the sky for a long time, but could not find Richard's exact location. He couldn't help but frown, and suddenly heard the whistling sound again. As soon as he looked up, he saw the flying miniature spell-seeking missile, and his eyes couldn't help but flash.
"Huh? There is only one magic pattern arrow this time? Is this the only one left, or is there something weird about this one?"
Rommel looked at the individual micro-spell-tracking missiles, increased his vigilance, watched the opponent fly to a hundred meters, and raised his hand to destroy it. Who knows, before he could take action, the miniature spell-seeking missile seemed to have malfunctioned. A red light flashed on its surface, and it exploded with a "bang".
Yes, it exploded. Not explode, but blow apart.
No flames were produced, just slender miniature spell-seeking missiles exploded into hundreds of tiny fragments, flying in all directions and landing on the surrounding ground.