At this time, the wife of the deceased, who had exposed the characteristics of the rat-man, was still making a shrill scream without knowing it.
Slowly, her cry began to approach the chirping of a mouse, sharp and short, which made people feel panicked.
But under everyone's horrified looks, the rat man seemed to realize something. He touched his face with a hint of disbelief and screamed at a high decibel level.
"I didn't kill him, I really didn't kill him." It seemed to be explaining, "I don't know why I became like this?"
"You actually exposed yourself?" White Dragon Cyrus didn't expect that the opponent would reveal his true form just after such contact.
Zhao Xu, on the other hand, looked at all this with indifference without the slightest sympathy. He said in a slight but loud tone, "The lycanthrope can transform into a beast-headed human body, which is a half-human, half-rat hybrid form. Or fully animal form.”
"But only natural lycanthropes, or infected lycanthropes like you who realize they have been infected, can transform into two forms at the same time."
"And panic or anger will prompt the lycanthrope to transform unconsciously."
Everyone who was watching the show was shocked after hearing this, because the opponent had completely transformed from a half-human, half-mouse form into a "mouse" the size of a big boar, and his original clothes were instantly torn.
"Catch it!"
When he saw the ferocious rat kicking its legs to escape, the captain of the patrol team shouted on the spot.
For a cooked duck, he will naturally not let the other party run away.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Xu slowly took off his gloves and prepared to clean them up.
It's not like the riots of mature dragons like Cyrus beside him. It's just a ferocious rat. Every year, the patrol team in the town doesn't know how many rats they have to strangle.
Ratmen can be said to be the lowest level existence in the lycanthropy sequence. Whether it is its complete "dire rat" form or its hybrid form "half-man, half-rat", they are just scum with a challenge level of level 2.
The "rat man" template is applied to professionals, which is only "+3" level, which is much inferior to "+8" level vampires.
As expected, when we first saw half-man and half-rat, everyone was hesitant to approach them because they had not had much contact with them. Now we officially saw that they were ferocious rats that are not uncommon in the countryside. Even adventurers without weapons, I Just get on the bench.
After a few rounds, the ferocious rat was suppressed by everyone. After a heavy punch, it was already dying and lost all its ability to move.
"Take him back and torture him."
At this time, the captain said energetically, "Let's see why she killed her husband. Let's see if there are any accomplices of hers in Falling Star Town."
At this time, the captain seemed to see a big achievement in front of him.
He immediately showed a flattering expression and was about to turn around and invite Zhao Xu to go with him.
But in the next moment, his body that had not yet fully turned was ejected directly, as if he was hit by an air cannon in the front, and hit the table beside him so hard that all the bones in his body almost fell apart.
"team leader!"
Suddenly the team members exclaimed.
They immediately noticed that where their captain was standing just now, the smoke and dust that filled the air after the impact had not completely dissipated.
And there was already another rat-man in hybrid form, which was thicker and larger.
What's more important is that this rat man is fully armed from top to bottom. The thin sword on his waist even shines with the light of magic. The scales on his body are also exquisitely forged and of high quality.
"careful."
"It's the culprit!"
"Surround it."
For a while, there were screams one after another. Unless the descendants of beast-turned-human beings were born, there would be no beast-turned-human beings in the world for no reason.
So everyone realized in an instant that this lycanthrope was probably the source of infection for the husband-killer just now.
Several bold warriors and barbarian players also immediately rushed forward with swords in their hands.
In Arthur, those who are not afraid of death are at the forefront, apart from the demons and demons who can be resurrected, they have to be their players.
It's just that these players didn't even make it for one or two rounds before they all retreated with injuries.
There were flashes of swords and swords, and the holes pierced by the rapiers remained on the simple armors of these players.
"It's a tough one!"
A warrior player vomiting blood shouted, "The opponent must be a professional. With the added rat-man status, he may not be above level 10. Please be careful."
"President, shall I go up?" Vivian was leaning forward, asking Zhao Xu for instructions.
At this time, Vivian was already holding the Holy Avenger in front of Zhao Xu, guarding against possible attacks from all around.
The powerful rat man who was attacking glanced at everyone present in the tavern and muttered to himself: "They are all a bunch of trash."
A patrol member who was knocked to the ground looked at the rapier wound on his body and cried loudly: "Isn't it possible that I am infected?"
Immediately afterwards, he began to cry miserably, and after Zhao Xu listened, he wanted to explain to him that there was no possibility of contracting lycanthropy without direct contact injuries such as bites.
However, the barbarian player Nu Lang, who had just started berserk and wanted to pull Zhao Xu away, did not participate in the initial capture process.
At this moment, seeing this new rat-man strongman suddenly appearing, he was ready to make a move.
After Nu Lang glanced at his fellow druid below, he noticed that the other party waved his hand to signal him to calm down, but he himself shook his head.
Then the barbarian angrily unwrapped his lower back and prepared to take out his weapons and trump card.
Zhao Xu, who was at the rear, waited for several rounds and determined that except for the barbarian who still had a chance, the remaining locals, even if they still had fighting ability, had been defeated by the strong rat man's ability to kill with one hit. I was so frightened that I didn't dare to move forward at all.
He shook his head and said to Vivian, who was still preparing for a fight, "Please help tie up these two rat men."
The companion of Nu Lang, the female Druid Hong Maple Leaf, was also lurking behind Zhao Xu at this time. It seemed a little strange to hear his inconsistent words.
The Rat Man hadn't even been defeated yet, so the matter of binding was discussed.
However, the next moment.
Zhao Xu gently raised his hand, opened his palm to the extremely fierce rat man from afar, and said, "Secondary strong acid ball."
In an instant, two six-centimeter "acid balls" appeared on Zhao Xu's open palm.
After they condensed and formed, they aimed at the strong rat man and shot away.
Like a flash of sparks, the rat man didn't know what the two acid balls in front of him were, but he still tried his best to dodge them.
It's just that the accuracy of their hits was exerted by Zhao Xu's fighting consciousness. With Zhao Xu's top-notch attack ability, their trajectories were extremely tricky and difficult to guard against.
They just penetrated the rat man's body through the armor.
With screams all over his body, the originally high-spirited rat man fell down instantly.
Then Vivian came close to her and took out the hemp rope to tie her up.
"What kind of spell is this?" Player Nu Lang couldn't help but sigh.
If just a random spell was so powerful, the door of the Mage Association would have been broken down by the players long ago.
"Secondary strong acid ball, a first-level spell." Zhao Xu said softly without further explanation.
Seeing everyone who had recovered from their emotions, he turned around and walked back to his room, as if he didn't care at all about the subsequent settlement of meritorious deeds.
"What kind of spell is that, so powerful?" For a moment, the rest of the people present slowly came to their senses.
A ratman who knocked down more than ten people, and even a patrol team, actually fell to a first-level spell like this? If it's a fourth-level spell, then they can accept it.
The crux of the matter is that what the other party said is only one part of the story!
A first-level spell that can be cast by a low-level to level 1 mage.
At this time, the druid Hong Maple Leaf, who had been silent, silently walked to the rat man who fell to the ground and passed out, observing the huge acid burn wound on its chest.
"The secondary acid ball is the legendary 'ball series' spell. It is not a core spell, but it is extremely famous for its powerful combat power. It can be said that many powerful mages have used the ball series spells to stack up unimaginable damage. "Druid Hong Maple Leaf explained.
"Is it very high?" The barbarian Nu Lang was still looking at the direction where Zhao Xu's figure disappeared in surprise, and thought to himself, pretending to run away, quite like forcing the king.
"No." Druid Hong Maple Leaf explained, "Compared to the 4-level enhanced version of the 'Acid Ball' spell, the damage of these secondary balls is not high."
"For example, the one the opponent just cast only does 1-8 damage at level 1. Every two caster levels increase the damage by 1-8, until it reaches a maximum of 5-40 damage (5D8) at level 9."
Although the barbarian player didn't understand spells, he still knew the basic damage. He couldn't help complaining: "Although level 9 is still passable, it's too bad at this early stage."
Druid Hong Maple Leaf shook his head, "The key point is that this spell ignores saving throws and resistance. It only considers long-range contact, that is, it takes damage when it hits. The key is, how did the mage just rely on this very ordinary damage range to directly Knocked down a nearly level 10 rat-man warrior."
Not only the red maple leaves were spoken, but everyone present fell into deep thought.
"Butler, who is this mage just now?" the team leader asked on the spot.
"This?" The butler who had just been frightened to death suddenly looked hesitant, as if he was hesitant to speak.
"What do you have to hide?" the team leader said angrily on the spot: "A really big shot just passed through the border overnight. I will take care of your place until you die."
After hearing these threatening words, the steward thought awkwardly for a while and then said, "Sir, this mage is the master of the land next door."
"In other words, he is our nominal lord in this land."
Suddenly a player who had recently returned to the game was a little confused, "What do you mean? What kind of riddle is this."
His companion pushed his arm angrily and said, "Keep your voice down. The opponent is our number one player, the Great God Zhongxia."
"The lord of Falling Star Town and the president of the Mage Association."
"I go!"
(End of chapter)