"One, two, three... thirteen," Fang Plover adjusted the brass outer ring on his goggles and counted carefully in the wind and snow - as if he were counting ducks, not potential opponents, " …Excluding the alchemist, there are twelve more.”
A thousand meters away, the Clockwork Fairy was hovering steadily in the cold wind. Snowflakes fell on the visual communication crystal and melted. Fang Plover counted his opponents one by one before ordering them to get closer to them. But at this moment, in his field of vision, a man dressed as a magician raised his head in this direction.
It was like a flash of lightning flashed across Fang Pliant's mind, and he stopped suddenly. The clockwork fairy stopped abruptly in mid-air.
"What's wrong?" Sophie saw the change in his expression.
"interesting."
Fang Plover couldn't help but smile - Constructed Detection Spell. In the 22nd century, there are still people using this ancient spell. Although its advantages in global detection are obvious, its shortcomings are also hard to ignore.
The distance is too close.
It is still somewhat effective against combat craftsmen below level 20, but it is difficult to be effective against opponents with higher calculation power - after the 'War of Innovation', the real high-end magicians have begun to use the 'Omniscient Eye' to deal with combat. Artisans are everywhere with remote reconnaissance capabilities.
Although the method of finding opponents through vision is primitive, it is sometimes extremely effective. It just requires the magician to have very good spell control capabilities. Otherwise, once he is caught in a multi-line operation competition with the combat craftsman, it is basically like waiting for death.
After watching too many battles between masters, he didn't expect to encounter a truly retro style here.
"How are you going to deal with it?" Sophie asked from the side. She naturally has her own ideas in mind. After all, she is also the leader of the Silver Vislan Elite Youth Training Team, so her on-the-spot reaction will only be calmer and faster than Fang Plover's.
But after all, she is not in her own team when she comes here, and her current long-range investigation capabilities are all dependent on Fang Plover, and the information she has is far less than the other party - she will not draw conclusions easily before she has enough information. .
She glanced curiously at Sylvester, who was standing aside. This beautiful ship officer looked confident without saying a word, which made her wonder. Is this guy in front of her really so trustworthy?
Fang Plover did not answer immediately. He only glanced back. There was only a patch of wind and snow, but something seemed to attract his attention behind the wind and snow. He looked for a while before looking back.
Detect construct spells.
This is a quite targeted spell, almost designed specifically to deal with combat craftsmen. Although it is a bit outdated, it does not change its essence. He only glanced at the alchemist through the clockwork goblin's vision - the other party's intention and intended purpose were actually quite obvious.
But he still didn't give the order directly, and only asked: "Is Mr. Gray Rock still in the valley?"
Everyone else nodded.
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"What's wrong?" At the same time, Dark Fairy Tale was also asking the magician in the team - although the other party seemed a bit annoying to him.
Yinshi only glanced at the snowy wind, shook his head and replied: "Nothing."
The detection spell has a momentary response above the extreme distance, but beyond three hundred meters this spell is not as reliable as people think. Due to the disturbance of magic power, false alarms are common——
He didn't know that his actions had exposed his magic, but he didn't continuously capture the signal during the induction, so he subconsciously thought that this was also a false alarm.
Of course, out of caution, he still cast the 'Beyond Vision' spell in that direction - but after all, this spell was no better than the 'Omniscient Eye' of a high-level magician. The visual information returned was both short-lived and unstable, and only Then for a moment.
Just in time, he missed a golden light that was carefully hiding on the edge of the wind and snow.
Silverstone calmed down, carefully put away the spell, and then looked back to check his remaining mana. This is undoubtedly a good habit that an excellent magician must develop.
In Aitaria, learning to calculate mana is the first step to enter the field of professional magicians.
However, most of the spells here have no fixed consumption and are affected by the casting time, environment, ether distribution and confrontation attributes. Even the aboriginal magicians who have been immersed in it for many years may not be able to accurately grasp it, let alone them?
Therefore, for 'newcomers', learning to pay more attention to their magic furnace is the first priority.
Caution is the first step to becoming a magician.
"Are you a little nervous?"
The dark fairy looked at him with a half-smile.
Yinshi knew that the other party was laughing at him, but he only shook his head, "It's just that the magic power was too obvious, and it was a little distracting."
"Do you think that someone can escape the surveillance of detection spells, at our level?" The young ranger took off the longbow from his back and smiled: "Don't be suspicious and be careful to scare yourself, Silverstone."
"You never go too far wrong."
"Is this another proverb of your magicians?"
Silverstone clenched his fist and looked at this guy.
But privately, he himself felt that he was making a fuss out of a molehill. Indeed, he had learned a lot - being cautious does not mean being hesitant to move forward. He has already cast 'Beyond the Horizon' in that direction once. As a magician, he should learn to trust his own spells.
Could it be that there is a possible flexible structure that avoids the scope of his vision spell?
This thought flashed through Yinshi's mind, but he immediately felt a little unreasonable. How could this be possible? Unless the opponent knows where he will cast the spell, and knows his own detection habits, as well as the general range of the spell.
Both the front and back can be predicted, but how can outsiders know about my own investigative habits?
Only then did he feel relieved. He looked up and found that the others in front of him had already walked away with the young ranger. He couldn't help but secretly cursed these sycophants, and then he stepped up to catch up.
But before he got close, he heard someone shouting in the wind and snow: "Who is where!?"
That was the voice of the soldiers in the team.
Yinshi's heart tightened, and he stepped up his steps through the wind and snow, and happened to see the other party standing there, looking nervously in one direction. "What's going on?" he asked loudly.
The young ranger who returned from the front was also asking the same question: "What's wrong?"
"There are people in that place."
The soldier pointed into the wind and snow and said.
He had just seen a black-haired girl standing there, with a pair of golden pupils that stood out among the snowflakes in the sky, staring coldly in their direction. But with just a flash of his eye, the other party disappeared without a trace.
"people?"
Dark Fairy Tale looked in that direction, but there was only a vast expanse of white snowflakes there. "There was no one. Did you see it wrong?"
Within the range of vision and hearing, he was actually the person with the highest detection skills among the team. However, the system behind Feng Xue did not outline a trace of red light. Of course, he could tell that there was no one hiding there.
"Really," the soldier said loudly, "she is a very good-looking woman. She looks about seventeen or eighteen years old. She is wearing a long black skirt."
"A long black skirt?" Dark Fairy Tale said angrily: "Are you crazy about women? The only result of wearing a skirt in this weather is to freeze into a popsicle."
"But really..." The other party was a little aggrieved.
Dark Fairy Tale then gave Yinshi a look.
Although the two were not on good terms, they were in a team after all. Yin Shi understood this in his heart. He checked his mana reserves before throwing a 'Transcendence Horizon' behind the wind and snow in that direction.
But the information returned was unremarkable, nothing.
He turned around and shook his head at the ranger.
"Okay," Dark Fairy Tale patted the warrior on the shoulder: "You may have seen it, but it may be just an illusion, but we can't stop waiting for your dream lover - you can be more vigilant, if you continue How about if Gao tells us what he sees?"
The soldier had no choice but to nod.
Dark Fairy Tale then turned around and said to the alchemist on the side: "Is the Belbogo Valley ahead?"
The alchemist nodded quickly: "Yes, the dark boss."
"Take us there."
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Fang Plover is taking back the clockwork fairy.
If he knew what Silver Stone was thinking at this moment, he might be kind enough to tell the other party - the reconnaissance habits are indeed unpredictable, but - there is a certain method on how to achieve the maximum field of view effect of this type of long-range vision spell.
If you are detecting sky targets, the best way is undoubtedly to expand your vision from bottom to top. This is one of the classic tutorials of magicians. Its inventor is unknown, and it is likely to be thousands of aboriginal magicians. one of them.
It is also one of the remote vision abilities, but the operation method of Clockwork Fairy is also similar.
People's subconscious choices tend to favor the method with the greatest benefits, so habits are actually not that reliable unless someone specifically wants to do the opposite.
It is not impossible for masters to compete with each other and use reverse thinking, but the premise is that they realize that the enemy is near them - otherwise, wouldn't they be limiting their own scope of investigation?
Of course, weird things do not exist. For example, Box often likes to perform some completely meaningless technical moves unexpectedly, but Fang Plover believes that such weird things are in the minority after all.
And there was already one in his team. If he met another one, he would have to admit that he was unlucky.
Fortunately, it turned out that his prediction was completely accurate. When the clockwork goblin passed under the edge of the opponent's field of vision, the magician obviously didn't notice it.
He held the copper ball that flew back with a click, and then said to the others:
"hold on."
"hold on?"
Sophie was obviously stunned.
She couldn't think of anything to wait for? The opponent obviously came with bad intentions, and they were obviously not strict knight spokesmen. They had to wait for the opponent to take action first before taking action to defeat the enemy.
In the current situation, the best option is of course to strike first. It is best if the opponent doesn't even see the attacker clearly and kills them in one fell swoop.
Don't doubt the self-confidence of the leader of the Silver Vislan Elite Youth Training Team. She has never considered the possibility of losing when facing such an opponent. If this was in her own team, she would have He ordered a direct attack.
Silver Vislan's frontal charge is just a silhouette left before the opponent's death. They will launch a frontal attack, but when to launch the attack, the party with the initiative has the final say.
And Silver Vislan always takes the initiative——
But after all, Her Royal Highness the Princess is also very smart. When she saw Fang Plover's expression, she suddenly came to her senses. Thinking of the other person's previous action of looking back, a thought flashed through my mind:
"Is there someone behind you?"
Fang Plover only nodded slightly.
He looked up——
The wind was blowing in the valley, and the cold wind blew through the dark rocks like a knife, rolling up clouds of snowflakes. On the airship platform, the maid was using metal gloves to smooth away the snow on the side of the ship.
She suddenly turned around and looked in one direction.
"Someone is coming." Baggins' voice was a little leaky - the old sailor tilted his neck and took a sip of wine to warm himself up in this damn weather. He also squinted his eyes and looked ahead, and the cold wind made his coat rustle.
He threw away the empty wine bottle in his hand - as if to confirm his words, a group of people were walking out of the snowy wind, led by the alchemist and the dark fairy tale.
Although Dark Fairy had long heard that the other party had a huge beast of burden, when they walked through the wind and snow and saw Mr. Gray Rock for the first time, the huge platform swinging on his back, and the air bag above, everyone still I couldn't help but squint my eyes subconsciously.
"so big……"
This is the common thought in everyone's mind at 'RO'.
It's not like they haven't seen the world before. The larger aerospace ship 'Ragnarok' also has more than one - and this doesn't count the main guild of the second world, 'RO's' flagship ice sea longship 'Nagilfa' The ship is second only to the Elite 'Blue Fire' in the domestic Chosen Alliance.
But people always have a psychological expectation in their hearts. Since the other party has been set up as a free adventure group in advance, just like Sophie, when they first saw Mr. Gray Rock and the platform on his back, they still couldn't bear it. He was stunned for a moment.
As a property of the Free Adventure Group, this beast of burden and the platform are really huge.
The young rangers were also stunned for a moment. They did not expect that they would hit the target so directly. Of course, this was also because the weather suddenly became bad and the wind and snow obscured their perception.
Silverstone cast a construct detection spell, not a living body perception, so he let them pass through the wind and snow and bump into the motionless Mr. Gray Rock who was parked in the valley.
After all, given their level, it is difficult for their investigative skills to reach a supernatural level, as they are heavily influenced by the surrounding environment.
He glanced at the platform. Since the lumberjacks were all gathered in the leeward area on the other side of the valley, no one could be seen below. He turned around and was about to signal the people behind him to stop.
It was at this time that he suddenly stopped and turned around again. He happened to see two figures stumbling out of the wind and snow on the other side of the huge beast of burden.
One of the two people was a young man holding a magic wand, wearing a tattered gray cloth robe, his hands were blue from the cold, but the other hand was holding a man who was also walking in the ice and snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow. little girl.
The latter was only five or six years old, wearing a black fur coat and long black hair, but what was particularly eye-catching was his pair of light golden eyes.
Her face turned red from the cold and she said nothing, only holding the young man's hand tightly.
The two of them probably didn't expect that there was someone in front of them, so they stopped suddenly.
Only then did the young man see clearly the attire of the group in front of him and the emblem pinned to their collars. His already dark complexion couldn't help but darken even more. He almost squeezed out a few words through his teeth:
"You are Ragnarok's people..."
Dark Fairy Tale was also stunned.
The moment he saw the young man and the little girl, he completely forgot about the platform next to him and the miscellaneous things the alchemist had entrusted to him. His face suddenly showed a half-smile look, and he said a little funny:
"Looks like we got lucky today."
He spread his hands.
The people behind him all looked incredulously and looked at each other.
"It takes no effort at all."
Dark Fairy Tale then said to the young man: "Friends, we are all chosen ones. Everyone fails in their mission. Please hand her over -" He looked at the little girl behind the young man.
The little girl also glanced at them, but she didn't look afraid at all. She just looked at the young man silently: "Wumian..." Her voice was crisp and a little small. The young man just shook her hand to reassure her.
At this time, there was a rustling sound in the wind and snow.
The little girl turned around and saw a swordsman walking out of the snow behind him.
"Wumian, why did you stop?" The swordsman patted the snowflakes on his body and said loudly: "The city guards are catching up soon -" He suddenly stopped and looked at Dark Fairy Tale and the others in shock.
"they are……?"
"The people from Ragnarok came to see us."
The swordsman opened his mouth wide, with a look of despair on his face: "Isn't that right? Ragnarok's people are here too, just to deal with us...?" His expression was exaggerated, but privately he quickly exchanged a word with the young man. wink.
The swordsman subconsciously took a step back, as if to escape, but suddenly with a hidden movement, he threw the long sword in his hand towards the dark fairy tale, and at the same time, he lunged forward and shouted: "No Crown!"
The young man understood this and raised the magic wand in his hand, ready to cast spells on the Dark Fairy Tale and his group.
But before he could complete the spell, a calm voice sounded in his ears: "Counter spell——"
I saw a young man in the same magician's attire from the opponent's team in front of me pointed at him, and the etheric power that had not yet been gathered on the magic wand in his hand dissipated instantly.
The young man seemed to have received a heavy blow on his chest. He couldn't help coughing and leaned back. He heard the little girl's exclamation in his ears:
"No crown...!"
In his shaking vision at the next moment, he could only see the young man raising his magic wand and slamming it on the ground. Suddenly the ground shook, and a giant hand formed from under the snow and punched him. Fly out.
It was a huge luminous magic circle, and a tall ice and snow giant was slowly standing up from the magic circle.
"Ice Puppet..."
"Such a fast casting speed..."
The young man fell heavily into the snow, and then he realized that his opponent's spell level and level were much higher than his own. He looked to the side feebly, and sure enough, he saw Dark Fairy Tale just turning sideways to avoid the sword thrown by the swordsman, then he pulled out the dagger with his backhand and stabbed his companion in the lower abdomen.
The swordsman screamed and fell to his knees.
He covered the wound and gasped in pain: "Intuitive dodge..."
"You guessed it right," Dark Fairy Tale replied, "But if you move so slowly, it doesn't matter whether you use intuitive dodge or not."
The swordsman couldn't help but give him a middle finger with his bloody hand.
However, Dark Fairy Tale didn't care at all. He had seen such scenes many times. He patted the swordsman on the shoulder: "Go to Mirela's temple to report. It's quite far away from here."
Then he turned around and ordered to the others: "Go and bring the little girl here."
The young man struggled in the snow, but the ice puppet suppressed him tightly, making him unable to move at all. The magic wand fell far away, several feet away from him.
He could only watch helplessly as those people walked towards the little girl.
And it was at this time.
A square empty wine bottle fell from mid-air, landing right at the feet of the dark fairy tale, and suddenly fell into the snow.
The latter was slightly startled when he saw this, and couldn't help but look up. He happened to see a maid on the platform there looking at him coldly. She was stretching her hand behind her when a soft 'click' sound came from there——
The little girl opened her mouth slightly and looked at this scene.
"Sister Siesta?"
In the wind and snow, she shouted loudly.
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