When facing an opponent with an overwhelming heavyweight advantage, how do you win if you don't have the strength and physique to compete?
If you ask this question to people who have seen some adventures and think they know a lot about combat, they will probably describe how to win by accurately hitting the opponent's weakness through dodge skills and dexterity advantages - and they must be able to do it easily. It was achieved like flowing clouds and flowing water.
Ignoring the last part, the previous description of how lightweight fighters deal with heavy opponents is indeed correct in terms of ideas.
The most important thing about Xiao Bo Da is to avoid one's own weaknesses - that is, the head-on conflict where physical strength and strength determine success or failure, and choose to defeat the enemy with agility and speed. In the minds of these armchair warriors, this battle will always unfold like this: a nimble, lightly-armed warrior easily dodges the attacks of an enemy wearing heavy armor and using heavy weapons, and knocks down the opponent romantically and handsomely.
But if you consult a veteran or experienced adventurer with actual combat experience, then he will probably give you a not-so-romantic answer:
"Get some helpers, or just don't fight him, turn around and run away."
The advantage of heavyweight is fatal.
A strong physique means that you can withstand more damage, which means that the opponent can continue to fight after suffering an attack that is fatal to others - this leads to you misjudging the effect of the attack, thinking that this attack is completely OK. A mistake occurred when he was knocked down, and the result was death.
And strong arms mean that longer and heavier weapons can be used, which increases the attack distance and the power of one blow is extremely deadly. Even if the speed is indeed slightly slower than that of dexterous light-armored warriors, the strong combat power of being either killed or injured when hit is more than enough to make up for it.
The opponent can withstand multiple attacks and can use longer weapons because of its strength. And as long as you are hit once, it will at best be seriously injured. Even if you really go through all the trouble to dodge the attack and get close to the range where you can attack, this blow may not be able to knock down the opponent. Finally, you are already close to this distance. If this blow is not fatal, you will not have a second chance.
The conditions for victory are extremely demanding.
In order to make up for the huge gap in innate conditions such as physique, you can only gain advantages in acquired conditions such as skills or weapons and equipment that can fill this gap.
But the most disappointing thing is that these acquired advantages can also be obtained by the opponent.
So you have to play smart.
"Tap tap tap -" The firelight swaying in a circle, Henry held Claymore in one hand and approached the monster at high speed, and then mercilessly landed a sword on its forehead.
"Bang!" Almost from the moment the sage drew his sword to distance himself, the wound began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Sure enough." Henry had some reservations about this attack. The experimental significance was greater than the actual damage. Although more of the epidermis heals and the bones underneath heal slightly slower, this astonishing recovery speed makes most normal attacks ineffective.
The monster began to twist and fight back. With its ten-ton body placed there, even Henry would not take the risk of blocking its attack head-on.
The sage had no choice but to start to dodge, and Ling and others who were staying behind noticed his predicament. After observing for a while, they gathered together and whispered something, then grabbed all the remaining arrows and took a long way around from the other side. Get close to this monster too.
"Huh——" "Chu——" The leather boots crushed the grass on the ground. The sage's eyes glowed blue, and he changed his hand from one hand to holding it tightly with both hands, keeping the tip of the sword pointed at the monster.
It possesses a certain degree of intelligence, as can be seen from what has happened before. Therefore, it was able to realize that the Claymore in Henry's hands could cause a lot of damage to itself, which gave the monster rare caution. It was wary of Claymore's next attack, so when the sage pointed his sword at When it does, it will subconsciously start to move back and distance itself.
On the one hand, this vigilance and caution gave Henry a chance to breathe - although he didn't really need it - but on the other hand, it also made it difficult for him to get close to the monster.
He leaned in the direction of the head, while Mira, Galeva, Lulu and Ling behind him took a moment to run to the vicinity of the severed tail.
"Teacher, pay attention to the meat of the tail!" After Mira was led by Ling and ran nearby to take a look by the firelight, she loudly conveyed something that the doctor noticed to the sage.
"Meat?" Henry kept moving and facing off, while looking at the severed tail next to him.
The tail that fell to the side lost its activity after struggling for more than ten seconds, and it no longer twisted like an earthworm. With the help of his powerful night vision, Henry was able to glimpse from the corner of his eye that the originally strong muscles attached to the skeleton under the 4 cm thick rough skin seemed to have melted and turned into pink rotten flesh.
This kind of rotten meat is very similar to the structure of the parasites that were hacked before. It does not have the fibers that real animal muscles should have, but is more like the structure of tumor polyps that grow on patients that absorb human nutrition - they cannot No power is provided, so naturally, the tail can no longer move.
Henry reacted immediately.
Aya's intuition was correct. Although this monster has a complete appearance and structure like an amphibian salamander, it is just a mimicry that relies on the magic power stored in the body and the flesh and blood of the fusion target.
Because this biological form fits its current behavioral tendencies, a similar shape is simulated. It has not really become this kind of creature. No matter how well the simulation is done, it is only an appearance.
Simple fungi imitate the way of survival of plants after parasitism, and also imitate the way of survival of animals in order to meet the expectations of reproduction and expansion.
However, due to the lack of changes in its imitation method, it feels like "either complete imitation or not at all". On the contrary, some parts can also be speculated based on the structure of living things.
This is the misunderstanding they fell into before, treating it as a real animal.
But this thing is not. It is just a simulation. Although it is undoubtedly made of flesh, even the muscles that allow the body to move are only simulated by the magic power stored in the body.
Once it is cut off and separated from the main body and loses the supply of magic power, it will return to the appearance of a puddle of rotten flesh.
The way to deal with it is actually very simple if you think about it carefully.
Much like the enemy the Kramer was originally designed to face long ago.
"It still feels pain. Aim at the gap in the tail. The skin there has not grown completely. This way, even ordinary arrows can go straight in." Although she is a scholar rather than a warrior by profession, Ling is very sensitive to the weaknesses based on her understanding of living things. Even taller than the Luoan girl.
They wanted to create opportunities for the sage. Pain would make creatures stiffen instinctively, and with Henry's fighting level, one moment was enough for him to swing three swords.
"Teacher!" Mira shouted again, raising three fingers to the sage.
"Yeah." Henry nodded, and then decisively began to close the distance.
"Roar!!" The monster that lost its tail couldn't run for a long time because it didn't have a counterweight to balance it. It mostly stayed in place and faced the sage. This was exactly what Henry wanted. He deliberately walked in front of the monster. He ran past time, and as expected, it followed his movements and turned around.
"Let go!" The Luoan girl seized the opportunity and gave the order.
"Papa -" "Boom -" Two crossbow machines and two bows shot out one after another.
"Chacha -" "Grab it!" But due to the distance, three of the four flying arrows missed. The only one that hit was the hunting bow in Lulu's hand - "Ouch!!!" It penetrated deeply from the tail wound. The arrow made the monster roar again, and Henry also seized this opportunity to decisively stop and turn around with his right heel, and at the same time raised his sword from bottom to top.
"Crack!!" Kramer cut open the bones of its jaw and cut open its upper jaw arbitrarily. Several fangs flew out along with saliva and blood, and half of the tongue tip flew out, but the sage had no intention of being greedy for the knife. He ducked to the other side, and then another sword hit the chewing muscle on the left side of its mouth from top to bottom.
"Roar——!!" The monster, whose body was still covered with pimples, lost its most powerful weapon because its mouth was cut open. However, the people behind him saw that the disruptive effect was achieved, but they did not immediately distance themselves. . They were still waiting to prepare when they could support Henry.
"Qiang——!" The sage dodged the opponent's claw, and then slashed at its right limb with Claymore.
"Crack--!" The invincible sword successfully cut it off, and Henry then took the risk to rush up and kick the severed right front paw, intending to make it break away from the body and lose the magical attack and die. But at this moment, the monster whose injured part of the mouth had been roughly repaired suddenly jumped up and swallowed its severed limbs.
"Roar!!" It rolled away and distanced itself, and the bumps on the surface of its body became more and more frequent. Henry realized something was wrong and approached it, but he hurriedly stopped before he could get close enough to swing the sword. Back off again.
"Bang!" A slender jointed limb that shone with metallic luster and was filled with large and small bumps was inserted into the ground where the sage was just standing, followed by the next one. After all eight long arthropod legs were stretched out within two or three seconds, the skin of the originally plump salamander was suddenly torn open like a rag bag and fell to the ground. A giant spider with a metallic light all over its body appeared in the field.
"Hiss--!!" The monster that no longer had the ability to roar stepped on its shed skin. In just a few minutes, it actually changed into another form, which shocked almost everyone.
"Qiang——!" Henry approached again, but the giant spider with eight long legs was far more flexible than the fat giant salamander before. It moved its long legs to easily distance itself, and then lowered its front half to kill the fatal spider. The mouthparts are facing the sage, and the back half of the legs are raised to lift the important part of the torso to a height of three or four meters, making it impossible for even the tall sage to chop with a Claymore.
"So smart, this is an evolution of our previous attacks. A more flexible body can more easily dodge attacks and traps, and the carapace's shell also has a higher defensive effect against sword attacks -" Aya looked shocked. He explained, but before he finished speaking, the sage cut off a arthropod that came close to attack him without any resistance.
"Ah?" Ms. Doctor was stunned on the spot.
"That sword is not an ordinary sword." The Luoan girl sighed and waved the others to step back. The next battle was completely out of reach for them. Although the monster that turned into a spider seemed to be a whole circle smaller due to consumption and its tail being cut off, the hard carapace that seemed to contain minerals was comparable to metal armor, despite the texture. It's more brittle than steel, so it can still be broken with enough force. That alone requires enough force to rule out most people.
Elated or unwilling, they can only leave the responsibility of dealing with the monster to Henry alone.
"Ha--" Henry easily cut off the ends of the two limbs closest to him, and milky white body fluids began to leak out from the break, but the monster, which seemed to have abandoned the feeling of pain, did not become stiff again. It decisively used its remaining six legs to distance itself, moving laterally at a faster speed than even the sage, who was lighter and had turned on the strengthening magic at this time.
"A 360-degree attack with no blind spots." Someone once used this term to describe the spider's movements.
The eight legs are in a spread posture, with one side straightened and the other side curled up. The way this biological structure moves is not suitable for long-distance running, but the speed of action when dealing with a single target in a short distance is amazing.
There is no doubt that this is a targeted evolutionary plan that evolved after enduring their attacks.
In just a few minutes, defense measures have evolved due to external threats, just as the slow evolution of natural organisms for millions of years has been accelerated to the extreme in order to adapt to the environment.
This is the pinnacle of the life form itself. Everything is the characteristic of the organism itself, or perhaps the characteristics it simulates after absorbing other organisms. It may not have real wisdom, but the speed with which it seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages and instinctively chooses countermeasures is comparable to wisdom.
But this "speed" doesn't come without a price.
Whether it is magical rapid evolution or simply driving this huge body to move, it requires huge energy consumption. From the initial parasitic absorption to the later assimilation of the host, the magic power accumulated so far is actually a preparation for the reproduction of the next generation after the fusion, and now it has to use this stored energy just for its own survival.
This magic power should not be used again, which is why it mimics the digestive system of animals to simulate eating behavior - magic power is stored for the next generation, and meat is for the maintenance of this body. It can travel long distances.
But now both the body and the magic power have been consumed a lot, and the sage has noticed its weakness——
Henry reached into his pocket and took out something.
The previously assimilated villagers, the so-called waddling walkers, did not dare to cross the shrine's inscription rope precisely because of the magical barrier that existed within it.
The so-called barrier as people in the Moon Kingdom actually explain it is the "alien magic repulsion circle" according to the explanation of the magician Rigar.
A powerful single magic power combined with a certain form of runes will greatly weaken outsiders who do not belong to the same magic power. In more popular terms, it is the "Forbidden Magic Array".
For monsters that live on magic, the forbidden magic circle is almost the same as death.
"Click--" The Druid runestone in his hand lit up with green light, and after the sage rushed to the monster, he made a feint to lure it to attack again, and then threw it at the predicted place. One of the Bailong legacies borrowed from Lake Center Island.
"Bang——!!" The dazzling white light spread out from around the rune stones in an instant, and the spread of magic made Mira in the distance feel a little uncomfortable. The little unicorn further away also screamed, and in the center The monster even froze in place with the sound of "hissing--" as if it had been electrocuted, with green smoke coming out of its body.
"Boom——!!" But the sage, who was the source of magic power output, was not affected at all. He took a heavy step, and then rushed out with a higher speed and strength than at the shrine.
The fused monster is driven by magic power. The magic power originally dispersed in each individual body of each insect is condensed to drive the huge body-this means that although it does not have the organs and vitals of traditional creatures, But there will still be a magical "nucleus" somewhere in the body.
Considering the convenience of delivering magic power to various parts of the body, this core will naturally be located in the center of the torso.
The huge giant salamander is difficult to judge due to its enlarged trunk. When it becomes a spider, it shrinks one size. This target will be much easier to find.
"Boom!" The air scattered under his feet caused the grass to be blown down. The sage jumped up and opened a few meters away from the ground. Facing the monster that was unable to move, he fell from top to bottom——
Cutting out a sword——
"Bang!!!!"
The shell shattered, followed by body fluids overflowing, and the magic core located in the center of the torso, which was glowing and trembling like a heartbeat, was accurately hit.
Then chop it open.
"Bah——!"
After the light of the rune stones dissipated, Mira and the little unicorn in the distance breathed a sigh of relief, but the monster in place remained motionless.
The chopped body stayed in place like a stone statue. Just when everyone looked over nervously, it suddenly trembled and slowly poked out towards the sage standing not far from the front again. Arthropods.
"..." Henry did not move, looking at it calmly.
They didn't know whether this was the hatred of the creature before it died, the regret of not being able to reproduce the next generation; or it was just the instinct to attack driven by the remaining magic power.
Even if you are a sage or a doctor, there is still a limit to what you can answer.
They just watched it quietly.
"Click——" It came and went as quickly as it came. The cost of rapid evolution was revealed after losing the magic power to maintain it. The surface of its body began to have a texture like weathered stone, while the flesh and body fluids inside completely turned into a gray-black lifeless appearance.
"Hoo, ho, ho - ha -" Aggie, who didn't realize that he had been holding his breath, suddenly gasped loudly in the distance, and then collapsed on the ground, sweating profusely.
"Wow, it's over?" Galeva made a fussy sigh again. Mira rolled her eyes at him, while Ling looked at the tall young man and covered his mouth and laughed softly.
Lulu grabbed the bow and walked slowly to the sage's side. Looking at the dead tail next to her, she suddenly raised her head and looked at the sage.
"Oral (this)."
"Tabelu? (Can it be eaten)?" She asked seriously, judging from the pure expression on her face.
This barbarian little girl.
Be serious.
"It will cause diarrhea." The sage shrugged, and then put Kramer back into the scabbard.
