"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 goblin was hovering steadily in the cold wind. Snowflakes fell on the visual communication crystal and melted piece by piece. Fang Yu counted his opponents one by one before ordering him to get closer to him.
Some, but at this time, in his field of vision, a man dressed as a wizard was looking up in this direction.
It was like a flash of lightning flashed across Fang Plover's mind. He stopped suddenly and the clockwork fairy stopped abruptly in mid-air.
"What's wrong?" Sophie saw the change in his expression.
"interesting."
Fang Yu 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 battle craftsmen, 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 respond?" Sophie asked from the side. She naturally had her own ideas in mind. After all, she was also the leader of the Silver Vislan Elite Youth Training Team, so her on-the-spot reaction would 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, could this guy in front of her really be so trustworthy?
Fang Plover did not answer immediately. He only glanced back. There was only a patch of wind and snow, but there seemed to be something behind the wind and snow that caught his eye. He looked for a while before looking back.
Detect construct spells.
This is a very targeted spell, almost specially designed to deal with combat craftsmen. Although it is a little outdated, it does not change its essence. He only glanced at the alchemist through the clockwork goblin's vision——
The other party's intentions and targeting are actually quite obvious.
But he still didn't give the order directly. He only asked: "Is Mr. Huiyan still staying in the valley?"
Everyone else nodded.
…
"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 revealed 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 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.
Silver Stone 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 Aitalia, 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 resistance 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."
"Be careful and you never go too far."
"Is this another proverb of your magicians?"
Yinshi 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. He had already launched 'Beyond the Horizon' in that direction once. As a magician, he should learn to believe
own magic.
Could it be that there is a possible flexible structure that avoids the scope of my own vision spell?
This thought flashed through Yinshi's mind, but he immediately felt that he was a little unreasonable. How could this be possible? Unless the other party knew where he would cast the spell, and knew his detection habits and 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 yelling 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 clearly seen a black-haired girl standing there just now, with a pair of golden pupils that stood out among the snowflakes in the sky, staring coldly in their direction. But with just a blink of an eye, the other person had disappeared without a trace.
No trace.
"people?"
Dark Fairy Tale looked in that direction, but there was only a vast expanse of white snowflakes there. "There is no one there. 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, but the system behind Feng Xue did not outline a trace of red light, so 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 it's true..." 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 the same team after all. Yin Shi understood this in his heart. He checked his mana reserves and then threw a 'Beyond Horizon' behind Feng Xue 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 the lover of your dreams - you can be more vigilant, if you continue
How about telling us what Gao saw?"
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."
…
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 that 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 that it is 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 are often biased toward the method with the greatest benefits, so habits are not that reliable unless someone specifically wants to do the opposite.
In a battle of wits and courage between masters, it is not impossible to use reverse thinking, but the premise is that you realize that the enemy is near you - otherwise, wouldn't you be limiting your own investigation scope?
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 is already one in his team. If he encounters another one, he can only admit that he is 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 what to wait for? The other party obviously came with bad intentions, and they were obviously not strict spokespersons for the knights. They had to wait for the other party to take action first before taking action to defeat the enemy.
In the current situation, the best option is of course to strike first, preferably before the opponent even sees the attacker clearly and kills them all.
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 long ago
So he ordered a direct attack.
Silver Vislan's frontal charge is just a silhouette left for the opponent before death. They will launch a frontal attack, but when to launch the attack is decided by the party with the initiative.
And Silver Vislan always takes the initiative——
But this princess is also very smart after all. When she saw Fang Plover's expression, she suddenly reacted. Thinking of the other party's previous action of looking back, a thought flashed through her mind:
"Is there someone behind you?"
Fang Plover only nodded slightly.
He looked up——
The wind was rising 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's 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 pulled him
The coat rustled.
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 passed 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 same idea shared by everyone in 'ro'.
It's not that they have never seen the world before, the larger aerospace ship 'Twilight of the Gods' also has more than one - and this does not include the main guild of the second world, 'RO's' flagship ice sea longship 'Nagelfa'
It is the largest ship in the domestic Chosen Alliance, second only to the elite Blue Fire.
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.
I was stunned for a moment.
As the property of a free adventure group, this beast of burden and the platform are really huge.
The young rangers were also stunned. 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 had all gathered in the leeward area on the other side of the valley, no one could be seen below. He turned back 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 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 could not 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 that the alchemist had entrusted him with. A look that was half a smile but not a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he said a little funny:
"It seems we are lucky today."
He spread his hands.
Everyone behind him looked a little surprised 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. When 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 scared at all. She just looked at the young man silently: "Wumian..." Her voice was crisp and a little small. The young man only 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 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...?" He had an exaggerated look on his face, but in private 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 opponent's team in front of him who was also dressed as a magician pointing 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, punching him.
flew 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 was much higher than him in terms of spell level and level. He looked to the side helplessly, and when he saw the dark fairy tale, he just stepped aside and gave way.
He dodged the sword thrown by the swordsman, then 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..."