Countless facts have proven that well-intentioned persuasion is not always effective.
Especially when the target is not normal in the first place, the act of persuading becomes even more meaningless.
Before the disaster, the members of the Three Color Brotherhood no longer belonged to the category of "normal people", especially the core members. Their origins and past were not pure, although there were many among them who were underprivileged.
The poor people praise them as "thieves", but in the final analysis, most of what these people do is outside the laws and rules, and in the process, offenses to the lives and safety of others often occur.
The current chaos in Salem City has allowed the nature and instinct of these tomb robbers, thieves, robbers and assassins to be fully unleashed.
Judging from the weapons they followed, set up ambush, and carried with them, these guys may have tried to ambush the caster more than once.
These guys even carried a relatively inferior secret ritual. Although the secret ritual was simple, it could conceal their aura to a certain extent. Even Xiuge almost didn't notice their existence. However, Xiuge's
The detection method is not limited to magic perception. The scattered magic rats almost monitor the entire area around him.
The ambushers of the Tricolor Brotherhood probably had no idea that when they prepared for the ambush in this store, several rats had been staring at their butts for a long time.
In their eyes, although the power of the magic was astonishing, the identity of the spell caster obviously did not have enough deterrence. Therefore, when Xiuge's threat came, they immediately raised their crystal blunderbuss and headed towards
Xiuge pulled the trigger.
"Boom!"
Shuge, who was paying close attention to the movements of these ambushers, had already forcefully poked the metal cane into the ground the moment they made the shooting action. With a crisp sound, the stream-level "Magic Arrow Refraction" was instantly constructed.
This is a magic that Xiuge practiced emphatically before going to the battlefield. Its prototype is actually a general protective magic developed by Merlin Lehe's mage society. With the adjustment and improvement of the Votel people who advocate pragmatism,
This magic has become more suitable for complex battlefield environments, and can provide very effective protection against crystal bullets that pose a fatal threat to the caster. At close range, the magic power of the magic ritual itself is enough to deflect or even reverse the incoming magic.
bullet.
The magic that the Council has developed for the war has never let Shuge down.
This time is naturally no exception.
The crystal bullets flying out from the dark shop passed through the swirling flames, but at the moment they were about to hit Shuge's body, they were successfully interfered and deflected by the continuously operating ritual. Some of the bullets fell into disorder due to the magic power inside them.
It exploded on the spot due to the chaotic state, and the remaining parts flew out randomly in other directions, hitting the streets and the walls of other buildings.
After two consecutive rounds of shooting, an alchemy bomb was suddenly thrown from the thorn. It exploded in mid-air, forming a large cloud of thick magic smoke. In the next moment, several people acted in an extremely fierce style, and
The extremely experienced killers rushed over decisively through the smoke. Without exception, they all held sharp blades made of magic silver in their hands. The man at the front even held a shield of magic silver.
Xiuge was extremely surprised by their choice.
These people are obviously very familiar with magic and spell casters. Although they have revealed their identities as stream-level wizards and above, they still cannot deter them in the slightest. They even overcame the problem of facing magic in a very short period of time.
full of fear and panic, and boldly started his own hunting operation.
Feeling the dense footsteps in the smoke, Xiuge felt inexplicably emotional.
The last time he faced an attack by members of the Three Color Brotherhood, he had just mastered magic, and at that time, Ernst's old house hadn't even been burned down...
"This time, that time..."
He sighed softly.
The enemies in front of them have obviously found the wrong target. This kind of sudden attack, which is very likely to be effective for ordinary spellcasters, is destined to have no effect on him.
In fact, in today's entire Fan'en, apart from outliers such as sword-wielding hermits, Xiuge can be regarded as the type of mage with the highest frequency of close combat.
With a snap of the fingers, fluctuations in the air flow erupted from the magical patterns on Xiuge's fingertips. With the support of sufficient magic power, this small trick that could only create a gentle breeze now expanded into a ferocious whirlwind.
The magic smoke surrounding Shuge was immediately blown away, and all enemies trying to charge towards Shuge were exposed at this moment.
Facing the guy who was rushing to the front and trying to use the Demonic Silver Shield to attract firepower for his companions, Xiuge raised his hand and created a "brain spike".
This kind of universal magic that can impact the caster's spirit is even more effective for ordinary people. The strong man with a shield dropped the magic-strangling silver shield in his hand the moment he was hit by the invisible magic.
He fell to the ground holding his head.
The next moment, the construction of the extremely standard "Limb Destruction Technique" was completed, and translucent arms appeared from the side of the strong man. They picked up the strong man in front of everyone, and then these arms died.
He grabbed the strong man's limbs tightly and twisted them in different directions.
In a series of crisp sounds, his strong and powerful limbs were twisted off on the spot, and the human body, which had lost the ability to move, was casually abandoned on the ground, leaving him to twist and wail on the ground.
At this time, a villain holding a short-tube crystal blunderbuss and a demon-killing silver sword had also arrived at Shuge's flank. He pulled the trigger hard towards Shuge, and raised the gun without checking whether the bullet hit.
The sharp sword thrust hard.
Faced with this attack, Xiuge did not use any of the abilities from the Dream Sanctuary. He did not even continue to construct a protective ritual. Instead, he relied on the instinct that had been transformed from memory to take a step back to avoid the attack.
The stabbing blade.
At the same time, Xiuge's mage's hand, which was filled with strong poison, suddenly appeared and blocked the other person directly. Without waiting for the other person's reaction, the dark green magic palm quickly probed and pressed directly on the other person.
He touched the opponent's face and directly exerted the terrifying corrosive power.
Xiuge didn't even bother to take a second look at the outcome of the battle on the other side. He turned his wrist, and the cold black sun scepter immediately turned into a blunt weapon in his hand.
Then the metal cane turned with his body and hit it hard, hitting the bridge of the nose of the villain holding the sword. Xiuge could even hear the sound of the opponent's nose bones breaking during the blow.
This dull and real hitting feedback made Shuge feel happy.
"That should be enough."
Xiuge silently calculated in his heart, and then he vigorously shook the cold cane stained with some blood. A series of magic patterns were immediately formed, and then there were two more body mutilations that looked extremely cruel to others.
The technique had an effect.
In the blink of an eye, there were two more tragic humanoid figures on the ground with twisted limbs and wailing.
In the store, there were two members of the Three Color Brotherhood trying to shoot, but this time, Shuge showed no mercy to them. In the slowly floating magic smoke, two long whips made of flames were like poisonous snakes.
It was generally rolled out and wrapped around the bodies and necks of the two people accurately.
As a result, everyone who was still alive witnessed an extremely horrific torture.
However, Xiuge, who used the magical flames to determine the life and death of the two people in an instant, seemed extremely calm at this time.
As a person who has already gone through a round of battlefields and wiped out countless lives with his own hands, he can already face everything in front of him with the most indifferent attitude.
Soon, all the three-color brotherhoods who originally tried to ambush Shuge gave up resistance in the face of this death threat that left no room for death. They came to the streets tremblingly and threw down all their weapons as Shuge asked.
And stood in a row honestly.
The brotherhood member responsible for carrying the secret ritual was obviously not very honest. He hid the secret ritual in his clothes, seemingly hoping to avoid Shuge's screening. However, Shuge had already passed his own inspection before.
A swarm of magic rats located this guy.
So the mage's hand immediately flew over, directly opened his coat, and forcibly took out the secret ritual used by these brotherhood members to conceal their aura and existence.
Amidst the continuous wailing and moaning, Xiuge took the secret instrument that was cast into a pocket watch form from the hand of the mage and brought it to him. Then he discovered that this thing was actually very rough.
Although it can indeed block the perception of magic, in fact, it is just that the manufacturer used a more ingenious craftsmanship to disassemble the parts of a certain alchemical instrument and fix it with a few magic crystals
It's just in this pocket watch.
In other words, it is not a secret ritual at all.
At most, it is just an alchemy part that can barely isolate magic power under the supply of magic power. This kind of part is very common in those precision alchemy equipment, and is generally used to protect some relatively fragile alchemy materials to prevent them from being contaminated by other magic powers.
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After understanding the essence of the pocket watch, Xiuge lifted it up and shook it gently in front of the fraternity members: "Where did it come from?"
"..."
In response to Shuge's question, the remaining people all looked like "Don't ask me, I don't know." But then, they all turned their attention to the man who used the Demonic Silver Sword to attack Shuge.
, he is still lying on the ground, the pain of his limbs being broken alive is tormenting his nerves, and his shouts are already weak.
Upon seeing this, Xiuge snapped his fingers and performed the "Limb Restoration Technique" corresponding to the "Limb Destruction Technique". The green healing light immediately enveloped the man. A moment later, in a series of jaw-dropping...
With the crisp sound of acid, the man's twisted limbs returned to their original shape.
Before Shuge could ask another question, the man, who had been tortured to the point of death, answered Shuge's question at the top of his lungs.
"Bought! We bought it!"
Due to the blunt force blow and severe pain, the man's voice had been completely deformed. Coupled with the very strong accent from the area around Salem City, Shuge almost couldn't understand his words.
However, this answer was not satisfactory. After hearing his words, Xiuge slowly came to the man. He raised the blood-stained metal cane and pointed it directly at the face of the man who had not yet gotten up. He spoke slowly
Said: "You mean... members of the Tricolor Brotherhood spend money to buy things in today's Salem City?"
As if to make the other party hear what he said clearly, Xiuge deliberately slowed down his speaking speed, but every word that came out of his mouth was like a stone thrown at the other party's head.
brick.
And when he asked questions, the terrifying metal cane was still shaking in front of his face. The sharp end of the cane, like a spike, kept passing over the man's face, eyes and him as Shuge moved.
The broken and deformed nose bridge.
"No...no money! It's an exchange, it's an exchange!"
Under that invisible sense of oppression, the man could hardly control his bladder. While avoiding the cane that might pierce his eye socket at any time, he replied in a hissing voice: "That's the owner of an alchemy shop.
, he is a big ogre! He has a big appetite and wants to eat a lot, we spent two boxes of cans in exchange for this!"
"Alchemy shop? Ogre?"
The moment he heard these words, Xiuge's expression became complicated.
There are a lot of alchemy shops in Salem City, but if there is any shop whose owner can remind people of the word "ogre", then it is probably the "Alchemy Thief" that Sally introduced to her before.
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Suddenly hearing the name of an acquaintance whom he had met before, Xiuge couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Are you talking about Boss Gerald?"
"Yes...that's him!"
The man responded hurriedly. He was so excited that he accidentally spit out a mouthful of blood, which was very disgusting.
Shuge quickly moved his cane away, and then asked: "Okay, where is this boss Gerald now? He can't be still in his store, right?"
"He...he has taken refuge with General Boots and is helping Iris Street and those soldiers...he has a backer, and it is not so easy for ordinary people to find him."
Seeing that Shuge's attitude seemed to have relaxed, a lively brotherhood member immediately rushed to answer: "Furthermore, General Boots led people to take away the inventory of almost all alchemy shops in the city. Now Iris Street
It can be said that it has everything!”
"Oh? Everything? It sounds good."
Hearing this, Xiuge opened his mouth, revealing his strong white teeth.