In the guest room of the tavern, Steven recalled the scene when he drew his sword and pointed at the moon when he was awake in the Glen Mountain. Then he swung the sword with his backhand, and a shadow of the sword appeared in front of the straight sword.
He entered a quasi-silent state before wielding the straight sword. Before the straight sword revealed its shadow, a rune lit up on the head of his soul body. This is the rune that represents wisdom!
That's right! This is the feeling! It comes from the wisdom, spirit, and the sense of oneness of the body holding the handle of the fixed blade, that ethereal and warm feeling! In these feelings, he lit up the runes representing wisdom in a quasi-silence state
, and then a knife shadow appeared in front of the swung straight knife!
Steven became excited! He found out the feeling just now and experimented repeatedly. After a while, he basically understood and mastered the use and function of this skill.
He entered quasi-silence, the wisdom rune on the head of his soul body flashed, and then he slashed diagonally with a knife. A shadow of a straight knife appeared in front of the blade body, but at this time the straight knife body disappeared!
The shadow of the knife is just like a real straight knife, and it is completely invisible. It is just a light shadow. The shadow of the knife strikes a certain position in the air, and then dissipates after being fixed. The body of the straight knife later appears at the position where the shadow of the knife disappears.
After he put away the knife, he stabbed forward. The same knife shadow appeared in front of the tip of the knife, but the tip disappeared! The shadow of the knife stabbed at a certain position in the air, became fixed and then dissipated. Later, the tip of the knife appeared from the void.
Come out and stab the place where the knife shadow dissipated just now.
If this phantom knife shadow is used properly in actual combat, it can deceive the opponent's senses and make it mistakenly judge the position of the straight knife. At the same time, the hidden real blade can attack the opponent from any other position, thus catching the opponent off guard!
This skill is very useful for dealing with intelligent creatures and Warcraft! Many Warcraft have quite high intelligence. The deceptive performance of the knife shadow in battle can catch the opponent by surprise and play a powerful role, even deciding the outcome in an instant.
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Steven named this skill Shadow Blade.
The Shadow Blade skill is activated by a rune representing wisdom in a state of silence. The shadow of the blade only exists for a short moment. However, as Steven frequently uses this skill and visualizes the runes, the skill intensity, i.e., level, can be continuously increased.
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In other words, when this level is increased, more than one knife shadow may be emitted, and the existence time of the knife shadow will also be extended!
After completing the initial mastery of the Shadow Blade skill, Steven looked at the time and saw that it was already very late. He put away the fixed knife, fell on the bed and fell asleep after a while.
The next day, Steven got up early in the morning and packed up, then took the chestnut horse and set off. He first went to the small square, bought some dry food and consumables, and then rode out of the town towards the city of Santa Vila.
Along the way, Steven drew out his fixed knife when no one was around and became familiar with the Shadow Blade skill. Gradually, he mastered this skill skillfully. The difficulty of the Shadow Blade skill is that after entering quasi-silence, when the runes appear, the fixed knife must be activated immediately.
There should be no stagnation between chopping or stabbing, otherwise the shadow of the knife will become illusory and the body of the straight knife cannot be completely hidden and disappear.
Of course, this stagnant situation may also have other applications, which will be discussed later. Now he can skillfully enter silence and immediately wave the straight knife when the wisdom rune is displayed, creating a solid shadow of the knife in front of the blade.
At the same time, the blade disappears completely.
While walking slowly, Steven practiced his skills, and sometimes sat on horseback to visualize runes, and in this way he gradually approached the city of Saint Vera...
When Steven approached the city of Santa Vera, it was the afternoon on the farm where the murder occurred. The fire on the farm had long been extinguished. Only ashes were left in the collapsed houses destroyed by the fire. There were several people parked on the drying ground.
Ten horses with saddles and bridles, some knights of the Crusaders and the Knights of the Holy Light were rummaging for something in the collapsed ruins, while others were standing and waiting by the drying yard. The burial place behind the burned house was
Several busy figures and people waiting nearby.
There are people from several parties present here, including the sergeant and police officers from the Camo Town Police Department. There are only two policemen in the Camo Town Police Department, one sergeant and one constable. They are all here today. The other party is the Saint Vie
The abbot and assistants of Laku Monastery, two teams of Crusader Knights sent from the Cardinal Affairs Office of St. Vera to search and rescue Brother Martin, and a team of Knights of the Holy Light led by Conard who acted with them.
Conard, Roman, Fowler, the abbot, his assistants, and the two captains of the Crusaders stood near the burial place. They were waiting for the police chief to finish inspecting the corpses exhumed from the cemetery.
The Sheriff has notified the Santa Vera City Police Department to send a forensic doctor to assist in the investigation, but there is still one day before the forensic doctor can arrive. Now the Sheriff can only conduct a preliminary inspection of the body, and then they will bring the body back to the police station.
The forensic doctor further dissected the body.
After a busy afternoon, the sergeant took off his gloves and came to a group of people standing and waiting. With a tired look, he smoothed his hair with his hands and said, "The farmer's family was stabbed in the heart by a sharp sword.
The farmer himself and his wife were beaten before they died. The murderer was very professional in using weapons and should be a professional warrior. The traces at the scene were confusing, but based on some of the details that have been discovered, it is speculated that the number of murderers was at least five.
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The abbot asked: "Mr. Sheriff, can you determine the cause of Brother Martin's death?"
The police chief frowned and said hesitantly: "Until the forensic autopsy is performed, Brother Martin's cause of death cannot be determined. Now based on my experience, Brother Martin most likely died of poisoning..."
"What?! Poisoning!" The dean and the others were surprised. Conrad asked: "Mr. Sheriff, can you be sure it is poisoning? What signs of poisoning does Brother Martin's body show?"
As soon as Conrad finished speaking, the dean asked from the side: "Mr. Sheriff! Do you think Brother Martin was poisoned to death by the farmer?"
The Sheriff replied: "No, Brother Martin was not poisoned to death. He was probably bitten by a venomous snake! His left leg was swollen greatly! And I found teeth marks on his left foot that might be teeth.
His body also looked swollen, so judging from my experience, he died after being poisoned by snake venom, and he died earlier than the farmer’s family.”
The police chief continued: "Of course, this conclusion is only temporary. A formal conclusion will be drawn after the forensic doctor comes to dissect the body."
"Thank you very much for your hard work! Mr. Sheriff! Please return Brother Martin's body to the monastery after the autopsy results are available. Thank you and your colleagues again!" Conrad, the dean and the captain saluted the police chief.
After returning the favor, he walked away.
After the Sheriff left, Conard said: "I can speculate that Brother Martin was bitten by a poisonous snake while practicing in the mountains. The farmer's family took him back to the farm for rescue, but in the end they still could not save his life, so he was