Claude grabbed a handful of fallen leaves, dirt and other things on the ground, turned around and threw them towards the masked mage who was rushing towards him. When the masked mage saw it, he immediately stopped his momentum and raised his hands to cover his eyes. Unexpectedly, these fallen leaves and dirt were not what he thought.
When they were about an inch away from his body, they seemed to be blocked by something and fell one after another. Under the moonlight, Claude discovered that there was a layer of transparent foam cannons outside the masked mage's body, and occasionally there were a few colorful streaks.
The light is flickering.
The masked mage then realized, yes, I still have an energy shield on my body, so why should I be afraid of dust getting into my eyes? He immediately laughed and said, "Boy, there's no other way. Take out the things and shoot the magic flying arrows."
Draw me the structure of the magic talisman array, otherwise I will make you regret that your mother gave birth to you..."
Claude had already rolled and crawled back two or three meters away. Seeing the masked mage approaching again step by step, he couldn't care about anything at this moment and could only put his hope in the mental shock spell.
"Crack!"
The masked mage felt as if he had been slapped in the head, but he was just stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand to touch his head, raised his head and turned around to look around, as if he was wondering if something had hit his head.
"Pap! Pat! Pat! Pat! Pat!" Claude panicked. This mental shock spell didn't seem to have a very good effect on the masked mage. It didn't make him confused or dizzy.
, it looks like he accidentally hit his head. But the only thing that is certain is that this spell is still useful, and it is not blocked by the energy shield on his body like the magic flying arrow.
Claude cast five mental shock spells in one breath.
The effects of the first and second mental shock spells were not very obvious, and the masked mage held his head in his hands and shouted: "Who hit me..."
But after three consecutive mental shocks, the masked mage couldn't stand anymore. He staggered, felt dizzy and seemed to fall to the ground. The most important thing was that he couldn't hold the dagger in his hand and fell to the ground.
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Claude was overjoyed. He shook his shoulders and took off the backpack he was carrying. He rushed over and grabbed the dagger on the ground. With the sharp weapon in his hand, he felt confident that the opponent was now bare-handed, so there was nothing to fear.
The masked mage held his head and shook it for a few times before regaining consciousness. When he saw Claude holding a dagger, he knew that he had been plotted by Claude, and flew towards him in anger.
Claude raised his dagger and made a standard thrust, but he also didn't expect that when the dagger hit the bubble outside the masked mage's body, it slipped to the side. Unprepared, he was hugged by the masked mage.
The body fell to the ground, and the two people struggled with each other. The masked mage used his own body to hold down Claude, and stretched out his two hands to grab the dagger in Claude's hand.
This should be something Claude never dreamed of. To become a first-level rune mage, you have to rely on hand-to-hand combat to defeat the enemy, especially when the opponent is also a mage. This is really the most ridiculous joke in the world. In the clearing of the grove
The two mages were entangled and rolling around.
Claude was also desperate. The magic arrows were useless, and the dagger could not break the bubble on the opponent's body. This masked mage was stronger and more powerful than himself. Although his fighting skills were not as good as his own.
, but the problem is that I hit him several times with my fists, but they also slipped away from the bubble outside his body. Without saying anything, he was punched back by the other party. The bastard punched him in the face and it hurt a lot, you know.
Fortunately, when Claude discovered that the dagger was useless against the masked mage and instead became a threat to himself, he threw the dagger far away to avoid being snatched away by the masked mage and hurting himself. Now
The two of them were fighting with their bare hands. Although Claude could not seriously injure the other party, he could still use some fighting and grappling movements to restrain the masked mage. He only hoped to reach a stalemate until the bubble on the opponent's body was maintained by the energy shield spell.
Time passes...
The masked mage is not an idiot. Although his fighting skills are not as strong as Claude's, he can defeat him ten times with one strength. With his physical strength, he suppressed Claude to the ground. His right hand resisted Claude's two-handed attack, and his left hand was firmly locked.
Choking Claude's neck. At this moment, he already knew that Claude had another spell that could threaten him. Although he was only slightly dizzy, in this hand-to-hand battle, it was related to the life and death of the two of them. So what could he do?
Maybe relaxing allows Claude to find a chance to cast...
Claude was already suffocating from being pinched. Even though he tightened his neck, the hand pinching his neck became harder and harder. He couldn't lift the hand anymore. Moreover, the other person's other hand was pinned to it.
He didn't dare to relax with one hand. If the other person had both hands on his neck at this moment, he would be dead.
His brain began to lack oxygen and his eyes began to turn white. Claude opened his mouth wide and tried to take a big breath, but the hand on his neck was like an iron ring, tightly holding his throat, and he couldn't suck in any air.
Lord struggled desperately, but the hand on his neck pinched harder...
In his hurry, Claude suddenly remembered that he still had a black iron dagger stuck in his boot. At this moment, he had forgotten that the opponent also had a bubble-shaped energy shield, which was immune to magic and physical damage. Claude's mind
Li just wanted to poke the other person with something, forcing him to let go of his throat so that he could breathe heavily.
Flexing his feet, Claude reached out to touch the black iron dagger in his boot. But as soon as he took his hand away, the masked mage's right hand was also released. Similarly, the masked mage also put his right hand on Ke's hand.
Lord began to pinch hard on his neck.
Claude jumped up on the ground like a dying fish, but the masked mage's strong body suppressed Claude tightly. Blood foam was already flowing out of the corners of Claude's mouth, and his tongue was also outward.
Revealed...
Finally touching the fishbone handle of the black iron dagger, Claude grasped it tightly and stabbed it upward without hesitation.
"Pu Chi Pu Chi Pu Chi..."
Claude suddenly felt the hand on his neck loosen, and a few streams of hot water splashed onto his body with the smell of blood. The masked mage who was pressing him softened and fell to the side, his mouth slurred.
He was surprised and confused: "No, it's impossible, you, how can you have a demon-breaking dagger..."
Claude breathed heavily and reached out to touch his neck. It took him a long time to regain his consciousness. He reluctantly got up and knelt on the ground. Looking at the corpse of the masked mage next to him, he felt that his body would be damaged.
They are all in pain.
Slowly reaching out, he pulled off the corpse's mask. What he saw was a face covered with beard and a very small scar. Claude was sure that he had never seen this forty-year-old man before.
As a big man, there was no image of this bearded man in his memory.
It should be that Julian, the fat old man, revealed the information about his transaction, and the beardless man heard the information and became evil, so he ambushed him in this small forest. The debt will be settled with Julian, the fat old man. But this matter
Julian probably didn't know either, otherwise he wouldn't have sold him the long-range arrow protection spell tonight. Thanks to this spell, the hunting crossbow of the bearded man didn't work, so he had to get down from the tree to fight with him...
The black iron dagger was still inserted into the waist of the big man with beards and beards. Claude had stabbed the place almost into a honeycomb shape. At the critical moment, Claude didn't know how many knives he had inserted in total. Anyway, the big man with beards and beards was in the left waist.
A piece of blood and flesh was blurred, and the black iron dagger was almost inserted into his body with its handle.
Claude used force and pulled out the black iron dagger. He really didn't expect that it was this seemingly ordinary black iron dagger that saved him. Thinking of the bubble-shaped energy shield on the bearded man, Claude
De was also terrified. If this black iron dagger was not a demon-breaking dagger, he would probably be the one who died.
At that time, Claude was a little confused. The only thought in his mind was to breathe and need air. It can be said that stabbing with a black iron dagger is an instinctive physical reaction. If the energy protection of Laoshizi cannot be broken,
If you don't, the winner will only be the bearded man with beards who is now a corpse.
After kneeling for another long time, Claude finally stood up, moved his hands, feet and body, and checked to see if he was injured. In the end, Claude found that his luck was pretty good, and he was facing a life and death battle with the bearded man.
The fight did not cause any major damage to his body. However, his face was slightly bruised and swollen after being punched twice, and it hurt when he pressed it. His palms and wrists were slightly bruised when they rolled on the ground. His left thigh was kneeled by the big man with a beard.
It's a bit bruised, but it doesn't affect my activities.
First, he went to retrieve his magic hand crossbow, re-strung the arrow and placed it next to himself. Then he picked up the backpack that was thrown on the ground and put it on his back. Then he went to retrieve the dagger that he had thrown away. From
The beard-bearded man took off the scabbard of the dagger from the corpse, put the dagger into his waist, and then went to pick up the hunting crossbow that the beard-bearded man had thrown on the ground.
Claude was too lazy to look for the fine iron crossbow arrows he shot. Who knows where they went. However, two of the crossbow arrows shot by the bearded man were stuck in the tree, but Claude was too lazy to pull them out.
There are many weapons shops, so there is no need to recycle them. Seeing that there was nothing to clean up in the woods, Claude came to the corpse of the bearded man again.
Claude knelt down and searched carefully from head to toe. He only found a sheepskin purse, which contained only three silver thalers and a dozen copper coins of varying denominations, including four black iron coins.
The penny is the smallest denomination, equivalent to only one cent.
"Poor guy!" Claude spat hard on the ground.
Sure enough, reality is neither a game nor an online novel. Claude did not find any space rings or storage bags, and the bearded man did not carry any magic books. Claude originally held out hope of finding the energy shield.
spell scroll, but the fact is that no one who comes out to rob will bring his most precious and valuable things with him. He goes to rob rather than give away treasures...
In addition, Claude found a copper key in the corpse's trouser pocket. This copper key was not the key to the lockbox treasure room, but an ordinary guest room key, because the handle of this key was a wooden mermaid pattern.
, with the numbers two and nine engraved on it.
Very simply, this should be the guest room key of the Mermaid Tavern. 219 means room number 19 on the second floor. The key is used to open the door. Claude heard Erikson say that the dock area is the largest and best.
The tavern is the Mermaid Tavern, which also serves as a hotel that provides accommodation. Caifuni's sister Catherine works as a maid in the Mermaid Tavern and is also known as the Queen of the Tavern.
Claude looked at the guest room key of the Mermaid Tavern in his hand. It was obvious that this bearded man lived there. He came out to ambush him in the woods at night and wanted to rob him. So his luggage and belongings should be placed in the guest room.
, maybe you should go there and have a look, maybe you can gain something.
But the problem that Claude now faces is how to deal with this body. It's not good to leave it here. Maybe someone will find it after passing by. Thinking of this, Claude has to be grateful that this life-and-death fight took place in this small area.
In the woods, this place is close to the slums. Generally, the night patrols of Bailu Town will not approach here. Moreover, it was late and the weather was getting cold. No one was hanging out at this time, so this fight did not alarm anyone.
people.
But Claude realized that he was almost out of time. He parked the carriage at the dock of Erikson's house and agreed with Uncle Peg that he would go back in about an hour. The time was almost up now. If he continued to delay,
I wonder if Uncle Peg will come to find me. That will cause more twists and turns. I have to make a decision as soon as possible. What should I do?