Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 172 Countermeasures
In an open space outside Carlos’ courtyard, there are only a few maple trees growing on the banks of the Emerald River. The fiery red maple leaves flutter in the wind and fall on the melon-eating crowd, embellishing a colorful scene.

"Zheng!"

Looking at the storm lord Albert standing not far away with a spear, Thorne's calm expression was dignified, and he stretched out his hand and slowly pulled out the demon-slaying sword at his waist.

The originally unpretentious black scabbard suddenly showed its sharpness, and the shiny black sword was covered with obscure and incomprehensible demon runes. Under the sunlight, the distorted dark red runes looked like demons struggling in pain.

"Chris, do you know the mysterious runes on that sword?" Tolvi, who was standing in the distance, was shrouded in the smoke, noticed the long sword in Thorn's hand, and paused holding the pipe. A look of surprise flashed across his face.

"I'm not very familiar, but I always feel that this distorted rune is somewhat similar to the rune on the explosive arrow made by Stallman Town." The trickster Chris frowned and fanned away with his sleeve. The second-hand smoke coming over, said uncertainly.

"The most special thing about the explosive arrows in Stallman Town is that there is a chaotic breath from the bottomless abyss. After you remind me, it is really similar when I take a closer look. It seems that the spear in Thorne's hand The sword probably has something to do with the devil."

Torvi looked stunned, showing a look of surprise, and then slowly said: "So, Thorne did get some adventures after going out for half a year. After all, he was able to successfully kill the leader of the wolf man and the cannibal of the Skull-Kicking tribe. Magician, it's strange that there is nothing extraordinary."

"He didn't kill it alone." Chris glanced at the sorceress Andrina in the distance, and didn't agree with Torvi's statement.

"I don't think so. Don't you and I know about Ashmore's strength? Thorn and the sorceress he brought can face the leader of the gnoll and the ogre wizard at the same time, and there are many attacks by his men. In such a situation, to achieve complete annihilation, how can the three of us do it?
Just leaving you alone to deal with the abyssal gnolls is tricky enough. "Torvi shook his head slightly with a smile, and then said with emotion:
"In short, strong strength is a good thing for us. We can't always pay attention to our allies with colored glasses. After all, Falls Town belongs to our common settlement. As for the upper city, lower city, West River Bank and East River Bank The division of the three parties will only deepen the conflict between the three parties."

After listening to Torvi's warning, the trickster Chris glanced at Thorn's back, curled his lips and stopped talking.

At this time, on the other side of the open space, Carlos in a coarse robe stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes wandered back and forth between Albert and Thorne with interest, and after a while, he locked his eyes on the not far away On the body of the female sorceress Andelina, thoughtful.

"Brother, I'm back."

At this moment, a dusty human man trotted in front of Carlos. He was wearing a dark black half body armor that couldn't shine in the sun, and he was carrying a long sword with a sheath on his back.

"Is everything settled?" Carlos asked casually, without turning around when he heard the familiar voice, still focusing his calm eyes on the battle that had not yet started.

"Everything is settled." The human man with a sheathed sword on his back said calmly to Carlos.

"You came at the right time. It was a very interesting battle. Do you still know that half-elf ranger?" Carlos nodded slightly when he heard the words, and then pointed to Thorne who was standing in the distance with a sword with a hint of a smile. The human man beside him said.

"I know this kid even if he turns into ashes, but I'm deeply impressed by the arrow on his knee." The human man's resolute face looked at Thorn's back, and a flash of surprise first flashed, then he smiled, and couldn't help but look at Thorn's back. Carlos asked, "When did he come back?"

"I've been back for two or three days." After Carlos finished speaking, his eyes flickered at Thorne, and he said meaningfully to himself: "Thorn's return has brought us many surprises and surprises. I think we can consider taking over in advance. It’s time to implement the plan.”

"Are you sure?" The human man was startled, looking at the confident Carlos.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Carlos showed a mysterious smile, and stopped talking after finishing speaking.

Carlos and the human men kept looking at Thorne and Albert.

Andrina, who was standing not far from them, was also secretly looking at the others. When she noticed the human man suddenly appearing beside Carlos, a trace of confusion and incomprehension flashed in her eyes.

"The roses that bloom into disasters are not brilliant, but desolate. Thorne, the so-called beautiful town built on the waterfall in your mouth is nothing more than that." Andelina looked at the rushing waterfall and sighed slightly. After she noticed the hazy tower, she felt relieved a lot.

In the end, Andelina shifted her worried eyes to Thorne again, and was ready to wait until the battle was over before asking him about the many doubts that were pressing in her heart.

The orange-yellow sunlight shone through the swaying maple trees on the open ground, which did not bring any warmth. Instead, it shone coldly against the cold sword blades and spears.

——"One ring of magic: resist energy damage (lightning)!"

Thorn stood with a sword in one hand, quietly looking at the storm lord Albert who was holding a spear. The wooden holy emblem hidden in the palm of his left hand flashed a pale green light.

Suddenly, an almost invisible energy protection force field enveloped his whole body.

To deal with the Storm Lord, the most important thing to guard against is the lightning damage attached to his spear. Thorne is still very clear about this.

When Thorne's wooden holy emblem flashed a faint light, the explosive electric shock pattern on Albert's chest also flashed a divine light at the same time.

——"Second Ring Magic: Wild Power!"

Accompanied by the divine light of the explosive electric shock pattern on Albert's chest flickering, his whole body was instantly covered with a layer of flickering green aura.

Under the influence of the spiritual light, Albert's body was raised by a section at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the originally upright human face turned into a ferocious beast, especially the two fangs hanging from the corners of his lips were particularly conspicuous.

Wild power!
Seeing Albert's transformation, Thorne recognized the magic spell cast by the other party at a glance.

This is a magical buff that infuses natural energy into the body, and can simultaneously increase one's strength, constitution, and agility attributes by 2 points.

For the melee-based storm lord, it is indeed a very cost-effective buff magic.

Sensing the change in himself, the two-meter-long black spear in Albert's hand, under the control of his mind, instantly burst into lavender lightning.

——"Supernatural ability: Thunder weapon!"

Crackling lightning surrounded his spear, and the burst of bright light almost obscured his vision. At this moment, Albert looked like he was holding a bolt of lightning.

Immediately afterwards, Albert raised the spear that was still beating lightning, and his ferocious face let out a wild beast-like roar.

Then he threw the spear held tightly by him towards Thorne in front of him. The spear was like a bolt of lightning piercing the sky. The speed was so fast that it was beyond the range of human vision. Even the crowd watching just saw the flash across the air. A flash of lightning.

——"Steel Soul School (Stance Skill): Clear Body!"

When Thorne noticed the spear raised by Albert, he immediately guessed the opponent's next attack, so he was prepared and immediately launched the move of the Steel Soul faction.

Immediately, the jumping lightning spear was locked by Thorne's moves, and the speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye gradually slowed down.

The moment Thorn heard the crackling sound, he turned around suddenly.

"boom!"

Half of the spear sank directly into the depths of the ground, and the jumping lightning kicked up bursts of flying mud.

Seeing Albert who missed the attack, he roared again and rushed towards Thorn with his bare hands.

Just when he was close to ten meters away from Thorne, he jumped violently, and his burly body jumped into the air. The spear inserted into the ground trembled slightly, and reappeared in Albert's hands again.

"clang!"

A war spear fell from the sky, mixed with jumping lightning, and hit the demon-slaying long sword that Thorne swung his sword to resist, and Albert's burly figure also fell to the ground at the same time.

——"Desert Wind School (Strike Skill): Flame Star!"

Thorn's whole body's energy protection perfectly offset the lightning damage attached to the spear. He resisted the huge impact from his arm, and without hesitation drew out another short sword hanging from his waist.

The moment the dagger was pulled out of its scabbard, a flame burst out into a dazzling white awn.

"what!"

Albert, who was caught off guard, felt the stinging eyes and couldn't help screaming.

However, he stabilized his figure very calmly. In order to prevent Thorne's surprise attack, he directly swung the spear in his hand airtightly, and took the opportunity to distance the two sides, restoring temporary blindness.

——"Desert Wind Sect (Strike Skill): Flame of the Young Dragon!"

Seeing Albert retreating, Thorne was afraid of the opponent's spear, and did not choose to chase. Instead, with a thought, the power of flames in his body was quickly gathered on the tip of the long sword under his guidance.

The moment Albert just recovered his blindness, a cone-shaped flame, like the flame breath of a giant dragon, surged out from the tip of Thorne's sword pointing directly at Albert, covering his burly body completely.

When the scorching flames were about to ravage Albert's body, the enchanted armor covering his whole body emanated a magical aura, which reflected and propped up a nearly invisible energy protection force field to cover him, and all the scorching flames were blocked on his body. outside.

At the same time, Albert took the opportunity to brandish his spear and rushed towards Thorne, noticing the figure who was approaching suddenly, Thorne's long sword suddenly burst into a blazing flame to meet him.

"Clang clang clang!"

The sound of the collision of long swords and spears can be heard endlessly.

Under a series of attacks, the lightning of the spear and the flame of the long sword raged amidst the crazily colliding figures of the two.

Continuous attacks, because of the constant spell "Thunder Slash" attached to Albert's spear, each collision will produce a strong shock force, and Thorne's figure will continue to retreat. At the same time, holding the long sword His arms trembled slightly from the shock, and the energy protection force field that protected his body from lightning damage was quickly broken by the jumping lightning.

However, Albert in front of him was even more embarrassed. The enchanted armor wrapped all over his body was covered with traces of flames. Even after the battle, it would take a lot of effort to repair the remaining traces of flames.

Most of his messy long black hair was burned away by the scorching heat. After the battle, Albert may only have short hair for the time being.

The irritable and irritable Albert saw that Thorne could not be taken down, he swept his spear violently, jumped out of the fighting circle, roared angrily, smashed the spear hard on the ground, and a lightning mark between his eyebrows quickly appeared Spell aura.

—— "[Powerful] Lightning Summoning Technique!"

Suddenly, in the blue sky, a large area of ​​thick thunderclouds gathered above Thorne's head.

"Crack!"

Accompanied by a deafening bang, a bowl-thick blue lightning flashed dazzlingly and struck at Thorne.

Thorn, who had been prepared for a long time, narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his feet and jumped vigorously, while avoiding the lightning, he also took the opportunity to approach Albert.

The demon-slaying long sword that danced with raging flames descended from the sky and slashed at Albert.

"clang!"

Albert put his spear across his body, barely resisting Thorne's long sword.

Feeling the pain of burning his skin from the high temperature emitted by the flaming long sword, Albert moved his mind, and the thundercloud floating in midair once again condensed a faint blue lightning.

"Crack!"

A bolt of lightning struck Thorne again.

Thorne frowned and rolled on the spot, avoiding the lightning attack.

——"Spell-like ability: Fireball!"

Immediately after Thorn avoided the lightning condensed in the thundercloud, he quickly prepared his spells. Under his guidance, a dark red fireball the size of a basketball emerged in his palm.

"Crack!"

Thorn once again dodged a falling lightning in embarrassment, looking at the thundercloud that was still gathering lightning in the midair, the dark red fireball in his palm was thrown upwards vigorously, the fireball pierced through the air with a whistling sound, submerged into the thundercloud, and burst out Loud bang.

"Clang clang clang!"

As the condensed thundercloud dissipated, the continuous collision of spears and long swords sounded again.

During the constant collision of their weapons, Thorne felt the slight numbness brought by the arc, while Albert was also forcibly enduring the burning caused by the hot flame.

Finally, there was another series of clashes of weapons, and the storm lord Albert, known for his melee combat, was the first to be unable to bear the damage caused by the flames.

——"Fly!"

This full-body armor made of dragon eagle golden feathers had a magical aura, and Albert's burly body also took advantage of the situation to float into the air, preparing to launch a long-range attack on Thorne in mid-air.

Seeing that Albert was about to leave his attack range, Thorne glanced at him calmly, put the dagger in his left hand into the scabbard, and immediately launched the shadow hand move with a thought.

——"Shadow Hand School (Strike Technique): Shadow Twist!"

He stretched out his left hand and made a strange gesture, and a rope made entirely of shadow energy appeared in his hand.

Then Thorne threw it hard, and the 20-meter-long shadow rope rushed towards the rising Albert at an extremely fast speed, and directly entangled Albert who was too late to avoid it.

At the same time, the rope immediately emitted cold shadow energy, which rushed into Albert's body strangely.

Under the erosion of shadow energy, Albert's body gradually fell into a state of paralysis. His burly body floating in midair froze for a moment, and fell uncontrollably to the ground.

--"violent!"

The expression of Albert, who was still conscious, changed, a wild roar roared from his mouth, and his burly body was once again raised section by section.

"boom!"

The shadow rope wrapped around the whole body was directly broken by Albert who entered the berserk state, and turned into a little light and dissipated in the air.

"It's kind of interesting to even work as a barbarian part-time." Seeing Albert's change, Thorne was surprised, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Albert, who entered the berserk state, can bring him a substantial bonus to his physique and strength attributes, but it temporarily makes him lose the ability to cast divine spells. The storm lord without divine spells is undoubtedly a threat to Thorne is reduced to a minimum.

——"Moon Arrow!"

Thorne looked at Albert, who was steady and floating in the air. He didn't dare to delay any time. He quickly sheathed the long sword, took out the composite long bow behind his back, and immediately a pale white energy arrow appeared in the palm of his hand. Cohesive molding.

——"Supernatural ability: Thunder weapon!"

"boom!"

A leaping lightning spear took shape in Albert's hands, and then galloped towards Thorne at a speed that was hard to catch with the naked eye.

Thorne rolled on the ground holding the composite longbow, narrowly avoiding the projection of the spear, and took advantage of the situation to draw the longbow to its full extent.

"collapse!"

Accompanied by the faint echo of the bowstring, the pale white arrow shot at Albert floating in midair with a howling sound of piercing through the air.

"boom!"

When Albert saw the strange white arrow, his ferocious expression changed, and a ring on his finger flashed a magical aura, and his whole body was immediately covered by a nearly invisible protective force field.

The pale white arrow smashed fiercely on the force field barrier, and the powerful impact mercilessly smashed the force field into pieces, dissipating into dots of pale white light.

Seeing that the blocked arrows dissipated, Albert moved his mind, and the spear thrown by him appeared in his hand.

Crackling lightning danced on the spear again, and just as he was about to attack, another pale white arrow shot at him with the whistling sound of piercing through the air amidst the slight echo of Thorne's composite longbow.

"boom!"

After entering the berserk state, Albert, who was unable to perform divine spells, was hit hard in the chest by a white arrow, and his body floating in mid-air was crumbling, as if he would fall to the ground at any moment.

"Haven't you fallen down yet? My life is really tough." Looking at Albert who was gradually stabilizing his figure, Thorne couldn't help but glance enviously at the enchanted full body armor covering the other party's body, and then his mind moved.

——"Desert Wind School (Strike Skill): Fire Bomb!"

A dark red fireball gradually formed in Thorne's palm.

"Boom!"

With a scorching whistling sound, the dark red fireball precisely hit Albert, who was floating in mid-air and managed to stabilize his body.

The moment the thick smoke dissipated, Albert's burly body shook, and amidst the exclamations of the crowd, he fell directly from midair.

"Zheng!"

Seeing the fallen Albert, Thorne drew out his long sword and went up to Albert.

"Son, what are you doing!"

The trickster Chris, who was watching the battle not far away, noticed the murderous Thorn, thinking that the other party was going to kill Albert, his face changed, and he yelled loudly.

After finishing speaking, he quickly chanted a hasty spell, trying to block the other party's actions.

On the other side, Andrina, who was watching the battle not far away, noticed Chris's movements, and immediately recognized the attack spell that the opponent was about to cast through "Spell Recognition", and her face changed.

- "Spell Counter!"

I saw a magical aura flashing on her staff, pointing in the direction of Chris.

When a fireball the size of a washbasin was about to condense into shape, it was interrupted and dissipated in the air.

Chris, who was successfully countered by Anderina, suddenly changed his face, spat out a mouthful of blood, and showed a sluggish expression.

(End of this chapter)