Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 11 The Robber
A purple-black ball of light rose from Rhodes' palm. The light of the ball of light flickered erratically, and the whole ball of light was completely extinguished after making a buzzing sound.

Rhodes sighed. This is the tenth time he has failed to use this magic. This magic was called "Otto Creation and Destruction" by his creator, the necromancer. Rhodes used it after understanding the effect. Renamed to "Gravity".

This magic is to gather the magic power in the hand to form a purple-black light ball, and then the caster can attract or repel objects through this light ball.

After seeing it, Rhodes began to try to use it. He found that his total magic power was relatively large, and it seemed to be even more than that of Otto, who had studied necromancy for many years.

After using the gravity technique more than a dozen times, he still feels that he can use it dozens of times. Although the amount of mana consumed by the gravity technique is relatively small, the total amount of magic power in his body seems to be too exaggerated, not like a person who has not exercised. Ordinary people with magical powers can have it.

Maybe I am more suitable to be a mage than a warrior, or a warrior who cultivates both magic and martial arts.

Rhodes was very curious about magic, but he didn't have the opportunity to learn magic systematically, and Necromancer Otto's diary only recorded this kind of magic, and he didn't know where the other magic he mastered was recorded.

Baron can use some relatively simple fire magic, and even maintain the flame cloak that can only be used by experienced flame mages on his whole body equipment and fight for more than ten minutes. It is estimated that expert flame mages will not last so long.

But Baron didn't know how he did it, as if he was born with it, using fire magic was as casual as ordinary people's breathing, so he didn't know how to teach Rhodes this.

It may be that Baron and I both have powerful magical blood in this body, maybe we are actually descendants of a powerful ancient family, Rhodes thought to himself.

Rhodes began to try to use this magic again, carefully thinking about the reason for the previous failure, it should be because the uneven output of magic power did not form a perfect ball.

He felt that the training of magic power control by this magic seemed more valuable than the practical effect of this magic. This magic could only be used to open the door like Otto, and it could be completely replaced by the telescopic fetch of the transformation system.

Just when Rhodes was about to make another attempt, the car he was riding in stopped suddenly, and he heard a sudden noise outside, the neighing of horses mixed with the growling of people.

"What happened?" Hammer stood up from the car next to Rhodes, lifted the car's shed, and walked out.

Rhodes was also curious, put his hand on the hilt of the long sword at his waist, and walked out.

After getting off the car, Rhodes followed Hammer to the front of the caravan. After passing a carriage, he saw five Nords who had never seen before wearing iron armor and holding weapons with fierce faces. stand nearby.

Rhode silently observed the situation on the field. They should have encountered robbers blocking the way.

There were five robbers in front of him and Hamer alone, and there were more robbers on Baron's side in front of the caravan. The total number of robbers was definitely more than twenty.

Although there are more than 30 people on their side, more than half of them are just handymen of the caravan, and their combat effectiveness is definitely incomparable to the robbers who live a life of licking blood every day.

It's such a cold winter, and it's not very far from the city. With so many robbers, the world is really chaotic.

"How much toll do you want?" Rhodes heard Daniel's voice.

"How much is the toll? If you keep the goods, I'll let you go." A hoarse voice came from ahead.

"Impossible. Stealing our cargo is no different from killing us. It is impossible for us to hand over the cargo and escape without doing anything." Daniel said angrily.

"Forget it, you left the goods, and I can guarantee that you can go home without any harm. But since you are unwilling to cooperate with me, you must see some blood today."

As soon as the hoarse voice fell, the surrounding robbers started to move, and the five robbers in front of Rhodes slowly approached them with weapons.

Hammer took down his warhammer from behind, staring fixedly at the robbers in front of him, guarding against their sudden attack.

"You should know how to escape, right? Hurry up and join Baron and the others!" He whispered to Rhodes.

One of the robbers with a scar on his face gave the surrounding accomplices a look, then turned his head and smiled at Hammer, and then he rushed towards Hammer,

Harmer slammed his warhammer at Scarface who was rushing towards him, and Scarface had expected it, and avoided Hammer's attack with a deft roll, and taunted: "My grandma is faster than you!" You can use a hammer!"

Scarface's accomplices took advantage of this opportunity to continue to move forward, forming a situation where three people besieged Hamer and two people besieged Rhodes.

Rhodes was a little nervous. This was his first time fighting a living person, not an unintelligent monster like a ghoul or an idiot like a frost-eating spider he had encountered before.

He used the "Wise Men's Disaster" to parry an ax swung by a robber. At the same time, another robber next to him brandished a long sword and attacked him.

Rhodes had no time to defend the sword at all. If he defended back, he would definitely have his head cut off by the robber with the axe.

In desperation, he could only choose to adjust his posture, using the position protected by the rusted iron plate on his body to actively meet the long sword that was coming.

He was not cut in half as he imagined, nor did he cause serious wounds. The long sword split the iron armor made of rusted iron sheets on Rhodes' body, and cut a hole in the iron sheet and the thick animal leather jacket underneath, and finally he was killed by him. The hard skin blocked it and did not hurt him.

Fortunately, I wore thick clothes today.

Rhodes roared suddenly, pushed the robber with the ax away with his sword, and kicked the robber with the long sword on his lower abdomen when the old strength was exhausted after the attack and the new strength was not yet generated.

Although Rhodes is not as burly and powerful as Baron, he is still 1.8 meters tall and weighs more than 100 kilograms. The strength of this kick is not small.

The robber with the long sword took a few steps back, clutching his stomach, sucking in pain on his face, and should not have the strength to continue fighting in a short time.

This is a blunt injury, even if you wear thicker clothes than mine, it won't help much.

Rhodes breathed a sigh of relief.

Now there is only one enemy in front of him, and he is not so nervous when it comes to one-on-one.

I don't know if it's the fighting consciousness left by the original owner of this body, or Rhodes himself is more talented in fighting. He can faintly suppress the robber in front of him who uses an axe.

Rhodes noticed that the robber was fighting with him while luring him to the caravan. After all, there were many companions of this robber in front of the caravan.

The robber who was kicked in the lower abdomen by him recovered from the pain and rushed towards him.

"Can you speak some principles? If you have the ability, you can fight alone." Rhodes shouted loudly after being surrounded by two robbers.

"You are dreaming!" The robber who used the long sword angrily stabbed the long sword in his hand towards Rhodes.

Rhodes fell to the ground and rolled to avoid the fatal sword. He no longer wanted to fight, retreated while fighting, and quickly approached the front of the caravan.

The bright red Baron flame burning on his body seemed to be unparalleled in the crowd, and every time he swung the ax, one person was sent flying.

He obviously still kept his hands, and every time he used the ax face to attack others, he didn't use a sharp ax blade, otherwise those people would have been chopped into two instead of being sent flying.

The flames enveloped Baron's body and weapons, and no one could attack him against the burning of the flames. Those robbers who dared to approach him were all sent flying by him.

After a while, almost all the robbers were unable to stand up, and they got up and ran away, leaving only a few people moaning on the ground.

The two robbers who fought with Rhodes saw this scene, looked at each other, and then dispersed into the surrounding woods.

Rhodes held the "Wise Man's Calamity" and panted on the spot. The battle just now still consumed a lot of his energy.

He noticed that most of the rest of the caravan gathered around the most luxurious car he had noticed last time, as if to protect someone or something inside.

When Baron saw that there were no enemies who could stand up, he extinguished the flames on his body and put the ax on his back again.

The grooms, handymen and other people around looked at Baron with admiration. Daniel walked over to give Baron a hug and said some words of thanks and praise.

boom!
Weber dragged the bandit leader out of the woods, pointed to the bandit leader who fell on the ground and the robbers who had no strength to escape and asked, "What should we do with them?"

"Don't kill me." The bandit leader quickly got up from the ground, knelt on the ground and begged, he was not as arrogant as before.

"You're really embarrassing to the Nords." Baron stood beside him and mocked disdainfully.

"Let's hand them over to the guards of Glacier City.

It's not good to kill them directly. If you put them back, they will definitely rob the caravan coming later, so it's better to exchange some bounties.

Since you two subdued most of the robbers this time, the bounty for their capture goes to you. said Daniel.

"I have no objection." Weber smiled.

Daniel made a gesture, and the handyman next to him came up and tied up the robbers.

"Where's Hammer?" Weber came over and asked Rhodes.

"He's at the back of the convoy. Three people besieged him just now. I don't know what happened." Rhodes replied.

He was so focused on fighting just now that he forgot about Hamer who was besieged by three people.

After hearing this, Weber took out his weapon and quickly ran to the rear of the convoy.

Rhode took out his weapon and ran after Weber. When he got to the end of the convoy, he saw Hamer sitting on the ground covered in blood. Next to him lay a blood-stained warhammer and the bodies of three robbers. .

"Why don't you stay and face the enemy with him? His leg injury hasn't completely healed yet." Weber said angrily to Rhodes.

Rhodes was about to explain, but Hamer said weakly:
"I asked him to go to you. At that time, he helped me lure two robbers away. He helped me share a lot of pressure."

"I have a medicine that can make Hammer's wound heal faster." Rhodes took out the advanced gold sore medicine from the system space and handed it to Weber.

Wei Bo took the medicine bottle and opened it, poured it into his hand and asked, "Are you joking? There is no medicine in this."

Rhodes was a little surprised. He took the bottle back from Weber's hand, tilted the mouth of the bottle and continued, pouring out a lot of golden powder.

Then he took out a small iron jug that Baron was preparing to store wine, put the powder into the iron jug, and handed it to Weber.

"You clean his wound first and then apply medicine to him." Rhodes said.

Baron walked over and said with a smile, "Did the three little thieves cause you such serious injuries? Your skills are really getting worse. I just killed all directions in front of you. How many times have you retreated?" A hundred robbers."

"If it weren't for the injury on my leg that has seriously affected my strength, there will be no more than a thousand opponents." Hamer said loudly with a blushing face.

Rhode saw that Hamer still had such a loud voice, so there shouldn't be any danger.

"Let's keep going!" Daniel shouted from a high place.

Rhodes returned to the previous position, and he picked up a piece of animal skin next to a dead robber, which should have fallen out of him, and it was written in crooked handwriting:

"Dear son,

We miss you so much!

The day before yesterday, your sister and I received the money you asked Harun to bring back.With this money, we should be able to get through this cold winter.

I don't know how you are doing outside?
Will you be starving for sending so much money home?
If your father is still alive, you don't have to worry about my life and your sister's life.

I hope the lord will give us a field next year, so you can go home and live with us.

Be sure to pay attention to safety outside, fight with others as little as possible, and come back alive.

We miss you so much, take care of yourself.

Love you,

your mother. "

"What are you looking at?" Baron walked over and asked.

"Nothing?" Rhode put the animal skin into the space ring, and then asked, "What about the corpses of these robbers?"

"These robbers deserve their crimes. When they come out to do evil, they must be prepared to be killed. Just move their bodies to the sides of the road without blocking the road. Many of the robbers' accomplices have run away. They should come back to bury the dead. Bad luck." Baron returned.

After Baron left, Rhode looked at the corpses around him and felt a little uncomfortable.

So many people lost their lives so easily in such a short period of time for a little benefit.

Thinking of the letter written to him by the robber's family, he felt a little depressed.

Rhodes clenched his fists, stood still and took a deep breath. The greedy and corrupt nobles caused the flames of war on the entire continent to never stop for their own benefit, turning this world into a hell for ordinary people.

One day, he will have the power to change everything.

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(End of this chapter)