In the arena of Neverwinter, amidst the thunderous cheers and cheers from the audience, the cage holding the evil red-robed witch was finally returned to the underground of the arena.
Almost at the same time, the weird magic rope that bound the red-robed witch collapsed in an instant.
Then……
She had already seen Edkin and others as well as the remaining dozen contestants. Seeing that they had already cooperated and gathered around her and took their positions, the red-robed witch suddenly shook her head without even thinking about it.
She took out a cane from somewhere and raised it, and then as she quickly recited a spell, streams of magical energy surged out of her hand and quickly enveloped her whole body.
Then, as a shock wave suddenly spread and exploded in all directions, and the air flow blew away some players who were too close, her eyes began to lock on the two members of the 'Rogue' team.
It's Simon, who is also a spellcaster, and the druid Doric.
She saw that the two people were standing together, covered by the barbarian and a ranger, and seemed to be preparing to launch some kind of magic attack on her?
"Sofina!"
"I didn't expect you to come here..."
"What happened up there?"
"Where's Fudge?"
"Did he abandon you?"
At this time, Edkin spoke.
Although he still didn't know what happened just now, he was cunning and squeezed the other party as soon as he opened his mouth and tried his best to alienate the relationship between the other party and Fudge, as if he wanted to get rid of the other party before the fight started.
Mouth to get some necessary information?
Of course, while he was crowding and fighting, Edkin also secretly directed his team members and other players to slowly approach the opponent from all directions in order to get into an optimal attack distance.
"You stupid mortals!"
"You want to use these dirty tricks to deal with a mage like me?"
"Don't be stupid!"
It's a pity that Sofina didn't even bother to answer Edkin's question.
"I will kill you and make those people look good!"
"I will escape!"
"The great master will not let them go!!"
Moreover, she seemed to have seen Edkin's little movements, the players around and behind her who were slowly approaching, and the ranger in front who drew his bow and aimed at her, so while laughing loudly, she also began to slowly brew
Use a certain spell.
"oh?"
"they?"
However, Edkin still learned some important information that he considered very valuable from Sofina's words.
"Who are they?"
"Who else but a little girl?"
Because at the beginning of the game, he had heard that guy Fudge introduce Annie, and now, in view of the failure of the terrible 'Scarlet Death' spell just now and the red-robed witch being captured and thrown into the arena, he
There is reason to believe that Anne must have been involved.
After all, he and his friends all know and have seen that Tibbers, Anne's little bear, even beat the giant dragon Hibberchard to his knees and surrendered, and this mere red-robed witch in front of him must be no problem either.
, there is no doubt about that.
Therefore, since the plot of the evil red-robed witch Sofina failed and was caught and thrown into the arena for the entertainment of the audience, Edkin has reason to believe that something must have happened in the VIP room.
What.
However, what exactly did Anne do in the meantime, what role did she play, and the current whereabouts of the abominable Fudge. Was he still caught in the VIP room, or had he escaped by boat?
, he remains unknown for the time being.
As for the above doubts, if possible, he really wanted to know them from the other party.
"Sofina!"
"What just bound you must be a very clever forbidden magic. There must be a very clever archmage above the VIP room, right?"
"who is he?"
At this time, Warlock Simon also asked curiously.
After all, to be able to restrain a red-robed witch and make her come here to participate in the gladiatorial battle, he felt that she must be at least an archmage-level existence. Otherwise, if she wants to easily subdue someone like Sofina,
It's really not easy for a witch.
At least Simon can't do it now, and he certainly won't be able to do it for a long time in the future!
"Stop your stupid trivia game!"
"mortal!"
"Your doom has come!"
Unfortunately, and I don’t know why, Sofina, who looked as haggard as a dead person at this time, and was actually a dead person, had an extremely irritable temper. She didn’t want to answer Edkin or Simon’s questions at all, and just waved her hands violently.
Cane, and then released a fireball into the sky.
"!!"
"!?"
"What does she want?"
"Is this trying to break the magic shield of the arena?"
"have no idea……"
Seeing the red robe witch suddenly attacking and casting spells, the players, including Edkin and Holgai, were startled and prepared to evade.
But when they discovered that the other party had just thrown a fireball into the sky, their original vigilance turned into confusion, and they couldn't help but look at each other in confusion.
"!!"
However, fortunately, there was someone at the scene who knew the goods, and that person turned out to be Simon!
No matter how you say it, no matter how much Simon's strength has improved after being synchronized with the Lawbreaker Helmet, in the final analysis, he is from a family background and has an ancestor named 'Elminster Omar'
, therefore, his knowledge and knowledge are of course more reliable than those of ordinary wild mages, such as the contestant mage who is looking up at the sky in confusion at this time.
"not good!"
"Everyone, be careful!"
Therefore, knowing that something was wrong, he shouted directly, and immediately set up an arc-shaped magic shield for him and Doric beside him, directly wrapping him and Doric.
However, he couldn't care about other people for the time being. After all, his abilities were limited.
boom!!
The next moment, as expected!
As soon as Simon finished speaking, the big fireball suddenly exploded in the air, and then, while the flames were shooting out, it turned into dozens of fireballs like meteors and continued towards the entire competition.
The field was covered and bombarded indiscriminately?
"!!"
"damn it!"
"careful!"
"Everyone, run!"
"Danger!"
"Wow!!!"
Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In an instant, the audience only saw countless sparks exploding on the ground of the arena.
Then, amid the fire, thick smoke, and debris flying everywhere, at least half of the dozen or so contestants were caught off guard, and at least half of them were blown away, killed or injured, and almost half of them who were intact could be counted on one hand.
come over.
Just like that, the plan and hunting formation that Edkin had just managed to organize and prepare to round up the red-robed witch came to nothing in an instant.
It can also be seen from this that what Holgay and Simon usually say is indeed correct. Edkin is a failed planner. He has planned countless plans, including the previous 'Plan A' and 'B'.
Plans', it seems, all ended in failure?
“…”
"..."
"..."
At this time, the tens of thousands of spectators in the audience who had been shouting and cheering just now, wishing that they would personally come out to replace the warriors and chop the evil red-robed witch into minced meat, seemed to have been subjected to that kind of attack called
The collective 'Silence Technique' affected everyone, and they were so shocked that they all shut their mouths in an instant.
And until now, when they saw the red-robed witch almost turning the entire arena into a sea of ​​fire with a raised hand, and when they saw that the life and death of the warriors were uncertain, they finally woke up and finally understood what the legend said.
The reason why those red-robed wizards are feared and hated by people.
It turns out that those red-robed wizards and those Cyrils are definitely not just because of the evil and the identity of the 'undead', but also because of the power of the other party and the vicious spells!
"go to hell!"
"monster!"
Fortunately, not all the warriors were knocked down or killed by the explosion. For example, the barbarian female warrior Holgai?
Although a fireball did explode on the ground not far from her just now, and the heat wave and flying stones did burnt her hair and left several red wounds on her body, but
, those minor injuries could not do anything to her other than making her become more brave and violent.
Therefore, in the smoke and fire, the audience only saw Holgay charging forward quickly and dodging more fireballs that were bombarded later, and then violently swung the ax in his hand, high and low.
Gao Gao jumped up and struck the red-robed witch Sofina who was rising slowly with an axe.
Whoosh!
But it's a pity, maybe it's because the other party flies too fast, maybe she jumps too low?
Anyway, her ax only hit the hem of the opponent's red robe and cut off a small piece of red cloth.
"!!"
But fortunately, although the barbarian Holgai is a blind person, her intuition about combat is amazing after all.
The audience soon saw in the exclamation that the moment she hit the air and landed, she threw the giant ax in her hand towards the opponent's back with her backhand, causing the giant ax to spin and bring the opponent with her.
With a terrifying sound that broke through the air, it flew toward the back of the red-robed witch Sofina.
It's a pity that Sofina seems to have been on guard for a long time?
Bang!!
Then, amidst the regrets of the audience, just when the giant ax was about to hit the target, it first hit a certain layer of invisible magic shield, and then after the air wave exploded, her ax just stopped.
Once it spun around and was bounced far away.
"watch out!"
"Arcane Missile!!"
At this time, the warlock Simon, who had just blocked the fireball with his shield, took action.
He made some small moves, and then three small blue missiles flew forward and hit Sofina who had already flown into the sky, and successfully caused the other party to look at him with angry eyes several times.
Eye.
"Simon!!"
"That's it?"
"Can't you change some useful spells?"
Holgai, who was just about to run to find her giant ax, was stunned when she saw Simon's playful spell. Then, she couldn't help but speak loudly towards Simon, the 'chief' spell caster on their side.
mocked.
"You don't understand!"
"Although that spell is not very powerful, three consecutive magic bombardments have at least eliminated the shield around her!"
Simon just slumped his shoulders and reluctantly explained this sentence.
Next second!
Whoosh~!
At this time, the ranger who was lucky enough not to be killed or injured took action. She raised her hand and shot an arrow, which accurately penetrated the neck of the red-robed witch.
It can be seen that her archery skills must be very good. Not only is it accurate, but the angle is tricky and the speed is also very fast. She barely gave Sofina any chance to dodge and successfully pierced her neck.
"look!"
"If you don't offset her shield, how can your attack succeed?"
Seeing that the ranger really cooperated with him to deliver an effective fatal blow, Simon proudly glanced at Holgai in the distance with a show-off look.
But...
"!!"
The red-robed witch Sofina seemed not to be affected in any way. She directly ignored the sharp arrow that pierced her neck and raised her hand to perform another complex set of gestures. Then she condensed a
He picked up a series of ice picks and prepared to shoot the female ranger with those sharp and cold ice picks.
Of course, the target must also be Edkin, Holgay, Simon and the few players who survived by chance who were still standing at this time.
"Roar!!"
But luckily!
At this moment, before Sofina could raise her hand and make condescending instructions and actions to attack the people on the ground, a snowy owl flying behind her suddenly turned into a huge white owl and pounced.
It landed on her body, and at the same time, it threw her down from high in the air.
Then, while the two parties landed heavily and rolled and entangled, Doric ignored the pain all over her body and directly used her owlbear form to continuously swing at Sofina with her sharp claws, not just
Once he pierced his claws deeply into the opponent's chest.
"Get away!"
But soon, with a scream-like roar from Sofina, Doric's transformed owlbear was quickly blasted away by the blast of air.
At the same time, Sofina also released a bubble-like restraint ball, which hit Doric directly before she hit the ground, leaving her helpless and futile to pull inside and roll further and further away.
"Everyone, pay attention!"
"She is a Cyre and an undead!"
"Normal methods can't kill her!!"
At this time, when Sofina slowly stood up again with the scars on her chest and the long arrow stuck in her neck, Ed, who had been fortunate enough to see the Paladin Henk fight a group of Ser assassins in the dungeon,
Jin Cai reminded loudly.
"We are not blind, of course we can see it!"
"What do you want to do?"
While Horgai ran over to rescue Doric, he did not forget to shout angrily at Edkin, who only knew how to play tricks, and asked rhetorically.
"Maybe……"
"Should we chop off her head?"
At this moment, what can Edkin do?
Therefore, he just said with some uncertainty.
When he thought about it, it would be easier if Annie's 'fat orange' hair was there at this time.
Because they had seen with their own eyes how that big guy ate up the group of Ser assassins one by one until nothing was left. And since the group of Ser assassins could be easily killed by the giant dragon, then what they saw in front of them was
The same goes for witches for sure.
"Cut off my head?"
"very good!"
"Then let me see what you are capable of."
Unfortunately, Sofina just sneered, and as soon as she stretched out her hand, a huge mage's hand condensed with red evil magic grabbed Edkin.
And judging from her reaction, cutting off her head is probably one of the ways to kill her?
"Feel sorry!"
"Maybe I have this ability?"
In a hurry, Simon took action.
He also used the same move, the mage's hand condensed from the rubble on the ground to resist Sofina's bloody hand attacking Edkin. At the same time, he wrestled with the opponent and sarcastically said.
"here you go!"
"Simon!"
At this time, Holgai, who had just run to help Doric, came back.
"Hold her!"
"Let's tear her apart!!"
She shouted to Simon, who was wrestling with Sofina, while riding on the back of Doric, who had transformed into an owlbear. Like an owlbear knight, she galloped towards the owlbear.
The red-robed witch Sofina charged away and waved the giant ax in her hand, preparing to take the opportunity to chop off the opponent's head or even tear the opponent directly into pieces as Edkin said just now?
"!!"
At this time, the red-robed witch Sofina was obviously aware of the danger.
However, right now, she had to wrestle with Simon while dodging the damn ranger who kept shooting arrows at her eyes from afar, so that for a moment she was unable to do anything and could only watch helplessly as Doric rode on him.
The barbarian warrior Horgai kept shouting and approached behind her?
"I!"
"I can't hold on anymore!"
boom!!
Unfortunately, at this moment, when Horgai and Doric were about to rush to Sofina, the warlock Simon took the lead and dropped the chain and screamed miserably.
His mage's hand was crushed and exploded by the opponent almost instantly, and then, Sofina freed her hand just like that.
"madness!!"
In a hurry, Sofina directly released a time-stopping force field, just like what she had done when the others went to steal the Harper Alliance's treasure house.
then!
As the ripples visible to the naked eye spread out in all directions, whether it was Edkin who was about to rush towards her, Holgi who had already rushed behind her, and the heroic Doric under Holgi, or even
The rangers who were bending their bows and arrows not far away, as well as the other contestants who had basically made no achievements, were all trapped in the time stasis field like statues, unable to move.
"Now……"
"Let me see, it was you who cut off my head first..."
"Or should I let you suffer eternal torture first?"
Looking at Edkin who had already rushed forward, the red-robed witch didn't know what she was thinking. She actually smiled and slowly took out a red-robed wizard's blade, and then prepared to hand it towards Edkin's heart.
Go over and pierce his heart.
Whoosh!
"?!"
Otherwise!
With the doubts on the face of the red-robed witch Sofina, she actually saw that Edkin stabbed her heart with one sword first, and at the same time, he snatched it away from her with the other hand.
That red-robed wizard's blade?
then!
Before she could figure out what happened and why Edkin could move, Holgai and Doric behind her took action.
Crack!
The terrifying sharp ax instantly swept past her neck with the sharp arrow stuck in it.
Then, with flying claws, Doric, who transformed into a hero, tore her headless and shriveled body and her red robe into pieces that filled the sky in almost the blink of an eye.
Even one of her shriveled thighs was thrown dozens of meters away by the owlbear transformed by Doric. If it weren't for the magic protection of the arena, the shriveled thigh would have been thrown into the audience.
.
"that……"
"Feel sorry!"
"After synchronizing with the Sword Breaking Helmet, I found that I became stronger."
Simon said with some embarrassment and pride when he saw the withered bald head with round, dead eyes falling right in front of him, with his hand making a certain spell-casting gesture.
"so……"
"I think I successfully countered your spell just now?"
Yes, although the level of strength is not too much, Simon can proudly announce that he is no longer a rookie warlock!
Then!
Before Edkin and others in the arena could say anything, the audience once again stood up like thunder and shouted and cheered wildly. At the same time, countless petals, lottery tickets and other things were thrown into the arena.
In the field.
Because this year's Scorching Sun Competition has basically come to an end here.
But this time, in addition to all the members of Edkin's 'Rogue' team, there were also several contestants from other teams who survived and received the final victory bonus and honor.
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Chapter completed!