Chapter 41: Front and Back Flanking
Catherine pursed her lips and reached out to take out the third bottle of potion, but hesitated for a moment and gave up the plan. She turned around and looked at the giant puppet that was chasing slowly. As soon as Vivian hit the tunnel, Catherine was forced to retreat by the powerful puppet. Seeing that the distance of the puppet was less than 100 meters, if she remained still, with the puppet's stride and speed, she would probably chase it in front of her at most one minute.
"Let's go." Catherine gritted her teeth, raised her already limp Vivian and said to the two maids: "Continue running as planned. If it puts a crystal bomb, I will deal with it."
"Sister, be careful when you go forward." Annie poked her head anxiously and said, "There are undead ahead, which is very dangerous."
"Also?" Catherine was stunned, and while walking forward quickly, she turned her head and listened. All she heard in her ears was the heavy footsteps of the puppets behind her, but there was no sound of the skeletons rubbing their bones. But Anne could not lie at this time. Catherine could only ask in confusion: "I didn't hear it, isn't it a skeleton?"
"No, it's a ghost." Anne pointed to herself: "Anne's kind."
Catherine's fist clenched. Ghosts, or ghosts, are regarded as the most headache-inducing one among the undead, and have always been a nightmare in the eyes of adventurers. This weird undead can have no entity, and the physical attacks have extremely small effects on them. The swords in their hands are between reality and reality, and they cut on the human body. Even if the physical part cannot break through the human body's defense, the other part of the virtual part can point directly to the soul and cause trauma to the human soul. Not only that, for those who are not determined, ghosts can also take the opportunity to invade the other's thinking and let the other party fall into a frenzy. A few months ago, in the ruins of the old city of Briana, the hundreds of corpses found by Catherine and the four others have different causes of death, but they can be summarized after discussion. It is nothing more than being crazy and killing each other, or being attacked by attacks from the soul.
To deal with such strange undeads, unless they hold weapons that have been blessed by sacredly, or like demigods, they can squander their energy and use powerful energy to completely disperse them. Otherwise, if they engage in regular combat with weapons alone, the physical combat profession basically does not work. If they really want to effectively eliminate ghosts, they must be priests with gods with life-type clergy or light-type clergy. Their magical magic has miraculous effects on such undeads. Often a high-level priest can purify ghosts in pieces. In addition to priests, mages who are good at light-attribute magic can also be used. Although their efficiency is slightly lower than that of priests, it is much faster than those of physics-type combat professions.
Vivian could actually do it, but it would take at least half an hour to recover her mobility, and it was impossible for her to get there. Thinking of this, Catherine felt a splitting headache and was really in a dilemma.
"Forget it, let's look back." Time was tight, and Catherine hesitated for only a few seconds. Then she made up her mind and pulled the two sisters with Vivian on her back: "Retreat for the time being. Wait until the puppet is thrown away, and Vivian wakes up and comes back."
"But the puppet is blocking the way." The two sisters did not hesitate and ran away with Catherine, but still asked with some concern: "Do you have to knock it down first?"
"No, the biggest weakness of this puppet is that it moves slowly than normal people." Catherine held Vivian upwards on her back, raised her shield and said, "I'll go up and attract his attention first. You can take the opportunity to get through it and run away after it passes. I will hold him back. Don't worry, you can be faster than it even if you are injured. I'll catch up when you run for a distance, don't worry about getting separated."
"Thank you." Pansy pansy gasped. Although she had a rough emergency treatment, the wounds on her body still made both sisters a little weak and it became difficult to run. But even so, she still reluctantly asked the biggest question in her heart: "Why do you still have to hold the enemy for us at this time? This behavior is completely unreasonable."
"That's your common sense, not mine." Catherine looked at the puppet getting closer and closer, and the smile on her face remained: "Or, that's just the common sense of the City of Innocence, not the common sense of the outside world. Do you know why you kids born in the City of Innocence can't survive outside even if you go out? It's because you have been bound by these common sense you think. Well, now, I'll go first, remember to find a gap to run over."
In a blink of an eye, he had already run to less than ten meters at the foot of the giant puppet. Catherine stepped on the ground and rushed into the attack range of the puppet first. The puppet's sensor found that one of the locked invaders had entered the effective distance. She immediately raised her legs, and raised her calf, which was nearly 80 cm thick in diameter, and stepped heavily towards Catherine on the ground. After a few minutes of fighting, Catherine had long been used to the close attack method of the puppet. She took a step sideways, and the shield pressed against the ground tightly against the side, making the erect shield at an angle of 75 degrees to the ground. The top of the shield just exceeded the outer edge of the puppet's metal foot.
The puppet's heavy trampling attack changed direction due to the smooth and tilted shield. The downward force was cleverly changed to obliquely, making the puppet seem to step on the empty space. The huge body became unstable because of the wrong power. It shook for a while before regaining its balance. The maids and sisters never stopped their steps. When the puppet just raised its legs, it began to sprint forward. While the metal soles fell, the two girls had already taken the opportunity to pass through the gap that Catherine had fought for and walked around the back of the puppet.
"Stay running, don't stop." Catherine fully utilized her mobility, turned her body, blocked the puppet and the two sisters, and blocked the puppet's path to chase them.
In fact, based on the knight's mobility, if only Catherine herself, or even if she is still carrying Vivian on her back, this puppet would be difficult for her to pose too much threat. Catherine didn't even need to fight with the puppet head-on. She just had to wander around the puppet's footsteps to put the puppet in a situation where she was forced to rotate in place, and it was impossible to launch any effective attack on Catherine. This is also a flaw that the goblin designers could not solve in the end tens of years ago.
But now Catherine obviously cannot do this. She has already discovered the way to judge the puppet. In the battle, the puppet will give priority to chasing the target in front of the target. When there is more than one target in the current position, it will give priority to attack the target with the closest target. So if Catherine dares to be behind and on the side of the puppet for a long time, the puppet will turn the target to the maid sister who is running away. These two sisters are not like Catherine, who can eat crystal explosion bombs several times. Once the puppet fires explosion bombs at them, the two sisters will either be seriously injured or die on the spot.
"Hey, I'm here." Although he knew that the sound was useless, Catherine still shouted habitually, and at the same time swung the shield and smashed it hard on the puppet's calves. However, the puppet made of metal seemed to be unaware of the attack. She leaned forward with her upper body, bent down and slammed her head on the ground, causing the ground to vibrate violently again. But as the target of the fist, Katherine took a few steps back before the fist landed, just letting go of her fist, and calmly watched the fist pass by less than fifty centimeters away from her.
With a light sound of "dang", although Catherine knew it was invalid, she still followed the situation and saw the puppet's arm, leaving a white mark on the surface of the metal. The puppet seemed to be angry with this piece, and hit the ground arm, and suddenly pierced more than a dozen metal spikes nearly two meters long from the position of the elbow. The spikes covered a very wide range, like a metal cage, trying to limit Catherine's movement. However, Catherine had already suffered such a sudden attack before, and had already been prepared. The shield raised to protect the top of her head, and at the same time she took two steps back to avoid the attack of the metal spike.
If he missed a blow, the puppet knelt on one knee, and the joints of the bent leg suddenly opened, revealing a dark hole. The first time I saw the puppet's strange reaction, Katherine didn't dare to be careless. All the muscles in her body were in a state of tension, and she was ready to dodge around at any time.
"Puff." A yellowish brown liquid spurted out from the open knee joint. This was one of the hidden attack methods of the legion and war puppets. Although the sprayed liquid had no effect on metal, it was a highly corrosive liquid for only a few drops, which could burn through a person's limbs. If it was sprayed by these liquids, it would probably take only a few seconds to turn an intact person into a bloody skeleton.
"Tsk~~~" Catherine snorted a little annoyed, and was scared by the sudden attack of the puppet and sweated coldly. If it weren't foreshadowing the crisis, she pushed the shield over her head in advance and avoided it in time, she might have been sprayed with liquid. At that time, she would not have been simply injured.
"I won't play with you anymore." Catherine tied the rope that tied Vivian behind her. She waved an ineffective sword at the puppet like anger, and turned around and chased the maid sister. However, something that scared her happened. The maid sister, who should have run far away, was actually running back from a distance, and she frequently turned around while running.
"Why are you back?" Catherine asked in surprise: "Didn't you say that you must keep running forward, don't you stop?"
"No, I can't run away." The maid sister replied panting: "There are also dead in front, in front, in front."
Chapter completed!