Chapter 2 The First Battle
Perhaps it was because the traveling merchants who drove the car alone to walk through the desert were too unreasonable, and even the sand thieves did not attack immediately. And in the position of hunters, they seemed to regard this as a game between life and death. There were only three people on the other side, two of them were little ghosts, and the merchant didn't look like a powerful guy. Since that's the case, why not just play with them?
Lawrence picked up a long sword from the ground. He had barely learned some protective sword skills before. After all, the travel merchants were not like the rich men who lie in carriages all day long. They could hire good-looking soldiers and have heartfelt guards, so they would not lose their wives and soldiers like themselves. But what's the use of saying this now? Those sand thieves were riding four-legged sand beasts. Although those things were as slow as hippos on ordinary land, in such desert environments, their
The speed can be faster than that of the US military! In fact, the most common attack method used by those sand thieves is to ride four-legged sand beasts and rush over with scimitars, harassing the caravan like flies. When they are exhausted, there are few caravans who can survive such an attack. Organize the same four-legged sand beast cavalry team to charge against them? What a joke! Luo Luns sat on that thing once and almost knocked him to death. I'm afraid even the most experienced rider can't control such things.
"What a bad luck!"
Lawrence drew out his long sword and leaned against the wide back of the camel beast. Yi Ming and the girl stood on the left and right sides of him. It was too incompetent! Too reckless! In any case, the three of us could not kill these dozens of sand thieves! And the girl looked so cute, how could she kill someone?
The girl's slender eyebrows were slightly frowned, and her blonde hair still exuded a vibrant luster under the shaking sun of the desert. She gently took off the black gloves on her left hand, and then, Lawrence seemed to see something on the back of the girl's hand...
The flawless white mysterious runes shot out from the back of the girl's hand, gently and quickly wrapped around the girl's left hand. Then, like Yi Ming, the moment the girl held the light ball formed by the rune line in her left hand, the rune lines rotated and stretched like spiraling branches and leaves, and then turned into a white sword.
When he saw the sword in the girl's hand, Lawrence's mind was blank for a moment. He almost forgot the threat of the sand thief in front of him. Even the question of how she summoned the sword was left behind, because another question was more important.
Is this a sword?
Indeed, no matter how you look at it, it should be no problem that the weapon in the girl's hand is a sword with a sword. However, it is precisely because there is no problem that there is a question. In Luorens's view, the sword body of this sword is too slender, even as thick as a finger, and slightly longer than an ordinary long sword. Even if this kind of sword is stolen by the sand and slashed by a scimitar, it will definitely be broken immediately. The guard part is carved with a flashy sculpture, and what Lawrence couldn't understand is that the guard of the sword actually covered the back of the user's hand. If this is to protect it, what are the gaps like spider webs on it?
Just as Lawrence stared at her big eyes, the girl moved her body slightly, then she held the sword down with her left hand palm, and then she actually made a move with the tip of the sword slanted down. Although this action looks very elegant and beautiful, based on Lawrence's experience, this action is of no use except good looking! It will even hinder the smoothness of the movement. Could it be that this lady is a nobleman who is not familiar with the world and has no combat experience? Apart from them, who will try her best to put such a fool posture that has no effect except gorgeousness in life and death?
(Are you ready?)
The girl's beautiful voice sounded in Yi Ming's mind, which was different from the girl's completely aristocratic and elegant posture. His double-edged long sword was dragged sideways beside him, and one end of the long and sharp sword blade had already penetrated into the sand. This way, it looked careless, and it didn't seem like he was fighting at all.
Two "novices".
This is the conclusion drawn by Lawrence after observation. Although the swords they used were completely different from those in their common sense, the strange techniques and postures did not look like the preparations they would have during battles. But... who are they?
"Remember, don't be too hasty and expose your 'ability'."
Yi Ming's voice was very small, almost inaudible in the whizzing storm. But the girl on the other side nodded as if she had heard his words.
The sand thieves were still standing above the dunes and occupying a powerful position. Because the distance was too far, they did not see clearly the method of summoning weapons. Now, the time for the attack has come.
"Yeah, drink~~~!!!"
A strange cry sounded like a trumpet of war. The sand thieves rode the four-legged sand beasts and ran down the dunes, and their scimitars shining under the sunlight. But strangely, they did not follow the rules of straight downward rushing, but swayed left and right, and then manipulated the four-legged sand beast to surround the three of Rollens and others. It has to be said that the four-legged sand beasts were indeed very fast. In Yi Ming's eyes, they were almost no different from those guys driving motorcycles. Fortunately, the "wheel" of this thing did not seem to be hard enough to cut down.
Yi Ming took a step forward, and happened to be a sand thief riding a four-legged sand beast towards him. The scimitar cut a perfect semicircle in the air, and he could cut off Yi Ming's neck at sight.
The originally oblique black blade suddenly rose up, bringing up a large area of dust. The sand thief's smile frozen, and the sword blade beside Yi Ming drew a semicircle on the sand and then lifted it up. It swung silently from bottom to top. When the sand returned to silence again, half of the poor guy's body had been cut off by obliquely. His distorted, blood-stained smiley face fell into the desert together with the front half of the four-legged sand beast.
It seems that no matter what this is, at least it is not as hard as those Hummers.
Yi Ming breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he was not so sure. After all, this world is completely different from what he knew. Who knows whether the creatures here will be as invulnerable as the alien monsters described in science fiction novels? But......killing......it's not the first time anyway.
Lawrence leaned against the camel beast's body. He widened his eyes in surprise, and then rubbed them desperately with his hands. It wasn't a dream! You know, he saw it very clearly just now! The Sha Thief's scimitar was after cutting Yi Ming's neck. However, the Sha Thief's slashed his neck, but it seemed that the air was passing by, and it did not cause any damage to Yi Ming. Did he avoid it at the critical moment? Lawrence was very confident in his eyes! He clearly saw the shaking back of the knife. If Yi Ming really avoided the opponent's attack, his body should block the reflection of the blade!
But before there was any time to think deeply, the Sha Thief on the other side saw that his companion was killed, and shouted angrily, rushing directly to the girl who was responsible for the guard work on the other side. Originally, he wanted to play with him for a while and see what expression this cute girl would show... Hehe, that was really a pleasure. But the death of his companion made Sha Thief's almost game-like mood disappear. After all, they were companions, and the guy who had been split in half now - hell! That was his best friend! Last time they stood guard, they said that if they caught a beautiful girl next time, they would get on the top!
The girl stepped forward and her body was elegantly rotated from left to right, as beautiful as a dance. But this movement was so strange. The other party was still a long distance away from her. Even if the timing of spinning and stabbing was mastered ingeniously, she could cover up the movement with her figure and cause serious damage with the opponent's impact. However, according to her movement, even if she rotated and stabbed the sword, the other party had not yet come to her.
But in this process, a change occurred.
The white sword in the girl's hand suddenly sounded a light "click", and then the white phantom suddenly grew several times, whipping past like a long white whip, whipping heavily on the head of the Sha Thief who had no time to defend and was only focused on attacking. The sudden attack made the Sha Thief wail, and then turned over and fell off the horse, covered his head and rolled a few times in the desert, and stopped, and he seemed to be unable to survive.
"Kushi"
Another light sound, the slender white phantom quickly retracted and shortened like life, and once again turned into the magnificent sword in the girl's hand that was as gorgeous as a work of art.
What happened to these two people?
Lawrence looked to the left and the right, almost in pain, and was about to kneel on the ground with his head in his arms.
OK, okay, the other party is just a few thieves. You should be calmer and calmer. It is not difficult for intermediate warriors with rich practical experience to deal with such small characters. Haven’t you seen them before? But these two little guys are still children, no, maybe they are a little older than the children. But this……
After the two people died, the sand thieves did not intend to attack each other in close attacks, and even set aside some distance to guard against them. However, they still revolved around the beast cart and had no intention of giving up. Compared with ordinary mercenary groups and army, it was not that easy to replenish the sand thieves. The orphans who wandered in the city had long been booked by the thieves. Even those wild thieves in the countryside were more like sand thieves. Who would like to rob a desert without pooping or chickens without laying eggs? Indeed, if the goods were abundant, then a few people would recognize them. However, the cart of goods in front of him did not seem to be much, and he lost two people in a blink of an eye. The sand thieves would not do such unpaid things.
"Be careful! They have crossbows!"
For Lawrence, the Sand Thieves' actions are very familiar. If the near attack cannot succeed, the Sand Thieves will naturally choose to attack remotely... This is a problem!
"incite!"
"Um?"
The sand thief who shot the arrow rode on the four-legged sand beast in surprise and rubbed his eyes. The arrow just now was clearly aiming very accurately, but why didn't it hit? No, strange? It shot that little ghost? But his body didn't seem to be injured? But I clearly felt that the arrow shot his body... flying in the air, constantly rotating his head, and it seemed that there was no need to think about any questions. Yi Ming appeared beside the four-legged sand beast who was not injured, with no trace of blood on the double-edged sword in his hand. But no one saw how he came, or when did he act?
"It's much slower than bullets."
Yi Ming was still sighing, but he quickly turned around and his brain was running rapidly, calculating the number, distance, and range of enemies in front of him.
(That's true, but you can't be careless.)
The girl's voice sounded in her mind was steady and elegant. Then her wrist easily drew an arc. The white sword body followed her movements and suddenly flashed by several flames. Several crossbow arrows that had already aimed at the girl were now completely bounced away by her, as if the girl didn't care about these terrible attacks at all. Although three people shot at her almost at the same time, the girl's sword actually blocked them one by one.
(We don’t know the effects of weapons in this world, so it’s better to be careful.)
“That’s right.”
The flying and rotating black death threw an innocent head into the sky. Although the sand thieves had already noticed that Yi Ming was attacking him with a double-edged sword and changing the direction of the attack, the arrows that were painted with huge poisons and could just scratch the skin and even the cow could immediately knock down did not play the role they should do. They only wiped Yi Ming's body by a fraction of the difference, but none of them shot. For those sand thieves, there was never anything more strange than this.
"Woo……………Image to the point! The wind is tight and thrust!!"
It was obvious that neither close or long attacks could succeed, and the sand thieves who lost five or six people's hands in just a moment could not hold on any longer. One of them, who was surrounded by a heavy scarf, looked like the leader, screamed, and then he placed his hand on his lips and whistled a strange whistle. The sand thieves who were spinning around the beast cart immediately retreated. The strong wind swept the yellow sand, and in just a few minutes, the guys lost their traces. Only sand and soil were everywhere and buried corpses were left.
Chapter completed!