Everyone's mind buzzed at this moment, and they stared at the giant oak stick in the ice giant's hand, not daring to believe their eyes.
Although Yuna had said before that the Ice Giant's weapon was an oak stick, they just thought that the thousand-year-old giant tree in the mountains had been pulled out. They didn't expect it to be this...
"Druid magic." Gede muttered to himself, "The ice giant can cast spells, but the books only record the ability to command other monsters and the power to stir up blizzards. But druid magic, this is too..."
With a "whoosh" sound, a mass of something came flying towards Gede with a sound of breaking wind. The bear-faction witcher wanted to dodge it reflexively, but after seeing the true face of the thing out of the corner of his eye, he hurriedly took it - it was a brand new alchemical backpack bag.
Generally, demon hunters would place three or four different low-cost bombs and potions on their backpacks to deal with emergencies. However, the backpack that Lann threw at him only had one alchemical creation - the [Golden Anti-Magic Bomb].
Lann's left hand flipped repeatedly, distributing weapons to his companions who might have to engage in close combat with the ice giant in a while.
Cohen looked at the neatly packed bombs on the backpack and took a deep breath: "I never thought of using magic-blocking gold against giants..."
This was not enough, Lann looked intently at the wound on the wrist of the ice giant he had just fought in the cave. There was almost no scratch left on it.
"Kolgrim, the Ice Giant also has the ability to heal itself at high speed. Its metabolism is very fast. Will it be less poisonous?"
The snake hunter's cheek twitched when he heard this: "The reasoning should be correct, but I don't know how much dosage I need for such a large body, and my attacks can't penetrate the defense at all... Forget it, I'll think of a way."
He stared around with his snake-like eyes, and suddenly saw Milva drawing her bow and arrow, ready to shoot.
"Wait!" Kolgrim ran over and skillfully took out a small bottle from his alchemy backpack, then poured all of it on Milva's arrow, "Use this!"
Lan nodded, and with his left hand flipped for the last time, he took out the [Ogre Sword Oil] from the [Inventory], and added a hazy halo to the golden rune sword. At the same time, the black magic sword behind him automatically floated out and disappeared in a burst of bright emerald flames.
"Everyone, pay attention!" Geralt stood at the front of the team, his white hair flying in the wind, staring at the approaching monster, "It's coming!"
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A snowstorm was coming.
"Shoot!"
The shrill sound of the horn echoed in the mountains. If the snow in the mountains had not become several layers thinner for some unknown reason, it might have caused an avalanche.
Hundreds of arrows pressed down on the ice giant, and the density even briefly surpassed the snowflakes flying in the air. Unfortunately, the blizzard surrounding the ice giant formed a natural barrier, and all the approaching arrows were involuntarily deflected.
“Huh!” “Huh!”
The ice giant put his left hand in front of his eyes. The arrows that were deflected by the strong wind were like weak stones, hitting his blue-green skin lightly and could not penetrate at all.
Except for the one Milva shot.
“Puff.”
"God!" The ice giant became extremely angry. It had been many years since it last got hurt, but within just a quarter of an hour, it had almost been bleeding twice.
An arrow with an exceptionally long shaft was embedded lightly in its palm, causing a slight stinging sensation. The ice giant shook his hand violently as if he had received an electric shock, and then the arrow automatically fell off and flew away to an unknown place.
It just broke the skin, and the wound was not even big enough for the arrow to embed itself.
Milva put the second arrow on herself and asked Kolgrim without looking away, "Will your poison work for a wound of this severity?"
Kolgrim drew out his own silver snake sword, threw his special bag of poison to Milva, and went into battle lightly: "Can you make the arrow go deeper? I heard from Lann that you can make the arrow hit the same place many times."
Milva took careful aim for a moment and shook her head: "The wind is too strong."
With the blizzard brought by the ice giant, all the arrows shot out would be greatly reduced in power and deflected. Archers of Milva's level were no exception.
Fortunately, there were others on the scene who could fight the blizzard.
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A real thunderbolt suddenly appeared in Yennefer's hand.
With a "crack", lightning flashed across the battlefield in an instant and hit the ice giant's shoulder fiercely, causing the giant to scream in pain. At the same time, the fur vest on the giant's shoulder also ignited, and the flames burned the giant beast that grew in the ice and snow, causing it to burst into a shocking scream.
And Yennefer seemed to be addicted, the second, third, and fourth lightning bolts kept striking the ice giant with great momentum.
However, if an experienced person saw this, he could only comment on it as "a huge show".
Although the giant was screaming in pain at this moment, it could be seen that the damage caused by the lightning was still extremely limited. After all, this was just an elemental attack simulated by magic, not a real natural disaster.
Yennefer obviously knew this, and her spells might not be effective against ordinary Cyclops. She just needed the paralysis effect of lightning to delay the ice giant.
After a while, the ice giant got used to the pain caused by the lightning, and casually grabbed a stone that was bigger than Yennefer herself and threw it over. The sorceress flexibly opened a portal in the air, and the boulder went nowhere.
After doing all this, Yennefer took a few deep breaths, her already fair face looked even paler, and she kept taking a few steps back behind the soldiers' formation.
Just when the ice giant's attention was completely absorbed by Yennefer, another spellcaster present was finally ready.
Fetov stood up, and the oak cane that was stuck in the ground suddenly shot up a little more, and a force flowed from its top all the way to the sky.
The next second, everyone felt the cold wind suddenly stop, and even the snowflakes in the air stopped flying, and just fell vertically from the sky. The heavy dark clouds in the sky seemed to be dissolved by the sun, and the mountains that had been covered by blizzards for many years finally had sunlight.
The sky is clear.
The ice giant couldn't help but put his hands in front of his eyes. Living deep in the cave, he was dazzled by the light coming down from the sky.
The next second, a flash of golden light was seen between its face and the palm that blocked the sunlight.
Lan appeared in mid-air, and with a wave of his hand, an alchemical backpack bag hit the ice giant's face.
"Ding-dang-dang" a handful of pull rings were thrown from Lan's hands and fell on the ice giant's body, making crisp collision sounds.
Having accomplished his goal, Lann no longer lingered in the battle, and decisively flashed back to the team. The dozen or so magic-blocking gold bombs on the face of the ice giant exploded at the same time, and the thick metal debris instantly turned into dark green smoke that enveloped its upper body. Static electricity was conducted in the smoke, embellishing the dark blue.
“Ahem, God… Ahem, God!”
A large amount of metal debris entered the ice giant's body through its organs, esophagus, and mucous membranes, and attached to its body. With the giant's metabolic rate, it might be enough to excrete all of them within a day, but Lann and his men's battle would definitely not take a day.
The wind in the mountains completely died down. The next second, the storm caused by the arrows swept in again, and this time they would not be deflected.
The hair-raising sounds of snapping strings and breaking air continued to echo in the valley, until the island soldiers reached back and their quivers were empty, and their right hands, which were pulling the bows, were already trembling slightly.
Their arrows might not cause much damage, but at the moment it was the best means of attack they could use. The next second they drew their melee weapons, ready to engage in close combat with the beast that was ten times taller than themselves.
But all soldiers knew that with their attack power, the best result they could achieve in battle might be to make the opponent wave his hand and buy some time for their companions who could actually cause harm.
"Please step back a little and wait for the right moment." The soldier standing next to Lann nervously adjusted his hand holding the hatchet. "If anyone among us can kill this monster, it can only be you."
Lann chuckled and shook his head: "No, you should stand back a little. It is your job to protect the king and the spellcaster."
Geralt, Kolgrim, Cohen, and Gerd had already stood beside him. Bill roared and turned into a huge brown bear two people tall. Black Wind kicked his hooves forward, and seeing that his master seemed to want to fight on foot, he snorted in disdain.
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Use the magic-blocking metal to disable the enemy's magic ability, and let others harass him. But if he wants to defeat the ice giant with one blow, Lann can only think of his fully charged [Rage Burst], a sword skill that can ignore the enemy's defense - that is, the New Year's Greeting Sword Technique.
But this leads to a new question: Where does Lan have the time to recklessly accumulate power for his New Year's Greetings sword technique?
Answer: The Frost Giant needs to lose the ability to move, and even the ability to attack, which means that the Frost Giant must suffer a certain degree of injury.
Another question: But how can we make the Ice Giant lose its ability to move and attack and cause damage to it?
Answer: Use Lann’s New Year’s Greetings Sword Technique!
To use the New Year's Greetings Sword Technique, you must first make the Ice Giant lose its ability to move, but the only way to make the Ice Giant lose its ability to move is the New Year's Greetings Sword Technique. This is a dead end.
Does anyone else have any ideas? It seems no one.
Facing the ice giant, the attacks of other demon hunters were just harassment, attracting attention and creating opportunities for Lann; the same was true for Yennefer and Fetov's spells. Even when facing such an enemy with a very thick health bar, the spellcasters' performance was even weaker, because their magic power was not as endless as the demon hunter's physical strength.
After the test just now, it has been proved that: archery is useless, attack spells are useless, the New Year's Greetings Sword Technique has no prerequisites for execution, and the snake school's poison is also limited.
It seems that Lan can only rely on himself. Faced with an extraordinary creature like the Ice Giant, only an extraordinary existence like the system has a strategy to defeat the enemy.
Is there any other way? Even if the damage is not as good as the New Year's Greetings Sword Technique, at least it can cause continuous damage to the Ice Giant without charging power - at least too long.
Just now, Yennefer used lightning to strike the ice giant and set his fur vest on fire, which suddenly gave Lan an inspiration.
He looked at his system panel and saw that he still had two skill points. He then used his consciousness to open the skill page and turned to the [Spell Seal] category.
Lann hasn't used any skills for a long time.
After the adventure in the Wolf Faction Elemental Ring, all the third-level skills of the Seal category have been activated, and he has actually met the conditions for opening the fourth-level Seal skills. However, Lan En has always believed that his Seal system is enough to deal with the current battle, and began to want to save skill points for opening the secondary mutation skills.
But at this moment, Lann suddenly discovered that a fourth-level skill of [Igni Sign] could solve his current troubles.
[Pyromania]: Increases the chance of Igni's Sign inflicting a burning state on the enemy by 20%. (1/5)
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"Burning" is a very powerful debuff in the game, which can continuously reduce the enemy's health. It is an indispensable tactical choice for players to fight against BOSS in the early stage.
Unfortunately, for Lann, this effect has always been a bit useless: First of all, Lann is no longer in the early stage. Instead of lighting a fire for the enemy and waiting for him to burn himself to death, it is more convenient to kill him with a single blow;
Secondly, the determination of the "burning probability" in reality is very interesting. As long as the sparks fall on the flammable material, the burning probability is 100% if the conditions are met. It is impossible to say that the straw can be ignited with a torch, but when Lann uses the Igni Sign to spit fire, he still has to determine the ignition probability.
The flames brush against my face like a gentle breeze. Could it be that this straw will also be as still as a mountain?
But Lann also knew that this skill was not as useless as the system text stated. The value of this skill should be interpreted in another way: increasing the probability of inflicting burning state on non-flammable objects.
Because in the game, the player's [Igni Signet] can ignite gargoyles and golems carved out of pure stone with the skill blessing.
The probability of igniting all substances is equal. Only in this way can this skill be reflected as the final skill of the [Igni Sign] series.
Therefore, at this moment, this skill is particularly suitable for the Frost Giant. Facing this huge monster that is difficult to be injured by swords, Lann needs to use a debuff to slowly and continuously reduce the opponent's health. Only against such a strong enemy can the [Pyromania] skill show its value.
Then - add points, [Sign] major category, [Igni Sign] minor category, fourth-level skill - [Pyromania]!
[Pyromania]: Increases the chance of Igni's Sign inflicting a burning state on the enemy by 40%. (2/5)
Under the effect of the talent [Magic Tide], [Pyromania] goes directly to the second level, increasing the chance of igniting the enemy to almost 50%!
After adding skill points, Lann still has one last skill point.
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At this moment, the ice giant was only twenty steps away from the crowd, and they could already smell the stench that had accumulated on his body from living in the mountains for so long.
"Let's go!"
Four pairs of amber vertical pupils and a pair of dark gold lion eyes lit up together in the mountains.
A giant oak pillar thicker than a man came crashing down on him, and the huge wind pressure made Lann's griffin cloak rustle violently.
All the witchers and the attendants in charge of melee combat fled nimbly in all directions, keeping a distance from the enemy; only Lann rolled on the ground skillfully, and like a phantom, he penetrated the giant pillar that was big enough to split mountains and rocks, and instead of retreating, he counterattacked and appeared at the feet of the ice giant.
Raise your left palm——[Igni Sign: Pyromania]!
The cone-shaped flames immediately covered the feet of the ice giant, turning this monster in the wind and snow into another image of an evil beast treading on fire in poetry - if you ignore its screams at this moment.