Chapter 161 The Cicada Awaits
I acquiesced to Sheng's question, but I still had doubts about how to execute this plan, mainly how to get the Sword Demon to act according to our plan.
"Ah, that won't be a problem, even if we don't communicate at all."
After confirming the initial battle plan, Sheng seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and the panic on his face lessened.
He puffed out his chest confidently, gazing at the center of the battle where light and shadow flickered in the distance: "After all, no matter what that bastard's plans are, whether he wants to slowly wage a war of attrition against the liger or to directly and decisively cut off the annoying snake head, it's the first step to completing the strategy."
"This is the conclusion I reached after failing several times in a row. Otherwise, once the liger goes berserk, it will inevitably unleash a full-screen ray attack when it transitions to the second phase."
"This is almost a fatal attack for a sword demon who has no further defensive capabilities and no sufficient replenishment of potions."
“I can set up defenses,” I said.
Although the ray's ability to eliminate magic is somewhat troublesome, it's not entirely unsolvable; all you need to do is hold out until its subsequent power completely dissipates.
But Sheng is not optimistic about it: "I'm not sure if it's feasible. A few times before I was too reckless and my eyes went blind, and then I ended up back at the title again."
He shrugged and didn't say anything more. Instead, he pulled me along, dodging the aftershocks of the attacks emanating from the center of the battle, and we moved closer to the center of the battle.
I don't know exactly how he did it; perhaps it was partly because we had the advantage of being in the opponent's blind spot. Anyway, after circling around another halfway and climbing up to a building ruin more than ten meters away, we finally managed to reach a small patch of half-ruined trees nearby. Under the cover of the trees, we peered down at our feet from a distance.
The battle lasted only a dozen minutes, and the lion-tiger beast, nearly the size of three people, and the black trench coat man who was dodging left and right on the other side, already had countless wounds of varying sizes on their bodies.
The bright colors spilled onto the ground, only to be quickly evaporated by the fierce winds that rose and fell between the two forces, causing a light red mist of varying shades to permeate an area within a radius of nearly thirty meters from the point of their clash.
"These two monsters are actually evenly matched."
Sheng said incredulously in a low voice, lying on the edge of the half-ruined rooftop and craning his neck: "Maybe if we just give him a little help, he'll be able to take it down smoothly?"
He acted immediately, stretching out his right hand and casually scattering something from his palm.
It resembled the scales on the wings of some creature, or the down feathers that had fallen from a dandelion and drifted in the wind. Even in such a chaotic environment, those tiny white particles still seemed largely unaffected, swaying and drifting towards their destination.
We quickly saw the side effects of this action—
The liger, which was preparing to pounce on its leaping prey and deliver a fatal blow, suddenly stumbled as it jumped, landing on the spot. It then turned its head in surprise to look behind it, while its long tail quickly reached for its right leg, which was entangled by suddenly growing vines. The snake's head twisted, trying to bite and break free of the restraints.
This caused the continuous ray attack, which even I found somewhat numbing, to pause for a moment, and its size suppression also became ineffective.
In battles between masters, even a brief moment can be a crucial factor in changing the course of the battle.
Seizing this fatal gap, the sword demon transformed into a thin, ethereal figure. As it flew past the lion-tiger beast from the other side, it left a deep, bone-revealing sword mark on its side. Just before passing the tail, it forcibly reversed its body, descending rapidly from above in a highly difficult twisting motion, severing the snake's tail near its root as it realized the danger and attempted to regroup and prepare its rays.
"A brilliant strike!"
Sheng suddenly clenched his fist excitedly: "This is an incredible combo kill move that can only be successfully completed by forcibly changing the perspective on the basis of the Misaligned Slash, and connecting it with a twisting leap, a small jump in the air, an aerial downward slash, and a series of QTE judgments! If you can add the Starfall Slash and Dimensional Slash that can only be obtained later, the combo will be even cooler!"
...I suddenly wondered if I was playing some kind of action RPG game, with a friend next to me who would point out my moves and criticize me.
In short, now is not the time to talk about these things.
With the snake's head gone, it was time for me to start work.
The magic gathered in his hand had begun to cause uneasy vibrations in the surrounding air, a sign of the extremely concentrated magic after condensation.
Since I don't have a suitable medium at the moment, nor do I have any magic stones to fill with magic power, I can only try my best to gather the magic power that is floating around nearby, and then use all the magic power I have as a base to shape the spell that I am about to cast.
Fortunately, I hadn't spent all my time in the library playing around, which reminded me of a trick I had learned before.
The two combatants at their feet seemed to notice what was happening and turned their wary gazes toward each other.
However, compared to the liger's unwavering vigilance and hostility, the sword demon, whether confident that he would not be affected or feeling that it would not affect his subsequent actions, continued to circle the liger, which was regarded as the overlord of this forest, at a speed that was only a hair's breadth away from being caught, and kept leaving deep stab wounds with the straight sword in his hand.
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