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A counter-attack barrier?!
After recognizing the special form of the defensive magic in front of him, Xi Mu, who usually kept his emotions to himself, was also startled and cast a surprised glance at Sorens behind him.
Generally speaking, defensive magic is sufficient as long as it can protect oneself. Few magicians will bother to study it, let alone develop more diverse forms of magic.
Although Ximu has rich practical experience, he only knew about the existence of this kind of barrier when studying the relevant theories of various types of magic, and had never actually encountered it in a mission.
Throughout the history of the continent, there have been very few magicians specializing in defensive magic, and the so-called counterattack barrier has only appeared in legends.
Who would have thought that this unremarkable brown-haired boy, who had always been ostracized and isolated, could actually revive this nearly lost skill!
Not only Ximu, but everyone else was shocked when they saw that the starlight magic that was attacking them was completely driven back. They all looked at the young man who was struggling to hold up the barrier in surprise.
Only Morina seemed to know something. She was the first to turn her surprise into joy. She cast a magic recovery spell on the depleted Sorens and shouted excitedly, "Gods, see! I told you you could do it! Don't be fooled by your classmates' sour words. You're a complete genius in defensive magic!"
"Good boy, it turns out you have a surprise prepared for us."
Zhui Neng originally planned to hit him, but was afraid that it would affect his spellcasting, so she quickly changed the strength of her blow and just patted Sorens lightly on the shoulder.
Looking at the smiles of affirmation and approval that everyone gave him, the young magician lowered his head a little embarrassedly, but he couldn't suppress the smile on the corner of his mouth.
He was also happy to be able to help.
The full-strength attack was fully returned by the opponent. The defenseless princess was severely injured. After wailing, she collapsed to the ground and was unable to move for a while.
——Right now!
After the barrier surrounding everyone dissipated, Ximu and Zhui Ning behind him looked at each other and instantly reached a consensus. Almost at the same time, they drew their swords and charged straight towards the enemy!
The fastest way to stop a puppet from moving is to remove its joints!
Staring at Milliana's hand closest to them, Ximu and Zhui'en consciously divided the work, and various destructive skills flashed frequently, making the enemy stunned by the torrential attacks and unable to organize effective movements to shake them off.
Soon, the wrist and elbow joints of the hand were broken one after another by the two men, and Ruixia in the back also found the right time and took advantage of the opportunity to fire a magic crystal cannon that had been charged for a long time, directly breaking the hand from the shoulder of the puppet!
“Ouch—”
A scream filled with pain and unwillingness roared out from the princess' mouth.
Finally recovering from the previous series of unexpected attacks, she swung her other arm, not giving them the chance to continue in the same way, and smashed the nearby area crazily, forcing Ximu and Zhui'en, who were close to her, to retreat temporarily to avoid the attack.
Then, she raised her only remaining arm and suddenly slammed it on the ground for no apparent reason, actually breaking her own palm!
The teasing of "Is she mad?" had just begun when everyone's attention was drawn to the giant spike embedded in her arm, and they all became nervous for a moment.
The lethality of this sharp weapon is much greater than simply swinging your arm and smashing it... and this thing is obviously not just a sharp awl.
After dodging the stab that was coming straight at him, the stone brick at Ximu's feet that was stabbed suddenly cracked and shattered into pieces of stone in its original form.
……Um?
With some guesses in mind, Ximu dodged while deliberately luring the princess to stab the objects in the house. Without exception, those things that were pierced by the long spike were decomposed into their most primitive forms.
The candlesticks shattered into pieces of metal, and the curtains turned into silk threads all over the floor... In a short while, the originally magnificent and solemn bedroom seemed to have a bald spot, with broken tiles everywhere, giving an absurd feeling that time had gone backwards in a certain area.
"Why do I feel that thing... looks like a craftsman's tool?"
Sorens' voice came from behind. Judging from the position, he should be talking to Ruixia.
"The kind used to break down raw materials?" Ruixia asked.
"Yes, sometimes when we're not satisfied with a finished product, we use similar tools to remove the imperfect areas and rework it... But why would Her Highness Milliana carry such a tool?"
If Her Royal Highness the Princess wants any magic props, she can just order her subordinates to buy them and make them. There is really no need to do it herself.
Or does she have a hobby in this area?
Thinking of this, Ximu's mind suddenly lit up, and he remembered that when he found the hand mirror in the library, the mirror was placed on a book, and the name of the book was "On the Formation, Production and Circulation of Magical Instruments"!
That makes sense.
but……
After several attempts, the princess did not seem to show any other craftsman skills except chasing Ximu around with a spike, slashing and stabbing him, such as using a refining array to gather the gravel on the ground into a giant ball to roll and smash it, or melting the metal scattered on the ground into spikes to attack them.
Although the craftsman's battlefield is mainly in the forge, as long as he wants, he can also create some trouble for others.
Was it because the princess herself had little combat experience that she didn't realize this? Or was it that...she was just reading those books out of curiosity, and the props were just something she took from someone to play with?
Moreover, the princess's hostility towards her seemed inexplicably concentrated.
In fact, Ximu had noticed it from the beginning, and gradually confirmed it during these rounds of attack and defense.
As long as she appeared in the opponent's field of vision, even if Zhuiren was closer to her, the princess would definitely give up the nearby enemy and attack her first.
At the beginning, she would still use some large-scale moves to greet everyone present - but after being defeated by Sorens's defensive counterattack, she slowly narrowed the range of her attacks, and now she didn't even pretend, and the cone was almost only aimed at Ximu!
"That's strange, why is she pursuing you alone?"
Zhui Ling, who had been sharing the firepower with Xi Mu, also noticed it. Even if he managed to repel and chop down the princess, the other party's eyes were always following Xi Mu's direction, unwilling to break away for a moment.
"Maybe it's because I put that ring there."
As the person who woke the princess from her reverie, it seemed reasonable that he was targeted first.
But... in fact, Ximu also vaguely felt that the gaze cast upon her by those inorganic eyes seemed to be filled with some kind of bottomless hatred.
Why?
There was nearly a century between them. When one was not yet born, the other had already become alienated and died... Where did this hatred, so strong that it was almost tangible, come from?
"...But he actually brought villains like you and killed my brother right in front of me with such a long, sharp blade!"
Recalling Millianna's tearful accusation before the war, Ximu initially thought that she was combining them with Mia Rodes and his group who broke into the Moon Viewing Tower that year.
But is it possible...
The "you" she was referring to were Xi Mu and the ancestors of the Kellinlet family who had gone there with the vice-president?
Millianna saw Ximu's background and the blood that was cursed by countless people flowing in her body?
How is that possible?!
How could a being that has been alienated to the point of losing its human form and has never met him possibly see such a thing!
Ximu was horrified, but she did not delay her actions - after rolling over again to avoid the attack of the long spike, she met up with her companions at the back, and after a brief discussion, they decided to work together to create a big stiffness, take advantage of the situation and launch a fierce attack in order to wipe out the enemy in one wave.
But at this moment, Ximu, who had taken the lead, suddenly felt that "gaze" again.
Different from the feeling of being far away in the past, this time, the distance of this "gaze" was so close, so close that she could not distinguish the position of the gaze at all. She only felt that there were eyes on all sides, as if she had come into the arms of "His"!
All her senses suddenly dropped, as if they left her in an instant, and then seemed to be re-infused into her limbs and bones in a brand new form.
She heard the "calling".
The expression on her face disappeared in an instant. The girl lowered her body, suddenly abandoning her companions around her, and rushed alone towards the puppet princess who was growling at her threateningly.
She heard Ruixia's shouts behind her and the footsteps of her companions chasing after her, but she did not move or stop.
The enemy's originally swift and crazy movements suddenly slowed down several times before his eyes. Xi Mu jumped and moved in an orderly manner, avoiding the sharp spikes and the starlight falling from the air, stepped on the princess's arm, and rushed straight to the opponent's heart!
There...for some reason, she felt it was there!
A deep darkness so thick that it was almost dripping surrounded Ximu's dagger, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a huge sickle - the silver-haired girl swung a full moon in the air, and with the black mist spreading into the sky, it fell like an evil ghost, and mercilessly split the princess's heart!
"No--!!!"
A painful cry came from a distance, which seemed to be the voice of Vicia who had just woken up.
But now Xi Mu did not react to any sounds from the outside world. During the falling process, the only thing reflected in her eyes was the long black blade inserted in the heart of the doll.
That thing was slightly longer than the dagger in Ximu's hand. It looked like a dagger, but was twisted and bent, like a dead branch growing on the cliffs of hell, which was broken off and twisted by someone, becoming this strange and eye-catching appearance.
Feeling the cold deathly intent coming towards him, although he had never seen it with his own eyes, a voice in his heart was telling Ximu with certainty that this was the sacred object that their family had lost for many years, the "Thorn of the End"!
It was a weapon capable of killing even gods, imbued with pure murderous intent, a malicious object that existed solely to take lives...
Under the urging of countless "voices", Ximu subconsciously reached out to it.
The next moment, this strange weapon turned into a black spike, shot out, and suddenly pierced into Ximu's eyebrows!
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