"use"
I'll conjure up the dog whistle prop; it might come in handy when I fight the heavily armored giant later.
The dog whistle is carved from solid wood, without any patterns, and is very lightweight. When you shake it in your hand, it will make a crisp sound.
After tidying up, Liu Nian looked around at the surrounding buildings.
We just explored all the villas on the edge of the village, and now we've arrived at the center of the village.
They went in and out of several houses and found signs of habitation, but the owners were nowhere to be found.
There were still living supplies left; the bowls, chopsticks, and other daily necessities were not yet stained by dust, and it looked as if someone had lived there for a short period of time.
This contrasts sharply with the fact that all the furniture in the Western-style house at the village entrance was covered in a layer of dust.
Judging from the degree of decomposition of the bodies, the infected individuals did not appear to have formed in a short period of time. Moreover, there were clearly far fewer infected individuals in the village than in the houses. So where did the infected individuals go? Or rather, where did the villagers go?
Unable to find answers to a series of questions, Liu Nian explored the entire village and discovered that each seemingly uninhabited household had a picture displayed on its altar.
A square with a white background, a large circle in the center, and intricate patterns engraved around the edge of the circle. Inside the equilateral triangle in the center of the circle is an open eye.
Religious beliefs were not among Liu Nian's concerns, but most of the surrounding buildings had such a portrait, and it was placed on the altar near the entrance, making it hard to miss.
If you don't understand something, just put it aside for now. If you walk a little further, you'll reach the center of the village. Just thinking about that burly man with the big axe gives Liu Nian a headache.
What's meant to happen will happen eventually. Passing through a few fruit trees planted in front of his house, Liu Nian led his summoned creatures into the central square.
At this moment, Liu Nian finally saw his full appearance: a body completely covered by iron armor, holding a broad-bladed axe, with only gaps for his eyes and nostrils visible on his helmet.
Level 12, Chosen One, 500 HP, 300 Stamina, Name and Skills Unknown.
The level difference is too great, so not much information can be provided.
As the massive, dark mass of summoned creatures entered the arena, the burly man sitting in the center of the plaza stood up.
A thick breath shot out from the gap left in the nostrils of the helmet, and the two-meter-tall burly man opened his blood-red eyes, adjusted his posture, and rushed towards Liu Nian.
As the burly man set off, a wall of red light, as red as fresh blood, suddenly rose up at the edge of the square.
A fallen leaf happened to land on the blood-stained wall and was immediately ignited, burning to ashes in an instant.
Liu Nian didn't see the tragic state of the fallen leaves, but a blood-red wall suddenly appeared behind the burly man. No normal person would think of touching it!
Cut off my escape route? I never intended to run away anyway.
You can run away, but you can't hide. Are you going to stay in this instance forever?
The heavy armor seemed weightless on him. Seeing his swift and agile movements, Liu Nian raised his hand and unleashed a slowing spell.
After commanding his summoned creatures to attack, Liu Nian began casting Fear.
After Tiffany cast the fatigue spell, she began to cast the poison spell.
The burly man's speed visibly decreased significantly, and by the time he readjusted to the new speed, his summoned creatures had already arrived.
Surrounded by numerous summoned creatures, he calmly swung his giant axe, the two axes drawing an arc in the air, knocking away all the summoned creatures in front of the burly man.
Even though I had prepared myself beforehand, seeing this scene was still quite shocking.
The summoned creatures behind him were thrilled to see the burly man with his bare chest exposed. They pounced on him, their weapons and claws flying everywhere. In the end, apart from the sound of metal clanging, they didn't even manage to scratch the outer layer of the armor.
Are you serious that an attack power of 6-9 can't break through defense? Heavy armor's defense is insanely tough.
The only thing that can deal damage is the Wraith. Watching the axe pass through the Wraith without it reacting, it seems that the strong man can't do anything to it without using skills.
As for the units that were knocked away, Liu Nian observed that each corpse lost an average of 15-25 HP.
After about two or three attacks, it needs to be summoned again. The giant axe deals area-of-effect damage. Liu Nian noted all this information down.
Just as Liu Nian had guessed, fear was met with resistance from the strong man.
The chosen ones have unwavering faith and will not be affected by morale-boosting spells.
The system's prompts are always a step behind.
Sure enough, he had faith. For some reason, Liu Nian thought of those eyes again.
Tiffany's Poisoning spell was successfully cast, dealing fifteen points of poison damage every five seconds for fifteen seconds.
As long as he could eat the poison, and after casting another Slow spell, Liu Nian watched as his summoned creature was knocked away once again, and began to chant the Summon Demon Child.
As Liu Nian cast his spell, a glint flashed in the burly man's eyes, and a red light appeared on the tip of his axe. It seemed he was about to use that move again.
In the blink of an eye, the giant axe swept across, and a crescent-shaped red light slashed horizontally towards Liu Nian, who was casting a spell.
The wall of corpses blocking Liu Nian's way was sliced in two by the red light as if cutting tofu.
Only the flying units, the Wraiths, managed to evade the attack.
Despite being weakened multiple times, the red aura blade still struck Liu Nian, instantly shattering the remaining bone armor into pieces.
He stumbled, his spellcasting was interrupted, and he was unable to cast any spells for ten seconds!
The drawback of the spellcaster becomes apparent: once a spell is cast, one must wait until the spell is completed, otherwise one will suffer a backlash.
For enemies with ranged attack capabilities, a ten-second casting time is simply too long.
Liu Nian held the dog whistle in his hand for a long time, still unable to decide whether to use it or not.
While waiting for the backlash, Liu Nian mentally prompted Tiffany to use the Bone Wall magic.
The burly man's summoned creatures had been mostly dealt with, leaving only a ghoul and a wraith barely clinging to life.
Suddenly, a bone wall rose up in front of Liu Nian. Seeing the bone wall blocking his view, Liu Nian quickly retreated to the edge of the square.
With his vision still obscured by the bone wall, Liu Nian mentally calculated the duration of the delay and, finding that there was still some time left, began chanting to summon the ghoul again.
The strong man was rendered powerless by the evil spirits, and trying to run away only brought him the double torment of accelerated fatigue and sluggishness.
Looking at the direction blocked by the bone wall, and seeing no trace of Liu Nian, he couldn't help but become irritable.
With a quick retraction of the axe blade, the ghoul that had no time to dodge was pulled close, and then the axe was raised high and chopped down.
Before the unfortunate ghoul could react, it was cleaved in two.
Fortunately, thanks to its desperate delay, Liu Nian was able to regroup. Once the ten-second casting time was up, the five lively ghouls were summoned back.
Seeing the ghouls running out from the other side of the bone wall, the burly man, after much painful reflection, decided that to catch the thief, they must first catch the kingpin; the plan to deplete the mage's mana bar was much more difficult than he had imagined.
Enduring the clanging and banging of the hammer, the burly man lifted his leg and walked step by step toward the bone wall.
The burly man was now covered in five ghouls and looked utterly disheveled.
After the two-second casting time expired, Liu Nian reapplied the Slow spell to him, who had reappeared by the bone wall.
That wasn't the end of it. Just as he was about to walk over, Liu Nian turned and ran to the other side of the bone wall under the burly man's bloodshot gaze.
The burly man, adorned with numerous ornaments, was left bewildered alone in the Spartan-like cold wind.
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