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Chapter 3 The Magician(1/2)

"This game is not ridiculous. Boss will ot at any time, so players who want to melee bosses will have to ask for blessings at that time. Iron Fist and I are the main t and the secondary t respectively. We will do our best to block the boss, but if we want to kill the boss, we can only rely on long-range output. We have no mage, so we can only rely on you, Xiao Qiao, Joel, and Flying Fish." The giant bear Olaf held up the giant shield with a left hand, which was a thick wooden shield with metal on the edge. Although the weight was not as good as the real metal shield, it was not far from the same. The shield was painted with a clear angular Libra pattern with white paint.

"But if you can't rush out of the church and meet us, we can't help you deal with the boss. After you come out of the church, you move to your right, close to the ruins of Lengxi Town, a little far from the side door. If the snow bandits have support, they won't fight directly with you. We also start moving there. The archers remember to support us."

"By the way, this is Joel's first time fighting a boss, right? Don't rely too much on auxiliary aiming. As auxiliary aiming against guys at boss level will be invalid." Mu Xiaoqiao said in the team's voice. Joel still doesn't know where she is, but judging from the arrows flying towards the snow bandit on the battlefield, it should be a high place.

Auxiliary aiming refers to a red dot that has always appeared in the middle of Joel's vision. Joel has deeply realized the "failure" mentioned by Xiao Qiao. As soon as he aims at the leader of the snow robber, the red dot will begin to shake left and right. Not only can he not assist Joel in aiming at the target, but it also affects aiming.

"Assisted aiming." Joel gradually mastered the use of this "magic". As soon as he finished speaking, a box appeared in front of him. Most of the contents in the box could not be understood, but Joel understood the bottom "Whether to enable assisted aiming" and clicked on the off behind him, and the red dot in front of him disappeared. When Joel closed the box, the battle had already begun.

The mercenaries in the church killed again. This time, the one who was standing in front was a mercenary holding an iron shield that was almost one person tall. He rushed out slowly. The surface of the iron shield was covered with scratches, which were all marks left by the enemy's weapons. The entire shield was uneven and rough, and it was simply a poor door panel forged by thick iron. But even so, its defense should not be underestimated.

Several mercenaries followed the mercenaries with thick iron shields. The shields with different patterns, materials and sizes on several sides blocked the left and right gaps of the giant shield. Behind were other mercenaries and soldiers holding up spears and swords. This time they did not rush out like last time, but slowly advanced forward. Faced with this formation, the snow bandit did not come forward rashly.

Behind the snow bandit, the iron fist held a giant iron shield bent inward. The outer layer of the giant shield was nailed to wooden slats, and the wooden board was painted yellow, with a black mountain in the middle. The giant shield was very heavy, and even with the body of the iron fist could only barely lift it up. When blocking the enemy's attack, the iron fist would stand the shield on the ground and use the battle axe held in his right hand to fight back, but this also caused him to be unable to react quickly to the enemy.

The iron fist pushed forward with the iron shield, and two snow robbers rushed over with a strange cry. When they wanted to bypass the huge iron fist shield, what was blocking them were the Alps' iron sword and Olaf's hammer. Olaf's hammer smashed a snow robber's face into blood, while Alps became more decisive. The iron sword passed through his chest and kicked the dead body away with one kick.

The Iron Fist trio was soon surrounded by the Snow Bandits. The three of them stood back to back in a ball. The Snow Bandits also rushed up with a sword and a battle axe. Joel quickly pulled the bow and shot towards the Snow Bandits, but did not succeed in one blow, but instead exposed his position. Several Snow Bandits turned their heads and rushed towards Joel.

Suddenly an arrow broke through the air, and the sharp arrow pierced the skull of a snow robber. The snow robber only wore a wolf skin above his head, which had no substantial defensive effect at all, and could only simply keep warm. Looking at the direction of the arrow shot, Mu Xiaoqiao shot.

"Joel, change the position quickly!" Mu Xiaoqiao ordered anxiously in the team's voice. Obviously, such melee made her nervous. The voices of such prompting teammates in the team's voice came one after another. Although they were short and urgent commands or prompts, they could still hear from their voices that it was not only Xiao Qiao, but even a big man like Iron Fist was tense.

Joel's hand holding the bow was also trembling slightly, but he still rushed out of the stone wall and ran towards a charred fruit tree. While running, he did not forget to pull out an arrow from the quiver and put it on the bow. While running, Joel saw the tall figure among the snow robbers holding up the long black axe again and slashed it down violently. A huge metal collision sound echoed in the church square.

At this time, the two snow bandits running towards Joel also threw out the stone short axe. The heavy but small axe was circling in an arc in the air and flew towards Joel. Finally, they smashed heavily into the charred fruit tree trunk. The already burnt fruit tree made a broken sound, and then two more sounds, the snow bandit threw two flying axes.

"Thank you, the goddess." Joel prayed to the fruit tree of the fertile goddess, then pulled the bowstring tightly, turned around and walked out from the other side of the tree, aimed and shot the arrow! The black black iron wood arrow feathers shook, and an arrow pierced a snow robber's right shoulder. The snow robber staggered, but did not fall, but the speed slowed down a little, and became even more angry, and his companions were running.

Joel retracted back behind the tree trunk, took out a new arrow and placed it on the bow, then took a deep breath, waiting for the sound of footsteps to approach.

"There is absent!" A terrified voice in the team's voice. The team fell into a brief silence. Olaf, who was still giving the command, did not continue to finish his sentence.

Joel saw a square box in black and white color on the team panel, and his avatar was a man wearing a chain mail and unkempt face. He was dead, and his name was Mr. Invincible. Although Joel didn't know him and thought his title looked both funny and sarcastic, he couldn't help but feel sad.

The footsteps approached, and Joel turned around and rushed out of the trunk. The snow robber was holding up the axe. Joel saw his face, which looked so gloomy and terrifying because of the white dust, but his eyes were the eyes of mortals. At this moment, there was horror. Joel's arrow was pointed at his throat and the bow was already pulled. His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but Joel just let go of the bowstring.

The black black iron wood arrow pierced the snow bandit's throat. He staggered back two steps, spurted blood from his mouth, stared at Joel with wide eyes, then fell backwards and swallowed.

Joel quickly landed the second arrow, but immediately hid back to the tree. Several arrows flew past the position he had just stood, and several were nailed to the fruit tree. He had to move his position. Joel thought to himself, he poked out half of his head, and the snow bandit who had just been shot on the shoulder had been dealt with by Mu Xiaoqiao. He breathed a sigh of relief and ran towards another burnt fruit tree.

At this time, the Iron Fist and the other three had already begun to move closer to Joel's side. The church gate was closed, and there must be others inside. The injured Sir Via was probably inside. The mercenaries who came out of the church stared at the defense line formed by shields, and kept using spears and long swords to force the snow bandits to break through their defense line. The leader of the snow bandits was just standing there, looking for a gap, and slamming their shields with a long axe.

"We have to hurry up! The support from the Snow Bandit is here again!" The hammer shouted with the giant iron shield. The Snow Bandit's flying axe, arrows and chain stones made his shield jingle.

"Joel, Xiao Qiao, Feiyu, kill those archers!" Olaf shouted in the team's voice.

Joel looked up and saw that his position was not high and he could not see the distance. After laying an arrow into the messy snow bandits, he put on a longbow, turned around and climbed onto the rock wall of the church square. This was a wall built to protect the market. It was the second wall inside Lengxi Town. It is now in ruins, but at least it is much easier to climb than before.

Climbing up to the highest point of the wall, Joel looked at the side door in the distance through the dark branches. It was too far away. The archer of the Snow Bandit was too far away. However, the only commanding height on the church square was on the second floor of the church. From the floor-to-ceiling windows there could overlook the entire church square. There was once a wooden world tree logo, which was a symbol of the gods. Now that the sign is gone, the floor-to-ceiling window was exposed.

And the mercenary named Feiyu was at the floor-to-ceiling window, pouring arrows at the snow bandits below.

"Flying fish! Don't attack the boss! The church's defense is weak at this moment. If you pull hatred, the boss may directly order to break through the church. At that time, NPC will have to die inside, and our battle will be meaningless!" Olaf yelled in the team's voice.

"Yes, yes, I know." Feiyu said lazily. Joel felt that he might be the least oppressive in the team. After all, staying in a relatively safe church is naturally different from other mercenaries who are on the battlefield.

"It's been reduced again!" Someone in the team shouted again. Joel looked towards the snow robber leader. He saw the long axe in his hand, piercing a mercenary on it, and raised him up, as if holding a flag high. The mercenary's hands drooped, and the weapons and shields in his hand had fallen. The snow robber leader shouted and smashed the mercenary's body towards the shields of other mercenaries. The other snow robbers also roared with morale.

"Hold on! Hold on! If you can't hold on, you'll be finished!" Olaf roared in the team's voice, smashing the head of a snow robber with the hammer in his hand, but even if he tried his best to maintain it, there were still more and more terrifying voices in the team.

The two teams are now like they are trapped in a quagmire, and they have to do their best every step they move.

Joel pulled his bow and aimed at the head of a snow robber, let go of the string, the arrows flew, and pierced the snow robber's head. He fell down with a bang, and then more snow robbers took his place.

It was useless. No matter how many snow bandits were knocked down, more snow bandits came up, and Joel's quiver finally came to the bottom. Although the snow bandits' support gradually decreased, the threat caused by nearly ten snow bandits' archers in the distance was still not lifted.

"Archer! Get rid of the archer!" Olaf roared and gave the order again in the team.

"The distance is too far, the range is not enough!" Mu Xiaoqiao also said anxiously in the team's voice.

Joel slapped the bow and arrow on his body, climbed down from the wall with agility, came to the battlefield, drew out the straight sword, carefully approached the soldier's body, and plundered the arrows. Joel saw a soldier lying face down on the ground, and a pool of blood that had begun to turn black was accumulated on the ground, and a quiver was on his back. Joel paid attention to the battlefield, ran over quickly, cut the belt used to fix the quiver with his sword, and then stood up to prepare for evacuation. At this moment, a flying axe flew towards Joel.

Before Joel could react, the flying axe hit his left shoulder. Because Joel was carrying a bow, the axe was blocked by the bow, but the bow body was also split by the axe. The tense bowstring instantly loosened. Joel staggered back two steps. Just as he stood firm, he saw a snow bandit with a bare head and a black beard roaring loudly, holding a scimitar and rushing up. Joel held the sword in both hands, and a pain came from his left shoulder. Although the longbow blocked a blow, the clothes he was wearing had no protective effect and he was still slightly injured. However, if he didn't deal with it properly, it would be as simple as a minor injury.

The robber's sword was very fast, and Joel was almost hit by the scimitar full of scratches. The scimitar may not be able to deal with iron armor, but it is surprisingly effective against people like Joel who do not have armor. After avoiding the scimitar, the straight sword in Joel's hand suddenly stabbed out, but because the robber's movement was too big, the sword that was originally aiming at his chest only stabbed his shoulder. Joel quickly pulled out the tip of the sword and took a few steps back.

The Snow Bandit screamed when he was stabbed, but then he showed anger again. It was the face of the murderer. Joel believed that his expression was almost the same as him at this moment. Blood flowed down the fur that the Snow Bandit was draped on his shoulders, dyeing the gray and messy hair red. His hand holding the knife trembled, then changed his hand, and posed for a moment and rushed forward again.

Joel held the sword in both hands and raised the straight sword horizontally, blocking the fatal blow of the scimitar. After sparks, Joel tightened the hilt and tried his best to use the blade to slash the left shoulder of the Snow Bandit. After the blood was shot, the blade directly slashed into the right shoulder of the Snow Bandit. The blade of the iron sword was not as good as a scimitar. If Joel used a scimitar, he might have slashed the entire left arm of the Snow Bandit.

Joel tried to draw the iron sword, but it seemed that the iron sword had been stuck in the bones of the mercenary. He decisively let go of his hand and quickly took a few steps back, but tripped up a corpse. He looked down and saw that it was a soldier's corpse. He bent down and picked up the soldier's spear. He raised his head. The snow bandit was wailing and pulling out Joel's sword. As soon as he raised his head, Joel had already pierced his chest with a spear. Joel roared and nailed the snow bandit's corpse to the ground. The spear head stabbed into the gap between the stone bricks, and then he bent down to pick up his own straight sword in his hand.

The fight continued, but the snow bandits on the battlefield did not notice Joel. They were all trying to break through the iron fist. Olaf and the Alps had a wall of iron. Joel bent down and picked up a short bow from the soldier who had just plundered the arrows. Although the short bow was not as powerful as the longbow, it also had the advantage of being light and small.

Retracting the sword back to the scabbard and picking up the short bow, Joel hit an arrow without aiming, pulling the bowstrings all over the bow, and letting go of the bowstrings into the crowd full of snow robbers. But even so, it was still a drop in the bucket. The huge disadvantage in the number of people could not be compensated at all, and the red bar hp of teammates in the team panel had almost been reduced to less than half.

"Brother Xiong! This is the rhythm of the group destruction!" Alps smashed the shield at the face of a snow robber. At this moment, his shield was covered with dents.

"Don't say something disheartening!" Olaf roared with anger, trying to boost his morale that had begun to decline.

But the leader of the Snow Robber still ruthlessly attacked them. This time, he held the black long-handled axe with both hands and slashed hard at the thick iron shield. There was only a sound of shattering. The axe blade of the black long-handled axe chopped into the thick iron shield. The cracks began to be covered with shields like spiders. The leader of the Snow Robber pulled the long-handled axe out of the giant shield before the soldiers hiding behind the shield stabbed him with a spear.

"The durability of my giant shield is almost gone!" The mercenary's desperate voice came from the team's voice.

At the same time, the leader of the snow bandit raised the black long-handled axe in his hand again, and the mercenary responsible for the shield screamed in fear. The next second, the thick iron shield that looked like a sect board was hit by the black iron long axe covered with dark red runes. Two cracks intertwined, and then the giant shield fell fragments like broken glass.

"It's over!" the mercenary shouted in despair in the team's voice.

And just when everyone was at a loss, the Alps' surprise voice sounded, "Hey? This is..."

Then he remembered a prompt: Ding~ The player's frozen Aleya joined the team.

"Everyone hurried to cover your eyes!" A female voice shouted in the team's voice, which was the frozen Aleya who had just joined the team.

"How do you shoot arrows when you block your eyes?" Feiyu asked dissatisfiedly.

"Everyone! Block your eyes!" Olaf roared and ordered in an irresistible tone.

No one refuted. Although Joel hesitated for a moment, he reached out to block his eyes. But when he finally blocked his eyes, the white light that saw the world engulfed. What is this?

"Ah! My eyes!" Feiyu's screams resounded in the team's voice.

"It's a strong light technique!" Alps exclaimed, "A magician has joined the team!"

"Whoever is stared at by the boss quickly moves to the ruins!" The frozen Aleya's calm voice made everyone come back to their senses. Joel put down his palm covering his eyes and saw the three Iron Fist and the four people entangled by the snow robbers' boss rushed in the same direction. Most of the snow robbers covered their eyes and screamed loudly.

"Arrowmen took the opportunity to strike the boss!" The giant bear Olaf roared and issued an order. Joel, whose eyes recovered from the strong light just now, saw his hammer and knocked over a slightly shorter snow bandit again. The world showed its original appearance from the white light, white fog and smoke, the gray-white ground, and the shadows began to appear, and the last one appeared was a splash of bright red.

The moment his vision adapted, Joel had reached out and grabbed a black arrow in the quiver, and arched the arrow, pointing the tip of the arrow at the tall and strong snow robber leader. The arrow broke out, and the black arrow teared open the smoke and falling snowflakes, and pierced heavily into the animal skin and bone armor on the shoulders of the snow robber leader. Joel saw his body sinking, and then he raised his head and looked at Joel. Joel met him. The bottom of the antler helmet under the leopard skin was a pair of black eyes that contained anger and wildness. He was not blinded by magic, and Joel noticed it.

"Be careful!" Joel shouted in the team's voice.

Bang! But it was too late. The snow robber leader had already raised the long black axe and slashed at the back of a mercenary who was fleeing in a hurry. The mercenary had his red rust armor split by the sharp axe, as if he had cut cheese. The axe blade was embedded in his body. In the team panel on the left side of Joel's vision, another avatar turned gray, and the red strips quickly faded and eventually turned into blank.

Another person died.

"Bastard!" Joel gritted his teeth and aimed at the giant again. The sharp arrow flew out, but this time the snow robber leader grabbed it with his gray palm. He looked at Joel fiercely, opened his mouth and bit the arrow with his yellow teeth, broke the arrow, threw away the shaft, and then spit out the iron arrow in his mouth.

The snow robber leader raised his bloody axe and roared to the sky, like a wild beast. Several mercenaries who were terrified and wanted to escape also turned their heads to look at him. The tall giant stood among the wailing snow robbers and roared. Large pieces of snowflakes began to fall in the sky. This strange scene made Joel tremble.

"My eyebrow spell is about to expire, please pay attention to the fight!" The frozen Aleya reminded the team language, and Joel was also pulled back to reality by her voice. Is the female magician?

In the team's voice, Olaf yelled and gave the order again, but Joel didn't care.

He put on a short bow, pulled out a straight sword, and looked at a snow bandit who fell to the ground with his eyes covering his face and struggling to get up. This was an elderly native. The grayish gray cover removed his wrinkles, but only his wrinkled face could still be seen when approaching. Joel raised the sword and pierced his chest obliquely. The snow bandit wailed and fell into his pool of blood. The splattered blood splattered on Joel's black suit. "May the gods be merciful." Joel looked at the snow bandit's corpse coldly.

Three snow robbers who covered their eyes were put down one after another. Joel's face was covered with blood and corpses were all around him. At this time, a snow robber closest to Joel let go of his hands covering his eyes. He shook his head, opened his blood-stained eyes, and looked at Joel. Joel quickly bent down and used a straight sword full of gaps to separate a guard's quiver, and put the arrows of the iron arrow into his own quiver. At this time, the snow robber who saw Joel was already roaring towards Joel.

With a whoosh, an arrow pierced the snow robber's head. Joel raised his head and saw the three-story building of the broken shopping mall at the edge of the square. The roof of the third floor had already collapsed, and there were three walls that collapsed with the roof. But even so, it was still the highest commanding heights except the church. Is Xiao Qiao there?

Just as Joel was about to turn his eyes away from the mall, he saw a flame suddenly ignited on the third floor of the mall, and it looked like a torch from afar, but Joel saw a white figure standing behind the flame, with a snow-white cloak shaking in the north wind.

"What is that?" Joel was stunned for a moment, but he could not ignore the snow bandits around him who had been constantly regaining their vision. They roared at Joel, but many saw the direction Joel looked at. The flame was swaying at the height. Suddenly the flame was thrown out. Joel widened his eyes and watched the flame fall into the snow bandits, and suddenly ignited the flames that soared into the sky. The snow bandits screamed in horror. The flames were like bursting out from the tinder oil tank, and the flames were poured on people together. But Jon knew that this was not a tinder oil tank, but the flames were still stuck on the snow bandits like oil. In the blink of an eye, several people were already screaming and engulfed by the flames. They wailed and collided in the team, and the snow bandits could not avoid it.

"Collection! Joel should not stand stupidly!" The giant bear Olaf's rough voice pulled Joel back to reality from the fascinating flame. He looked around and the snow bandits' team had begun to scatter, but they were more in order to avoid the flame than Joel in black. Joel took the opportunity to turn his head and start running towards the ruins. There, he saw that the mercenaries had stood in a group.

After passing one corpse after another, through the falling snowflakes and white smoke and mist, the roar of the snow robber leader suddenly came from behind, which was an order issued in the native language of the Widow Mountains. Joel had heard it once before. Although he did not understand the exact meaning, it was similar to "attack". Then the roar of the snow robber leader, and the other snow robbers also roared and ran, and the sound of bone collisions and arrows leaving the strings came from behind. Damn! Joel did not dare to look back. He lowered his body and ran forward desperately, but when he looked up at the sky, he found that the arrows were not shot at him, but at the dilapidated three-story mall.

"Joel, be careful!" Alpine's cry made Joel notice the footsteps that made the ground shake. He turned his head suddenly and saw the snow robber leader running with an axe. He grabbed the head of a subordinate and threw him away from his way. Joel's eyes met his eyes again. He came for his own. Joel understood. "I'll save him!" Alpine shouted.

The speed of the snow bandit leader was completely inconsistent with his figure, like a huge crazy stag, with his hooves ping-pong on the stone floor. His charge was wild and unruly, but it was too fast to bear. It was too late! Joel threw away the straight sword in his hand, took off the short bow that was slung on his shoulder, and drew the arrow to the bow. But at this moment, the snow bandit leader had rushed to a place only six feet away from Joel. The long black axe in his hand had been raised. Joel saw the anger on his face, wild eyes and a wide mouth with a grim smile, revealing yellow teeth, and the tip of the arrow on Joel's bow also pointed at his face.

But just before the long axe fell and the black arrow left the string, a man wrapped in iron armor hit Joel's shoulder. His arrow lost his accuracy and hurriedly escaped from the bowstring and pierced into the right shoulder of the snow bandit leader. The snow bandit leader roared in pain, "Tang Anton!" The black long axe suddenly swept towards Joel and the man wearing iron armor, but the man raised the badge shield that had already been covered with grooves and the emblem on it was blurred. The giant axe hit the shield, sparking sparks, and the man wearing iron armor hit Joel's body. The iron shield was split in half, and the two were knocked away by this huge force together.

"For the Kingdom!" As the sky turned, the Alps pressed on Joel's body. The weight of the iron armor made Joel breathless, but he struggled to look up. He saw the iron fist holding the earthy yellow iron curved shield with both hands and launching a charge, hitting the snow robber leader heavily, but only staggering him.

Before the snow bandit leader could stand firm, a burly strong man had already slammed his chin with a hammer. The snow bandit leader then flipped to the ground, but when the giant bear Olaf was about to make another move, the snow bandit leader's strong legs kicked Olaf's thick wooden shield and kicked him back two steps. When Olaf stabilized his body again, the snow bandit's troops had already rushed over, and three flying axes hit the thick wooden shield heavily, and the wood chips splashed.

At this time, four other mercenaries rushed over. One of the mercenaries with a kite shield was wearing a square barrel helmet, and the iron spear in their hands pierced a snow robber holding a stone axe with a thick back. "Do not!" he shouted at Joel and the Alps, and then blocked the other two snow robbers who wanted to rush towards Joel and the Alps.

Alps threw away the handle of the badge shield in his hand, and then struggled to get up. Joel also pushed him from behind. "Sorry!" Alps said with a relaxed smile. He held the sword in his right hand, looked at the snow bandit rushing over with vigilantly, and pulled Joel up from the ground with his left hand, "Is it okay?"

Joel threw away the broken short bow, drew a straight sword from the sheath around his waist, and faced the snow bandit rushing towards him with Alps. "It's okay." He saved my life, Joel thought to himself.

Olaf threw over a snow bandit holding a straight sword picked up from the battlefield with a hammer, and then slammed the bottom of the thick wooden shield into his head. "Stop them!" Olaf noticed, "They were going for the mage!"

"Let them do it!" Aleya, who was frozen, said coldly. The second flame exploded among the snow bandits, and the oil-like flame spread out on the ground. However, since the snow bandits dispersed this time, the effect was not as effective as the first time, but it still hindered the snow bandits from rushing to the mall.

There was a half-declined wall between the mall and the church square. Several snow robbers rushed over and climbed up the broken wall of the mall with their hands and feet. The snow robber who rushed in the front held a scimitar in his mouth and flexibly stepped on the gap in the broken wall. But suddenly an arrow pierced his eyes, and he fell straight from above and hit another snow robber who wanted to climb the wall.

"Joel, go and help Xiao Qiao." Alps untied an iron shield painted with a sharp spear hunting emblem from a dead guard, and then rushed to the side of the iron fist to knock over a snow robber with a shield. Joel forced another snow robber back with a sword. A mercenary rushed over to help Joel stop the person. Joel turned around and rushed to the store. When he passed by a corpse that fell to the ground, he stepped on his back with his feet, pulled out the bloody flying axe, and threw it at a snow robber in front. The flying axe slammed into his calf. He wailed and fell forward.

When Joel rushed over, the snow bandit was about to get up. Joel held the sword in both hands and stabbed into his back. The snow bandit struggled for a moment and stopped moving. Warm blood poured out from his chest and back. Joel looked around quickly. The snow bandit either surrounded the mercenaries or was still far from Joel. After discovering that there was no threat, he bent down to remove the wooden bow of the body and the arrows in the quiver that were not even synchronized. Joel's quiver was empty when it was knocked open by the Alps.
To be continued...
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