Chapter 54: Bushido
Fights between the High Sensitivity classes can be very entertaining or dull. Charles knew Takekawaichi, a school inheritor who believed in the spirit of bushido, so he would definitely have to deal with the fingertip quicksand that was lower than him.
At the same time, Charles also understands quicksand at his fingertips. After all, it was the apprentice he took for a while, this disciple is good at everything, calm, less nonsense, and flexible in his mind, but sometimes he is too strong.
This competition can also be regarded as a needle-to-needle match. Charles believes in his old friend's strength and has confidence in his apprentice's skills.
But the grade gap is destined to give the fingertip quicksand an irreversible disadvantage.
Level 6 vs. 8, not to mention the attack value that increases with the increase of the Wanderer's class level, Charles is very skeptical that this old friend, 'Stealth' and 'Hide', the two main skills are both at level 10, deriving combat ability.
This can be confirmed by yesterday afternoon's Fishman mission, and not long ago, he threw out the 'Deep Sea Frost Flails' twice and was dodged by his old friends.
Moreover, the eighth-level wanderer also has a special ability, which can also be called his own specialty - [Intuitive Dodge] (proficient).
With this specialty, wanderers after level 8 will not be flanked by enemies, and it will be difficult to be effectively sneak attacked. But the battle is ever-changing and unpredictable, and how far this former thief can be forced depends on the apprentice's on-the-spot performance.
The setting is woods, and the shadows of the sunset mountains shroud down, which happens to fill the woods with patches of swaying shade, which is an excellent cover for thieves to hide from their sight.
"Whoosh"
"Whoosh"
Fingertip quicksand, Takekawaichi, looked at each other for a while, and almost at the same second, flew into the shadows of two adjacent trees.
Charles and Dreamer could see two blurred figures entangled in the shadows.
The race of quicksand on her fingertips is a pure-blooded human, light and tall, and at this time she uses both hands to hold the dagger behind her back, the blade in her right hand is piercing with a chisel, while the dagger in her left hand is aimed at Takekawaichi, and she uses another move to wipe her throat.
But Takekawa is a halfling, born with a +2 agility racial bonus, and his height of less than one meter and thin size make Takekawa look like a monkey, easily churning between seemingly swift daggers.
There were rules set by Charles beforehand, and neither of them used combat skills with cooldowns.
Combat skills deal mandatory damage to the target, while the target is exempt from a portion of the damage if they pass the check. It's just a scramble now, and although Quicksand at the fingertips and Takekawa use a normal attack, if you are stabbed through the head and heart with a dagger, an ordinary attack can be fatal with one blow.
So after the two fought, Charles and Soul Wandering found that the man and woman wanderers seemed to be competing, and the dagger either wiped the throat or stabbed straight into the deadly parts of the heart, and the other positions didn't even look at it, as if they didn't care about the little bit of output.
"These two people ......" were stunned and didn't know how to express it.
"I knew it."
Charles shook his head helplessly, "I guess if they want to use skills, they won't use them." Skills are forced damage, and flat slashing can reflect skill and strength. β
"Also, Takekawa actually released water from the beginning. The bow and crossbow skills of the halfling wanderer are terrifying, don't you see that Takekawa only uses a short sword? I guess his left-handed weapon is a blue light hand crossbow. If it was a formal encounter, Qing Xuan wouldn't be able to hold out for a few moves. β
Charles found that letting the King of Thieves be the litmus test was wishful thinking. What's more, this thief still has a level of suppression, and the quicksand on his fingertips is against the thief king, I'm afraid the psychological pressure is very great, and his actions are a bit of a taste of seedlings. I'm still too anxious, reorganizing Nodashir is not an overnight thing, there is still time, take your time.
"Hoo ......"
After a moment of self-examination, Charles sighed and stood up, and shouted to the two of them, "Stopβ"
"That's it."
The priest's words were still very effective, no matter how Takekawa and the quicksand at their fingertips wanted to destroy the other party a second ago, they quickly drew back their daggers and short swords at this moment, their breath was a little short, and they stared at each other.
It seems that the king of thieves is not as easy as it seems.
"When you're at the same level, go to the arena to fight again, and you still have to keep your skills in the wild, and you can't let go of your hands and feet, right?" Charles walked over and patted them on the shoulders.
"You're a good apprentice."
Takekawa inserted a short sword back into the leather sheath on his waist, and a sentence popped out from between his teeth, "Hey...... "Dawn" has been tested for a month, and the wanderers who died under my hands are not a hundred but eighty, and they are all cleaned up in two or three moves. β
"So you're proud enough." Takekawa said with his arms crossed.
He is less than a meter tall, only as tall as his thighs with quicksand on his fingertips, and he has a Zhengtai image with red lips and white teeth, how strange and funny this sounds.
"Again?" The fingertip quicksand was silent for a while, and then said in a cold voice.
Her eyebrows were slightly tilted upward, and although she still looked cold, the priest who knew her well knew that she was angry, and quickly stretched out a hand to press on her slightly thin shoulder, and threw a look full of encouragement and comfort at her.
"Takekawa, it's okay, I'm going to be ruthless."
Charles immediately looked down at the halfling man under his feet, and said expressionlessly, "Why don't we have an unlimited game?" You can hand in skills and magic skills. β
"Please take it back."
The halfling man hurriedly bowed ninety degrees, and said righteously: "The contemptible man is just stating an extremely serious fact, and he has absolutely no intention of provoking the nobles. β
"Of course, I don't dare to provoke you." The next sentence of the halfling changed sharply, and when he raised his head, a flattering smile changed to his face.
"Sure enough, it's a man who is called Nordahir and Zhang Ze."
"Where did your bushido spirit go?"
Charles was speechless.
"Bushido? That kind of thing was on the verge of extinction in the Showa era, and the Heisei ruined houses left it only in historical legends. "The halfling is a serious person.
The pastor beckoned the two to sit back on the blankets.
Under Takekawa's grateful gaze, Charles poured him another cup of Beldask's crimson, which was considered to be the reward for his disciples.
"Say, how did you end up here, how much do you know about the situation in Sunset Fishing Village?" Charles shifted his attention and began to care about the anomalies in the fishing village.
"After completing the fish-man mission yesterday afternoon, I saw that I couldn't catch up with the fish-man priest, so I left first, so I went to this area last night, but I didn't make it to the foot of the village."
As soon as Takekawa mentioned the fishing village, his face suddenly gloomy, and he said, "The sunset fishing village rejects all the holy presences. I was still angry, but after sneaking into the village to inquire, hehe......"
At the end of the sentence, the halfling sneered.
"You know the storm the night before, right?" Takekawa didn't continue to mention what he had inquired about, but said with a calm face: "Like the galaxy, there are also several fish-man tribes in Pterodactyl Lake, which should have escaped the disaster from the sinking river upstream." β
"The fishing village is tightly locked down, so it stands to reason that there will be no conflict with the fishmen, and some fish-man tribes will return today."
"But a team of players created a conflict and led the angry Fishmen to attack the fishing village, while they mended the gaps in the rear and plundered XP."
Really!
Hearing Takekawa's description, a trace of anger appeared in Charles's eyes, and he quickly relented.
In fact, he had guessed this before. It is also common for players to borrow the power of the aborigines to farm monsters and farm experience. But the methods of this team are inevitably inferior, what is the power of the Fish-Man Clan, what is the strength of the Fishing Village, they should know very well.
Two or three hundred fishman warriors can easily destroy the sunset fishing village, burn and loot. The Sunset Fishing Village is not large, and the militia team is only a few dozen people, how can it resist the impact of the Fish-Man Clan? What's more, there is still a group of old and weak women and children in the fishing village, once the outer wall is lost, that kind of bloody scene, as long as there is still a little humanity, it is impossible to be indifferent.
In the holographic era, aborigines are no longer NPCs in the traditional sense, not cold data, but living people with independent thoughts. Three years ago, the first holographic game was born, and the post-80s Shaolin abbot was wanted, and the corpse was guarded until the number was deleted.
Since that era, the alliance of players composed of various groups and guilds has established many tacit rules, which are still used today. So, Nodashir has a lot of friends, but also a lot of enemies.
Charles didn't know if the team was newly established, and if he deliberately ignored the rules, in short, this behavior seemed to him to be contempt for the efforts made by Nodashir in the first place.
"Have you found the location of that team?" Charles's voice was cold.
"I've been watching, and they're also camping in the Sunset Mountains, with a total of 5 squads and 30 people, and the career mix is very reasonable, with milk, shields and magic, it's not like a new team." Takekawa nodded.
"Where's the level intelligence?"
"I don't know much yet." Zhuchuan said in a deep voice: "I guess they will lead a wave of monsters to the fishing village today, and we will guard it?" β
"30 people......" Charles tapped his fingers on his knees, his eyes swept over the quicksand on his fingertips, haunted by dreams, Takekawaichi, and himself, and shook his head, "There are only four of us." β
"It's hard to play against a full team."
Although he had a fire in his heart, the pastor knew very well that it was impossible for four people to face thirty people head-on. And if you send a message to a friend and ask the guild team to come over, the team will have already run away, and it will take time and effort to chase after it.
The best thing to do is to grab it on the spot and fix it.
"You can't let them go!" When Takekawa saw that Charles was silent in thought, he jumped up like a burning buttocks, and said angrily: "Although Nordasir has been disbanded, the rules set with the alliance are still there, and if anyone dares to violate them, we will be held responsible!" β
"I didn't say let them go."
Charles glanced at Takekawaichi unhurriedly, and said lightly: "I'm thinking, is there any way to take this group of people away, and I can't run any of them." β
"You cow!" Takekawa's expression and words were stunned, and then he obediently sat back on the blanket and said, "Actually, it's okay to teach them a lesson......
"It's a bit difficult to tell the truth."