Chapter 17: Summoning the Master
The first point to summon a swordsman——— never go it alone at any time.
[Consumes 1 Skill Point, Increases Moon Shadow Swordsmanship by 1/5, Proficiency C - Moonlight Unlocked]
[Consumes 1 Skill Point, Designated Talent——— Summons Master Awakening]
[Summoning Master's first tier of talent unlocked: Soul Resonance (every time the character is upgraded by 10 levels, the number of spirits that can be summoned increases),
Psychic Calling (shares senses with summoned items, increases the duration of telepathic connection),
Construction Harmony (Dual Sprite Fusion Possible)]
[Gain Resident Skill: Soul Resonance LV1 (+1 for every 10 levels of the character to summon a spirit)]
[Summon Spirit +1]
At the same time as the last line of systematic text disappeared, a huge shadow flashed in the corner of Rod's eyes. But he didn't back down, much less timid. Instead, Rhodes raised his sword and swung it forward.
"Huh!"
A turquoise figure flew out from the blade of the sword and pounced on the gargoyle.
Soul Bird.
Rod's biggest problem at the moment is that he can't summon two summons at the same time, and unfortunately, as his weapon, Starmark is one of the summons.
Ordinary summoning swordsmen, like regular swordsmen, will only be equipped with one "normal" weapon. Rhodes is an exception, although he didn't think about using normal weapons, but he really can't give up the attribute bonus of star marks, and it is precisely because of this characteristic that Rod can so easily destroy those monsters whose level is similar to his own or even slightly higher, and gain so much experience in the early stage. But on the other hand, it also prevents Rhodes from adopting the method of "attacking at the same time as the summoned" that is characteristic of summoning swordsmen, and he looks more like an orthodox swordsman on the outside.
This made Rod quite uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do. If he wants to summon the soul bird, then he has to give up the star mark, but then Rhodes will face the embarrassment of being defenseless, although he mainly summons, but don't forget that the last two words are "swordsman" instead of "mage", so Rhodes can't hide behind and do nothing like those spellcasters. But if you want to use the star mark, you have to seal the soul bird, and if you fight like an ordinary swordsman, it won't be a good thing for Rhodes.
Because summoning a swordsman has one of the biggest weaknesses compared to a genuine swordsman, and that is that its class penalty ——— -1 for all swordsmanship proficiency.
In other words, the swordsmanship of a genuine swordsman can be increased to SSS at the highest level. However, no matter how hard the summoned swordsman tries, he can only be capped by SS. And at the beginning, the starting lines of the two sides were different. All of the initial sword proficiency levels of a genuine swordsman are D. And Rod's summoning swordsman can only start from E, this is the gap, it can be said that in fact, from the beginning of coming to this world to the present, Rod has fought very hard. If it weren't for the star mark in his hand and his understanding of the Dragon Soul Continent, I'm afraid he would have been embarrassed a long time ago. Because he was already familiar with the state of having summons around him to fight with him anytime and anywhere, and now this state made him feel very stressed.
And now, after pointing out the talent of "summoning master", he finally felt a lightness on his shoulders.
Yes, summoning swordsmen don't have the same individual attack ability as full-time swordsmen, but they're never the ones to fight alone.
Facing the soul bird that pounced on him, the gargoyle was stunned for a moment, it felt the magic aura on the other party's body, but the artificial intelligence that was not outstanding had no way to judge what this thing that was rushing at it was, but it still identified the other party as an enemy and pounced on it with one claw.
But this time, the gargoyle was in the air.
The moment it felt its claws hit the other party, the originally frozen form suddenly disappeared like a snowball that had been scattered, and was replaced by a faint stream of air that flew through its claws and disappeared without a trace. But before the gargoyle could react, Rhodes quickly followed, and then he flung forward with his sword in hand.
A silver arc of the moon burst out from Rod's sword, flying towards the target that missed the blow and opened the door wide.
This is the third skill of the Moon Shadow Sword Technique, Yuehua.
Although it is the same as the Shattered Blade, it is a move to condense sword qi to attack, but the effect of the two is completely different——— the form of the Broken Blade is to shoot forward in the form of a blade of light, although it is powerful and has a large transmission power, but the range that can be enveloped is too narrow, and it is easy to dodge. But Yuehua is different, the crescent-shaped attack is swept across, at least a large area in front of it can form a threat, even if you want to dodge, it is very difficult. …,
Sure enough, in the face of the rushing sword light, the gargoyle subconsciously wanted to fly its wings hard to avoid the opponent's attack, but its speed was still a step slower, and it was swept into the right wing by the silver-white light blade, and with the flying of several small pieces of gravel, the gargoyle's original body floating in the air also suddenly tilted and lost its balance.
But that wasn't the end of it, because just as it was about to maintain its balance, Rhodes took two steps forward, and then waved his free left hand down in a strange gesture.
The soul bird that had turned into a breeze and flashed the gargoyle's attack appeared behind the gargoyle at this moment, and the whistling wind once again condensed its body, and with a crisp chirp, the wind bird that was swirling and entangled by the wind hit the gargoyle's back heavily, and the strong air wave that burst out immediately blew the gargoyle away, which made the already angry gargoyle scream angrily, but before it could express its anger, a series of shining blades of light appeared in the gargoyle's eyes.
One, two, three.
The flying and spinning shattering blade hit the gargoyle's injured right wing with precision, even the wings made of the black stone could not withstand the successive attacks, just when the gargoyle suffered this burst, the spiderweb-like crack had spread on its wings, and soon, with a crisp cracking sound, the wings made of hard material were completely shattered, which also made the gargoyle who had lost one of his wings scream and fell to the ground, smashing a small hole in the bluestone floor.
Fighting more and less, bullying the widow with the crowd, combining quantity and quality, this is the style of summoning swordsmen.
Rhodes finally regained the feeling he had when he was fighting, in fact, if he had a normal weapon in his hand now, then after turning on the "summoning master", he would be able to manipulate two summons to attack at the same time, not to mention two rare elites, even if the boss came to him, he was sure to grind the other party to death.
Unfortunately, there is no "if" in the world, and there is currently no second soul core in Rhodes' hand that can be used to awaken the elves.
So he had to give up the idea of taking advantage of the victory to pursue, and instead quickly retreated backwards.
Because at this moment, the second gargoyle had already swooped over.
Perhaps because he saw his companion being injured, the gargoyle's attack was quite fierce, but Rod, who was already able to summon the soul bird, naturally did not plan to be stupid enough to confront it again, and in the face of the black shadow that had embarrassed him before, all Rod did was raise his head and whistle. Immediately afterwards, a strong wind suddenly howled from the side, pushing away the black shadow that originally wanted to attack Rod, making it roll around several times after losing its accuracy, and then hit its head on the wall of the church next to it and stopped.
Of course, Rod would not let go of such a good opportunity.
Under his command, a cyan whirlwind rose from the ground, and the flying birds stretched their wings and once again swooped down on the enemy in front of them.
For a time, the offense and defense reversed.
The two gargoyles who were still showing off their might in the sky before were now as embarrassed as water dogs, and Rod, who was still struggling to support under the pressure just now, immediately turned over as a serf and sang, regaining a favorable situation. He consciously asked the soul bird to cooperate with him, forcibly separating the two gargoyles, so that no matter at any time, they could maintain a "two-on-one" situation, and forced one of them to come to the rescue in time.
Although the scene changed for a while, Rhodes had no way to get further results, this is because his strength has already been consumed by most of the before, and although in the game, players can be resurrected on the spot with "full blood" after leveling up, but it is obviously impossible to give you such a good thing in reality. So although Rhodes was promoted to level ten and opened the number of talents, his soul power was only increased to the original part of the promotion.
There is no way to destroy two gargoyles by relying on these alone. Moreover, manipulating two summons at the same time consumes more of Rod's soul power, and he even has to pay more attention to the consumption than before to avoid his "power outage". After all, the level gap between the two sides is too big, and the gargoyle's defense is not blown, and Rod's attack before only shattered the wings of one of them, and did not cause particularly serious damage to them themselves at all. In this case, if Rhodes were to fire at full power, it would indeed be possible to eliminate one of the gargoyles. But then, having exhausted all his strength, he had to face the other alone unarmed - anyone with a little brain could figure out what the result was. …,
The only thing Rhodes can do now is to try to keep these two nasty guys at bay, and wait for Lizzie and Mace to find that "control center".
Otherwise, the situation will be back to what it was before.
“———!”
Although it had lost one of its wings, the gargoyle did not lose its threat, and it crawled on the ground like a giant black stone dog, flying on all four paws, running on the ground like a ghost. That's what makes these alchemy creatures terrifying, and if you think of them as monsters that only show off their might in the air, you're going to suffer a lot.
Luckily, Rhodes knew a lot about them. Although he didn't think that he could do anything to the gargoyles by knocking them down from the sky, it still made Rhodes feel a lot less stressed, after all, he didn't have to worry too much about the top of his head.
The pitch-black figure appeared behind Rod, and the gargoyle howled and stretched out his right claw to dig into the back of Rod's heart, but in the next moment, Rod flashed sideways, and the white and immaculate blade in his hand turned into a bolt of lightning, which was able to block the opponent's attack. At the same time, Rhodes stretched out his left hand, and the soul bird hovering beside him immediately spread its wings and flew with a clear cry after seeing his gesture, blocking another gargoyle that tried to attack him from the air.
Although at the level of the Soul Bird, it is not yet able to cause much damage to a rare elite like a gargoyle, but as a pure elemental creature, it is not particularly difficult for it to block it.
As the minutes passed, Rhodes's heart became more and more anxious, he felt that his body was a little tired, and even his spirit was a little sluggish, this was the embodiment of the soul power when it was about to be exhausted, and there was still no movement in the church at the moment, had they not found the control center?
"Whew!!"
The terrible sound of the wind sounded from Rod's side, which made Rod's heart suddenly startled, he subconsciously dodged to the side, and tried to activate the shadow flash at the same time, but at the moment when he was about to dodge, it was a flickering footstep, and the skill that should have been activated lost its effect.
The soul power is about to be exhausted!
This made Rod's heart sink, but at this moment he didn't have time to think about anything, so he hurriedly turned around and stabbed him with a backhand. The hard stone claws intersected with the white sword, making a piercing grinding sound. The gargoyle that missed the blow quickly retreated, but Rhodes had no way to pursue it.
And at this moment, suddenly, a voice sounded from behind him.
"Mr. Rhodes! We found it!! ”