Chapter 111: Trap (Part 2)

For wizards with too low a level, wizarding tools are not the higher the level, the better.

Taking Tier 1 Wizards as an example, under normal circumstances, their combat effectiveness can hang and beat any other Tier 1 living beings in other planes.

Among them, the relatively excellent ones can also challenge "ordinary" Tier 2 living beings across levels and remain undefeated.

However, if they encounter "special" Tier 2 living beings, only a very small number of geniuses have the possibility of victory.

But if they hold high-level wizarding tools, even ordinary Tier 1 Wizards, in the case of a sneak attack or preparation in advance, can also kill this kind of Tier 2 living being alone when facing them head-on.

However, if it is a sudden encounter, the winning rate of Tier 1 Wizards who simply hold high-level wizarding tools will drop rapidly.

After all, as the level of wizarding tools increases, the spiritual power required for activation also increases.

Although it is not worth mentioning to wizards of the same level and can be activated at any time with a thought, it does have a not-small delay for low-level wizards.

Wizarding tools above Tier 6 are no longer something that Tier 1 Wizards can activate.

And once the enemy's strength is raised to Tier 3, even if it is just the most ordinary Tier 3 enemy, it is not an existence that Tier 1 Wizards can handle under normal circumstances—even if they hold high-level wizarding tools.

When facing Tier 3 enemies, Tier 1 Wizards are very likely to be perceived by the opponent before they have time to open the high-level wizarding tools.

After all, the speed of Tier 3 living beings has exceeded the reaction ability of Tier 1 Wizards, enough to break away from the spiritual power and line of sight locking of Tier 1 Wizards, and even kill them before Tier 1 Wizards come back to their senses.

Even if they open a higher-level shield to save their lives, they cannot cause too much damage to the enemy,

and the shield released by the wizarding tool has a duration. When the shield duration ends, it is the time for this Tier 1 Wizard to die.

It is also because of this reason that even with sufficient funds, Jie Ming only bought a few sets of Tier 4 wizarding tools—higher levels have no meaning, but will reduce the activation speed.

Of course, if you really hold the determination to die, it is not impossible to kill the enemy by playing a self-detonation with a high-level group wizardry when opening the shield.

However, these are all based on the premise that Tier 1 Wizards have made preparations in advance and "sneak attacked" Tier 3 enemies.

But what if... it's an encounter?

A mysterious energy fluctuation that made people uneasy spread from the depths of the altar like a heartbeat, and quickly spread to the entire mine, shaking the surrounding rock walls until cracks began to appear!

Jie Ming and the three exerted force at the same time, using alchemy to move away the stone wall blocking in front of them, revealing the scene of the altar behind.

"This... what is this?!" Victor exclaimed.

"No wonder—this guy doesn't have a single subordinate around him." Amy felt her voice was a bit trembling.

What came into view was a stone altar, the main body of the altar looked like it was composed of a kind of mineral similar to crystal.

Clearly, that mineral was exactly the thing Jie Ming and the others needed in this mission.

The only difference is that in the intelligence, this mineral should present a faint transparent yellow color.

But the entire altar in front of them presented a bright red color, like a huge ruby.

As for the reason why the entire altar changed color, of course, it was because of the pile of underground demon corpses beside it.

Sensing the "vibration" emitted from the altar that was exactly the same as the demon elder before his death, Jie Ming's pupils shrank suddenly.

He immediately reacted—this underground demon elder who had long lost his sanity was simply a bait!

Its death was the switch that triggered the trap!

Almost at the same moment, Victor and Amy also felt the oppressive power coming from the altar, and their expressions changed drastically.

Almost the moment they saw the altar, Victor subconsciously wanted to take out a high-level wizarding tool from his wizard robe. However, the moment his arm stretched out and his fingers touched the wizarding tool, Swish!

A blood-colored blade light passed by like a teleportation, and Victor's arm holding the wizarding tool, carrying splashing blood, actually left his body without any warning and flew high!

The severed arm was bloody, the bones were exposed, and the fishy hot blood instantly stained the ground red.

Victor let out a muffled groan of pain. The cut was so fast that he didn't even have time to scream.

At this time, the few saw clearly.

I don't know when, above the altar in the depths of the mine, a towering figure with four wings on its back had emerged.

He was wearing blood-colored armor, his face was cold and majestic, and four huge wings carried a bloody wind pressure.

Judging from the energy fluctuation emitted from him, there is no doubt that this is a Tier 3 living being.

Blood Angel!

Jie Ming's eyes tightened.

Relying on the cultural knowledge of the Elosia plane acquired during this period, he recognized at a glance that this was exactly the Blood Angel under the Blood War God, the god in the Elosia plane whose main belief is killing and war!

The strongest living being under the gods, honored by the indigenous people of the Elosia plane as a demigod, a genuine Tier 3 living being!

Although among the "demigods" of the Elosia plane, angel-type creatures are considered the weakest batch, they are also higher-level creatures that have crossed the barrier between gods and mortals.

At least crushing them, these three Tier 1 Wizards, is still easy.

The Blood Angel swept across the three with cold eyes, and in those indifferent eyes, it was full of disgust for "heretics" and "demons".

He raised the long sword in his hand and spoke habitually, his voice like an ancient prayer, carrying cold holy power: "Filthy heretics, sinners who blaspheme my god, your souls will—."

He was about to finish the eulogy and do it, but he didn't expect that just after he finished speaking, Victor, who had just had his arm cut off, suddenly stepped forward running, and then knelt on the ground with a "thud"!

"Spare, spare my life! Great Angel Lord! I, I am willing to betray the wizards! I am willing to join the camp of the gods!" Victor was crying with tears and snot, his face full of extreme fear and despair.

He spoke extremely fast, begging incoherently like a machine gun: "I am willing to provide various intelligence on wizards! Their weaknesses! Their strongholds! I am willing to say anything! I am willing to kill these two heretics to reflect my sincerity! Just beg you to spare my life..."

He performed extremely miserably and fearfully, as if he had really been completely crushed by the pain of the severed arm and the threat of death, and his face also looked unusually pale due to the severe pain and blood loss.

Seeing this, the Blood Angel showed a mocking smile, and just wanted to mock this pathetic traitor a few more times.

However, an inexplicable sense of danger suddenly surged into his heart at this moment!

His face instantly became incomparably angry.

Only to see Victor kneeling on the ground, the face that was crying with tears and snot, at this moment, revealed a strange smile!

Accompanied by Victor raising his head, a vacuum blade emitting a terrifying aura, carrying the power of silent cutting, whistled towards his head!

And under the cover of Victor's clothes, a necklace that had always been worn around his neck was now silently losing all its luster and turning into a pile of ash.

This was Victor relying on his acting skills, taking advantage of the Blood Angel's underestimation and mockery to win a short time, exhausting all his spiritual power, and launching his trump card!

Unfortunately, the gap in strength between the two sides was too huge.

"Humph!" The Blood Angel snorted coldly.

He waved the long sword in his hand lightly, a blood-colored sword light flashed, and the terrifying vacuum blade was instantly blocked and shattered into countless tiny air currents.

Subsequently, the Blood Angel just relied on his own momentum, and a majestic divine power erupted like a mountain torrent, instantly blasting Victor away!

"Pfft!!"

Victor sprayed blood, flew backward like a kite with a broken string, smashed heavily on the rock wall, made a tooth-aching muffled sound, and then slid to the ground, life or death unknown.

The Blood Angel just wanted to raise his hand to kill him completely, but suddenly felt a hint of indescribable stiffness in his four limb joints and the connection points of the four huge wings on his back!

He looked down, only to find that tiny ice crystals had appeared on his joints and wings at some point.

These ice crystals were not the culprit of freezing. On the contrary, it was precisely because a difficult-to-suppress coldness appeared in his joints that these ice crystals were born.

And these chills were like maggots on the tarsal bone. Although tiny, they hindered the smooth flow of divine power in his body.

Following the energy fluctuation, he turned his head violently and looked in Amy's direction.

Only to see Amy's face also becoming pale, sweat dripping from her forehead. Clearly, the sudden freezing ability just now was released by her with all her strength!

Although Amy usually uses fireball wizardry, that's only because fireballs are "easy to use" in most cases.

As a genius who independently constructed a wizardry model, the wizardry model she constructed was far more complex and exquisite than it appeared on the surface.

What she constructed was actually not a simple "Fireball Wizardry", but combined her alchemy and extraction wizardry with basic fire-type wizardry, and independently constructed a deeper "Heat Manipulation"!

Usually, she can condense fireballs by absorbing the heat around her, but at critical moments, she can also reverse it, absorbing the heat in others' bodies, causing the result of freezing stiffness.

However, the gap between Tier 3 living beings and Tier 1 Wizards is really too big.

Even if Amy tried her best, she could only do this little bit of short freezing.

This negligible chill, under the impact of the majestic divine power in the Blood Angel's body, quickly began to melt and almost disappeared.

But at this moment of delay when the furious angel drove the chill out of his body, he immediately felt an unprecedented intense danger.

He turned his head violently, only to see Jie Ming holding a huge crystal ball in his hand at some point, which was now flashing with dazzling light, and was aimed at him!

The Blood Angel subconsciously raised his arm that had regained flexibility, and the long sword in his hand swung a slash mixed with divine power, whistling towards Jie Ming!

However, just as that powerful slash was about to approach Jie Ming, he found a "cunning" smile on Jie Ming's face.

Then, the crystal ball emitting dazzling light was actually put away by Jie Ming with a smile!

And the terrifying slash containing Tier 3 power was blocked out of thin air by an invisible barrier in front of him just as it was about to approach Jie Ming by a foot!

That barrier looked transparent, but it was indestructible. The Blood Angel's slash stirred up ripples on it, but couldn't advance an inch!

"Idiot, it was just to attract your attention!" Jie Ming said mockingly, looking at the shocked Blood Angel.

After saying that, he opened his other hand, and in his hand, there were two Tier 4 defensive wizarding tools that had already dimmed.

"You despicable wizards!" The Blood Angel let out an angry roar. He turned and swung his sword at Amy and Victor again.

However, two blood-colored sword lights slashed down, but they were all blocked by the transparent barrier in front of them! 【

"You despicable wizards!" the Blood Angel roared in anger, turning to slash at Amy and Victor once more.

However, two bloody sword beams were blocked by the transparent barrier in front of them!

Looking at the relief and mockery in Amy and Victor's eyes, the Blood Angel suddenly realized, extreme fury and humiliation flashing in his eyes.

He understood!

Victor's "begging for mercy," Amy's "freezing," and Jie Ming's feigned "attack-type wizarding tool"—everything was to buy time.

It was just to buy that less than a second of time to distract him, so that Jie Ming could trigger the Level 4 defensive wizarding tool he had prepared and cast a Level 4 shield capable of blocking his attacks on them!

Seeing this, Jie Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The gap between a Level 3 living being and a Level 1 wizard was too vast!

Even without using his full strength, the opponent could far exceed their reaction limits.

It could be said that in the previous situation, if the Blood Angel hadn't underestimated his enemy, he could have acted instantly, and the three of them would have been killed in seconds before they even had the chance to activate their wizarding tools.

Everything Amy and Victor did was to create time for Jie Ming to activate the Level 4 shield!

And everything Jie Ming did, including that mocking remark, was to attract the Angel's attention so he would have time to activate other wizarding tools to cast the same shield on Amy and Victor!

Extreme anger appeared on the Blood Angel's face; he knew he had been played by these three "little bugs."

But he quickly calmed down again.

After fighting those wizards for so long, he understood the situation of these enemies well.

Shields created by such "special magic items" had limited duration and could not possibly last long; they would soon disappear.

"When the duration of your little tricks ends, I will make you pay the price!" the Blood Angel issued a cold threat.

Jie Ming, however, was indifferent; he didn't even pay attention to the Blood Angel's harsh words.

Because he was currently focused on another matter.

The Angel finally noticed that behind Jie Ming, crystals the size of fingertips were appearing from nowhere, one after another.

These crystals were staggering in number, emitting a faint glow as they flew out continuously from Jie Ming's internal space like a swarm of bees.

Under Jie Ming's powerful alchemy guidance, these thousands of attack-type rune wizarding tools unfolded behind him at a speed visible to the naked eye, rapidly arranging and combining to form a huge ring several meters in diameter.

During the unfolding of this ring, the Blood Angel tried to attack.

But he discovered that Jie Ming had already set the range of the shield to be extremely large when he first released it, enough to protect all these rune wizarding tools behind him, as if he had calculated this step long ago.