Above the mage!

Chapter 228 [Magic Energy Explosion+]

Everything happened too suddenly, and neither the Snow Wolf nor the people in the tribe had time to react.

The only person who reacted at the scene was Laut, who had narrowly escaped death.

Seeing the ice wolf that had knocked him to the ground being blown away, driven by the instinct to survive, Laut immediately climbed up from the ground as quickly as possible.

He ignored the severe pain coming from the wound on his shoulder and ran quickly towards the tribe.

"kill!"

The patriarch finally reacted at this time and shouted angrily.

Under his command, the hunters in the tribe responded quickly and threw out their spears.

The flying spears flew towards the wolves as densely as raindrops.

Faced with this sudden counterattack, the wolves fell into chaos in an instant.

The snow wolves howled angrily and tried to launch an attack.

But before that, the threat of flying spears forced them to scatter and hide.

The snow wolves were brave, ferocious and fierce. In just a moment, they had already moved far away.

But such an intensive spear attack would not be without any results.

About seven or eight snow wolves were unable to dodge in time and were pierced through the bodies by the sharp flying spears. They were nailed to the snow and struggled in pain. Their blood instantly dyed the snow red.

But at this time, the rest of the snow wolves had already adjusted their formation.

Previously they were in a gathered state, so they found it difficult to resist the dense flying spears.

But now, they have scattered and stretched the battle line to a very long extent. Given the agility and speed of the snow wolves, it is unlikely that the flying spears will pose a threat to them in this situation.

Therefore, what follows will be the bloodiest and most brutal close combat.

On this side, the patriarch himself also jumped up at this moment.

With a roar of anger, his eyes turned into a frosty blue, and an icy blue light appeared in his hands.

A moment later, an arrow made of ice shot out spontaneously without a bow and aimed at one of the ice wolves.

This is not a spell that a regular wizard masters by constructing a spell model, but a spell power that awakens naturally in the blood.

The old patriarch is the only one in the entire tribe who has awakened his Iceborn bloodline.

In other words, it is equivalent to the only magician in the entire tribe.

This is the biggest problem this tribe faces when facing attacks from snow wolves.

The people of the North make a living by hunting, and their combat skills and physical fitness are far superior to those of ordinary people. Even without magic, they can fight against zero-ring earth creatures.

But the three-headed, ringed ice wolf was definitely not something that ordinary people from the North could deal with.

The only one who can deal with the extraordinary is the extraordinary.

In the North, the Iceborn bloodline is the extraordinary power that the people of the North rely on for survival.

The old patriarch is already very old and has no confidence nor the strength to fight three people alone.

But now, there is no choice.

More importantly, the old patriarch also discovered the strange man who "flew" down from the hillside.

He could only believe that the "weirdo" was strong enough and willing to continue attacking.

Crack!

That ice arrow hit the ice wolf accurately.

However, it was not as effective as the flame beam just now.

With a crisp sound of ice cracking, it shattered.

The ice wolf took the blow head-on and only felt a little pain, with some skin injuries, and howled with its teeth bared.

At its howl, the snow wolves kicked their hind legs and rushed towards the people in the tribe as if they were walking on the snow.

"what!!"

The boy next to Joey was suddenly knocked to the ground by a flying snow wolf.

Just one bite.

A huge bloody hole appeared on the boy's neck.

Before the hunters' spears could strike back at it, the cunning snow wolf had already succeeded in its attack and retreated nimbly.

It just showed its bloody fangs and stared at Joey, who was almost pale, with its cruel and ferocious green eyes.

It's like a threat: You'll be the next to die.

The battle here had just begun when a scream was heard from the other side.

A slow-moving old man, whose stomach had been slashed by another ferocious snow wolf, instantly fell to the ground, howling in pain.

Of course, the Snow Wolf is not doing whatever it wants.

The most experienced hunter in the hunting team had already stabbed out with his spear with amazing precision and force when a snow wolf pounced on him.

The spear directly intercepted the wolf in the air, and the sharp bone tip pierced through the snow wolf's most vulnerable abdomen, giving it a chilling feeling.

Although the other hunters were not as skilled as him, they were also constantly thrusting their spears to drive away the snow wolves that were flying towards them.

"Keep your strength and rhythm!" shouted the captain of the hunting team.

Every time you swing the spear with all your strength, it consumes a lot of physical strength.

This is especially true when swinging the gun at a high frequency, as you may become exhausted after swinging it dozens of times in a row.

And these cunning giant wolves obviously understand this truth.

That is why they keep tentatively attacking the elderly, children and women who have little ability to resist, instead of fighting with the hunters.

The purpose is to force the hunters to keep attacking and consume their physical strength.

As predators on the snowfield, this is a common tactic they use when facing prey: through tentative attacks and feints, they consume the prey's physical strength, and then easily knock it down when the prey is exhausted.

But the captain's reminder didn't have much effect.

Not only the captain of the hunting team could see the snow wolves' intentions, but other hunters also understood their intentions. But the problem was that those snow wolves pounced on their own people.

The hunters didn't dare to gamble and could only try their best to stop the snow wolf.

On the other side, after the old patriarch's attack, the ice and snow wolf that was blown away by the flame beam had already climbed up.

The snow-white wolf hair at the wound had now been dyed into a burnt, mottled black by the embers of the fire.

This made it particularly angry.

Anger comes not only from physical pain, but also from the trampling of dignity.

It fixed its eyes on the "culprit", the strange man who was rushing down the hillside at an incredible speed, raising a cloud of snow.

Even the ice wolf that had taken the old patriarch's attack head-on didn't even bother to look at the old patriarch at this moment, but instead cast its ferocious gaze towards the weirdo.

These first-ring earth vein creatures have extremely high IQs and obviously understand that this is the most difficult enemy and they need to work together to deal with him first.

The three ice wolves slightly turned in a direction, and almost at the same time, their strong and powerful limbs suddenly kicked the ground, turning into three white ghosts, and rushed towards the strange man. "Be careful!" The old patriarch shouted again, and at the same time chased after the three giant wolves, wanting to support them.

In his opinion, facing the siege of three ice wolves, the strange man would definitely be in danger.

However, the strange man who "flew" down the hillside quickly did not stop at all.

As he moved, he had already started casting spells.

Whoosh!Whoosh!
Two fierce and extremely dazzling energy beams shot out from the hands of the "weirdo".

From a high position, he shot towards two of the three ice wolves like two lightning bolts cutting through the sky.

The two ice wolves that were locked by the energy beams used their hind legs to exert force, and when the energy beams were about to hit them, they suddenly moved to the right.

Speed ​​is the Ice Wolf's strong point.

However, the energy beam that had clearly been dodged, at this moment, drew a semicircle in an extremely "flirtatious" manner and directly hit the two ice wolves that had relaxed their vigilance.

[Magic Explosion+] (Evocation, Level 0):

Sends a burst of intense energy toward a creature within range (120 feet).
Additional: The energy beam will continue to pursue the target within the casting range.

After leaving the Dandong Snow Peak, it took nearly another month to officially enter Gaode in the north through the northern climbing route. During this period, some new zero-ring origins were unlocked.

He decisively added this origin to [Magic Energy Explosion].

As the energy beam hit, the bodies of the two ice wolves shook violently, and their rapid forward movement came to an abrupt halt, and they fell abruptly onto the snow.

There were no obvious signs of external injuries on the surface of their bodies, but in fact, there was some kind of damage inside their bodies.

[Magic Explosion] As the king of magic damage, in addition to its amazing power of up to 10 degrees, there is another crucial point.

The damage it causes is "noble" force field damage.

Force field damage can penetrate material barriers, making it a powerful weapon for breaking defenses in most cases.

Especially when facing enemies with high defense or shields, the power of force field damage becomes even more prominent.

One of the major reasons why the Snow Wolf can "dominate" the North is its fur, which has excellent defensive properties.

When ordinary physical attacks land on the body, most of the force is often dissipated by the smooth fur.

Moreover, this fur has a very high resistance to ice, which is exactly what restrains the ice element spells that the Northerners are best at and commonly use.

This is the reason why the old patriarch's ice arrow seems so unusable.

But Gao De, an outsider, cannot bear this.

The force field damage has penetrating power and directly ignores the fur defense of the ice wolf, causing severe damage to it.

[Magic Explosion +] Under the ring-raising spell, one energy beam becomes two, but there are three ice wolves.

So the last ice wolf was already within his attack distance and pounced towards Gaode.

Gao De's expression remained unchanged.

When he started to slide down the slope, he had already cast [Shield Technique] on himself.

However, he did not say that he could rely on the [Shield Technique] to withstand this attack.

Gao De slightly turned sideways, pressed his body down with superb skiing skills, made a sliding gesture, and cleverly avoided the snow wolf's pounce.

As Gao De slid down the hillside, the accumulated gravitational potential energy was continuously converted into speed, making his speed at this time reach an extremely exaggerated level, so he was able to deal with the pounce of a ring of ice and snow wolves with ease.

The shovel kicked up a cloud of snow dust, making the vision blurry and invisible.

But this is actually Gaode’s purpose.

【Magic Explosion+】has the function of automatically searching for enemies.

He only needs to see a vague shadow, lock the target, and the rest can be left to the spell itself.

Therefore, this kind of environment is actually Gaode's home battlefield.

Whoosh!Whoosh!
Another [Magic Explosion+] was cast, rushing out of the snow dust and rushing towards the two ice wolves that had suffered badly before.

Kill him while he's sick.

At any time, concentrating fire to reduce the number of enemy troops is a safe way of fighting.

The ridiculously fast movement speed meant that Gaode didn't have to worry about the ice wolf's attack for the time being.

The enemy-locking effect of [Magic Explosion+] means that Gaode does not have to worry about the hit rate problem under high-speed movement - casting spells while moving is a difficult problem for most mages.

Just like archery, the faster you are, the more difficult it is to control the aim.

Therefore, "casting on the move" with a high hit rate has always been one of the important indicators to measure the strength of a combat mage.

Under the influence of "arrows never miss their target", the two severely hit ice and snow wolves were not able to escape danger for a single moment, and each of them was hit by two explosions of magic energy.

This accuracy made the wolf feel chilled.

A certain structure inside the body has been completely destroyed by the force field damage. Although it is still alive, it has completely lost its combat effectiveness.

It was also at this time that the snow dust had dissipated.

The last ice wolf let out a wail when it saw its two companions falling to the ground.

A few seconds ago, the ice wolf, which was still eyeing Gao De covetously, turned around and fled decisively after wailing.

Seeing this scene, Gao De frowned subconsciously.

The ice wolf was running up the snow slope, and he was sliding down the slope.

At the current speed, and moving towards each other in such a direction, in just the blink of an eye, the opponent had already escaped from his casting range.

"Whatever." Gao De felt helpless. Although it was a pity, there was nothing he could do.

He turned and waved his hands again, and two energy beams shot out decisively from his hands, completely killing the two ice wolves that had lost the ability to struggle and fell on the snow slope.

After just a few encounters, he killed two of the ice wolves that were also in the same ring, and one escaped.

Although he had the advantage of geographical location, it was still quite exaggerated for a mage who had just been promoted to the first ring to have such combat power.

After dealing with the three wolf leaders, Gao De turned his gaze to the northerners who were still fighting with the zero-ring snow wolves. His face suddenly changed, and he opened his mouth and shouted.
However, as nerves were highly tense and they were still some distance away from the snow slope, no one heard what God said.

The old patriarch, who had no choice but to chase the snow wolf and come to support Gaode, immediately heard the voice with obvious anxiety due to the awakening of his bloodline power:

"Wow, leave me a few!"

The urgency conveyed in the voice made the old patriarch unable to react at first.

"Leave a few for me." Are you talking about snow wolves?

Leave a few snow wolves for him? What does he want? Does he want to capture the snow wolves alive and tame them?

How is it possible to tame a snow wolf? That is a secret that only the Frostwolf Clan knows.

Except for the Frostwolf Clan, no one else can do anything about these unruly and ferocious snow wolves.

Just as the old patriarch's mind was racing with thoughts, Gao De had already "flown" past him with the huge inertia of sliding down the slope and rushed straight to the center of the battlefield.

At the same time, a beam of blazing flame shot out one step ahead of him and accurately hit a zero-ring snow wolf that had just pounced out.

The snow wolf was engulfed in the fire without even a howl, and became silent.

(End of this chapter)