Above the mage!

Chapter 285: Settling the Storm

At this moment, after being armed with rune constructs, Sunaifah actually doesn't look like a traditional wizard just by looking at his appearance, but more like a ranger.

[Breath of the Wild] consists of a total of five parts, including chest armor, wrist guards, leg armor, combat boots and headdress.

The breastplate is the largest part of the entire rune set, covering the torso. It is silver in color and has a tight-fitting design. It has a metallic luster as a whole and fits Sunafa's body curve perfectly.

The surface of the breastplate is smooth and textured, as if it were made of the purest silver.

The silver wrist guard wraps around the forearm and extends all the way to the palm. It is particularly ingeniously designed, consisting of multiple layers of thin sheets similar to metal sheets, and each layer of thin sheets is combined in a way similar to inlay.

And at the very center, where Sunaifah's wrist and palm meet, there is an extremely complex rune array that glows brightly.

From a distance, it looks like a sapphire inlaid on top, making it look extremely noble.

Tight leg armor wrapped around Sunaifah's slender legs, and the smooth lines blended perfectly with her figure, showing both a sense of strength and agility.

The surface of the leg armor also shines with the unique cold luster of metal, echoing the torso breastplate to form a unified style.

In terms of design, the leg armor adopts a lightweight construction concept.

Through precise hollow carving techniques, the weight is greatly reduced while ensuring protection, allowing Sunaifah to move more freely.

At the knee, the leg armor is particularly thickened and designed into a sharp knee pad shape.

It not only enhances the protection, but also adds a sense of power visually.

What is particularly eye-catching is that the edge of each leg armor is inlaid with a circle of fine silver runes.

The combat boots were white, with the boot shaft tightly wrapped around Sunaifah's calves, and the boot shaft was also inlaid with fine runes.

At the ankle, the boots cleverly formed an exquisite silver ankle guard, on which was engraved a rune array that was exactly the same as the "sapphire" on the wrist guard.

The front end of the boot is slightly raised, as sharp as an eagle's claw.

The design of the headdress is particularly complex, with interlaced metal pieces forming a three-dimensional sharp shape. Unlike a helmet, which is a wrapped structure, it is more like a skull, only sharper and more gorgeous.

Each component is directly connected to each other, and the connection points are covered with fine rune patterns. The five components together constitute the powerful construction effect of [Breath of the Wild].

And at the moment when [Breath of the Wild] took over, Sunaifa clearly felt that a powerful force was surging from the ground beneath his feet.

This is the rune array on [Breath of the Wild] that is absorbing the power of the earth for Sunafa's use.

The most powerful aspect of rune construction is that it can miniaturize a large and powerful magic circle into a portable one.

"Breath of the Wild." Sunaifah murmured to herself, a smile appeared on her face, and she was obviously very satisfied with the powerful power of the rune construct.

Why does a first-ring wizard possess such a powerful thing?

This is simply incomprehensible to ordinary people.

But Sunaifa did not consider these: being called the person of revival hope is reasonable no matter how shocking the things he does.

She just understood more clearly why Gode was the person predicted by War Mother Oretia.

The next moment, a cold look suddenly intensified in Sunaifa's dark blue eyes.

How to break the game?

The answer is already there.

call!
Sunaifa took a deep breath, raised his right hand that was not holding the bow slightly, and made a gesture similar to "shooting" diagonally upwards, with the tip of his index finger pointing in the air.

The next moment, a blue light suddenly bloomed at her fingertips and quickly extended, forming a suspended halo with her fingertips as the center.

Immediately, Sunaifah flicked the blue halo and let it fall onto the bowstring of [Blizzard].

A blue light flashed by.

It was another ice spell.

Even though Ryan had never seen a rune construct again, he could see clues from the changes in Sunaifah and smell a signal that something was wrong.

But Sunaifa didn't give him much time to think.

She drew her bow again.

A dark blue light, far brighter than before, lit up above the bowstring.

The tiny ice crystals are like stars, constantly emitting arcs of light.

As Sunaifah pulled the bowstring tighter, ice crystals spun and condensed in the air.

At the same time, the "sapphire" rune array on Sunaifa's wristband also flashed fluorescent light and merged into the True Ice Arrow.

This is the rune effect that comes with [Breath of the Wild]: fourth-level spell damage increase.

After a moment.

A terrifying energy like a vast ocean tsunami has been condensed.

"This arrow?!"

Ryan felt an unprecedented threat and detected some ominous signs.

call out!
The Ice Arrow was shot out, with a brilliant blue flame swaying at the tail, which looked like a shooting star against the dark night.

Looking at the dark blue arrow falling from the sky, a trace of solemnity flashed in Ryan's eyes, and he gritted his teeth unconsciously.

How could he not see that Sunaifa's attack this time was extraordinary and could not be blocked by the [Fire Shield] cast by the ascending ring.

While Ryan was pondering in his mind, the huge zombie beast beneath him suddenly let out a deafening roar, as if it was burning with some unknown power.

The thick black mist that erupted from his body was far more turbulent than before, almost swallowing up all the air around him.
The black fog boiled and even rose into the sky, quickly condensing into a huge black hand that covered the sky and the sun, and tightly grasped the incoming icy arrow in its palm.

The earth-shaking thunder roared continuously and echoed in the night sky. The black hand continued to shatter into black mist and dissipated, but it was also gradually eroding the power of the Ice Arrow.

"You are only a fourth-ring mage after all, not to mention you are alone!"

A sinister look flashed across the eyes of Holy Judge Ryan.

The zombie behemoth beneath him was a five-ring undead creature he had created using the five-ring necromancy spell [Skeleton Dance].

Although the zombies themselves are not particularly powerful undead creatures, with the fifth ring level as a base, and under the level suppression, they are more than capable of resisting the attacks of the fourth-ring Sunaifah for a short period of time.

Under the control of Inquisitor Ryan's mind, the zombie monster let out a low roar again, and its huge body rushed towards Sunaifah like a wild horse.

As for himself, he mobilized the magic power in his body and began to mobilize another extremely complex and huge spell model in his own magic sea.

Seeing this, Sunaifa kicked the ground with his toes, and his body rushed to the side as fast as lightning. The speed was so fast that it was simply breathtaking.

She didn't actually cast any spells.

Such an amazing movement speed is actually because the rune pattern on the ankle of Sunaifa's boots is glowing - rune effect: level 4 agility.

Level 4 agility is equivalent to the movement speed gain brought by a fourth-ring spell.

Sunaifa understood that his greatest advantage was that the casting distance of [Blizzard] was four to five times longer than that of ordinary spells.

So, keeping distance is to her advantage.

At this moment, watching Ryan driving the zombie behemoth towards her, she already understood his intention: the current position of the two of them must have exceeded the casting distance of the spell he wanted to cast.

Although I don’t know what spell the other party is preparing to cast, it will definitely not be wrong to prevent him from succeeding.

While retreating rapidly, Sunaifa's hands did not stop moving.

Another icy arrow condensed and shot out. The air seemed to be frozen, and a murderous aura filled the air. The scene was terrifying.

Ryan did not show any sign of panic.
Black smoke once again billowed out of the zombie monster's huge body, turning into a black hand, blocking the icy arrow.

There was a dull explosion, and a huge wave of magical power exploded and spread at the center where the two met.

The two disintegrated and melted each other. In the end, the power of the True Ice Arrow exploded to the extreme, completely piercing through the huge hand transformed by the black smoke, but the remaining force of the black hand also hit the tail of the arrow, twisting its direction and shooting diagonally upwards into the sky.

At the same time, another spell of light appeared in the hands of Holy Judge Ryan, and he slapped the zombie monster under him without hesitation.

After the magic light entered its body, the zombie monster's speed increased visibly, and it rumbled towards Sunaifah.

Three-ring transformation spell [Acceleration].

All obstacles on the road were easily knocked away by the zombie monsters.

Sunaifah did not cast any spells to restrict the zombie monster's movements.

Because she noticed that the four paws of this zombie monster were already covered with a layer of powerful magical fluctuations, and even the thin ice condensed by the previous Ice Arrow failed to affect its movements.

That should be because Ryan had blessed the zombie behemoth with the fourth-level spell [Freedom of Movement] in advance, which allowed it to move without regard to any difficult terrain restrictions, and made any spells or magical effects that reduced the target's speed, or paralyzed or restrained the target ineffective against it.

To be honest, the undead creatures do have some control over her.

Because another powerful aspect of the True Ice Arrow is the extreme cold that explodes and spreads after it hits.

However, undead creatures themselves have no sense of pain, so the impact of extreme cold on them is weakened to the extreme.

With the help of [Acceleration Technique], the zombie monster has surpassed Sunaifah in speed and is continuously closing the distance between the two sides.

Fortunately, the zombie monster was too huge and not flexible enough in turning and changing directions, so Sunaifah was able to use his flexible changes of direction to barely pull it along.

Sunaifa's guess was correct.

The reason why Ryan let the zombie monster lead him to charge continuously and approach Sunafa was because he needed to shorten the distance between him and Sunafa so as to cast the [Energy Draining Technique] to attack.

Fifth-ring necromancy spell, [Energy Drain]!
Archbishop Rune, who was also a fourth-ringer, died under the [Energy Draining Technique] without any struggle.

This is the power of the five-ring spell.

But even though it is a fifth-ring spell, the casting distance of [Energy Drain] is far from comparable to the icy arrows shot by Sunaifa's [Blizzard].

So the current situation is that Sunaifa can shoot at him, but he has no way to make an effective counterattack and can only continue to defend passively.

This was something Ryan could not tolerate. Even in his opinion, he would still win if he continued to waste time like this - Sunaifa's mana reserves were definitely not comparable to those of a five-ring wizard like him, and his mana would be exhausted sooner or later.

But Ryan didn't want to win in such a frustrating way.

Besides, it would be inappropriate for him to drag out the battle for too long.

After all, this is the camp of the Zhenbing Tribe. The other side has a large number of people and strong forces. Even if they are all low-level mages who are not worth mentioning, a large number of ants can still kill an elephant.

Ryan must kill Sunaifah first while the Iceborn mages of the Zhenbing Tribe are still being held back by the Skeleton mages he has ambushed long ago.

"go to hell!"

Finally, after this long and tense chase, Ryan found that the distance between himself and Sunaifah had reached the casting distance of the [Energy Draining Spell], and he immediately cast the [Energy Draining Spell] that he had prepared long ago.

However, in his heart, he was also amazed at Sunaifa's fighting power. He was able to shoot so many True Ice Arrows through [Blizzard]. If he hadn't created a five-ring undead creature, he would probably have had a headache.

As he thought this, a huge dark tentacle suddenly extended from behind Inquisitor Ryan.

These tentacles are dark in color, and are particularly eye-catching and stand out even in the night sky of the same color.

They twisted and circled, baring their fangs and claws, carrying an ancient and evil aura, and dancing flexibly in the air like living things, and suddenly wrapped around Sunaifah.

"Don't mess with me again in your next life!"

Ryan stood on top of the zombie monster and spoke with his head held high.

Just as the dark tentacles of [Energy Draining Technique] were extending out with unstoppable force and were about to wrap around Sunafa's body, Sunafa suddenly stopped and did not move.

Are you scared and have given up struggling?
This thought flashed through Ryan's mind subconsciously, and he came back to consciousness the next moment.

How could Sunaifa be such a weak-willed person?
Still drawing the bow.

But this time, more than one arrow of true ice gathered on the bowstring.

But three in total.

The sharp-eyed Inquisitor Ryan even noticed that a silver-white light was shining on the fingertips of Sunaifah's right hand as he pulled the string, which was connected to the light of the strange patterns on the wristband, forming a linkage.

In the night, it seemed as if a crescent moon appeared.

Sunaifa's face was pale, but he firmly tightened the bowstring.

With her feet on the ground, [Breath of the Wild] can reduce the mana consumption of casting spells by 62%.

These reduced mana did not disappear out of thin air, but were replaced by the rune array of [Breath of the Wild] which absorbed the power of the earth, allowing Sunafa to launch powerful attacks with limited mana.

However, even though the mana consumption was reduced by more than half, this attack was still very difficult for Sunaifah.

She was almost overdrawing her limits just to be able to deal a fatal blow to Holy Inquisitor Ryan at this moment.

Inquisitor Ryan opened his eyes wide, staring at the cold-looking woman drawing the bow and shooting the arrow, as if he wanted to memorize her face firmly in his mind.

Three icy arrows were shot out, like three cold rays of light cutting through the night sky.

It’s not a simple 1+1+1.

The three icy arrows formed a fan-shaped arc of light.

In the arc of light, the three arrows kept spinning, creating a slight cyclone.

Outside the arc of light, countless pieces of ice condensed and formed into an ice storm.

Sunaifah ignored the dark tentacles of [Energy Draining] that were approaching her.

Because she was absolutely sure that it must be her "arrow" that was faster.

In addition to the casting distance, spell speed is also the advantage of the Ice Arrow.

At this moment, Inquisitor Ryan was casting the [Energy Draining Spell], which meant that he had no spare energy to cast other spells.

All he could rely on was the five-ringed undead creature he created, the zombie behemoth.

But in the constant pursuit just now, Sunaifa had already figured out the power limit of the zombie monster.

Ryan sensed something was wrong.

The zombie monster, this undead creature that he had spent a lot of effort to obtain, was now expelling all the black mist from its body in an almost self-destructive manner.

These black mists were originally the source of power for the zombie monsters, but now they were pouring out uncontrollably like a flood that broke through a dam.

It was visible to the naked eye that as the black fog dissipated, the rotten flesh on the zombie monsters began to shrink and dry up rapidly, as if the essence of life had been sucked out.

Ryan controlled the zombie monster to unleash the most powerful force at the cost of destroying his own five-ring undead creature.

We can definitely stop it, this is a five-ring undead creature!

Ryan thought to himself.

As long as he blocks this attack, the battle tonight will be over and Sunaifah will die from his [Energy Draining Technique].

However, the black fog that had been able to compete with the Zhenbing Arrow was instantly disintegrated like fragile bubbles under the impact of the fan-shaped arrow light, and was completely annihilated into nothingness.

The three icy arrows, with unstoppable force, came down in arcs of light and an ice storm.

The icy cold air swept through in an instant, freezing all life.

With an unwilling scream, in just a breath of time, the previously invincible Five-ring Necromancer and the giant zombie beast under him were completely frozen and turned into an ice sculpture connected together.

In the ice sculpture, Ryan stared with his eyes wide open, his face full of astonishment and unwillingness.

And those dark tentacles that were originally approaching Sunaifah suddenly dissipated and turned into black smoke at the moment Ryan turned into an ice sculpture.

(End of this chapter)