The Survival Rules of NPCs

Chapter 123 The Truly Powerful Shadow Sorcerer!

"Line up! Charge!"

Without hesitation, Gelster took the lead and charged forward on his horse, his muscles taut, ready to unleash his power at any moment.

Tangyuan, who had been captured, was casually thrown to the side of the road by the knights. At this moment, Tangyuan clearly felt that these powerful cavalrymen were on high alert. He thought that taking advantage of the chaos to escape was the best opportunity, but he dared not move.

Because the old man in the distance was watching him, signaling him not to move.

Faced with such a powerful cavalry charge, he still had the leisure to gesture to him, leaving Tangyuan speechless for a moment.

Soon, the confrontation began.

The shadows of countless trees around them transformed into sharp spikes, densely covering the cavalry. Yet, all the knights remained fearless, unleashing a powerful aura that made their bodies as hard as steel. The shadow spikes snapped one after another, and countless trees around them burst open as a result.

Seeing this, many knights breathed a slight sigh of relief. As Lord Gelster said, shadow mages have limitations. Their power comes from corrupted objects. If they can conjure some high-level objects, they can indeed harm high-level figures. However, in this kind of skirmish, relying solely on some temporary objects, such as the surrounding trees and buildings, will greatly reduce their combat power!

Even though this old man seemed to be a shadow mage of a much higher level than them, it seemed that he was not a threat at the moment. Tangyuan felt a sense of disappointment. Was the shadow mage really a profession with a high floor but a low ceiling? Had he made the wrong choice?

He has poured all his experience into this profession.

While he was thinking this through, the old man quickly gave his answer!

Just as the group of knights were about to rush into the old man's range of ten meters, their warhorses suddenly turned around and bit them!

All the knights were shocked. They didn't understand why their warhorses would suddenly rebel. These warhorses were hybrids of magical beasts that the empire had spent a lot of money to breed. They were of extremely high quality and could remain calm even when they encountered level 40 magical beasts. After years of genetic breeding, their temperaments were extremely stable.

Did they not expect him to suddenly be provoked into a rebellion?

But they soon discovered that it was not a simple mutiny of warhorses. The warhorses turned their heads and their necks suddenly twisted like snakes. The distance at which they lunged and bit far exceeded the limits of normal horses, and the force was exaggerated. Countless warriors instinctively used their swords to block, but the enormous force sent them flying off their horses.

This bizarre scene shocked them, but their years of combat experience kept these battle-hardened warriors from panicking. They rolled on the spot and immediately regained their footing. When they looked up again, the warhorses had already transformed into indescribable monsters, coming from all directions.

The knights, including Gelster, all assumed their stances, their longswords humming under the power of their strength. But the next moment, an even stranger scene unfolded: all the knights' swords, which were aimed at the twisted monsters, suddenly turned with their own power and came back towards the monsters themselves!

laugh! !

Caught completely off guard, countless knights were decapitated. From their perspective, the world spun around them. They couldn't understand why their own swords had become the enemy's weapon so quickly.

These are all exquisite weapons crafted for them by the Empire. They are enchanted swords that can store their own energy. On the market, each one costs more than 30,000 gold nars!

Isn't it said that shadow spellcasters need time to corrupt high-level items?

Why?

Why did their swords become weapons that killed them in just a moment?

dong dong dong....

Dozens of heads shot into the sky, and the elite knight legion was almost wiped out in an instant. Standing with Tangyuan in the distance was the strategist Beckhill, who was also shocked by the battle.

This shadow mage's abilities are beyond my comprehension. If even the shadow of a weapon can be corroded so quickly, what power in this world can contend with such a monster?

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, with one exception: Gelster, who possessed a legendary weapon. Wielding his sword, he used his superb swordsmanship and explosive power to instantly slaughter the mutated horses that charged at him.

But he soon saw the miserable state of his men, and anger surged in his eyes.

This elite cavalry unit was trained by the empire over a decade, with each knight costing no less than a million gold nars. They are the true elite of the empire!

But he had no time to lament. The swords that had slaughtered the knights quickly twisted and transformed into bizarre shapes, elongating and deforming into countless indescribable metallic objects that spread out from all directions, like waves made of metal, almost swallowing him whole.

With a furious roar, Gelster's sword turned deep red as he channeled his power into it, unleashing streaks of sword energy ten feet long that slashed out in all directions. The terrifying burst of power shattered the sea of ​​metal!

"Crimson Silver..." The old man looked at the crimson sword with a smile: "Oh, this is a legendary weapon forged by the elves back then. I never thought it would fall into the hands of humans."

Gelster was panting heavily, trying to calm his breathing as much as possible, and his hand holding the sword began to tremble.

The opponent's power was too terrifying. If I hadn't been carrying the legendary sword, my weapon would probably have been instantly corroded and turned into shadow.

Is this what makes the Shadow Clan so terrifying?

Can it corrode the strength of a weapon to this extent instantly? What a terrifying force that would be on the battlefield.

After all, not everyone in the military can be equipped with a legendary weapon, or even an epic weapon, which is priceless!

"How nostalgic..." The old man looked at the reddened sword and laughed, "Dragons have degenerated and giants have fallen. Back then, only the weapons of the elves could restrain our Shadow Clan. In the greatest age of the divine kingdom, that despicable civilization blocked the Lord's path, but... unfortunately, such weapons are not very effective in the hands of humans."

Gelster ignored the other's contempt. He knew he only had one chance. The other was only about ten meters away, a distance that was practically nonexistent for him. But if he were to unleash that kind of speed, he would have to abandon his defense. This was a characteristic of the Sword Saint class: superb burst damage and mental strikes, possessing explosive power that no other melee class could match. But this process was like walking a tightrope; if he wasn't careful, he would die a gruesome death.

Under extremely high burst damage, if you don't dodge some attacks, at that speed, your own flesh and blood are no better than an egg.

The Sword Saint's eyes could see attacks at any speed, but this time, he was not confident. He couldn't predict the opponent's attack, and if he made a mistake, he would die here meaninglessly.

"Lord Gelster, behind us!"

Suddenly, Beckhill shouted from afar. Without turning his head, Beckhill sensed the attack. In the instant he swung his sword back, he was suddenly stunned. What he saw were headless corpses!

His fallen comrades, his men, and his most trusted army were transformed into high-quality flesh and blood under that shadowy power, charging towards him fearlessly like headless zombies.

The dead, too, seemed to be corrupted by the shadows, capable of transforming into some indescribable flesh and blood at any moment, ready to bombard us.

From afar, Beckhill felt a chill run down his spine. Was this a high-level shadow mage?

No... High-level shadow mages can't do that. He's seen shadow mages above level 60. It takes them at least several days to prepare before they can corrupt high-level warriors. And corrupting living things is even more difficult. There was once a shadow mage who corrupted a shadow legion of only eighty men, all of whom were elite knights of level 40 and above. But it took the other party a full thirty years to achieve that.

But this old man only needs a moment.

This is not even in the same league. Is the other party's level too high? Or is it because the other party is one of the legendary Shadow People?

"Go to hell!"

Gelster could no longer bear it. He leaped up, his powerful explosive force creating an exaggerated deep crater in the ground. He shot straight into the air like a cannonball, becoming a black dot that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

The next instant, the black dot that was in the air suddenly reappeared three zhang in the sky.

The power that followed was a force capable of destroying a castle.

Baker Hill and Tangyuan were almost pressed to the ground by the force that came from above, unable to even breathe.

This strike was so powerful it could split Holy Stone City in two. It was the first time he had ever seen a mortal's power reach this level. No wonder it was almost impossible to rebel here. It was no joke; with such power to pledge allegiance to the nobles, how could ordinary people possibly rebel?

Faced with this desperate strike, the envoy didn't even lift his eyelids.

"If you had had this kind of courage from the beginning, you might have been able to cause me some trouble. Unfortunately... that's how humans are; they always have to be pushed to the limit before they're willing to fight to the death. Sometimes, belated courage can't change the situation."

With a wave of his hand, the messenger caused a shadow on the ground to rise suddenly, with the same posture, the same angle, and the same power, carrying the same power capable of cutting through everything, and rushing towards the sky!

Gelster, who was falling from the sky, could see clearly that the being that stood up from the ground, with the same moves as himself, also looked exactly like him!

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