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Chapter 221 The Killer Move

The burning rage in Richard's eyes made Nicol quickly realize something. He glanced at the trembling little Bandy, a look of sudden understanding on his face, and said sarcastically:

"Huh! I didn't expect there to be one fish that slipped through the net here!"

"This is so bad. This little guy must be Dessol's son, right? Hmm... or grandson? Haha, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that the family shouldn't be together?"

As he said this, Nicol revealed a sly look.

"Let me help you with this."

Before he could finish speaking...

suddenly!

A black beam of light, about the thickness of a thumb, shot straight from the tip of the index finger of Nicol's right claw towards Little Bandi!

Instantly, little Bandi was so frightened that he froze, completely at a loss!

"not good!"

Fana, who was closest to Little Bandi, only managed to barely use her short staff to block him, the gem at the top of the staff barely glancing at the black beam of light.

Fortunately, no explosion occurred. The beam of light was blocked by the gem and deflected to the side, hitting the lawn a meter away.

"Pfft!"

A wisp of black smoke rose up.

Richard's pupils contracted, his whole body trembled, and his eyes were fixed on the mark left on the ground by the opponent's casual strike.

A hole less than two centimeters in diameter appeared out of nowhere on the ground. What's astonishing is that at first glance, the bottom is completely invisible, and it is at least half a meter deep.

This clearly demonstrates the immense power of the opponent's casual strike!

The destructive power was almost at the level of a mid-level first-tier wizard's ultimate move, yet this move was merely a casual strike from the opponent.

No wonder Desol died at his hands; he was just too strong!

Besides its power, this move by the opponent is extremely well concealed!

Richard had been prepared and was on guard against a sudden attack, but the black beam of light that struck came without warning.

After the black beam of light was shot out, his body tried to react, but it was too late!

Richard's heart was pounding very fast!

Fine beads of sweat seeped out from his forehead!

"Wow! Very quick reflexes. A dwarf witch? That's rare! I really value talent. Joining my ranks will not only save your life this time, but also further enhance your strength in the future."

Nicol seemed quite surprised to see his casual attack blocked by a dwarf witch's staff. Instead of continuing to attack, he began to recruit her.

but

Nicole's action immediately drew a hint of anger from Grace, who was standing beside him.

"Nikol, stop playing around! That hooded woman next to the human is a spider woman, and I need you to capture her for me."

"That young human opposite us is a necromancer. It must be him. I don't know what kind of strange witchcraft he used to allow an outsider's soul to possess Fritty's body!"

Nicol raised an eyebrow, seemingly quite interested in what Grace had just said.

After looking Stephanie up and down, he fixed his gaze on Richard.

Immediately, Richard sensed a hidden and immense spiritual force probing his entire body.

This spiritual force feels evil, bloody, and extremely aggressive!

No wonder Stephanie trembled all over and immediately hid behind herself when the other party stared at her.

"Hahaha, interesting, really interesting! Human, I'll give you a chance. Come! Follow me! Join me in serving the great King of Azure Flames!"

Nicol stretched out his thick arms and warmly invited Richard to join him.

If it weren't for Nicole's lower body revealing that he was a genuine man, anyone who saw the affectionate gaze Nicole gave Richard would undoubtedly assume that the two were lovers.

Suddenly, a powerful energy surge emanated from the center of Tug City!

Everyone looked up at the sky.

Suddenly, a huge yellow beam of light, several meters in diameter, shot straight into the sky from the ground in the central area of ​​Tug City!

This energy fluctuation was so immense that it immediately drew the attention of everyone present!

Compared to the energy fluctuations of this pillar of light, the evil spiritual power that Richard had just sensed was like the difference between a small stream and a vast ocean.

After the massive cylindrical yellow beam of light rose into the air, it abruptly split into more than ten thinner, arc-shaped beams, which shot out toward the surrounding edges of Tug City.

A few seconds later, the dozen or so beams of light forked and dispersed again.

Each branch of the arc-shaped beam of light is like a giant tree branching out into many twigs!

Before long, an enormous witch formation appeared in the sky above the entire city of Tuge, resembling an inverted iron pot that covered the entire city.

Richard looked up and examined it carefully.

The surface of the giant magic array shimmered with unknown and complex magic runes. Even Richard, a professional who had studied magic arrays to a considerable extent, found that nearly 80% of the runes were unfamiliar to him at a casual glance.

However, judging from the known runes, Richard can preliminarily conclude that the function of this giant witch array is to suppress or reduce, but the specific effect is unclear.

"Tsk tsk, Tug City reacted quickly!" Nicol withdrew his gaze from the sky and turned his attention back to Richard and the others in the arena.

"Human, my patience is limited. I'll give you three seconds to carefully consider my suggestion."

"And the little dwarf, also three seconds."

"Don't say I didn't give you a chance!"

"three!"

Nicol extended an index finger with a sharp nail.

In this critical moment, Richard's mind raced!

He was still in the period of witchcraft backlash, his mental sea was violently shaking, and he could not concentrate at all, so he was unable to cast any witchcraft. But in three seconds, he would be met with Nicol's earth-shattering attack!

Judging from the giant magic array that appeared in mid-air just now, it can be proven that the official forces of Tug City have reacted and quickly taken action.

However, their first priority is to stop the escaped elemental creatures and repair the seal on the Scorched Earth Secret Realm to some extent.

Therefore, it's probably impossible for me to stall for time and wait for reinforcements from the city guards or the Grey Dwarf Brotherhood!

It seems the only option left is to fight head-on!

If that doesn't work, then we'll have to resort to that other method!

"Bloodbone Puppet, target that monster! Full power!" Richard silently vowed, and immediately gave the Bloodbone Puppet beside him the order to charge.

Nicol hadn't finished saying the word "two".

The Blood Bone Puppet suddenly slammed its right leg bone into the ground, causing Richard and the others to feel the ground tremble.

"boom!"

With a kick from the Blood Bone Puppet, dust flew everywhere!

However, this also gave the Bloodbone Golem enough counterforce.

"Whoosh!"

Like a taut white strip of cloth, the Blood Bone Puppet charged straight at Nicol!

"Interesting!" Nicol didn't take the rapidly approaching bloodbone golem seriously. He still crossed his arms and looked confident. He simply took a small step forward and jumped off the wall where he was standing!

Judging from his expression, he must have absolute confidence in his abilities!

"You guys split up and break through! Fana, quick! Take little Bandi and go!" Richard quickly turned around and shouted to the people behind him.

No sooner had he finished speaking than the battle began ahead!

"Clang!!" A piercing sound of metal clashing rang out!

Richard stared intently, his face filled with horror!

The blood-bone puppet, which stood three meters tall, unleashed a powerful leaping slash reminiscent of a tiger descending a mountain, but Nicol simply caught it with his right claw, holding it horizontally in mid-air with his bare hands!

This made Richard immediately raise Nicol's danger level to a whole new level, almost equivalent to the danger level of a second-level archmage.

The Blood Bone Puppet's leaping slash was accelerated by its sprint of tens of meters, with the inertia of its entire weight added, which can be said to have exerted 120% of the Blood Bone Puppet's power. But even so, it was still caught by the opponent with one hand.

This shows just how terrifying the power of the monster Nicol was!

"Not bad!" Nicole actually had the mind to comment.

"Unfortunately, there's not enough time, I don't have time to play with you!"

"clang!!"

Nicol delivered a slashing claw strike from the spot!

In an instant, he cleaved the Blood Bone Puppet several meters away!

"Ding ding ding ding ding!!"

The continuous clanging of metal against metal echoed through the air!

In less than two seconds, Nicol and the Bloodbone Puppet exchanged more than ten blows. After the two were separated again due to the intense collision, Nicol's breathing remained steady and his expression was calm and composed.

Although there were no obvious wounds on the Blood Bone Puppet's body, Richard, with his keen eyesight, had already noticed that the Blood Bone Puppet's proudly sharp bone blades had developed nicks, and there were also cracks in many places on its white bones!

These were all caused by multiple collisions within just two seconds.

Richard's pupils constricted!

He hadn't expected the Blood Bone Puppet, a high-level combat puppet, to be defeated so quickly! This monster's strength was truly terrifying; it was likely already approaching the level of a second-tier Grand Wizard!

Delaying tactics are completely unworkable!

It seems that we have no choice but to use that method!

"Bloodbone Puppet! Fight to the death!" Richard silently gave the Bloodbone Puppet the order he least wanted to give!

The Blood Bone Puppet seemed to nod almost imperceptibly, then stomped its foot on the ground, instantly blasting a shallow crater into the ground!

At this moment, Nicol also kicked out and rushed towards the Blood Bone Puppet, slashing down with his claw!

However, to everyone's surprise, the Bloodbone Puppet did not resist at all, but instead opened its arms and hugged Nicol directly!

"Snap!!"

The Bloodbone Golem's incredibly hard breastbone shattered instantly when struck by Nicol's claws, causing its entire chest to almost completely collapse.

"Zheng!!"

After taking the brunt of Nicol's attack, the Bloodbone Puppet had a perfect opportunity to entangle Nicol. Sharp bone blades of all sizes sprang out from every joint on its body and pierced into Nicol's monstrous body from different parts and angles.

"Ding ding ding ding!!"

To everyone's astonishment, these incredibly sharp bone blades could only barely penetrate about one centimeter into Nicol's skin before being blocked by his tough muscles and fascia.

"So you wanted to trade injuries with me." Nicol immediately revealed a mocking expression.

"Thud!" Nicol shattered another row of ribs on the Bloodbone Golem with a single claw strike.

I believe that after a few more hits, the Bloodbone Golem will be torn to pieces by Nicol!

This ogre skeleton, harder than steel, seemed no harder than chopsticks in Nicol's hands. With what appeared to be a simple, effortless claw strike, it inflicted considerable damage on the bloodbone golem.

Suddenly, the Bloodbone Puppet pushed off with its two leg bones and, holding Nicole, leaped towards Grace, who was seven or eight meters away!

Right before Grace's astonished eyes!

A dazzling blue light flashed for a moment at the dual-channel energy source slot inside the Blood Bone Puppet's chest cavity!

It was like a supernova exploding!

"boom!!!"

A shockwave even stronger than Gremi's self-destruction swept across the entire area!

Richard, Stephanie, and the others, who were dozens of meters away from the explosion point, were also instantly knocked to the ground by the high-speed shockwave!

This is Richard's trump card!

The Blood Bone Puppet self-destructs!

Richard believed that under such a violent explosion, no first-level wizard should be able to survive unless they were a second-level archmage!

"Master, we won!!" Fingart exclaimed excitedly as he got up.

He never expected that his master, Richard, could turn the tide in such a desperate situation!

Fingart had witnessed firsthand how formidable the enemy was. This time, the enemy was far more powerful than the previous gray-robed men, especially that tall monster, whose mere glance was enough to make him tremble!

Despite the opponent's immense strength, he was still "tricked" to death by his own master!

Tsk tsk, one's own master is still the most powerful!

Fingart recalled that when he first met his master, he had fallen right into his master's "wicked scheme"!

"Master, the other party should be dead, right?!" Stephania was clearly surprised that Richard would have such a move.

The Blood Bone Puppet can actually self-destruct!

And the power of the self-destruction was actually so great!

Richard nodded slightly, looking at the smoke and dust rising from the center of the explosion not far away, and slowly said:

"should."

Suddenly, Richard's expression changed drastically!

Fingart and Stephanie, both stunned, stared at each other like ducks being choked, their faces contorted with utter horror. "They actually survived an explosion of that magnitude?!"

"Clatter!"

A figure could be vaguely seen standing up at the center of the explosion!

Judging from the outline, Richard knew that the other party was definitely not a Blood Bone Puppet.

Therefore, there is only one answer.

That monster isn't dead yet!

Nicol shook his still incredibly dizzy head, his once handsome face contorted with pain!

His appearance now looks utterly miserable!

One of the two sharp black horns on its head is now broken off, leaving only a single horn with a notch.

One hand had been blown off, and two white bones, either ribs or radii, were embedded in his abdomen and chest cavity, from which blood was gushing out! He had multiple puncture wounds all over his body!

Why would there be puncture damage?

That's because after the Bloodbone Golem self-destructed, the ogre skeletons on its body were the first to be shattered, and under the influence of the high-speed shockwave, they were shot in all directions, much like steel balls in artillery shells in modern warfare.

If Nicol could still tolerate the numerous injuries he sustained, then what he saw when he turned his head almost made him furious!

Not far away, Grace was vomiting mouthfuls of blood. Several broken bone blades and irregularly shattered bone fragments were stuck in her neck, left chest and abdomen!

The injuries were so severe that he was essentially already declared dead!

Nicole shifted her gaze from Grace beside her, her fierce, murderous eyes piercing through the lingering smoke and dust as she stared intently at Richard not far away.

"Treacherous humans! Die!" The familiar roar rang out.

Anyone could hear the boundless anger and resentment mixed in!

"boom!"

A tattered but still incredibly powerful body suddenly burst out of the dusty area, leaving a taut gray trail as it charged straight at Richard!

"die!!"

It was Nicol's furious strike!

(End of this chapter)