Becoming a god starts with enhancing fire arrows.

Given that the opponent is elite-level, there is concern about the possibility of defensive trinkets or spells.

Therefore, Rhodes did not choose to stab directly at the throat, but instead used the rapier that resonated with moonlight to cripple the opponent's entire arm.

The lizardman priest's smile froze instantly.

Everyone present was stunned.

The most unbelievable people were Barnaby and his three apprentices, who never expected that Rhodes, a mage, would actually pull out a rapier.

They actually attacked right in front of three elite lizardmen.

Even more unexpectedly, his speed was astonishing, and he actually managed to cripple one of the opponent's hands.

The lizardman priest felt a sudden weakness and soreness in his left hand, and instinctively wanted to distance himself.

But Rhodes thrust his rapier out again, aiming straight for his throat.

The lizardman priest had no choice but to use his other arm to defend himself.

The rapier pierced its arm, and both arms fell limply to its sides.

At the same time, it saw the old man opposite it reveal his true appearance.

The warrior and mage nearby reacted simultaneously; one drew his long-handled sword and lunged forward, while the other began chanting a spell to immobilize humans.

Rhodes did not linger in the fight.

With a stealth step, he appeared next to Avira on the rooftop, took the staff, and began chanting.

The lizardman mage's Human Freeze spell failed to cast, and seeing Rhodes leap onto the roof using Distracting Step, he immediately began chanting again.

But Rhodes' casting speed is faster.

A flaming arrow with a black, flowing light shot out.

The arrow made the three elite-level leading lizardmen and the several following behind them tense up at the same time.

Their sixth sense made them instinctively dodge.

But as soon as the flaming arrow touched the ground, the black light inside exploded, forming a black sphere a few centimeters above the ground.

The sphere suddenly unleashed a terrifying suction force, pulling the lizardmen present towards the center.

Several trainees and senior staff members who lost their footing were instantly pulled together in the middle by the traction force.

Except for the priest, who swayed slightly, all three elite lizardmen withstood the pulling force.

Damn, what kind of power is this?

The magic does indeed look like a fire arrow, so how could it produce such an effect?

The lizardman warriors reacted the fastest.

In its view, this strange black hole must be a spell maintained by that cunning human mage.

Interrupt him!

The lizardman warrior had a thought and used a stealth step to appear in front of Rhodes, but Rhodes turned into a wisp of smoke and appeared on the opposite rooftop.

But he was facing a heavy giant sword.

"clang!"

The greatsword and the long-handled knife clashed with a metallic clang, and the lizardman was so shaken that he stumbled back three steps on the roof and nearly fell off.

After Rhodes used his second stealth step to teleport, he fired several fire arrows at the group of lizardmen, causing them to explode.

"boom!!"

Flames shot into the sky, and all the henchmen perished, while the priest and mage were both injured.

Immediately afterward, before the black hole's traction effect had ended, Paril and Barnaby's fireballs arrived one after the other.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Two more explosions instantly killed the two elite-level lizardmen.

"Oh no!" Rhodes exclaimed anxiously.

I was planning to finish them off with another round of explosive arrows, but somehow all my kills were stolen.

The amount of life essence gained from killing someone yourself is vastly different from that from killing them indirectly.

However, he did not hesitate on this matter, nor did he help Avira. Instead, he ran towards the lizardmen who were gathering around him.

With the help of the sword song, he quickly arrived in front of a trainee lizardman warrior.

Easily dodging the opponent's slash, he countered with a rapier, sending him to his death. He then created distance and unleashed a rapid barrage of flaming arrows.

Rhodes fired a barrage of fire arrows at the encircling lizardmen as if in a provocation, then used the movement speed bonus from Sword Song and Mage's Friend Boots to escape.

In an instant, dozens of pursuers followed behind.

This was his tactic; in order to remove these lizardmen from the village without harming innocent villagers, this was the only way he could use.

Paril and Barnaby then turned their attention to the remaining lizardmen who had surrounded them.

At that moment, three magic apprentices came to help, chanting spells, but were stopped by Barnaby:

"Don't fight! Take these villagers to a safe place!"

"I'll cover you!"

Upon hearing this, the three apprentices immediately stopped chanting and obeyed their teacher's command.

While Avira and the lizardman were locked in a fierce battle on the rooftop, she kept an eye on the situation on the battlefield out of the corner of her eye.

Seeing Rhodes being chased by a group of lizardmen, he frowned.

She knew that Rhodes's sword song consumed a lot of magic power, and once he could no longer activate the sword song, he would most likely be caught up.

Even though he was a swordsman with decent close-combat abilities, he still couldn't gain the upper hand when surrounded by more than a dozen apprentice and veteran warriors.

Mages are ultimately fragile.

Avira swung her greatsword with both hands, launching an even fiercer attack on the lizardman warrior in front of her.

The lizardman warrior swung his longsword up and down in the air, constantly parrying and blocking in an attempt to regain his footing and find an opening to counterattack.

But the opponent's strength was too great.

Each time he parried an attack from the greatsword, he had to use most of his strength.

This kind of fighting won't last long.

The lizardman warrior dodged the next attack with a sidestep, a flash of white light emanating from his body.

Hold firm to our stance!

This is a skill that trades movement speed for defense.

Seeing this, Avira immediately abandoned her aggressive, sweeping attacks and concentrated all her strength on the hilt of her sword, launching a full-scale attack on the lizardman's lower body.

The sound of metal clashing rang out one after another.

Avira feinted with her greatsword, and as the lizardman warrior continued to lower his defense, she suddenly changed her move, sweeping the blade horizontally towards him instead.

The lizardman warriors could only parry with the hilt of their swords as the tactics changed.

"clang!"

Another sound.

The lizardman warrior lost his balance, staggered a few steps to the right, and stepped on a tile at the edge of the roof, losing his balance.

Heavy Blade!

Avira seized the opportunity and used the effects of the Assault Bracelet.

After a brief moment of charging, the greatsword slashed down from above, slamming heavily onto the lizardman warrior's helmet.

Then, with a kick of his left leg, he kicked him off the roof.

The lizardman warrior fell to the ground without resistance and died.

Rhodes is still being chased.

Seeing that he was far from the village, he simply turned off his sword song and used the explosion of fire arrows to slow down the pursuers behind him.

These lizardmen were quite clever; after the first explosion of the fire arrows took away two warriors, they spread out their positions and dodged the arrows without firing.

Moreover, every time he tried to chant the Gravity Pulling spell, he would be interrupted by the lizardmen behind him using stones or crossbows.

Rhodes was having a hard time being chased.

Lizardmen shouldn't be like this.

Shouldn't the lizardmen be rather unintelligent, all clustered together so I could wipe them all out with a single explosion?

I just used up a lot of energy from Sword Song, and now I don't even have time to drink a mana potion.

At this moment, Avira finally arrived from afar.

Her greatsword, crackling with thunder, charged from the side.

The lizardman warrior closest to Rhodes was instantly cleaved in two.

Rhodes was certain.

While Avira shields her from the attack, she recovers her magic power.

Several flaming arrows were then fired, followed by a rapier.

They are reaping the lives of the lizardmen.