Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 267 The Battle in the Corridor
"Squeak..."

From the depths of the darkened corridor came the rattling of rats scratching the floor and the violent screams that seemed to herald the imminent danger of dire danger.

"Thorn, look at the group of mice..." Anderina approached with a dignified expression, pointed to a large group of mice jumping out of the room not far away, and whispered beside him.

This group of mice is much smaller than the two fear mice that appeared just now, about [-] centimeters in length, more like ordinary mice in the ruins, but what is strange is that they are not afraid of strangers, and they move towards everyone without any scruples. direction to move quickly.

Moreover, those rolling eyeballs were still looking at them curiously in the dark, exuding a blood-red light with a gloomy smell.

"It seems that the enemies hiding in the dark have no patience. There may be a battle next. Everyone, be vigilant and pay attention to the ceiling!" Thorn said in a deep voice, his voice was not loud, but it clearly fell on everyone. in the ear.

After Thorne finished speaking, he immediately took out the obsidian sculpture of the Volcano and threw it towards the ground. A black light flashed, and the adult-sized Voltron appeared in front of everyone with dissatisfaction.

Just as it was about to let out a low growl to refresh its sense of presence, it noticed the dignified atmosphere around it, then flicked its thick tail a few times, and locked its scarlet eyes on the rushing rats.

"It's best not to use extremely destructive attack spells, or we may all be buried in the ruins."

Thorn glanced at the approaching group of mice, whispered a command to Anderina beside her, and stood in front of her with his sword. At the same time, he used the telepathic connection ability of his animal companion to signal the Volcano to be vigilant about the safety around him. .

Before setting off, the six of them discussed how to deal with battles. Since there were three spellcasters among the six of them, he was responsible for protecting Anderina's safety, and the orc sword master was guarding the goblin wizard. Be around, don't take the initiative to attack.

Finally, there are the two highest-level dragonborn paladins and druids, who take care of everyone at any time.

"Don't act rashly, I'll clean up these rats." Seeing the black rats, Thorn immediately stopped several people from preparing to clean up the rats.

Andrina, the sorceress closest to him, heard Thorne's order, glanced at him, smiled, and immediately put down the staff she had just raised.

And the goblin wizard Malvisa kept silent about this encounter, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Although the other three were perplexed by Thorne's decision, none of them were out-of-character. They all stopped their movements and looked at Thorne in front of them with puzzled eyes.

After all, there were more than 100 rats rushing from the corridor. As a ranger, they really couldn't figure out how Thorne could quickly clean them up.

Although they have also seen the flame power he cast, that skill is extremely destructive, and a little carelessness will cause the area to collapse. The other party is definitely not such a reckless person.

——"Desert Wind Sect (Strike Skill): Flame of the Young Dragon!"

Just as a large group of little mice were about to approach, Thorne moved his mind, and the flames transformed from the energy of qi all condensed on the tip of the sword.

Then he swung his sword violently at the rats, and a scorching cone of flame shot out from the tip of the sword.

Under the control of Thorne, the raging fire wave was completely enveloped from the left side to the right side of the corridor, like a burning sea of ​​fire blocking the way of the rats, instantly turning red into the deep darkness, followed by The screams of rats dancing in the flames.

He is proficient in using the energy of Qi, and he can already control the power of the flame when casting moves.The move he used just now was the effect of him weakening the power of the flame and expanding the attack range. After all, these ordinary mice were not only a little more flexible, but their vitality was still very fragile.

When all the sounds were quiet, all the red flames disappeared into the darkness again, and there was no accident in the wide corridor except for the permeating smoke and stench, as well as the ashes left by the burning corpses on the ground.

"It's so strange why there are only such a group of mice." Anderina covered her mouth and nose and looked ahead, wondering.

"This should be the rat man's temptation." Thorne looked at the dark passage and replied casually.

Obviously, these ratmen were more cunning than he imagined. Their original plan was to use a large group of little rats with low combat effectiveness to attack, trying to disrupt their formation, and then launched a general attack.

After all, there were so many mice, if a group of six people didn't have extremely destructive spells, it would definitely take a lot of effort to clean them up.

But what surprised them was that the large group of rats were burned up by Thorne with a single sword, which had no effect at all.

"Boom!"

Just when everyone's expressions were about to relax, a huge booming sound swept from the depths of the corridor. This sound was more like the effect of densely packed footsteps piled up.

Thorne, who has keen hearing, immediately noticed the movement in the distance, his expression sank, and he said to the people behind him: "There is a large group of enemies rushing over, ready to fight!"

As soon as Thorn finished speaking, layers of shadows poured out from the half-closed doors on both sides of the corridor.

It really is a dire rat!

Although dire rats belong to the weaker existence of dire animals, but with the word 'dire' in their names, they are destined to be incomparable to ordinary dire rats.

The average length of dire rats is about 1.5 meters, and the weight is at least 40 kg. The most important thing is that the rats with a challenge level of about 2 live in groups.

If more than 17 dire rats charged collectively, the scene would be too terrifying. A group of highly sensitive monsters whose agility attributes were almost all above [-] points charged past, it was like locusts crossing the border.

At this time, Thorne and the others encountered such a terrible scene, because swarms of dire rats were nightmares for ordinary adventurers, they would use their sharp front teeth to bite and chew their opponents.

Moreover, the teeth also have disease effects. Even if they escape by chance, if they fail the Fortitude saving throw, they may lose their lives due to this decay fever with an incubation period of about three days.

Seeing the densely packed ferocious rats and the countless pupils shining with scarlet light in the darkness, everyone's expressions were very serious.After all, they had no way out, and because of the terrain, they didn't dare to use large-scale area-of-effect spells at will.

The only good thing is that this corridor does not allow the Dire Rats to take full advantage of their numbers, otherwise they would rather take the risk of collapsing and blast a hole to escape.

"Roar……"

Seeing the dense crowd of ferocious rats huddling together and charging towards the crowd, the Fulong Beast flapped its small wings unconsciously and stopped in front of Anderina, letting out a low growl.

Malvisa, the goblin wizard who was originally the calmest among the crowd, no longer remained silent. She stretched out her hand to gently comfort the sobbing wolf, and her other small hand emerged from the wide sleeve, as if What spell are you preparing.

The orc sword master Kutaig tightened his sword again, and did not act rashly, still standing in front of the goblin wizard.

Peo, the dragon-born paladin, immediately cast himself with divine protection. He had already held the long sword and shield in his hands, ready to attack at any time.

The Druid Master Qingchen kept a distance from the crowd, then unhurriedly took out a large handful of finely divided seeds from his pocket and scattered them all on the ground.

The little crow hidden in his sleeve had already landed on his shoulder, with small round eyes, looking around vigilantly.

"Destroy all intruders!" At this moment, a sharp voice in the common language of the mainland echoed in the corridor and was caught by Thorne.

Immediately afterwards, within the range of his gaze, he saw more than a dozen ratman cavalry holding a shield and scimitar and riding a dire rat.

"Are there only a dozen ratmen?" Thorn subconsciously looked up at the ceiling again, and then his face changed suddenly, and he immediately shouted: "Everyone, be careful, there are a large number of ratman wanderers climbing over with the help of the ceiling."

Ratmen are also a kind of lycanthropy. They also have three forms: human, half-human, half-rat, and giant rat. At this time, these ratmen are transformed into giant rats, using the characteristics of mice to climb walls. The ceiling raided, intending to surround the six of them together with Dire Rat.

When everyone heard the words, they looked up one after another, and they saw black shadows sneaking through the shadows on the ceiling, climbing across the ceiling at an extremely fast speed, and rushing towards their camp.

"Concentrate on dealing with the Ratman wanderers who are about to rush over, and leave all these dire rats to me to deal with." Thorne ordered again, and directly locked his eyes on a large group of dire rats that were approaching his attack range immediately.

A group of Ratmen who can work as rogues shows that there must be high-level professionals among them. Otherwise, without professional instructor training, it would be difficult to train a complete system of occupations based on their own abilities.

So when Thorn noticed a large number of Ratman wanderers climbing over from the ceiling, his heart, which had been calm all along, finally fluctuated a little, because he felt a little tricky.

——"Desert Wind Faction (Strike Skill): Snake of Flame!"

Thorn's eyes froze, and he instantly inserted the Demon Slaying Sword into the ground. Surging Qi energy surged, and dark red scorching flames sprayed from the ground to the ceiling at an extremely fast speed.

Immediately, the whole body of the five or six Ratman wanderers who couldn't escape were ignited, and soon fell to the ground like dumplings in the burning flames with a howl, losing their breath of life.

At the same time, when the flames sprayed to the ceiling, these flames fell to the ground again, and all of them gathered together to form a winding snake of flames.

Under Thorne's precise control, the 20-meter-long fire snake slid back and forth among the ferocious rats in the corridor at an extremely fast speed.

Wherever they passed, all the ferocious rats were ignited by the scorching flames, screaming shrillly in the smoke.

Although the "Flame Snake" can strike the enemy by itself without manipulation, but for the dense rats in front of us, the only way to maximize its lethality is to control its moving direction in its short existence. .

Suddenly, Thorne, who was concentrating on manipulating the flaming snake to attack the swarm of rats, saw a black shadow appear on the ceiling above his head, and instantly swooped down. The two daggers, which were illuminated red by the flaming snake's light, reached his vitals.

"Go to hell!" The ratman rogue in animal leather armor noticed Thorne who seemed to have not reacted yet, shaking the jagged rat whiskers at the corners of his mouth and showing a cruel smile.

Just when his dagger was about to pierce Thorne's neck, the "blade shell" of the Shadow Hand faction immediately played its due role.

A surge of shadow energy suddenly erupted from Thorne's body, engulfed in icy cold air, and swept towards the Rat Man Wanderer. The Rat Man Wanderer caught off guard screamed, and immediately twisted his body in mid-air and rolled over to the ground.

——"Third Ring Spell: Law and Weakness!"

At this time, Andrina, who noticed the situation here, narrowed her eyes and screamed coquettishly, a powerful Dragon language word echoed in the corridor.

With the staff in her hand pointing directly at the Rat Man wanderer who fell to the ground, an invisible force instantly submerged into the wanderer's body. The Rat Man who had gotten up and was about to flee, looked sluggish in a strange way, and his whole body regained consciousness again. Limp and weak, he fell to the ground.

"Roar!"

The Volunteer Dragon Beast waiting in full battle let out a low growl, turned into a black shadow and jumped in front of the Rat Man. The two sharp fangs on the upper jaw mercilessly sank into the Rat Man's neck. .

The moment the flaming snake disappeared, Thorne glanced at the remaining dozen dire rats and three or four ratmen cavalry, and was about to go up to them with a sword and clean them up.

Suddenly, a burly figure with pale white light flashing all over his body jumped out from beside him.

"boom!"

Immediately afterwards, this figure directly collided fiercely with a rat man cavalry who charged. The rat man riding on the back of the ferocious rat was stabbed to death by the sword of the paladin Peo, and his mount was also knocked down. Fly ten meters away.

——"Desert Wind Sect (Enhanced Skill): The Flame of Chaos!"

Thorn glanced at the fighting figures of the paladins. With a wave of his long sword, a beam of light from a summoning circle flickered, and a two-meter-tall figure of a medium-sized fire elemental appeared in the corridor. Its own lighting characteristics immediately reflected the surroundings like daytime.

Then, with a thought, Thorne commanded the medium-sized fire elemental to join the battle with the dragonborn paladin, and immediately turned around to meet a group of ratman rogues who jumped down from the ceiling and were about to attack.

"No matter where you are adventurers from, as long as you break into our ratman's territory, you will die! Kill all these intruders!"

A thin voice came from above the corridor and echoed in everyone's ears. Just as Thorn was about to search for the figure of the other party, he disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

As soon as the shrill voice disappeared, more than two dozen Ratman wanderers galloped down from the ceiling, and then disappeared into the shadows, forming an invisible envelopment around them.

——"Shadow Hand Pie (Enhanced Skill): Shadow Cloak!"

Looking at a group of ratman wanderers who were wandering not far away and ready to attack at any time, Thorn's figure immediately disappeared without a trace.

In this chaotic fight, he didn't intend to take the lead, because the Ratman who commanded just now had never appeared in his sight.

Ratman's natural occupation is rogue, and there are many rogues who are specialized in assassination.If the rogue who shouted just now has a strength above the third level, then he hides in the dark and is the deadliest threat to all of them.

Therefore, he must maintain a high degree of vigilance and always pay attention to this imminent fatal threat. Otherwise, he will be careless and steal someone while the opponent takes advantage of the chaotic fight, and it will be too late to regret.

"A boring little trick!"

During the confrontation between the two sides, Malvisa's pale red eyes hidden in the pointed hat flashed a cold light, and she stretched out her hand and pointed at the shadow.

——"One-ring spell: Arcane Missile!"

The two magic missiles sank into the shadows at an extremely fast speed, and with a scream, a ratman wanderer with two blood holes pierced through his chest appeared in front of everyone. Dagger, lying softly on the ground, motionless.

The moment the Ratman hidden in the shadow fell to the ground and died, the other Ratman wanderers no longer waited, and waved their sharp knives under the cover of the shadow, attacking everyone.

Master Qingchen, who was a little far away from several people, felt two figures rushing towards him one after the other, and his expression remained very calm all the time.

——"One ring of magic: entanglement!"

The moment the Ratman wanderer, who was trying to attack from the front, appeared, the seeds he had scattered on the ground suddenly grew a vine with sharp thorns at an extremely fast speed.

Before the opponent's attack was approaching, it was tightly entangled, and drops of blood seeped out from the spikes of the rattan.

At the same time, the Ratman Wanderer behind Master Qingchen gave a grin, and took the opportunity to stab him with two daggers.

——"Spell-like ability: panic!"

Suddenly, the inconspicuous little crow on Master Qingchen's shoulder turned around abruptly and let out a piercing scream. A deep fear immediately appeared on the expression of the Ratman Wanderer, who dropped his weapon and wailed in his arms.

——"One ring of magic: the claw of the giant bear!"

Afterwards, the rogue was greeted by a powerful bear paw, which slapped his chest heavily. Amidst bursts of cracking sounds, the Rat Man rogue fell to the ground and died.

Druid Qingchen's expression remained unchanged in the face of the four Ratman rogues who came again in a surprise attack.

As the emerald green holly branches in his hand shone with green awns, the small seeds that had been sprinkled in front of him all turned into thorny vines that entangled all the enemies who tried to get close.

And he took the opportunity to wave his hands that had already been turned into bear paws, and slapped each trapped ratman mercilessly, and the mournful wailing sound mixed with the sound of bones breaking sounded one after another.

——"One-ring spell: colorful spray!"

A ray of colorful light shot out from the goblin wizard's fingertips, and instantly enveloped the raiding Ratman rogue. Before the terrified rogue could react, his head was chopped off by the sharp blade.

——"One-ring spell: greasy spell!"

——"Second Ring Spell: Spider Web Technique!"

——"Zero Ring Trick: Freezing Ray!"

With every low-level control spell cast by the goblin wizard, it will accurately hit a Ratmen wanderer who came in surprise, and the orc sword master who is guarding him will take the opportunity to slash the sharpest attack, ending the battle. the life of the enemy.

It took only a moment for the two sides to fight, and the corpses of seven or eight skaven wanderers lay down around the goblin wizard.

On the other side of the battle, with the cooperation of Andrina and the Fulong Beast, they quickly cleared out five or six raiding rogues.

With the assistance of the medium-sized fire element, the paladin Peo, the battle is coming to an end.

——"Second Ring Spell: Ma Youfu's Acid Arrow!"

With a finger of Anderina's staff, a strong acid arrow shining with dark green light sank into the rat-man wanderer who turned into a giant rat and fled. Amidst bursts of sizzling sounds, the giant rat soon died. .

——"Shadow Attack!"

At this time, the female sorceress who cast the spell suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation, and then she sensed a trace of cold shadow energy fluctuations behind her.

Just when she realized that this force had shattered the protective force field covering her body, and was about to reap her life in despair, with a crisp collision sound, the cold shadow energy quickly disappeared without a trace. trace.

"Are you all right?" Thorn held the sword in one hand and supported the pale Andelina in the other, and said inwardly that if he had reacted a little slower just now, the attack of this rat-man wanderer above the third rank would have been really serious. succeeded.

However, after the sneak attack failed, this cunning rogue used his shadow ability to disappear without a trace again.

Andrina, who was wandering on the verge of life and death, wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, shook her head slightly, then showed a slight smile, and gave Thorn a reassuring look.

"Everyone be vigilant, this Ratman wanderer hasn't left yet!" Seeing that Andelina was fine, Thorne secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the battle that had ended, and said to everyone solemnly.

Because he had practiced the moves of the Shadow Hand School, he was extremely sensitive to the fluctuations of shadow energy, so he could feel that the rat-man wanderer who hid with shadow power hadn't left.

Moreover, in the face of the sneak attack of the Ratmen above Tier [-], since the few of them have no spell restrictions, they don't seem to have any good ways to deal with it except defense.

Thorn let go of Anderina's little hand that was soaked in cold sweat, then clenched the sharp blade tightly in one hand, and started preparing moves with the other hand. He looked at every corner of the shadow with vigilance at the same time, trying to find out where the ratman rogue was hiding. The place.

Suddenly, Thorne sensed a wave in the shadow not far in front of him, so his expression froze, and he immediately swung his long sword across the air like lightning.

Slash through the air with one sword!
Thorne, whose expression changed slightly, immediately guessed that the Ratman wanderer was deliberately seducing him. Knowing the reason, he knew that there was only one way to truly attract the other party.

So he turned ruthless, facing the opponent's sneak attack, he had no intention of dodging in the slightest.

——"Shadow Attack!"

"Pfft!"

The sharp dagger broke through his protective force field and pierced into his back. He turned around and evaded the vital point. The dagger was just stuck in the muscle and could not take an inch.

The moment the short sword stabbed, the "blade shell" covering Thorn's body also immediately turned into a surge of shadow energy and launched a counterattack.

At the same time, Thorne's left hand had already condensed the shadow rope and wound it towards the emerging Ratman wanderer at an extremely fast speed.

The moment the Ratman Wanderer pulled out his dagger, a gust of cold shadow energy blew past him like a gust of cold wind, eroding his whole body, making his movements of turning around and trying to escape slightly stagnant.

At the moment of this short pause, a tricky shadow rope directly wrapped his wrist holding the dagger tightly, and under the erosion of shadow energy, the Ratman Wanderer fell into a temporary paralysis state.

And a look of horror suddenly appeared on his face with wicked eyebrows and mouse eyes, because he saw a scorching sword blade tearing through the air and heading towards his soft neck.

"Pfft!"

The sharp blade slashed across the dark air, and a head flew into the dust.

It only happened in an instant from the time when the Ratman wanderer appeared and stabbed Thorne, to Thorne cut off the Ratman's head. When everyone reacted, they saw a head flying into the dust and a splash of five or six Mi Yuan's blood column.

Seeing the death of the Rat Man, Thorn, who looked slightly relieved, noticed that the poison smeared on the opponent's blade was spreading to his whole body, and his breathing became short of breath, and his body gradually became stiff.

——"Steel Soul Pie (Coping Skill): Spirit Body Defense!"

Thorn gritted his teeth, and using his last bit of strength, he launched the counter technique of the Steel Soul faction, using the energy of Qi to resist these toxins.

Anderina, who had reacted, immediately came over, helped him sit cross-legged on the ground and began to recover slowly.

After a while like this, under the healing of the paladin, Thorn, who regained a bit of vitality, opened his eyes and looked at Master Qingchen not far away and said, "How is it? Can you see what kind of poison it is?"

"The toxin of this extraordinary short sword comes from the dark area." Master Qingchen handed the short sword to the goblin wizard who was driving the wolf.

"It is indeed a craft from the drow in the Underdark." Malvisa frowned as she looked at the spider pattern carved on the short sword.

"So the group of Ratmen who besieged us just now may have come into contact with the dark elves." Thorne's expression sank. If this is the case, then the chance of death for the surviving red dragon player is relatively high up.

"That's not necessarily the case, maybe this weapon was obtained by the Ratmen without a doubt." Noticing the change in Thorne's expression, Anderina said aloud.

"Leave here first. After all, this is the territory of the Ratmen. If you stay for a long time, you may be besieged again." Thorne glanced at her and told everyone.

(End of this chapter)