What did you do with the dice?

Rusalka: "Very good, it seems that the renovation of the Pearl Tear Villa is urgent. Archmage Sanita, I command you to immediately transform this place into a flying floating mage tower. This is an order from the lord, go and execute it!"

Sanita: "Before executing this order, I suggest that the Pearl Tear Territory should first improve its medical facilities, especially in the field of brain science. We must increase research and development investment immediately. If we delay any further, your illness will become difficult to treat."

Rusalka: "How about changing it to the Silver City of Labrinth? The one with all the traps and big breasts? You'll be in charge of setting the traps, and I'll be in charge of finding the big-breasted demons."

Sanita: "I don't think we can improve the medical facilities. I feel like there's no hope. Let's just eat something good."

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A day later, a letter from Ono in Ropa Town arrived in Rusalka's hands.

Although the content of the letter is quite heavy, the result is indeed a bit hilarious.

The general meaning is that four of Ono's recruits were killed by a group of well-trained killers. Their original goal was to kill Ono in order to intimidate Rusalka. It was equivalent to a criminal declaration of "Your turn is next."

Perhaps it was the Viscount's intention to let Rusalka die in the torture of fear.

After killing four recruits, the killers found out Ono's location. Without further ado, they planned to kill Ono immediately before the recruits' bodies were discovered.

When an explosive bomb blew away the barrier runes at the door along with the wall, three patriarchs and seven serious heavy-armored paladins were found in the conference room. Ten pairs of eyes quietly looked through the big hole in the door and looked at the "experienced locksmith".

Well, it really happened that they were in a meeting.

In the end, only three of the six killers escaped, one of whom was a mage, one was an archer, and the other was a fast-running assassin. The other three were killed on the spot, but they had no identification on them.

Ono wrote a letter, on the one hand to inform Rusalka to be careful, and on the other hand to ask Rusalka if she knew who the murderer was, so that it would be easier for him to avenge the new recruit.

After reading the letter, Rusalka could probably imagine how embarrassing the scene was when the killer blew open the door. If it were him, he would probably say embarrassedly, "Sorry, I went to the wrong door," and then run away.

In short, Rusalka replied politely, first expressing regret and condolences for the deceased, and then wrote an article similar to "The Guilty Edict of Viscount Concenutt", telling Ono that the Viscount was the murderer behind the scenes, including the previous White Horse Rangers' siege of the city, which were all planned by him. According to Sanita's instructions, the Viscount was portrayed as a cruel executioner, the opposite of justice, and anyone could kill him.

After sending the letter, Rusalka and Sanita started dinner time at the usual reminder of the cat.

This dinner was a little different from the previous ones. According to the maid who served the food, the braised fish was made by Phoenix.

Rusalka decided to save it for last - he was a man who saved the best for last.

Of course, this is not the key.

The key point is that while they were eating, the corridor exploded, and outside there was a mixture of screams and fleeing footsteps.

The explosion was so loud that the entire Pearl Tear Villa shook. The maids in the restaurant were so scared that they screamed and ran to the corner next to Rusalka - they subconsciously felt that they were safe next to Rusalka.

Rusalka's chopsticks stopped in mid-air as she swallowed her food. She remained silent, but inwardly she was stunned. She was only communicating with Sanita in the private chat: (What's going on?)

Sanita: (My pet is checking, it seems Phoenix is ​​fighting with someone.)

Well, there was a delay of more than a day in delivering the letter. The letter was delivered last night. Rusalka was playing the kingdom sandbox at the time and didn't have time to read it. If the killer had rushed here after escaping, it would have arrived about a day late.

But Rusalka refused to admit that she was wasting her time and planned to kill to silence the witness.

He picked up the big sword beside him on the spot, thought for a moment, picked up a chair as a secondary weapon, and rushed out of the restaurant door.

Walking all the way to the source of the explosion, Rusalka discovered that Phoenix was in a stalemate with a black-robed man holding two swords. She was in a bad condition. Her clothes were torn to pieces by the explosion, and a large part of her skin and tail seemed to be burnt. There were several wounds on her body covered by shadows, and she looked very embarrassed.

However, she was not suppressed unilaterally. At her feet lay a corpse carrying a longbow.

The windows and walls not far away had been blown open. A wizard in a wizard robe was holding a book in one hand and drawing magic runes in the air with the other. Runes shining with magical light were emerging in the air and gradually connected into a complete pattern. The magic fluctuations contained in them made Sani Tieta frown - the huge explosion just now was obviously his masterpiece.

Rusalka: (I'll take care of the assassins, and you take care of the mages.)

Sanita: (We need to be quick. The opponent is a mage who can escape from Ono's lineup. It's a bit risky for me to deal with him alone.)

When the mage saw Rusalka, the runes on his hand instantly changed direction. He grinned and said, "Lord Pearl Tear, I finally found you. I didn't expect you to fall into my trap!"

However, the moment the rune in front of him flashed, Sanitieta raised his hand and pointed at the rune: "Counter Spell."

The light at Sanita's fingertips flickered for a moment and then went out, just like the rune drawn by the other party.

The great wizard floating in the air had obviously never seen this scene before. He subconsciously retreated quickly to a distance of more than ten meters.

On Phoenix's side, Rusalka's arrival obviously gave her the opportunity to find time to enter the shadow plane. The man in black robe with two swords was very agile. Even if Rusalka used the Phantom Step to move over, the opponent could avoid the sweep of the greatsword and the chair, and by the way, stab Rusalka twice.

Then, he used some unknown trick, and his whole body bounced ten meters away like a spring. He quickly used the distance advantage to throw the explosive crystal at Rusalka, and then threw a flying knife and inserted it into the crystal in mid-air, detonating it.

There was another loud bang, and Rusalka waved her hand to disperse the smoke and dust, and the transparent barrier around her slowly disappeared.

He already had experience dealing with exploding crystals, so it was just a matter of wasting a ring to cast a shield spell.

"Oh, a mere trifle." Rusalka sneered.

However, right in front of Rusalka, the other party took out a piece of explosive crystal from his arms with both hands.

The market price of a piece of explosive crystal is about 50-70 gold coins, and the black market price is about 100 gold coins.

Damn, young people have no martial ethics and throw away krypton gold props!

Chapter 56: Mage Duel

Rusalka's method of dealing with the opponent was very simple. It was also the method he had repeatedly thought about when he was sleeping at night to deal with the exploding crystal.

People always fall into reflection after suffering a loss. For example, after arguing with someone during the day, they will keep reviewing it in their minds at night, thinking about what they should have said to be more aggressive if there was another chance.

Like playing with grenades?

He stretched out his fingers and made a pistol gesture, and saw two thick dark green magic energy explosions shot out from in front of his fingers. The attack power of the magic energy explosion was not strong, but it was more than enough to explode the crystal that the opponent had just thrown out of his hand.

The huge explosion of the two crystals directly engulfed the opponent's body. A fragile assassin could not withstand such a sudden explosion at almost zero distance.

The opponent never thought until his death that there was a paladin in the world who possessed high-speed long-range magic attack capabilities.

Not to mention a Paladin who can explode magic energy, this is too outrageous.

Rusalka brought the finger she had compared to a "pistol" to her mouth and blew gently on her index finger: "Just a joke, the Paladin's slash."

Just after showing off, Rusalka received a call for help from Sanita, so he made a prompt decision, left Phoenix who was sitting by the wall to recover from his wounds, and without hesitation, took a phantom step and teleported to the location coordinates given to him by Sanita.

As soon as he landed, before he could react to where the enemy was, a sword flew at his forehead - to put it more romantically, it was like his forehead and the tip of the sword met love at the corner and collided.

At that moment, the thought in his mind was: What a bummer, next time Sanita tells me to teleport, I must put on a shield before doing so.

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Back to the time when Rusalka just faced off against the man in black with two swords, compared to Rusalka who was leisurely next door, Sanita was in big trouble.

It was his first time to have a "relatively" fair mage duel with a regular mage in this world, and he soon felt the pressure - the equipment gap between the two sides was too big.

Sanita is extremely experienced in dealing with mages in the game. When entering the field, he first casts a silence spell to silence the opponent, and then without thinking twice, he directly shoots a lightning bolt at the opponent.

Lightning Bolt is also a powerful 3rd level spell, with large-scale and high damage. The opponent cannot dodge it in time, and his robe is directly shattered.

The result is: the opponent used up a life-saving item and was not hurt.

Faced with the continuous offensive of Sani Iron Tower, the opponent was also scared and tore off two scrolls without hesitation. Countless ice cones whistled and stabbed towards Sani Iron Tower, instantly piercing through his body. In the short distance after Sani Iron Tower moved to the bunker, the shadow was broken three times in a row before disappearing.

Mirror Image, which can create three shadows to help carry the sword, is a very practical life-saving spell.

Although it does look a bit like a turn-based game, most mage duels are fought this way, with the first move coming first. At this time, the indigenous spells prepared by Sanita were ready, and two magic circles appeared around him. He quickly wrote the runes in the air, and two transparent big hands stretched out from the magic circle to grab the opponent in the air.

The main function of the Giant Spirit's Hand is to grab the opponent. Sanita certainly doesn't intend to use this spell to cause damage, but just tries to interrupt his flying technique. At the very least, it can limit the opponent's movement space so that he has the opportunity to hit the opponent with magic or scorching rays. Of course, the ideal situation is to be able to pull him into the villa and then let Rusalka kill him with one knife.

But the other party would definitely not fulfill Sanita's wish. He tore off another scroll, and a strong wind suddenly broke out around him, carrying several wind blades that shot over. Not only did it cut the magic hand into pieces, it even cut several deep wounds on the outer wall of the Pearl Tears Villa.

Fortunately, the wind blade was so wide that it was blocked by the wall and posed no threat to the Sani Tower inside the wall.

Sanitieta felt disgusted upon reaching this point. How rich could a proper mage possibly be to burn so many items? He painstakingly cast a circle spell, while his opponent, chanting his ultimate move and tearing up scrolls to fight him, was a bit of a scam to activate spells by simply consuming mana.

In fact, mages can also make their own spell scrolls, but the number they can make is limited, and the level of spells they can make is usually relatively low. Precious materials are also needed to make the scrolls, otherwise their magic limit will be deducted for a long time.

So spending money is also a standard feature of the mage, but once you have enough money, you don’t have to worry about the strength at all. I have scrolls hanging all over my body, and as long as I have enough magic power, they are all instant. I just want to ask you if you are afraid.

From a certain perspective, the ring spells have the same effect. It's not that Sanita lacks awareness of his own strength, he is just indignant that "his plug-in" is not strong enough.

The opponent took advantage of the time gained by the broken robe and the continuous tearing of the scroll, which was about 30 seconds. It may also be that he had made some preparations in advance. Anyway, at this moment, he finally completed a rather disgusting high-level spell.

Sanitta: Damn, the opponent can cast spells silently, and silence doesn’t work on him.

At the moment when the other party completed the spell, most of the pages of the book in his hand turned into ashes and disappeared, and the other party's breath suddenly became much weaker. Not only did a purple gem on his waist shatter, but he also vomited blood. It was obvious that he had spent money again.

A rune appeared on Sani Tieta's head, and a transparent long sword emerged from it and stabbed towards his head.

The Sword of Damocles is a very advanced magic in this world. If the opponent performed it by relying on his own ability and magic power, then Sanitieta felt that the opponent was too humorous - he could obviously use other high-level magic to blow up the Pearl Tear Villa, but he still chose this method to give himself a chance to fight.

Obviously, the opponent was frightened by Sanitieta's instant spells and spell counters, and mistook Sanitieta for a senior wizard. Although he was very dissatisfied with the Viscount's concealment of information, his life was at stake now. As long as he could kill the opponent, he would ask the Viscount for compensation for the losses.

Moreover, he originally planned to take all the bounty for himself. If he could get around 1500 gold coins, it would be a great profit.

So he just revealed his trump card. Of course, this level of magic was not something he could perform on his own, so he had to pay a considerable price and activate the secret technique of cross-level casting.

This magic is definitely a first-time killing spell against a single target. Anyone who faces it without knowing the solution will only end up dying with hatred. It is a true top-level single-target spell. If the regular effect is replaced with the magic in the DND spell book, it is probably comparable to a cheating spell like [Decree: Death].

Fortunately, Sanitieta had carefully read the extra village rules book given to him by the DM at that time - although his main idea at that time was to see how tricky the high-level magic in his own spells was.

In the extended spell collection inside, I had the honor of seeing the effects of the Sword of Damocles: it locks onto the target's vital points and keeps tracking, cannot be touched when transparent, has extremely fast speed, turns into a solid entity after contacting a living being, and its flying speed decreases, gaining the characteristics of being able to be physically touched, but has extremely strong magical penetration.

In-game, this spell deals 12d12 damage on contact, 6d12 damage on penetration. You can use a reaction to achieve certain conditions to change the damage and ignore conditions.

Sanitta had a bad habit of forming his own ideas about every vague explanation in the rule book, so he studied how to change the judgment of this B magic.

To explain briefly, when this thing emerged from the magic circle, it was transparent at first. At this stage, nothing could block it. It could be seen but not touched, and it was not yet judged to be "in another plane". Even if Rusalka could attack across planes, there was no way to intercept it.

When it comes into contact with a "living form", it will turn into a physical sword with a powerful magic-breaking effect. That is to say, once it touches the human body or living plants, it will turn into a physical entity and penetrate these entities in the form of a sword.

The damage of this first contact is 12d12, which means the total amount of a 12-sided dice rolled 12 times. Even if Rusalka comes, you have to rely on luck to survive.

Oh, it seems not necessarily. After all, this is calculated in the "physical piercing" damage type. If Rushaka turns on resistance and damage immunity, she can really withstand it.

If you put this thing in the forest, you can just find a branch or a fresh plant, knock out its true form, throw plants a few times in a row to weaken its power, and block it with physical means. It is not unsolvable.

It's easy to solve on the battlefield: pull a heavy infantryman to block the sword, the sword will first penetrate the opponent's chest armor and pierce the opponent's body, and then be blocked by the armor on his "back". Even if it is not completely blocked, as long as you adjust your posture and let the sword pierce a non-lethal place, you can survive.

In general, this thing is a real mage killer. Since it has the ability to break magic in its physical form, a mage without armor has almost no way to deal with it. If you don't know its characteristics, it will be almost impossible to save the situation.

Just when the opponent thought he had won the victory, but was heartbroken about his loss and was planning to blackmail him for more money after returning, Sanitta used his own solution.

Step 1: Summon the familiar first, let the sword pierce the poor rabbit, and then continue to stab yourself.

Step 2: When the sword turns into a physical entity and its movements slow down, cast the "Grease Your Feet" and "Long Stride" magics, and run quickly to keep the sword away from your head.

However, this was no way to stop the sword that would continue to lock onto him and fly over to track him. King Qin's method of circling the pillar against the sword was useless. This thing was semi-intelligent and had some kind of incomprehensible recognition mechanism that "preferentially avoided obstacles when tracking living things."

The unlucky rabbit only reduced its damage to 6d12. For Sunny Tower, the damage number of 6d12 still has a chance of killing him instantly.

He didn't have time to contract another magical pet, so he only kept one of these in the Pearl Tear Villa.

Although it seems that in reality, the damage will not fluctuate, so it should take the middle value, which is about 36 points. However, the Sani Iron Tower only has 32 health points. In theory, it can withstand the effect of increasing the health limit by attaching a false life or something like that.

But he didn't dare to bet his life on whether this thing would be covered in fake blood or not.

So there is the third step: shout in the PL channel: (Xiao brother, save me! Teleport to the coordinates I gave you.)

Rusalka: (How dare you! Who dares to bully my son?!)

Rusalka teleported behind Sanita, and then with a click, she was stabbed in the forehead by the sword.

The sword flashed with magical light, then quickly went out and shattered, turning into tiny magical afterimages and dissipating.

Oh, and there was also a poor rabbit that fell down with its body pierced and blood spilled all over the place.

HP-20.

Rusalka with 50 HP left:?

The opposing mage:?

On the other side, Phoenix walked out from the shadows and looked at the double-blade man who was blown into pieces. He picked up the debris on the ground with his fingers, put it under his nose and sniffed it. His cat ears twitched slightly, and there was a strange look in his eyes as he looked in the direction of Rusalka.

She whispered to herself, "Del energy?"

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The outcome of this battle was already clear at this point. After seeing Rusalka who could withstand high-level spells with her head, the opponent's wizard chose to flee without looking back.

If he just ran away, it would not be easy for Rusalka to catch him. After all, the landing point of the Phantom Step must be "within 60 feet of a possible landing point". The opponent was flying in the air, and the straight-line distance had exceeded the range of the Phantom Step, not to mention that there was no landing point.

At most, you can just throw two magic energy blasts at him and try your luck to see if you can blow him down.

But Sanita stopped him. In the eyes of a mage, the magic energy explosion was as obvious as a beacon in the dark night. If you were not 100% sure of killing the opponent, you should not use this thing that was considered heretical and evil in front of others.

Just when Rusalka was regretting letting go of a big fish, the other party acted rashly: he cast a slow spell on Rusalka.

Normally, what he did was perfectly fine. Rusalka was a unit that could maneuver at high speed, and his flying skill had a duration. If Rusalka wanted to chase, and ran on flat ground, he would be killed if he caught up with the opponent and was forced to fall to the ground.

So this slowing spell hinders Rusalka from chasing the plane on the ground. It is very textbook and very correct - provided that Rusalka does not have that legendary move.

Rusalka couldn't bear it anymore, so she picked up her greatsword and threw it at the opponent. Then, the moment the greatsword brushed past the opponent, she immediately activated her legendary move.