Chapter 481: Chapter 481: Trifling
The WindRider Knights, a long-range support unit among the Thirteen Knight Orders.
The requirements for recruiting a knight are simple.
They need mastery over long-range attacks, superior precision shooting skills, a highly agile body, and sharp insight.
Knights are generally recruited from The Crusaders and Control as crossbowmen, or from Machinery as firearm wielders.
They all belong to the category of crossbowmen.
However, knights graduated from The Crusaders are markedly different from knights graduated from Control.
Control is closer to nature, and as archers, they lean more towards scouting and agility.
On the other hand, crossbowmen born into the Crusaders are rigid, focus on self-training, and are highly offensive… Whether they shoot at close range or perform long-range sniping, they display strong aggression.
Moreover, when the enemy approaches, they can pull out a reserve sword to fight temporarily, making them just as good in body techniques.
Tiffany, who was born in The Crusaders, is exactly like this, plus, the Blood Brew component mixed in her body make her extremely aggressive.
However, while being watched by the Bird Beak Mask, Tiffany felt a slight fear, which forced her to move back a distance.
Her eyes full of caution, watched the mysterious scholar of unknown identity.
“What’s going on… why did my wind arrow disappear?”
Tiffany couldn’t understand the situation just now.
The wind arrows, which should have hit the mark, why did they suddenly disappear when they came close to the opponent’s body…
The fear of the unknown caused a drop of cold sweat to slowly slide down her forehead.
“Tiffany, what are you doing!? Hurry up and help me get rid of this Blood Knight!”
At this moment, teammate Barrett’s loud yell woke Tiffany, who quickly drew her bow to provide shooting assistance.
But, when she was pulling the bowstring, Tiffany was taken aback once more.
Because of her teammate’s loud shout, the momentarily distracted Tiffany discovered that the mysterious apprentice had disappeared…
“Where did he go?” The unease in her heart grew stronger.
A primitive fear was slowly triggered, forcing Tiffany to twist her head in a bit of panic, looking all around for traces of the mysterious figure.
The clash of the blood sword and the crystal sword,
The various fireballs hitting the undead creatures,
The intense combat situation didn’t cause as much mental stress to Tiffany as the ‘disappeared mysterious scholar’.
As a bowman, her rhythm was already obviously disrupted, and it was hard for her to concentrate on coordinated combat with her teammates.
If she couldn’t find the mysterious scholar, it would be hard for her to join the fight.
“Blood…I need the power of blood.”
In her hurry, the Blood Brew substance flowing through Tiffany’s body was stimulated.
With the strong Blood Brew energy as a reinforcement to the visual sense… strands of blood vessels spread around her eye sockets, with her pupils completely filled with blood, turning deep red, and greatly enhancing her visual prowess.
“That is… sand?”
Tiffany noticed a detail.
The place where the mysterious scholar previously stood had some yellow sand left behind.
“Energy residue… could it be that he is hiding underground?”
Tiffany immediately gathered energy in her lower legs and leapt high into the air after bending her knees.
Her flexible use of wind attributes allowed Tiffany to jump nearly eight meters high.
Through a kind of wind controlling ability, she was able to temporarily suspend herself in the air.
Her eye pupils, filled with bloodlight, were completely focused on the ground.
Tiffany, at this moment, was always worried about something terrifying popping up suddenly from the ground or walls. She had no time to assist others.
However… a dramatic scene happened.
Just as Tiffany was trying to catch the enemy hiding underground.
The Mysterious Scholar in the bird’s beak doctor’s outfit reappeared in his previous position… as if he was deliberately mocking the archer.
“Playing tricks!?”
A sense of being toyed with welled up, evoking anger from within him.
When he drew the bow.
A large amount of wind attribute energy was released, instantly forming three spiral wind attribute arrows on the bowstring.
Quickly shot at the Mysterious Apprentice, anger temporarily suppressing the fear of the unknown, Tiffany carefully watched the process of arrow shooting.
He wanted to see clearly, how the arrow disappeared in front of the target.
If he could know the root of the problem, he could try to avoid it next shot.
“The defense of a mystery scholar is generally weak. As long as I find out the problem, my shooting ability will definitely kill with one hit.”
However… things changed again.
Whoosh!
The sharp arrow didn’t disappear.
Instead, it hit successfully and penetrated the target’s body…but no blood flowed out.
Caw~Caw~Caw! (Cawing of a crow)
“What’s going on?”
The body of the mystery scholar, like paper, disintegrated into fragments, and from its interior, crows with black heads crawled out… Hundreds of crows immediately flew towards Tiffany hovering in mid-air.
The successive weird situations, made this WindRider Knight, Tiffany, fall into a fear mire.
Even with the stimulation of blood brew, a touch of fear showed in his eyes.
His rhythm was completely disrupted and he began to randomly shoot at the flying crows.
All of these ‘rhythmical melodies’ were in Han Dong’s grasp… using the mental stress from the unknown to disrupt the opponent’s normal combat rhythm, to give Han Dong an opportunity.
As Tiffany’s attention was completely attracted by the flying crows, and his rhythm was messed up causing his thinking to fall into chaos.
Suddenly, from the ceiling behind him.
Streams of yellow sand slowly seeped out, slowly gathering into a human form behind Tiffany.
Quietly placed a palm on the back of his head.
Whispering… A tentacle ignored the protective cranium, entering directly into the brain.
The last whisper was delivered directly to the deep layers of Tiffany’s brain.
“Senior, in the endless greed you’ve lost the basic knight’s faith, once the battle gets out of control, you’ll fall into fear…You such a poor fallen, has no qualification to continue to exist.”
“No…”
Tiffany hadn’t shown his true strength as a WindRider Knight yet, when the wind energy permeating his body was about to explode, the white light immediately dimmed.
Thump!
A corpse with frightening facial expression and polluted spots around its eye sockets fell heavily to the ground.
“Tiffany!?”
On seeing their comrade had died.
The hearts of the other two fallen knights also showed a certain degree of chaos.
Flame Mage Bill was distracted for a moment, and a suddenly resurrected skeleton soldier got close to him.
Lunze seized the opportunity and used the Dead Spirit Controlling Skill to individually strengthen this skeleton soldier.
The seemingly thin and fragile skeleton soldier kindled a layer of gloomy blue flames within its skeletal frame. The bone sword in its hand erupted with strong undercurrents.
The skeleton’s gaping mouth let out a tormented howling sound from the depths of the Netherworld.
A heavy shadow slash forcibly broke through Bill’s protective magic shield…
Whoosh! Red liquid scattered, cutting off the right arm.
For a mage who needs both hands to cast spells, the loss of an arm is quite fatal.
The balance was lost…
Lunze further enhanced the resurrection effect, the Undead Army braved all kinds of destructive flame magic, surrounding the fallen Flame Mage.
Whoosh… got one offering.