Shadow Covenant

Chapter 111 "Retreat"

Visions flashed before his eyes.

Cavill's eel robe saved his life. The thick and slippery fish skin hindered the cutting of the blade, and the subconscious retreat of the body caused its hind paws to stumble on the raised rock steps by the pool, resulting in a staggering reaction of an unbalanced center of gravity , to save it from being suddenly attacked by a swordsman.

But...it still hurts!

The burning pain in his chest made Cavill cry out in pain. It already felt that air had entered its body through means other than its gills, which was extremely uncomfortable.

"Hurry up and save me!"

It subconsciously asked for help in the direction of its companions. Because of its vocalization, its voice sounded somewhat vague and even a little weak on land.

However, the other two sahuagin priest companions still understood what it meant.

In the meaning of the sahuagin, this intonation is equivalent to making an oath.

I swear by the boundless hunger and endless hunting of Sekola, all the sahuagin who save it will not only lose one opponent in this sacrificial election, but also have one more team to help helper...

The two sahuagin priests who were a little hesitant at first glanced at each other at this moment, the bone scepter in their hands suddenly tightened, and their retreating steps stopped one after another.

Especially Gusa, compared to Vidok who was suddenly interrupted.

It has witnessed everything that just happened.

From appearing to avoiding the tentacles summoned by Cavill, to the sharp blade that seriously injured Cavill piercing the rain.

It clearly understands that the gillless species that suddenly appeared in front of it is not the same as the weak individual it encountered before, just like there are many kinds of sharks in the sea, ranging from weak to only catching silverfish, and the body length is less than 30. centimeter dwarf shark, and then a 20-meter-long megalodon. It is said that in the god it believes in, the vast waters full of vitality can be used for endless hunting, and there is a body that is comparable to the size of the island. The ancient giant shark...

But human beings are still human beings after all, so how can they compare to the great god-given power given to it by Sekola!
Gusa grasped the scepter representing the will of Sekola, as a communication and casting scepter, and began to pray. He had no fear in his heart at this moment. Never allow yourself to watch your "wealth" being plundered by gillless species.

The sahuagins often fight each other for the honor of Sekora. One of his teachings is that only the strongest and bravest sahuagins can be qualified to survive in the ocean, and the sahuagins None of the relevant sea legends say that sahuagin give up what they have.

Cavill is currently the treasure he most wants to have, and now it seems to be at your fingertips.

Just kill him!
Everything that happened in this short period of time was finally reduced to a simple matter in Gusa's mind.

Kill the gillless species!

For the glory of Sekora!

It began to prepare to choose a magic spell. From Gusa's point of view, Cavill actually chose the "Kraken Binding" magic spell at the first time. It was really stupid, and his intelligence was estimated to be similar to that of coral!

Kraken's Binding is generally used on large battlefields, and that is where it plays.

If it is it, the Curse of Drowning is the most suitable for dealing with this extremely agile gillless species.

Who is who knows.

In the past, when it plundered the group of gillless merchant ships at sea, it liked to use this magical technique to deal with the group of enemies jumping up and down on the deck mast.

Every time after praying, it can see the originally invincible target, strangling its own throat in pain in its whispers, struggling on the ground, a stream of water that can be observed by the naked eye is continuously flowing from his lungs , nasal cavity, and even eye socket overflow.

He didn't stop until his eyes protruded, his limbs became stiff, his body swelled, and he lost consciousness due to suffocation.

"You are dead! You will become the meat I swallow later!"

In order to prevent the gillless creature from further hurting Cavill, and at the same time to prepare time for his magic spell, Gusa shouted in a rather poor common language, trying to attract his hatred.

However, the human in the rain curtain didn't seem to hear its words, and didn't react at all. It just swung the sword in its hand inertially, and continued to slash at Cavill lying on the ground.

Hey!
A blade of light floated in the rain.

It was accompanied by another cry of pain. In order to avoid the attack towards the neck, Cavill was forced to block the attack with his left arm, which rarely used heavy weapons, but this time the damaged moray eel The robe has long since lost its protective effect, and the sleeve of the robe embroidered with the emblem of Sekora was cut off obliquely at the elbow along with its left arm.

Gusa knew that he couldn't procrastinate any longer, and if he procrastinated, Cavill's death would become inevitable. Naturally, he didn't want his allies to return to the embrace of the Shark God.

Gusa swallowed a mouthful of air, pushed it into his swim bladder, and began to chant divine spells with all his concentration, his eyes staring viciously at the side of the pool, the gillless species who were inflicting inhuman torture on his own kind.

"Glory to Secola, including my blood, my soul... the most feared nightmare of all sea creatures, the fear in the depths of the sea, the merciless gaze of Secola, please listen to my call..."

The syllables of the sahuagin language were so short that when the first half of the ceremony was finished, the human had no time to swing the third knife, and the whole world seemed to be filled only with the sound of heavy rain falling from the dark and gloomy sky.

However, he seemed to be aware of its prayer, and he was looking at it just now, but what's the use?With such a distance, it is too late to stop it!What's more, it's not like Cavill, who will stand still and let him hit it.

"This stupid human has no idea what he's going to face next!"

It was thinking as it read, as if it had seen the distorted face of this expressionless face under the curse of drowning.

However, in the next moment, the ferocious smile still hanging on its face was sprayed by a huge momentum from nowhere, accompanied by a huge sense of imbalance, its entire upper body leaned back, praying It also came to an abrupt end.

Gusa was completely dumbfounded.

The air was suddenly so heavy that it seemed that the rain was mixed with a blinding noise, as if a wounded whale was surrounded by the sound of a hundred bloodthirsty sharks.

what is this?what's the situation?
How did I fall?
The sudden impact interrupted all of Gusa's plans, and now it's like a stranded shark, it can't do anything except wagging its tail for a while.

But fortunately, when the sound of the sharp blade piercing the bone came through the rain curtain accompanied by the scream, Gusa barely produced a force to struggle and stagger up from the ground, and the fish tail regained its balance, but when it stood up again, it I saw Cavill's head with dead gray eyeballs lying peacefully not far from its right hand.

The fins that Cavill is usually proud of are all in pieces, as if cut by a sharp knife, and half of them were cut off directly, and the beautiful and carefully maintained scales under the head have become even more obscure, with gaps mixed with The dark red blood stains gradually faded under the washing of the rain.

Cavill is dead!The head was severed.

Anger surged in Gusa's heart like an undercurrent, but his instinct reminded him to return to the sea immediately, to escape to the incomparably safe sea waves.

When its eyes looked up at the dark rain curtain again, there was another knife light piercing the rain curtain, and it didn't know whether to block or hide for a while.

The sudden impact just now made its brain still in a state of absent-mindedness, until the pain spread upward from the neck, and when it and Cavill's head were lying on the muddy ground and staring at each other, it wanted to regret it and let out a horrified cry. It screamed, its upper and lower jaws moved silently, because there was no water, the sound it made was thin and weak, before the consciousness disappeared.

Gusa thought a lot in his mind, and also noticed many things he hadn't noticed before.

For example, it was only then that it noticed that the eyes of this gillless species were different from those of other gillless species.

It was an unsettling yellow, like those monster fish in the deep sea that use lights to lure schools of fish.

It turned out that they were the prey from beginning to end...

This was the last self-deprecating sentence in the mind of this sahuagin priest.

……

A row of data is displayed.

"The hunting pace starts!"

"Successful dodge!"

"Successfully launched a shadow ambush, causing 27 (+5) crippling damage to the target!"

"The target is bleeding... The target is disabled... The target is seriously injured..."

……

"The target is dead, gaining 461 experience points."

……

"Launch beheading!"

"Successful decapitation!"

"Causes 35 (+9) points of critical damage to the target!"

"The target is dead, gaining 610 experience points."

……

Spell casters are sometimes easier to kill than summons.

Of course, the process was also extremely dangerous. If he hadn't been promoted to the fifth level and became a second-level demon hunter, no matter how courageous he was, he would not have dared to attack the three sahuagin priests rashly.

It's just a simple water flow magic, it's okay to dodge or resist.

But if it's some terrible sea curse, it's in trouble.

There are several types of curses common to sahuagin priests.

The "Sekola Curse" that makes the mouth water and drown, the "Salt Water Curse" that drains and drains the water from the living body, and the "Malicious Transformation Curse" that randomly transforms people into weak creatures in the sea. Either way, just thinking about it makes people shudder.

You know, if he was a little late just now, he might have faced a strong counterattack from this group of priests. If he didn't say anything else, just the malicious staring just now made him feel lingering.

If it didn't rely on the magic seal to interrupt the sahuagin's spellcasting, the ghost knows what kind of weird magic it would use to torture itself.

But it's all over now, looking at the two sahuagin corpses, and the back of the last sahuagin priest who left to escape and disappeared into the rain.

Woody clenched the curved sword in his hand, and quickly chased after him.

After killing two sahuagin priests in a row, plus the sahuagin fighters he had killed earlier, even under the cover of the heavy rain, the bloody smell on his body still lingered.

But at this time, it is no longer necessary to continue to hide and wait for an opportunity to sneak attack. All he has to do is to send the most sincere greetings from mankind to this "fish that slipped through the net" that escaped.

"It's all here! Why are you in a hurry to leave?"

He walked quickly on the side of the road in the noble area, and it didn't take much time to catch up with the sahuagin priest. Their speed on land was far from being as comfortable as in water, but what Woody didn't expect was that, I don't know if this sahuagin priest is too stupid or has other plans. It is not running in the direction of the cliff near the ocean, but in the direction of the wine estate.

He had some doubts in his heart, but he still found the right time, ready to step forward quickly and finish with a hunting pace coupled with a heavy blow of a curved sword.

Of course, while attacking, he was also always ready to dodge possible magical spells or unexpected ambushes.

However, before the moment of charge, Woody immediately restrained the desire to draw a knife.

Because he saw the sahuagin priest, as if seeing a savior, he rushed into a large crowd of forty or fifty sahuagin. There are many images of sahuagin jumping off the wall like dumplings.

what's the situation?
Seeing the priest who had integrated into the sahuagin group, Woody was a little dumbfounded.

Unaware of the situation, he subconsciously thought that the manor had been compromised, but the faint noise and cheers in the manor amidst the sound of rain dispelled his doubts.

So this is a retreat?
This idea came to Woody's mind, although he was a little happy, but also a little bit unwilling.

After all, the pastor, he almost could...

He lingered on the periphery, not daring to get close. Now he was not so reckless as to rush into a sahuagin battle group that was close to the centurion, and find trouble with the priest inside.

However, he never gave up, and since the manor was safe, he was not needed. He could just take this opportunity to see if he could find any clues about the person behind the scenes.

Woody quickly decided to change from killing to stalking, and the sahuagin priest seemed to know that he was stalking, and first sent a small group of sahuagin fighters to harass, but he killed two batches after that.

It learned to behave, and changed its method, trying to find him with hundreds of sahuagin, but he avoided them sensitively, and if they wanted to chase him, he took the initiative to bring them to the nobles. Go around in circles.

Soon, the last priest hidden among the sahuayu crowd seemed to know that if this went on, they would only suffer.

Moreover, the torrential rain has shown signs of stopping, and the current precipitation has passed its peak period and turned to a downward trend.

It finally gave up its plan to avenge the other two priest companions, and led the sahuagin battle group, which suffered more than half of its casualties, back to the ocean full of security.

It's a pity that Woody didn't notice the traces of other people stalking nearby. On the contrary, he seized the opportunity and killed several sahuagin fighters who were alone.

And until he got to the cliff, Woody still didn't find a suitable chance to kill, but when he got to the cliff in the noble area, he finally knew how the sahuagin climbed the cliff that is difficult for humans to climb.

Looking at the sea water that almost overflowed the top of the cliff and submerged into the noble area, he patted his head and almost forgot to control the water level.

By directly relying on the power of the waves, a head of sahuagin can be brought ashore.

But just when Woody was going to watch the group of sahuagin return to the sea with his own eyes, he felt a familiar aura hovering around here with his keen perception.

And the direction of that breath is under the sea water.

A name suddenly popped up in Woody's mind, it was the monk girl who said to go to the Underdark not long ago.

Angelina!

(End of this chapter)