Shadow Covenant

Chapter 59 "Running and Escape"

Spiders and lizards are considered house pets and means of transportation in drow families in the Underdark.

Therefore, the relevant spellcasters have also developed a lot of spells and divine spells for spiders and lizards.

Among them, the "spider immobilization technique" is an extremely useful spell-casting method specially used to capture and domesticate wild spiders.

The magic spell of the second ring can even control a challenge level 4, and a cave giant spider with a personal level 7 for no less than 1 minute.

And 1 minute is enough time for drow spellcasters to use other means to stun or kill the target.

Soon, on the edge of the foothills under the moonlight, a group of humanoid creatures slowly appeared in the woodland gap.

They are tall, with silver-white hair and jet-black skin, purple or red eyes, and iconic pointed ears.

Outstanding demeanor, full of evil charms!
Drow.

Among them, except for the leading female drow sitting on a two-meter-high giant spider, the other male drows in leather armor followed behind her.

Obviously, the spell just now was cast by the female drow holding a dark golden scepter and wearing a dark red spider robe.

The female spider drow, which was immobilized by the divine spell, was quickly caught by a small group of drow warriors who came out from behind the drow priest, and tied several pairs of hind legs on her abdomen with strong white silk threads to prevent Run away after the immobilization is lifted.

Woody left the spot as soon as she saw the priest appearing, and stayed until the priest came to the edge. With her perception, she would definitely be able to detect the person hiding in the shadows. Woody was not so curious. Heart.

Although he had vaguely guessed in his heart that the spider drow in front of him was probably a magical creation rather than divine punishment.

The drow in Asenland's Underdark region do not believe in the famous "Pit Queen", "Conspiracy Weaver" and "Spider Goddess" Rose on the 66th floor of the abyss, but an evil spirit born of worship. Demi god.

——"Dark Deep Cry" and "Queen of Darkness" Korsust.

Her descendants are all over the underground of Asenland, and not only the drow worship, but also many other underground creatures, the lizardmen and gray dwarves, also worship this demigod spirit, and it is also one of the rare demigods in Asenland.

In his memory, he also appeared once after the dark year.

Under the starry night, descendants all over the sky, accompanied by spider spirits larger than dragons, ruthlessly attacked human cities. No less than ten city-states fell in the sea of ​​spiders that night.

However, His appearance was quickly suppressed by several other forces on the ground.

The counterattack of the drow elves was only a short moment. Due to their natural photophobia and the number of advanced legends of the tribe was far lower than that of other land races, they were quickly driven back underground by humans.

His priest is easily recognizable, with a dark red spider robe and an emblem on his chest that resembles three pairs of compound eyes of a spider.

Woody had dealt with them for a while.

To some extent, this group of believers of the "Queen of Darkness" coincides with the idea of ​​the spider goddess Rose, but the followers of the Queen of Darkness prefer simple and simple hunting or ambushes instead of enjoying betrayal and murder.

And to some extent, although it is a matriarchal society, the oppression of men is far less deep than that of Rose.

At least there were also many male drows in His church. Although they were rare, at least they would not die because of it.

It is worth mentioning that, because they believe in the law of darkness and the environment of the jungle, they worship any strong man who can live in the dark region, and regard it as a kind of glory to mate with them.

So in drow cities, you can see all kinds of half-drow creatures living in underground cities.

From demon drow to dragon vein drow, as long as you can think of powerful creatures, drow has done it to some extent.

Whether forced or forced, they will try their best to squeeze your body dry and leave your essence in the blood of their next generation.

Among them was a poor shadow dragon who had been imprisoned by a drow family for several generations, adding a lot of newcomers to the drow's warlock career path.

Moreover, even if they cannot stay, they will use various magical means to create new creatures.

The half-spiderman and the spider-drow were actually born in this way.

However, no matter how careful Woody was, he still heard the sound of the spell behind him, and his experience with the Battle Mage subconsciously saved him.

Rolling forward on the spot, ignoring the rustling of branches and trees, he sprinted forward like a cheetah.

This priest obviously has other detection methods, otherwise, no matter how high his perception is, he would not be able to detect signs of his departure from such a distance.

But now is naturally not the time to worry about this, he has to leave here quickly.

The caster level of the drow spellcaster in front of him is not clear, but judging from the black and red robe pattern on his body, he is at least a priest with a personal occupation level above level 5 and above level [-].

Combat strength is not low, at least Woody will be humiliated by this priest before he gets close.

At this time, just as Woody rolled out of a certain distance, a round white spider web with a radius of 3 meters fell on his original position.

It was indeed discovered!

Woody secretly applauded the danger, and then left without looking back.

And the drow priest who released the magic spell didn't seem to realize that his magic spell was dodged, and his face suddenly changed.

Immediately after confessing to the drow warriors around him, he rode the giant spider and rushed towards the direction where Woody disappeared.

Woody was running wildly through the woodland.

He didn't believe that this group of drow dared to hunt down a human on the ground. This is not their dark area, as long as they escape from this forest.

He is safe!
However, things always backfired. Perhaps under the influence of the spider-like drow, Woody discovered that there were many drow warriors and even drow lizard cavalry on the other side of the woodland.

Obviously, the escaping of this spider-like drow was a big deal, and they chose the tactic of outflanking and closing the net.

At least two teams of five plus spell casters participated in this net collection operation.

Not to mention just an ordinary spider drow, even capturing a young dragon is probably more than enough.

And he, unfortunately, got into the web of these spiders on the way down the mountain.

hateful!

Woody hadn't had time to lament that he never seemed to be favored by the goddess of luck, Tymora.

Not far away, at the exit of the gap in the woodland, there was a black figure blocking his only way...

This is a male drow warrior in full armor, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, and wearing a spider claw emblem on the black leather armor.

He was tall and slender, with silver-white long hair tied up, and the elf's bony face was hidden under a black veil, leaving only a pair of sharp crimson eyes staring at the human in front of him.

Stronger than ordinary drow fighters, at least a professional fighter with 5 levels.

Woody's expression froze, and while he was listening to the movement from behind, he had already begun to formulate tactics for the encounter in front of him.

Fighting is inevitable for him now, kill him or be dragged here.

We can only make a quick decision!

When Priest Drow and other reinforcements arrive later, they will be attacked from both sides. Even if Woody has rich combat experience, at his current level, he will be no match for two fists and four hands.

Come on then!In the dark woodland, some broken moonlight shines on the thorns.

A long steel sword emitting a cold light was pulled out of its sheath by Woody.

He did not lack the courage to draw his sword.

He even rejoiced that he was very quick to deal with the Xenomorph Cultists, and the magic effect exerted by the scroll was still half an hour old.

Let him be more confident in facing this sudden battle, the improvement of extraordinary agility is not 01:30 points.

But having said that, if he was slower to solve it, causing him to go out later, he might pass by the group of dark elf guards who captured the spider drow...

But he is not a self-pity character, so naturally he will not regret what he has experienced.

What he can grasp now is his future!Instead of lamenting and wallowing in the regrets of the past.

When the drow warrior saw Woody, he immediately uttered a strange insect cry.

Woody naturally knew that this was him calling for reinforcements and notifying the target that he was here.

Without hesitation, he quickly approached the heavily armed drow warrior in the gap through the shadow of the forest.

Be the first to attack!

Under the command of his right hand, the long sword with a cold light stabbed out, aiming at the neck of the drow warrior without armor protection.

Facing Woody's attack, the heavily armed drow warrior just raised his exquisite black shield coldly.

--"rub"

When the sword and shield collided, the blooming sparks splashed all over the place.

And following the impact, the drow warrior's right hand holding the sword was like a poisonous snake waiting for an opportunity, stabbing fiercely towards the chest of the human in front of him.

The block is good, the shield counter is also in place, very standard "military power" fighting style.

If it was among the drow fighters I led, they could already graduate.

Woody, who was once an instructor at the Swordsmanship Academy in a drow city during his player career, gave this outstanding graduate an eighth in his heart.

But the shortcomings are obvious, the moves are rigid, and the flexibility is not enough. It may be more effective to deal with some outsiders who don't know much about drow swordsmanship.

But for him, a swordsman who has rich experience in teaching combat, there are loopholes all over his body.

However, these will take a certain amount of time to expand the loopholes, and then kill with one blow.

However, Woody didn't have enough time.

Therefore, his tactics were determined from the beginning, first to show the enemy his weakness, and then to make dangerous moves.

The steel long sword in Woody's right hand slid down smoothly, just blocking the sword stabbed by the drow warrior.

Then the blade pressed down, taking advantage of the gap, the body took another half step forward.

A long-bladed dagger suddenly emerged from his left hand and swung it towards the wrist of the drow elf in front of him, as if planning to use his hand first and then attack slowly.

The drow fighters also have good combat experience, and they can see the plans of the humans in front of them.

He dodged the dagger attack by rolling his body sideways, and then used the shield in his hand to block the next attack from the human in front of him.

"Not too strong, not too weak."

A little bit of fighting spirit was ignited in his heart, and the two of them fought back and forth again.

——clank!
Amidst the crisp sound of weapons clashing, although the two-weapon combat of the human beings in front of him resembled the "Double Blade" genre that only drow nobles could learn, his soft attack made the drow who wanted to defend even more. The warrior had a desire to attack.

Finally, he "found" the timing, first sideways to avoid the daggers at close range, and then used the shield to defend against the long swords cut by humans.

Leaning sideways, he shook the dagger out of the human's hand, followed by his hideous rapier, long and narrow like a bone spur, attacking the most fragile heart of the human being in front of him like a tarsal maggot.

And the human beings in front of him seemed to be stunned, only knowing to hide to the left, seeing this, the drow warrior finally couldn't help laughing, no matter how close he was in his direction, he still didn't leave the attack range of his long sword.

As expected of a human being, he made the most stupid choice!

In his opinion, maybe the back roll could save his life, or prolong his death time a little.

But it's better if he didn't choose, at least he can catch this human who is trying to escape before the priest comes, which is a small feat...

But just after the drow warrior thought that Woody had no weapons on his body, his left hand with the ring was empty.

Suddenly, an azure blue blade appeared, emitting a cold glow under the moonlight.

——Extraordinary weapons!
"not good!"

The extraordinary long sword that suddenly appeared in the human hand disrupted the drow warrior's plan at once. He cursed secretly in his heart, but now the long sword in his hand could no longer be retracted, and the shield could no longer be unloaded. The posture of the body has eliminated the possibility of rolling.

Injury for injury?

The drow fighters could only grit their teeth, and the offensive became more fierce, intending to use the fierce offensive from one side to make the other side try to return to defense.

You must know that the blades of all drow warriors are painted with highly poisonous poisons, but this time, to catch the prey, only paralyzing poisons are applied to the blades.

A stab at himself is less expensive than a stab at him.

However, what he didn't expect was that the human beings in front of him did not retreat but advanced in the face of his fierce offensive, and voluntarily bumped into the trajectory of his sword move ahead of time.

It seemed that even his intention to attack had been foreshadowed, and he was not as ignorant as before.

But he is obviously just a human being, so why is he so familiar with Drow's swordsmanship?

The drow warrior didn't know, the only thing he knew was that when the rapier in his hand pierced into the flesh, he felt a huge force coming from the left.

Then, the world turns upside down.

In the last scene where he widened his eyes, he saw his own headless body...

……

——"You were attacked by a drow warrior, and your blood volume dropped by 5 points."

——"Paralysis check...failed paralysis check, successful save!"

……

——"Shadow ambush launched."

——"Swordsmanship · Severing."

——"Successfully hit the vital point, causing 36 (+6) vital damage to the target."

——"The target has been decapitated...Death save...Death save failed."

——"The target is dead, get 410 experience points."

Huh, the battle is over.

Woody put drow's weapon and shield into the dimensional ring at will, and then flew away from the forest.

However, no matter how fast he was, the voice in his ears still followed him. It was obvious that the priest riding the giant spider had arrived.

Accompanied by an obscure spell sounded in the woodland.

——"The poisonous kiss."

Woody didn't dare to look back, so he could only continue to run towards the end of the woodland, a river embankment.

He only felt a pain in his waist, and a line of data shocked him.

— "You are under the influence of poison."

— "Death roll in progress."

Before he had time to hesitate, Woody directly used the experience gained from killing the drow warrior just now together with the experience value given by the Xenomorph before.

——"Consume 3000 experience points."

—— "Increase the level of the demon hunter."

At the same time, his body jumped towards the river below the embankment.

　Two in one, there should be 4000 words as compensation in the evening, as well as red envelopes in the group.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)