Chapter 151 Champagne at Halftime, Right?
The call from Lloyd's was to inform Aiwass that the time for the attack had been determined.
The times are Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
It's Monday afternoon, which means the attack will be at midnight tomorrow.
Lawyer York even listed the list and configuration of the attackers for Aiwass.
There are four demonologists in total, two third level and two second level. They were carrying two demon dogs, a whipping demon and a blade demon.
This lineup... can only be said to be quite classic.
The Whip Demon is a regular demon species, also known as the "Overseer" by players. It is equivalent to a BUFF machine for demons. It will continuously strengthen all the demons around it, but it is also very fragile. They are usually protected by legal demons.
The Devil Dog is the original second child in the dungeon at the Pelican Bar. It is an artificial devil created by demonologists. It is only about the strength of the second level. Its advantages are high frequency of attacks, strong desire to attack, and it can be life-threatening in a fight. Therefore, it is best to drop the Demon Dog immediately from the start, otherwise it will be very troublesome to stick it together and fight.
The only one that's a bit more difficult to deal with is the Blade Demon.
This is also a pure melee demon, without any fancy teleportation abilities. There are no control skills or long-range attacks, they are simply very fast and highly skilled in martial arts - the Blade Demon is the kind of villain who is obsessed with swordsmanship, unscrupulously kills people to test the sword, or challenges the strong and brutally kills the opponent after death. Transformed into a demon.
As a demon directly transformed from human souls, it is also marked with great sin.
It's just that the Blade Demon is weaker than other demons with the Sin Mark, and easier to control. That's why it's not classified as a high-level demon.
With the development of the times in recent years, blade demons are rarely born. The last batch of Blade Demons were born hundreds of years ago.
In terms of path ability alone, the Blade Demon is probably only equivalent to a third-level melee extraordinary person. But its superb combat skills and rich combat experience have increased its threat level in frontal combat by at least one level.
The performance in the game is that the Blade Demon is the only one among all the low-level demons, and even all the phantom demons encountered in the first forty levels, who can use fast and slow swords. The intervals between its combos are variable, and its moves are changed very quickly - it has the kind of combat IQ that after seeing the rolling movement, it directly changes its moves to find the landing point.
And it will also consciously attack its weaknesses. The Blade Demon can enchant his weapons with various elemental damage, and target his hatred target by choosing the opponent's weakest resistance to attack the opponent.
Because of this, rolling is almost ineffective against it, and parrying is highly unlikely to be able to withstand it. Moreover, its pursuit desire is very strong, and it is almost impossible for players who are chased and slashed by it to distance themselves to receive treatment from the Path of Devotion. The only drawback is that it has dead hatred, and once it targets someone, it will never change the hatred target.
If you want to fight the Blade Demon, you just need to bring control skills, then focus your fire and kill him instantly. The longer you delay, the more likely it is that something will happen.
Then there are four demonologists, all of whom are not high level, are all squishy, and have no home field advantage. But if you leave it alone, if they take a ritual stance and output, the damage will still be quite high.
Their lineup highlights one thing: "Brothers and several brothers each rely on their own abilities." A very classic NPC team formation, without any disruptive or protective demons, just start with a direct attack on the face.
It's a yes if you change your home at the beginning.
Although there is basically no joint defense ability between each other, because each demon is the type of "you'd better focus your fire and kill it first", so they are a bit troublesome to combine. Because if you kill any one person, others can use their strength.
Although for the strong, their fate is to burp their butts when they are hit with one skill. But for Aiwass, who apparently only has the first level, this is almost a dead end that "can't be solved even if he knows it."
"What if I can solve it myself?"
Aiwass asked: "You guys are in this kind of lineup, how do you want me to deal with it?"
"Don't be angry, Mr. Moriarty..."
York on the other side of the phone smiled coquettishly, his voice trembling a little.
Aiwass seemed to be able to see from his tone that he was wiping sweat with a handkerchief: "That's why I am so anxious because I can't contact you - we are also afraid that you will be killed accidentally!
"But there is no way. Originally, Vice President Boka really just wanted to send a few second-level demonologists to attack you. He gave two reasons. One was to 'reduce the scale of the attack to prevent Avalon's The vigilance rebounded and the officials looked down upon us'; the other was from inside Lloyd's, saying that 'the association wants to consume our strength and deliberately sends our people to die, and we need to conserve our strength'.
"Isn't this nice?"
Aiwass asked, "Isn't he right?"
“Yes, I think it’s okay too…but the president stopped him.
"The president said that your identity is relatively subtle and critical, so no matter how small the attack against you is, it is a big event. Avalon's vigilance cannot be alleviated by reducing the intensity of the attacker, so Mr. Boca's reasons are not valid; and there are many Everyone knows that you have joined Lloyd's. If you encounter the demonologist's full assassination at this time, you can use a smoke bomb to confuse Avalon's investigators and combine Lloyd's with the Noble Red Society. Separate for now and buy us some time.”
Lawyer York tried his best to repeat the words of the two senior leaders: "The final voting result is...there are obviously more supporters on the president's side.
"Vice President Boca means that you should find some help. If you really can't do it, don't hold back... Your first goal is to protect yourself."
Evans smacked his lips and said nothing.
This president is quite eloquent.
What he meant was to throw Aiwas out as a pawn.
If Aiwas, as a member of Lloyd's in public, continues to be attacked by the Noble Red Society, it can be proved that there is not a very close relationship between Lloyd's and the society.
Lloyd's is full of businessmen.
Businessmen don't have any beliefs. They are more timid and like to protect themselves. But at the same time, they like more radical and more profitable strategies.
So when he said that, other people would not agree with Vice President Boca's decision from an objective point of view.
As the head of the Moriarty family, Aiwas would indeed be attacked by Avalon with all his strength-and from this perspective, the president directly denied Vice President Boca's "hero plan".
Compared with "preserving strength under the oppression of the association" and "directly using a counter-logic to prove that Lloyd's may have nothing to do with the Noble Red", the benefits are obviously more stable, but lower.
He knows the personalities of other senior executives of Lloyd's very well. Therefore, the reasons he gave are more convincing than those of Vice President Boca.
Good guy, the internal fighting is so fierce?
The friendly damage they inflicted on each other is even much greater than the damage caused by the Supervisory Bureau to them...
Aiwass is a person who has joined Lloyd's seriously.
Mr. President, are you not afraid that Aiwass will be forced to turn against you?
Aiwass narrowed his eyes and fell into thought.
...Unless, he has already planned to withdraw from Lloyd's. Because he did not respond to Vice President Boca's second question, that is, he planned to end his fence-sitting state and completely stand on the side of the Noble Red Association.
On the other hand, the actions of the Noble Red Association were so bold that they forced them to attack Aiwass... It is not necessarily that they did not have the idea of letting the official deal with Lloyd's for them.
As expected of an organization that transcends the Tao, the internal fighting is fierce.
Before Avalon was even acquired, they had already started fighting over how to distribute it.
It was because Aiwass himself was extremely valuable that the president could not tolerate this. His idea of "playing against logic" was essentially a cover. What he really wanted to do was to prevent himself from being bitten back by Lloyd's.
If Aiwass turned against him, then Lloyd's would be dragged down by Aiwass, and he could jump to Noble Red; if Aiwass did not turn against him, then he was suppressing the faction of Vice President Boca. The so-called heretics are more hateful than pagans. For Mr. President, Vice President Boca, who has a clear-cut faction, is a heretic in his eyes.
From this perspective, he is not actually a pure transcendent.
This generation of "Lloyd's" has a strong sense of authority and is consciously maintaining its power.
This may be the reason why he did not firmly join Noble Red at the beginning, but still had one foot on Lloyd's.
It's ridiculous. An ambitious businessman with a desire for power...
But it is precisely because of the existence of such a person that the alliance between Lloyd's and Noble Red has a flaw.
You like to open champagne at halftime, right?
Okay, then I'll open a few more bottles for you.
"I understand... No need to hold back, right?"
After a moment of silence, Aiwass responded briefly.
Then he ignored York's nagging and hung up the phone directly. He pretended to be very angry.
But in fact, Aiwass was not angry at all.
Instead, he raised his mouth and was in a good mood: "The opportunity has finally come."
"Is it the fake death plan mentioned before?"
Yulia, who had held her breath and stood still beside him, asked.
She was a little worried: "Is it really okay?"
"Trust me, Yuli. I never do anything reckless."
Ewas thought for a while and slightly modified the original plan: "I will invite Princess Isabel tomorrow and tell her that you want to enroll - your grades are absolutely enough, but you need to take an extra exam.
"I will ask her to come in the afternoon, and you will pester her and say that you want to follow her to the palace, so that you will not be in danger. Yuli is so cute, Her Royal Highness will definitely like it."
"But...what about the assassins at night?"
Yulia had a clear mind: "Wait until the evening, and then I will clamor to come back... and then be escorted back by the guards of the palace?"
"No."
Ewas smiled gently and said softly: "I can solve it myself. Didn't you give me your little butterfly? It will protect me for you."
"Miss Shadow Demon and I will do the same."
Lily added: "After this, we may be missing for a while. Miss Yuliya, remember not to show any flaws. "
Yulia nodded seriously: "I will try my best."
--Good luck.
Evans narrowed his eyes like a fox and looked out the window.
If the president was not so greedy, his plan would have some loopholes.
And now, the last loophole in Aiwas's plan has been filled by the president's own greed and selfishness.
"Aleister... I'll ask Vice President Boca for you."
He recited softly, with his mouth raised, and his voice was as soft as chewing candy.
Update~
Tomorrow is Little Butterfly's first show——
I decided not to take a day off. I will play Bodu 3 after finishing the writing!