Chapter 545: Escape

The killer was so deliberate that he did not hesitate to use a flying prop to fly directly onto the city wall to assassinate without alerting any guards.

The poison applied to the dagger was so powerful that its value must be extraordinary.

The most important thing is that Xu Lai usually either had an erratic whereabouts or was surrounded by a large number of guards, making it difficult to even approach him.

And now, although it is difficult for ordinary killers to approach the tower where Xu Lai is now, it is not easy for Xu Lai's own support to arrive.

In addition, except for today, it is difficult to find so many killers to cooperate with the action.

That's right, there is more than one killer, but Xu Lai's body is covered with golden light, so the others are not in a hurry to take action again.

They also want to take advantage of the chaos caused by Xu Lai's attack to let the paladins relax their control over the corridors and mobilize more troops.

However, Xu Lai was panicked but not confused when he was attacked.

Although the assassination was terrible, Xu Lai did not encounter any danger that endangered his life.

Moreover, after so long in the army, every gain Xu Lai made was gained by risking his life.

Xu Lai himself couldn't remember all the dangerous situations he had encountered, so even if he was attacked suddenly, he was very calm.

The Paladins still blocked all the entrances and exits tightly. As long as not all the killers had the forced disappearance skill of the assassin just now, they could not penetrate the bodies of the Paladins.

Correspondingly, what Xu Lai had to protect was actually the enemies coming from the air.

Few people should have flying props like the assassin before, but wall-climbing props are one of the standard props for members of the Dark Alliance.

However, in front of Xu Lai and Roland and other Paladins, even if they were invisible, it was unlikely to climb up quietly.

But to be on the safe side, Xu Lai still sprinkled a handful of powder.

Xu Lai was very strong, but his hands were a little small. He threw a handful of developing dust very far, but the amount was a little small and the distribution was not even.

The originally empty tower with only his own people was sprinkled with several crystal figures by this developing dust.

As the name of the Appearing Dust suggests, each grain of powder can glow, and it can be seen clearly even in the daytime.

The three figures were very far away from Xu Lai, and the closest one was about 50 to 60 meters away.

There was no way, Xu Lai was surrounded by Holy Light Knights, and it was impossible for them to squeeze to Xu Lai without alarming these knights.

Roland waved his hand, and immediately more than a dozen nearby Holy Light Knights rushed towards the three figures.

The Appearing Dust will only show fluorescence when it touches the invisible unit, otherwise if it is always on, it will consume magic power and cause chaos.

The three assassins did not realize that they had been exposed until the Holy Light Knights rushed over.

Originally, Roland wanted to continue to hold up the Holy Armor and command the Paladins to join the encirclement.

All of them were stopped by Xu Lai, who only asked him to find a few Holy Light Knights to release Holy Healing for him.

Once the holy armor is propped up one after another, these assassins are not fools. Even if some of them who don't recognize the golden light want to try to attack, others will not attack after trying a few times.

Xu Lai will use himself as bait to constantly attract these assassins and try to deal with them at one time.

Even if he can't deal with them at one time, he must try to deal with more of them to reduce some trouble in the future.

He simply doesn't bother to treat it for the time being, so let the poison spread in his body for a while.

If nothing unexpected happens, those assassins must have reconnaissance skills or props.

I just don't know their abilities, whether I can read the specific values. If I can only see the ratio, I may have an illusion and be misled.

Xu Lai's current health value is 1100+. If he loses more than 800 points, he still has more than 200 points, but the health bar should be red.

It seems to be shaky, but in fact there are nearly 300 points of health, even if the defense is not counted, it is not much different from the health value of high-level soldiers.

Of course, although 300 health points are still quite high, it is still very dangerous after all.

Fortunately, Xu Lai has many artifacts on him, including a mysterious belt. As long as his health is lower than 113 points, it will automatically replenish 374 health points for him.

Therefore, although the health points seem to be red, it will take a lot of effort to kill Xu Lai.

And Xu Lai also has multiple protective measures such as life potions, invincible golden body, and sacred armor.

It is not as easy as imagined to take Xu Lai's life.

Those who drown are often those who can swim. Those who can't swim usually don't dare to play in the water.

Xu Lai is also confident that he has so many life-saving methods, so when his health keeps decreasing, he still keeps taking risks.

The assassin's poison not only makes him lose blood very quickly, but once the sacred armor disappears, half of Xu Lai's body is paralyzed by pain, and his condition is also greatly reduced.

Fortunately, the three assassins who were slowed down by the dust of visibility and invisibility were quickly caught by the Holy Light Knights.

Without a mount, the Holy Light Knights in heavy armor were not very fast.

However, the dust of visibility and invisibility is a magical alchemical item. For the invisible units sprinkled with it, all acceleration skills can only have the opposite effect.

Originally, stealth increased the movement speed by 50%, but now it not only cannot increase it, but also slows down by another 50%.

Although the knights are bulky, they are numerous, and they have the logistics skills and the talent of speed, so it is not difficult to catch up with them.

The assassins can attack others' weaknesses and make targeted attacks.

However, in a head-on battle, even if the heavily armored warriors stand still, the assassins' small daggers cannot penetrate the heavy armor.

With a few bangs, two streams of thick smoke mixed with green poison instantly spread on the city wall.

Several assassins already knew that they could not escape, but they were fighting together this time, so no one sat there waiting to die.

The three of them threw throwing props and began to create chaos.

The smoke was extremely choking, and the key was that the closer to the center of the smoke, the more the vision was affected.

Even Xu Lai, who had dark vision, could not see far, and could only vaguely see the people nearby.

Obviously, this was not an ordinary smoke bomb, but a specially made alchemical smoke bomb. The smoke was magical and had the effect of forced interference.

The most troublesome thing is not the smoke bomb, because the smoke cannot cover the fluorescent effect on the assassins, and the Holy Light Knights can still easily catch them.

Xu Lai did not intend to leave any alive. It is better to kill this annoying guy with endless moves as soon as possible and feel at ease as soon as possible.

The most troublesome thing is the thick green poisonous smoke.

This poisonous smoke cannot make people lose their lives, but it will make people enter a dual state of slowness and weakness.

The closer to the center of the smoke, the more obvious the slow effect is, and the most exaggerated place is as high as 75%.

Fortunately, the assassins are far away from Xu Lai and his team, so Xu Lai and his team are not affected that much.

However, Xu Lai already has a severe poison in his body. At this time, the poison is the most violent outbreak. Half of his body has been in pain. Now he smells the poisonous smoke again, and his head hurts badly.

In the chaos, Xu Lai heard the faint sound of breaking through the air again.

Moreover, this time it was not just one, but dozens of sounds of breaking through the air.

Xu Lai was completely unable to speak at this time, let alone use his shield to resist.

But all around him were Xu Lai's recruited soldiers, including Roland, who could be controlled by Xu Lai's spirit.

Bang bang bang bang bang...

A series of dense crossbow arrows nailed on the shields of the Holy Light Knights.

The few that slipped through the net, even if they hit Xu Lai, were all bounced off by the magical armor.

This dense crossbow arrow was obviously a special crossbow used by the assassins. It should be some kind of mechanical crossbow that can burst dozens of crossbow arrows at a time without reducing the power.

Such an attack, if it was against a cloth-armored mage priest, or a leather-armored archer or assassin, it would probably have killed the opponent.

Unfortunately, the targets of these crossbows were all heavy armor units.

Even if Xu Lai was not here, and it was just an ordinary knight, these crossbow arrows would not cause much damage.

Therefore, it was obvious that these crossbows were only used to attract attention. No matter how stupid these assassins were, they would not expect this crossbow to kill Xu Lai.

Even those temporary assassins of Aini knew how to make crossbows into explosive crossbows with magical damage.

However, at this time, Xu Lai was confused by the poison and smoke. After the poison no longer caused damage, the pain it brought was also reduced a lot, but it still made Xu Lai's head heavy and unable to think properly.

He didn't even care where these assassins came from.

The only thing he could do now was to endure the pain in his body and forcefully sprinkle a handful of visible and invisible dust again.

The visible and invisible dust given to him by the mages was not much. Xu Lai estimated that he should sprinkle it two or three more times at most.

In the smoke, two more assassins appeared, and it seemed that they should have climbed up along the opposite wall.

Several paladins not far from them drew their swords and stabbed them without saying a word.

But at this time, Xu Lai no longer cared about the fate of the two assassins, because the real killer came from behind him again.

In order to ensure a one-shot kill, this time the two of them joined forces.

First, a violent white light flashed, and the two killers didn't know what props they crushed, instantly causing Xu Lai and others to fall into a state of complete blindness.

Then, Xu Lai felt numb all over, and his whole body was paralyzed instantly, and it lasted for a long time, so that he could not control his body at all.

While paralyzed, it was still the same dagger that stabbed into Xu Lai's arm.

It turned out that Xu Lai instinctively wanted to use his arm to cover his eyes after seeing the white light.

As a result, as soon as he raised his hand, he fell into a paralyzed state, just blocking his throat, and he was not pierced through.

Although the skill of weak point critical strike was not triggered, the sword still stabbed into Xu Lai's arm, because the dagger also had 25% physical penetration.

Although the damage was not high, it made the poison that had just disappeared and the residual poison had not yet dissipated take effect again.

The poison was still the same poison. I don’t know if Xu Lai’s body had developed resistance or if the assassin didn’t have time to poison it a few more times.

This time, although the poison still lasted for one minute, it only reduced 20 health points per second.

“Fuck, he’s not dead yet?”

A lightning arrow with a strong paralysis effect, combined with a dagger tempered with a huge poison.

After the two assassins sacrificed themselves to attract attention, they launched a sneak attack from behind. After successfully breaking the defense, Xu Lai’s health value not only did not decrease, but jumped up and returned to the yellow blood state.

After the health dropped below 110 points, the mysterious belt was triggered, and after a burst of white light, Xu Lai's health increased to nearly 500 points.

In order to prevent Xu Lai from taking medicine and causing a one-hit kill effect, the top killer of the Thieves Guild also brought a magic assassin who was good at spells.

The opponent's lightning double daggers, which can be called artifact-level, as well as two paralysis rings and a paralysis collar, can trigger the paralysis effect 100%.

If it controls ordinary people, it can paralyze the opponent for several minutes.

Even Xu Lai, who has an amazing physique, can't move for three seconds.

It's impossible for Xu Lai to take medicine in these 3 seconds.

And he was worried that the paladins would help Xu Lai with treatment, so he crushed a flash bomb and caused a large-scale blinding effect.

In addition to group spells, any single spell needs to lock the target first.

The most common way of locking is naturally eye lock.

But unfortunately, as the chief assassin of the Thieves Guild, he tried to eliminate all possibilities, but still failed to kill Xu Lai instantly.

Not only did he not kill Xu Lai, but he also helped Xu Lai recover a lot of blood.

Almost 500 health points, enough for Xu Lai to hold on until the paralysis ends.

Besides, he didn't need to wait for the paralysis time to end, because his mind was still clear.

Several nearby Holy Light Knights controlled by him collectively sacrificed Holy Armor.

Holy Armor can be released on targets in the area. If it is invisible, it can also directly cover the nearest units of the party.

Xu Lai released several Holy Armor in one breath, and somehow covered himself.

The invincible effect instantly dispelled the paralysis effect on his body and suppressed the toxicity.

At this time, Xu Lai ignored the pain in his arm and directly grasped the assassin's arm with his backhand.

Because of a series of changes just now, the chief assassin's disappearance skill has not cooled down.

His arm was grasped, and he couldn't escape even if he was invisible.

What's more terrifying is that Xu Lai's power is extremely terrifying.

Not only was he imprisoned with just one arm, but even the flying equipment and his companions who helped pull him did not move at all.

"MD, I have endured you until now."

The tall and thin man snorted coldly and said, "Escape from the Shell!"

As the chief assassin of the Thieves Guild, it does not matter how skilled he is, the most important thing is to live long enough.

He not only mastered the skill of disappearance, which can be called a magical skill, but also has a skill that can successfully escape in most cases.

Escape from the Shell, at the cost of randomly losing three pieces of equipment on the body, all imprisonment is released, and it is teleported to a random safe location.

With a click, the dagger, shoes, and the flying belt on the assassin's body shattered instantly, but the assassin himself also completely disappeared in the city.

"Ah..."

With a scream, the companion who flew up quickly with the help of the flying belt did not have the skill of escaping from the shell.

After the flying belt shattered, he naturally lost the power of flying.

Unfortunately, the escape could not take his companions with him. The assassin, who had lost his ability to fly, could only scream and fall to the ground from dozens of meters in the air.

The assassin had high attack power and agility, but not very strong physique.

Moreover, he did not climb up the wall. His limbs were in the air with no place to gain support, and he was suddenly smashed into a pulp. (End of this chapter)