Chapter 223 Shadow Assassin (Two Chapters in One)

Administrative Hall of the Fishing Port Town.

In a lounge.

Ryan was wiping the sharp knuckles embedded in his knight's hand guard with the 'paralysis poison' provided by Trevor, and on the bed beside him, there was a doll made of special wood whose gender could not be distinguished.

The doll was slightly larger than the palm of the hand, and the head, body and limbs were connected together with cylindrical wood, and the face was only depicted with a few strokes, as a symbol of the mouth, nose, ears and eyes, which looked very crudely made.

But when Veronica handed Ryan this 'substitute doll', Ryan knew through Nathaniel's envious eyes that the 'substitute doll' provided by Veronica was not as simple as it looked.

Later, Ryan knew it after Nathaniel introduced it.

"It is extremely difficult to make a substitute doll. It requires a special type of person among formal wizards, commonly known as a 'puppet master'."

"The method of use is also very simple. You can use mental power to control it, or you can wrap a strand of the user's hair or a drop of blood around the substitute doll to perform it."

"The substitute doll will transform into the user's appearance within the next day, and release the user's breath at the same time. Even ordinary formal wizards will find it difficult to detect the difference. Only after attacking will they find the problem."

"Of course, the substitute doll also has restrictions. That is, after the spell is cast, it will not become a moving doll. It can only transform into the user's static appearance. After being hurt, it will return to the doll's appearance."

"Therefore, it is usually placed in a specific place to mislead the enemy."

Although there are various restrictions, it is one of the best witchcraft props for wizards or wizard apprentices when encountering assassin-type enemies.

This is also the reason why Nathaniel showed an envious expression.

At this time, Nathaniel had set up a warning magic array around Ryan's room. Once an enemy entered, it would sound an alarm, but this was not safe.

Judging from the fact that the other party could quietly enter the captain's room of the fourth-level ship, the other party might have some kind of magic props or special magic, which could quietly enter the room and launch a sneak attack.

In the previous discussion, several people decided on two plans to deal with the attack.

The first is that the other party is not just one person, but two or more people, then Veronica will assist Ryan, while Nathaniel and Trevo will be responsible for the others.

This two-by-two combination was also carefully considered. Nathaniel and Trevo are both members of the Fish Dragon Team. The two know each other very well. When they cooperate, they can often coordinate with a glance, and the combat effectiveness is one plus one greater than two.

The second situation is that the other party is one person, then there is no doubt that everyone will besiege him.

Facing this level of enemy, ordinary guards and night watchmen are not very useful. They are led by Lehman brothers. Their main task is to be responsible for the defense of the periphery and deal with some enemies within their ability, such as Storm Crow.

After everything was ready, Ryan tied his hair to the puppet, placed it on the bed and covered it with a quilt, and he went to rest under the bed fully armed.

When Waxman and Zenina came to the administrative hall of the fishing port town, they saw teams of three night watchmen patrolling intensively.

"Humph, childish tactics."

"Zenina, as usual, if I can't solve the opponent immediately within ten seconds, you limit the time of others a little bit."

"Yes, sir."

At this time, a shadow began to emerge from behind Waxman. This was Waxman's killer weapon - Shadow Assassin.

Shadow Assassin is actually a rare shadow witchcraft. Its body is a gathering of shadow energy. Normally, it has about 30% to 40% of the strength of the caster.

However, after Waxman obtained this witchcraft, he tried to study and improve this witchcraft model many times in more than ten years, and managed to slightly strengthen the power of this witchcraft.

Now the shadow assassin has nearly 50% of his original strength. Since this is a continuous guided witchcraft, he cannot cast other witchcraft after maintaining the shadow assassin.

Another point is that the shadow assassin cannot be attacked directly. After being attacked directly, it will disappear.

Once the shadow disappears, the caster will have a short-lasting mental backlash.

This backlash is not strong, and there will be no splitting headaches or even coma. It is only during the backlash that the caster will lose the ability to cast other witchcraft for a short time.

Therefore, five years ago, he spent a lot of time and energy to find Zenina, a wizard apprentice who also specializes in the shadow system, and has been training her until now.

The purpose is to cast the shadow system's defensive witchcraft to strengthen the shadow assassin's defense and avoid being directly attacked. Another point is to support his actions to a certain extent.

Zenina chanted a spell, and black shields quickly appeared on Waxman and the shadow assassin, one after the other. Then, the shields slowly disappeared. From the outside, there was no trace of the witchcraft shadow shield.

Waxman did not consider whether to kill the companions of the target person, Ryan, one by one, and then kill Ryan.

But after thinking about it, there might be some kind of change in the middle, causing the target person to escape, or other unexpected situations.

The best way is to kill with one blow!

Moreover, after so many years of assassination, Waxman has almost never failed with the help of the Shadow Assassin.

Waxman and the identical Shadow Assassin disappeared in the shadow of the street ahead, and the next second, the Shadow Assassin passed through the wall.

The next second, Waxman's figure also disappeared, and the Shadow Assassin's figure emerged in the original place, and the two actually exchanged positions.

It turned out that this was the greatest effect of the Shadow Assassin. It can exchange positions with the caster. Of course, this ability will consume a lot of the caster's mental power, and if it is used continuously, it will cause the mental power consumption to increase exponentially.

Therefore, it cannot be used at will.

But this is already a very special ability, which is equivalent to Waxman also having the ability to pass through walls in disguise.

If Marika saw this scene, she would definitely be able to figure out how the other party attacked and killed a great knight captain in the closed captain's room.

After Waxman came to the administrative office, he first controlled the Shadow Assassin to sneak into several rooms. After a few minutes, he determined the room where the target person was.

Zenina outside, based on Waxman's infiltration, began to cast the magic of shadow fog. Soon, the fog near the town's administrative hall began to thicken.

It was late at night.

Ryan felt the lv3 level of danger perception in his heart and began to warn.

But strangely, he turned his eyes slightly under the bed and looked around, but he could not see any trace of anyone.

Suddenly, a phantom passed through the wall and entered his room like fog. Then the next second, the figure flickered, as if the phantom suddenly became some kind of entity.

A middle-aged man in leather armor appeared in front of Ryan.

After another second, another phantom passed through the wall and entered the room again.

In other words, at this moment, two figures with the same appearance, one virtual and one real, came to Ryan's room.

The middle-aged man in leather armor who entered the room quickly locked his eyes on 'Ryan' who was motionless on the bed, and immediately showed a sneer on his face, and then suddenly, the other party pulled out two daggers emitting blood-red halo from his waist.

The same action of the middle-aged man in leather armor was repeated by the phantom almost without any delay.

Then, two figures, one real and one virtual, holding two daggers, quietly surrounded Ryan's bed from different directions.

Ryan, who was at the bottom of the bed, looked at this scene, and thought of the two assassinations against the Imperial Navy Rear Admiral mentioned by Marika before, and he seemed to understand something.

The phantom walked near the bed and launched the attack first!

"Hiss!"

A sound of a sharp weapon tearing the air was heard, and the phantom holding a dagger suddenly chiseled at Ryan's head!

If it was hit, it would be a fatal blow that pierced the brain from the forehead.

"Bang!"

A sound like a bubble bursting was heard!

In Waxman's astonished eyes, the target person who was originally lying on the bed suddenly turned into a wooden doll, and his shadow assassin's dagger was actually only stabbed on a wooden doll.

Unexpectedly, the opponent had no time to react and his forehead was pierced, his brains splattered.

Nor did he expect that the opponent would react in time and block the shadow assassin's attack, and then he would attack from behind and finish him off!

But none of the above happened.

This made the experienced Waxman stunned for a short moment.

Then, just as he was thinking that it was not good and was about to fly back.

At this moment, after the puppet was stressed, it suddenly exploded below, and a stream of bright fluorescent dust immediately splashed out.

Although Waxman's pupils shrank and the whole person retreated quickly, it was inevitable that a small amount of purple fluorescent powder was stained on his leather armor, more or less. The shadow assassin was also fast, but he was also stained with a lot of fluorescent powder.

Although the amount was small, in the dark night, the two shining figures were very eye-catching.

Just as Waxman was about to wipe it clean and leave immediately, he suddenly felt a warning sign in his heart. The whole bed in front of him suddenly attacked him like an overwhelming force. Just as he was about to fly back, the bed suddenly broke into pieces!

A young-looking, but muscular, tall silver figure, holding a two-handed war hammer, attacked him from top to bottom!

It was Ryan who had used the "Break Limit" and the talent "Intermediate Giant Strength"!

Waxman naturally would not choose to take the opponent's heavy weapon head-on.

No matter how sharp and sophisticated his dagger was, it was undoubtedly stupid to fight against a two-handed war hammer that weighed dozens of times more than himself.

Waxman opened the limit break, pointed his toes, and the speed of the whole person increased sharply. He retreated at a high speed like an arrow from a string, and calmly avoided the heavy hammer that Ryan smashed down.

Just as Waxman felt relieved, thinking that he had avoided the opponent's war hammer and began to control the shadow assassin next to him to counterattack, his pupils suddenly shrank.

Because he saw that after Ryan's hammer missed him, he did not stop, but instead accelerated his swing and hit the floor of the room with a heavy blow.

Instantly, an invisible but extremely destructive wave came from the point where the opponent's hammer head hit the ground.

The ground shattered inch by inch and fanned out, spreading forward at a high speed. At this time, a loud "boom" sound came.

Including the shadow assassin, both of them were attacked immediately.

The shadow assassin's body flashed with black light, and with a "pop" sound, the shadow shield cracked and the shadow disappeared.

Waxman was immediately hit back and froze again, but fortunately, a black light flashed on his body, and a black film offset most of the damage from the multiple shocks.

However, the shock was so powerful that it directly collapsed the wall behind Waxman. For a moment, the sharp sound of the warning witch formation came, and footsteps of varying weights were heard nearby.

But then there was a muffled groan, and Trevor and others who came to support seemed to have been attacked and restrained in some way.

Ryan did not wait for the support of Trevor, Veronica and others as planned, but he was not panicked at all, and still swung the hammer heavily at the middle-aged man in leather armor!

At this time, Waxman no longer wanted to continue fighting.

For him, face is not important, and it doesn't matter if he misses once. What is important is to judge the situation. Obviously, the opponent's defense is very targeted and the strength is much higher than expected.

Therefore, Waxman made what he thought was the right choice.

He planned to use the reaction force of the moment when the weapons collided to fly back directly. Of course, he would not choose to take the strongest force on the hammer head, but he took a very experienced step forward and got stuck in the middle of the hammer handle.

He didn't believe that the opponent could still have a witchcraft prop like "substitute puppet" to mislead him next time.

But just when Waxman's two bloody daggers crossed and blocked the middle of Ryan's hammer handle, the whole person froze slightly. His plan to fly back by force not only failed, but the whole person was fixed in place for a moment.

Because at this moment, a violent, multiple shock force came from the two daggers. Although Waxman had the dual protection of the Force and the shadow shield, the whole person was not injured, but a moment of pause was still inevitable.

This pause gave Ryan the opportunity!

Ryan used the force to perform "Giant Hammer Smash", "Giant Hammer Sweep" and "Giant Hammer Jump" in succession. With the special effect of "lifting heavy as if it were light", the heavy and dark pig-headed hammer in his hand was swung up and down, as light as a thin sword.

After that stiffness, Waxman lost the initiative and fell directly into the "quagmire" of Ryan's heavy hammer combo. Every collision would make him stiff for a moment.

This moment made Waxman lose the opportunity to jump out of the attack range of Ryan's two-handed war hammer, but this moment was just enough for Ryan to perform the next heavy hammer again, so Waxman could only choose to use the double daggers in his hands to resist Ryan's attack.

"Dang!!!"

Every time they collided, sparks flew!

"Dang!!!"

The huge impact force, every blow would cause the ground under Waxman's feet to instantly shatter and sink more than ten centimeters. Because of this buffer, Waxman would not be injured by the super strong impact of Ryan's heavy hammer.

But this also made Waxman unable to withstand Ryan's heavy hammer attack continuously in the same place, because after several consecutive hammers, his entire ankle would sink into the ground, and he would be in a more passive situation.

Therefore, he could only fight while enduring the stiffness caused by this shock, and tried to take a step back, as stiff as if he was dancing a mechanical dance.

After dozens of exchanges!

The two had fought all the way from the collapsed wall to the empty backyard of the town administration hall.

The sound of weapons clashing was deafening, and the strong airflow driven by the high-speed swinging of the heavy hammer swept the dead leaves and small branches around into the air, circling and flying!

Waxman had never encountered such a frustrating battle. His advantages of flexibility and super high speed of movement were suppressed by the opponent's special multiple shock force because he lost the initiative.

However, he was not worried!

Because the opponent's heavy hammer combo must be completed in one go, once he charges up to perform some secret skills or mysteries, he can immediately escape during the charging interval.

If the opponent does not use his trump card, how long can he maintain this extremely physically exhausting heavy hammer combo?

Once the opponent is exhausted, or even just has a decrease in strength or speed, his pressure will be quickly reduced and he will be easily out of trouble.

At the same time, Waxman does not think that the young boy in front of him can surpass him in physical strength. This is completely impossible.

On Ryan's side, after his earth-shattering hammer caused multiple shocks to kill the shadow and enveloped the enemy.

The entire battle rhythm entered the situation he expected.

As for what Ryan has to do, he must make sure that every hammer he hits is powerful and heavy, and every hammer is as fast as thunder!

As for physical consumption?

That is not something he considers.

Because at this moment he has a full 6 points of remaining attribute points.

When the battle was close to one minute, Ryan did not hesitate to add a point to his physical strength.

As the remaining attribute points went from 6 to 5, the physical fitness also went from 28 points to 29 points.

Suddenly, a surge of heat was pumped out from the heart and quickly spread throughout the body.

Instantly, the numbness and fatigue in Ryan's muscles disappeared!

Ryan's two-handed hammer kept his speed and power steady, accurate and powerful as it did at the beginning of the battle.

After a minute and a half, Waxman's eyes began to show obvious doubt and surprise.

According to his rich combat experience, the boy in front of him should have experienced a decline in physical strength half a minute ago, and the whole battle would have turned around, and he could take the opportunity to get out of the current passive situation.

But it has been a minute and a half, and the opponent's every swing of the hammer is still so powerful and so fast!

On the contrary, his physical strength began to gradually fail.

This made Waxman feel irritated for no reason.

Did the opponent take drugs early in the morning?

So he can maintain his current state.

Strong physical potion?

Probably not!

Because it can only increase physical strength by about 10% to 20%.

Magic blood potion?

Obviously not!

Because the effect of the drug lasts only half a minute, so it is taken during the battle, and the opponent obviously did not have the opportunity to take the potion just now.

Waxman thought quickly in his mind, but he couldn't figure out what potion the opponent might have taken, and how it could have such a strong effect!

Could it be some new drug from the Dragun Empire?

Or is this the opponent's true strength?

No, this is absolutely impossible!

The guy in front of him is only a few years old, it is impossible for him to have such strength.

Waxman felt a little regretful at this moment. He should have raised the opponent to the standard of the most dangerous opponent before making a move.

He has not encountered such a dilemma for a long time!

There has been no news from Zenina so far. She should be restrained by the two third-level wizard apprentices and a sharpshooter of the opponent.

Another half minute passed.

"Dang!!!"

When Ryan hammered down again, he clearly felt that the opponent's strength when parrying had decreased a little, because the opponent's knee was more distorted than before.

As the other party in the battle, he was most aware of the opponent's subtle changes, which also made Ryan instantly understand that the opponent's physical strength had gradually reached the bottom.

Silently, Ryan added a point to his physical strength again.

As the remaining attribute points changed from 5 to 4, the physical fitness also changed from 29 points to 30 points.

Instantly, Ryan's fatigue from continuous fighting was swept away again, and he was full of energy!

He knew that since he could sense the opponent's physical decline, the opponent would also notice this, so if the opponent didn't want to be exhausted and hammered to death by him, he must hurry up and seek changes.

Ryan watched the opponent's every move with a sharp eye, and his attention began to be highly concentrated.

He still maintained the heavy hammer blows like a storm!

At this moment, Waxman's hands and feet began to feel sore.

Even if Waxman had superior physical fitness, he couldn't bear it after taking hundreds of heavy hammer blows from an opponent with extraordinary strength.

What's more, his extraordinary characteristics are not strength-based.

So, time has dragged on until now, and he must take a risk!

Facing another fierce hammer blow from Ryan, Waxman's face showed a fierce look. He stopped retreating and leaned down. He chose to take a step forward, with his left hand raised up to block as much as possible, while his right hand held a dagger and quickly stabbed Ryan's abdomen.

Waxman chose to exchange injuries for injuries. He planned to use his left arm to resist Ryan's hammer, so as to get a chance to stab Ryan's abdomen.

He had already thought of the opponent's possible response. If the opponent dodges, it will inevitably destroy the force and cause the whole rhythm to be disrupted, and he will naturally be able to get out of the current passive situation.

If the opponent chooses to exchange injuries with him, then the worst case is that his left hand will completely lose its combat effectiveness, but the opponent will inevitably be stabbed in the abdomen by himself, thus seriously injured.

But in this case, he will be injured.

Being injured in the enemy's territory is an extremely troublesome thing, which is why Waxman tried his best to avoid this situation.

"Dang!!!"

"Puff!"

The sound of two different metals colliding sounded almost at the same time!

Ryan's almost full-strength attack was obviously not something Waxman could block with one hand. After the hammer and dagger collided, the dark pig-headed hammer hit Waxman's left arm heavily.

With a "pop", the bones at Waxman's left shoulder joint were directly shattered by the heavy hammer!

At the same time, the blood-red dagger in Waxman's right hand also pierced Ryan's water-film steel breastplate and stabbed Ryan's abdomen.

But the strong sense of resistance from the dagger, as if piercing a steel plate, made Waxman change color immediately!

This is exactly the effect of Ryan's talent "primary steel body".

Waxman's reaction was also very fast. In a flash, the dagger in his right hand was raised up and came between Ryan's hands. Then he slashed back, forcing Ryan to let go of his hands holding the hammer handle.

Seeing that Ryan had lost his best two-handed war hammer, Waxman endured the severe pain in his left shoulder, pulled a slightly ferocious smile from the corner of his mouth, and was very calm in his heart!

Without your most powerful weapon, how can you fight me?

Young man, you still lack combat experience!