Chapter 250 Pyromaniac
Everyone's brains were buzzing at this moment, staring at the giant oak stick in the ice giant's hand, unable to believe their eyes.
Although they had heard from Yuna before that the ice giant's weapon was a long oak stick, they only thought it was the thousand-year-old giant tree in the mountains that had been pulled out. They didn't expect it to be like this... "
Druid Magic." Gede murmured to himself, "Ice giants can cast spells, but the only records in the book are the ability to command other monsters and the power to cause blizzards. But the magic of druids, this is too much. ..."
With a "Woo" sound, a group of things smashed towards Gede with a breaking sound. The bear-sect demon hunter reflexively wanted to avoid it, but after seeing the true face of the thing clearly from the corner of his eye, he stopped. He hurriedly accepted it - it was a brand new alchemy backpack.
Generally, a demon hunter will have three to four different low-cost bombs and potions placed on his backpack straps to deal with emergencies. The backpack strap that Lan threw over at this moment only had one alchemical creation on it - [Magic-Resisting Gold Bomb].
Lan flipped his left hand repeatedly, distributing sharp weapons to his companions who might come into contact with the Ice Giant in close combat.
Cohen looked at the neat bombs on his backpack and took a deep breath: "I never thought about using magic-blocking gold against giants..." This was not enough. Lan En
looked at the bombs he had just fought with Han in the cave. The ice giant struck a blow, leaving a wound on the opponent's wrist. There are almost no scratches on it now.
"Kolgrim, the ice giant also has the ability to heal itself at a high speed and has a very fast metabolism. Will it be weakly venomous?" The
demon hunter from the snake sect twitched his cheeks when he heard this: "The reasoning should be correct, but with such a large size I don’t know how much dose to use, and my attacks don’t break the defense at all... Forget it, I’ll think of a way."
He stared at Snake Eyes and looked around twice, and suddenly saw Mir who was drawing his bow and arrow, ready to attack. watt.
"Wait!" Kolgrim ran over, skillfully took out a vial from his alchemy backpack, and then poured it all over Milva's arrow. "Use this!" Lann nodded when he saw this, and flipped his left hand for the last time
. Take out [Ogre Sword Oil] from the [Inventory] and add a hazy halo to the shining golden rune sword. At the same time, the black magic sword behind him floated out automatically and disappeared in a burst of bright emerald flames.
"Everyone, pay attention!" Geralt stood at the front of the team, his white hair flying in the strong wind, staring at the approaching monster, "It's coming!"
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A blizzard was coming.
"Fire arrows!"
The shrill horn sound echoed in the mountains. If the snow in the mountains hadn't become several layers thin for some unknown reason, it might have triggered an avalanche.
Hundreds of arrows rained down on the ice giant, and the density even briefly surpassed the snowflakes flying in the air. Unfortunately, the blizzard surrounding the ice giant formed a natural barrier, and all approaching arrows were involuntarily deflected.
"Hoo", "Hoo"
the ice giant put his left hand in front of his eyes. The arrows deflected by the strong wind seemed to be like weak stones and gently hit the blue skin, unable to penetrate at all.
Except for the one Milva shot.
"Pfft."
"God!" The ice giant became furious. It had not been injured for countless years, but it almost saw blood twice in just a quarter of an hour.
An arrow with an extra long shaft was embedded lightly in its palm, causing a slight stinging sensation. You can see that the ice giant shook his hand violently as if he was electrocuted, and then the arrow automatically fell off and flew to an unknown place.
It just broke the skin, and the wound caused was not even enough for the arrow to be embedded in it.
Milva nocked a second arrow for herself, and asked Kolgrim without squinting: "Will your poison be useful for a wound of this degree?"
Kolgrim pulled out his Serpent Silver Sword, He directly threw his specially made poison bag to Milva and went into battle lightly: "Can you make the arrow deeper? I heard Lan said that you can make the arrow hit the same place multiple times." Milva took aim carefully
. After a while, he shook his head: "The wind is too strong."
If the ice giant is hit by the blizzard, all the arrows fired will be greatly reduced in power and deflected. A shooter of Milva's caliber is no exception.
Fortunately, there were others at the scene who could fight the blizzard.
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A real thunderbolt suddenly appeared in Yennefer's hand.
With a "click" sound, the lightning crossed the battlefield in an instant and hit the ice giant's shoulder hard, making the giant make a sound of pain. At the same time, the fur vest on the giant's shoulders also ignited, and the flames burned the giant beast growing in the ice and snow, causing it to burst out with an astonishing scream.
And Yennefer seemed to be addicted, the second, third, and fourth time. Lightning struck the ice giant continuously with great force.
However, if an experienced person sees this, he can only comment that it is "huge".
Although the giant was screaming in pain at the moment, it could be seen that the damage caused by the lightning to him was still extremely limited. After all, this was just an elemental attack simulated by magic, not a real natural disaster.
Yennefer obviously knows this, as her spells may be weak against ordinary Cyclops. All she needs is the paralysis effect of lightning to delay the ice giant.
After a while, the ice giant adapted to the pain caused by the lightning, and casually grabbed a stone larger than Yennefer himself and threw it over. The sorceress flexibly opened a portal in mid-air, and the boulder disappeared.
After doing all this, Yennefer took a few deep breaths, her already fair face became even paler, and she kept taking a few steps back behind the soldiers' formation.
Just as the ice giant's attention was all absorbed by Yennefer, another spellcaster present was finally ready.
Fetov stood up, and the oak cane stuck in the ground suddenly jumped up a little further, and a force spread from its top to the sky.
The next second, everyone felt that the cold wind around them suddenly stopped, and even the snowflakes in the air no longer flew, but fell vertically from the sky. The thick dark clouds that day seemed to be dissolved by the sun and disappeared, and the mountains that had been shrouded in snow all year round finally had sunshine.
Clear skies.
The ice giant couldn't help but put his palm in front of his eyes. Living deep in the cave, it was dazzled by the light coming down from the sky.
The next second, another flash of golden light was seen between its face and the palm that blocked the sun.
Lan appeared in mid-air. With a wave of his hand, an alchemy backpack hit the ice giant's face.
"Ding-dang-dang" a large number of pull tabs were thrown from Lan's hand, and fell on the ice giant's body with a crisp collision sound.
Having accomplished his goal, Lan no longer wanted to fight, and decisively returned to the queue in a blink of an eye. The dozen magic-resisting gold bombs on the Ice Giant's face exploded together, and the rich metal debris instantly turned into dark green smoke and enveloped its upper body. Silks of static electricity were conducted in the smoke, dotted with faint blue.
"Ahem, God... Ahem, God!"
A large amount of metal debris entered the ice giant's body through its organs, esophagus, and mucous membranes, and attached to its body. With the giant's metabolic rate, it might be enough to excrete them all out of the body in one day, but Lann's battle would never take a day.
The wind in the mountains completely calmed down. The next second, the storm caused by the arrows swept across again, and this time they would not be deflected again.
The mind-numbing sound of strings collapsing and the sound of breaking the air continued to ring in the valley. When the archipelago soldiers reached back, their quivers were empty, and their right hands that drew the bows were trembling slightly.
Their arrows might not do much damage, but at the moment it's the best attack they can use. The next second I saw them pulling out their melee weapons, preparing to start a close fight with a giant beast that was ten times taller than them.
But all soldiers know that with their attack power, the greatest result they can create in a battle may be just to let the opponent wave their hands, delaying a little time for their companions who can really cause damage.
"Please step back a little and wait for the opportunity." The soldier standing next to Lan nervously adjusted the hand holding the hatchet. "If any of us can kill this monster, it can only be You."
Lann chuckled and shook his head: "No, you should stand back a little. It is your task to protect the king and the spellcaster."
Geralt, Kolgrim, Korn, Ged Bill, who was already standing beside him, roared and transformed into a huge brown bear two people tall. Black Wind stepped forward with his hooves. Seeing that his master seemed to want to fight on foot, he snorted in disdain.
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Use Magic Blocking Gold to nullify the enemy's magical abilities, allowing others to use them as harassment. But if he wanted to defeat the ice giant with one blow, Lann thought about it and only had his fully charged [Rage Burst], a sword skill that could ignore the enemy's defense - that is, the New Year's Sword Technique.
But this also raises a new question: Where can I find the time to accumulate power for Lan En’s New Year’s greeting sword skill without restraint?
Answer: The ice giant needs to lose the ability to move or even attack, which means the ice giant must suffer a certain degree of injury.
Ask again: But how to make the ice giant lose the ability to move and attack and cause damage to it?
Answer: Use Lan En’s New Year’s greeting sword technique!
To use the New Year Sword Technique, you must first make the ice giant lose its mobility, but the only thing that can make the Ice Giant lose its mobility is the New Year Sword Technique. This is an endless loop.
Is there anything anyone else can do? It seems not.
Facing the ice giant, the attacks of other demon hunters are just as harassment to attract attention and create opportunities for Lan; the same is true for Yennefer and Fetov's spells, even when facing such an enemy with extremely thick health bars. Sometimes the performance of spellcasters is even weaker, because their magic power is not as endless as the physical strength of the demon hunters.
After just testing, it has been proved that archery is useless, attack spells are useless, New Year's Sword Technique has no prerequisites for its use, and the snake sect's poison is also limited.
It seemed that Lann could only rely on himself. Facing an unusual creature like the Ice Giant, only an unusual creature like the System could defeat the enemy.
Is there any other way? Even if the damage is not as good as the New Year's Sword Technique, at least it can continuously cause damage to the ice giant without having to charge up - at least for too long.
Just now, Yennefer struck the ice giant with lightning and ignited the opponent's fur waistcoat, which suddenly gave Lan an inspiration.
He looked at his system panel and saw two skill points. Then he opened the skills page with his consciousness and flipped to the [Dharma Seal] category.
Lann hasn't clicked on a skill for a long time.
After experiencing the adventure of the Wolf Faction's Elemental Ring, all the third-level skills of the seal category have been activated. He has actually met the conditions for unlocking the fourth-level seal skills. It's just that Lann always thought that his seal system was enough to cope with the current battle, and he began to want to save skill points for the skills that triggered the second mutation.
But at this moment, Lan suddenly discovered that a level four skill of [Igni Sign] could solve his current troubles.
[Pyromania]: Increases the chance of Igni Sign inflicting burning status on the enemy by 20%. (1/5)
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"Burning" is a very powerful debuff in the game, which can continuously weaken the enemy's health. It is an indispensable tactical choice for players to skip levels and fight BOSS in the early stage.
Unfortunately, for Lann, this effect has always been a bit useless: first of all, Lann is no longer in the early stage. Instead of lighting a fire for the enemy and slowly waiting for the opponent to burn him to death, it is more convenient to just kill him with a knife; secondly, "burning
" The judgment of "probability" in reality is very interesting. As long as sparks fall on flammable materials, the probability of burning is 100% if conditions are sufficient. It is impossible to say that it is straw that can be ignited with a torch. When Lann uses the Igni Sign to breathe fire, he has to determine the probability of ignition.
The flames are blowing on my face like a breeze. Could it be that this straw is also "immovable as a mountain"?
But Lann also knew that this skill was not as useless as the system text stated. The value of this skill should be interpreted in another way: the probability of putting inflammable objects in a burning state increased.
Because in the game, the player's [Igni Sign] can ignite gargoyles and golems carved from pure stone with the blessing of skills.
All matter is equally likely to ignite. Only in this way can this skill be reflected as the final skill of the [Igni Sign] series.
So at this moment, this skill is particularly suitable for the ice giant. Faced with this giant monster that was difficult to damage with a sword, Lann needed to use a debuff to continuously and slowly drain the opponent's health. Only against such a powerful enemy can the [Pyromaniac] skill show its value.
Then - add some points, [Sign] major category, [Igni Seal] sub-category, fourth level skill - [Pyromaniac]!
[Pyromania]: Increases the chance of Igni Sign inflicting burning status on the enemy by 40%. (2/5)
Under the influence of the talent [Demon Tide], [Pyromaniac] directly reaches the second level, increasing the chance of setting the enemy on fire to almost 50% to 40%!
After adding skill points, Lann still has one last skill point.
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At this moment, the ice giant was only twenty steps away from everyone, and they could already smell the stench accumulated on their bodies from living in the mountains for a long time.
"Let's go!"
Four pairs of amber vertical pupils and a pair of dark gold lion pupils lit up in the mountains.
A huge oak pillar that was thicker than a man hit his head, and the huge wind pressure blew Lann's Great Griffin cloak violently.
All the demon hunters and attendants in charge of melee combat dexterously fled away to distance themselves from the enemy; only Lan rolled skillfully on the ground, like a phantom, penetrating this huge pillar that could crack mountains and rocks, and did not retreat. He counterattacked and appeared at the feet of the ice giant.
Raise your left palm - [Igni Seal·Pyromaniac]!
The cone-shaped flames immediately covered the ice giant's feet, turning this monster in the wind and snow into another image of an evil beast with feet on fire - if you ignore its screams at this moment.
Defeat the Ice Giant tomorrow
(end of this chapter)