Chapter 305: Chapter 304: Guarding Fiercely, No Escape Even if There’s a Way Chapter 305: Chapter 304: Guarding Fiercely, No Escape Even if There’s a Way The battle continued relentlessly…
Richard, who acted as a spectator in a corner, watched the battle, his thoughts churning.
To be honest, wizard-level battles, compared to apprentice-level battles, though improved, were no longer just about standing and outputting spells. There was dodging and interaction, but the essence of the difference was not very significant.
It still followed the “You attack, I defend; I defend, you attack” turn-based cycle. Perhaps a bit faster, gaining the upper hand in combat could give a slight advantage. However, relying on this advantage to kill an equally powerful opponent in a short ti was nearly impossible.
In summary, in the current Wizard World, all battles were conservatively biased, with defense being greater than offense, which was the exact opposite of modern Earth—where offense outweighed defense.
On modern Earth, theoretically, there are no indestructible hostile targets.
In the age of cold weapons, an enemy, no matter how sturdy their armor, would still fall to the sharp two-handed sword or the heavy warhamr.
In the era of firearms, an enemy wearing ordinary bullet-proof vests couldn’t withstand the bullets fired from high-powered rifles, let alone bullets from anti-material sniper rifles.
With the power of advanced mature firearms, it only took one bullet to land on a person, and even if they wore double-layered bullet-proof vests and a heavy bullet-proof helt, they would still be penetrated, severely injured, or even killed. Even if the bullet couldn’t penetrate the bullet-proof vest and helt, the released kinetic energy would still shatter bones and break necks. At that point, the body would be intact, but the person would be dead.
From a certain perspective, the primary function of bullet-proof vests, helts, and undergarnts wasn’t to defend against direct bullet hits but to protect against shrapnel flying unpredictably on the battlefield.
Offense over defense was evident.
Elevate infantry by one level to tanks, fighter jets, or battleships, and the situation was similar. The attacks issued by tanks, jets, and battleships, if they hit, had a great chance of destroying targets of equivalent level.
This led to combat on modern Earth being especially focused on the “spot and destroy first” principle, where obtaining the initiative likely ant winning the battle.
Currently, wizard world battles, when considered in the context of modern Earth, seed sowhat magical: It was like both sides were fighting with weapons outdated by generations.
Apprentice battles were like two people in armor, each wielding a wooden stick and bashing each other until exhausted, struggling to determine a victor.
The ongoing battle between Eva and Suo n was more like two people sitting in tanks, each controlling a fire gun or small-caliber mortar, firing at each other. Even hitting each other dozens of tis, they were still protected by several hundred milliters of tal armor. Unless a miracle happened, like exploiting an unnoticed fatal flaw, it was difficult to end the fight quickly.
This manner of fighting might not be stupid but likely evolved from hundreds, even thousands of years of developnt in the wizard world, a result of the collective influence among wizards.
Perhaps precisely because of this, wizards were able to proliferate in numbers; otherwise, like on modern Earth where “offense outweighs defense,” the high mortality rate in wizard battles would drastically reduce their numbers. Then, whether wizards could have beco the dominant force at the current ti would be questionable—they might have been bound to fire racks and burned like in the dieval tis of Earth.
But coming back to it, such a thod of fighting might be rational and suitable for most in the current world, yet it wasn’t the most powerful and had much room for improvent.
For Richard, if he were to fight, he certainly wouldn’t do it this way.
As Richard thought this, the battle between Eva and Suo n had gone through nurous exchanges, clashing in countless dazzling spells, leaving the courtyard ground a ss, pitted and covered with burns from flas and cuts from wind blades.
And in this process, Eva had surprisingly gained the upper hand.
What Angel had ntioned earlier, that Eva had killed a teacher from the White Stone Tower, must be true—Eva indeed had the capability.
Eva was clearly no ordinary first-level wizard, likely a high peak existence among them, stronger in combat power than Dempsey from the Giants’ Crew.
Richard thought.
At that mont, Eva released a new spell, causing a multitude of air to gather around her once again and then shape into slender whips. These weren’t just one or two, seven or eight, or even a dozen whips, but dozens of them.
The attack was nearly overwhelming, continuously lashing at Suo n.
“Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!”
Shape Energy Wind Magic·First Circle High Order·Wind Frenzy Dance!
Faced with this attack, Suo n was forced to re-establish the Fla Shield he had previously used, struggling to defend himself while retreating.
Eva’s montum was growing stronger, and her attacks beca increasingly intense, slowly pushing Suo n back into a corner.
Suo n appeared sowhat disheveled, while Mu Konni had dodged far away, wearing an indifferent expression.
Eva glanced at Suo n and Mu Konni, her eyes bursting with a fierce light. Suddenly, she abandoned her attack on Suo n, stamped her foot furiously, and with the aid of a Flying Spell, her body surged towards the sky, ready to escape.
From the beginning, Eva did not really trust what Mu Konni had said, after all, watching a comrade being killed without saying a word, who would believe that? And she was sure to lose if it ca to a two against one.
Actually, even though she had a certain advantage against Suo n alone, defeating him was still very difficult. Even if she did truly defeat and kill Suo n, because of the excessive consumption of her power, she would lack the strength to confront Mu Konni. Therefore, she had been planning to break out, and now seed to be the best opportunity.
In an instance, Eva’s body had risen dozens of ters into the air, about to escape far away when suddenly she seed to crash into so protective shield. She let out a cry as her body plumted like a bird with broken wings.
Despite taking so protective asures while falling, she still made a “bang” sound when she hit the ground, creating a crater in the courtyard.
“Ah!”
Eva spat out a mouthful of blood and slowly walked out of the dirt pit, glaring at Suo n and Mu Konni: “You! You bastards!”
Suo n remained expressionless, while Mu Konni let out a cold laugh and mocked, “Hey, I told you, fighting honestly against Suo n was your only way out. But you had to try to escape, well then, sorry.
You should know, unseen by you, I’ve taken quite a few precautions, prepared for your escape, prepared for your call for help, and prepared for you making a loud noise to attract the White Stone Tower flies.
In any case, you were never going to successfully escape.
Besides, I really want to ask you, are you stupid? Even without my precautions, we two wizards are right here. You trying to use a Flying Spell to escape right under our noses? Hah, we would just need to react in ti and it would be too easy to shoot you down. Do you really not know what death is?”
Mu Konni’s words were not an exaggeration, but the truth.
In the present Wizard World, although wizards can engage in flight combat, most of the ti, they avoid flying if possible.
The reason is simple, flying in the air increases mana consumption, and dodging and moving are sowhat restricted, thereby reducing their power.
Thus, only when there is an absolute power advantage, under the premise of overwhelming power, would one opt for aerial attacks. In a fight against soone of the sa level under normal circumstances, unnecessary ascension exposes many flaws, dragging the combat into a terribly unfavorable situation.
Eva of course knew these things, but just now, she thought that Suo n and Mu Konni would not react in ti, which is why she risked using the Flying Spell to break out. Little did she know, Mu Konni had been wary all along.
Truly deserving of death!
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