Chapter 115: The Probe Battle
Chapter 115: The Probe Battle
A white streak cut through the air and shot fiercely towards Old Xie’s thigh. Obviously, even though he was angry to death, Arthas still showed restraint in his attack, not really wanting Old Xie’s life, just wanting to teach him a lesson.
Old Xie also admired the strength Arthas displayed, but he obviously disapproved of the other party holding back. He saw him seemingly casually wave his right hand, lightly and skillfully catching the arrow shot at him. This clean move immediately made Arthas and Little Loli’s eyes light up, secretly admiring him.
Old Xie brought the arrow to his eyes and looked at it, finding it was a magic arrow carefully carved from the finest wood and refined using Alchemy, the shiny metal arrowhead faintly carrying magic fluctuations. Obviously, the power of such an arrow should not be that soft just now, but Arthas was afraid of accidentally killing Little Stephen, so he didn’t dare to use his full strength.
After looking at it, Old Xie casually threw the arrow away, then took out a handkerchief from his body and fiercely wiped the fingers that had just touched the arrow. It was as if what he had just grabbed was not a exquisite magic arrow, but a pile of dog shit. After wiping carefully, he also imitated Arthas, throwing the handkerchief away casually, looking at the other party with a proud face, the meaning was, ‘Kid, got it back at you, right?’
Arthas was made somewhat crying and laughing by Old Xie’s childish behavior, couldn’t help shaking his head and smiling bitterly: “Your skill is natural, revealing a unique chic and style of an Expert, but I can’t figure out why your speech is so vulgar and even base?”
“Hehe, I can’t figure it out either!” Old Xie said with a laugh: “Your archery is indeed not bad, natural and grand, agile yet powerful, but why is your behavior so soft, like a woman? Nagging.”
“How am I like a woman?” Arthas immediately said angrily.
“You called me here to fight, right? But now there’s so much nonsense, if that’s not like a woman then what is?” Old Xie said dissatisfied.
“You~” Arthas was almost angered to death by Old Xie, but he still suppressed his anger and said angrily: “Little Stephen, do you know that the friendship between your Stephen Family and our Elven Royal Family has lasted for nearly a thousand years, when I was young, I also had several exchanges with the current Lightning Magic Saint. Do you really want the friendship between our two families to be destroyed in an instant?”
“Hey, Pretty Boy, can you be reasonable?” Old Xie immediately said disdainfully: “You started this fight, why are you blaming me now?”
“How did I start it?” Arthas immediately said angrily: “It was clearly you who spoke insolently first!”
“Bullshit!” Old Xie immediately cursed, “It was you who interfered in my private affairs for no reason first!”
“What do you mean interfere in your private affairs?” Arthas said angrily: “You such a rude barbarian, simply don’t deserve Constantine, I was just protecting my Younger Sister from your harassment!”
“Bullshit, only a man with manly aura like me deserves her, a sissy like you has no right at all!” Old Xie immediately retorted.
“You barbarian!” Arthas cursed angrily.
“You sissy!” Old Xie retorted without showing weakness.
“Go to hell!” Arthas couldn’t take it anymore, he shook his hand and shot another arrow. This arrow was not as soft as the previous one, the force was at least doubled, and it shot directly towards Old Xie’s shoulder.
Having experienced the previous arrow, Old Xie didn’t dare to underestimate the Pretty Boy in front of him now, he hurriedly turned his body to avoid the incoming arrow, then deliberately mocked: “They say the Elves have unparalleled archery, but in your hands, although it looks decent, it has a touch of womanly air! Basically no killing power!”
“You dare underestimate me?” Arthas immediately flew into a rage: “If you have the guts, catch this move, Arc Arrow!” As he spoke, Arthas shot another arrow.
However, although the movement of this arrow was almost the same as before, it was completely different after being shot. The previous two arrows were standard straight lines, but this one drew an arc in the air, like a curve ball, looking as if it missed, but it would constantly adjust its direction during flight and finally hit.
This kind of curved arrow is very deceptive, people who meet it for the first time can easily be fooled. Unfortunately, Old Xie had seen a lot in his past life, many Eastern cultivators knew this, but they used Flying Swords, which were countless times stronger than Arthas’s Arc Arrow in both speed and angle. Old Xie wasn’t even afraid of Flying Swords, so why would he care about this? He just took a step forward and successfully dodged the landing point of the Arc Arrow.
“That was okay, but still a bit lacking!” Old Xie teased.
“Damn it!” Arthas was so angry that his eyes were spewing fire, this time he directly took out three arrows, then shot them in an instant, shouting at the same time: “You asked for this!” Obviously, he was very confident in this set of archery.
The three arrows shot out, starting in a straight line, but quickly spread out, the first arrow veered right, shooting towards Old Xie’s right shoulder, the second arrow veered left, shooting towards his left shoulder, the last arrow went straight for Old Xie’s chest, instantly controlling three points in front of Old Xie, no matter if he dodged left or right, he would be hit.
This time Old Xie had no good way to dodge, he could only show his true skills, his hands chopped three times in front of his chest, knocking all three arrows away. Only Old Xie had enough strength and hard enough hands, if it were someone else, even if they could hit the flying arrows, they definitely couldn’t knock them away smoothly. Even Old Xie, his hands were numbed by the huge force attached to the arrow shafts. After all, the hand he could use now was the Naga’s arm, not known for strength, if it were the Behemoth’s arms, these three arrows probably wouldn’t even break the skin even if they hit directly.
Secretly rubbing his sore and numb hands, Old Xie didn’t dare to play around anymore, this kid’s bow was obviously not ordinary, at least a Legendary Item, the arrows had great power, plus his archery was extremely superb, blocking empty-handed was too disadvantageous. So he casually shook out his Ten-thousand-year Thorn Wood seed, using magic power to grow it into a wooden club about 2 meters long.
Arthas saw this and immediately frowned, asking with a bit of surprise: “Where did you get the Ten-thousand-year Thorn Wood seed? And why do you have natural magic power? Aren’t you from the Stephen Family?”
“Fight is fight, so much nonsense, sure enough a sissy!” Old Xie immediately said impatiently.
“Bastard!” Arthas was directly angry, his hand shook, he took out 12 Feather Arrows from his Space Ring, arranged them on the bowstring like a peacock spreading its tail, then shot them out like a swift wind. Then a large string of flying feathers was seen, like a ribbon, pouncing fiercely on Old Xie. Obviously, this was Arthas’s real strength.
Old Xie didn’t dare to be careless seeing this, the wooden club in his hand flew up and down, while his figure swayed left and right, blocking this wave of attack while countering. Naturally, he wasn’t just a punching bag, after initially seeing Arthas’s skills, Old Xie decided to counterattack. He pointed a finger, and a Lightning Arrow shot over.
But Arthas was prepared, he just turned his body, then pulled the silver cloak behind him to the front, blocking the Lightning Arrow. After Old Xie’s Lightning Arrow hit the cloak, it was directly absorbed by the Mithril magic patterns on the cloak surface. Old Xie was directly stunned, couldn’t help smiling bitterly: “Damn, you Pretty Boy are ruthless enough? Using an Anti-Magic Cloak to fight a Mage like me?”
The Anti-Magic Cloak, like the Ice Staff, was a Sub-divine Artifact, its function was only one, that was to absorb all offensive spells below Level 7. Obviously, with this cloak on, that Mage was almost crippled.
“Combat is for victory, equipment is part of it, besides, I already gave you a chance!” Arthas was obviously not a pedantic guy, so he answered very calmly.
“Che, what’s the big deal? Watch how I deal with you!” Old Xie said with a cold smile, while reaching out to release his self-created spell Lightning Chain. A strong light that had no killing power but could directly blind the enemy’s eyes immediately filled the entire venue.
“Ah!” The Little Princess watching from the side was also accidentally injured, caught off guard, her eyes were burned by the strong light until tears flowed, she couldn’t help crying and cursing.
Arthas didn’t escape Old Xie’s dirty trick either, his eyes were instantly blinded.
Old Xie naturally wouldn’t miss this good opportunity, he immediately rushed over a few steps, swung the club and smashed it towards Arthas’s thigh. At the same time, he laughed evilly, “Pretty Boy, let me break your third leg first.”
However, to Old Xie’s surprise, just as his club swung over, Arthas reacted, he saw him push off with both legs, directly jumping nearly ten meters high, so fast, simply like that firecracker two-kick. He avoided Old Xie’s club in an instant.