Act 2 Night (I)

A bonfire was lit at night, and a dazzling fire lit up on the wooden sticks I picked up randomly. Sparks jumped out of the bonfire, making a "crack" sound. Aways ate the dry bread that had just been soaked, took a sip of water, and looked up at the dazzling galaxy.

The stars here are completely different from the star map in his memory. After all, these are two completely different worlds. The basic backgrounds of these two worlds are very different. The stars are not another planet outside the distant light years, but the incarnation of the gods who are high above. There are real gods in this world. They hold their thrones high and sit upright in their own kingdom of gods. If their divine fire is not extinguished, they will live and die forever.

"Eternal life and immortality..." Avis sighed and finished the bread in his hand. In fact, it is difficult for this world to live forever, but there is no way. The easiest way is to become a lich. As long as you become a lich, your lifespan counting unit will basically be counted in "thousand years". But in fact, the lich still has its end point of life. When time passes, you will slowly forget your original self, forget the obsession of becoming a lich, and eventually become a wandering ghost who you are, and finally dissipate under the sunshine... And to say that the true immortality is perhaps the only gods sitting on the throne of the sky?

Just as Avis continued to eat dry food, he suddenly heard something. Avis immediately stood up, took out a crossbow from behind, and placed it on his hand. He bent down slightly and retreated to the back. He did not extinguish the bonfire, because he was almost certain that the guys had noticed it. All he could do was retreat into the dark space aside when the guys were attracted by the light of the bonfire.

In the dark wilderness, meeting outsiders is a terrible thing, because you don’t have to think too much about it and you should know that these guys will not come to tell you that the evening is good.

Avis touched his hand around his waist, and the dagger and scepter were placed in the best position. The spider web ring on his finger was always ready to send out a spider web to imprison the people in front of him. Although most magical equipment has the ability to immunize spider webs, Avis knew that his luck would not be so bad, and he could easily meet an uninvited guest with magical items.

Behind him was a cold tree. Avis's eyes were not only looking back and forth around the bright bonfire in front of him, but also paying attention to the darkness around him. Soon, some brisk footsteps came into his ears. Avis took a deep breath and subconsciously held the crossbow in his hand tightly.

It was the sound of footsteps stepping on the soft fallen leaves. Although it was slight, it still couldn't escape Ivis' attention. Although Ivis's perception was only a pitiful 12 points, he was a half-elf after all, and half-elf and elves often had the ability to see things in the darkness. Therefore, darkness could not block Ivis's vision, and he still saw clearly the people walking in the darkness.

These people were wearing brown leather armor, and the edges of the leather armor were really worn out. They had a weapon, a sword, or a scimitar on their waists. The number was about five to six people, and they were all cautious enough, but there seemed to be no thieves in their team. Ives took a deep breath, but did not rush out directly. He knew that this was just an appearance. How could there be no thieves in a team? Then the thief was obviously hiding. Seeing these people approaching their camp in a planned manner, Ives knew that he had been targeted.

But... why did he be targeted? Are these people trying to make money or for some other reason? Ives bit his lower lip tightly, but he didn't know where his enemy came from.

Soon, Avis found the figure of the thief. His eyes swept back and forth in the dark forest, and finally focused his sight on the treetops beside him. There, a figure was carefully watching the place where the bonfire was shining...

Then, the first goal is him. Avis closed his eyes and then began to prepare for magic.

"Hey, head, there is no one here!"

A voice came into Ivis's ears, which was a somewhat sharp voice, but Ivis could confirm that the person's voice did not exist in his memory. It seemed that they were not Ivis' acquaintances. So... Did someone else entrust them to come here to kill him, or was it just some mercenaries who made temporary guest appearances as robbers?

"Where did that boy go?" A man who seemed to be the leader cursed with grin. He was wearing a decent iron armor. Although it was a little rusty and slightly unfit, the iron armor also gave him a considerable protective ability. Avis's eyes glanced back and forth around him, and finally confirmed that the guy's strength was about level three to level four.

He smiled bitterly - Avis is now just a first-level mage.

Avis was only at the first level at this time, and he naturally had not learned the ability of high-skill magic, so he could only lower his voice to chant magic. At this time, the night was a little quiet, and the sound of summer insects being kept calling in his ears. Although the sound of Avis chanting the spell was light, it was not without it. The man in the iron armor searching by the bonfire suddenly felt something. He had just raised his head and locked Avis's position.

"That boy is there!"

Seeing that the position had been exposed, Avis stood up, took out his hand with a blind trick and flew towards the thief above the treetops.

The blindness is a very classic magic, and it is also one of the magic that most mages are required to practice. Its effect is to blind a person directly. The thief standing on the treetop suddenly couldn't see the object and couldn't help but scream in panic. Then he wanted to escape irrationally, but he fell from the tree and was extremely moved for a while.

"The blindness hits the target, and the save judgment... the judgment is passed, and the target will gain a 'blind' state." A voice that only Avis can hear sounded in his ears.

The man in iron armor cursed. He originally wanted the thief to stand on a high place to monitor the entire scene. If necessary, he could use his poisonous crossbow arrow to deal with the slippery boy in front of him. But now their killer move has been directly destroyed...

Ivis immediately stood up and ran away quickly. He raised a light crossbow in his hand, but the star of the star kept shaking while running, making it difficult for Ivis to aim at those guys who were also running. Ivis grinned and wondered if he would work part-time in the future. Pure mages were really at a disadvantage in the battle.

Avis shot two arrows in the end, but neither of them could hit the target directly. Instead, the guys chased him even more angrily. Avis finally sighed slightly, and he raised his right hand. Soon, the ring worn on the index finger began to emit a faint light. Avis also stopped running and stood there. Avis' eyes turned to the people who were running, and finally, a hint of smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

These guys...their standing position was amazing. They were standing in a fan shape. Ives almost didn't need to calculate it, so he thought of a way to bind them all. After chanting the spell, Ives cast the "spider web technique" stored in his ring. The white spider web continued to spread in front of Ives, and soon tied the guys. Ives breathed a sigh of relief. He took out the light crossbow from behind without panic and skillfully placed the crossbow arrow.

The bandits who were bound in front of Avis finally panicked. They tried hard to break free from the spider web, but in the end they failed and could only stand in place and could not move. They suddenly started to curse, but after Avis picked up the crossbow and shot a robber to death, the rest finally became quiet.

"So, now you can tell me..." Avis aimed at a poor robber again: "Who hired you to kill me?"

"I don't know... I don't know..." The robber leader said, and then a friend next to him was shot to death. The robber leader's whole body was bound by spider webs, and he couldn't do it either by trying to escape or by trying his best. However, he was filled with resentment towards the person who issued the orders to him. Didn't they mean that their target was just a magician with only one level? How could it be so difficult! The robber leader finally remembered a very famous proverb in the continent of Arenthea - never underestimate a magician, because you never know what trump card he has.

"Crack..." Avis continued to load, then pointed it at another person: "Now are you clearing your mind, huh? Do you remember who it is?"

"I really don't know if I swear in the name of Aquido (※)." The robber leader cried and said, "It was a man in black who found me. He gave me a bag of gold and told me to come here to intercept a mage... He said nothing except that! I don't know who he is. After all, if you ask more about this kind of thing, maybe the next one who dies is myself!"

Avis looked at the robber leader quietly for a while, then sighed slightly. Just as he was about to put some pressure on the robber leader, a strange sound suddenly caught in his ear.

"Dadada..."

Ives immediately turned around, and the regular sound was obviously a knight riding a horse!

(※:Aquido, God of War.)

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Chapter completed!