"Kotoo fish?"

Thorne pushed aside the grass, looked at the footprints on the ground and the sticky grease stuck to the weeds, and muttered to himself.

All kuo-too bodies secrete a sticky, oily film that makes them as hard to catch as slippery loaches.

Thorne knew this in the basement bar of Lighthouse Town, where there happened to be a player who had chosen the kuo-toa race.

While this slippery mucus can bring them many benefits, similarly, if these amphibian humanoids appear in the wilderness, the mucus secreted by their bodies will become an invisible drag, making it difficult for them to avoid The tracked person noticed the trail.

"I didn't expect that the Hulk Hobgoblin of Tranquility Forest even attracted the kuo-too people in the Shadowmoon Inner Sea, and the preparations were quite complete."

Thorne looked up at the dazzling sunlight, put his hand on the hilt of the sword, and continued to follow the footprints.

The kuo-too are ancient underwater humanoids, which belong to fish-like creatures with a strong evil character and violent tendencies.

Although their amphibious properties allow these murlocs to move freely on land, the kuo-toa are weakened by sunlight.

However, the kuo-toas have a nice racial trait: otherworldly perception.

Their two independently focused eyes have excellent vision, allowing them to see any moving creatures and objects.

Even if the other party is invisible, the spirit body or even the etheric plane or the astral plane cannot escape those two big round eyes, unless they stand still and remain motionless.

This is the main reason why these hobgoblin assassins choose to have the kuo-toas follow them in their actions.

Obviously, the Heruk Hobgoblins of Tranquility Forest just want to rely on their own advantages and use the method of guerrilla warfare to try to consume Death Falls to the town, or to hold them down.

After all, Waterfall Town is extremely lacking in high-end combat power. Even with two Tier 3 rangers from the Temple of Merika, they can only protect themselves.

The Hobgoblins discovered their weakness and made the most special target.

"The other four are Hobgoblin, Bear Goblin, and two Lizardmen."

Thorne walked to a dry dirt road, carefully observed the scattered footprints, and noticed that a ferocious vulture had been hovering about a thousand meters in front of him. He pondered for a while, as if he knew what it meant.

——“Steel Soul School (Stance Skill): Listening to the Sound Discriminator!”

Immediately afterwards, with a thought, he immediately activated the Steel Soul Sect's move.

This is the fifth-level move of the Steel Soul faction. During his career in the arena in the Underdark, all the experience he gained was converted into practice points by him.

It allowed him to learn the two most important fifth-level moves of the Shadow Hand faction and the Steel Soul faction at the same time: "Shadow Leap" and "Listening Device".

[Hearing Discriminator (Soul Soul Pie): Your senses become extremely sharp, and you can even hear the slightest movement of the surrounding air. Invisible creatures and other potential dangers lose any meaning to your highly focused senses. Not even the slightest detail or the most insidious target can escape your attention. 】

[Shadow Leap (Shadow Hand School): Your body instantly turns into a small shadow and disappears without a trace. When the shadow gathers again, you can immediately appear anywhere within 20 meters. 】

In addition to giving him a special ability similar to the Blind Combat feat, the "Listening Device" also made his senses extremely sharp, and the surrounding wind and grass could not hide from his ears.

And "Shadow Leap" is to greatly improve its own mobility. The ability of "Shadow Leap" is actually the same as the third-level move "Shadow Walk" of the Shadow Hand School.

However, the activation time of "Shadow Leap" is faster. As long as he moves his mind, he will appear in another place in the blink of an eye.

The only downside is that he consumes too much energy of Qi, and he can only use it five or six times at most.

It is precisely because he has these two skills that he dares to walk out of the waterfall town without hesitation, looking for assassins wandering around the periphery.

Thorne believes that with his current strength and mobility, as long as he does not encounter powerful assassins of the Paragon, those Tier 3 professionals are almost no threat to him.

Moreover, according to the information passed on by Waterfall Town, he knew that there were not as many Tier 3 professionals wandering around Waterfall Town as he had imagined.

They are usually led by a third-order professional with the remaining second-order professionals, and then divided into small groups to conduct guerrilla warfare in the wilderness.

These troublesome rogues have been lingering near the town of Falls, hunting down all those who try to leave the town, and then relying on hunting to satisfy their hunger in their spare time, there is a tendency to live directly here.

——“Desert Wind Sect (Enhanced Skill): Popular!”

With a thought, Thorne activated another first-level move of the Desert Wind Sect. This move was mastered by repeated practice for more than a month.

The effect is very simple, that is, to increase your own movement speed by 20%.

At his current level, the time can last about 2 hours.

When this enhancement technique was activated, Thorne immediately felt that he was all wrapped in an invisible wind element, and with every step he walked, the surrounding was driven by gusts of warm wind.

Thorne was walking on a dry path, his expression was in a state of high concentration, and the two hands hidden in the cloak could instantly draw a deadly blade at any time.

He just pretended to walk aimlessly, because under the blessing of the "auditory device", his keen senses had already detected the sound of small footsteps coming from the dense grass around him.

Obviously, the rogues who were hunting the autumn wind outside the town of Falls had found him as a prey and tried to hunt him down here.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a net full of sharp barbs fell from the sky, covering Thorne's body directly.

This is a weaving net made of silk threads with strong tenacity. When the enemy is shrouded, the strong elasticity of the net will become tighter and tighter due to the struggle of the enemy. The barbs also scratched every inch of the victim's skin.

If you only wear ordinary sackcloth linen, you will experience that kind of pain like a thousand cuts.

"Whizzing!"

At the same time, Thorne's left and right sides were also accompanied by the light sound of the heavy crossbow pulling the trigger, and the crossbow bolts flashing with faint green light blocked his escape routes on the left and right sides.

Followed by a bear goblin rogue with a metal mace and a hobgoblin wielding two short swords.

They jumped out of the thick grass at the same time, appearing directly in front of Thorne and behind him.

His path seemed completely blocked.

At least that's what the attackers thought, because triumphant smiles had begun to appear on their hideous faces, as if the opponent had really become a lamb to be slaughtered.

- "One level spell: greasy spell!"

When Thorne was standing on the dirt road covered with a layer of smooth grease, his figure rushed out like a sharp arrow. In the flying hot wind, he avoided the nets and crossbow bolts at a charging speed that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye. , instantly appeared in front of the Hobgoblin who was only six or seven meters away from him.

"Pfft!"

With the sound of a sharp blade being unsheathed, the hobgoblin who had not yet reacted, with his head with a grinning expression, flew dust in the erupting blood column.

Thorne, who has the "Quick Shot" feat, draws his sword very quickly.

Now, with the blessing of the ancient characteristic "Drawing Sword of Flame", his speed has been increased by 50% again.

Therefore, the hobgoblin only saw a flash of light orange sword light before he died, his eyes turned black, and he returned to the arms of the Almighty Magrubier, and gloriously joined the expedition army of the Shura Field.

The moment the Hobgoblin died, Thorne's footsteps did not stop at all. He had already locked the position of the lizardmen hidden in the grass through the direction of the arrow shot.

The keen lizardman stalker realized that he had been locked by his prey, and hurriedly threw away the heavy crossbow, pulling out two sharp blades to prepare to attack.

But just as he raised the sharp blade, he saw a light blue light flashing, and immediately felt the arm holding the sharp blade lost consciousness, followed by a sharp pain.

"Pfft!"

The desert wind in Thorne's right hand swept through a sword light, and the lizardman stalker, screaming in pain, covered his neck with his last intact arm and fell into the grass.

He's not dead, he's just not breathing.

"Pfft!"

When the lizardman fell into the grass, Thorne, who looked calm, turned slightly and stabbed back with the sharp blade in his hand. The other lizardman stalker, who lurked and tried to attack him, fell down in the grass with his companion. .

——“Shadow Hand School (Transmission Skill); Shadow Leap!”

Then Thorne disappeared without a trace, directly under the nose of the goblin rogue.

A deep purple lightning bolt that ripped through the air also disappeared because of Thorne's sudden disappearance, causing it to miss the target, and the crackling lightning disappeared into the depths of the wilderness, leaving only a charred path.

The kuo-too priest who was hiding in the dark saw the target disappear without a trace, and the two large focused eyeballs twitched, and at the same time created a protective field for himself against physical attacks.

However, what he didn't expect was that.

Thorne has now appeared silently behind the kuo-toa who were trying to find his figure.

He saw the sharp blade in his left hand swipe a light blue sword light, and the protective force field that the Kou-Too was proud of looked weaker than the eggshell in front of the sharp blade with the demon-breaking attribute.

"Crack!"

With the rupture of the force field barrier, Mo Feng in Thorne's right hand followed, and the bullet-like head of the kuo-too was immediately separated from the body.

"Roar!"

The bear goblin rogue, armed with a metal mace, rushed to Thorne again.

He roared angrily, revealing two sharp fangs in his lower jaw, and the pure metal mace covered with sharp spikes in his hand smashed directly at Thorne's forehead with a piercing sound.

Thorne's flexible body bowed to one side, easily dodging the heavy blows and sweeps of the mace, and then the two sharp blades in his hands slashed a deadly sword light at a very fast speed, killing all the burly body of the bear goblin. shrouded.

"thump!"

After only two or three rounds of confrontation between the two sides, the slow-reacting bear goblin wanderer was hit with swords in the neck and heart at the same time. He was kicked to the ground by Thorne with an unwilling roar.

Thorne, who had completed the pentakill, did not dare to waste time, simply cleaned the battlefield, and disappeared into the wilderness at a very fast speed.

There are many assassins wandering around the outskirts of Waterfall Town, but these are just appetizers.

All he needs to do is actually clean them all up.

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