The Death List Novel - Chapter 620
Chapter 620 Moonlight Cold War
Qin Lun stood on a huge swamp banyan tree, hiding behind the branches and leaves. His palm was emitting a layer of faint green light that no one else could see, sticking close to the tree trunk. This was the expression of the tale of the High Elves.
The Death Swamp was sparse and dense with water vapor. Even the tale of Elves could only get vague information here. He could roughly locate the opponent’s location, but it was very unclear. Qin Lun needed to reconnaissance every once in a while.
Qin Lun kicked hard and drew a beautiful arc in the air, landing on another banyan tree not far away.
Although this was only the periphery of the Land of Death, the ground was muddy and there were many small pools of water that looked inconspicuous. Although it wasn’t as if there was no roof, it would definitely make a big commotion, alarming the followers in the distance.
When the brilliant Elves Ranger tracked down the enemy in the forest, he would usually take the same actions as Qin Lun, using the tall trees as a fulcrum and slowly approaching the enemy. Because of the wind in the forest, the occasional movement on the branches can be easily overlooked.
After leaping through the forest for a while, Qin Lun put his palm against the banyan tree trunk beneath his feet. This time, he raised his eyebrows slightly. The other party seemed to have noticed something very keenly, and began to change his hiding place and play hide-and-seek with him.
A moment later, Qin Lun finally revealed a surprised expression.
“Hunting … high-level rangers?” Judging from Elves’s probes, the opponent’s movement route was not messy, but showed a regular arc.
Qin Lun had received the life inheritance of an ancient Jonda hunter from the Elves tribe in Eryue, Elves. This contained fragments of the ancient Elves’s memories and martial skill inheritance. Combined with his inherited memories, he could tell that his opponent’s movement style was that of a high-level ranger or a Elves hunter.
The so-called hunting was the unique fighting style of the intelligent races of the grasslands and forests. It originated from the Centaurs. Centaurs had the highest movement speed in the forest, and their archery and javelin skills were no inferior to those of the Elves race.
Because of their large size, they were unable to sneak near their prey while hunting. He could only rely on his strong four hooves to keep running and chasing after him. On the one hand, he maintained a certain distance to prevent his prey from harming him. On the other hand, he surrounded his prey’s escape direction from all sides, and finally shot them with bows, arrows, and javelins.
Nowadays, hunting was no longer the exclusive property of the Centaurs. Elves and the humans systematized this skill, turning it into the specialization of three combat professions: Ranger, Hunter, and Nomadic Knight.
“Interesting!” A smile appeared on Qin Lun’s face. He began to feel excited.
This was the first time he had fought a ranger class in the jungle since he became a jungle hunter.
Even in the past in the Nars World, fighting against that beginner female archer, Qing Ming, wasn’t really a real hunter’s battle. Qin Lun, who had the heart of a hunter, naturally wouldn’t refuse to compete with such an opponent.
“Should we call Venus out?” Qin Lun tilted his head and thought for a moment before finally deciding not to summon his two hunting companions for the time being.
Cyberlas was a Hellfire Devil Hound. He wasn’t used to the terrain of the Death Swamp. Moreover, after reaching the Seventh Order, his body had grown larger and his speed had decreased. He couldn’t keep up with the pace of the hunting battles.
The Dark Shadow Gale Leopard was the best helper in this battle, but Venus had already shown himself in the underground shrine of the Church of Amberry.
Although it was unlikely that the other party was from the Church of Amberry, it could also be a vanguard that had been hired to probe. Without absolute confidence in killing him, it would be better not to expose him for the time being.
Qin Lun realized that his opponent would not run away like he did a few days ago, so he became even more cautious. As he approached the opponent, he paid more attention to concealing his tracks. When he was still, he immediately used the Hunter’s camouflage hidden skill.
In the jungle, Elves Hunters have an advantage over other races’ rangers and hunters because they have excellent night vision and Elves stories. However, this does not mean that other races’ ranger hunters have no advantage in the jungle.
Human Rangers sometimes cultivated the skills of mages and thieves, using light body techniques, detection techniques, and stealth to make up for their weaknesses. Today, Elves Hunters no longer had an absolute advantage.
Qin Lun and the other party circled around each other and slowly approached each other. The quiet night in the Land of Death was suddenly filled with a solemn atmosphere. Even some of the insects and ants underground stopped hissing.
The cold moonlight shone down on a sparse forest farm outside the Land of Death. Everything in the forest looked like ghosts. The branches and leaves swaying in the night wind were like demons, devils, ghosts, and ghosts.
Suddenly, a streak of black light flashed past countless shrubs like lightning, shooting towards a black shadow in the forest. A strange arc was drawn between them, and it was only then that it brilliantly avoided a few banyan trees that blocked the path.
Normal people looked at the black figure that looked like a tree stump and suddenly jumped up, avoiding the black light from time to time. At the same time, a ball of bright silver light exploded in front of it and flew towards the direction of the black light.
“Duh, duh!” Two crisp voices rang out almost in unison.
With these two soft sounds, the black and silver lights in the opposite directions began to intersect. Although the direction of the attack was constantly changing, the only thing that remained unchanged was the increasingly tense atmosphere between the two sides.
Qin Lun focused his attention on the battle in front of him. In his opinion, the battle that originally belonged to the game had changed in nature. The silver arrows between his eyebrows and throat almost hit him a few times. He finally realized that the enemy in front of him was very powerful. At least, he was not inferior to him in long-range combat.
The silver dial in Qin Lun’s right eye and the Yin Yang Fish pattern in his left eye had appeared at the same time. In fact, in terms of the way he fought, he was even at a disadvantage. Because he didn’t rely on the help of the two pupil techniques, he wasn’t able to discover the opponent first. Moreover, he had to rely on the temporal and spatial stagnation effect of the Eye of the Clock to dodge the silver arrow.
In other words, his dodging ability wasn’t as good as the other party’s, or rather, he didn’t have the innate ability to dodge dangers.
A silver light gradually enlarged in Qin Lun’s eyes. Under the effect of the Clock’s Eye, the speed of the silver arrow was slowed down, and the magical carvings coated with a layer of secret silver could be clearly seen.
“Humph!” Since he knew that he couldn’t defeat the other party in the hunt, Qin Lun didn’t intend to entangle himself any further. He took a deep breath, stood up from the bushes, and slowly pulled the World Tree longbow away.
Of course, this slow movement under the effect of the Eye of the Clock was extremely fast when placed back in the real world.
A light flashed in Qin Lun’s eyes as he pulled out a black arrow from his quiver and placed it on his bow, shooting towards the silver light. Black arrows and silver arrows crisscrossed each other by a millimeter.
Qin Lun tilted his head slightly. Silver light almost brushed past his cheeks. A few strands of silver hair drifted down from the young man’s temples. The sharp arrow wind blew his skin into pain.
The hunter on the other side did not expect Qin Lun to dodge the silver arrow in such a dangerous way. His movements slowed down for a moment and he did not continue shooting again.
However, it quickly reacted, and an iron bridge fell to the ground.
Qin Lun’s black arrow let out a soft sound, and a small round hole appeared on the banyan tree trunk that the hunter was hiding in. Perhaps it was because Qin Lun didn’t shoot at all this time, this black arrow contained enough power to almost ignore the obstacles and sweep past its belly.
This was the first time Qin Lun had the chance to take the lead. His eyes lit up. Black arrows flew out of his quiver like flowing clouds and water, and he put on a longbow. It was almost like a continuous stream of whips, shooting towards the other party.
Most importantly, Qin Lun was still slowly approaching his opponent. Furthermore, with the amplification of the Eye of the Clock, he wasn’t afraid of the silver arrows coming from his opponent. He only used the smallest swing of his body to dodge the silver light.
“Shit!” As an experienced ranger, the opponent had already realized that the situation was rapidly deteriorating. He suddenly threw down the longbow in his hand and pulled out a pair of snowy scimitars from his waist. With the help of the banyan tree in the forest, he quickly rushed towards Qin Lun.
Qin Lun’s fighting style was called “Yan ~ Shooting”, which was also known as face.to.face.
When two high-level rangers or hunters feel that they can’t decide the outcome of a hunt, they take this duel mode. He no longer relied on cover and only used the smallest swing of his body to dodge the opponent’s arrows. Then, he slowly approached his opponent and decided on life and death in the shortest amount of time.
However, the Yan Shooting battle was extremely dangerous. Even a Legendary Ranger could be shot to death by an arrow from his opponent in this duel. For some reason, the enemy Qin Lun was facing didn’t seem willing to engage in a face-to-face duel with him.
Of course, although Qin Lun had accepted the ancient inheritance of the Elves Hunter, he still hadn’t mastered this skill. Most of his “Yan ~ Shooting” relied on the help of the Eye of the Clock.
However, tonight’s heart-stirring arrow battle seemed to have completely stimulated the inheritance memories of the ancient Elves hunters. Qin Lun finally understood the archery skills of the Ancient Elves Hunters under this stimulation. Star information quietly appeared in the notification box of the death list.
“Close combat?” Looking at his opponent approaching him, Qin Lun’s focused gaze finally came to his senses. The consciousness that had just entered his inheritance memories faded away like a tidal wave, causing him to lick his dry lips in frustration.
Two streaks of snowy saber light slashed down, but Qin Lun’s face revealed a smile instead. His close combat martial skill was indeed very weak, but his opponent was not a warrior who was proficient in martial skills. Moreover, from the arrow battle just now, he had already known the opponent’s greatest weakness in front of him.
Qin Lun picked up the World Tree Bow and slashed it towards the saber light. His World Tree Bow was very different from before. There were also metallic feathers attached to the bowed body that were split apart by the Wind Chasing Frost. He was not afraid of being cut off by the scimitar at all.
Dang! With a crisp sound, his opponent staggered under his feet. Although he was the first to attack, he was forced back by Qin Lun’s tremendous strength. Its weakness was obvious, and that was its lack of strength. Qin Lun’s explosive power was enough to crush a ranger who mainly attacked from a long distance.
“I hope you can continue to surprise me!” A trace of coldness flashed through Qin Lun’s eyes. The World Tree Bow took advantage of his opponent’s loss of balance and fiercely chopped forward. The metal feathers on its bowed body shone under the moonlight.