Chapter 32 Ancient Stone Beetle
Chapter 32 Ancient Stone Beetle
Many times, Rhode was most afraid of suddenly meeting someone’s eyes with someone he didn’t know.
Because after meeting someone’s eyes, if he looked away directly, it would seem impolite, and if he kept staring, it would seem provocative.
In this case, Rhode would be at a loss.
Especially when the other person put down his glass and walked towards him after staring at him for a few seconds.
Luckily, the talkative Marcus was there: “Arzak, you’re here, I just happened to be talking about you.”
”Talking about me?”
”Yes, this is Rhode, you know him, right?”
Arzak nodded: “The one who destroyed an entire forest?”
Marcus clapped his hands: “That’s right!”
Rhode clapped his hands on the table: “You’re wrong!”
The two looked at him puzzledly, as if they were asking why he had such a big reaction.
Rhodes raised his hand: “Sorry, it was unintentional.”
The two were even more confused. Does such a small thing as slapping the table need to be explained?
”…” Rhodes didn’t know what to say.
He took a deep breath, formally met Alzak, and then clarified the rumors about himself.
He was just an unqualified wizard who had just learned magic for a few days. How could he have the ability to destroy a forest? ”The president told me that the forest became like that because the beasts ran wild. There were rumors about strange birds, giant frogs, evil wolves, and flying dragons. It just sounded like… ”
It really seems like I did it.
Rhodes fell into deep thought.
This is not right.
Rhodes thought about it carefully. When he heard about this, he didn’t seem to know that he could summon wild monsters.
After knowing that he could summon wild monsters, he didn’t think about it carefully.
Now that these two things are connected…
Could it be that after being attacked by that bear, the life-and-death crisis caused the magic to go out of control, calling all the big and small wild monsters here?
The more he thought about it, the more guilty he felt. If he really did it, then… how much money would he have to pay for destroying a large forest?
The more Rhodes thought about it, the more guilty he felt.
The other two had already diverted the topic to other places. Marcus complained that he was a little bored recently, and asked if he should hold an event or something, so that he, the royal host, could use his skills.
”How about a shooting competition?” Alzak patted the pistol on his waist.
”Don’t be ridiculous, who can beat you and Bisca in a shooting competition?”
Alzak suddenly panicked: “Don’t, don’t talk nonsense, what Bisca, I…”
The young man was indeed in trouble. Listening to Alzak’s irrelevant answer, Rhodes felt a little bit of the joy of gossip.
As the three chatted, Arzak became Rhodes’ next opponent.
…
In the next few days, Rhodes went through one actual combat training after another, sometimes one a day, sometimes two or three a day.
The opponents were found by himself, and some were brought by Marcus – for fun, they took away the president’s hosting and refereeing tasks.
Kana, who had returned from a mission, also took away the president’s gambling business.
The guild’s backyard was unusually lively for a while, and Rhodes also repaired the wall with his opponents several times.
However, as the battles became more frequent, the novelty gradually faded, and the number of onlookers gradually decreased.
The main reason was that there was really no suspense about the ending. Rhodes’ current record is 19 wins and 19 losses.
Today is another day of getting a defeat. Rhodes sat on a round stool, leaned on the counter, and waited listlessly for the noon work time.
Worm went to the tavern to eat and drink for a while, then ran back to hug Rhode’s calf and try to comfort him.
Mira brought a small plate of broad beans and placed it on the counter, beckoning Worm to come up for snacks.
Then, while combing the white hair on Worm’s back, she said, “Were we almost able to beat Lidas today?”
”Lidas is too nice, he can’t do anything to me, and it’s hard for me to punch him.”
Rhode has always been grateful to Lidas. It was his painting magic that helped him quickly understand the current situation and eliminate a lot of anxiety.
”But painting magic is too cheating, right? Being able to draw anything makes my summoning magic look stupid…”
Today, Lidas drew the Canyon Swift Crab, and then used crabs to attack crabs. At the same time, he had the energy to draw Poro to play head-on with Worm.
Although the river crabs he drew were not very strong, they collided with the crabs.It scattered in one or two strokes, but he could draw many of them one after another! The two genuine river crabs happily returned to the canyon river under the attack of a large number of pirated river crabs, leaving Rhodes staring blankly.
He felt that he might suffer from insufficient firepower phobia.
Mira smiled and said, “There are limits to what painting magic can create, and almost every action requires the caster to distract himself to control it.
But the creatures summoned by summoning magic can act independently as long as they are given a certain target, right? This is your advantage.
To some extent, Lidas’s weakness is the same as yours. Attacking the caster himself is the most effective method.
And because he has to distract himself to control the “portrait”, even if he is good at fighting, he can’t exert his full strength.
So when you have a more powerful helper, or your fighting skills improve a little bit, you will soon surpass Lidas.”
Like many of his companions in the guild, Rhodes has only seen him fail, fail, fail these days.
But Mira noticed Rhode’s progress. The most direct manifestation was that she hadn’t applied medicine to Rhode for several days.
Even when fighting Gray in a fierce close combat, he didn’t suffer as severe bruises as when facing Natsu.
Although it is possible that Gray held back more than Natsu, Mira could see that Rhode’s parry and attack were much smoother than before, and his magic power should have increased a lot.
And the tricks of using magic defense were also used more and more handy.
Rhode was comforted. He found that although Mira said that she couldn’t fight, she knew much more than him.
The way she talked was very much like saying that professional players were bad at games…
Of course, Rhode was a keyboard warrior and Mira was Wang Yuyan.
”Ah, I have a clue about the next summoning target. I just want to complain.”
Playing games and losing ten times in a row requires some emotions, let alone fighting.
Fortunately, the friendly matches these days were not in vain, and the sweat shed was not in vain.
When Rhodes was sparring with Lidas about summoning river crabs today, he had already felt that the black fog somewhere in the Summoner’s Rift disappeared, revealing a valley.
The ground of the valley was flat, the rock walls were smooth, and there were patches of moss in the corners, giving a cold and damp feeling.
And in this small valley, two “stones” stood quietly, one large and one small.
Rhodes, who was familiar with this game, naturally knew what it was: Ancient stone beetles, commonly known as stone monsters, can be seen from their appearance that they are the type that can withstand beatings. In fact, their attack power is also good among various ordinary wild monsters.
And the ancient stone beetles will turn into smaller stone beetles when they are broken, and they will turn into smaller mini stone beetles when they are broken again.
It’s just that in today’s competition with Lidas, Rhodes didn’t dare to try to summon.
——He only knew their information in the game, not the specific situation, so he had to ask the guild leader to check it out first.
It would be bad if one of them didn’t obey orders and hurt his companions.
In this guild where recklessness prevailed, Rhode firmly warned himself not to cause big trouble for everyone.
(End of this chapter)
