The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 369: Heartbroken

At this moment, Ryan was on the back of the horned beast, thinking about the battle with the projection of Hela, the goddess of the underworld.

It can also be considered a battle review.

At the beginning of the battle, the projection of Hela that was not angered by him was extremely difficult to deal with, and she used all kinds of witchcraft and extraordinary combat skills with ease.

Moreover, the perfect connection between combat skills and witchcraft gave Ryan the feeling that he was fighting against a high-performance robot, and all his responses seemed to be within the opponent's expectations.

It was not until the opponent's emotions began to fluctuate that, although the power of the attack became greater, the high-precision gear-like tight fit between the moves was gone, which gave Ryan the opportunity to counterattack.

Now that I think about it carefully, there are two keys to his victory over his opponent.

The first point is that he has thick skin and flesh, which is attributed to his two talents of top-grade steel body and high-speed healing, that is, the credit of the mutant dragon's bloodline.

The second point is that after being promoted to a second-level liquefied wizard, his mental power was further enhanced, allowing him to sense and capture the opponent's attack. If he was still a first-level wizard, this battle might be more difficult.

In addition, these two points also determine the direction in which Ryan will strengthen in the future.

First of all, his mental strength needed to be further improved to speed up the liquefaction process. This required him to go to the Bixiu Construction School as soon as possible and ask Teacher Mogaro to apply for the second level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method.

At the same time, this is also one of the prerequisites for changing jobs to 'Dragon Vein Wizard'.

Therefore, in terms of importance, accelerating the liquefaction process is the top priority.

Secondly, it is to find opportunities to continue to increase the concentration of dragon blood. This can be achieved perhaps by deliberately searching for dragons or dragon-born monsters to complete tasks after joining the Sword Bearer Headquarters.

Finally, Ryan plans to learn the fighting style of Hela, the goddess of the underworld, and further integrate metal witchcraft into his own combat.

Of course, this is a huge project. To do this, he needs to read more books and think about which witchcraft and moves are more suitable, but there is no rush.

Now that he had enough rare metals, he could practice the liquefied killer move 'Multiple Cutting Nets' more and integrate it into his own fighting style.

This can be considered as a supplement to his current balance between melee and ranged attacks.

As time passed, the towering mountains in front of them came into view.

There is a gap in the middle of the mountain range, revealing a faint purple color, which is the purple knotwood forest in Beverly Pass.

So, Ryan immediately controlled the Blood Feather to slowly descend.

The blue and purple horned hippogryph and Ryan's white wizard robe were too distinctive, and the last battle had not been too long ago, so it could be said that it was still vivid in the guards' minds.

Naturally, they immediately realized that it was the lord of the imperial swordsman from last time who had arrived.

Soon, the troops stationed at Beverly Pass went to inform their superiors.

"Haha, Lord Ryan, I didn't expect to see you again so soon." A burly bearded knight walked over hurriedly with big strides and greeted enthusiastically.

It was Gray, the great knight who had helped Ryan torture the Black Flame Cult members last time, and the highest commander of the Beverly Pass Guard.

"Hello, Miss Anna."

"Hello, Great Knight Gray." Anna said with a smile.

"How about you two come sit over there and take a rest for a while?"

"Sir Grey, I'm afraid it won't work this time. We have to hurry on our way." Ryan smiled and rejected Grey's kindness.

"That's a pity. Lord Ryan, Miss Anna, let me accompany you two." Bearded Gray said with a little flattery.

Ever since he witnessed the strength of the overly young Lord Ryan, Gray knew that if he had the chance, he must make friends with him and establish a good relationship with him.

"That's troublesome." Ryan looked around and did not refuse.

Because at this moment, there was already a long line of caravans and travelers outside the mountain pass, all of whom were going to pass through the Beverly Pass. If the guards led the way, the speed would naturally be much faster.

For Ryan, the sooner he returns, the better. Moreover, as an imperial combatant, this is a convenience he should enjoy.

Hearing Ryan's agreement, Gray waved his hand slightly excitedly. Immediately, a team of guards stepped forward to clear the way and escorted Ryan and his party through Beverly Pass quickly.

But when the journey was halfway through.

Suddenly, a few crows flew over the sky, accompanied by a few hoarse "cawing" sounds, and quickly passed over the heads of Ryan and others.

"Huh? Ryan, something seems to be wrong ahead. The crows' calls say there are a lot of wind eagles gathering ahead." Anna frowned slightly, turned her head and spoke softly to Ryan.

As a druid, she was naturally well versed in various bird languages.

"Hmm? Fengpeng gathering?"

Ryan looked into the distance. This was Feng Peng's territory, so it didn't seem surprising that there were a large number of Feng Pengs gathering here.

However, when he observed it consciously, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Because there was a faint sense of threat coming from the front and sides of him.

At this moment, in the distant sky on both sides of the Beverly Pass, a large number of small gray dots suddenly appeared densely, soared into the air, and rushed straight towards where he was.

"So many Feng Peng?" Many guards couldn't help but exclaimed.

The travelers and caravan guards in the passage were in a state of panic.

"Why are there so many?" The great knight Gray also looked towards the sky with a serious face.

"Lord Ryan, this is not right. I have been stationed here for more than two years, and I have never seen so many Fengpengs attack at once!"

Seeing this, Ryan understood that the other party was coming for him.

"Mr. Gray, the other party should be coming for me. Please protect Anna!"

After a little thought, Ryan decided on a strategy.

An empty Hippogryph could not fly faster than the Fengpeng, which was known for its speed. Moreover, if the Bloodfeather Hippogryph was carrying Anna and him, it would be almost fully loaded, so it would definitely be too late to run.

Even if they can run for a distance, they will be caught up quickly.

Besides, he never thought of running away.

"Don't worry, Lord Ryan. Quick, escort Miss Anna to the cave nearby for shelter." The Great Knight Gray turned his head and immediately said to his subordinates beside him.

But he himself brought a team of elite guards to guard Ryan and did not leave.

"Prepare the purple tumor tree fruit!"

In fact, at this time, Ryan had already figured out who was behind it.

It's impossible that he is from the empire.

If it were, the Empire would have allowed Fengpeng to avoid Beverly Pass to build its nest long ago.

It is also impossible that it is the Black Flame Cult.

Because when he killed the opponent's high priest Erickson at Beverly Pass before, there was no Fengpeng to help.

Therefore, it must be the goddess of the underworld, Hela, who is causing trouble.

Apart from that, Ryan really couldn't think of anyone who had the ability to order Feng Peng to attack him.

"Chirp!"

Thousands of Wind Pengs circled above Ryan's head. Soon, a Wind Peng with golden wings, several times the size of an ordinary Wind Peng, appeared above Ryan and Gray's heads.

The caravan and the imperial garrison nearby all changed color and exclaimed:
"This is... This is the mutant Fengpeng commander, 'Heartbreaker' Merrick!"

"It is extremely fast, and it likes to use high speed to pass over the waist and abdomen of its prey. The wind blades on its wings will cut the prey in half in an instant, and the intestines will be scattered all over the ground." A caravan guard turned pale when he talked about this!

"Yes, that's right. Afterwards, the prey will often die of fear and pain."

"So, it has this nickname 'Heartbreaker'." A caravan leader nearby also echoed with a pale face.

"Merrick, by attacking Beverly Pass, are you declaring war on the Fengpeng clan and the Empire on behalf of the Fengpeng clan?" the bearded knight Gray shouted angrily.

"Haha, don't threaten me with such words!" The golden wind roc's bird head sneered in an anthropomorphic manner.

"If we want to declare war, it should be our queen who makes the move, not me."

"Besides, do you think I don't know the agreement between my clan and the empire? The agreement only restricts our queen from taking action at will, but it does not place any restrictions on us."

"Leave now. Of course, if you want to die with this human, I will grant your wish." Merrick narrowed his golden round eyes and said.

Sure enough, it was directed at me, Ryan thought to himself.

"You" The other party's provocative words made the highest commander of the Beverly Pass Guard, Gray with a beard, blush.

Just as he was about to say something, Ryan patted his shoulder and said calmly, "Leave it to me! Don't worry."

"Then Lord Ryan, please be careful." Ryan's calm words seemed to calm down the bearded Gray all of a sudden.

He suddenly remembered that the young wizard in front of him was extremely powerful. It was the same with him last time. He easily took care of the high priest of the Black Flame Cult.

Although Feng Peng is powerful this time, he is optimistic about Lord Ryan.

Indeed, there was no point in him being here at this moment, except to cause more casualties.

"Retreat!" Gray waved his hand heavily and ordered the guard team to retreat quickly to the side.

"A wise choice!" Seeing this scene, Merrick the Heartbreaker couldn't help but laugh triumphantly.

In its view, Ryan was already trapped in a jar at the moment, and the imperial defenders at Beverly Pass had also stepped aside. The other side was even more isolated and had no chance of a comeback.

Soon, it will be able to hold Ryan's head and receive commendation from the Queen.

"Chirp~"

"Kill him, Wind Blade Killing Formation!" In order to avoid any accidents caused by delaying too long, Merrick immediately gave a loud cry and launched an attack.

At the same time, it flapped its extremely huge wings. The next second, two crescent-shaped light blue air currents more than three meters long suddenly appeared at the front end of the wings, like two blue lightning bolts, hitting Ryan directly.

Merrick's first attack seemed to sound the clarion call for the charge!

All that was heard was that the densely packed wind rocs in the sky began to chirp in unison, and quickly followed the steps of their leader, launching wind blade attacks towards Ryan.

Although their wind blades were limited in power and only a little over a meter long, and some Fengpeng could only release one wind blade, there were enough of them. In an instant!
Ryan's field of vision was filled with overwhelming light blue wind blades of all sizes, rushing towards him like a torrential rain.

Seeing this scene that looked like a natural disaster, the caravan guards and travelers on the side were already trembling with fear, and even those imperial guards who had great confidence in Ryan could not help but sweat at this moment.

As everyone watched without blinking, how Ryan would respond.

"Shadow Step!"

"Metal barrier!"

In an instant, Ryan left behind a series of afterimages in different forms, each of which was so lifelike that it was difficult to distinguish whether it was the real body or an illusion.

At the same time, four dark silver colors appeared on the surface of his body, protected by a kite-shaped shield made of demonized thorium.

But the number of wind blades was too great. Even though Ryan had nine afterimages to disperse the concentrated fire of the wind blades, in an instant, both his body and his afterimages were hit by a blanket and nearly saturated attack.

Every afterimage was attacked by dozens of wind blades.

"Boom boom boom!" Many wind blades directly hit the ground around them. Suddenly, smoke and dust rose up. The power was so great that it was like a cannonball plowing the ground.

Amid the exclamations of the crowd, Merrick the Heartbreaker nodded with satisfaction.

This is also the basis of its confidence.

In its understanding, as long as the opponent is not an epic-level strongman, there is no possibility of survival when facing thousands of wind blades.

"Ding ding dang dang!" At this time, a strange sound was heard in the smoke and dust.

Merrick couldn't help but narrow his eyes and observe carefully through the smoke and dust.

The wind blade attack that attacked Ryan's body was almost completely blocked by Ryan's four-sided kite-shaped shield, and the wind blade that slipped through the gap in the shield was also crushed by Ryan with his bare hands.

"Hey, pretty good speed!" Seeing Ryan's series of afterimages and movements, 'Heartbreaker' Merrick couldn't help but be surprised.

What it didn't notice was that with Ryan's movement, the massive army of wind rocs in the sky also began to move.

Soon, the Fengpengs' formation changed from the original circular distribution attacking from all directions to a dense fan-shaped distribution led by Ryan, and Ryan happened to be at the apex of the fan.

Seeing this scene, Ryan couldn't help but laugh.

As the saying goes, it's rude not to reciprocate!
Passively taking a beating is not his fighting style, so now it is naturally Ryan's turn to fight back.

"Metal Transfiguration!"

"Cutting Web!"

"Sharp Technique!"

Ryan chanted a spell quickly, and saw three closely arranged black metal nets appear in front of him almost out of thin air. In an instant, the metal nets lit up with a rich silver light.

"Witchcraft Killer Move: Multiple Web Cutting!"

As Ryan waved his right hand heavily, three huge metal nets shining with silver light attacked the group of wind rocs distributed in a fan-shaped area in the air in front of them one after another!

"Chi! Chi! Chi!"

Ryan had been in battle for a long time and had a very good grasp of the timing of using his witchcraft killing moves.

It happened to be the period when most Fengpengs had already used Wind Blade once but had not yet had time to use Wind Blade for the second time.

Although the first metal cutting net was managed to be broken by the combined attack of many Fengpeng's wind blades, the Fengpeng group was completely unable to resist the two subsequent metal cutting nets.

Then, two extremely sharp silver nets slammed into the dense group of wind rocs.

Suddenly, the Fengpengs screamed in pain and suffered heavy casualties!
Broken limbs and wings, bloody flesh and countless messy bird feathers were scattered all over the place, as if it was raining birds!
The originally dark flock of wind rocs was also blasted into a huge hole by Ryan's witchcraft killer move "Multiple Cutting Nets".

The blue sky is clearly visible through the huge hole.

The key point is that Ryan's move directly defeated the Fengpeng group and made them flee in panic.

In an instant, the situation was reversed!

"Okay!" Bearded Gray's face turned red with excitement and he shouted excitedly.

"so amazing!"

"As expected of Lord Ryan!"

"Lord Ryan, kill more!" The other imperial guards couldn't help but exclaimed in admiration.

The troops stationed at Beverly Pass naturally had no good feelings towards these Feng Pengs and wished that Ryan would kill as many of them as possible.

"You're looking for death!" Merrick, nicknamed 'Heartbreaker', suddenly opened his eyes wide and became ferocious when he saw this scene.

Originally, it was planning to let thousands of wind rocs under its command collectively cast wind blades, at least to make Ryan in front of it covered with wounds, and by the way, to test the opponent's bottom line.

But unexpectedly, not only did the wind blade killing formation fail to hurt the opponent, but the opponent's counterattack was so fierce.

All of a sudden, it used a metal-based witchcraft killing move that it had never seen before, strangling at least hundreds of Wind Pengs under its command.

This made Merrick's heart bleed with pain!

You know, most of the Fengpeng under its command are related to it by blood.

Some are his descendants, some are his parents. Although their strength is not as good as his, their loyalty is beyond doubt. They are all his team as the commander of Feng Peng.

In addition, Merrick also clearly sensed that the energy fluctuation intensity of Ryan's witchcraft killing move was not very strong, and it was probably just entering the power range of third-level witchcraft.

In this regard, Merrick the Heartbreaker, one of the four mutant Fengpeng leaders, was naturally not afraid at all.

Not to mention that the opponent is not a level three crystallized wizard, even if he is, it can cut the opponent in half with one blow!
I saw a ray of blue and gold light swooping down from the sky.

The light rushed straight to where Ryan was, as fast as a two-color lightning.

"Stab!"

The white ribbon of air created by Merrick's breaking of the sound barrier cut the purple tumor wood on both sides into two pieces.

On the ground, the grass several meters away from Merrick was now plowed by a lawn mower, leaving a strip of dirt.

This shows how powerful this attack is!
"Be careful!" Anna opened her mouth slightly and exclaimed.

"Lord Ryan, be careful!" When bearded Gray saw this scene, his face turned pale and he immediately shouted a warning.

If he were to resist this kind of power, he would definitely die!

I just wonder if Lord Ryan can withstand it.

The move Merrick used was the origin of his nickname "Heartbreaker", his ultimate move - Wind Wing Cut!
I saw that on each of its nearly ten-meter-long wings, there was an extremely strong green blade-shaped energy gathering.

Facing the fierce attack from Merrick, Ryan's pupils shrank!
The energy concentration on the opponent's wings exceeded that of several third-level crystallized wizards that Ryan had fought against, and almost reached the peak of legend.

"Dragon General Form!"

"Metal Transfiguration!"

"Iron wall!"

"Metal barrier!"

"hold head high!!!"

Accompanied by a loud dragon roar, the blood vessels in Ryan's neck bulged, muscles all over his body expanded, and his white wizard robe was instantly blown up, with pieces of cloth flying all over the sky.

His exposed skin began to thicken and darken, dragon scales appeared, his eyes changed from horizontal pupils to vertical pupils, his fingertips grew rapidly and became extremely sharp, and the last section of his coccyx also began to bulge rapidly and grew into a thick and powerful tail.

The four kite-shaped shields of the metal barrier and the tower shield held in his left hand were arranged in a straight line in front of Ryan. At the same time, he held a huge single-edged battle axe in his right hand.

In an instant, a dragon man with a ferocious appearance and holding an axe and shield appeared in front of Merrick.

In response, Merrick was not afraid at all. Instead, he accelerated further and cut Ryan in the form of a dragon general!
Merrick had an extremely firm confidence in his own unique skill.

Because there was once a legendary Iron Devil Tyrannosaurus Rex that was famous for its defense, but it was cut in the abdomen and up to the spine by this attack, killing it on the spot.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

There were four consecutive crisp sounds, and the hardened metal-transformed kite-shaped shield was cut in half almost instantly by Merrick's giant wings filled with wind energy.

Only the thick tower shield with the top-level secret skill "Iron Wall" slightly blocked Merrick for a moment.

But still can't stop it!

Just as Merrick's giant wings were about to cut through the tower shield, suddenly, a huge scaly dragon claw pressed down on its iron beak and head.

"Huh? You don't even want your hands anymore?" Merrick thought to himself.

Because Merrick's iron beak is where the energy of his special move "Wind Wing Cut" is most concentrated, and its power is also the greatest.

Just as it was thinking this, in an instant, a silver arc of light flashed from the base of its right wing from bottom to top.

That silver light was the single-edged giant axe that used the top-level axe skill "Flash Cut".

In an instant, the shield was shattered and the wings were broken!
As soon as the iron beak pierced into the palm of Ryan's dragon claw, Merrick felt a sharp pain in his left wing.

With his left wing cut off, Merrick's balance was suddenly broken, and his special move "Wind Wing Cut" was naturally out of the question.

Then, Merrick's speed dropped sharply, and he felt a black screen before his eyes. His head and iron beak were pinched by Ryan's claws, and he couldn't even scream.

The next second, another silver arc flashed.

Immediately, Merrick felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and then he felt his body become lighter, as if something was leaking out of his body.

And at this moment, what is presented before everyone's eyes is such a picture.

A huge and ferocious dragon man, with one claw, grasped the upper body of the mutant Wind Peng leader Merrick, whose waist was cut off. On the ground were bloody half of a golden Wind Peng's limbs and various intestines, stomachs and other organs. Although the dragon man's left claw was also dripping with blood, it did not affect its violent aura at all.

Those who are heartbroken will always be heartbroken.

(End of this chapter)