This knight is too perfect

Chapter 39: Black Iron Stage: Snake Dancer
"Hmm? The little mouse really took the bait."

At this time, the snake-faction demon hunter Snake, who was in a house on the outskirts of the town, was looking at the town map in front of him while fiddling with the snake-shaped chess pieces on it.

I saw that the chess pieces on the map corresponded to the cavalry that were now scattered around the outskirts of the town.

And every once in a while, Snake would push down one of the pieces and fix it in place.

As more and more chess pieces fell, the expression on Snake's face became more and more confident.

Because for Snake, every time a chess piece falls on the map, it proves that Rhine has appeared in this place.

The more chess pieces that fall, the clearer Rhine's movement path becomes.

As the route Snake marked on the map became clearer, he soon figured out Rhine's intentions and the choice he was most likely to make.

"Are you planning to pass through the east side of the town and then go straight into the coniferous forest there, and use the complex environment there to get rid of us?"

"I have to say you made a good choice, but you don't seem to know what the word "demon hunter" means."

"You should know that what demon hunters are proud of is not their ability to fight monsters, but their outstanding hunting techniques. You are still too naive to escape from me, you cunning little mouse."

"Of course, if you made another choice, then I can only say... you chose a dead end."

As he spoke, Snake placed a red snake-shaped chess piece on the map.

What was strange was that when the chess piece landed on the map, it actually started to move on its own.

And the direction it was heading was exactly the east of the town that Snake mentioned.

After seeing this scene, Snake seemed to be completely certain of something. He immediately picked up the skull whistle in his hand and blew it.

Beep!
Accompanied by a whistle that ordinary people could not hear.

The soul stealers around the entire town came out in full force as if they had received some order.

If someone looked from a high altitude, they would see that these soul stealers had no discipline at all.

Now it has shown "organization" to a certain extent.

Because at this time they were surrounding the east side of the town in a semicircle and were constantly shrinking the encirclement.

But at the same time, in the sky east of the town, a black crow was holding a struggling little snake in its mouth and slowly flying towards the coniferous forest in the distance.

Not far behind it, a large number of soul stealers were approaching it...

After half an hour.

"How is that possible? Why hasn't the little mouse been caught yet?"

Snake looked at the 'red snake-shaped chess piece' that had stopped on the map, with a look of surprise on his face.

Because according to his estimation, the army of soul stealers should have surrounded the "little mouse" by now.

After all, the red snake-shaped chess piece on the map has not moved for a long time.

This means that Rhine, the "little mouse", is now trapped in place and unable to move.

As a snake charmer of the extraordinary profession of the Black Iron Rank, Snake was very sure that at least one of the "faithful snakes" he left on the ten cavalrymen had already entangled Rhine.

Otherwise, the 'snake' he placed on the map would not keep moving on the map.

But since there is no error in the beacon passed from 'Letter Snake' to 'Ballist Snake'.

Then why haven't the soul stealers he sent out been able to catch the escaped rat yet?

Could it be that something unexpected happened that he didn't know about?

Due to his many years of experience in hunting demons, Snake instinctively sensed that something was wrong, and a strong sense of uneasiness arose in his heart.

The situation...is out of control.

Originally, Snake had anticipated that Rhine would have only two choices.

One is to avoid fighting and stay away from them as much as possible.

Another way is to ambush and try to eliminate these pursuers as much as possible.

The former is nothing to Snake, because his extraordinary ability "Snake Dance" is an excellent pursuit ability.

[Marking Snake: Can sense the traces of source material left around, and receive source material information from the letter snake within a certain range]

[Messenger Snake: Can silently attach to the surface of a living organism and transmit source information to the standard snake within a certain range]

Relying on the outstanding perception ability of the 'Snake', Snake followed the subtle traces left by Rhine all the way and accurately traced his route.

But behind this seemingly good ability, there is a huge flaw.

That is, once there are too many "source traces" in a certain place, it will interfere with Snake's judgment to a certain extent.

At this time, there were too many soul stealers in the town, which limited the perception ability of Snake's "Standard Snake" to a certain extent.

This is why he deliberately released the cavalry carrying the "Letter Snake" and let them act as bait.

Snake wanted to send these cavalrymen to Rhine to be killed, so as to plant the "letter snake" in him.

So don't be fooled by the fact that Snake always compares Rhine to a little mouse.

But in his actions, he was very cautious.

What Snake didn't expect was that it was precisely because of his caution that he created the perfect conditions for Rhine...

'Where did it go? Where did the little mouse go?'

"Does he have an extraordinary item or extraordinary ability that he can hide, or did he never go to the east side of the town in the first place?'

Snake looked at the 'Snake' on the map which had not moved for a long time, and his expression became extremely ugly.

Feeling uneasy, he finally made a decision.

Go, go first!

He wanted to leave here and make all the soul stealers come closer to him.

Only in this way can he completely put his mind at ease.

"The first rule of the Demon Hunter: When you feel danger, it often means that the real danger is approaching you."

Just as Snake walked out of the door of the cabin, a sword light suddenly struck him from above.

The first judgment, the blade of judgment!

Rhine, who had been lying in ambush at the door for a long time, used one of his strongest trump cards at the moment.

Faced with the fierce sword light, Snake was caught off guard.

However, his many years of experience in hunting demons allowed him to respond almost instinctively in this critical moment.

I was facing the sharp sword with amazing sword light above my head.

Snake instinctively took a step back, and then the "snake" wrapped around his right hand immediately transformed into a hidden blade and was placed across his head.

boom!
The snake-shaped hidden blade broke on the spot after colliding with the silver-white long sword. A large amount of black snake blood sprayed out from the broken part of the sword, and a shrill scream was emitted.

It was as if what Rhine cut off with this sword was not a hidden blade at all, but a "snake" that looked like a hidden blade.

Although this snake-shaped hidden blade failed to completely block Rhine's Judgment Blade, it did buy Snake some precious time.

The Blade of Judgment that Rhine used ultimately failed to kill Snake with one sword, but only left a sword wound on his chest that was deep enough to see the bone.

If it were someone else, they might have been so frightened that they lost the ability to think and became at a loss.

But Snake, the experienced snake hunter, made the most correct judgment at this critical moment.

Just as his hidden blade was cut off, he threw a medicine bottle to the ground with his other hand.

After the medicine bottle was broken, a black poisonous mist immediately spread at the door of the room.

Faced with this unknown poisonous fog, although Rhine was forced to retreat, he also raised the sleeve arrow in his left hand and shot it continuously into the poisonous fog.

But unfortunately, these hidden arrows failed to kill Snake who was seriously injured.

With the help of the poisonous fog, Snake not only distanced himself from Rhine, but also ran towards the east of the town without looking back.

Just have him reunite with the group of soul stealers to the east.

Holding the 'Soul-Stealing Bone Whistle', he can not only completely escape danger, but can even use it to kill Rhine and reverse the situation.

But what he didn't notice was that when he was running away with all his might.

A crow was standing on a house on the east side of the town at this time, calmly looking at Snake running towards it.

And on the crow's body, there was a bottle of lit kerosene can tied.

When Snake approached to a certain distance, the crow, which had been waiting for him for a long time, moved.

Driving prey towards a pre-set trap is not an ability that only demon hunters have...

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(End of this chapter)