#706 - Death Wind Saber and Royal Blue Wings (asking for monthly ticket recommendation)

After a series of opponent exchanges, the second squad has evolved into a team mainly composed of Wood, Hannah, and Terry, responsible for dealing with the remaining miscellaneous soldiers on the front line.

On the other side, Neville is engaged in close combat with an elite skeleton swordsman who is significantly stronger than the other ordinary monsters, tasked with stalling the opponent to buy time.

And Neville's task is indeed well done. Although the blue-robed skeleton is far superior to ordinary skeleton soldiers in terms of speed, strength, and agility,

he is, after all, just a construct, doesn't understand flexibility, and his moves are just a few repeated patterns. He doesn't even know how to switch targets to support the front line.

So as long as someone can keep up with its speed, the blue-robed skeleton really can't quickly end the battle for a while.

Of course, Neville's situation is not as good as he imagined. The various attributes of this blue-robed skeleton are far superior to his, so it is very difficult to deal with. Although there is no danger for the time being, he is also being beaten back steadily and can only barely hold on.

But after a while of entanglement, Neville still faced a crisis, not because he made any mistakes, but because the [White Bone One-Handed Sword] in his hand couldn't hold on any longer.

When facing a direct thrust from the blue-robed skeleton, Neville flexibly raised his long sword horizontally, using the blade to accurately block the attack, but after this blow, a deep crack was also poked on the white bone one-handed sword.

And the durability in the one-handed sword's attributes also became 0, and then the entire bone sword shattered into several pieces under Neville's eyes, with only a sword hilt left in his hand.

It's over!

Neville's heart skipped a beat. Without a weapon, he couldn't resist the opponent at all.

At the same time, he had already been forced to retreat to the edge of the balcony. Jumping down rashly would be like a target for the opponent's agility.

Facing another horizontal sweep from the blue-robed skeleton, Neville closed his eyes in almost despair.

"Obstacles Everywhere!"

Just when Neville thought he was about to die here, a barrier wall made of magic quickly appeared in front of him, firmly blocking the blow for him.

It turned out that Wood, who was fighting on the front line, was indeed very effective. After discovering that a strong enemy had appeared, he immediately accelerated the frequency of casting spells. Then he seemed to transform into a berserker, clearing out the remaining skeletons.

After freeing up his hands and feet, he immediately supported Neville.

"Come down and gather quickly, this skeleton is very fast, we must not let it defeat us one by one!" After saving Neville, Wood said urgently.

"Understood!" Neville, who had escaped from death, shouted excitedly, and then jumped lightly from the second floor.

But after arriving at Wood's side, he was shocked and stared nervously at the other person's chest, "Are you injured?"

It turned out that Wood's upper body was now clearly pierced by two bone arrows, one in the position of the collarbone and one piercing the left shoulder.

"There's no way, if you want to quickly solve those small fries, how can you not pay a price?" Wood smiled indifferently, "Don't worry, I've suffered injuries in the Quidditch team that were much more serious than this, this is nothing."

After saying that, Wood raised his hand domineeringly and directly pulled out the two bone arrows, and besides gritting his teeth in pain, he didn't even let out a groan.

Wood's macho performance shocked the three young wizards around him, and at the same time greatly increased their confidence. With such a tough captain by their side, what did they have to fear?

The blue-robed skeleton on the second-floor balcony, after discovering that the target had escaped, observed somewhat mechanically for a while, then jumped up and ran in the direction it came from, seemingly not planning to fight Wood and others to the death.

"He's going to escape! Don't let him run away, the equipment on the monsters has attributes!"

Neville shouted loudly when he saw this. He had fought the blue-robed skeleton with a bone sword before, and he knew very well that they could also use the equipment on these monsters, and the cloak and long sword of this blue-robed swordsman looked unusual, so how could he let it go?

"Don't worry, it can't escape!"

Wood smiled coldly, then quickly shook his wand, and three consecutive binding spells were generated, not only attacking the opponent, but also sealing off the space on both sides of it.

Although the blue-robed skeleton was also very agile in the air, trying to avoid the incoming magic, it still inevitably was hit by one of the binding spells, directly falling to the ground like a silly bird with its wings tied.

"Pulverize!"

Wood didn't hesitate when he saw this, and took a few steps forward and used a pulverizing spell to smash it into broken bones.

"Phew, that was close. Fortunately, this guy's brain isn't very good. If he had attacked with the front-line troops just now, we probably wouldn't have been able to cope with it." Hannah wiped the sweat from her forehead. Although the intensity of this battle was not high, the pressure it brought her was real.

"It's a pity that Ernie still died. We should have thought that this carriage was not right. This blue-robed skeleton is probably like the giant skeleton encountered by the first team, an elite monster." Terry also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, it's not a giant skeleton, otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy for us to deal with. And this guy even knew how to escape. It seems that they still have some intelligence. Be careful when encountering similar monsters in the future."

Wood also nodded in agreement. To be honest, this was also his first time fighting head-on, so he was a little flustered when dealing with it, but thanks to his experience in the Quidditch team, he was much calmer than the others.

"Quickly check the equipment of these guys. The one-handed sword I just grabbed had attributes. I guess its equipment must be good too." Neville was already thinking about the spoils at this time.

"Okay!" Wood nodded with a smile when he heard this, and then gathered forward to start checking the bodies of these enemies.

The equipment dropped by the ordinary skeleton soldiers was exactly the same as what Ron, Malfoy, and the others had seen. Obviously, they were all standard equipment, but this time a new type of skeleton archer's equipment appeared.

[White Bone Longbow]

Attack Power: 2-12 (Calculated damage based on distance and strength)

Attack Distance: 50 meters

Durability: 16/20

Special Effect: None

[White Bone Quiver]

Stored Arrows: 12/20

Wood casually picked up a set of archer's equipment and glanced at it, then threw it aside in disgust. When it comes to ranged attacks, how can these bows and arrows be as convenient as magic?

In comparison, the [White Bone Shield] is more useful among the equipment of these ordinary skeletons. At least it can be used as a low-quality Iron Armor Charm.

On the contrary, the equipment dropped by the blue-robed skeleton was more interesting to everyone. After they gathered around, they carefully saw that the real name of this elite skeleton was [Swift Swordsman].

The Swift Swordsman had two pieces of equipment with attributes, namely the rapier in his hand and the cloak behind him.

[Death Wind Rapier]

Attack Power: 20-30

Durability: 43/50

Equipment Requirement: Agility ★★ or above

Additional Effects: 1. Sharp: After being enchanted, this sword is sharp enough to easily pierce steel. 2. Windless: After being enchanted, this sword will ignore air resistance when swung, which makes it more flexible, but it also makes it easier to hurt the wielder himself.

[Azure Wings]

Durability: 43/50

Equipment Requirement: Intelligence ★, Agility ★★ or above

Additional Effect: Gliding: Activating this ability allows the user to glide briefly in the air. Of course, this does not mean you can fly, so you have to jump up yourself when using it, and the user must have excellent balance skills, otherwise they will only hurt themselves. Each activation of this ability will consume 2 marks of magic power.

"Hiss..."

After seeing the powerful attributes of these two pieces of equipment, everyone gasped. This thing is much stronger than the equipment of ordinary skeleton soldiers, especially the [Azure Wings], which can actually make people glide in the air.

This kind of equipment with special functions is no different from legendary items, so everyone's eyes lit up when they saw it.

"Among us, only Neville and I meet the requirements for using them. Let's give these two pieces of equipment to Neville first." After inspecting the two pieces of equipment, Wood immediately looked at Neville.

Now that he is injured and the team has suffered a loss, he must quickly increase his combat power.

"Uh, Captain, aren't you keeping them for yourself?" Neville scratched his head somewhat reservedly. Although he was also very greedy for these two pieces of equipment, he also knew the principle of making the best use of everything. Wood is the strongest in the team, and the equipment can play a greater role in his hands.

"Equipment of this level has limited improvement for me, and I'm not very good at close combat. In comparison, you are obviously more suitable. I know you are the best at close combat among the first-year students." Wood shook his head gently. He is currently injured and not suitable for close combat with the enemy.

Hannah and Terry next to him also nodded in agreement. They still very much recognized Neville's fighting ability.

"Okay, then I won't be polite." Neville smiled, and then couldn't wait to equip the two items, and then he specially jumped high to try the gliding function of the [Azure Wings].

"Very good, you can handle them, and we will have more chances of winning in subsequent actions." Wood nodded in satisfaction when he saw Neville's calm appearance.

"Captain, what should we do next? Should we continue along this road? Your injuries should be treated quickly too?"

Hannah next to her looked at Wood with some worry. Just now, they had simply treated the wound for the other party, and the bleeding had been successfully stopped, but this had after all caused Wood to lose some of his combat power.

"Hmm..." Wood lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said firmly, "Okay, let's head towards the nearest high-rise building first, on the one hand to see if we can collect other spoils along the way, and on the other hand to try to capture a building."

"Then are we giving up on the shopping center in the deepest part?" Terry frowned. He was still thinking about that princess.

"Let's try a small target first. We don't know the monster strength in this copy yet. I guess the place guarding the hostages may have more troops than what we just encountered."

"This little bit of enemies has already caused us to suffer a loss. It's not a wise decision to rashly head towards the biggest target. My idea is to first test the level of one of the high-rise buildings. If the defense strength is average, we will continue to go deeper. If there are many strong enemies, we will take those ordinary hostages as the main target and give up on the princess."

Wood behaved very rationally. His idea was actually very simple. This is similar to a Quidditch match. Shooting a goal with the Quaffle can score points, and catching the Golden Snitch can score even more points, but the Golden Snitch is difficult to catch, so it's better to focus on the easier-to-earn points.

"I understand what you mean." Hannah nodded when she heard this. "One princess is 5 points. As long as we rescue more than 5 ordinary hostages, it is more points than rescuing the princess."

"That's right!" Neville also responded at this time, "And the other teams are probably all targeting the princess. Besides the enemies stationed there, we also have to be wary of them. It will be easy to end up empty-handed."

"That's the point." Wood smiled slightly. "Everyone quickly pack up and take everything that can be used, and then move in the ruins, so as not to be seen through by the two teams that haven't entered yet."

"Yes!" The three of them responded in unison, and then packed up a few handy weapons to take with them. The most important thing was still the swordsmen's shields. The rest of the equipment was basically dispensable.

The battle of Wood and his party before was also seen clearly by everyone outside the ruins. After all, the location where they encountered the enemy was much closer than the first team.

"I didn't expect Wood and the others to eat up an entire skeleton squad, and that blue-robed skeleton that can fly around. They are really strong enough." Fred smacked his lips and said with some envy.

"But they also lost a member, and I saw that Wood seemed to be injured. He's really messing around, acting like nothing happened with an injury."

Hermione looked at the distance speechlessly. At the same time, she was also a little surprised by the intensity of this practical exercise. Blood was actually seen in the battle. It seems that the professor is going to play for real with them.

"That's because you don't understand Wood enough. He's fractured more than once on the Quidditch field. Would he care about this little injury?" George, who was also a Quidditch teammate, grinned, obviously respecting the captain who was outwardly gentle but inwardly wild.

"But did you notice? After approaching that team of skeleton soldiers, Neville put on the blue-robed skeleton's cloak and long sword!" Cedric narrowed his eyes slightly, muttering to himself.

"How could we not see that? He even flew up!" Fred laughed. "It seems that we can also use the equipment in the hands of those monsters, and there are even legendary items among them!"

"This is an important piece of information. It seems that after we enter, we can't simply avoid the battle. We have to use the equipment on these monsters to strengthen ourselves!" Hermione reacted quickly and immediately summarized.

Just when everyone was chattering and discussing, Anduin spoke again. This time it was the turn of the third squad led by Percy to act.

At this time, everyone basically saw that the action time of each squad was exactly 15 minutes apart, which means that in another 15 minutes it would be the turn of the fourth squad to move out.

The entry route chosen by Percy was quite intriguing. He actually chose to follow the route of the second squad!