Chapter 1253 Disappearance
Kona didn't take Tulas's last words to heart, but Gao Fei couldn't let it go.
Unlike the moody demons, many of the devils, especially the high-level devils, are the kind of old sly ones who are good at playing tricks and messing with people's minds.
The words spoken by the devil are real and fake, and it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the false.
"Go home while there is still time"...
Is Tulas' words deliberately mysterious, trying to disturb Kona's mentality, or is there another deep meaning?
Gao Fei thought for a while, but had no clue, so he simply put aside his distracting thoughts and checked the spoils he had taken from Tulas.
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1st ring - shield spell;
2nd ring - anti-camp magic circle, silence spell;
3rd ring - fireball spell, dispel spell;
4th ring - dimension anchor, evil shadow strike, order of anger;
6th ring - hellfire ray;
7th ring - advanced teleportation spell, blasphemous words, law words
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Of these twelve spells, Gao Fei only kept the 6th-level "Hellfire Ray" and the 7th-level "Law Word", and replaced the original "Scorching Ray" with "Hellfire Ray", which actually only occupied one Spell Thief slot, leaving three slots.
"Hellfire Ray" is an enhanced version of "Scorching Ray".
The range is 120 feet, and up to three rays can be sent out at the same time. It can focus on one target or attack three different targets separately. There are two main differences:
First, the lethality of each "Scorching Ray" is only 4~24 (4d6), while the "Hellfire Ray" is 15~90 (15d6), which is equivalent to 3.5 times the former!
In addition, "Scorching Ray" is pure fire magic, causing burning damage to the target; the black flame that constitutes "Hellfire Ray" is the real hellfire!
In addition to the normal high-temperature burning, hellfire also contains evil energy from Baator Hell, which adds the "Erosion" curse to the recipient, similar to necromancy.
The wounds of creatures burned by the "Hellfire Ray" cannot heal naturally. The "Erosion" curse must be eliminated by medical magic before conventional means can be used to treat the burns.
"Scorching Ray" is one of Gao Fei's common attack methods. The damage itself is not high, but the advantage is that it can bring in sneak attack effects.
"Hellfire Ray" is also compatible with sneak attack effects. After replacing "Scorching Ray", it is like a shotgun for a cannon, and it has become Gao Fei's strongest single attack method at present!
It should be noted that the devils born in Baator Hell are naturally immune to hellfire, so this spell cannot hurt the devil under normal circumstances.
However, this is not a problem for Gao Fei.
Because he also has an extremely perverted legendary specialty, "Curse Fire Mastery"!
Using "Curse Fire" to replace "Hellfire", the flame changes from pure black to black with a silver-white luster. The lethality remains unchanged, but it can penetrate the devil's fire resistance, and retains the eclipse effect. It can be said to be a perfect upgrade!
The second magic that Gao Fei stole from General Tulas, the 7th ring "Law Word", is similar to "Chaos Word" in all aspects, the only difference is that it only targets hostile creatures in the non-order camp.
Now Gao Fei has collected the two major truth magics of "Law Word" and "Chaos Word", which can take all the three major camps of chaos, order, and neutrality, and can kill devils, demons, and spectators.
That's right, for truth magic, creatures in the neutral camp are the most miserable.
Whether "Chaos Word" or "Law Word", they can also attack neutral creatures.
Gao Fei even tasted a truth about how to behave from it - fence-sitters will not have a good end!
In addition to "Law Word" and "Chaos Word", there are two similar truth magics, "blasphemous words" that call on the source of evil, and "holy words" that call on the law of goodness.
If we take the good and evil orientation as the horizontal axis, the chaos and law orientation as the vertical axis, and the absolute neutrality as the origin, we can construct a camp coordinate system. Almost all creatures correspond to a point on the camp coordinate system, and both the vertical and horizontal coordinates are indispensable.
"Law Word" and "Chaos Word" have covered all camp coordinates. Gao Fei does not need to learn the word spells related to the good and evil orientation, so as not to occupy two precious spell stealing slots.
The news of General Tulas's death spread quickly.
The morale of the demons, which had already shown signs of defeat, was greatly boosted, and they regained their footing and launched a fierce counterattack under the leadership of Kona.
The morale of the "Thorny Corps" on the opposite side was obviously frustrated by the bad news of the death of the commander.
Although the devil army has a complete command system, the deputy general who took over Tulas's command is not as capable as the Horned Demon General in all aspects.
Seeing that the momentum between the enemy and us had been irreversibly reversed, the acting commander of the "Thorn Corps" no longer had the luxury of eating Kona's guards, and decisively ordered the entire army to retreat.
Gao Fei did not participate in the subsequent battle.
A group of "fireballs" exploded near the car window, blowing up countless pieces of stone.
One of the stones unfortunately passed through the gap in the car window and hit his projection.
As the projection shattered, Gao Fei's consciousness was forced to return to the body.
Not very lucky, but it doesn't matter.
The overall situation has been decided, and Kona no longer needs his intervention.
Gao Fei sat at the desk on the third floor of the castle, and his eyes were cast on the crystal ball on the table again.
On the Western Front, Kona's troops have gained an overwhelming advantage, and the next step is to cooperate with Baines's army to attack the main force of Duke Belmonk.
The news of General Turas's defeat seems to have reached His Excellency the Duke.
The devil's main force was retreating towards the gate of the Tyros Fortress, with the chariot troops as the rear guard.
Obviously, Duke Belmonk realized that he could not fight against the pincer attack of the two demon armies in the field, so he had to retreat into the city and resist the enemy with the solid city defense fortress.
In this case, Baines's troops should act quickly, hold on to the retreating devil army, and strive for the opportunity for the friendly forces to outflank and intercept.
The reality was unexpected.
Through the detection crystal, Gao Fei was surprised to find that the guard battalion of the Flame Demon General Baines actually began to teleport collectively, and disappeared from the battlefield in an instant.
What did Baines do with his guards?
With doubts, Gao Fei quickly switched the detection perspective to the gate of the Tyros Fortress.
From the normal logic, Baines led an elite guard composed of more than 300 high-level demons to teleport collectively. The goal could only be to take a risky move and block the only way to enter the city before the devil army retreated to the Tyros Fortress!
However, there was no demon outside the fortress gate. Only the devil troops responsible for the city defense were on high alert.
Seeing the well-organized city defense troops, Gao Fei had to admire Belmonk's caution.
As expected of the shrewd Duke of Moyan, he did not leave any chance for his opponent to take advantage of.
