The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 323 Baptism Again (Two chapters in one)

Although Ryan had anticipated that more cultists from the Secret Snake Cult might appear in the future, they unexpectedly came so quickly, and they came with the command of the earth snakes.

This is a bit difficult to deal with.

Because the leader of the other side had an aura that was obviously not inferior to Ikosela, whom he killed. He was actually another powerful member of the Secret Snake Cult whose strength had reached the legendary level.

Plus the legendary land snake
In other words, the enemies he has to face this time are equivalent to two legendary powerful men.

Although Ryan's strength has been slightly improved after adding points, he is still not strong enough to deal with two legendary strongmen at the same time.

However, Ryan soon discovered a situation.

A situation that might work in his favour.

Judging from the flare that the other party just fired, as well as the content of his conversation and his expression, it seemed that he was waiting for someone.

This immediately made Ryan think that the other party should be waiting for the three people from Icosela.

At this moment, Ryan also roughly understood the other party's general plan.

The opponent's original plan should have been to attack Count Habsburg's residence simultaneously, both openly and secretly.

And it seems that the group of Secret Snake Cult followers in front of him were unaware of the fact that he had killed Ikosela before.

Therefore, Ryan quickly came up with a tactic - 'Get the upper hand! '

This is why the scene of throwing out Ecosela's body happened.

At this moment, Ryan, holding the two-handed warhammer that had already been transformed, walked calmly towards the legendary land snake that was two or three stories high, without any fear, and at the same time, he counted softly:
"One"

"two"

"What a pity, there are exactly ten! It would be so much better if there were eleven!"

Apart from the legendary leader, there were a total of nine "trash fish". This made it impossible for Ryan to implement his tactic of killing the "trash fish" and stacking ten layers of soul energy to trigger the "Soul Shattering Shock" and rushing forward.

On the other hand, let's look at Edmundo.

In fact, the moment Edmundo saw Ryan throwing out Ecosela's body, he already had the idea of ​​retreating first.

After all, the enemy's situation was unclear, so there was no need for him to take the risk.

Moreover, for him, the idea of ​​revenge for Gannon and Holden was not so important. The first task given to him by the Pope was to bring back the legendary land snake.

However, the next second, his pupils suddenly shrank!
Because he saw the young man opposite him, wearing silver armor, actually holding a war hammer, and walking straight towards them, completely unafraid of the legendary land snake under his feet.

This made Edmundo nervous. After all, those who dared to treat the ground snake as nothing were not fools, but people who really had the ability to deal with the ground snake.

And the other party who can kill Ikosela must be the latter.

In an instant, Edmundo released his innate magic, 'Ice Shield', and immediately began to chant a spell:
"Ice Armor Technique!"

As the rapid spell sounded, a thick oval-shaped ice shield first appeared on Edmundo's body.

Inside the ice shield, that is, his body surface, there is an extra layer of transparent and solid ice armor, like a knight's armor, protecting it tightly.

Only after two powerful defenses surrounded the body with witchcraft did Edmundo feel a little relieved.

In addition, his keen hearing naturally heard Ryan's whisper just now, which made him curious and asked:
"What are you counting?"

Edmundo's spell just now still made Ryan a little nervous. He thought the other party was going to launch an attack, but he didn't expect it to be a defensive witchcraft. This made Ryan slightly happy, because from the other party's reaction, he seemed to be quite afraid of him.

In addition, the opponent turned out to be a rare ice wizard.

But now these are not very important, because he has come within 15 meters of the opponent.

Ryan looked up, looked at the giant in front of him and the group of people on top of the earth snake, smiled, and said, "You won't understand even if I tell you."

"Shh!"

Just when Edmundo was still thinking about what Ryan had just said and what it meant, suddenly, he felt a flash before his eyes and Ryan suddenly disappeared from his sight.

In an instant, he felt something strange behind him and Edmundo turned around suddenly.

The eight elite members of the sect he brought with him looked as if they were struck by lightning. They had an expression of disbelief, their eyes widened, and they froze in place.

And in front of their bodies, there appeared eight figures that looked exactly like the young knight, wielding war hammers in various postures.

This scene lasted for less than a second before the eight phantoms disappeared again.

It seemed as if all the phantoms were converging on the real person who was farthest away.

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

The sound of dense bones breaking was heard!

The nine elite members of the Secret Snake Cult he brought with him all performed the half-head disappearing technique!
Almost at the same time, the forehead and the upper part of the head exploded one after another, and white, red, liquid and jelly splashed all over the ground. Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground with a 'thump'!
It was the top secret technique 'Shadow Step' that Ryan used with all his strength!
at the same time.

Nine transparent spirits quickly emerged from the corpse, dragging long tails of flames. After circling Ryan twice, they were sucked into his warhammer.

This scene made Edmundo's eyelids twitch!

"So fast!"

"And what happened just now?"

"Necromancy?"

"Or is there something strange about that war hammer? A rare item of the dead spirit type?"

Edmundo finally understood how Ecosella died.

If it were him, if he was caught off guard, he would be ambushed and seriously injured by this assassin-type enemy holding a "strange object"!

Besides, it’s not that he doesn’t want to retreat at this moment, but given the speed displayed by the other party, can he retreat?

Control the ground snake to attack?

That's not OK!

Because the legendary ground snake was too huge and the opponent's speed was incredibly fast.

Therefore, the first priority is to limit the opponent’s speed first!

"Ice Roar!"

As Edmundo waved his hand, a tornado mixed with broken ice violently attacked in all directions!

Edmundo's intention was clear, to use the cold to paralyze the opponent's hands and feet, thereby slowing down the opponent's attack speed.

Faced with this ranged ice sorcery, Ryan could only step back slightly, and then use the kite-shaped shield transformed from enchanted thorium to block in front of him and weaken the opponent's ice damage.

But Edmundo's methods obviously did not stop there. He just started to chant a spell quickly in a low voice!
"snowstorm!"

As the spell fell, a large and dense black cloud suddenly appeared above Edmundo's head, and the temperature dropped sharply in an instant!

Heavy snow mixed with ice particles began to fall from the sky. The guards who were responsible for the surrounding and alert dozens of meters away suddenly felt a pressing chill coming!
Ryan, who was also on top of the ground snake and only seven or eight meters away from Edmundo, naturally felt even colder!
However, Edmundo seemed to have forgotten one thing.

The huge ground snake under his feet also has low resistance to cold.

Feeling the tremendous chill coming from above its head, the earth snake felt a little drowsy for a moment. It gradually lowered its neck and lay on the ground.

This made Ryan happy!
Because he was fighting on top of the ground snake, his range of movement would be severely restricted unless he jumped off the ground snake.

But now the ground snake is lying on the ground, which means he can swim around at high speed, looking for opportunities to fight.

When Ryan noticed this, Edmundo naturally also noticed the problem instantly.

Although he can control the earth snakes, he cannot violate their nature and instincts.

Just like a dog trainer cannot train a dog to eat bamboo like a panda, in the same way, when the ambient temperature drops below a certain limit, ground snakes naturally reduce their desire to move and begin to sleep.

Edmundo's reaction was also extremely quick, and he made a decision immediately.

He jumped off the ground snake and retreated quickly, heading towards the place where the most guards were in the mansion. As he moved, the large black cloud above his head also moved slowly, and the core area of ​​the blizzard also began to move gradually.

Ryan quickly understood the other party's plan.

The opponent was actually thinking of keeping some distance to free the earth snake from the influence of the ice witchcraft.

In this regard, Ryan naturally cannot let the other party get what they want!

"Armor-piercing strike!"

The two-handed warhammer in Ryan's hand instantly transformed into a lance, and he continuously performed the top-level secret technique "Shadow Step" and "Armor Breaking Strike"!
The whole person was like a silver lightning, striking Edmundo who was flying backwards.

The speed was so fast that Edmundo clearly saw Ryan still in the same place, but the next second, Ryan suddenly appeared in front of him with a lance in his hand!
"Hey!!!"

I saw the tip of the lance collide violently with the ice shield!
The next second, the ice shield was broken!
Even the ice armor on the body was almost penetrated by a hair's breadth.

Ryan's attack made Edmundo almost break out in cold sweat on his forehead!

"Damn it! It's so powerful!"

"Where did such a strong young man come from?"

Edmundo didn't know that although Ryan's attack just now looked insignificant, it was actually the combination of the top-level ultimate skill 'Shadow Step''s sprint, the twenty-seven points of strength bonus provided by nine parts of soul energy, the bonus of the intermediate-level strength talent, the bonus of the dragon's bloodline, and so on.

Therefore, it is possible to achieve such an effect that a seemingly random attack can break his innate witchcraft and secondary defensive witchcraft.

"Snake hair!"

In a desperate situation, Edmundo immediately used this iconic ability of the Secret Snake Cult's strongman.

Four or five guards who were unable to dodge were suddenly bitten on the neck or the back of the head by the slender snake head. Their eyes rolled back and they were controlled.

This made Ryan feel mixed emotions. He still remembered what Claire had said to him at that time.

If a person is controlled by the snake hair for more than one minute, there is no cure and he will become a mindless puppet forever.

For Ryan to kill the guards in this situation was both a salvation and a way to gather the final soul energy he needed.

But he was still very angry when the other party killed one of his own people right under his nose!
"Blade Storm!"

A female knight surrounded by a light blue air current, waving a two-handed sword, came from behind Edmundo. It was Claire who had activated her bloodline talent!
"Ice hell!"

Faced with attacks from both sides, Edmundo finally used his trump card!

With him as the center, large pieces of ice ridges suddenly emerged from the ground, high and low. There were sharp prisms as high as three meters, as well as low spiked ice balls. In an instant, the area within dozens of meters around Edmundo was completely white.

For a moment, Ryan and Claire were forced to retreat. At the same time, Edmundo controlled several guards who were controlled by the snake hair and had become "frozen zombies" and smashed them towards Ryan.

Ryan looked at the guard who was smashing at him and silently said in his heart: "I'm sorry!"

"Hammer of Annihilation!"

"Oh!"

With a heavy blow, Ryan blasted a frozen guard to pieces. In an instant, a shadow of his soul was absorbed by the warhammer!

"Ten points!"

At this moment, Ryan's eyes fixed on Edmundo. The next second, he performed Shadow Step, leaving a trail of afterimages, and rushed into the 'Ice Hell' at an astonishing speed!

"How dare you charge into the Ice Hell?"

"What a young man who was blinded by a temporary advantage!" Edmundo was not surprised but happy when he saw this scene!

Because in the Ice Hell, his ice witchcraft will be strengthened by 50%, and the opponents in the Ice Hell will be affected by the ultra-low temperature wind, causing their hands and feet to become stiff and their movement speed to be greatly reduced.

Therefore, in his opinion, once Ryan entered the ice hell, he would quickly lose his biggest advantage, which was speed.

"Boom!"

Ryan was seen waving his two-handed warhammer quickly, smashing all the ice spikes and icicles in the straight line, and rushing into the ice hell like a giant beast.

"Mad, what kind of monster is this!"

Seeing Ryan's power, Edmundo couldn't help but cast a spell quickly!

"Ice Blade Storm!"

"Ice cone technique!"

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One after another, ice witchcraft, with the blessing of ice hell, bombarded Ryan!
Although Ryan resisted them one by one, his hair and eyebrows had turned snow-white at this moment, and his movement speed was greatly reduced.

"Xu~"

This made Edmundo breathe a sigh of relief!

"What a dangerous guy!"

"But, I'm finally going to freeze to death!"

Edmundo watched as Ryan rushed to within two or three meters of him as if in slow motion, and slowly swung down his war hammer, and a sneer appeared on his face!
"This pose is great. Perhaps it will be a good trophy ice sculpture!"

"clang!"

At this time, Ryan's hammer also hit Edmundo's protective ice shield!

Just by listening to the sound, you can tell that the hammer is very light, even a little weak!

But in a moment, Edmundo's expression was filled with horror, and the next second, he held his head and screamed heartbreakingly!
The true damage of "Soul Shattering Shock" severely damaged Edmundo's soul, and he was completely unable to continue to maintain the icy hell.

Ryan silently added a little more strength, and as his heart pumped out a stream of heat, he swung the sledgehammer again and again!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The first blow shattered the ice shield, and each subsequent blow hit Edmundo's body.

Edmundo could barely resist at first, but later he was unable to resist and after being hit by the hammer, he became like a rag and had no power to resist.

Soon, Edmundo was beaten into a pulp by Ryan!

"hu~hu~"

Ryan kept holding the hammer with both hands, breathing heavily!
But then he remembered that although the guy in front of him had been dealt with, there was still a legendary farming snake behind him!
Ryan turned around quickly and looked at the earth snake that was about to wake up. The war hammer in his hand quickly transformed into a long lance.

"Sharp Technique!"

"Whoosh!"

A straight silver line rushed straight towards the legendary farming snake!
With the combination of two top-level secrets, dragon bloodline, etc., Ryan's lance has reached its extreme power.

It penetrated deeply into the thick, rubbery and tough surface of the ground snake until the handle was gone!
Because the spot where Ryan stabbed this time was extremely precise, right between the two eyes of the earth snake with poor eyesight, which is the location of the brain.

So, after being stabbed, the earth snake's walnut eyes with poor eyesight suddenly opened, but it was already the last bit of light!

Its whole body was still twisting violently, causing the ground to shake violently, but it was definitely dead.

"Hey!"

Ryan drew out his lance!
Looking at this legendary land snake that may have died the fastest, I felt quite emotional.

If it weren't for Edmundo's Ice Hell, who knows how much effort he would have to put in to kill this earth snake.

"Pfft!"

The smelly blood of the earth snake mixed with unknown body fluids spurted out from the circular wound just made by the lance like a high-pressure water gun.

Ryan was not paying attention for a moment and got drenched all over!
Just when Ryan was feeling a little annoyed, suddenly, his whole body froze!
At this time, the system prompt sounds:
[Ding! The host was baptized by the blood of the legendary land snake and a small amount of dragon gene fragments were found. Yes/No? ]

(Note: After absorbing this trace amount of dragon gene fragment, it can slightly increase the upper limit of the host dragon's blood concentration.)
"what?"

"This ancient legendary ground snake actually has dragon genes?"

But soon, Ryan looked enlightened.

The ancient earth snakes are most likely the offspring of some dragons that were careless in ancient times.

"Is it not possible to communicate among the same race? And across races."

"But this is a good thing for me!"

"However, the expression is 'trace'? Remember the last time the three-headed sea dragon baptized me with egg liquid, the expression was 'a small amount'. Sure enough, the dragon blood in the earth snake is much thinner?"

Ryan keenly noticed the difference in presentation compared to the last egg baptism.

"But no matter how much, as long as it can improve my strength, even a mosquito leg is still meat!"

Ryan chose "Yes!" without hesitation.

In an instant, Ryan felt a sudden warmth in the part of his body stained with the smelly snake blood, as if warm hot spring water was seeping into his body from the surface of his skin.

The whole process lasted less than half a second and was over.

Ryan quickly glanced at the attribute panel and found that the effect of Dragon Bloodline had not changed at all.

[Dragon Bloodline (weak) Effect: Fire element affinity is slightly increased, Giant Strength talent effect is slightly increased, Steel Body talent effect is slightly increased, War Cry type secrets are slightly strengthened.]

This made him feel a little disappointed.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to Ryan's mind!
"Wait, if we baptize more, can we add up a little to a lot?"

When Ryan thought of this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

And he took action quickly.

The spear in his hand quickly transformed into a giant two-handed sword that was more than three meters long and nearly four meters long. Then, he turned around and came to the side of the legendary farming snake, and slashed at the huge snake's head!
As a huge silver arc flashed, there was a "chi" sound!
It seemed that the death of the earth snake caused its defense to drop drastically, and the head of the earth snake with a huge and ferocious petal-shaped mouth was cut off.

The smelly snake blood, like a small waterfall, spurted out from the smooth incision that was like a round table.

Ryan took a quick step and stood under the blood waterfall to be baptized!

Sure enough, after the skin surface was stained with a large amount of snake blood, that warm feeling appeared again.

But soon, it seemed to have reached a certain limit and Ryan could no longer feel the warmth.

After thinking about it, Ryan still didn't give up!

"Where is the most blood essence?"

"It should be the heart!"

Ryan jumped lightly and landed on the ground snake. The big sword in his hand changed into a giant sickle again, with the blade facing downward, and pierced into the skin of the giant ground snake.

"Buzz!"

As Ryan performed the top-level ultimate shadow step, a figure flashed over the ground snake, and the legendary ground snake was cut nearly in half by Ryan, stretching for dozens of meters, exposing the spine and internal organs.

When Ryan saw the huge, still slightly beating heart, his eyes lit up. He quickly cut off the top and crawled inside.

The warm feeling came again.

"Sure enough, the heart has the most blood and essence!"

"It seems that this baptism is also very particular. It is not like the genetic technology in the previous life, which only requires a little bit, or even a single digit of stem cells, to complete a large amount of gene extraction."

"The absorption recognized by the system seems to need to reach a certain amount to have the best effect." Ryan's eyes flickered, and he immediately figured something out.

But within a very short period of time, Ryan could no longer feel any warmth.

A few seconds later, he dragged his bloody and sticky body and jumped out of the heart of the legendary land snake.

To the people around him, what Ryan had just seen was a little confusing.

In their opinion, Lord Ryan seemed to be stimulated by something after being doused with the smelly blood of the earth snake. He actually beheaded the earth snake and then took a bath again!
But what’s even stranger is that this isn’t the end.

Lord Ryan actually split the huge earth snake almost in half and jumped into the snake's body?
Could it be that Lord Ryan mistook the legendary land snake for a dragon?
A snake blood baptism?

Is the blood of this legendary earth snake really like the blood of a dragon, able to give people magical powers?
Many brave guards could not help but step forward, endure the stench, and touch the snake blood with their hands.

"Boo!"

"what!"

Many guards were quick to remove a layer of corroded skin from their fingers.

"So corrosive!"

The guards looked at Ryan, who was unharmed, and were even more shocked.

At this time, Ryan had just jumped off the ground snake and was about to wash it off.

Suddenly, the system prompt sounded again.
This time, Ryan's eyes suddenly widened and he took a breath!
(End of this chapter)