We're Already In Close Combat And You Still Say You're A Mage?

Early the next morning, Xu Bai sat up from the bed after a good sleep.

The fatigue left by yesterday's battle has disappeared, and the whole person feels refreshed.

After a brief wash, Xu Bai walked out of the barracks and looked at the terminal. He saw that the time agreed upon by Heitan had not yet arrived.

Xu Bai went to the cafeteria to choose a breakfast, ate while walking, and hurried towards the scheduled meeting point.

Along the way, Xu Bai saw many soldiers busy, not knowing what they were preparing for.

They kept loading ammunition and fuel into the vehicles around them, as if preparing to go out to explore.

Xu Bai just glanced at it and continued walking without paying attention.

"Mo Xiu!"

There was a shout from behind

Hearing someone calling him, Xu Bai looked back.

I saw a young man about sixteen or seventeen years old running from behind, holding breakfast in his hand like Xu Fei.

Xu Bai remembers him. The boy's name was Agui.

He is a mage and a member of the Black Gate Guild.

When the beast tide attacked the city yesterday, the young man was also beside Xu Bai, resisting the beast tide attack together.

He has a skill that consumes a lot of money. After it is released, the area within 50 meters will be covered with black flames, which lasts for five minutes.

Very effective in hindering the attack of alien beasts.

It has a wide range and is also very powerful. It can always buy breathing time for the melee personnel in front at critical moments.

However, the mana consumption is too high, and it takes a long time to recover the mana once you release it.

During yesterday's battle, when the tide of beasts was at its strongest, the melee fighters at the front were unable to resist it, and the situation was on the verge of collapse.

At that time, Xu Bai was ready to pick up Po Xie and go forward for a close fight.

At the critical moment, the boy drank five bottles of mana-recovering potions in one minute, and relied on the two nannies to release three skills to block the attack of the beast tide, and finally brought the situation back from the verge of collapse.

However, after releasing the high-intensity skill, the young man's body could not bear it and he fainted on the spot.

He did not participate in the subsequent battles and was directly sent back to rest by the logistics troops.

Even so, after the fight, he ranked third on the trial merit list, and he was obviously an important combatant in Black Gate.

Xu Bai slowed down and waited for the young man to catch up with him.

The young man walked very quickly. When he got closer, he asked Xu Bai curiously.

"Are you among the people on the mission today?"

"Yes."

Xu Bai replied.

"That's good. If there is an emergency again, even if I fall, you will be able to hold on."

Although the boy said yesterday that he did not participate in the second half of the battle, he had seen Xu Bai's endurance.

While other mages were relying on the priest's amplification and mana-recovering potions to persevere and suppress the beast tide, only Xu Bai remained calm and continued to release skills at a fixed frequency, without even chanting.

Moreover, the skills are very powerful. After the ice crystal explodes, no strange beast can survive within the range of his attack.

It gave everyone a big shock.

...

The two of them walked and chatted and came to a simple garage.

Four steam chariots are parked in the garage, and the black tank is leaning in front of the front door.

These steam chariots have the same style as the steam motorcycles Xu Bai rode on previous exploration missions, and they both reveal a strong steampunk style.

The body is also huge. The front half is a space for the crew members, and the back half is a huge steam-powered furnace.

The huge body is made of heavy metal, and there are two steam-powered cannons on the roof.

"Get in the car, it's just you two."

Seeing the two approaching, Heitan spoke.

Relying on the previous excellent performance of defending the steel wall, the black tank received this important mission.

It was through this mission that he obtained these chariots.

It is not difficult to drive these chariots, and the people from the Black Gate Guild quickly mastered them.

At this time, heads popped out of other vehicles nearby, and they were also some important members of the Black Sect, and they greeted Xu Bai.

These people are all important members of Black Gate, and their previous performance in defending the steel wall was also very conspicuous.

Xu Bai was familiar with them and responded immediately.

After greeting everyone, Xu Bai and Agui got into the chariot where Heitan was.

In addition to the three people in the car, Jiang Yu and A Li, who were among the top ten in the trial merit list, were also included.

Seeing that everyone was here, Heitan gave an order, and the steam engine spit out black smoke and roared.

The convoy drove towards the exit of the high steel wall.

...

Not long after, the convoy left the human territory with high steel walls, and four steam chariots lined up in a row, driving on the boundless wilderness.

After driving in the wilderness for more than two hours, the destination was already in front of everyone's eyes.

It was an abandoned city, now overrun by plants.

In the city, tall trees take root next to abandoned buildings, and their thick root systems have pushed up the corners of the abandoned buildings.

It can be seen that nature is gradually erasing the traces of human existence.

The buildings in the abandoned city are not too tall. The most eye-catching thing is a tall building of about sixty or seventy meters in the city center.

The tall building has been in disrepair for a long time. After being exposed to wind and sun for a long time, the outer layer is no longer as bright as it used to be and is covered with green moss.

Since the construction of the high steel wall was completed and all humans moved inside the high wall, there has been no trace of human activity in the outside world.

The steam chariot drove into the abandoned city and headed towards the tallest building in the center.

This is their goal for this mission, to arrange the transfer coordinates on the tallest building.

The steam chariot drove along the overgrown main road in the city towards the central high-rise building.

The roar of the steam engine startled a crowd of birds and beasts.

The houses on both sides of the road have been covered with green vines, and their original appearance cannot be seen.

At this time, the weather was clear and windless, and the black smoke from the steam chariot rose into the sky and lingered for a long time.

...

Not long after, the steam chariot had arrived under the tall building in the center.

"Jiang Yu and Yuwan will go up with me, and the others will stay where they are."

Heitan ordered.

Jiang Yu and Yu Wan are mages and nannies respectively, and together with Heitan as a tank, even if there is an emergency, there is still room to deal with it.

While speaking, Heitan kicked open the door of the abandoned high-rise building and walked up first.

Two others followed closely behind.

Others were chatting and waiting.

The steam engine on the chariot has not stalled and is still spitting out black smoke.

It rose into the air and disappeared.

...

The task of arranging the transfer coordinates was quickly completed, and the three Heitan men went downstairs and returned to the convoy.

Everyone started the steam chariot and returned.

Continue along the road you came from, towards the high steel wall.

The vehicle was driving on a road full of grass, and Xu Bai always felt that something was wrong with the surrounding environment.

Compared with the situation when we arrived, it was too quiet at this time, and there was no sound in the surrounding environment.

I haven't seen any animals moving around in the abandoned city.

Somewhat weird atmosphere.

This made Xu Bai feel wary.

After a while, the convoy had arrived at the edge of the city.

In the distant wilderness, there was a dark mass of something unknown, approaching everyone.

Agui, who was riding in the same car as Xu Bai, took out a pair of binoculars from the storage space and looked into the distance.

"Fuck!"

"Boss, stop the car quickly!"

Agui suddenly shouted.

Heitan was startled, turned around and saw Agui, and asked, "What's going on? What is that thing in front of you?"

"Tide of beasts! There are probably more than 10,000 of them!" Agui shouted.

"Everyone stops and prepares to meet the enemy!" Heitan immediately gave the order.

Four steam chariots were parked in a row, blocking the abandoned main road, and the two cannons on the roofs were aimed at the beast tide in the distance.

At this time, the beast wave has entered the shooting range, and the gunman on the roof of the car immediately opened fire.

The steam engine on the tank began to run at high speed, spewing out thick black smoke, pouring high-pressure steam into the cannon, and continuously shooting out the shells.

The principle of these shells is similar to the thin-skinned iron buckets used to clean up beasts on high steel walls. They also temporarily inject high-pressure steam instead of gunpowder.

Steam cannonballs continued to explode in the tide of beasts, clearing one piece after another of strange beasts.

However, the firepower of 4 vehicles and 8 cannons was only a drop in the bucket for the entire beast tide, and the alien beasts from behind quickly rushed in front of them.

After entering the city, the tide of beasts on both sides was blocked by houses, and only some of the beasts rushed into the main road.

Heitan and other melee fighters were the first to catch up, fighting the alien beasts in close combat.

Just like the original city defense battle.

However, there is no height buffer of high steel walls here, and it is intense when you first meet.

Xu Bai, Agui and other mages continued to release their skills as usual to relieve the pressure on their melee teammates.

Fortunately, the physical quality of these alien beasts is not high, and they are obviously no match for the walkers in a one-on-one situation. There are buildings on both sides of the road, which hinder the impact of other alien beasts.

With the support of the mages and nannies at the rear, the melee personnel at the front were not under much pressure.

At this moment, four red beasts that Xu Bai had never seen before, which were a whole circle larger than ordinary beasts, jumped down from the houses on both sides and joined the battlefield.

The incident happened suddenly. A melee fighter in front was bitten on the hind legs by a red alien beast. His head and feet were caught in his mouth and held high.

He immediately struggled hard, but to no avail.

The other ordinary beasts nearby immediately swarmed him and tore him into pieces.

"No!"

The canthus of Heitan's eyes is about to split.

Seeing that something was wrong and his companions were buried in his belly, Heitan put away his shield, raised his warhammer above his head with both hands, smashed an ordinary beast in front of him into pulp, and gave orders to the communication channel.

"Everyone come closer and shrink the battle formation!"

The few melee fighters in front immediately retreated, blocking the mage and nanny behind them tightly, completing the contraction of the battle formation, and guarding against the sudden appearance of strange beasts from other directions.

"ah!"

Just after shrinking the battle formation, several screams sounded in the communication channel.

The steam cannon in the rear that was still suppressing the dampness immediately stopped firing.

Xu Bai turned around and looked back, only to see four more red beasts standing on the car behind him, tearing at the gunner's body on the roof of the car.

At this time, the steam engine on the chariot had stalled and no longer emitted black smoke.

At some point, they were surrounded.

A red beast at the rear spit out the body parts in its mouth, jumped off the steam chariot, and rushed towards the nearest wet nurse.

The wet nurse was standing far back, still some distance away from the melee personnel in front, and it was obviously too late to support her at this time.

She was so frightened that she looked at the strange beast charging towards her.

The red beast pounced on the nanny, opened its bloody mouth and bit her.

The nanny was so scared that she closed her eyes tightly and didn't dare to look.

"Pfft."

A soft sound appeared in her ear.

She could already smell the fishy smell of the alien beast's mouth, but she didn't feel any pain after waiting for a long time.

She slowly opened her eyes and looked up.

He saw a spear with light flowing inside lying in front of him, and the tip of the spear just penetrated the head of the red alien beast.

The huge body of the red beast fell to the side.

Looking at the remaining three strange beasts in front of him, Xu Bai stepped forward and stood in front of the nanny.

"What are you still doing? Come on, please add status to me."

Xu Bai's voice sounded.

The plain voice sounded like the sound of nature to the nanny's ears.

"Yes Yes Yes."

The nanny quickly took a few steps back and gave Xu Bai several buffs.

Bloody Fight (Temporary Buff): Every time you kill an enemy, you can immediately recover a small amount of physical strength.

Whisper of the Wind (temporary buff): Your movement speed increases by an additional 15%.

"You guys hold the front."

Xu Bai turned around and said to the black tank and other melee fighters directly in front.

“Back there, I’m enough!”

As he spoke, Xu Bai threw a detection skill at a red alien beast still entrenched on the roof of the steam chariot.

Astral Alien Beast·Variation (First Level)

Level lv.4

Basic attributes:

Health: 100%

Body Energy: None

Strength: 16

Constitution: 16

Speed: 13

Intelligence: 5

Charisma: Lower astral beings have no charm.

Luck: Lower astral beings have no luck.

Mother Queen's Will (Active) lv.10: The Mother Queen of Alien Beasts can unconditionally control all alien beasts.

Beast Tide (Active) lv.7: After forming a beast tide under the will of the Alien Beast Queen, bonuses can be obtained based on the number of alien beasts in the current beast tide.

10,000 Alien Beasts: Obtain the first layer of buffs and increase movement speed by 10%.

100,000 Alien Beasts: Obtain the second layer of buffs and increase health by an additional 40%.

1 Million Alien Beasts: Obtain the third layer of buffs and increase all attributes by 4 points.

Currently, 1 level of gain has been obtained.

(The alien beast queen that has descended on this planet has a limited load capacity, and the maximum command limit for the beast tide is 1 million.)

Elite Individual (Passive) lv.15: After undergoing benign mutation, it initially possesses a certain degree of wisdom and can independently execute the instructions of the Alien Beast Mother Queen.

Group loyalty (passive): Ordinary alien beasts have no intelligence and rely only on animal instinct to make sacrifices for the group.

Rapid reproduction (passive): As a natural war race, the reproduction speed of alien beasts has been greatly increased.

........

After quickly reading the information returned from the detection, Xu Bai was a little surprised.

The red alien beast opposite had never been seen before. Its basic attributes were much higher than those of ordinary alien beasts.

At this time, the number is still small, and it has not formed as large a scale as a beast tide.

Once there are enough red alien beasts to form a beast tide, the benefits they will receive will be twice as much as ordinary alien beasts.

Coupled with the basic attributes that are much higher than those of ordinary alien beasts, steam civilization may not be able to defend the steel wall.

But now is not the time to think about it so much, let’s go back alive first.

Xu Bai turned the spear in his hand and pointed at the other three red beasts.

The three-headed red beast's eyes immediately glowed fiercely, and it pounced on Xu Bai.

Xu Bai turned his body sideways and avoided the attack of the strange beast closest to him, and was separated from it.

The spear was handed out smoothly, and ice blue lines flowed around the gun body. This was a sign that Po Xie had clung to the frost trap and stabbed the alien beast's neck.

The tip of the spear penetrated the body of the red alien beast without any hindrance. Ice crystals exploded inside the alien beast, blasting its head and most of its body into a bloody mist.

With the double enhancement of weapons and talents, Xu Bai instantly killed a red beast with one blow.

Everything happens in a flash of lightning.

After killing a red alien beast cleanly and instantly, Xu Bai jumped and dodged, avoiding the attacks of the other two alien beasts.

Move back and distance yourself from them.

"Ho~ho~ho~"

Seeing their companions being killed instantly, the other two red beasts were afraid to move forward for a moment. They lowered their bodies and let out a low roar from their throats.

One person and two beasts faced off for a moment, and two red beasts suddenly stood up at the same time and attacked Xu Bai from both sides.

Xu Bai reacted quickly, picked up the half-parted body of the red beast from the ground, and threw it towards the red beast on the left.

Being blocked like this, the red beast on the left obviously paused.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Bai kicked his feet to the ground and rushed towards the red beast on the right.

I saw a flash of silver light from the boots under his feet, activated his active skill Speed, and instantly accelerated in front of the red beast on the right.

Divine Speed ​​(Active): Increases movement speed by an additional 50%, lasting for 2 minutes, and has a 5-hour cooling time after use.

Relying on his speed advantage, Xu Bai leaned down to avoid the red beast's attack. He came under the beast with a sliding shovel and punched it in the abdomen.

"boom!"

Xu Bai used all his strength with this punch, and the sound of breaking wind mixed with the fist hit the abdomen of the red beast hard, sinking deeply into it.

"Ugh~"

The 6-meter-long body of the red beast on the right was forcefully lifted off the ground and formed into a large C-shape in the air. It let out a scream in its throat and spurted some filth from its mouth.

The red beast fell heavily to the ground. Just as he was about to get up with difficulty, a foot stepped on his head.

Xu Bai shot it into the head and easily killed it without activating the frost trap.

Xu Bai pulled out the spear from the fallen red beast's head and moved his sore wrist.

The force of this punch was a bit too strong, and the force of the counterattack also made his wrists hurt.

Xu Bai turned around and looked indifferently at the other red beast behind him.

At this time, the red beast no longer dared to come forward, its eyes were full of fear, staring at Xu Bai's every move.

It couldn't figure out why the human in front of it was so strong.

Looking at this red beast, Xu Bai planned to capture it alive.

This kind of red beast has never appeared on the battlefield of high steel walls before, and it has a certain degree of intelligence. Perhaps catching one alive will be more valuable than killing it.

Thinking of this, Xu Bai put the spear behind his back and stared at the last red beast, slowly approaching it.

As Xu Bai slowly approached, the last red beast let out a low roar and slowly retreated, trying to distance itself from Xu Bai.

How could Xu Bai let it succeed? He suddenly accelerated forward, stepped on a raised pile of rocks nearby, and jumped onto the red beast.

The red beast immediately began to twist its body wildly like a frightened wild horse, trying to throw Xu Bai off.

Xu Bai tightly grasped the bone spurs on its back to prevent it from being thrown off.

I saw him seeing the right moment, aiming the tip of the spear at the spine of the alien beast's back, holding the spear with both hands, and stabbing it down hard.

With the central nervous system cut off, the alien beast that was still twisting its body in an attempt to throw Xu Bai off immediately stopped and fell limply to the ground.