Chapter 159 Walking the Grid
“Wake up, Lord Knight... wake up, the battle is over.”
Ma Lu felt someone pushing his shoulder in a daze, and subconsciously He wanted to reach out and rub his eyes, but he was punched in the face. There was a sound of steel colliding, and his head was also buzzing.
But this also woke up Malu from his previous drowsiness. It took him about two seconds to remember where this was and why he fell asleep.
Just three minutes ago, Malu and Skylark planned to clean up a peppermint hypnotist, who was hiding in the room in front of him.
This thing's HP is 2 points less than the Cauliflower Thinker, only a measly 17 points, but its ability is very annoying and can forcefully hypnotize all creatures within a 5-meter radius.
And I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but the straight-line distance between the corner where the guy was squatting and the door of the house was exactly 5 meters.
In other words, no matter who wants to enter this room, he will be hypnotized by the mint hypnotist inside when he opens the door.
This position can be said to be full of malice.
Fortunately, Malu had discovered its existence in advance through the chessboard map, and clicked on the profile picture to read the basic information about the mint hypnotist.
But now the problem comes again. The only witch that Malu can command now is Skylark. Without opening the door, there is no way to deal with the peppermint hypnotist inside. Once the door is opened, Skylark will be hypnotized.
So Malu’s final choice was... to go on his own.
In the past twenty minutes, he has commanded Skylark to eliminate 14 enemies, and gradually formed a clear idea on how to use Skylark.
Skylark is weak in attack and skinny, can't deal damage and can't stand on the field, but as a shooter, she also has a hidden advantage, that is - long hands.
This means that as long as the position is coquettish enough, Skylark can deal crazy damage to the opponent in the early stages of the battle.
Even if it is just scraping, scraping too much can be fatal.
After turning on the chessboard map, what Malu is best at is moving on the grid.
By monitoring the movement routes of those activated plants, he can avoid places where enemies gather and find lone individuals to attack. In addition, the environment in this abandoned warehouse is complex enough, and there are many terrains that can be exploited. Malu's operating space is even greater.
This is also the reason why Hibari, who only has 5 attack points and 32 HP points, can continuously defeat strong enemies under his command.
On the other hand, Malu has been thinking of ways to develop its own uses.
Yes, although his current situation is very much like playing a war chess game, it is different from ordinary war chess games. As a player or commander, he is also on the chess board and is regarded as a unit.
Although Malu, as an ordinary person, has no magic power and cannot cause effective damage to those activated plants, he noticed that the knight armor provided by the church seemed to be particularly durable when he helped Skylark resist the flame attack of the flaming bell pepper. .
After being sprayed by flames for seven or eight seconds, the temperature only rose by less than 5 degrees, and the wearer, Ma Lu, was unscathed.
So he clicked on his own blue avatar and saw the attributes behind it.
HP：45/45
Armor: 87/100
Attack: 0
Defense: 9(↓)
The zero eggs in the middle attack row are a bit dazzling, and the HP is only It's quite average, but its armor and defense are quite eye-catching, especially its defense, which is higher than the attacks of many activated plants.
This still has a descending arrow on the back. Ma Lu guessed it was because of the penetrating wound on his chest. If it could be repaired, the defense would be able to increase a little, but that's a story for another day.
After realizing that he had thick armor and high defense, Malu consciously took on some of the responsibilities of a tank, attracting firepower when necessary and protecting the long-range units in the team. As for this kind of job of stepping on thunder and attracting monsters, he also did it himself.
After rushing over to open the door, Malu was hypnotized and fell asleep as expected.
But Skylark behind him could already see the Peppermint Hypnotist in the room at this time. After that, she fired a total of five shots and got rid of the Peppermint Hypnotist before it approached the fallen Malu. .
As soon as the mint hypnotist died, Skylark quickly ran forward and shook Malu awake.
Although there is no favorability module in this broken system, Ma Lu can feel that the girl's eyes are completely different from before entering the warehouse, and the admiration in her eyes is almost overflowing.
Skylark really didn't expect that she could be so good. She had always been the weakest person in school before. If it hadn't been for the help of Birds of Paradise and Cerberus, she probably wouldn't have been able to graduate.
Even after becoming an official witch, she was not well received by the knight, and she could clearly feel the latter's contempt and disgust for her.
After switching to a knight halfway through, she was able to stand alone.
After killing the difficult Peppermint Hypnotist, Skylark's waist became straighter.
And this time the Lord Knight was so gentle, he even used his body to protect her.
The education that Skylark has received since childhood is that witches must fight for the knights and the church, and must protect their knights, because if the knights have an accident, the witches will also be hanged by the church.
On the contrary, if the witch under his command dies, the knight will only be held accountable at most, and sometimes he will not even be reprimanded.
So only witches have always guarded knights, but it is rare to hear knights protecting witches.
But the new knight is good at everything, but sometimes his behavior is a bit strange.
Just like now, the first thing Skylark did after seeing Malu getting up was to run to the body of the mint hypnotist.
He happily scratched it with a knife, cleanly cut off the two arms and half of the body of the mint hypnotist, and put them into the plastic bag he was holding.
While cutting and returning it, he muttered, "We hunted this thing together, and I don't take advantage of you. Each of us has half."
The skylark shook his head like a rattle when he heard this. Same, "No, Lord Knight, I don't want it."
"Why don't you want it? Even if you don't eat it, you can just take it back to the city and sell it for money."
Skylark's expression suddenly changed when he heard this, "Sir Knight, what did you just say, let me eat...eat it?"
"Well, what's the problem?"
" Plants in the wild are poisonous and cannot be taken."
"Oh, is that so? No wonder I couldn't scan the ingredients before, but these are different," Malu pointed to the mint hypnotist at his feet, "This is it. The food is definitely edible."
"No, no, no," Yunque waved his hands repeatedly, "Even if it is edible, it must not be eaten, because these are unclean things and no one will buy them." She paused and then added, "When you return to Temple City, you must not reveal your intention to eat these things in front of the church."
(End of this chapter)