?Chapter 1011: 315. Escape Master?


    The Eighth Circle Shadow Wizard named Hickman Arlington was one of the five Chief City Guard Wizards of the City of Exiles’ Vignce Team.


    The spell he was using now was called “Gisley’s Shadow Escape Technique,” or simply “Shadow Escape Technique.”


    The learning requirement for this technique was to reach the Six Ring standard and be able to absorb shadow energy.


    A Six Ring Shadow Wizard could use this technique to split themselves into six shadows, a Seven-Ring would split into seven, an Eighth Circle into eight, and so on.


    As long as any one shadow escaped the enemy’s attack range, the rest could teleport to that shadow’s vicinity, then merge into one and be the wizard himself, thereby escaping from the battlefield.


    Catching such an opponent should be quite difficult, right? <div>


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    Difficult it might be, but not as much as one would imagine.


    Firstly, a shadow’s teleportation to another shadow required “charging,” which means the wizard had to cast.


    Secondly, there were limits to the distance between teleported shadows, which could not exceed the energy perception range of the wizard himself—Hickman Arlington’s range was around 2600 meters.


    Lastly, this technique imposed extreme stress on the wizard himself, rapidly depleting his vigor and shadow energy.


    Based on these three restrictions, that Shadow Wizard named Hickman Arlington, although appearing arrogantly unassable amidst the bombardment of thunder and lightning, was actually somewhat anxious inside.


    If he couldn’t quickly shake off Nnd Lee’s offensive, he would sooner orter reveal a w.


    Among his eight shadows, if just one was sealed by Nnd Lee, he would immediately be passive.


    Even if he forcefully merged the other seven shadows and returned to human form, his strength would be damaged, and he could even experience magic bacsh.


    Nnd Lee figured out the ins and outs of the “Shadow Escape Technique” with his Deconstruction Technique.


    A clever strategy rapidly took shape in his mind.


    He first modified the target of the “Tracking Thunder Arrow Array.”


    The original magic circle treated the eight shadows as targets.


    Now, after Nnd Lee’s adjustment, only seven shadows received the full brunt of the Tracking Thunder Arrows.


    The remaining shadow became the “one that got away,” as Nnd Lee intentionally reduced the attack intensity against it.


    The effect of this adjustment would be apparent in a little over ten seconds.


    By then, the shadow that became the “one that got away” would easily break through the enclosure of the Tracking Thunder Arrows at an extremely fast speed.


    From beginning to end, Hickman Arlington would only think that he sessfully escaped due to his persistent efforts and wouldn’t suspect Nnd Lee of deliberately letting him go.


    To make the act even more convincing, Nnd Lee used several “Sonic Explosion Magic Scrolls,” producing several surging airwaves.


    “Boom boom boom~~”


    “Sonic Explosion” was ferocious, stirring the air of the Stone Forest into a mess.


    Stgmites broke and copsed one after another, dust flew up, and small stones scattered.


    In Hickman Arlington’s eyes, such a grand scene was proof that Nnd Lee was chasing him with all his might.


    The eight shadows increased their speed, eagerly hoping to reach the vicinity of the City of Exiles immediately.


    Could there be an ambush from the City of Exiles waiting halfway, poised to catch Nnd Lee off guard?


    Nnd Lee had such concerns before.


    But after “scanning” Hickman Arlington’s Panel Information and Memory Fragments with the Deconstruction Technique, Nnd Lee dismissed this worry.


    [Memory Fragment One: “Vignce Team’s Action n,”pleteness 100%]


    In this action n, Hickman Arlington was the Chief City Guard Wizard responsible for scouting.


    This guy had been promoted to Eight Circle through special means, and the number of spells he mastered was less than a regr Eighth Circle Shadow Wizard.


    Moreover, despite having the title of “Combat Wizard,” as Nnd Lee had surmised, he was better at “running away” and “self-preservation” than engaging in directbat.


    The ones truly responsible for directbat were the other two Eighth-Circle Shadow Series Combat Wizards hidden within the Shadow Death Labor Corps.


    Nnd Lee found information about these two in the action n and did not rush to deal with them.


    The reason was that the two held spells to open the Shadow Sub-dimension.


    Without the means to break the Shadow Sub-dimension, facing them directly would simply be a thankless task.


    The good news was that the key to solving thisy with Hickman Arlington.


    In his Magic Container was a Magic book that recorded the arcane knowledge of the shadow death wizards.


    By obtaining this book, the Eight Circle Shadow Death Wizard would be under Nnd Lee’s feet.


    “Heh heh heh! I’ve escaped! Now see how you can stop me!”


    A shadow burst out of the encirclement of the Tracking Thunder Arrows, letting out an arrogantugh.


    It was precisely the shadow that Nnd Lee had intentionally let go.


    This shadow, while maintaining a high-speed flying posture, transformed into a ck disc with seven gaps.


    The seven shadows constrained by the Tracking Thunder Arrows changed.


    They blinked repeatedly, emitting waves of ck light, their forms shifting from dense ck mist to transparent gauze.


    As the frequency of the ck light reached its peak, the seven shadows uniformly made a “buzzing” noise.


    “Puff~”


    The seven shadows exploded at the same time, turning into transparent mist.


    When they reappeared, they were already on the ck disc, embedded in its seven gaps.


    The ck disc was nowplete.


    It wriggled in the air for a few moments, then transformed into a middle-aged wizard with a shadowy countenance.


    His body was semi-transparent gray, with worm-like ck patterns on the skin and some eerie ck spots interspersed within.