"Full speed ahead!"

In the dim canyon, Jiang Ren sat awkwardly on the head of a centipede skull and kept urging it to speed up.

At this time, he was no longer as free and easy as he had been back half a month ago.

Most of the snow-white body, which is like a work of art, is stained with charred marks that are like those left by lightning strikes. Clear gaps and a large number of small cracks can be seen on many bones.

Even the fire of the soul has become like wax in the wind, constantly flickering.

And the initiator of all this is the undead who are chasing after him.

——Death Knight, Ortega.

Relying on the powerful pursuit ability brought by the third stage bone horse, it firmly bit the centipede skeleton, which was also in the third stage, and even attacked and killed it several times, cutting off nearly a quarter of its body behind it.

What's more, Jiang Ren's injuries are obvious at a glance.

However, even with this kind of injury.

The main reason is that Ortega has not recovered from the injuries caused by the beating and cannot exert his full strength. Otherwise, Jiang Ren would be either dead or captured.

"It's still a miscalculation."

While Jiang Ren threatened it with the soul fragment of the centipede skeleton to speed up, he looked back at the approaching death knight.

Returned to the abyss half a month ago.

It only took him one day to escape to other lords' territories.

The following time was spent in competition with abyssal creatures and the human world. Everything was originally supposed to be like this with twists and turns, but in the end, it was promoted to the fourth stage without any danger.

But accidents always appear when they shouldn't.

Just two days ago, Jiang Rengang helped Ellie get a ticket to advance to the finals. As soon as he returned, he found Ortega nearby.

I don’t know why the other party dared to break into other territories.

Anyway, he is here, and the target is him.

If it weren't for the rush these days, he forced an undead who had reached the third stage and was famous for his speed to sacrifice a piece of soul fire, and he was always on standby nearby.

If he couldn't wait until now, he, who was not good at speed, would fall directly there.

As for the original method of using Ellie as an anchor and running to the human world to save his life.

It's not that he doesn't want to implement it, but that he can't even communicate with Ellie when he is locked by a powerful Qi machine that is one level higher, let alone run to the human world through a contract.

boom!

Suddenly there was a loud noise behind him.

Jiang Ren had a premonition and turned around to see a black spot falling rapidly from the sky behind him.

The black spot is Ortega who has just left the horse and is holding two giant swords.

Huge body, precise control.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely fall next to Jiang Ren and cause fatal damage to him and the Centipede Skeleton.

"Duel by name."

Jiang Ren didn't panic at all, and used his strongest talent on the centipede skeleton sitting next to him.

Wow!

The death knight's giant sword emitted dark blue flames as it fell.

It has a terrifying magic power attached to it.

Both speed and strength have been improved to a certain extent.

However, just when Ortega landed accurately and the giant sword was about to hit Jiang Ren, an invisible force emerged, guiding the giant sword to slide to the ground aside.

Boom!

The giant sword hit the ground, shattering a piece of hard stone into a pile of rubble, which mixed with magic power and exploded and spattered around.

Because the distance is too close.

Part of the gravel directly hit the centipede skeleton, forcibly breaking off more than a dozen of its legs.

But even so, the centipede skeleton showed no signs of stopping.

The body was like a centipede, and the densely packed legs underneath it were like phantoms, carrying Jiang Ren and quickly distanced themselves from Ortega.

Followed by a horse roar.

The huge flaming bone horse chased after him.

Ortega calmly stood up from the ground, jumped on the spot, and at the same time as he fell, the bone horse just ran under him, carrying him to continue the pursuit.

"If this continues, I'll have to do it three more times at most, and I won't be able to run anymore."

Jiang Ren glanced back and noticed that the speed of the centipede skeleton had weakened slightly.

The talent of named duel is really good.

It can be said to be the most powerful weapon in a duel, and it can also achieve the ability to avoid the attacks of strong players by skillfully using some of its mandatory skills.

But talent is talent after all, and how much power it can exert depends largely on the user.

Facing a death knight who is one level above him, the biggest effect of this talent is to forcefully distort the opponent's attack when it is first turned on, but the effect only works once.

Moreover, it cannot be reused in a short period of time.

This also gave Ortega a way to crack it.

It pretends to attack the body, but actually targets the surrounding rocks, triggering a sputtering range attack.

The injuries on Jiang Ren's body, as well as the parts of the body that were destroyed by the centipede skeleton, and the dozens of broken legs underneath him are good proof.

"Jiang, surrender to me and give me your loyalty."

Ortega stared at Jiang Ren coldly, and a cold voice sounded in the canyon: "I will give you supreme power and glory!"

When Jiang Ren heard this, he turned around and shouted: "Stop, and I will surrender to you."

He is one level higher than himself, and yet he dares to say that he is given supreme power and glory. This shameless lie is no less than that of a human politician.

Ortega obviously understood that Jiang Ren's words were not sincere. Not only did he not stop, he continued to shout: "Submit to life, betray to death."

"If I really listen to you, I won't even know how to die."

Jiang Ren chuckled and ignored Ortega.

In the past two days, they had spoken to each other no less than a hundred times, but no matter what he said, Ortega always insisted on him.

"According to the current situation, it won't be long before the Centipede Skeleton will be maimed."

"Once it loses its speed, I will be like a turtle in a urn, and I can only be slaughtered..."

The more critical this moment was, the calmer Jiang Ren felt: "However, I am not helpless."

The reason why he kept the Centipede Skeleton running away was not only to try to escape Ortega's pursuit, but also to delay time.

"Calculating the time, it should be almost the finals of the selection competition now."

Jiang Ren looked at the endless canyon ahead, and the fire of his soul paused slightly.

Although he was unable to take the initiative to escape to the human world because he was locked by the powerful Qi machine.

But as long as Ellie takes the initiative to call, he can break through the locks and restrictions of the qi machine by responding to the call.

It didn't take long.

Ortega once again jumped from his horse, crossed a distance of several thousand meters, and fell rapidly from a height of hundreds of meters.

Even if Jiang Ren uses the feature of named duel again.

But this time the situation is much worse than before.

The shattered gravel and energy instantly destroyed nearly one-fifth of the Centipede Skeleton's legs, causing its speed to drop slightly.

"If you do it again, I'm afraid it will be useless."

Jiang Ren turned around and focused all his attention on Ortega, who was getting closer.

I was thinking about what methods I should use if he catches up with me or the centipede skeleton loses the ability to escape, so as to delay as much time as possible.

——"Little skeleton!"

Suddenly, Ellie's voice sounded in Jiang Ren's mind.

Feeling the pulling force coming from his mind, Jiang Ren immediately gave the order to the centipede skeleton to escape on his own, and then responded to the call.

In the blink of an eye, he disappeared.

"River!"

Ortega shouted, jumped from the bone horse, and soon landed on the centipede skeleton.

The heavy sword as big as the door panel slashed down hard.

In an instant, the body in the middle of the centipede skeleton was chopped into pieces and divided into two parts, front and back.
To be continued...