At Peizi's thought, the tip of the ring suddenly opened a hole and fired a tiny black metal needle.
It was a tool specifically designed to target mages: an Armor-Piercing Needle made from special Magic-Breaking Alloy. When fired at an extremely high initial velocity, it could easily pierce ordinary light armor and the Low-Rank magical armor mages routinely maintained.
It was coated with the paralytic venom of the Black Mamba King Snake, a famous rare Third Rank poisonous snake. Since its venom was not lethal, it could affect even Fourth Rank Professionals at most.
That was right. The legendary Paralysis Ring.
Its greatest advantage was that the mana fluctuation it produced upon activation was incredibly faint. When caught unprepared, it was very easy to be successfully ambushed by it.
Especially now, with a huge unknown monster pursuing them from behind, the chaotic aura in the surroundings made its launch even harder to detect.
Whoosh—
With an almost imperceptible sound, Luo Qi, who was running, suddenly felt his lower back go numb. His entire body swiftly stiffened beyond his control.
...What happened?
Because of that unexpected turn, his aura suddenly became unstable. The spell effect enhancing his movement speed, which he had been maintaining, instantly collapsed. Carried by inertia, the bewildered Luo Qi crashed hard to the ground.
Mengduoluo and Matt immediately noticed something was wrong with Luo Qi. They hurriedly formed a rope with Magic and gave him a pull, forcibly dragging him forward as they ran, but their own speed was inevitably slowed.
With one side gaining speed and the other losing it, Peizi swiftly closed the distance to the three of them and quickly overtook them.
At this point, there were only a little over ten seconds left before they reached the gate ahead. Ailisha, who was charging