Chapter 185: Masters of the Four Factions (Part 2)
Facing the sharp and narrow rapier, the young girl did not choose to counter with a sword like before, but instead adopted a similar long weapon. She clasped the lance with both hands, the tip of the lance met the sword aura in mid-air, resulting in the sound of shattering glass.
The shards of this shattered glass were extremely sharp, cutting towards the girl holding the lance. Although Tilan had put up a defense, the force field halo surrounding her body was easily sliced open, and bloody marks were opened up on her body.
"Ha, the little girl still suffers from inexperience, the glass of the Lion Glaze Faction, renowned for its sharpness and danger."
After their initial exchange, the two separated again. Erzhiyin swung the hilt of her sword, countless tiny light specks appeared in the air, forming once more into pieces of transparent glass, and then were reassembled into a flawless transparent blade. On the other side, Tilan thoughtfully touched the blood marks on her cheek, and then the wounds on her body healed, even the slits on her clothes mended.
After learning from each other's experiences, they clashed once again. This time Erzhiyin didn't hold back; not only did the patterns on the rapier in her hands shine, but six diamond-shaped glass wings vaguely appeared behind her, further increasing her speed. In battle, she could instantaneously execute seven backslashes; if her opponent couldn't react quickly, they would likely be dismembered into pieces in less than two seconds.
However, Tilan had already become familiar with this kind of high-speed combat mode during her time in high school. Her reactions were equally quick, her form alternately shifting between the void and reality, and she moved rapidly, appearing and disappearing suddenly. Not only did she manage to evade Erzhiyin's seven backslashes, but during the final charge, she flipped mid-air and stabbed from behind, her lance tip piercing Erzhiyin's body, instantly dyeing the bright yellow ceremonial dress crimson.
Extracting the lance and flicking away the bloodstains, Tilan looked at Erzhiyin, who staggered a few steps forward with a pale complexion, without rushing in for a follow-up strike.
However, the wound on the opponent gradually spread with silver cracks, eventually covering and eroding her entire body. These cracks impeded the circulation of magic power, making it sluggish and halted. If not for this, with Erzhiyin's Sequence 7 Master Level strength, she wouldn't have been defeated in one move, at most spitting blood, still with the power to fight to the death.
This was a sealing method she learned from the cult, which could obstruct and seal the absorption and circulation of magic power, being the nemesis of many bizarre faction secret techniques.
In just a few minutes in front of them, a top Sequence 7 Master had thus fallen. The others were incredibly surprised; imagining themselves, they wouldn't have dared to say they could survive under Erzhiyin's terrifying speed-enhanced consecutive slashes, and this person actually remained unscathed, even faster than Erzhiyin.
Seeing their faction's Master in a dangerous situation, two 'Lion Stream' Transcendents stepped out, first clasping their hands and bowing, then going up to support Erzhiyin offstage for recuperation and treatment.
Seeing they had lost one, the remaining three no longer approached one by one but went up together. In response, Tilan lightly spun the lance in her hand, then it dissipated, and a gray great scythe of the same style appeared in her hand, with the scythe blade thin as a crescent moon, and fine dark red streaks on the long handle.
Since it was three against one, she could not hold back.
"Blood Moon Witch·True Red as Blood!"
Also once the pride of the Jade Skirt Northern Academy, the Witch Secret Technique taught by the Tri-Phase Moon Academy was now displayed in her hands.
Threads of bright red magic power surfaced on her body. The originally withering sequence of magic power at this moment transformed into another bright red type of magic power, and this kind of power filled with madness and slaughter began to rapidly flow within her body. Generally speaking, although this secret technique could greatly amplify strength in a short time, its side effects on the body were also great, with risks of losing control and mental disorder.
The Blood Moon Witch·Julius was the first witch of the First Era and the pioneer and founder of the Demon Sequence. At that time, the Demon Sequence was extremely mad, completely focused on attaining a thin line of life at all costs as a battle sequence, far from the refinement and perfection of later generations.
But it was precisely this will to survive at death's door that eventually created humanity's first Empire, the True Red Empire.
"Now it's dangerous." The observing faction master murmured lowly, then focused all attention on the field.
Facing the girl who transformed magic power, Cabernet of 'Moon Scar' was the first to step forward. He broke through the atmosphere at a speed no less than Erzhiyin, accompanied by an explosive sonic boom, wielding a blade to slash. The weird and continuous blade shadows were like waves, hard to see the angle clearly, and even harder to discern gaps.
The silver-gray-haired girl gripped the long handle of the scythe with both hands, flipping and slashing, repeatedly engaging and counterattacking in a time frame difficult for others to react, both sides without pause, crossing back and forth across various points in the field, with occasional residual waves and blade arcs slicing through the hall, piercing through walls and vanishing from sight.
This dangerous spectacle made the onlookers incredibly anxious, quickly coordinating to cast barriers, barely ensuring the safety of the personnel nearby.
While Cabernet entangled Tilan, on the side, Masgley began arranging the array. The book in his hand opened, with silver metal pages flipping one by one, subsequently causing complex branded patterns to emerge, rise into the air, descend to the ground. Soon, the entire Heart Image World began to collapse and disintegrate, the audience gradually returned to reality, and the previously seemingly powerful girl now didn't appear so strong.
On the other side, Minna, holding the Life Red Fruit, was continuously infusing magic power, and the pulsing fruit emitted an increasingly large red glow, as if it could touch her very heart.