Chapter 194: A shocking battle (1/2)
Chapter 194: A shocking battle
In team Holy Dawn, even Carter was totally flabbergasted.
He’d been certain Rinloran was very strong when he saw him charge into the field the last time, but he hadn’t expected Rinloran to be this strong either!
“This guy’s actually a moonlight swordsman!”
Ivan was also astounded after seeing the crystal-like swords in Rinloran’s hands and the cross-shaped wound on Shukla’s chest.
“What’s a moonlight swordsman?” Charlotte and Wilde and the others immediately asked.
“A group of people in the ancient elven kingdom, the most agile and most expert in sword materialization skills. These people were all top powerhouses guarding the Tree of Life in the ancient elven kingdom.”
Ivan’s eyes widened in spite of himself. “Legends say the ancient elven kingdom’s moonlight swordsmen were so fast even their own eyes couldn’t clearly see their opponents or themselves. But they had a secret skill, called Cross Calibration! After leaving a cross-shaped sword wound on their opponent, then even when they move so fast they can’t clearly see the surrounding scene, the cross-shaped mark would still be a distinct existence in their eyes. Even if their opponent destroys this cross-shaped wound, this wound still continues to exist clearly in their awareness.”
“Moonlight swordsman?”
In a corner of the stands close to team Holy Dawn, the medical master Songat who been looking left and right at the pretty girls around him was also dumbstruck. “Liszt, where did your academy find such a high-level elf?”
Liszt also looked surprised. He said with a shrug, “We didn’t find him, he came to our academy on his own.”
“A high-level elf with a bloodline like that actually ran to Holy Dawn Academy out of nowhere?” Songat was totally speechless. But then he thought of something else all of a sudden. “Impossible, that guy clearly showed a forest guardian’s ability just earlier… Among elves, there’s a clear demarcation between forest guardians and moonlight swordsmen, because there’s a subtle difference in their bloodlines. How can he have both a forest guardian’s abilities while also having a moonlight swordsman’s skills?”
“There’s still one possibility.” Liszt smiled.
Songat suddenly froze. “His parents… One’s an elf with the bloodline of forest guardians, one’s an elf with the bloodline of moonlight swordsmen!”
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Inside the field, Shukla’s face had already darkened.
As one of the big three in Silver Trout, with the bloodline of double-headed poison dragons, he was a celebrity fighter completely at the same level as Audrey.
His poison skills and spiritual skills were advantages against any opponent, but these two advantages were entirely useless against Rinloran.
And now, Rinloran was clearly standing in front of him, but in his perception, Rinloran’s figure actually seemed empty already, as though it were only a mirage.
“What!”
He totally lost track of Rinloran the instant a bad premonition rose in his chest. Swords cruelly pierced him in four different spots on his body, almost at the same time!
Even if his body was wrapped in black dragon-scale-like light, these four stabs still left four wounds on him, spraying blood away.
“World of Wilting Crystal!”
He only managed to launch a skill after being stabbed four times. Irregular-shaped crystal latices suddenly flashed all around him, forming a protective barrier enveloping him entirely inside.
“Puff puff puff puff…”
Continuous striking sounds rose in the field, so fast it was hard to imagine.
Rinloran’s figure was entirely invisible. Only the countless sword flashes were visible, continuously striking at the “World of Wilting Crystal” around Shukla, splashing countless gray waves of air.
“So powerful!” Ayrin was dumbstruck. “Moss, you have to work harder. Rinloran is a lot stronger than you.”
Moss immediately shouted in dejection, “I knew you were going to make fun of me as soon as you came out!”
“Hmph!” Stingham was visibly a little shocked as well, but he immediately tossed his hair. “No matter how fast he is, he still isn’t better looking than me!”
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“He actually has the double bloodlines of forest guardians and moonlight swordsmen.”
In team Golden Stag, the cold-faced Hill who was always at odds with Rinsyi looked at Rinsyi, full of schadenfreude. “Rinsyi, don’t tell me you still don’t feel any pressure at all even now.”
“What pressure?”
Maybe it was because Sophia had told him he was too talkative in the match against Agate Lake Academy, or maybe because of the wound he’d suffered to his spiritual strength. In any case, Rinsyi was a lot less talkative than usual.
But hearing Hill’s words just then, he still smiled his usual cold smile and became wordier again. “No matter what, he’s still a two-gates arcane master. He can’t even break through Shukla’s defense. Even though he’s restraining some of Shukla’s blood powers, Shukla can still win just by making him consume all his arcane power, as long as he’s not an imbecile.”
“What!”
But just then, a collective cry of surprise came from the stands all of a sudden.
A bright blue sword flash suddenly appeared around Shukla!
This sword flash was still a full hundred meters away from Shukla when it lit up, then it instantly struck at the crystal shield around Shukla.
The instant it struck, everyone vaguely saw that Rinloran’s figure seemed to have entirely fused together with his swords. The longsword in his right hand, his right arm, and even half the side of his body all wafted with blue, crystal-light light.
“Bang!”
The whole crystal shield suddenly caved in the next moment and crumbled.
With the tip of his sword as the center, blast waves continuously fired off on the ground, causing the entire ground to make a strange humming sound.
The sword in his right hand also instantly dissolved, becoming countless fragments of crystal splashing away.