133 Lucien’s Identity (2/2)

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Grabbing Alert with both of his hands, Lucien jumped down toward Aaron from above, hacking with his sword.

Aaron’s reaction was fast. He raises the black dagger in his right hand to block the fierce attack, summoned his black fire on his left fist and aimed a punch at Lucien’s abdomen.

”Clang!”

When the weapons touched, Lucien’s sword left a small gap on the edge of Aaron’s weapon. In the next moment, Lucien pulled back his sword and dematerialized his body into moonlight to avoid Aaron’s fist.

”Not even of a real knight’s power!” Aaron sneered. When he recognized Lucien, he became more confident.

As a dark knight, Aaron was even faster than Lucien, not to mention his reaction speed and strength.

Lucien kept a distance away from Aaron by using his sword, which was longer than the enemy’s weapon. However, Lucien noticed that the black fire covering the dagger could slowly corrode the Alert’s blade.

Aaron chose not to launch his attack in the front, instead, he tried to approach Lucien from different angles, and his movements were not meant to actually damage, but more to probe.

It was not a waste of time for Aaron, and he was actually very smart. Since Aaron was much more powerful, there must be a reason why Lucien would be confident enough to ambush him like that. The only possible explanation, based on what just happened to Verdi, was that Lucien had some magic items.

Aaron needed to keep moving around, in case any of Lucien’s magic item could lock him as the target.

Lucien was not as fast as Aaron, and soon his body was covered by wounds left by Aaron’s dagger. Although these wounds were small and not deep, they were covered with small clusters of black fire. As if they were alive, the clusters of fire were trying to enter into Lucien’s body through the small wounds to suck his strength.

With another quick attack, Aaron’s dagger tore down a piece of cloth in front of Lucien’s chest, revealing the amulet Sun’s Corona, that Lucien was wearing on his neck.

”Look at you.” As he was swiftly moving around, it sounded like Aaron’s voice was coming from all directions, ”You’re nobody, but you have a fine sword, a nice magic ring, and even a badge from the Church. I wonder if you are Natasha’s secret lover, haha.”

Lucien was still wielding his sword to block Aaron’s attack as much as possible.

”But that’s okay,” said Aaron. ”Soon, they will all be mine.”

As Aaron was talking, he was trying to recall and calculate how many times Lucien had activated his magic items. Then, Aaron’s attack became fiercer and fiercer, since he wanted to force Lucien into using the two items in case there was still any power left in them.

Lucien seemed to be pretty weak, and all he could do was stand there and wield his sword. For a couple of times, he could not even stand on his feet since the black fire was eating up his strength.

After testing Lucien by pushing him into his limit countless times, Aaron believed that the young man had already used all the power in his magic items for that night.

Before Aaron launched his new round of attacks, Lucien’s legs were already too weak to support his weight. With a twist in his ankles, Lucien fell over in front of the strange-shaped stone.

Aaron almost felt amused by this scene, ”Are you kidding me? Jumping toward me from the tree was all that you had prepared? Very touching… you want to die for your beloved princess?”

Lifting his dagger again, this time Aaron targeted Lucien’s back neck!

Suddenly, a thin, arc-shaped shield appeared above Lucien and stopped Aaron’s dagger.

Neither of his magic items was shining. It was Lucien’s own power.

”A sorcerer?!”

Lots of memories and thoughts flashed across Aaron’s mind, his eyes suddenly opened wide,

”You’re… Professor?!”

”Am I?” Lucien turned around and a mysterious smile appeared on Lucien’s face. At the same time, Lucien pulled out his right hand from the dirt, in which there was a dark red bracelet.

Before Aaron managed to turn himself into a shadow and back away from Lucien, a powerful fire ball suddenly burst out from the bracelet and pushed Aaron backward fiercely.

”Farewell, Mr. Aaron.” Lucien nodded, smiling.

Level three high rank magic item, Fire Weaver Bracelet, previously owned by Fire Wolf, which was enchanted with two magic spells: Flame Shield, a second circle spell, twice a day; and Fireball, third circle spell, twice a day.

The fireball covering Aaron’s upper body blazed. When Aaron’s body hit the ground a second later, only the lower part was left.

When Lucien stood up holding the bracelet, he heard Natasha’s familiar voice, ”Professor…?!”

Turning around, Lucien saw Natasha standing on the other side with Thunder in her hand, looking rather shocked.