Chapter 79 - Noirs sacrifice (1/2)

Gary had done well, overcoming an opponent that was far stronger than him. Now it was my turn to do the same.

The man I was facing wasn't skilful with the sword. The problem was his equipment. They were incredibly high level. Every time we were locked in combat when I managed to get a punch in. It didn't seem to affect him at all. If I couldn't harm my opponent there was no way of me defeating him.

The man swung his sword at me, I knocked it away with the gauntlet and punched towards his chest again. Hoping that a second blow in the same area might do something. But the man didn't even move back, bringing his sword towards me again. I covered my hand with a cross block. the sword clashed against my gauntlets, I stepped back and looked down at my hands, there were now several dents in them. Sooner or later they would break.

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With the chains man's chain now broken he dropped the chain to the ground and pulled out a sickle.

”You're just an intermediate beast, I've killed hundreds of your kind,” The man said.

Noir was being cautious circling around the man, her biggest advantage against the man was her speed. Noir then pounced with her horn forward, aiming to pierce the man. The man quickly blocked the attack and tried hacking back at Noir But she was too fast and pounced back.

Noir repeated the same thing several times but it was useless, the man would just block her attacks. She came up with a new plan and started running in full circles around the man. She was hoping that her speed would be too fast for the man to keep up with her. Not knowing where she would attack.

The man then picked up part of the chain on the ground and threw it towards Noir. It managed to just catch her leg causing her to fall to the ground, her leg was now injured and bleeding.

”Crap I need to do something.” Gary thought. He had been watching the whole thing as he was meditating. Gary was trying to use his Ki hoping to recover faster. Gary had only seen Slyvia do it once but that was enough for Gary to understand the concept behind it.

Gary had now healed just enough to move. The man got closer to Noir, he lifted his sickle towards Noir ready to stab her. Suddenly a blade struck the sickle out of the man's hand. Gary had leapt across and managed to reach the man just in time but in doing so his wounds had reopened. Gary could no longer move and fell to the ground again.

”You idiot, it's just a beast. Why would you risk your life for it?” The man said.

As the man bent down to pick up his sickle. Gary threw his blade towards Noir.

”Fight like your master.” Gary thought to himself.

Noir jumped up to the blade and grabbed the hilt between its teeth. As the man bent back up, his head was already rolling on the ground. Noir had dashed across using the blade to slice at the man's head off.

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None of my attacks were working but I still had one more thing I wanted to try. I had no idea if it would work on not, it was risky.

As the flaming swordsmen saw another one of his men defeated, he quickly shot out flames of fire towards the man's head and body. This was my opportunity to strike. If there was one weak place it would be the mask. It didn't look like beast gear. I reached out my hand and managed to grab hold of the man's mask.