Volume 3 Chapter 124-3 The Wandering Straight Punch I
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
”Kian! Are you okay!? If you’re fine, get up quickly!”
Rean shouted while protecting Kian from behind.
The opening in his helmet, where sharp, jagged fangs were attached, opened wide, and a fierce voice echoed out.
”Sorry, thank you for the help.”
Vampires have very strong physical abilities.
Even nerves that a human couldn’t regrow can be quickly restored by them.
Kian healed his nerves and blood vessels. With his right hand working again, he pulled out the Windsong Blade and put it back into his belt.
”I’ll be the one to kill her! Aaaaaaah!”
Rean’s black magic power flared up.
He planned to use a single, powerful strike with his magic sword.
At that moment, Kian jumped up and attacked Linca from both sides with the Windsong Blade, striking quickly one after another. This caused a lot of dust to rise into the air.
People naturally find it hard to jump into areas where they can’t see clearly──or rather, his action was meant to give Rean a chance to hit Linca with his magic sword.
Just as Linca started to jump, she hesitated because the dust blurred her vision. In that moment of confusion, Rean finished charging his magic power.
”────”
Linca’s eyes narrowed sharply.
She must have realized she couldn’t dodge the attack and decided to face Rean directly.
Maybe she planned to use her ‘Penetration’ ability to pass through it──.
But instead, she pulled out the Shamshir sword from her waist.
Linca, who usually relies on her ‘Penetration’ ability for attacks, hadn’t drawn her sword until now. She normally fights using only her body, with both defense and attack being perfect. Even if she wears armor, it’s light and easy to move in, covering only the necessary parts.
So, why did she choose to use her sword now?
One reason might be because of enemies like Rean and Sarah, who can block her ‘Penetration’ ability.
Another reason could be that she recognized the form of the energy she was about to use next.
The energy of ‘Wall’──.
It’s one of the 4 basic techniques, a defensive skill that’s rarely used.
But she was definitely using a energy from the ‘Wall’ system.
Though, the way she used it was special, spreading its awareness like a mirror surface over a wide area in front of her.
Kian, based on Linca’s eye movements, posture, and changes in her aura, guessed what she was doing thanks to his many years of battle experience.
This is.
This strange, mirror-like expansion of her aura is.
”…! Rean, no good! It’s a secret technique! Something to bounce back a magic sword strike──”
”Roar! Black obsidian magic sword!”
Black magic power burst toward the sky from the tip of his straight sword.
Dark, black, darker than shadows.
The black power from the magic sword gave off a dangerous feeling, as if it were laughing.
”Blow awayyyyy!”
With a powerful swing, a thick wave of black magic power was thrown down over Linca’s head.
But Linca,
”────”
stopped it with her mirror-like aura.
No, she absorbed it.
The dark attack was greedily absorbed by Linca’s black chameleon shell.
Rean, who had unleashed the magic sword, gritted his teeth and glared forward. But he was completely confused when Linca wasn’t blown away, and a look of surprise crossed his face.
After moving away from the impact wave caused by Sven and the warrior monks, Kian landed on the roof. The scene from above looked very similar to what Kian had done to Oswald a few weeks ago.
The magic power from the sword attack ended.
Linca raised her black chameleon shell high and took elegant steps forward.
Then she swung her sword down toward the mirror-like aura.
”Wha────”
In an instant, a thick black line shot straight toward Rean.
”Whaaaaaaaat!?”
The scream came from Rean, who was usually calm.
He was frozen in the position he had used to unleash the magic sword and couldn’t move to dodge.
The black line hit Rean directly, blowing his body back like scraps of paper.
At the end of the courtyard, Rean was struck from behind by the wall connected to the mountain slope. The black magic power, now even stronger, swallowed his entire body.
The wall was instantly pierced through.
The mountain slope was also gouged out.
The thick black magic power shot back at him, piercing the mountain top and the night sky. It slowly faded away and eventually disappeared completely.
Inside the gouged hole, the small figure of Rean could be seen. His armor was cracked, and black smoke rose as he lost consciousness.
”────”
Linca gracefully swung the Shamshir once and carefully put the blade back into its scabbard at her waist.
This time, she faced Kian alone.
* * *
Once again, Kian was knocked back into the courtyard by her short-range teleportation.
But from that point on, her techniques became more familiar to Kian, and he started to respond better.
Her attacks are deadly and ignore defense, but since her goal is to capture Kian, she can’t aim at vital parts of his body, like his heart.
Also, it’s probably impossible for her to land attacks through him, so Kian doesn’t need to attack himself.
Therefore, until Sarah, who is likely defending Serena and Ninini on the other side, finishes dealing with intruders and comes to help, Kian just needs to keep dodging Linca’s attacks.
He can use Mist Form, create distance with ‘Leap’, and when escape seems impossible and she uses ‘Penetration’ to target his shoulders or legs, he will deliberately make her target the weak spots like the heart or neck as shields.
The more she attacks and defends, the more advantageous it becomes for Kian.
After a quick 2-hit punch, there’s a pause.
To close this gap, she launches sharp spinning kicks, which can be avoided by jumping backward out of her range.
Linca tries to chase Kian with short-range teleportation or sneak behind him for a surprise attack, but Kian reads her moves from her eye movements and breathing, skillfully dodging her attacks and avoiding getting hit.
It was the same when he fought Oswald.
The stronger the enemy, the more focused Kian becomes.
Wolfmen predicts the future with natural talent, while Kian predicts Linca’s next move based on his hard work and combat experience.
Dodge her attack in a state of nothingness.
Once you dodge, you can dodge the next blow and predict the movement to connect to the next one.
That was the pattern.
Thanks to the past 20 years of fighting only stronger opponents, he was good at this kind of fighting, where he always runs away and keeps himself safe.
”…so tough.”
A continuous teleportation attack aimed at the neck caused Linca’s eyes to twist.
Her right hand swells and tries to tear the nerves in her shoulder, but that move has been seen many times.
If you dodge and follow further, you can step in and aim for the neck bones.
When Linca changes the attack to ‘pierce’ when he moves left, he hits the same spot slightly behind.
Damage builds up, but a vampire’s excellent physical ability makes it impossible to do so while leaping.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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