Chapter 35: Hello, Goodbye.
When using a blade technique, if the longsword suddenly disappears, it's only natural for the move to be interrupted.
Su Xiao's body paused. The burly man, Cro, closest to him, immediately seized the opportunity and threw a straight punch forward.
A dark yellow dragon head appeared, and with a rumble, Cro's fist slammed into Su Xiao's jaw.
Su Xiao's body flew backward. After tumbling more than ten meters, he landed in a crouch, only to stand up the next moment.
Cro flexed his fingers, his gaze fixed on Su Xiao in the rain. He had finally landed a punch on his enemy!
Crack.
Su Xiao tilted his head, the crystal layer at his jaw and neck shattering.
"If I'm not mistaken, seventy percent of his ability is in his blade. We have a chance. Don't be intimidated by his reputation as the arena's top rank; after all, we're still in the top thirty."
Cro's words were a reminder to his teammates: whatever you do, don't let the enemy retrieve his blade, or they were dead for sure.
A thick, arm-length, shimmering white energy thread coiled around the Dragon-Slaying Flash. Clearly, the angel girl was also aware of this.
Although these three's banter was a bit silly, their strength was undeniable. They were all top-tier Fifth Rank fighters.
Su Xiao's hand clenched empty air. The Dragon-Slaying Flash suddenly lifted, but the angel girl yanked it back with her energy thread.
Bang!
Mud and water splashed under Su Xiao's feet. He had only taken two steps forward before stopping, because the leather-clad man and Cro were both blocking the angel girl.
"Brother, it doesn't feel good to be without a weapon, does it? Sorry for being so underhanded, but we want to live just as much."
The leather-clad man stretched out his hands. Whatever his ability type was, it actually formed a longsword identical to the Dragon-Slaying Flash.
"Oh hoho, this is really powerful. A sixty-five percent synchronization rate already surpasses an Epic-grade weapon."
The leather-clad man held the sword with both hands, his aura shifting, becoming sharp and keen. Clearly, he was replicating or imitating Su Xiao's abilities.
Banishment peeled away from Su Xiao's sleeve, eventually forming the shape of a longsword.
"Just a temporary weapon."
The leather-clad man shot forward with a bang. The moment he charged, his expression twisted in pain. Synchronizing Su Xiao's blade techniques, strength, and agility attributes placed an immense burden on him.
"Cover me. I'm really strong right now."
The leather-clad man's shout was answered by the burly Cro. They charged at Su Xiao from left and right, crisscrossing positions as they ran.
"Azure Demon!"
Clang~
A blue blade aura slashed out. The leather-clad man actually used 'Blade Path: Azure Demon,' but it was a smaller version.
'Blade Path: Azure Demon.'
Su Xiao swung his blade in a diagonal slash.
Clang!
A massive, blue-green blade aura slashed forth. This was the Azure Demon empowered by 'Blade Extreme,' its slashing power and speed surging dramatically.
The leather-clad man's eyes widened. The situation was completely different from what he had imagined. Judging by the power gap between the identical techniques, the synchronization rate probably couldn't even reach sixty percent.
"Dodge..."
The leather-clad man roared, but it was too late.
A severed arm and three fingers flew through the air. The blood splattering midair was swallowed by the rain.
Thud, thud...
Both the leather-clad man and Cro rolled several times on the ground before scrambling to their feet.
"This is completely unwinnable, brother. We're dead this time for sure."
The leather-clad man's words received no response. He looked at Cro. The burly man, now missing an arm, was sitting on the ground, one hand pressed to his head. A line of blood slanted across his entire face. His head... had been split open. He was as good as dead.
Countless shimmering white beams shot toward Su Xiao. Su Xiao slashed out a few times, shattering the Banishment blade in his hand, but it reformed the next moment.
The angel girl was doing her utmost to hold Su Xiao back, but the leather-clad man was unable to fight for the time being. The muscles in his arm were starting to tear. Azure Demon was a technique Su Xiao had developed based on his own physique; without high constitution, it was impossible to use it unscathed.
"Great. Now we're definitely dead for sure."
The leather-clad man tossed aside the knockoff Dragon-Slaying Flash in his hand. Synchronizing felt great for a moment, but doing it continuously would get you killed.
Su Xiao shattered the last incoming shimmering white ray. His left hand clenched empty air, and the Dragon-Slaying Flash lifted again.
Seeing this, the angel girl's heart clenched. The enemy had been beating them into the ground even without his main weapon. Once he had it back, everything would be over.
'Blade Path: Blood Blade.'
Su Xiao assumed a draw-cutting stance, his target: the female Battle Angel.
Just as Su Xiao was about to streak out as a line of blood and complete the instant slash of Blood Blade, a spatial fluctuation appeared.
Bang!
Like a clap of thunder, a spear made of crystal materialized out of thin air.
Su Xiao's eyes narrowed. His blood energy erupted violently. The Dragon-Slaying Flash not far away rose with dark blue smoke.
Su Xiao made a pulling motion. The angel girl felt a tremendous force transmitted through her hand, yanking her forward a few stumbling steps. The energy thread snapped with a crack.
The angel girl was horrified to realize that the enemy hadn't been trying his hardest to take back the blade before.
With a slap, Su Xiao grasped the Dragon-Slaying Flash. His aura surged dramatically.
The crystal spear pierced through layers of air, hurtling toward Su Xiao.
Clang!
The crystal spear shattered. Su Xiao held the Dragon-Slaying Flash diagonally pointing at the ground, large shards of transparent crystal spraying before him.
Crack, crack, crack, crack...
Like ice freezing, starting from the point of that spatial fluctuation, a vast expanse of transparent crystal spread out, freezing an area several hundred meters in radius.
"Dead Silence..."
Su Xiao clenched his left fist, ready to activate the Dead Silence Descends ability, but he immediately stopped.
With a shattering sound, the several-hundred-meter-diameter crystal mass broke apart, gradually dissipating into the air.
"Finally showed yourself."
Su Xiao picked up a piece of dissipating transparent crystal from the ground. Before the battle, he had vaguely sensed something was wrong. When he arrived here, he had felt a sense of crisis.
The three-member Battle Angel team was indeed troublesome, but if Su Xiao went all out, his chances of winning were high. He shouldn't have felt this kind of crisis.
Because of this, Su Xiao had deliberately held back to lure out the source of that crisis. And after he killed one of them, the one hidden in the shadows finally made a move.
Su Xiao couldn't sense the opponent's strength very clearly, but his Instinct's warning was that in a life-or-death battle, a fifty percent win rate would be good.
The transparent crystal slowly dissipated in Su Xiao's hand. The two Battle Angels had vanished without a trace.
[Notification: Detected unknown space-time power.]
[Notification: Detected unnumbered contractor.]
[Expelling...]
[Expulsion completed.]
[Forced execution completed at 30%, interrupted by unknown space-time power.]
[Forcibly stripping space-time power...]
[Reincarnation Paradise has forcibly seized 157.9 ounces of space-time power.]
[Notification: Hunter has obtained Soul Crystal (Complete) x25.]
...
In the rain, a smile appeared on Su Xiao's face. Compared to those somewhat silly Battle Angels, the one hidden in the shadows was the real threat. But since they chose to make a move, they had to pay the price.
Su Xiao didn't know what it felt like to have thirty percent of your existence forcibly executed, but he imagined it wasn't pleasant.
Su Xiao let out a long breath and sheathed the Dragon-Slaying Flash. With the hidden danger dealt with, he could now freely engage in slaughter with those from Apocalypse Paradise.
And Reincarnation Paradise was also fierce. Although it hadn't succeeded in the execution, it had plundered 157.9 ounces of space-time power and even gave Su Xiao a cut of 25 Soul Crystals (Complete).