Chapter 175: Counterfeits
The long sword in the man's hand shook, and at the same time, his body moved violently, he was worthy of being the Sword Saint Emperor of the Empire, and the snow-white sword light appeared in front of Alice almost in the next instant.
In the face of the man's sword, Alice didn't have any extra expression, just frowned slightly, raised the two hidden blades burning with black flames in her hand and met them.
"Ding!!"
The long sword and the Hidden Blade collided together, and between the two of them, small sparks kept flashing on the blade.
However, it is clear that Alice, who is now suffering from two stab wounds, is not a man's opponent, and he sees that the Hidden Blade in his hand is gradually unable to support under the gradual strength of the man.
As an experienced assassin, Alice is indeed not good at head-on confrontation with others, and now he has lost the advantage of being an assassin, but he is also good at finding opportunities to counterattack in the resistance of his target, and defeating the strong with the weak.
No longer competing with the man for brute force, the Hidden Blade in Alice's hand quickly flipped over, ignoring the pain of the blade cutting through the palm of her hand, directly pressing down the man's long sword, and the other Hidden Blade was also unsheathed at the same time, straight to the man's throat.
"Wh... ”
The man didn't expect that it was just the first time that the two of them clashed, and when both sides should still be testing each other's details, the other party directly used this attack method that was close to self-harm.
"Is this going to be a winner in a short period of time? Aren't you going to procrastinate?"
Although the man was surprised, he was not panicked, although Alice's move was indeed beyond his expectations, but it was not enough to make him scramble.
Quickly raised his head, flashed Alice's Hidden Blade, the man snorted lightly, and at the same time quickly shook the long sword in his hand, turned into a pick, and slashed at Alice's chest, and if this blow was successful, he was afraid that the assassin who was his opponent would be seriously injured on the spot.
However, a blow with such an obvious intention naturally could not help an experienced assassin, who used his Hidden Blade to pick away the man's long sword, Alice gave up continuing the pursuit, and regardless of the bleeding left hand, quickly opened the distance between the two, and once again put on the posture of counterattacking just now, staring at the man's every move.
And the man naturally wouldn't just keep consuming with Alice like this, and after quickly adjusting the posture of his body, he picked up the long sword in his hand again, and launched a charge again, and at the same time guarded against Alice's attack that was just now.
However, no matter how much a man is guarded, and even dances a lot of false sword lights, Alice's Hidden Blade can always pick a blow that really contains power, and skillfully remove its strength, and at the same time use some large or small "costs" in exchange for the man's short-term flaws to create his own opportunities to attack.
After several surprises, the man still had a few more wounds on his body, one of which even hurt his wrist, which he used to hold a sword.
However, even if he has the advantage now, Alice, on the other hand, has far more wounds on his body than men, after all, his almost self-harming methods do not necessarily hit his opponents, but every time he attacks, he will leave large and small scars on his body.
There was no wind, no dust, not even the insects and birds that were supposed to be there in the quiet woods, as if everything was frozen by the duel between Alice and the man.
Attacking, countering, swapping, dodging... Between the two constantly attacking and defending each other, the man suddenly understood that the guy in front of him would use this kind of play that was almost self-defeating, not because he didn't want to delay time, but because he was a strategy to prolong the battle as long as possible.
Probably the other party knew that it would be difficult for him to compete with him as a sword master, and he was also injured, so in order to make up for the gap between the two as much as possible, the assassin chose to completely sacrifice his slim chance of victory, while minimizing the degree of injury, he used an almost lethal attack to make him unable to exit, and at the same time predicted and dodged his next counterattack.
In this way, it can really keep his attention on him at all times, and it can delay as much time as possible.
Even if this guy is gambling with his own life ...
"If you look at it this way, this guy is also determined. ”
The man thought so, but the sword in his hand was raised again, although he did admire the assassin in front of him a little, but he had lost too much time, he didn't want to, he couldn't delay it any longer, otherwise once the sinner broke the seal of the mages just now, it would be very difficult to catch her again.
However, what the man didn't expect was that the offensive and defensive battle between him and the assassin did not continue, and even the victory or defeat may never be divided.
It was an inconspicuous spot of cyan on the distant horizon.
The spot is not big, and even so small that it is difficult for people to notice it immediately, but it is such an insignificant thing, but the man who inadvertently discovers it can't help but be unable to leave his sight again.
Swinging his sword to force the assassin in front of him away, the man frowned, while alerting the assassin, he kept observing the gradually expanding blue spots in the distance with his peripheral vision, Rao couldn't let him understand what those blue spots were eating away at the sky, and why they spread so quickly, was it a conspiracy against him, or some destructive forbidden spell?
The man couldn't figure it out, because he had never seen a similar spell, and he couldn't figure out who would come to him when he was in the limelight, but the man was shrouded in an indescribable palpitation, as if the blue spots in the distance were gradually eating away at his life while they were constantly expanding.
"What the hell is that? Assassin... Let's stop first... ”
The blue spots that appeared in the distance made the man feel like a fish in his throat, and even made him have no mind to continue the duel with Alice.
However, before he could finish saying that he wanted to stop fighting, Alice, who was still waiting for a counterattack, threw out a throwing knife hidden in her waist, and at the same time, the Hidden Blade in her hand turned sharply and stabbed straight into the man's chest and throat.
It's just such a blow that takes the lead, but it doesn't hurt the man in the slightest, but it is more like a fuse that completely ignites the man's uneasiness.
"Alright, stop it!"
Picking up the flying secret weapon, the man suddenly burst out with a roar, and at the same time, an invisible wave of qi violently vibrated out of the man's mouth.
"Hmph... Alice was naturally not frightened by the man's roar, and while completely ignoring the other party's words, the Hidden Blade in her hand flipped again, forcibly changing their original trajectory, and directly hitting the man's eyes at a more tricky angle.
"You... ”
The man's face changed, but in the face of such a ferocious attack, he strangely did not raise his long sword again to resist, but gritted his teeth, threw away the weapon violently, and directly met Alice's two hidden blades with both hands.
Alice didn't expect that the man would learn from him like this, although he didn't know what medicine was sold in the other party's gourd, but it was really difficult to take it back easily with all his strength, so Alice could only stab the sword in her hand faster and harder, and bring more damage to the man as much as possible.
"Poof. The short sword entered the flesh, and a large amount of blood flowed out of the man's palm, but the man seemed to have no feeling at all, and at the same moment when the palm was pierced, he squeezed Alice's hands tightly, and at the same time, his head was quickly aimed at Alice's head, and he slammed into it.
"I said it, stop it!!"
"Bump. ”
The impact stunned Alice's brain, followed by a knee that hit him in the lower abdomen and a kick that kicked him eight feet away.
"Hmm... Such a strong blow almost made Alice vomit yesterday's dinner, but now he didn't care about that, what he cared about was the fact that he had been defeated.
Whether it is him who is in the world of assassination, or the battle-hardened sword master in front of him, he is an experienced warrior, and now his skills are not as good as others, and he is one move worse, and he is used by the other party to take advantage of the flaws in his attack under the rush for quick success, and now what awaits him is only death.
In fact, death was nothing to Alice, and he had the impression that he should have died a long time ago, at the hands of the child who avenged his father last night.
He was just a little sorry for the sinner girl who escaped, and he didn't know if he had helped her gain enough time, and he just hoped that his efforts would not be in vain.
However, Alice, who was waiting for death in the fall, did not wait for the butcher knife that cut off his head as imagined, just like the man deliberately wanted to let him go, and the other party even gave him the opportunity to turn over and readjust his body after he landed, and when Alice regrouped and looked at the man again, he found that the other party actually exposed his back to him.
Alice frowned, leaving her back to an assassin, a normal guy wouldn't do that, and just as he was in doubt, he finally spotted the blue spots that had taken up almost half of the sky.
"What the hell are those spots... At this time, Alice finally realized that something was wrong, and seemed to understand what the other party wanted to say just now, and why she didn't take her own life.
To be reasonable, the whole sky is being swallowed up by those unknown things, and it looks like it is about to spread to their side, and the two of them are still fighting here to the death, entangled.
"You haven't seen it, you haven't even felt it? It's really like that guy's way of switching world forms, but I obviously didn't accept her invitation... As if the fight between the two had never happened at all, the man's tone was hurried, his expression was full of unease, and he didn't even care about the knife that Alice was still sharpening behind his back.
And between his words, those cyan spots that should have been far away in the sky have actually occupied half of the world of the palace at this moment, and in the world that has been changed by blue spots, a new scene has gradually been reflected.
The mountain, the water, the tower, the palace, just like the imperial palace that still existed not long ago, is real, but it reveals an inexplicable illusion.
They are like drops of ink soaked in clear water, constantly penetrating into them and gradually merging the two into one.
The cyan specks kept moving forward, engulfing the sinners' workshops and the sergeants chasing into the woods.
The terrified screams of the sergeants continued to be heard from afar, and it seemed that they were not accepted by the changed world, but their screams did not last long, and they were never heard again.
"And they just died? Something must know, right?" Alice was startled by the screams of the sergeants, and as if the man knew something, she hurriedly asked.
"What do you know? What's the use of knowing, you're just a fake of that woman's creation, and it will eventually dissipate with the dissipation of this world. The man snorted, but instead of answering him directly, he began to look at Alice with a gaze that bordered on pity.
Alice was seen by the man with straight hair, although he didn't like the other party's gaze, but he had no choice but to sharpen his knife more sharply in secret.
The man stared at the rapidly approaching blue spot in the distance for a moment, then turned to pick up the long sword he had dropped on the ground, and after a few steps, he looked back at Alice, who was also watching him warily.
"All in all, looking at the speed of the blue spots, it is estimated that it will not take long to swallow this place, I will leave here first and go to a safer place, and you will not have to worry about sinners anymore, and ask for more blessings." ”
"There's no need to run away, even if you run to the end of this world, it's useless. ”
However, just as the man was about to leave, a voice that was familiar to everyone suddenly came from the forest not far away, and the owner of this voice was none other than the sinner girl who should have been on her way to escape from the palace.
"Why did she come back?!" Alice was taken aback by the girl's sudden appearance, but before he could translate his astonishment into words, the man spoke before him.
"Sure enough, you did all of this, and when the hell did you pull me into the world? ”
It seems that the girl's return did not surprise the man too much, but as if he had expected her to appear, he did not draw his sword, nor did he make the slightest gesture of wanting to attack, but turned his head with some resentment and stared at the girl in front of him closely.
"When did you pull me into the world, and is it interesting to play with me like this?"
However, the answer to the man was not the ridicule or ridicule of the sinner's successful plot, but only a wry smile from the girl.
"Since when? If I could, not only you, but I would like to know the answer ... ”
"What do you mean by that ... ”
The man was stunned for a moment, frowning a little suspiciously, but after a short silence, he seemed to suddenly understand the deep meaning contained in the girl's wry smile, his expression changed, and then his face was incredulous.
"What do you mean ... Even you?"
"What do you mean, I don't understand at all, what is the "world", is it a synonym for something?"
As a "newcomer" in the small group of sinners, Alice naturally couldn't understand the dumbness between the two old friends, he just wondered why the man and the girl stayed together so harmoniously, and at the same time, in the conversation between the two, he began to have a trace of curiosity about the "world" that the girl had mentioned to him.
But no matter what, Alice is also a veteran who can freely mix in the market and extract information from it, so it is naturally easy to understand the atmosphere, and after a simple exchange between the two, he also began to understand that there is probably no need for the three of them to be separated from each other.
In the face of Alice's question, the sinner girl was not in a hurry to explain, she just waved her hand, signaled that Alice didn't need to say more, and gave him a smile of "believe her".
However, just when Alice looked at the girl and the second monk couldn't figure it out, the man who was still silent suddenly grabbed the girl's neck with some excitement and lifted her whole person into the air.
"You guy! must have lied to me, did you tamper with my memory at some point, or how could I not remember!"
"Hey, you... Seeing the man's rough attitude towards the girl, Alice frowned suddenly, but before he could attack, the sinner girl took a step ahead of him and broke free of the other party's hand.
"You should know that I don't know how to do the magic of memory. ”
The sudden appearance of the starry sky giant arm broke the man's wrist stiffly, and the man's expression changed, and he no longer continued to fight with the sinner in a boring way, but stepped aside, and glanced at Alice, who retreated behind the sinner girl, intentionally or unintentionally.
"Hmph, even the seal has been unsealed. Do you mean that we are all characters who deduce from the world? What about the subject of this world? Without the only outsider, "you" would not open the "world" at will. ”
"Who knows, maybe the purpose of making the world this time is just that "me" has nothing to do and wants to revisit, as for whether you believe it or not, if you really want to know the answer, as long as you jump into those blue spots. ”
The girl chuckled, but then paused again, staring at the man's eyes with a hint of playfulness.
"But instead of trying to get you into contact with those spots, I now have a faster way to get you to accept reality. ”
As soon as the girl's voice fell, the starry giant hand that was still quietly floating behind the girl instantly appeared behind Alice, and on his completely unguarded back, it pushed violently, pushing it towards the blue spot that had spread to only a few feet away, and was still eating away at the world.
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