Chapter 120: Grappling
"Oops! This is Rathers' 'True Red Poison Needle'! Vani secretly complained, and in a moment of carelessness, she forgot that the other party already had all the abilities of Lathers, and she was completely unprepared for this large-area killing skill.
However, at this time, it was too late to dodge, and the clones around Vannie had just made a gesture of wanting to dodge when they were pierced by the countless spikes, and dozens of clones were actually beaten into honeycombs at the same moment!
Dozens of vani clones let out a sharp scream at the same time, and the frequency of their sound waves was so high that Shen Hao also felt a tingling pain in his brain. Then the clones were like water tanks hit by a hammer, one by one they exploded into countless pieces and scattered them all over the ground. The shards, like the claws of the skeletal hands that had been torn off earlier, melted into blue liquid and seeped into the ground beneath their feet.
The clone turned away, and Vanie's true body appeared at the edge of the hall, and the thousand-bladed nightmare net that had lost the caster's traction turned into a speck of light and disappeared as soon as Shen Hao exerted his strength.
"Nice trick." Shen Hao wiped a handful of blood from his face, only to see that the scars on his body that were deep and visible were rapidly healing and disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, "Gifts are still exchanged, and then it will be my turn!" ”
With that, with the force under his feet, a circular shallow pit exploded on the tough organic ground, and Shen Hao's entire body was like a loaded cannonball, rushing straight towards Vani, who had just revealed his true body.
"Humph! I won't lose to you in swordsmanship alone! Shen Hao's indiscriminate stinger attack caused the real body of Vani hidden at the back of the team to also suffer a lot of damage, it gritted its teeth and pulled out the two stingers inserted into its shoulder and abdomen, but this strange stinger taken from Lathers was extremely vicious, and I saw a faint red substance wriggling at its wound, constantly eroding the tissues around the wound. Although Varney had already activated the nightmare energy in her body to heal the wounds, the two glass-sized wounds had not healed, and the lilac blood continued to pour out, staining a large area of its armor.
Shen Hao's speed of sprinting was quite fast, almost in the next second, his tall figure had appeared in front of Vani, I saw him holding the sword in both hands, his body rotated sideways in mid-air, and the black heavy sword more than two meters long slashed straight towards the top of Vani's head with the momentum of wind and thunder.
Shen Hao's sword was sharp and extremely heavy, and when it danced, it was like a giant mountain pressing on the top. However, in the face of such pressure, Vani was undaunted, and raised her saber with one hand to meet it lightly.
A hint of discoloration flashed in Shen Hao's eyes, Vani's saber is no more than seven feet long, and the thickness of the blade will not exceed six millimeters, even if it is a special weapon like his own giant sword, but his giant sword has already occupied a natural advantage in terms of volume and weight, if it is forced like this, Shen Hao has a great deal of confidence to cut off this light knife along with Vani's body.
Soon, the two weapons were already clashing together. However, the expected feeling of being like a bamboo did not come, Shen Hao only felt that the sword was slashed in the air, and then the neck was cold, and a large amount of blood gushed out, and his neck was cut in half at this moment.
"What a speed!" Shen Hao sighed secretly in his heart, and swept away with a sword that cut the air, forcing Vani who still wanted to sneak attack from behind to retreat.
At the moment when the weapons of the two sides exchanged weapons just now, Vani tilted her blade at an extremely fast speed, using the arc of the blade to unload Shen Hao's thunderous blow aside, and at the moment when the two of them staggered, she cut Shen Hao's neck with a knife. That flowing movement shows that it is indeed highly accomplished in swordsmanship.
"Come again!" Shen Hao's left hand covered the wound on his neck that was still spurting blood, and the sword in his right hand was a straight stab, the huge black sword was like an oolong exploring the sea, and the wind pressure driving it made the surrounding air make a slight roar.
The corners of Vani's mouth showed a disdainful sneer, although the heavy sword used by Shen Hao was quite terrifying, but due to the limitation of the length and weight of the sword body, the moves that could be used were nothing more than the four moves of straight slashing, sweeping, thrusting, and upward teasing, such a rough swordsmanship was simply not worth mentioning in its eyes.
The only thing that bothered it a little was Shen Hao's near-immortal regeneration ability, not to mention the body that had been repeatedly hit by his own skills before, even the knife that broke his neck just now was definitely one of the fatal wounds, but just a few seconds later, his broken neck no longer continued to bleed, and the terrifying wound had healed more than half.
However, Vani didn't believe that Shen Hao was really immortal, although she didn't know what kind of creature this human-like creature was, but even if it was the strongest existence among the demons, it was impossible to be truly immortal, as long as it could continue to inflict fatal damage on the other party, the other party's recovery ability would always encounter the limit.
At this time, the giant sword was approaching, Vani stretched out her right foot and stepped heavily on the sword, and the whole person jumped on Shen Hao's big sword, Shen Hao's sword tip was inaccurate and inserted into the ground of the brood hall, and the saber in Vani's hand stabbed Shen Hao's throat like a poisonous snake.
For Vani's speed and skills, Shen Hao has been mentally prepared, but being prepared does not mean that he can easily deal with the opponent's attack, Vani's sword is almost perfect in terms of attack angle and attack speed, even if Shen Hao wants to use his free left hand to parry, he will definitely be half a beat slower.
And in such a high-intensity melee battle, a slow half beat is equivalent to completely falling into the rhythm of the opponent, and if you can't fight back just by being beaten, even if your regeneration ability is strong, there will be a moment when the oil runs out. Vani really didn't guess wrong, although Shen Hao's body was based on the Nine Deaths Evil Skill, and after decades of strengthening in various ways, this time in the Nightmare Realm, due to the stimulation between life and death, he was still far from being able to devour other life forms, but he was still far from being truly immortal.
Every time you are hit hard, your body will consume the source of nightmare energy stored in your body when it recovers, although you can barely touch the power of the rules of the nightmare realm, and you can slowly recover the nightmare energy in the nightmare world, but if the speed of consumption exceeds the recovery speed, your own origin consumption will definitely increase, but when the nightmare energy in the body is exhausted, that is, when your "immortal body" is cracked.
Therefore, in any case, it is necessary to change the current situation of being passively beaten. A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Shen Hao's eyes, and he was about to sink his jaw and try his best to turn his head sideways.
"Squeak-" The sharp weapon entered the flesh, and blood splattered.
However, Vani's knife still deviated from the expected goal, and instead stabbed Shen Hao's cheeks in half.
"Not good!" Vani felt a hint of danger and wanted to draw her sword and retreat, but with a pull, the sword did not move. Only then did it see clearly that Shen Hao did not hesitate to completely tear his cheeks, and used his teeth to bite the blade of the knife that passed through his mouth, although under Vani's desperate pulling, Shen Hao's teeth oozed a trace of blood, but the teeth that bit the blade were still firm and firm, leaving no looseness.
Finally regaining a glimmer of opportunity, Shen Hao simply let go of the long sword inserted into the ground, in such a close-range hand-to-hand combat, the giant sword was not even as useful as his own free hands.
So, Shen Hao bit the blade of the knife, grabbed Wani's right hand holding the sword with one hand, and slammed it into the abdomen with a fist with the other.
As a top master among the high-level demons, Vanie's combat quality is very high, and after failing to draw out the blade, he decisively wanted to abandon the sword and retreat, Shen Hao's right hand grabbed an air, but his left fist hit Vanie's palms that crossed his lower abdomen.
"Bang!" Fists and palms clashed, Vani's body flipped in the air, and was knocked out more than ten meters away by this punch. After landing, his palms were still a little paralyzed. If it hadn't been for the mid-punch that took off half of the opponent's punch, the punch would have broken its wrist, and if it was hit head-on, it would be no less destructive than a heavy hammer.
"Any other tricks?" Shen Hao pulled out the saber in his mouth with one hand, and spat out the bloody saliva fiercely, and the lacerations on his cheeks were rapidly healing.
"I'm afraid you can't afford it!" Vani smiled coldly, and the left hand hidden behind him made a strange gesture, but Shen Hao on the opposite side snorted, only to see that the palm of his hand holding the saber suddenly burst open, and I saw that four or five sharp blades that rotated at high speed suddenly appeared out of thin air on the handle of the saber, Shen Hao was caught off guard, the entire palm was cut off, and the flesh and blood were rolled into the rotating blade, and it was suddenly twisted into a large piece of blood.
"My weapons aren't for anyone!" Vani reached out and took the saber, and her figure pounced like a ghost again, and the blue blade once again wiped Shen Hao's throat. The knife cut deeper, nearly slicing off his entire head.
Shen Hao roared angrily, and a large amount of white flames erupted from his body again, forcibly forcing back Vani, who was still about to attack. The severed right palm had begun to regenerate, but the effect of such a severed limb would take a long time to recover, and he would not be able to use it for a while, so he could only pick up the heavy sword at his foot with his left hand, and parry the swift attack of Vani who had stuck to him again with his left and right side.
However, Vani's attack speed and swordsmanship skills are obviously above him, and he has a brute force but only attacks less and more defense, and occupies the huge sword body and barely protects the vital point, but there are still several scars on his limbs.
The two sides fought back and forth for thousands of rounds, and a large amount of blood dyed the blue floor into a blood-red color, and Vani became more and more attacked, but her heart became more and more anxious. Since Shen Hao basically gave up the attack, it was difficult for Vani to attack his fatal place again, and the injuries caused elsewhere made the other party disdain, even if he cut deeper, he would recover in a few breaths.
Such a long-term and high-intensity attrition battle made Vani feel a little tired, but it didn't dare to retreat, the so-called "one inch long and one inch strong, one inch short and one inch dangerous", at this moment he used the close range of fast attacks to suppress Shen Hao's movements, if the distance was pulled away, then Shen Hao could use the length and weight of the heavy sword to break the skill, and defend again as an attack.