Under the moonlight, the scene of the girl fighting the giant puppet is like a fantasy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The giant golem in a state of complete madness swung the huge weapon in his hand and let out a chaotic roar that was enough to cause mental disorders. Under its fierce wind-like attack, the surrounding trees fell sideways and vertically, forming a circular area with a radius of about ten meters.

In the face of a huge enemy with a huge difference in size, the girl did not flinch.

Confidently dodging the blade of the greatsword in the last moment, Alex immediately cut forward - there was a metal foot that the giant golem was about to kick at it.

Although as a Guardian, passive defense has never been Alex's style. Ever since she was in the village, she has always shown a tendency to go beyond passive defense.

Generally speaking, Guardians fight by first defending against the opponent's attacks with an ironclad defensive means, and then looking for opportunities in the gaps between the opponent's attacks. Over time, the Guardian is often the last to laugh at when the opponent is either upset and exposed to flaws because of repeated failures, or exhausts physical strength in constant attack attempts.

But the combat is too tepid and not visually appealing to the eye – in short, not handsome enough.

Becoming a guardian is the fate of Alex's family, and the girl who can't seek change in this area can only start exploring a new path in training.

The best defense is offense, it's a cliché. For the Guardians, they lack the skills and means to attack, and they don't have the speed to attack before they can attack the other side, which is undoubtedly empty talk for them. But Alex took inspiration from it - if it doesn't work to take the initiative to attack, what about active defense?

The line between offense and defense can sometimes become quite blurred in battle. But we can still make a distinction: the so-called attack refers to the act of threatening the other party; Defense, on the other hand, is the elimination of threats through action. But one thing, the threat does not appear suddenly, but gradually evolves from an undetectable action to a dangerous strike. In general, it is difficult to retract an attack once it has been made, and Alex's approach is to cut it off as early as possible.

Of course, this is a radical approach, and it requires experience, judgment, speed and reflexes. And the earlier you defend, the more requirements you have to meet, which is far less cost-effective than waiting at the end of the enemy's attack. The initial attempts were ineffective, and Alex was even ridiculed from the side during training, but the girl's talent and hard work paid off. After years of exploration and training, Alex's fighting style has gradually taken shape - a more proactive and offensive defensive style, actively using the shield defense to break the opponent's balance and look for opportunities to counter the enemy in the early stages of the opponent's attack action.

Now, Alex is adept at using this method, charging forward as soon as the giant golem's left foot leaves the ground, striking its side with her shield.

"Bang-"

The sound of metals clashing against each other trembled in the air, and another advantage of this method of fighting was revealed.

In most cases, the complete action of the attack will achieve a process of acceleration and afterburner, so the strength of the blow that is actively blocked in the initiation stage has been greatly reduced.

After the impact, Alex did not appear to be swept a few meters away as before. The metal foot of the foot drew deep footprints on the ground, but Alex herself did not retreat - but the giant golem stumbled because the force of this foot deviated from its original track.

Alex didn't miss the opportunity—it was the result of her plan. The girl took a slight step back, unloading the remaining impact force as she slammed to the ground, leaping high and swinging the long sword in her right hand at the magical energy circuit node in front of the giant golem's knees.

Similar scenes continued to play out in the future.

Mood and consciousness condensed together, Alex showed her true strength as a "genius girl". Although her body is small, it bursts with amazing strength. In the sound of a sonorous metal collision, the figure of the girl who fought against the twenty-meter-tall metal monster was as fascinating as a Valkyrie in the moonlight.

In more than half an hour of fighting, eleven nodes have already been destroyed.

Anderson's consciousness had sunk deep into his brain, and everything in front of him was a sight he couldn't comprehend.

Of course, he's a lame driver. He had neither swordsmanship nor experience in human combat. But under such a huge disparity in body shape and strength, shouldn't this girl be the result of being trampled on by herself? Why was she able to dodge, block, and even gain the upper hand?

The warning on the dashboard grew worse, and by the time Anderson realized, the nodes used by the giant golem to control his legs had been nearly destroyed.

It won't work like this, and the remaining thinking ability tells Anderson that if he doesn't retreat, the giant puppet will be stuck in place like a stone when the node of the Unicom flight ability is also destroyed.

He stopped his attack and prepared to activate the flight function, although he still harbored a deep hatred for the girl in front of him, but there was no hope of revenge if he stayed here.

The flight mechanism entered the seven-second charge, and Anderson suddenly looked up with a feeling.

The girl at her feet had already stepped back a few meters, and Anderson switched the vision of the magic golem to the castle opposite.

At the top of the castle, at the top of the hill, twenty meters higher than the giant puppet at this time, a young man in a robe who hunted in the wind was standing.

"Ah......h

It was the only sound Anderson could make, and in the next moment, he saw the boy gently kick against the side wall of the castle, stretching out the wide sleeves of his robe and leaping towards it.

It was forty meters above the ground, and it was still more than ten meters away from here, but the boy did not hesitate at all.

Faced with this stunned scene, Anderson just looked up in a daze, watching the young man's figure cover the moon, and pulling out his weapon in the middle of it.

The wind that swept through his body carried his robe and hair in stark contrast to the whiteness of the moon behind him. The boy's face and expression were blurred by his back to the moonlight, and only the knife in his hand reflected the white light.

The giant puppet had begun to slowly float upward, but the boy's body had already crossed a position of about seven meters, and it was about to appear on the trajectory of the giant puppet.

At that moment, Anderson didn't have any superfluous thoughts in his heart, the boy's intentions, the way to fight back, none of these appeared in his mind, and even the hatred was temporarily calmed down.

He just tilted his head and silently watched the young man's figure get closer and closer to here.

In the next moment, the young man's falling figure and the giant puppet flying into the sky converged. With the sound of glass shattering, the straight knife that the teenager held behind his back stabbed into the cockpit and stabbed into the dashboard in front of Anderson.

Sparks flew everywhere, and the precision components on the instrument made a burst sound after the light flickered, and then slowly floated black smoke.

All manipulation fails, and the giant golem continues to rise upwards for a while before falling downward.

The boy had already disappeared from his eyes, probably falling to the ground first. It was more than thirty meters in the air, and it would not be strange if he died on the spot.

The giant puppet is beyond control, and what awaits Anderson is the fate of being captured. He turned his head to look outside, but with the naked eye he couldn't see clearly, only the outline of the castle was blurred in the distance.

There was a piece of paper hanging from a tree branch, which was a portrait of "her" who had been thrown into the sky by Alex and brought here by the wind.

“…… In the end, I still ......"

He seemed to wake up from a dream and muttered to himself, then slowly closed his eyes in pain.

Before the giant golem could hit the ground, he picked up the glass he had spilled on the ground and plunged it into his chest.

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"You a-stupid!"

Alex shouted at Ciel.

"What do you mean, 'I'll leave it to you after that'! Is this what you call a foolproof plan!? How high do you think it is above the ground? If I hadn't caught you with my quick eyes, you'd have at least broken a few bones, you know! ”

"I believe, Alex."

"Stop saying nice things to me!"

Despite this, Ciel's words softened Alex's face slightly. God knows how she felt when she just saw Hill leap from a height of forty meters.

The giant golem fell to the ground on one side, and Alex just caught the falling Ciel and dodged to the side without stopping, so that it was not hit by the metal giant. Of course, Hill also slashed the golem's body with a knife during the fall to cushion the speed of the fall, otherwise Alex, who caught him, would probably be overwhelmed by the impact of the fall.

"Ahh

Seeing what was happening in the cockpit, Alex let out a feeble sigh.

"This guy actually committed suicide."

The blood-stained glass was still stuck in the prisoner's chest, and the traces of suicide could be seen at a glance.

"In the end, I still couldn't figure out anything."

“…… Didn't Alex and I become partners in justice? ”

"It's, it's not—" Alex vetoed loudly, "This situation is obviously force majeure!" This is suicide in fear of sin! Although we haven't figured out the ins and outs, let's just preside over justice, and there is no reason to blame ourselves! ”

"I see, that's it."

"Alas......" Alex sighed deeply.

Even so, there are inner entanglements. Why on earth did that person do these things? What about hatred for oneself? So far, nothing has come of this - what is the purpose of all this hard work? Alex thought to herself.

"Well! In any case, at least the mission of the trial was successfully completed. ”

Alex turned her head to look at the castle over there.

"After burying the victim's body, let's go back."

Ciel nodded silently.

They got up and walked in the direction of the castle, but stopped in the middle of the way.

A team in white uniform came out of the woods and was heading this way.

"Hey! You two! ”

The other party apparently saw them as well, and one of them immediately made a sound, and the whole team quickly ran towards this side.

As they got closer, Ciel and Alex could see that it was a team of twelve, and that it was a young man who looked like an adjutant who had just spoken.

A young woman who looked to be in her twenties slowly stepped forward and stood in front of Ciel and Alex.

- She looks like the leader of this team.

"Are you adventurers? It's dangerous right now, and I advise you to leave as soon as possible. ”

Alex didn't care about the other person's words, she was looking the man's whole body up and down.

His curly blonde hair was simply tied into a ponytail and hung down at the back of his neck, and he was meticulously dressed in a pure white uniform resembling the style of a sheriff, and an unsheathed golden sword hung from the left side of his waist. Then there is the face, her upright face has a capable feeling and a few points of heroism, and the temperament on her body is good. The only thing that was incongenial was that her skin did not show a healthy color in line with her temperament, but was as white as snow.

Finally, Alex focused her eyes on one point.

“…… Another cow. ”

"Huh? Excuse me, what did you just say? ”

Hearing Alex muttering in a resentful whisper, the other party asked suspiciously.

"Nothing. I mean, it's our freedom to move anywhere, right? ”

Because of the gap with the other party "in a certain way", Alex ignited a hostility like a fighting heart - basically, except for young girls and children, Alex is hostile to more than eighty percent of women on the mainland.

Hearing her thorny words, the other party didn't seem to care.

"You're right, I'm just reminding you based on what you know, and I don't mean to force interference."

The young woman nodded as if she agreed with Alex.

"However, please trust that our tips are well-intentioned, and there is nothing wrong with proceeding with caution."

Alex was embarrassed by her attitude, and the girl scratched her cheek and asked.

"Well, what do you mean by danger? Mean, who are you? ”

"We can't tell you about the specific danger because it involves confidentiality matters." The young woman said, "As for identity—"

"We are a subordinate department of the 'Racial Harmony Management Committee', which is part of the Seventh Branch of the Fighting Side."