"Fight with me, and if this fight can be recognized by me, I will agree to take you with me!"

Fighting spirit!

In the past few days, there were many stories between the four.

Al used to be a guy with a very bad personality, and when he was ten years old, Al and Ino got into a fight with him for the first time, and injured him badly.

Whether it is from the cause or effect, everything is Al's fault, although the kind Ino does not mean to blame in the slightest, but Karina is very angry about it, after all, she brought Al to the temple that time.

Eno didn't know what happened between Karina and Al after that, but the next day Al sincerely apologized to him, and Ino forgave him graciously.

Since then, though, Ino has developed an interest in swordsmanship, and although the practice has not yielded much success, he has indeed fallen in love with the feeling of swinging a sword.

Although Al also had the idea of practicing with Ino, he simply couldn't stick to the penance for a long time, and the praise of the bards attracted him more than the boring and useless basic swordsmanship.

Four years later, Al clashed with Ino again over an incident, but the outcome of the conflict was very different from what he had been four years earlier.

With just two moves, Al was subdued by Ino, and neither of them took any damage.

Lost and depressed, Al returned to the tavern alone, alone with a harmonica.

When Karina heard about this, she immediately ran to the temple excitedly, saying that she was going to fight Ino.

In addition to Yuu, among her peers in the town, she can no longer find other opponents, even some adults can't beat her, and after hearing that Ino easily crushed Al, she naturally had the idea of competing with Ino.

However, Ino never agreed to fight Karina, or rather, he never took the initiative to fight anyone else.

Of course, Karina will not be reconciled, and uses various methods to provoke Ino, and even took the initiative to attack the defenseless Ino.

However, even though Ino was beaten badly by her, she never fought back.

After such an incident, Karina never looked for Inobi again, but in her heart, she always thought that Eno was very strong, and being injured by her was just hiding it.

And now that four full years have passed, she is really curious about how far the other party has grown.

"Hehe, you can't refuse my challenge this time!"

Although Karina is not a battle maniac, this wish has been put aside in her heart for a long time, and now that it can finally be realized, she naturally laughs very happily.

Ino will never give up this opportunity, this is the common thought of the three of them.

"Hint: The host triggers a side quest (a condition for peers), and the task level difficulty is E+, do you accept it?"

Chu Ge in his previous life did not refuse Karina's challenge, and he will not refuse in this life either.

"Quest accepted!"

"Hint: You've earned an E+ side quest (a condition for peers)."

"Objective: Conduct an unbiased contest with Karina (1st Order) and defeat her."

"Mission Description: Regardless of the success or failure of this side quest, the host will accompany Karina to the Tirisfal Glade and start the main quest."

"Mission Tips: The results of this side quest will determine the direction of the host's next actions, and there is no penalty for failing the quest."

In the competition in his previous life, although Chu Ge inherited Ino's basic swordsmanship Lv3, his actual combat experience was about equal to zero, so he was naturally defeated by Karina in two or three hits, which led to the failure of the mission.

Although there was no penalty for failing the mission, and he was able to continue his journey to the Tirisfal Glade, Chu Ge still had expectations for the reward he had missed.

The four of them walked to the open space next to the temple and opened up the distance, and in the clapping of Al's hands, Chu Ge and Karina's sword blades collided together.

Unlike Chu Ge's one-handed sword, Karina was holding a standard knight's two-handed sword, which was definitely much more powerful than it was swinging more slowly.

At the moment when the blades just collided, Chu Ge immediately judged the strength value of Karina.

"Is it probably between 2.2 and 2.4......"

According to his memory, Karina's family education is mainly to improve her strength, and her current strength has reached the late stage of the first order, although it is worse than the mercenary Phil who died before, but it is definitely stronger than both Izak and Oliver.

Her original strength should have been between 2.5 and 2.7, and it was probably because of the injury to Eno four years ago that left a deep shadow in her heart, so she didn't dare to go all out.

Even so, she still suppressed Chu Ge in terms of strength, although it was not much, but in this kind of head-on collision, she still had a big advantage.

From the perspective of swordsmanship, Karina didn't have anything outstanding, there was not much difference between her and the ordinary first-order late-stage stage, and every move and style Chu Ge could find a flaw in it, and defeat it instantly before she could attack with all her might!

However, this is not what Chu Ge wants, in terms of the completion of the task, the reward for defeating Karina, who is in the strongest state, is of course more than the reward for defeating the current Karina, so he decided to put a little pressure on the girl first.

Although Karina is very powerful, it is still difficult to use the bulky two-handed sword like an arm, and whenever she raises the longsword horizontally, the elbow defense will become very weak, and the control of power will be temporarily unbalanced.

After seeing this, Chu Ge dodged the opponent's slash and took a sideways step around Karina's right, and Karina had to rotate with Chu Ge in order to defend.

Originally, her agility attribute was not as good as Chu Ge's (about 1.7 to 1.9), and after holding the two-handed sword, her body's reaction was also a little difficult to keep up with the rhythm of her brain, and a brief gap inevitably appeared in her defense.

Chu Ge pressed his center of gravity down slightly, bowed and stabbed at a tricky angle, the tip of his sword pointed directly at Karina's hilt.

If he hits a little lower, he can stab Karina's wrist directly, so that even if the opponent is wearing an iron gauntlet, the sword in his hand will fall due to the impact, and he will be directly defeated.

However, he obviously had no such intentions, and when the tip of his sword stabbed Karina's calyx, Karina's hand trembled unnaturally, and the long sword tilted to the side, and the door was wide open!

At this moment, Karina couldn't care about suppressing her strength, and directly used all her strength to swing a horizontal slash!

This slash was also expected by Chu Ge, in addition to the fact that he had lowered his center of gravity to accumulate strength, there was also a reason to guard against Karina's counterattack.

So he just lowered his head slightly, and easily dodged the sword.

However, Chu Ge's attack was not over yet, as soon as the long sword swept over his head, he flipped his wrist, took a big step forward with his waist bent, and slammed the hilt of the sword into Karina's abdomen!