In the face of Gascol's questioning, Raymond looked at the other party, did not want to answer behind him, but while observing Gascol's movements, he took out a slender glass bottle from his waist with his left hand, pried the cork at the mouth of the bottle with his thumb, and put the red liquid inside to his mouth and drank it.

The red liquid that was poured into Raymond's mouth from the small glass bottle was the [Advanced Life Elixir] that Raymond obtained from the castle's small warehouse. The slash of the two swords with blood just now had taken a lot of blood from his body, and he felt that the dizziness of anemia was about to climb up to his brain, so he didn't dare to let his body continue to be overdrawn by himself without being replenished.

After replenishing his HP with the potion, Raymond shook off the blood on the curved sword, put the sword back into the sheath, and kept his left hand holding the hilt of the sword with his right hand facing Gascoll, and had no intention of taking the initiative to attack for a while, as if he was planning to adopt a tactic that focused on defense and counterattack in this one-on-one duel.

Raymond did not answer Gascoll's question, but Gascoll and Raymond looked at each other at a distance of about five or six meters, and although he could not get a definite answer from Raymond's mouth, he guessed the swordsman's mind from Raymond's back.

"The reason why you didn't take the initiative to attack was to protect her?" Gascoll then reverted to arrogance and contempt and confronted him.

The "she" in the mouth of the old vampire Sir is undoubtedly referring to Tina. When the poor half-goblin girl heard Gascoll's words, she looked at Raymond who was blocking her behind her, but Raymond did not turn back to comfort her as he had just done, but confronted Gascoll and asked, "Yes and what?" ”

"She's nothing more than a container for the blood of a goblin." Gascoll indifferently reminded Raymond, "For you now, it's just a useless burden, no need for pity, no need for care, isn't it?" ”

“…… With the burden, there is a feeling of being alive. The rare, hot-tempered swordsman youth did not explode under the provocation of the other party this time, but after two seconds of silence, he responded to the one-eyed old vampire Sir with such an answer with his clumsy rhetoric.

"Really?" After two seconds of silence while also thinking about what Raymond said, Gascoll roughly understood Raymond's answer, "Hmph, cowardly choice, boring approach. ”

As the words fell, the one-eyed old vampire Sir raised his hands, and the blood soaked from under his garment quickly coalesced into a halberd on his left hand, shaping into a great axe in his right hand.

He carried the great axe in his right hand on his shoulder, and the halberd in his left hand was horizontal in front of him, and his tall body immediately rushed towards Raymond like a chariot.

Seeing this, Raymond's eyes locked on Gascol, and he yelled at Tina behind him, "Hide aside!" Then, without fear, he clenched the hilt of the sword in his right hand and stepped forward, ready to draw his sword to face it.

Tina knew in her heart that she couldn't help Raymond in battle, so at least in order not to drag down the young swordsman who had come here to rescue her, the sensible half-fairy girl immediately ran away from Raymond according to Raymond's instructions.

In the next second, before he could turn his head and run a few steps, Tina's pointed fairy ears suddenly heard a terrifying sound. She looked back at Raymond's place with half of her immature cheeks worriedly, and then saw that Raymond was already fighting with Gascoll, and the giant blood axe that Gascoll had been carrying on his shoulder a moment ago had slashed beside Raymond at this time, and the movement just now seemed to be made when the giant axe smashed on the floor of the room.

Raymond dodged Gascore's terrifying axe with a roll in the opposite direction of Tina, and then rose from Gascol's side with the inertia of the tumble, and slashed the curved sword in the scabbard at the latter in a slashing motion.

The sound of blood was like a string dancing on the tip of the sword, and it reached everyone's ears again the moment the curved sword was drawn from its scabbard.

Gascoll didn't dodge the sharp slash, and before he could turn his head, he felt a sharp pain in his left hand, and then found that the curved sword in Raymond's hand had cut a terrifying opening in his left arm, severing the meridians connected to the muscles, and splattering blood from it.

"Damn." Gascoll cursed in his heart, and hurriedly took advantage of the fact that the upper part of his left arm was still conscious, and threw the blood in the gap at Raymond who slashed him with his sword. The blood that he threw out of his arm flew into the air and solidified into sharp arrows, and Raymond didn't dare to be greedy for the knife after slashing Gascoll's arm, and then chose to retreat from each other in the opposite direction like Gaskol, so as to dodge the dozens of blood arrows flying towards him.

Gascoll didn't expect the curved sword in Raymond's hand, which had been briefly strengthened by blood, to be so sharp.

At this moment, the halberd in the old vampire's left hand had fallen to the ground and turned back into a pool of blood when he distanced himself from each other, and he hung his left hand weakly, realizing that Raymond had succeeded in eliminating his own arm with his contempt, and immediately completely dismissed the contempt in his mind.

Considering the current situation, he judged that Raymond would definitely seize the opportunity of his left arm to attack, so he put the giant axe in his right hand in front of him to make a defensive posture.

However, the next moment, Gascoll did not wait for Raymond to attack further, but saw that his opponent's face also revealed a trace of strange weakness and exhaustion, and then untied a thin glass bottle containing red potion from the belt around his waist and drank it up.

Gascoll, who has a part-time position as an alchemist, took a closer look and immediately recognized that the liquid that Raymond had just drunk in front of him was a bottle of advanced life potion, and then guessed that Raymond's ability to attach blood to his sword would most likely have to pay some kind of price, and that price was the blood in his body.

"In other words, if you don't have the time to drink potions, your fighting style of overdrawing your body will quickly drag you down first." According to the choice that Raymond made in the face of himself at this time, Gascoll immediately made a correct analysis in his heart, "Very good...... In that case, then I won't give you half a second to breathe. ”

After thinking of a countermeasure, the one-eyed old vampire Count immediately threw the giant axe in his right hand at Raymond. The blood-colored giant axe flew towards Raymond with a whirring wind, Raymond swallowed his throat and swallowed the potion in his mouth, then threw the empty glass bottle in his hand, and hurriedly threw himself out to the side to avoid the huge throwing axe.

When Raymond landed, he crouched down in a tumbling motion. Then he looked up at Gascol, and suddenly saw the latter raise his free right hand, causing the old blood that had fallen on the floor of the room to gather into his palm, along with the new blood that had seeped from under his clothes. (To be continued.) )