[You are hit in the back by an enemy target's skill, the attack deals a critical hit with extra damage, and you take 56 physical damage]

[Hint: Your current health is less than 50% of your total health, please treat it in time]

[Hint: Your health status has deteriorated, please treat it in time]

[Hint: The bad state on your body will invalidate the healing effect you receive, please remove it in time]

[Warning: Hostile targets deal more than 50% of your total HP to deal more than 50% of your total health, please consider giving up this battle!] 】

The blood-red color soaked through the shirt under the armor, and Finn felt a sharp pain that immediately bit his perceptual nerves, and five eye-catching system messages suddenly jumped out from under his retina in a crimson color, as if the game system that was living in his body was admonishing him: "Don't die, run for your life!" ”

Finn gritted his teeth, resisted the pain in his back, and did not scream.

He obviously knew that he had been hit by the clown's sword on his back, so he didn't bother to stop the swing of the giant sword he had swung before, but simply used the starting action of the whirlwind slash, using the left foot and waist that had just stepped forward as a shaft, so that the blade of the whistling blade blew a terrifying sound of breaking wind and swept behind him.

The clown's movements didn't dare to deliberately slow down this time.

She reacted quickly, didn't have a greedy knife after a successful attempt, and then pulled out the dagger that had stabbed Finn in the back and leaped high. She bent her knees in mid-air and quickly tucked her legs up, and the paladin youth's greatsword swept a whistling wind under her toes.

Just a little bit!

It's a pity, but that's where the agility gap comes in.

If the Joker's movements had been slower for a second, or Finn's slashing speed had been a little faster, the Patriarch of the Demon Cult would have been cut off by the Whistling Blade's blade. Although the Joker is one of the four patriarchs of the Demon Shepherd, Finn knows that she is still a human at all, and being cut off is still a direct threat to her life.

However, there is never an if, and both Finn and the Joker understand this simple and understandable truth, so neither of them puts extra energy into their own regrets and palpitations, because they know that if they miss an opportunity, they will miss it, and regret and regret are of no use except for selling the flaws to the enemy.

Finn's greatsword swept under the jester's toes with a screech that split through the air, and the Patriarch of the Demon Cult paused in mid-air for a moment, then with her free left hand, she took something from under the noble trench coat of the Earl's outfit and threw it at Finn's face.

It was a dagger the width of a blade two fingers.

Without warning, the Joker pulled out a dagger from his body and threw it at Finn, and the young paladin's bulky greatsword was once again too late to defend, but he didn't give in, and immediately released his left hand from the hilt of the Whirling Blade.

At his waist, another weapon other than the Whistling Blade was worn on his belt, and the five fingers of his outstretched left hand gripped the handle of the weapon urgently.

The next second-

"Boom!"

A sharp symphony.

The silver sword light flashed in the air between Finn and the Joker, and the young paladin pulled out a curly silver sword from the scabbard hanging from his waist with a "chok" and struck the dagger flying towards his face, and the knife thrown by the clown suddenly swirled and flew towards a corner of the castle hall.

[Hint: If you are using a Greatsword weapon with an irregular movement (one-handed), the combat effect produced by this weapon will be punished by the battle]

[Hint: If you are using a Greatsword weapon and a longsword weapon with irregular movements (dual wielding), the combat effects of the above weapons will be punished by the battle]

As Finn urgently drew his silver sword for defense at this moment, two new hints popped up from below his field of vision.

These two system prompts are not marked in eye-catching red, but Finn has no time to care about the kind reminders given to him by these two game systems at this time.

Instead of wielding a greatsword with one hand, and dual-wielding a weapon without special skills or expertise—this kind of low-level mistake he certainly didn't have to think about to understand.

But he had to do it now.

Because his damn agility stat is only 12 points at the moment, he can't keep up with the Joker's combat speed!

"Whew-"

Another clatter of blades scraping through the air.

It took less than a blink of an eye for Finn to knock away the dagger thrown by the clown, and the short sword in the clown's right hand immediately swiped towards Finn's neck, but fortunately, the young paladin reacted quickly enough to quickly let his body lie back, only to hear the tip of the short sword in front of him sweep through the air like the giant sword he had just used, leaving a blank slashing trail in midair.

The clown's gaze and the curious smile on his mask looked at Finn.

After swinging the short sword in her right hand, she once again touched her left hand into her clothes, and then grabbed another short sword from it, and the combat position of the two short swords in her left and right hands announced that she had finally entered the dual-wielding state of the thief profession.

A set of assassin combos that she couldn't have been more familiar with immediately took shape in her mind.

The Patriarch of the Demon Sect intends to take this opportunity to end the battle once and for all. Finn's body was lying backwards to avoid the attack she had just made, and she didn't believe that the young man in front of her could make a timely and effective defense even in such an open posture.

With that in mind, she immediately stabbed forward with the dagger in her left hand.

At this moment, the Patriarch's eyes saw that instead of defending, Fein reluctantly picked up the giant sword in his right hand and slashed at his side, but looking at his strenuous movements, he could probably think that the damage of his sword was not terrible.

"Could it be that he wants to use offense instead of defense to force me to give up the attack and dodge?" The clown guessed in his heart.

Thinking of this, the gaze in her eyes became more pleasant and murderous, and then she kept her current movement and stabbed Finn with the short sword in her left hand.

The short sword in the clown's hand quickly stabbed the young paladin.

The throat is the vital part of most living creatures, and Finn certainly didn't want to be killed by the clown, so he once again summoned up the courage to make his face hit the bright knife, and opened his mouth to bite the opponent's weapon with his teeth before the clown's dagger stabbed him.

At close range, Finn didn't raise his eyes to peer into the unsightly eyes on the clown's mask, but he could feel that his enemy was absolutely taken aback by his reckless move.

As Fynn thought, the clown, of course, was so shocked by Finn's action that he was almost stunned in mid-air.

"Isn't that asking for trouble?" She was very surprised, but she thought about it beautifully.

The shepherd of the Demon Sect immediately twisted her wrist excitedly, causing the short sword in her left hand to scrape Finn's teeth and perform a bloody twist.

"Ahhhh

This time, the young paladin finally couldn't hold back the intense pain and cried out.

The sharp pain from the dagger slashing his mouth, teeth, tongue, and lips caused him to scream and release his mouth from the Joker's dagger, but at the same time, the greatsword in his right hand finally slashed from the bottom up and slashed at the Joker's waist.

Although-

“－6”

As the Joker followed the trajectory of the greatsword in time and made a heartfelt twist in mid-air with his toes, the side blades of the Whistling Blade only cut through the noble trench coat on her body and a small layer of flesh on her waist, and the combat punishment from wielding the greatsword with one hand caused the damage of this blow to only be so pitiful.

Approximately, it is only equivalent to chopping your finger while cutting fruit.

After turning over in the air to avoid most of the damage inflicted on him by the greatsword, the Joker then threw the short sword in his right hand at Finn as he landed, and at the same time leaped a short distance back under his feet, thus reconnecting the space with the blood-red paladin youth.

The young paladin's left shoulder was struck by the Joker's dagger this time, the blade of which was deeply embedded in the flesh beneath his skin, and if he had deviated any further, it might have destroyed his internal organs.

Fein's body trembled and he took a small step back.

After recovering a little, he buried his head in a large cloud of blood from his mouth and landed on the carpet beneath his feet, while raising his gaze slightly to pay attention to the clown's body below his face, panting and clenching the two hands that held the Whizzing Blade and the Silver Sword respectively.

[Finn (7) 1/93]

When his gaze lowered slightly to focus on himself, this specialty ability also cutely projected his own data information onto his retina.

It's dangerous......

[Personal Specialty (General) - Tenacity: 1 time per day, retains 1 HP when non-critical parts take lethal damage]

If it weren't for the expertise he pointed out when he fought the giant tarantula of Mork, he would have seen the door to the land of the dead by now.

"Give up, paladin, the difference in strength between us is too far for you to beat me." Looking at the bloody and miserable look on Finn's face, the clown shook his head slightly, leisurely crossed his waist with his right hand, and turned the short sword in his left hand as a pen, "Look at the way you look now, if you were a little more stupid, I should have pierced your heart directly, or cut your neck, hehe...... I'm sorry for that. ”

The humiliating words of Piercing Ear reached Finn's eardrums from the Joker's mouth, and the young paladin swallowed the last mouthful of blood out of his mouth in one breath, and then adjusted his stance to the quasi-combat state of the clown with the afterglow side as before, the only difference from the previous one was that he was now dual-wielding his weapon, and only the last one of his health points remained.

It seems that he has not given up yet.

"Do you still have to struggle, young man?" Looking at this stubborn enemy in her eyes, the female patriarch of the Demon Sect tilted her head, and suddenly felt that her evil taste that liked to torture people seemed to be hooked again, "It's so cute, you are like this...... I'm about to stand unsteadily, but I just don't want to bow my head and give up to lead my death, so cute that I want to cut off your limbs, cut off your tongue, and finally peel off pieces of your flesh and stuff it into your bloody mouth! Hee-hee-hee... Hahahaha......"

As she spoke, the female patriarch of the Demon Sect didn't know that it was that nerve that had touched the sensitive point by herself, and she suddenly made a strange and uninhibited voice and stood on the spot and laughed wildly, like a madman who was inexplicably excited.

Listening to the voice of the clown's wild laughter, looking at her body trembling slightly from excitement below her neck, Finn blinked and sighed softly, and then took advantage of the clown's nervous laughter to tilt his perspective a little to the side, causing a small part of his eyes to look at the circle of blood magic in the corner of the castle hall.

The fishy-smelling corpses of the Shepherds and the bodies of the Purple Spot patients were still piled up like a small hill in that corner of the hall.

The young paladin quickly searched the circle of people with his own eyes, and after a while, he finally found the warlock girl he had been worried about and worried about before he came here.

Lilith's face was as quiet as when she was asleep, and the girl with her memory lost her fingers interlocked on her lower abdomen, lying flat on a stretcher in front of the magic circle, as if for some reason the clown hadn't hurt her.

Seeing this, the young paladin finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"Lilith is still alive, it's great......" For a while, he actually forgot about his safety for a while, and in his heart he was glad for the girl he met in this life.

After confirming that Lilith was okay, the young paladin returned his gaze to his guard post, examined the clown's body, and made a sound with his bloody mouth.

"Joker."

"Hahaha...... Well? What's wrong? Hearing Finn's sudden voice, the Joker immediately stopped laughing and looked at him again with interest, "Did you figure it out?" You finally want me to end your pain with my own hands? ”

"No, I just wanted to remind you of one thing."

"Remind me of something?"

"yes, just wanted to remind you of one thing." He exhaled softly, adjusting his breathing, "Be enlightened...... You perverted bastard. ”

And then—

"Pay 20 XP-"

He called out in his head the voice that only he could hear—

"Level up!"

He commanded the voice in his heart.