With a crisp sound, Fein gripped the old hilt with his right hand, causing the silver sword to flash a silver cold light in his hand and unsheath it again, and then raised the silver sword in his hand and slashed at the shepherd priestess in front of him.

"Boom!"

Sharp metallic symphony.

A silver arc of light flashed in a sharp trail in the dark castle hall.

The young paladin endured the pain and grabbed the dagger that the clown stabbed at him with his left hand, and the clown hurriedly raised the short sword in his left hand to forcibly parry the slash of the former's silver sword, and suddenly felt a mountain of heavy pressure on his left wrist.

"That's a lot of brute force...... she gritted her teeth all of a sudden, feeling that her wrist was about to be unable to support her ass, and at the same time let go of the two weapons in her hands, and then quickly kicked her leg back a short distance.

The silver sword in Finn's hand slashed into the air, but he forced both weapons in the Joker's hand to throw away at the same time.

Now, with her bare hands, the young paladin exhaled and adjusted the rhythm of her breathing, and then continued to move forward step by step, and by the way, she shook off the blood flowing from the palm of her left hand as if it didn't matter, just like the blood of a warrior in the Far East after drawing his sword and slashing it.

The clown bent his legs and knees, cautiously observing the young paladin as he approached him step by step.

Finn's change had already attracted enough attention from her, and she had now put away all her bad thoughts, planning to take out the tricky enemy in front of her before anything else.

So, the Joker watched Finn approach his own footsteps and began to make subtle lateral movements, as if the viper was trying to adjust the most suitable angle for himself to deliver the fatal blow while observing his prey.

The young paladin quickly stepped sideways into the snake's attack.

The clown stared at the distance between the young paladin's feet and himself, and quietly counted down the three numbers "three", "two", and "one", and then disappeared at the moment when the countdown ended.

Assassin skills!

She seemed to have truly turned into an unguarded shadow in an instant, and it took less than a blink of an eye for her to blink over and stop on the left side of Finn's body.

The Joker's eyes stared coldly upwards at Finn's face, which happened to be turned this way, and Finn reacted quickly enough, and immediately raised his chin to let his vision avoid the pair of eyes that he must not face in time.

The two of them staggered their eyes from each other for a second.

At this time, an eerie sneer faintly leaked from the clown's mouth.

Finn's peripheral vision suddenly saw a few faint glimmers of light light in the dark mid-air, and a trembling spirit immediately appeared in his mind and thought of something terrifying.

Blades!

"Die, little imp......"

The Patriarch of the Demon Sect whispered excitedly, then clenched her fists and made a pulling motion in two diametrically opposed directions.

A few filaments that were imperceptible to the naked eye suddenly tightened in mid-air between the two fists, and Finn's left wrist immediately leached out a thread-shaped bead of blood as if it had been cut by something, and the blood-soaked thread then burst open on his left wrist, and the left hand of the young paladin fell down and lost consciousness.

"Next is the neck ......" After disposing of Finn's left hand, the clown sharpened his teeth, and then locked his cold gaze on Finn's neck, and then the two clenched fists were stretched out again, and ten slender fingers were released, and the sharp blades were then scattered from Finn's left wrist, waiting for their master to order them to strangle the next living target.

Finn's left hand was now scrapped, and the Joker did not hesitate to raise his right hand to pull the string, ready to cut the throat of the young paladin.

But at this moment-

"Oooo

The young paladin roared and raised his entire left arm, causing his arm, which had lost some of its limb functions, to suddenly grip the clown's body like a giant pincer.

The young paladin's hand came too suddenly.

The Patriarch of the Demon Sect was taken aback, but soon she came to her senses and revised her strangulation target.

"Since you don't want this hand anymore, I'll help you get rid of it completely." She thought to herself.

So, the knife in her hand wrapped around Finn's entire left arm like an invisible vine in the next second, but what Finn was waiting for was precisely the moment he had been waiting for.

He knew he couldn't outdo the Joker in his agility stats.

But he knew that just as the Joker's agility was always ahead of him, his strength was by no means comparable to that of the Joker, an assassin.

So, after paying 20 XP points to upgrade, he thought to himself what he should do.

In order to win, he chose to play blood for blood at this time.

In layman's terms-

It's about trading your health for a hit rate!

"Poof!"

The castle hall erupted almost simultaneously with two wails of wounds and blood.

The sharp blade ruthlessly twisted the veins under Finn's sleeve and the epidermis of his left arm, and the game system in the paladin boy's body immediately reminded him that his health had dropped again, and his health had dropped by more than thirty points.

The white shell mask sewn into the Joker's face was stained red by the blood splattered from Finn's left arm, but at the same time, her body curled uncomfortably into a stomachache. Down from her chest, Finn's silver sword stabbed her in the stomach with the skill's damage bonus.

“－16”

A combination of physical and divine damage.

Although the damage value was offset a lot by the level punishment mechanism, after seeing the red data value jump out of the clown, the goal of the paladin youth had obviously been achieved, and a smile that endured severe pain suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth with a half-smug and half-mocking meaning.

In this way, the situation of the battle seems to have changed a little.

"You... Sure enough, he was a madman. The Joker looked up and glanced at the young paladin to his side, then a sharp stare broke free from Finn's arm and stepped back behind him.

The blood-stained silver sword ran down the clown's backward body, with a scarlet blood flower drawn from the clown's belly. After the clown stepped away, Finn also dropped his already bloody left arm and took a small step back, and then gasped out a breath of air that seemed to be holding back for a long time.

"Swapping my own life for my life, this tactic is really bad for you to think of." After retreating to a temporarily safe distance, the Joker slightly hunched over his stomach and looked at Finn, "However, we don't seem to have done the same damage to each other, and you're much more seriously injured than I am right now. I'm looking forward to seeing how long you'll be able to carry out this lethal tactic. ”

With that, the five fingers on her right hand began to play with interest with the filaments wrapped around her fingers, waiting for Finn's next move.

Her years of experience and intuition told her that if the two sides continued to fight like this, Fein would definitely be the first to fall without being able to support it.

The young paladin tilted his head to the side, and gasped for breath with a bloody arm hanging silently.

Half a day-

"Pay 40 XP to level up." Feeling that it was almost time to regain health, he called out the game system in his head and gave him the same instructions as last time.

[Hint: The 40 XP you paid is only enough to improve the base class, do you want to confirm that?] 】

"Confirm payment."

[You pay XP to increase your character's level]

[EXP -40]

[Civilian/Scholar Level +1, Total Level +1]

As the experience was paid and the level increased, Finn's health was refilled, and the smile on the clown's mask suddenly seemed to freeze with the five fingers of her twisting the blade.

"How... How so? She was greatly confused and puzzled, and muttered in a low voice.

For the first time, the Patriarch of the Demon Shepherd Sect felt mentally stressed when facing a low-ranking paladin.

It's weird......

Such an incredible ability to heal itself...... Could it be that he has really inherited the blood of Liv, the goddess of life, and is a son of divine blood who still exists in the mortal world?

How is this possible?

Tiamagus, the dragon of judgment, led the knights of the Apocalypse to slay the dragon of destruction and slay the Scarlet Moon, the battle of the First Age that brought the First Age to ruin while opening the door to the Second Age, a famous legend that echoes at the bedside of every child in the Fourth Age, and anyone knows that the legends who walked the mortal world bathed in the blood of the gods died by the end of the First Age.

So - how is this possible?!

Looking at Finn's upright body after taking a few breaths and standing up straight as if nothing happened, the Joker's heart suddenly erupted with an unacceptable roar.

If it were a game on a chessboard, she wouldn't hesitate to flip the table in front of her opponent, then kick the pieces that flew at her feet, angrily standing up and holding her fingertips to Finn's nose to question him for cheating.

Of course, if she really questioned it like that, Fein would have generously admitted that she had indeed cheated.

After all, she didn't know that the entire mortal plane of Ferdia was a game of worlds, and that Finn had stood at a table outside the world and played the role of looking down on the whole world, and the player's battle against the antigen inhabitants was never fair from a strict point of view.

To put it bluntly, the nature of the battle has completely changed since Finn started using the game system, and her impression in Finn's eyes has changed from a skilled assailant to a collection of data that can be tackled by it.

Finn had never been afraid of her, but due to the fact that common sense was limited by the cognitive framework of the aborigines, the female patriarch of the Demon Pastor Sect was never aware of this extremely terrifying truth for her.

That's all.

So the battle continues.

After raising his total level from level 8 to level 9, relying on the number of skills that were refreshed by the upgrade mechanism, the young paladin cast a skill on his hanging left arm, and the wound on the epithelium of his left arm healed quickly with an unreasonable image, and the whole arm regained its pre-injury consciousness after a while.

After healing his left arm, which had been in a state of scrap a moment ago, Finn shook off the silver sword in his hand, and then immediately took another step forward and rushed towards the Joker.

It's still the same as the last time - with the health guaranteed by the upgrade mechanic, he will always be the one who earns it until the experience points are exhausted.

The distance between the two was soon narrowed by the initiative of one of the parties.

Facing the young paladin who was charging straight towards him, the clown had already guessed in his heart what Finn wanted to do next.

Facing the silver sword raised towards him in Finn's right hand, the Patriarchess of the Demon Sect used it to Finn's side for an instant to move over, and the left arm of the young paladin was indeed clamped towards her like last time.

At this moment, she finally understood that Fein was using his body to limit her speed and agility in order to hide his disadvantage in agility, and instead showed his terrifying power to his advantage.

The next moment of the scene was like a repetition of the previous round of confrontation, the clown's knife had no choice but to twist Finn's entire left arm, and Finn's silver sword stabbed her body again.

The health of both sides is swapped for a second time in a certain percentage.

After withstanding each other's blows and exchanging health points, the clown would never be stupid enough to continue to stand in place and let Finn slash the second sword, so he hurriedly used the flexibility and agility of his body to break free from the grip of Finn's left arm, retreated to a relatively safe distance, and suddenly realized that this strange battle had fallen into such a dead loop at some point.

[Hint: Your current health is less than 75% of your total health, please heal 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]

Glancing at the latest three system prompts, Fein calculated the damage caused by the clown to himself, and then waved the silver sword in his hand to shake off the blood stuck to the blade, and had to admit that the Joker's output ability was still quite explosive for his current self.

Although his health is not too low in the status bar at "67/93", minus the 26 health he lost just now, he hasn't forgotten that the Joker's original backstab skill knocked out 56 of his health in a critical hit.

He didn't want to be caught by the other party at this juncture, and he would directly roll to death with a set of skills.

So, the next second-

[Hint: The 80 XP you paid increases the level of your base class]

[You pay XP to increase your character's level]

[EXP -80]

[Civilian/Scholar Level +1, Total Level +1]

To be cautious, even though he currently had 256 XP left in his inventory that would only allow him to pay 80 and 160 for two more upgrades, after a brief hesitation, he paid the next 80 XP to move his base class up one level.

After this level increase, his total level rose to level 10, and his health unsurprisingly returned to full again, once again reverting to the state that he had just been reduced to by the second scrapping of his left arm.

At this moment, looking at the young paladin who shook his head and walked towards him as if he was fine, the female patriarch of the Demon Shepherd Sect finally felt that a long-lost emotion began to arise in her heart.

The name of that emotion...... It seems to be called "despair", right?

Despair......

Desperate emotions that I don't seem to have experienced for a long time? --Looking at Finn's figure walking towards her step by step, she didn't know why, but suddenly became calm.

That's when --

"Rumble Rumble!"

Without warning, a deafening thud erupted from the ceiling of the castle hall, and both Finn and the Joker felt a noticeable shaking and shaking beneath their feet, as if an earthquake had come suddenly.

In the blink of an eye, with violent shaking, the young paladin and the matriarch looked up in the direction from which the movement came at the same time, and found that the ceiling above their heads was accompanied by several heavy crashing sounds like battering rams hitting the door, and in the blink of an eye, several huge cracks cracked out that were jaw-dropping, and then "boom" collapsed like a mudslide of a landslide with countless pieces of rubble and billowing smoke......