Chapter 108: Crimson's Duel IV
This time, the large amount of blood gathered in Gascoll's hands did not form a giant weapon of the same size, but it was further condensed when they gathered, and the final form was an ordinary-looking blood-red broadsword.
Gascoll clenched his fists, grabbed the broadsword made of a large amount of blood into his hand, and then swung a sword at Raymond in the air, and a fishy sword qi immediately broke away from the sword body and slashed towards Raymond.
Raymond's eyes widened, and he immediately rolled to the side to dodge. However, then, Gascoll really didn't give Raymond any time to breathe, and kept swinging the broadsword in his hand to continuously slash at Raymond with bloody sword qi at medium and long distances.
The scarlet sword qi made a "crackling" sound, and it kept hitting all corners of the room, forcing Raymond to find no time to counterattack, and could only dodge Gascoll's attacks under the high intensity of the sword qi.
Suddenly, by rolling again, another sword qi whistling past his ears, and when he got up from the floor of the room, Raymond suddenly felt the flesh on his waist as if it had been smacked by something, and a wet feeling then spread from the place where it was knocked out.
The fearless young swordsman was stunned for a moment, a bad premonition flashed in his mind, and he quickly lowered his head to check the several bottles of life potions fixed on his belt. With this lowered gaze, he suddenly realized that the potion bottle on his belt had been accidentally crushed by himself.
At this moment, there is no need for Gascoll to continue to swing his sword qi to put pressure on him, he has also lost the capital to continue fighting, and now there is only one way to win a quick battle.
Or is it looking for a chance to escape with Tina?
After a very short period of thought, Raymond quickly ruled out the second thought, because he felt that under the suppression of Gascol's attack, he would not be able to escape with Tina with him while ensuring that he was fully armed.
"In that case, let's do it quickly." Thinking of this, he strengthened his determination, gritted his teeth and raised his head to stare at Gascol, who was about ten paces away from him at this moment, and his heart was horizontal, and he kicked his feet to launch an active charge towards the other party.
Seeing Raymond rushing towards him head-on, Gascol was expressionless, and suddenly changed his previous combat method of using the broadsword to carry out medium and long-distance attacks, and put the broadsword in his hand to his shoulder, and the whole person sprinted forward directly, and then jumped high, his body churned in the air like a folded paper, and then picked up the sword on his shoulder with one arm and slashed it down to Raymond's position.
The blood-red broadsword had grown into a standard specialty greatsword by the time Gascoll leapt into the air. The old vampire Sir was like the thunder chariot of the god of war Wall, falling from the sky, a sword slashed in front of Raymond's feet, and the moment the giant sword smashed on the ground, it caused terrifying vibrations and rising smoke, proving that if Raymond made a slight slow reaction to avoidance, most of them would be sent directly into the gate of the Dead Realm by this heavy sword.
Gascol's sword was full of shocking destructive power, but Raymond did not panic at all after witnessing this terrifying attack with his own eyes, and even he didn't know why he had always been irritable and irritable in the past, but at this time, he seemed very calm, and his heart was like a calm lake, just trying to use his eyes to find a flaw in the enemy's moves, and almost completely unaffected by external interference.
He didn't realize that his spiritual realm was in a stage of sublimation in this battle, making his state of mind more and more stable even though his nature was unshakable, and his swordsmanship became more mature than before.
So he dodged Gascoll's sword, pinched the gap between the opponent's attacks, and immediately moved one more step to the side, then paid for the blood in his body, and used the innate ability called [Blood・Whetstone] to sharpen the sword in the sheath, and then drew the sword and slashed.
He didn't do anything this time, he simply increased the amount of blood attached to the blade to the limit of what he could pay and bear, and the resulting effect was that the curved sword seemed to be inserted into him at the moment when it was unsheathed, giving him a burst of extremely exciting pain, and then scraped the sharp sound of blood rubbing against the blade and slashed at Gascoll, who had not yet recovered the blood-colored greatsword from the stiffness of the previous moment.
"Poof!" Raymond's sword cut a terrifying crack in Gascol's left shoulder, almost removing the entire left arm of the Earl of the Blood, causing the fracture to quickly turn over the bloody flesh and spurt blood from it.
Gascoll's cheeks twitched, and he forcibly endured the sharp pain of almost breaking his arm, and used his body as the axis to rotate the giant sword in his right hand and spun violently, and the extra-long giant sword quickly swept around his body in a circle.
Raymond let go of the left hand of the sheath, held the handle of the curved sword with both hands, and immediately put the curved sword back in front of him, and the giant sword in Gascoll's hand immediately swept across Raymond's curved sword with a "bang", and a large amount of blood attached to the two weapons that should have been liquid almost sparked sharp sparks at the moment of collision.
Gascoll's greatsword failed to knock Raymond and his sword into the air, which shocked the one-eyed old vampire Count for a moment, and then prepared to draw his greatsword and retreat some distance in front of Raymond to regroup.
However, as soon as the blood giant sword in his hand got out of the arc-shaped sword in Raymond's hand, which was also wrapped in blood, Raymond's eyes suddenly became as sharp as the sword in his hand, and then he didn't intend to adjust the state of Gascoll at all.
Raymond's blood slashed in mid-air with the trajectory of the curved sword, and then it tore at Gascol's abdomen like a hungry wolf with teeth and claws.
The greatsword in Gascol's hand was not conducive to close defense, so he had to reluctantly take the next blow, continue to fall backwards, and then slammed his right arm to try to use the blood greatsword in his hand to force Raymond back.
Instead of retreating, Raymond continued to face the greatsword wielded by Gascol. The young swordsman slashed the curved sword into the old vampire earl's greatsword roughly, but the moment the two swords slammed together, he wrenched his wrists, causing the curved blade to switch from a hungry wolf with teeth and claws to a cunning and deadly viper, and quickly slashed against the side blade of the blood greatsword in the direction of the hilt.
"Backhand swordsmanship." Gascoll's brow furrowed.
Raymond's performance at this moment was almost like a different person than he had been in the Brotherhood Tavern, and the one-eyed Blood Sir really didn't expect that he had mastered even the backhand swordsmanship that the Assassins were so proud of.
But then again, while Gascoll expressed surprise at Raymond's combat ability, Raymond himself was actually confused, shocked, and even a little afraid of his strength at this time. Of course, he didn't know how to use the assassins' backhand swordsmanship before, but now even if he only improvised based on the impressions in his memory, he successfully performed them.
Perhaps even he didn't expect that the combat savvy he displayed at this time, as well as this extremely oppressive swordsmanship style, had faintly taken the prototype when his personal strength reached its peak in another time and space.
At that time, in addition to being known as the "Scarlet Twin Walls" next to Queen Cosette along with Kiel Rivers in the same period, he himself also enjoyed a legendary title that was feared by all dark nobles and feared by all human soldiers - "Blood Sword Saint Raymond".
"Don't get too complacent, bug!" Finally, the old Blood Sir erupted under the aggressive sword of the swordsman youth.
As an old-school military nobleman who owned territory in the Valley of the Crow before Cosette was crowned Queen of the Blood Clan, although Gascol was almost invincible to the vast majority of people in this period of the Fourth Age, he was not a master in the field of swordsmanship, so he had not yet comprehended the method of cracking the backhand swordsmanship, so he did not hesitate to let go of his right hand holding the sword when he knew that he could no longer keep the blood giant sword, and thus abandoned the sword and retreated. Seeing the arc-shaped sword in Raymond's hand sweeping in front of him with a strong blood aura, even through the air that was already full of blood, he could feel a killing intent from the blade of the arc-shaped sword.
He managed to retreat two or three steps from Raymond's pressure at the cost of abandoning his weapon, then crouched on his knees on the floor of the room, hanging his unconscious left arm, resisting the sharp pain coming from his abdomen, raised his arm and raised his right hand, so that the blood in the room quickly gathered from all directions onto his palm, ready to use the blood he had recollected to create a new bloody weapon.
Gascoll's natural ability is the same as Kilrivers' Blood's Armament. With this talent, he can create equipment made from blood as long as he collects enough blood, and as long as the quality of the blood is good, the quality of the equipment will be even better.
The old vampire Earl was far more skilled in understanding and mastering his talent than the current Kilrivers, who could condense the large amount of blood collected together, thereby artificially improving the quality of the blood, and then create an even more powerful weapon just like the bloody broadsword that could slash out sword qi not long ago.
He tried to use the blood in the entire alchemy laboratory to create a powerful weapon that Raymond couldn't fight even with all his might, but it seemed to take Raymond a blink of an eye to see through his thoughts, and then he yelled, "Don't think!" Then, regardless of his physical condition, he shook off the residual blood that had been almost slashed on the curved sword, and continued to rush towards Gascoll while retracting the sword into the sheath.
Named [Blood Whetstone] was activated by him, and this double-edged sword talent that could both injure and self-inflict damage was almost overloaded on his already anemic body, and then gathered the little blood left in his body and flowed through his hand to his sword as much as possible. He gritted his teeth and moved forward, feeling his natural ability thrust into his waist again, and then tightened his eyebrows and pulled the curved sword that was temporarily resting in the scabbard forward.
The sound of strings rang out from the arc-shaped scabbard again, and the blood-red arc blade quickly slashed towards the eyebrows of the old vampire count in the swordsman's young hand, and the one-eyed blood count widened his only eyeball in surprise, and immediately stopped the collection of blood in his palm, and transformed the blood in his right hand into a scarlet giant shield as fast as he could, and stood the shield in front of him with a "bang" before Raymond.
In the next moment, the curved sword polished red by the blood of the whetstone slashed at the shield of the Blood Giant Shield. Raymond and Gascoll's eyes widened, staring at the sword and shield that collided together, and then heard a crisp sound like glass ice cracking, and saw the giant shield in Gascol's hand crack along the blade of the curved sword, a mark that quickly disintegrated, and then shattered...... (To be continued.) )