Late that night, it rained heavily in the city of Twilight, and the wind swept through the city, and the windows trembled under the drastic air pressure, and the noise of the raindrops on it made it seem as if the whole city was trembling.

On this kind of rainy day, basically no one will be outside the activity.

However, at this time, on the outskirts of Twilight City, there is a person standing on a boulder facing the torrential rain.

Chino stood in the rain, even though the wind and rain were miserable, but he could not penetrate the mental barrier around him to wet it in the slightest, and here he looked at the dark night, as if waiting for something.

Looking around, this wilderness is extremely barren, full of rocks, no buildings, no vegetation, no debris, no obstacles, empty to the extreme, simply.

It's like a natural killing field.

At this time, Chino is holding a bright red apple in his hand.

When she first met Solandale, she treated him to a sweet apple.

Many people have eaten this kind of apple and found it extremely bitter, but the two of them were Chino and Solandelle who tasted sweet.

In order for Chino to eat the apples, Solandale gave him an apple sapling, which has been planted in the greenhouse of the Consulate of Twilight City for 14 years.

This apple was plucked from that tree by Chino.

He took a bite of the apple, and before he could chew it, the corners of his mouth tightened, and it took a long time for him to recover from the violent bitterness.

"It's getting worse and worse." He endured the bitter taste and ate the apples one by one.

At this moment, the darkness ahead suddenly changed.

"Roar" The low muffled sound of some creature penetrated the rain curtain, belt

with a heavy sense of oppression.

Immediately after, the crimson dragon head slowly emerged in the darkness, bringing out the huge body and the person holding the dragon spear on the dragon's back.

With a playfulness in his eyes, Chino slowly stepped forward and said with an icy smile, "So, this is her last card - sending you to Twilight to kill me?" ”

Thunder flashed, illuminating Lona's countenance, and the torrential rain crashed wildly on her armor, splashing fine droplets of water, and the blood oath in her hand became even more hideous in the night.

Unlike her fully armed posture, Lorna's eyes were filled with unprecedented gloom and sadness, and her face kept falling without knowing whether it was rain or tears: "Why did the three of us become what we are today?"

Chino: "She picked everything up. You go ask her, don't ask me. ”

Lorna closed her eyes, her lips pursed tightly, her expression full of irrepressible sadness, 24 years with Solandelle, 14 years with Chino, and the scenes of getting along with the two friends kept colliding in her mind, tormenting her like a knife.

When the two were silent, Chino's figure suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, he had already ghostly come to the dragon's back.

He stretched out his hand on Lorna's face and helped her wipe off the transparent liquid on her face, and his tone was very soft: "Lorna, the two of us used to have a good time, we had no grudges in the past, no enmity in recent days, and there is no reason to fight." ”

"Listen to my advice, don't die for her in vain, come to me."

Lorna didn't speak, just choked silently.

When she opened her eyes again and looked at Chino, who was close at hand, the sadness in her red eyes had faded, and there was only an unshakable battle intent

…

with decisively.

Seeing this, Chino was silent for a long time, and said in a self-deprecating tone: "That's right, you and Lugo are the same kind of people, and they would rather die themselves than achieve the people behind them." If you betray Solandelle, it's not you. ”

"Uhh

The blow wasn't fast, it wasn't even an attack, it was just a reminder to Chino - don't say anything, let's fight.

"Scarlet Night, get out of here." The first thing Lorna did after forcing Chino back was to send her dragon away.

Although the dragon knight has always been a "human and dragon in one" strategy, this is based on the fact that the strength of humans and dragons is about the same, so that they can assist each other and maximize their combat power.

When Lorna first became a dragon knight, she chose the weakest "waiter-level dragon" Scarlet Night because of her personal preference.

In the years when she was still in the lower years, Scarlet Night was a good partner in battle, and she was born and died together.

But now, with the power of Lona's 6th sequence "Natural Disaster", this waiter-level dragon is completely unable to keep up with the master's strength.

Usually riding a dragon is okay, but once you get caught in a life-and-death battle with a strong enemy, the weak Scarlet Night will not only not help, but will also distract Lorna.

Especially now in the face of a strong enemy like Chino, Scarlet Night must not participate in the battle together, otherwise one photo will be killed in seconds.

The dragon is a creature of higher intelligence, and although Scarlet Night is worried about Lorna, he also knows that he will become a burden if he stays here, so he rubs his head against Lorna, makes a short low cry of concern, and then flapps his wings and leaves the battlefield.

Right now

There were only two people left in this killing field.

The former "Regent" and the current "King's Blade" gaze at each other, the old friendship is gone, and all that remains is you to live or die.

The first to act was Chino, who walked leisurely towards Lorna, very slowly, and the sound of his steps on the stagnant water, although slight, vaguely drowned out the wind and rain around him.

Lorna clenched the Blood Oath and watched Chino's every move.

She had never fought Chino before, and had only had one wrestling in the plenary session.

But it was just a wrestling, and it was very different from a real life-and-death fight.

Chino has always been regarded as the "Grim Reaper", what is his true strength? Lorna doesn't know the bottom of her heart.

However, since he has been injured in the wrestling, it proves that there is no qualitative difference in the strength of the two sides.

This fight

There is a chance to win.

Without warning, at the moment when the thought of "being able to win" rose in Lorna's heart, her vision suddenly darkened, and a strange sense of weightlessness spread throughout her body, and her consciousness disappeared in an instant, plunging into darkness.

When Lorna came to her senses again, she found herself lying on her back on the ground, unconscious for an unknown amount of time, her face clamped by Chino, and through her fingers she could see the cold face and the dark canopy of rain that kept falling.

Chino spoke slowly, and his emotionless voice whispered like a grim reaper: "Being hurt by your luck once, did it give you the illusion that you could win me?" ”

That's when Lorna realized what had just happened.

How can it be so fast?!

He was keeping an eye on Chino's movements the whole time, without the slightest relaxation, but it was this kind of combat posture of twelve points of vigilance

Still couldn't keep up with Chino's speed.

From Chino's stroll, to his sudden speed, to knocking her unconscious and knocking her to the ground, the whole process was completely completed in an instant, so fast that her dynamic vision couldn't keep up, and even her nervous instincts couldn't react.

The pain spread through her body, almost suffocating, and Lorna suddenly realized that this was a killing field

It's not a killing field for two people to kill each other.

Rather, it was a one-sided, one-sided killing field for her alone