Chapter 8: The Wizard and the Knight (1)
Edwin carried Eric to the deck, and the sailors who met them along the way looked oblivious.
The soft moonlight gently shone on the ship, like a silver veil covering the Jackal.
Feeling the cool sea breeze in the evening, Eric was full of questions about Edwin's actions: What is Edwin going to do? Where are you going to take me?
Soon, Eric discovers that Edwin has taken him to the captain's quarters. The two black-faced gods at the door of the captain's room stood motionless at the door.
Looking at the motionless two black-faced gods, Eric felt a little weird. Normally, when he came to clean, the two Cusack's royal guards would look at him, but today they didn't react at all.
"No!" Eric finally noticed something was wrong with the two guards as Edwin entered the captain's quarters.
They don't have the breath of a living person!
Eric's heart suddenly flooded with turmoil.
As soon as Edwin entered the captain's quarters, the hatch slammed shut. However, there was no sound from the closed hatch, a scene that Eric had seen not long ago.
Later, Eric was casually thrown to the ground by Edwin. In the captain's room, Cusack, who was reading a book at the table, looked up, then frowned slightly and said, "Who are you?"
Eric, who was thrown on the ground, had to admire Cusack: the captain is the captain, and he suddenly found that a stranger had broken into his room, and he could still ask so calmly.
But what happened next showed Eric that it wasn't that simple.
Cusack suddenly drew the sword from his waist as if he had suddenly come to his senses after being confused, looked at Edwin with a cautious expression, and said, "It's magic!
"Hmph, you're a second-order knight, and you've come to your senses from my magic so quickly," Edwin chuckled lowly, "Looks like it's going to be a little more troublesome!"
With that, Edwin's right hand was raised, and his index finger was pointed at Cusack. A gray beam of light shot from his fingertips towards Cusack.
"Ahh In Eric's eyes, Cusack's figure flashed and left his original position. Even so, Cusack was only able to avoid the oncoming gray beam.
The gray beam hit the bookcase behind Cusack and exploded.
Where the bookcase was scattered by the gray beam, it decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Boom!", the sword in Cusack's hand stabbed at Edwin, and the sword was drawn so fast that the blade of the sword made a sound as it rubbed against the air.
Looking at the strength and movement of Cusack when he swung his sword, Eric knew that Cusack had the least strength of a knight, and Edwin was not wrong about this.
A cyan shield of light appeared on Edwin's body, blocking Cusack's menacing sword.
It's the Wind Shield that made Eric suffer.
The sword in Cusack's hand, when it stabbed against the shield of the wind, had to stop the attack.
But the shield of the wind began to shake under Cusack's sword, as if it would collapse at any moment.
In this regard, Edwin's pale face could not see any expression, he just continued to point at Cusack, and another gray beam of light shot at Cusack.
Cusack smiled happily, and then Eric and Edwin saw Cusack's figure blur for a moment, and then disappear in place.
Therefore, this time, Edwin's magic still did not hit Cusack. Eric, on the other hand, saw Cusack teleport behind Edwin.
Eric knew that this was not teleportation, but Cusack's strong explosiveness and special footwork, which caused Cusack to move extremely fast, so that he could not capture Cusack's figure due to his lack of strength.
Behind Edwin, Cusack stabbed out the foil in his hand with rapid movements.
Under this sword, the wind shield on Edwin's body let out a tremble, and then with a "pop!" sound, it disappeared. But at the same time, a black smoke rose from Edwin's body, and this black smoke danced around like tentacles wrapped around his body.
The sword that was about to stab Edwin was also entwined in black smoke tentacles.
"Hehe, I didn't expect you to be able to move at such a high speed, but in addition to the Wind Shield, I also have the Death Shield!" Edwin laughed hoarsely.
This time, Cusack found that his foil was entangled in the black smoke from Edwin's body, and he couldn't pull it out with all his strength. Not only that, but the black smoke began to spread along the foil, and soon it was about to touch his arm.
A fierce aura flashed across Cusack's face, and then Kusack didn't pay attention to the black smoke that spread, but stabbed the sword in his hand even harder at Edwin. Under Cusack's power, the foil slowly approached Edwin's heart......
The black smoke finally spread to Cusack's arms, and they began to jump jubilantly on them. "You want to erode me, it's up to you to do that!" Cusack looked at the foil that was about to stab Edwin, and a fierce expression appeared on his face.
Edwin's expression finally changed, and he quickly stepped back. The black smoke wrapped around Cusack's arm also retracted back into Edwin's body. But Edwin's retreat did not widen the distance between him and Cusack, who followed Edwin in pursuit.
Looking at Cusack, who was chasing after him, Edwin opened his mouth.
Then, the air in front of Edwin seemed to be shaken by some force, sending out waves that spread forward.
Swept head-on by this close wave, Cusack's expression was confused for a while, and his body movements slowed down. At this time, Edwin was actually smacking, and threw an old punch at Cusack, which directly knocked Kusack back several steps in a row.
Cusack, who had been knocked back several steps by Edwin's fist, shook his head and looked at Edwin in amazement.
"Haha, do you think wizards can only do magic? A strong body is equally important to a wizard, although not as powerful as you, but I also have the strength of a first-order knight. Edwin smirked at Cusack.
Edwin, who thought Cusack would be stunned, was stunned to find that the other party was not affected by his words, but quickly raised his sword and stabbed him.
Edwin was furious, "You forced me!"
With Edwin's roar, Eric on the ground saw Edwin raise his hand, and then a large transparent palm pushed from Edwin's front towards Cusack. "Dio, such as the Divine Palm?" Eric clearly felt, the huge transparent palm carrying an unrivaled momentum.
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