Chapter 20: Strength? Did it work? (Ask for follow-up)
The so-called five senses are sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, and the sixth sense is intuition.
This feeling is something that even ordinary people can feel in the dark, and after reaching the legend, then they can turn this feeling into their own use.
Even if Joshua blocked his five senses, he could still sense the source of danger and feel the flaws in his moves.
There is no reason, there is no means, if you know, you know, so this blow with absolute superiority was dismantled.
Skaven looked at his scattered sword skills, his eyes full of shock.
"Is that shocking? Even if there is a gap in strength between us, as long as I attack your weaknesses with my strengths, then the current result is not surprising. ”
Joshua explained blandly what had just happened, a very simple but impossible thing to do.
You must know that Joshua at this time is only a trainee magician and a recitation-level god in the general perception, and this strength may have enough advantages in the professional level, but this advantage should not be played to this extent.
["Strength? Did it work? ”】
Isn't strength useful?
Lilith wanted to ask a rhetorical question, but as she watched her sword walk towards the enemy, she knew that this was not the time to ask a question, and she once again felt Joshua's pride.
Being able to cross such a large gap in strength to suppress a grandmaster-level swordsman is undoubtedly a feat that can be called a genius.
Before him, any genius would be eclipsed.
"I don't believe it."
Yes, Skaven doesn't believe it.
He doesn't believe that a person doesn't have feelings of fear, he doesn't believe that a weak person can suppress a strong person, he doesn't believe it...... He's going to lose.
"What does it matter if you don't believe me?"
Joshua forced himself into a sixth sense by burning a large amount of original sin, while at the same time gaining some new understanding of his body.
Humans need the brain to give instructions to do something, and then the body can respond, and this gap is about less than 0.5 seconds.
That's enough, though.
In such a high-intensity battle, countless 0.5 seconds are constantly converging, and Joshua's attacks can take the lead every time.
At the same time, Skaven's flaws were clear in Joshua's eyes, fighting spirit, sword skills, experience, and physique...... The places that were far superior to Joshua were not perfect, and they were all grasped by Joshua.
"Damn, it's not the same as promised, that guy actually lied to me."
Skaven was furious, he was originally arranged by the black-robed man to ambush Lilith here, but the other party never said that Joshua had such strength.
Obviously, as the guy said before, Lilith's boring kindness would definitely make her use a more gentle purification method, and once she started to purify the dead air, she would be dragged into a long period of consumption.
Even if Lilith would have some guards with her, the resurrected corpses and Skaven who secretly unleashed fear could disrupt the defenses, and that was when Skaven would strike.
But the situation was completely different from before, blood stains appeared on Skaven's body, and Joshua did not have any damage except for the slight damage to the monk's uniform on his body.
No...... I can't...... Die here.
A strong sense of crisis appeared in Joshua's heart, and even if he didn't have the time to read the fate text, he still made the fastest decision in the state of his sixth sense.
Stopping all the offensive without any hesitation, Joshua turned and retreated, and at this moment the turquoise fighting spirit shot out, and everything in his path turned into charred black, and the toxin was visible in it.
The faces of Earl George and the knights on the side were full of horror, and there were only a few of them who could be called elites, and in the face of Skaven's full force, there was no time to react, and it would not take long for them to turn into pus.
At this moment, a curtain of light descended from the sky to isolate Skaven's sword qi, and at the same time, Lilith slowly got up and pulled out the brilliant holy sword that was inserted into the ground.
The clouds in the sky had faded, and there were no more corpses on the ground, and the saint turned around in the firelight, and turned her cold gaze at Skaven.
It's finally time for her to make a move.
"The one who spreads poison and fear, Skaven of the Iron Brotherhood?"
Lilith revealed Skaven's true identity and created the Grandmaster Warrior of the Predator Brotherhood, who can often detect the emotions of the people around him due to his ability to use fear.
It is for this reason that the number of people in the trial court has been empty.
His head is now in the Inquisition, worth 4,600 gold coins.
There is no chance of winning.
It didn't take much effort for Skaven to make such a judgment, even though they were both grandmasters, but there were very different grandmasters.
At this time, both his state and mentality have been destroyed by Joshua, and although Lilith has been consumed by a large amount of dead energy, the main consumption is the power of the Brilliant Holy Sword, which is a grandmaster-level magician herself.
Once a war starts, it will inevitably fall into crisis.
Escape? Not a chance.
Skaven considered the possibility of escaping, but it was an act of death for a warrior to expose his back to a magician.
What to do?
Skaven was distressed, but the next moment he didn't have to worry about it.
A cold touch ran through his body, and he looked in disbelief at the bloodred blade that drilled out of his chest.
"Doris?"
Lilith looked at Doris, who suddenly appeared behind Skaven and hit the other party with a sword, she should be guarding the church at this time.
"I'm sorry, I don't worry about the lifeless atmosphere here, Miss, please punish Miss when she goes back, and at this time, I will solve this person first."
Doris kicked Scarven out with a kick, who would have thought that this Templar-turned-female knight would have such a good skill at stealth backstabbing.
"Ahem~"
The battered Skaven rolled on the ground a few times and coughed up blood, his mouth speaking in staccato words, but he didn't know if he had injured his lungs, and his tone was inaudible.
But it's finally over.
Joshua saw the reinforcements arrive, and Lilith was free from the entanglement of death, and finally let herself withdraw from the state of high intensity of the power of original sin.
I'll leave it to them.
Joshua knew that he and Doris didn't have much to do with each other, and that the other couldn't afford to keep the church at the expense of his master.
At this time, it is necessary to go back as soon as possible to avoid the church being burglarized during this period of weakness.
[The boring farce is finally over, but Joshua has no intention of leaving here immediately, and the underground movement is not over yet.
At this point, the appetizers are over, and it's time for the main meal to be served, so I can't wait. 】
Dinner?
Joshua, who had planned to leave as soon as possible, was stunned, and the words were stuck in his throat, and a grandmaster-level warrior could be called an appetizer.
So what exactly is this meal?
"Hehe~ I really didn't expect to be forced to this point."
Cornered, Skaven burst out laughing, blood gushing out of the wound, apparently Doris had stabbed the vital point with a blow.
"Doris, catch it alive."
Lilith understands that the Iron Brotherhood is just a minor illness, and that the real trouble is the black-robed man who may have his back on the Blood Church.
Apparently the two are in a group, and catching him will have a chance to bring more information ......
["When you are constantly suffering, you are confused by the immediate interests, and you forget the crisis under your feet, and it is because of this that I look down on you. ”】
Confused? Crisis?
Lilith stopped halfway through her sentence, and then the earth suddenly began to shake and then collapsed.
What happened?
Lilith was completely out of condition at this time, and just now she used the power of the Brilliant Holy Sword to fight against the death qi, and almost explored the surrounding underground, which could guarantee that there would be no problems.
There was no magic, not anyone's combat skills, but the earth suddenly collapsed just now.
"Roar~"
A roar came from below, and Lilith looked down, the huge mouthparts of an insect.
Circles of sharp teeth emitted a cold light, and streams of rancid breath poured out of them, rows of eyes around it, and countless tentacles reached into the soil, which was ......
"Drill the Worm!"
Lilith recognized this terrifying creature, a terrifying being that fell to the earth with the arrival of an evil god, able to travel freely underground, and could cause earthquakes if she wanted to.
Judging from the current records of the church, none of the Driller Worms found so far are below the Grandmaster-level combat power.
As for the one in front of him, it is even more heavyweight.
That invisible pressure told Lilith that the Driller in front of her could pose a great threat to her, and it was not far from even if it didn't have the power of a legend.
The wind howled, dragging everyone upwards, and it was absolutely impossible to fight such a monster underground, this was the conclusion reached after countless crusades against the Drill Demon Worm.
"Abominable ......"
Lilith Silver Fang clenched and felt the pressure, in such a short period of time, she couldn't say that using spells to strengthen her magic, it was barely enough to build magic in this time.
In such a situation, it was beyond Lilith's power to send everyone out.
The only thing she could do was to keep Joshua and Doris safe, as for the others...... I can only resign myself to fate.
"Miss."
Doris was blown up by the wind, but she saw that the person she was going to protect kept falling into the mouthparts of the Driller.
How does this make her not anxious?
Joshua, however, made a quicker decision, stepping directly on a rock, using the reaction force, and headed in the direction of Lilith.
[Sacrificing oneself for others was the thing Joshua disdained the most, and at this time, the stench of self-touching had overflowed from the holy woman. 】
Joshua relied on the reminder of the fate text to know Lilith's thoughts, and immediately took action.
"You ......"
"Concentrate on taking them up with magic, and I'll take you to safety."
Joshua could sense that Lilith had no way to protect herself, and he had discovered that there seemed to be some kind of passage in the collapsed formation.
I don't know when these passages existed, maybe it was the war thirty years ago, maybe it was even longer, but it didn't matter anymore.
The important thing is that these things are still there under the impact just now, where is Joshua's goal.
"Help, Holy Maiden."
Count George's wails were heard, but Lilith had no more energy to save him.
If she still has the strength left, then she will try to save everyone as much as possible, but she also understands that there is a limit to human power, and she can't save everyone.
Lilith can only save those she can.
Not only Count George, but also many people who Lilith couldn't save, they all fell into that bottomless mouthpiece, and the only thing to be happy about was that Skaven fell into it too.
I guess it won't be long before I die without a place to be buried.
Joshua didn't think about the life and death of others, he changed the structure of the fireball technique again, and the flames gathered in his hands, but instead of forming a fireball, they turned into a tongue of fire and shot out.
The magic that resembled a small jet didn't have a name, and Joshua wasn't going to name it, but it was just a makeshift spell for escape, and it probably wouldn't be used a second time after that.
But it does work.
With the power of original sin fueled by the powerful propulsion itself, the two men in mid-air were pushed aside, and the place was a broken underground passage according to Joshua's calculations.
"Knock~"
Due to the life-and-death crisis, Joshua couldn't control his power at all, and the powerful impact directly caused them to crash into it, rolling on the ground several times even after landing.
Lilith is a mage, and although Joshua's physique is also a magician, fortunately, he has the power of original sin to strengthen his physique, and he hugged Lilith tightly to resist all possible damage with his body.
But the crisis has not been resolved, and Joshua can only use the least amount of original sin power to strengthen his physique, even if it will hurt him, he must reserve enough original sin power.
"Ahem~ Joshua, are you alright, healing."
After a long time when the smoke cleared, Lilith got up and looked at Joshua's blue and purple appearance, and immediately recited a spell to help him recover.
The healing technique was originally the magic of the Church of Light, and it was used by the Holy Maiden at this time, and Joshua's injuries were much better in a short time.
"It's okay, let's get out of here as soon as possible."
Joshua's condition at this time was actually not good, although the skin injury had recovered, the internal organs were still tingling.
But now is not the time to stay here, use some of the power of original sin to strengthen the body's ability to recover, and hope to recover as soon as possible while leaving here.
["There are probably a few bones that are cracked, and there are also some internal organs bleeding, and if they are not fatal injuries, then there is nothing to worry about. ”】
Lilith listened to the words in her ears and wanted to continue to heal Joshua, but the roar of the Drill Worm came from behind them, telling them that this place was not suitable for long.