Chapter 37: Heads-up

Kanna assessed her remaining strength and physical condition.

"You can only do two more full-force slashes at most. Ashley, this is the end."

Kanna holds the sword in both hands and holds it in front of her right chest. This is a very basic two-handed sword stance.

Skeletron dragged his hands and hammered at Canna.

In the moments before Skeletron unleashed the hammer, Khanna took two sharp steps forward, then stopped with her legs, causing her entire upper body to fall forward. Taking advantage of this momentum, his hands were raised, and he slashed down in a flash.

Knowing that he couldn't avoid it, Skeletron raised his left arm to block hard. With a bang, Skeletron's left arm and armour were sliced to the ground. However, the drop of the arm could not stop Skeletron's attack. Almost at the same time, Skeletron's hammer, which was dragging on the ground, slashed out towards the upper left track, striking Kanna in the left leg.

"Click". Kanna broke her leg and was knocked 5 meters away. She landed on her right foot and jumped a few times, while holding the sword in reverse with her right hand, plunging the blade into the ground and barely standing. She didn't dare to fall, and she was not confident that the remaining strength would support her to get back up.

Then, Kanna took a very strange stance. The right hand is still holding the sword that is inserted into the ground, the right knee is slightly bent in a half-squatting position, and the left hand is placed horizontally in front of the chest, and the palm of the hand is naturally relaxed. It seems that she wanted to pose as a "broken wing", but a fractured left leg made her unable to stand on both legs. And the current residual physical condition cannot support her to stand firmly on one leg, so she has no choice but to use the sword to support her body. The biggest problem with this unformed stance is that the sword is held backwards in the right hand. There were warriors among the Elven Sword Dancers who held swords like this, but this kind of grip could only be cut with one hand, and could not be slashed with both hands, so Kanna never used it. It seems that Kanna has also been driven into a desperate situation.

Skeletron walked slowly with a hammer in one hand. He was sure that Kanna was no longer able to move, and the next blow was over.

As Skeletron approached, Kanna suddenly remembered the first time she had faced a desperate battle opponent, the "King of the Hill". Thinking of the "King of the Hill", Kanna's face after fighting for a long time suddenly relaxed, and then burst into a bright toothy smile. The intense battle intent burned like a colorless flame, shrouded in the ominous aura of Skeletron, around Kanna's broken body.

Edward, who sat against the wall and tried to get up but still couldn't succeed, saw this last scene.

"Kanna, this is ...... Happy, excited?" Edward was puzzled.

Skeletron, who walked in front of Kanna, held the hammer in one hand, slashed twice in the air, and smashed Kanna's torso with the help of inertia.

Kanna jumped to her feet and kicked hard with her right foot on the hammer. The hammer's powerful impact combined with Canna's leg kicks caused Kanna to spin in the air with her head down and feet up. As she spun and fell, Kanna grabbed the outside of the hilt with her left hand, and with her right hand, she swung three swords at Skeletron's neck. Then, raise your left arm to protect your head before falling to the ground. The inertia of the rotation caused Kanna to land and roll away from Skeletron until it hit the wall.

The severe injury had already numbed Kanna's nerves, and she couldn't tell from the feeling of her hand what kind of effect the three swords had just slashed. But Skeletron appeared unharmed and took a step in Canna's direction.

"It's not good...... Kanna sighed inwardly. Because she was completely unable to stand up.

Not far away, Edwardton was ashamed of his ancestors and fathers, and shed tears full of humiliation and remorse. He drew a dagger from his waist and prepared to swing his knife to kill himself.

"The son of Vallient cannot die behind the king." Edward thought.

However, with Skeletron's kick, the movement of his body caused the severed head of Kanna to roll to the ground like a ball. The flaming flames quickly burned the lifeless remains to ashes.

Edward's sword-wielding hand fell to the ground, and he thought to himself, "Foolish fellow, who doubts his own king."

As Skeletron turned to ashes and the plate armor he was wearing fell to the ground, a ring that had been worn on the middle finger of his right hand also fell to the ground and rolled to Canna's side.

Unable to get up for a moment or a half, Kanna picked up the ring and examined it carefully. It is a silver-gray ring with a wolf's head carved on the face and a row of words engraved on the inside of the band: Wolves of the Plains of Alfrent.

Recalling what was recorded in the history books, Kanna quickly understood the origin of the ring. His ancestor, Alexander Augustus, was blessed by the creator god AZ when he founded the empire of St. Paulus, the first unified empire of mankind. AZ gave Alexander the Great a small piece of silver-gray metal, a metal that no one could decipher in the Fertile Land, and it was full of powerful divine power that no one could decipher. Alexander the Great enlisted some of the best jewellers in the empire to forge five rings from this magical metal. Four of the rings were given to the four Grand Dukes (Erzherzog): the Bear of the Permafrost of Arctic, the Wolf of the Plains of Alfrent, the Eagle of the Valley of Misty, and the Lion of the Vastness Steppe. The Taylor family patriarch is one of the four Grand Dukes: Archduke Alfrent, commonly known as the Wolf Duke. The main body of the family's coat of arms is a steppe wolf that growls in the sky. It is worth mentioning that these four families are the only families with the title of grand duke in human history. After that, the empire split into kingdoms, and the title of Grand Duke was no longer used.

In addition to the rings presented to the four Grand Dukes. There is also a "Griffin of the Continent of Blessed", commonly known as the Griffin Ring. The ring, as a symbol of imperial power, was inherited by the Emperor. Since William Augustus, the founder of the Meredis Kingdom, is the rightful heir of the original Empire, the Griffon's Ring has always been in the Meredith Kingdom. However, since this ring represents the throne of the emperor in the past, it is long in the past, so the kings of the Meredis Kingdom have basically never worn it. And where the ring was stored in the kingdom was unknown after the disappearance of Kanna's father, King James. As a child, when Kanna learned about the history of the ring in the history books, she embarked on a treasure hunt in the palace on her own. But it ended in failure, and there was no sign of the ring in all the treasure vaults she could open the door.

The Taylor family has long since been wiped out, and the awakened Skeleton King Lauren Taylor has returned to dust. Now the Wolf Ring is an ownerless ring. According to tradition, it was supposed to be returned to the Emperor. But the Empire is long gone, and Kanna is now the only descendant of the rightful heir to the Empire. So the ownership of the ring should go to Kanna.

Kanna placed the wolf ring on her left index finger, and the ring immediately changed in size to fit the thickness of Kanna's finger. But Kanna didn't feel any special powers. So he took out the magic book and cast a first-order spell spell on the ring [Identification Technique], but the result was naturally no enchantment effect. Kanna was laughed at by her childish behavior. The more powerful the item, the more difficult it is to enchant. This ring made of sacred metal created by the creator god himself, how can a mage in the mortal world successfully enchant it.

The group lay on the ground for an unknown amount of time, until Julia's blindness disappeared, and Monica dragged her seriously injured companion to a closer position. Julia fumbled for the location of the broken bone in Kanna's thigh, skillfully butted the broken bone, and asked Monica to help hold it down, and then cast a few third-order magic [Primary Group Healing Technique]. Canna, Edward, and Garcia were finally able to get back to their feet. Henry was so badly injured that he was still unable to move. Primo was blind and unable to walk on his own.

In the world of Xeno, there is a type of Medic for exploration and combat-related classes, but not all Medics are among them. Most doctors, like businessmen and craftsmen, are a profession and can only treat patients in a peaceful environment, and the most common are general doctors, surgeons, nurses, etc. It is completely different from the field med, plague doctor, etc., who have done something in the battlefield environment. Hospitals are extravagant institutions that can only be found in large cities, where doctors are specialized in life. Most of the towns and villages in the human world do not have hospitals, and people are only sent to churches when they are injured or seriously ill. Therefore, the clergy of churches in small and medium-sized areas are more or less able to heal.

Julia has always had a level of 10 or higher as a nurse doctor, so she can easily connect Canna's bones. As long as it is not a comminuted fracture, there is no need for a surgeon to intervene. But Henry's ribs were inserted into his lungs, and he had to go to a big hospital.