18: Knightly Gladiatorial Fight

"The death match between knights seems interesting, doesn't it?"

Harrison shook his glass slightly, "Even the transcendent still have to abide by the public order and good virtues of the world—if you owe a debt, you have to pay it, and if you make a mistake, you have to atone for it, this is a matter of course." ”

Nolan heard the implication of his words, if he spent a lot of precious alchemy materials but did not produce any results, would he also "atone" for his sins?

This old guy is really gracious.

"Then it seems that they are not completely extraordinary." He smiled, "If they have the strength of high-ranking knights, who would dare to dispose of them at will?" ”

Harrison also smiled: "Those who can become high-level transcendents are geniuses among geniuses." Geniuses are privileged, and naturally they cannot be treated with common sense. ”

As he spoke, the battle in the arena was already white-hot, and although the gladiator had half of his shoulder cut off, he did not retreat, and stabbed his opponent in the chest with a sword strike.

This kind of injury for injury was very effective, and the opponent was injured in the vital position, and then he was thrown to the ground and forced into the ground battle, and the extent of the struggle was getting weaker and weaker under several attritions.

Blood stained the ground red through the hideous wound on his chest, and after a few moments of fighting, the man below him gradually stopped moving, and the gladiator, who was missing half of his shoulder, gasped and stood up, waving his fist vigorously at the VIP seat.

This piece of gladiatorial arena was chartered by Harrison alone, and all they did was to ask for a little favor from this adult.

Harrison slapped his hands twice and looked at Nolan: "It's been too long to live a peaceful life, and for many people, this kind of bloody and exciting show is the best way to vent stress, I wonder if the master is satisfied with this?" ”

"It's fun to look at it once in a while." Nolan touched his chin, "I'm not indifferent to this primitive savage melee combat, though—in my opinion, it's not efficient enough. ”

"Not efficient enough?"

"There's no more efficient way to kill than with sorcery, which can instantly kill these unprotected flesh and blood in hordes—even if they're knights of steel and steel. This is also the direction of my recent research. ”

Nolan stopped, "Let's not mention this for now, it's time for us to test the medicine." ”

"Okay." Harrison asked, "How are you going to try?" ”

"My new medicine naturally won't put you at risk."

Nolan snapped his fingers, "I'll let my people take the potion, and then fight with your people here to see how much the improved potion potion can increase combat effectiveness." ”

"Nice proposal." Harrison glanced at the cloaked girl who was silently standing behind Nolan, "What level of opponent do you need me to prepare for you?" ”

"Don't underestimate her." Nolan smiled, "She's a fifth-order knight. ”

"It's actually a fifth order?"

Harrison looked surprised, this female knight looked very young, he didn't expect her to have such strength.

Hell, do geniuses always come in clusters?

"If it's a fifth-order knight plus an improved potion, I'm afraid you'll have to invite a sixth-order knight to get out of the way."

Harrison looked at the middle-aged guard behind him: "Leaud, accompany this lady to practice, remember to stop at the point." ”

Although Nolan advertised that the improved potion would allow people to fight across tiers, the gap between the fifth and sixth orders - ordinary knights and high-level knights was particularly huge, and it was not easy to catch up with a bottle of potion.

"Go ahead."

Nolan also said to Yuna, "I told you about the process of testing the medicine. ”

Yuna nodded, and she took off her cloak, revealing a strong suit that was easy to move around, and walked towards the gladiatorial arena below.

Leod, the stubble-wearing-sword-wielding guard, also jumped into the arena and made a "please" gesture to her.

Yuna pulled out the knight's sword at her waist, and her momentum sank, and the next moment she stepped out with an arrow, and the long sword in her hand turned into an afterimage and slashed straight at Leod's face.

The speed of this sword was so fast that even a layman could see that she was more than a notch stronger than the two knights who had dueled in the gladiatorial arena before.

If the opponent is them, there is no need to grapple, and the winner can be separated with this sword alone.

But standing in front of her was Leaud, Harrison's personal bodyguard, a knight of the sixth order.

Leod raised the one-handed sword in his right hand, but his knee sank slightly before he caught the thunderous blow, Yuna threw out several more swords, and in an instant the sound of the two swords clashing echoed over the gladiatorial arena.

Can't get in......!

Leod's expression was still at ease, and a fine layer of sweat crept on Yuna's forehead.

The gap between the hard power of the fifth-order knight and the sixth-order knight certainly exists, but her inability to attack with all her strength is also one of the reasons.

Every time she kicked her leg hard to borrow from the ground, she could even hear the unbearable crunch of the prosthetic leg in her leg.

"Bell—"

The two swords intertwined again, and this time Leod struck back hard, and Yuna staggered back a few steps before she could stabilize her figure.

She does have the strength of a fifth-order knight, but the lower game is too weak...... It will be a loss in actual combat.

Leod silently made a judgment in his heart, and then he saw the girl in front of him take out a bottle of dark purple mysterious potion from her arms, raise her head and pour it into her mouth without hesitation.

The main drama is coming!

Everyone present silently straightened their backs and observed the girl's situation attentively.

Yuna, who was helpless in the face of Riod's defense, how will her strength change after drinking the improvement potion this time?

"Smack-"

The empty glass bottle fell to the ground with a crisp cracking sound, Yuna let out a deep breath, and when she opened her eyes again, a shocking blood red quietly appeared in the depths of the azure pupils.

Under the stimulation of the liberation potion, the magic power in her whole body boiled, and the surging magic power was injected into the knight's sword even more surging than before, and the knight's sword suddenly let out a loud sword sound!

Not only was the magic boiling, but she could clearly perceive her flesh, bones, and internal organs burning!

In order to obtain the most extreme function enhancement, each organ is overdrawing its life force to the maximum, and this overdraft is too crazy and even has an irreversible tendency.

It is like a night rose that blooms vigorously on the eve of dawn, blooming a beautiful moment and withering the next moment.

Generally speaking, a stimulant with such a strong effect will also have a considerable degree of hallucinogenic effect, but this liberation agent is different.

Yuna felt sober, her body like a burning flame, and her sanity like a piece of ice that would not melt for thousands of years.

She could even clearly calculate that if she let the potion take effect for another minute, her body would completely and irreversibly collapse -

This is not an ordinary alchemical potion, but a poison or potion that can pull the user into a situation of no return!

Knowing that one's death date is a terrible thing, and any living being is terrified of the Grim Reaper, who is constantly approaching him.

But knowing that she was going to die was also good news, knowing that it meant controllable, and she had to crush her opponent in a minute, then drink the antidote and get her body back to normal functioning.

After a brief silence, the arena was filled with a whistling sound that tore through the air, and Yuna almost turned into an afterimage, and she raised her sword to close in on Leod again, its awe-inspiring momentum finally making his expression serious.

Leod drew his left sword as well, and with a deep sigh, slashed at Yuna.

The two one-handed swords and a knight's long sword collided impartially head-on, accompanied by a sharp roar of steel, and the wave of qi centered on them quickly spread outward.

In the VIP seats, Harrison and Nolan stood up at the same time, their eyes fixed on the battle in the gladiatorial arena.

The wave of air dissipated, Leod and Yuna were still standing in place, they clenched their weapons and no one backed down, and the first head-to-head confrontation between the two after drinking the potion was actually a draw!?

No, it's not there yet!

Yuna continued to pour power into the knight's sword, firmly and slowly pushing Harrison's twin swords past little by little.

At first, she felt that she was in a nightmare from which she could not extricate herself, and she could not defeat Harrison, as if she could not win against the leader of the Prairie people, and the feeling of powerlessness and aggrieved came back to her heart.

But after drinking the liberation potion, she found that the enemy, who seemed so powerful before, now seemed to be invincible in front of her.

If you only look at the strength of the body, this time we have an advantage!

Yuna swung away Ryode's twin swords with great force, taking advantage of the victory to attack, launching a continuous pursuit.

Unexpectedly, the other party would burst out with such a powerful force, and Leod retreated again and again, and he couldn't recover his disadvantage for a while!

"That's a big deal...... Harrison looked at him.

He could see that Leod hadn't released water, and that the improved potion was working better than he had expected.

And most importantly, it doesn't put the user in a hallucinogenic state of losing their minds.

Yuna's attacks are fierce and methodical, and she can accurately grasp every flaw that her opponent inadvertently revealed, which is a big reason why she can put so much pressure on Leod.

The higher the rank, the more you need to fight calmly, just to make your physical fitness stronger, but the potion that degenerates your mind into an orangutan will not be used by a master.

The modification of the potion alone to solve this side effect was enough to make Harrison excited.

Nolan looked down at the pocket watch he was timekeeping, and the hands had already turned thirty seconds.

He groaned slightly, pushed open the door to the VIP room, and walked towards the Colosseum.

At the same time, the battle in the gladiatorial arena is about to enter its final stage.

Although Leod is always at a disadvantage, the foundation of the sixth-order knight is here, and even if he is passive all the time, he can still retreat.

Yuna stopped her pursuit, and she poured the remaining magic into her sword, bringing all her power together.

She wants to end the battle with her strongest sword, and in this way, she will verify that she now has the possibility of defeating the high knights.

The knight's sword trembled violently, and the magic and power flowed fiercely and methodically within her body, and she unleashed the battle technique "Rock Avalanche Sword" against Leod.

Combat skills are to knights what spells are to mages, knights can cause more powerful destructive power in actual combat through special power skills and magic power that run a specific trajectory.

The "Avalanche Sword" was originally a combat skill that could only be learned after joining the Knights of the Peak, but after deciding to accept the invitation of the Castle Lord's Mansion, she obtained the qualification to learn this combat skill in advance.

This is also the strongest combat skill she has learned so far.

Located in the western part of the Roland Empire, between the Lebs Plain and the Linfeng Mountains, Linfeng City is mostly inhabited by migrated from the Linfeng Mountain range, which also lays the foundation for the fighting style of the Linfeng warriors.

The "Avalanche Sword" is a typical example of this fighting style, which requires a high level of physical fitness and stability in the lower game.

This move borrows the power of the ground, and the momentum is on the ground, and one move is like a landslide and the ground cracks, which can completely defeat the enemy in front of you from the front.

Yuna had been honing this skill for a long time, her eyes shining like stars at this moment, and the knight's sword went straight to Leod with the momentum of a ruined ship.

Under the effect of the Liberation Elixir, this sword is already equivalent to the power of a sixth-order knight!

Leod didn't dare to hold it up, and his twin swords also lit up with a moonlight silver glow at this moment, slashing towards Yuna with all his might.

"Bell—"

The silver-white sword flickered in a flash, the crisp sound of metal colliding sounded, and the two of them staggered past with an indomitable sword momentum, and the atmosphere in the gladiatorial arena was silent and frozen at this moment.

Leod was still standing intact, and Yuna slowly fell to her knees with her sword, a blood flower blooming from her left arm.

The winner is decided.

Her shoulders trembled violently, her chest rose and fell rapidly as if she was about to breathe, her left hand struggled into her arms, and she had just pulled out a bottle of dark blue potion, only to let it fall to the ground with a slight shake.

She only felt a blackness in front of her, the blow just now consumed all her strength, and also made the counterattack of the liberation potion come much faster than expected.

She felt that her body was about to be cut into an empty shell, and in the face of her failing bodily functions, the little injury on her left arm was nothing.

She used her last strength to reach for the suppressant that had fallen to the ground, but it was Nolan's white, bony hand that she touched.

Nolan picked up the potion, uncorked the bottle, and put Yuna's arm on the shoulder to feed the potion into her mouth.

The antidote was lowered, and the burning feeling of the whole body slowly faded, Noren leaned in front of Yuna's eyes to carefully observe her face, and asked, "How do you feel?" ”

The sensory boost that the liberation potion had brought to her body had not yet completely subsided, and Yuna snuggled into Nolan's arms, she could smell the smell of the young hormones that belonged to a teenager, and she could feel the slight and steady snort he had on her cheek.

It was the first time for her to have such close contact with the opposite sex, and an imperceptible red glow flew on her pale pretty face, and she lowered her head and said softly, "I...... I can't move. ”

"Okay."

Noren didn't say much, he took out the emergency bandage he had with him and bandaged her left arm briefly, and then a princess picked her up.

Yuna let out a low cry and put her hands around his neck.

Realizing that she was being picked up by Nolan in public, she simply buried her head in his chest and remained motionless.

When you're tired, you talk about yours, and I'll rest.

Here, Harrison also walked over and said approvingly: "Being able to shake the high-level knights head-on without falling behind, and the side effects are also controllable, Master Nolan, I am particularly satisfied with your research results." ”

"That's the completion of the commission?" Nolan looked at him.

"Of course." Harrison smiled, "I've prepared a celebration banquet, and we'll talk about the future cooperation at the dinner table." ”

"I'm not done yet."

Nolan glanced at the girl in his arms, "After taking the suppressant drug, I will also evaluate the prognosis of the experimental subject, and wait until all the experimental data are recorded, and then I will talk to you about future cooperation." ”

"No problem." Harrison nodded understandingly, "I'm always waiting for Master Nolen's visit. ”

After saying hello, Nolan hugged Yuna and left.

Harrison looked at his departing back and said thoughtfully, "His medicine does have some meaning. ”

Leod put away his weapon and returned to him: "I didn't expect the improved medicine to be so powerful, and the opponent would become extremely brave like a different person, and he still hadn't lost his mind.

"Not to mention losing her mind, I even think she's calmer - there's no doubt that this potion can transform a knight into a perfect killing machine when used wisely."

Harrison looked back at him, his shirt was a little disheveled, but he remained unharmed until the end of the battle, and couldn't help but sigh:

"Even a fifth-order knight who has drunk the improved potion is still not your opponent, it seems that the gap between ordinary knights and high-level knights is not so easy to be erased."

"No......" Leod's expression was a little strange, "Her last sword is actually very strong, I have used all my strength at that time, and the momentum still can't cover her, I was already ready to lose both......"

"But in the end, it's you who wins. Maybe the effect of the improved potion has ended, right? I could also perceive her ferocity as it suddenly vanished moments before she fought you. ”

“…… Perhaps. Leod fell into deep thought.

As her opponent, he is most sensitive to Yuna's change in momentum.

In his perception, when the two of them each used their best skills to fight it out, Yuna's body suddenly shook slightly during the rush.

The so-called Thousand Miles Embankment was destroyed in the anthill, and it was this slight shaking that affected her balance, which in turn interrupted her combat skill "Rock Avalanche Sword", causing her to be easily defeated by herself in the decisive battle.

If this was a real battle, she had already been killed by her opponent a hundred times at the moment when the flaw was exposed, and it was also when he sensed that something was wrong at the critical moment and withdrew his hand, which was just a scratch on her left arm.

With his many years of combat experience, he could see that the opponent's mistakes came from the weakness of the foundation of his lower body, and there should be some hidden problems in the legs of this young knight.

This hidden disease has restricted her performance from the beginning of the battle, and when it comes to the final battle, her weakness is finally completely exposed, which has become her fatal weakness.

This is a time bomb that will explode sooner or later, and if this hidden disease cannot be cured, he thinks that this knight can no longer be allowed to fight easily, and it is a joke with her life.

However, Nolan and Yuna are not on their side for the time being, he can't be so wide, and he won't teach others what to do.

I can only hope that this young alchemist can find and solve this problem in time......