"nun?"

Seeing Vanya's sword coming, Claudio dodged immediately, then he clawed at Vanya with his backhand, and Vanya immediately blocked it with his sword. When the claw and the steel sword collided, a crisp sound was heard in the space, and at the same time, cracks appeared on the blade of the steel sword.

Vanya blocked Claudiu's extremely fast attack head-on! Moreover, she was not at a disadvantage in the collision of power, and even had a slight advantage, which surprised Claudiu very much, and he began to pay attention to the mysterious nun in front of him.

Unlike other small puppets, this one is a tough guy! Perhaps he is a being above the black level of the "cup" or "shadow" path!

With this judgment in mind, Claudio immediately paid more attention to the place in front of him. He waved his claws and attacked Vanya like a hurricane, and the attacking arm left an invisible afterimage.

Facing Claudio's attack, Vanya blocked with her sword at high speed, successfully resisting Claudio's high-speed claw attacks from all directions. The dense sound of steel collisions immediately resounded throughout the underground space.

As an apprentice, Vanya successfully resisted the frontal attack of the Demon King, and a large part of the credit came from the talisman that Vanya used before the war.

This talisman was not the savage talisman she had used before, but the feast talisman! It was one of only two feast talismans collected by Dorothy Buck and Field Villa!

The Feast Talisman is a higher-level version of the Life-Saving Talisman. Its effect is the same as that of the Life-Saving Talisman. Both of them greatly enhance physical strength by consuming "cups". The difference lies in the degree of consumption and enhancement.

The Life-Saving Talisman consumes 1 "Cup" to strengthen the body of an ordinary person to the level of a hungry person, while the Feast Talisman consumes 5 "Cups" and can strengthen the body of an ordinary person to the level beyond the black-level "Cup" in a short period of time.

Through reading "Voodoo Forest Exploration Journal" and "Wolf Sacrifice", Vanya has accumulated nearly 10 points of "Cup". She used up 1 point when fighting Thorn Velvet before, and now in order to fight Claudius, she has used up 5 points in one go, allowing her physical fitness to surpass the general black-level "Cup" in one go, and her strength overwhelmed Claudius who was supporting the "Cup".

This is not all. Dorothy had already imprinted a puppet mark on Vanya before, and connected one of her spiritual threads to Vanya. However, Dorothy did not use this spiritual thread to control Vanya, but instead used it as a tool to transmit the buff.

Behind the scenes, Dorothy used the light body talisman seized from Mosans, consuming 1 point of "Shadow" to increase her speed, and then transferred the buff effect to Vanya through the spiritual thread.

For a moment, in addition to possessing the "cup" power that surpassed the black level, Vanya also possessed the "shadow" speed of the apprentice level. These, coupled with Vanya's own superb swordsmanship and mind, allowed her to fight on equal terms with the severely injured Ni level in a short period of time.

With the support of a series of buffs, Vanya has the qualifications to face Claudius head-on. However, as a vampire, Claudius has another characteristic, which is the "Shadow" enchantment that can corrode armor and break blades!

Claudius's claws, which served as a weapon, were constantly corroding the steel sword in Vanya's hand because of the "shadow" attached to them. Finally, after continuous collisions, the sturdy steel sword blade was finally shattered into pieces.

However, Vanya, who had fought with Thorny Velvet before, seemed to have foreseen this phenomenon. When the blade shattered, she took a step back to distance herself from Claudio. At the same time, she pulled away the black cloth covering the fan-shaped object on her back. What appeared behind her were new steel swords arranged in a fan shape behind her. These were the hardest ones that Dorothy could buy in the city.

These high-quality steel swords were bought together with the large number of kerosene bottles and gas cylinders on the corpse dolls. Even though they were mundane things, they still cost a lot of money, more than 70 pounds, which cost Dorothy another fortune.

Pulling out a new steel sword from her back, Vanya turned around and continued to fight with Claudius. Claudius was delighted when he saw the opponent's sword break, and was ready to take advantage of the victory to kill Vanya in one go. However, he did not expect that Vanya had prepared so many new swords. He was suddenly annoyed, and was ready to kill Vanya in other ways.

Finally, after a brief fight, the sword in Vanya's hand broke again. While Vanya was changing her sword, he took out a talisman, put it on her body, took a deep breath, and then spewed a thick purple-red poisonous gas towards Vanya who had just changed her sword and was rushing towards him. In an instant, Vanya was completely enveloped by the thick poisonous gas.

"It is done."

Watching Vanya being engulfed by the poison gas, Claudio couldn't help but reveal the slightest smile. This kind of poison gas, triggered by talismans and created by his spiritual power, can cause loss of mobility with just a breath, and it takes effect very quickly. If Vanya is swallowed up by the poisonous mist, then she is definitely finished.

However, before Claudio could be happy for long, Vanya rushed out from the poisonous fog and rushed towards Claudio at a very fast speed. Her body was agile and there was no sign of being affected by the poison. When passing through the poisonous gas corridor, she had already taken the corresponding antidote, so she could be said to have completely ignored Claudio's poisonous fog attack.

"What…"

Claudio was shocked at the scene, but he did not hesitate at all and quickly avoided Vanya's sharp attack, at the cost of a scratch on his right arm.

'These nuns...why can they ignore my poison mist?'

Seeing Claudio, who was almost intact in front of him, was surprised, but Vanya did not give him time to think about it. She turned from defense to offense and continued to chase and slash at Claudio with a steel sword in hand. Claudio had to concentrate on responding.

"Since the poison gas has no effect on you, how about this..."

As he thought about it, Claudio's expression froze, and then his hand trembled, and a round pendant slipped from his sleeve into his hand.

While Vanya's sword was breaking again and she was changing swords, Claudio stretched out his hand forward, dropped the round purple pendant in his hand, and then gently swung it up. When Vanya changed swords and rushed towards Claudio again, she found that there was a glimmer of light in Claudio's eyes.

"You are very sleepy now..."

Looking at Vanya, Claudio murmured in a low voice. Suddenly, Vanya, who had seen Claudio's eyes, stopped attacking. She stopped directly on the ground with the sword in her hand, and looked forward blankly with her mouth open, looking at Claudio who was holding the dangling pendant, his body shaky, his eyes full of fatigue, as if he might fall down at any time.

At this moment, Claudio found the right opportunity and directly implemented battlefield hypnosis on Vanya. Although her body and speed were greatly strengthened, her spirit was still at the level of an apprentice, and she was unable to resist the mental influence from the chalk level.

"Give up all defenses, drop your sword, and do not allow me to be attacked."

Facing Vanya, Claudio continued to hypnotize her. Under his hypnosis, Vanya loosened her hand, and the steel sword in her hand fell to the ground with a clang. Seeing this, Claudio smiled slightly.

"It's so easy to solve, I should have used it earlier..."

Thinking of this, Claudio rushed towards Vanya quickly. He realized that he needed to cripple the hands and feet of the invader in front of him first, so as to capture him alive and make him unable to move.

Just as Claudio approached Vanya, Vanya's confused and tired expression suddenly changed, becoming cold and serious. She looked at Claudio's claws stabbing at her and dodged them by moving sideways. Before Claudio could react, she pulled out a new steel sword from behind and stabbed straight at Claudio.

Vanya's series of actions were completely beyond Claudius's expectations. He was stabbed in the chest and abdomen when he dodged in panic. He looked at Vanya with eyes full of astonishment.

Wasn't she hypnotized by me?

This is the biggest question in Claudio's mind, and it is indeed true. Vanya was indeed hypnotized by Claudio, but Dorothy was not.

When Vanya was hypnotized by Claudio, Dorothy immediately activated the spiritual thread connected to Vanya, bypassing Vanya's already confused consciousness and directly controlling her body, allowing Vanya to fight back against Claudio as a living puppet.

"I'm sorry, puppets don't need rest or sleep, Mr. Vampire." Dorothy, who was still hiding in the shadows, murmured as she looked at the scene in front of her from several perspectives.