Chapter 199 Variations
"Pay attention to the rhythm and don't mess up your steps."
"I, I've already given it my all!"
Li Muhan and Xia Yue seemed to be in a knight battle at this moment, responding to the passionate and high-pitched knight march. Both of them were dealing with the current situation in different ways.
Xia Yue was like a flying flower dancing on the battlefield, her steps firm and clean. Her every move was in perfect harmony with the rhythm of the music, and she also dodged the long sword that approached her side again and again.
By the way, she would move her wrists from time to time to assist Li Muhan, who was breakdancing on the ground in a somewhat embarrassed manner, looking like a dog eating shit.
"It's not a solution to keep going like this!"
Li Muhan pounced on his prey like a vicious dog and avoided the attack from the two knights, but he almost lost his balance with Xia Yue's body.
Xia Yue frowned slightly, and while being pulled down by Li Muhan's force, she lightly tapped the ground with her hands and did a neat front flip to avoid the attack from the side.
"Aren't we going to attack?"
Li Muhan did not forget the rules Xia Yue had just mentioned, but he only remembered the last one.
Shatter the core of the Ice Saint.
So at this moment, he was dodging the attacks in his own way while trying to get close to the Ice Saint.
But he soon discovered that the saint was clearly in the center of the stage and did not move, but he could not get close to her no matter what.
"...These knights are not attacking randomly."
He leaned back and fell to the ground to avoid the sword in front of him, and then jumped up in an instant with a somersault.
"Even if they can't hit us, they are guiding our steps intentionally or unintentionally, preventing us from getting close to the center of the stage?"
"Pay attention to the rhythm...pay attention to your dance steps. If we don't follow the music, we will never get close to the Saint. Do you understand?"
As Xia Yue finished speaking, Li Muhan's eyes caught a glimpse of a gap in the knight formation ahead. A thought struck him: these knights had finally revealed a flaw.
But what he didn't know was that he also revealed his flaw at this moment, because he was really not good at dancing, even though Xia Yue had been guiding him.
But it is impossible to avoid mistakes all the time.
He lost his rhythm during a synchronized dance move.
It was at this moment that all coordination was disrupted.
"Don't worry, adjust your breathing and keep up the rhythm."
Xia Yue stepped lightly in front of him, wanting to help Li Muhan regain his rhythm.
But it's too late.
The change in rhythm affected the entire body. It was as if these knights had grasped that Li Muhan was not good at dancing, and they followed the passionate knight march to its climax.
All the knights turned their attacks towards this rookie.
"How do we do that?"
Li Muhan obviously felt the change in the atmosphere. He tried hard to adjust his pace to keep up with Xia Yue, but he had made too many mistakes and could no longer find his own rhythm.
Each time she dodged an attack, it became more and more difficult, and the result was that Xia Yue's pace began to be affected.
"Let it be."
Xia Yue put her hands on Li Muhan's shoulders, looked up at him slightly, and then gave him a helpless smile.
"Don't forget, we're just rehearsing."
"Um."
At this moment, the long swords of two knights attacked from the blind spot.
Li Muhan took a deep breath, and with his extraordinary reaction ability, he dodged sideways to avoid a knight's sword, then quickly made a move and accurately snatched the sword from the knight's hand.
"The rhythm is messed up, is that okay?"
Li Muhan blocked the attack while holding the knight's long sword and spoke to Xia Yue.
"If you already understand the meaning of this trial, then there's no problem. Give it a try and see how this trial will change if you fight in the way you're used to."
Xia Yue cooperated with Li Muhan as much as possible. At the same time, her calmness calmed Li Muhan, who was a little uneasy because she had disrupted the rhythm.
"This time, it's my turn to follow you."
Xia Yue took the opportunity to take a small step forward and leaned close to Li Muhan's ear and whispered.
"Then follow."
Li Muhan gently put his arm around the girl's slender waist, and then the two of them smiled in tacit understanding.
Then Li Muhan turned around and rushed into the knight formation.
The Ice Saint guarding behind the knight was still looking at the two with a gentle smile, as if she was appreciating their performance.
But after Li Muhan completely ignored the rhythm, the smile on her face slowly disappeared.
Li Muhan gripped the longsword tightly in his hand and, with his nimble body, swung it sideways. With a sound of metal clashing, the two knights in front of him were repelled by his powerful force.
After a successful attack, Li Muhan's morale was boosted, and he rushed towards the Ice Saint without hesitation.
Xia Yue always used her own pace and rhythm to prevent the performance from being completely messed up.
"Can you keep up?"
Li Muhan kicked a knight away and turned to say to Xia Yue.
"Take care of yourself, idiot."
Xia Yue dodged the attacks of several knights with an elegant side turn and stuck out her tongue at Li Muhan.
Li Muhan smiled knowingly, then turned to look at the Ice Saint who still had a frosty expression.
His target was clear: the pure heart that shone faintly on the saint's chest.
But just when Li Muhan thought he could reach the Bingjie Saint with such an unstoppable force, everything suddenly changed.
In an instant, a scarlet light flashed in the helmets of all the knights.
The light was strange and mysterious, as if carrying an endless magical power. The once bright stage was now shrouded in a layer of blood mist, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The originally bright stage was now covered by a layer of blood mist.
"...It seems I can no longer maintain the dance steps."
Xia Yue let out a long sigh and then stopped dancing.
"What will happen?"
Li Muhan asked.
“Just experience it yourself.”
Xia Yue gave Li Muhan a devilish smile.
"You... have become more and more fond of playing tricks on me lately."
Li Muhan had just made a complaint when he immediately experienced the impact of what Xia Yue called the chaotic rhythm.
The knights, who he had been able to handle previously, were now moving ten times faster and with greater force than before. He was startled, realizing that the situation was taking a turn for the worse.
Not only that, after the rhythm of the two people was messed up, the originally high-pitched and inspiring music suddenly changed, becoming low and weird, which made people feel uneasy.
At this moment, the Ice Saint slowly opened her mouth and sang a strange song.
The singing seemed to strike directly into people's souls, making them feel fear and trembling involuntarily. The atmosphere of the entire stage suddenly changed from a knight's battlefield to a horror movie.
Time seemed to stretch indefinitely, the distorted and piercing symphony and the saint's almost curse-like singing voice constantly tormented their eardrums and even their brains.
Bang--
Li Muhan took a deep breath, gripped the hilt of his sword with both hands, and withstood the fierce attacks of the knights in front of him. He felt a huge impact force transmitted to his sword, which made his palm numb.
The Ice Saint who was so close was now surrounded by more and more knights.
The saint's originally gentle gaze became strange and crazy as the music changed, but soon, this crazy look was covered by countless knights, so that Li Muhan could not see the last glimmer of hope.
Bang—bang—
With every crash, the knights' swords continued to strike from all directions.
Every time Li Muhan defended himself, he felt it was more difficult than the last time, as if an invisible force was oppressing him.
He began to realize that he was in a desperate situation.
There were more and more knights around him, and he found that even his retreat was almost blocked.
In this small stage, the knights were so crowded that it was impossible to get through.
Just when Li Muhan had nowhere to retreat and was about to be hit by four or five long swords, his wrist was suddenly pulled by someone, and he lost his balance and fell backwards.
Then, before he fell to the ground, Xia Yue gently hugged his waist. Their faces were very close at this moment, so close that Li Muhan could even feel the warm breath Xia Yue exhaled slightly because of the dance just now.
“Did you experience it?”
"......Um."
Li Muhan suddenly felt like she had picked up the wrong script. Why did she feel like a young wife?
"Rehearsal is over."
Xia Yue let go, and Li Muhan immediately fell to the ground.
Then the girl raised her hand and snapped her fingers just as the knights' swords were about to chop down on the two of them.
The extremely sharp swords of the knights suddenly stopped, as if time had forgotten to flow at this moment. The distorted and terrifying music lingering on the stage also came to an abrupt end, and everything returned to silence.
A moment later, Li Muhan noticed that the knights slowly sheathed their swords. One of the knights even walked up to Li Muhan. Without saying a word, he stretched out his hand towards Li Muhan.
Li Muhan was a little confused at first, not knowing what he was going to do. Was he going to pull himself up from the ground?
These knights are pretty good.
But when he stretched out his hand to hold the knight's gauntlet, the knight raised his middle finger to Li Muhan, and then pointed at the long sword in Li Muhan's other hand.
“…rude.”
Li Muhan reluctantly returned the long sword he had just snatched to the knight.
Then all the knights began to walk to the edge of the stage in an orderly manner. Their movements were coordinated, as if they were a set program.
After all the knights had left the stage, Xia Yue grabbed Li Muhan by the collar and lifted him up from the ground.
"Well, how should I put it, for the first time..."
Xia Yue slowly pulled Li Muhan up, and then spoke in a deep voice.
"Fail~"
"...Teacher Xia, you are really strict."
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