"Wait, wait a minute!"
The icy wind of death blew in, like a bucket of cold water poured on Slo's overheated head.
Sloo jolted awake, snapping back to his senses.
I finally realized what I had done.
Fear, regret, resentment... all sorts of emotions surged in my chest.
Looking up at the twenty-meter-tall, pitch-black phantom sword, Slo's face drained of all color.
"I surrender! I surrender!"
Slo hurriedly raised his hands and shouted, "I surrender! You can't attack me anymore, or you'll be violating the laws of the Empire! I need to go back to the city, yes, back to the city! I need to heal. This summer, I'll join the Ice Abyss Training Camp. I'm the pride of Red Peach City, and none of you can touch me!"
After saying that, Slo took out a blue teleportation stone and hurriedly poured his battle qi into it.
They actually wanted to escape.
At the same moment, in the movie theaters of White Dove City and Red Peach City, more than 200,000 people fell into an eerie silence.
Then, it continued flying for another hundred meters. All the wild grass along the way turned into grayish-white dust, carving a terrifying trench in the earth before slowly dissipating.
The enormous phantom of the flaming blade above their heads slashed down together.
"Slo, it's my turn. Defend well and don't embarrass an eight-star adventurer."
Black flames engulfed Slo, and a shrill scream echoed across the plains.
Fry stared blankly at the ditch beneath his feet. He happened to be standing not far behind Slo, and when the black flame sword light slashed over, it missed him by only ten centimeters and took him with it.
It's unstoppable, it can't stop a single bit!
This is definitely not a normal Star-Rank move!
Looking at Linda's expressionless face, Frye's throat went dry. The bow and arrow he was holding, ready to launch a sneak attack, felt incredibly heavy, and his trembling fingers couldn't muster any strength.
From the moment Slo unleashed his ultimate move, it was determined to be malicious injury, and Linda, the victim, was fully entitled to retaliate without restraint.
Linda brandished her longsword.
Frye was scared out of his wits.
Linda's combat prowess is nothing like that of a Star Rank fighter!
In a dimly lit private box on the top floor of the Red Peach City Cinema Building, a pale-skinned middle-aged man gently swirled the thick, blood-red liquid inside, leaving a pale red veil on the glass.
The crescent-shaped sword light, as black as ink and twenty meters high, plowed a deep trench in the earth, like a demonic dragon that devours everything, and roared as it flew towards Slo.
Slo's fiery armor and life barrier were destroyed by the black flame sword light as easily as tofu.
It's unclear whether Linda's sword strike was intentionally aimed at him.
While Linda wasn't looking, Fry quietly put the bow and arrows back on his back.
The sword light struck Slo in the middle, cleaving him diagonally in two.
Linda laughed angrily: "You think you can just leave after using your finishing move? Take this first!"
Everyone stared in astonishment at Slo, the little giant who looked flustered and had lost all his former imposing manner.
...
What was that dark sword light?
Let alone Star-rank adventurers, even Moon-rank adventurers would have to think twice about whether they could handle it.
"No!"
"Linda? He's one of Leah's teammates?"
The middle-aged man asked with great interest.
"Um, Father, Leah kicked him out six months ago."
Darwin stood behind the man with his hands behind his back and said awkwardly.
“.”
The middle-aged man paused for a moment, then frowned and looked closely at the screen, noticing that the adventure badge on Linda's chest was indeed different from Leah's snow-white goose.
Click!
The wine glass couldn't withstand the force in the man's hand and shattered with a bang.
Tiny fragments fell to the ground, while the viscous liquid in the cup, like a magnet, was attracted to the palm of the hand and transformed into a smooth sphere.
After swallowing the small, blood-red ball, the man's pale face eased slightly. He looked at Lia in the corner of the screen with a cold smile and said, "Useless is useless. You can't even keep a team member!"
As the insults subsided, Leah sneezed in the video, rubbed her nose with the back of her hand in bewilderment, and muttered to herself, "Who insulted me?"
What many people didn't know was that this live broadcast wasn't just being watched by adventurers from White Dove City and Red Heart City; personnel from the Constitutional Department of the Imperial Knights were also monitoring it.
This battle involved dozens of Star-Rank adventurers, so no one dared to be careless.
In the lobby of the White Dove City Law Enforcement Bureau, Captain Io and others stared intently at the screen with serious expressions.
The video above is replaying the scene of Slo attacking Linda with his special move, and then Linda retaliating.
When Io saw the fiery red phantom of the giant axe slashing towards Linda, his daughter Isa panicked and ran towards Linda without regard for her own life.
My heart jumped into my throat.
But then they saw that Linda had withstood Slo's ultimate attack and only suffered minor injuries, while her daughter and the blond mage were both unharmed.
Io finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After a long while, Io belatedly realized that something was wrong.
What's the deal with that adventurer named Linda? How much is her [Defense Growth]?
Adventurers' base stats increase as they level up.
However, this increase is not fixed. For example, heavy armor warriors will have a greater increase in defense, while mages will have a greater increase in magic power.
Two people in the same profession will not receive the same increase in ability values.
The extent to which ability values increase is a crucial aspect of reflecting one's talent.
Linda's talent in defensive abilities seems to have reached an extremely terrifying level.
It also possesses regenerative abilities and devastating black flames.
Io sighed inwardly, realizing that the difference between adventurers might be greater than the difference between a human and a dog.
He raised his hand and said to the Minister of Constitutional Affairs, "I believe that Linda's retaliation was legitimate self-defense."
The moment Slo unleashed his ultimate attack on Linda, he was no longer protected by imperial law.
Linda can retaliate using any method available to her.
The minister, a tall, bespectacled, blond middle-aged man, nodded slightly: "I think so too. Linda, innocent!"
Even if the other side, Red Peach City, faced with irrefutable evidence, could not possibly frame Linda.
Slo unleashed his ultimate attack in front of over 200,000 people, a move that can only be described as courting death. Even a Light-Rank adventurer couldn't save him.
At the White Dove City Cinema Building, everyone stared intently at the screen, their expressions blank.
The impact of the black sword light was too great, and their minds couldn't process it for a moment.
"Linda is too strong!"
"I'm from a big city, and I've watched walkthroughs and gameplay videos of nine-star adventurers. They're definitely not that strong!"
"Ahem, I used to stay at the famous Ice Abyss Training Camp and have seen many nine-star adventurers. There are no more than three who are comparable to this Linda."
But those three were all pure combat-oriented adventurers.
Personally, I think that if Linda were a nine-star adventurer, she would definitely be the number one among nine-star adventurers.
The words of a bearded man drew everyone's attention.
He was burly and possessed a strong fighting spirit.
After inquiring, it was learned that the bearded man's name was Sain, and he was a Moon-rank adventurer from the Great Sky City.
When I was young, I spent three months at the Ice Abyss Training Camp.
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