Although Burton didn't know why his guys were invited into the house, it was obvious that something went wrong as they moved away from the target of assassination just as the action was about to begin!
"Did Jeffrey reveal something..."
Frowning, Bertholdt looked at the changes on the balcony in the distance and couldn't help but mutter with a worried look on his face, but at this moment he couldn't care less to worry about his companions too much. After Jeffrey was forced to leave, the assassination mission could only be completed by him alone.
Holding the rifle tightly in his hand, Bertholdt focused more on aiming, and at this moment, he suddenly felt a disturbance in the air behind him, and a chill arose from the depths of his heart.
Sensing that something was wrong, Burton immediately turned around and dodged, but he still couldn't avoid the attack from behind. The sharp blade hit his left shoulder. With a crisp sound, Burton was chopped to the ground, and then he rolled to the side several times at a high speed and left, then coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Ahem... ahem... sneak attack... when..."
Covering his left shoulder that was hit and bleeding at the corner of his mouth, Burton stood up. He looked forward, at the figure that attacked him. Then he saw a white cloak fluttering in the cold wind and a lifeless white mask under the hood. The hand reaching out from the cloak was holding a ruby rapier, and a little of his own blood was still dripping on it.
"Hiding your identity... the White Swordsman? Why did you suddenly appear here..."
Looking at the figure in front of him, Burton gritted his teeth and thought to himself that he was not too surprised at how the other party approached him quietly, because as long as there were specific symbols, it would not be difficult for him to approach him quietly without being discovered. The key was how his position was found. He did not feel any traces of "light" detection at all, so why was he suddenly exposed! ?
Burton thought in distress that if he hadn't carried a "stone" extraordinary item with him that could activate a layer of powerful stone skin effect to resist attacks when attacked, he would have lost one of his hands with the force of the sword just now. The price he paid now was just that the skin of the cut part was broken and bleeding on a large area.
"Who are you? Where do you belong?"
After quickly taking out a blood-red injection to recover from his injuries, Burton stood up and shouted at the attacker in front of him. The white-robed swordsman did not respond at all, but clenched the sword in his hand and attacked Burton.
Seeing the white-robed swordsman attacking, Bert immediately drew out the sword in his hand to deal with it. After wrapping the "Shadow" enchantment on the sword, he began to fight with the white-robed swordsman.
The third-level "Shadow", the second-level "Cup", and the "Shadow" enchantment were already a very powerful combination of extraordinary powers in close combat. With a speed as fast as an afterimage and strength that could easily break steel, the vampire's close combat ability was the best among all the Cretaceous-level extraordinarys, so Burton was not inferior to the swordsman in close combat.
According to Bo's analysis, judging from the power displayed by the white-robed swordsman just now, the opponent should be a "Cup" extraordinary person, slightly stronger than himself, at least a second-level "Cup". But it can't reach the exaggerated level of the third-level "Cup", so the opponent should have used some symbols on the basis of his original "Cup" power.
If the strength is less than the third level "cup", then the opponent cannot be a werewolf or something like that, and the opponent has no signs of transformation. Since the opponent is not a werewolf, with such great strength and no fire on the sword, he cannot be a holy war knight or something like that... After excluding several extraordinary professions with strong melee ability in his mind, Burton thought that the opponent's melee ability should not be afraid of anything, so he decisively fought with the opponent.
As the countdown on the square stage ended, brilliant fireworks blossomed in the sky. Under the colorful illumination of the fireworks, afterimages appeared on the platform on the roof, and between the afterimages, the clear and loud sounds of military strikes continued.
The real hand-to-hand combat began. After several rounds of high-speed fighting between Burton and the white-robed swordsman, Burton immediately discovered that something was wrong.
First of all, Bertholdt discovered that although the white-robed swordsman in front of him was not as fast as himself, he seemed to be able to predict his attacks. No matter how hard it was to defend against his sword attack, it could always be taken by the opponent in advance. Although his movements were fast, they were completely seen through. The opponent could block his fierce offensive with superb skills and a few movements.
After a brief fight, Bertholdt concluded that the opponent was a master swordsman whose swordsmanship was far superior to his own, and such skills could even make up for a large gap in the board.
Secondly, although Burton added the "Shadow" enchantment to the sword, and the opponent used the sword to block his attacks countless times, he never saw the opponent's weapon collapse due to the erosion of the "Shadow" enchantment. In this case, Burton paid special attention to the changes in the opponent's weapon.
As Burton watched, he saw that the opponent's weapon, a slender sword blade, was actually cracked in all directions during the fight with him. It was covered with cracks and even had gaps in many places.
Although covered with scars, the sword did not collapse. Instead, it stubbornly continued to resist the erosion of the "Shadow" enchantment, like a beast with strong vitality that was covered in wounds but did not fall down.
Like a beast, this is not a metaphor, but seems to be real. Under Burton's observation, the cracks on the sword body showed a unique blood red color, and there was actually budding tissue wriggling behind the collapsed wound. On the hilt of the rapier, the huge ruby was emitting a slow red light. Burton felt a strong "cup" breath from the sword.
This sword is healing itself! It is using its own chalice to heal itself! This sword is alive! Absolutely alive!
The extraordinary rapier of the living creature barely resisted the erosion of the "shadow", which made it impossible for Burton to break through the opponent's sword encirclement by destroying the opponent's weapons.
A strange living weapon that can heal itself, extraordinary swordsmanship... these are the two points that make Burton difficult to deal with because of the white-robed swordsman. However, these two points are not both fatal. What really makes Burton feel anxious is another point.
This point comes from his shoulder, and the pain and discomfort are getting more and more intense!
Yes, Burton's wound was hurting. The wound caused by the sneak attack was still hurting, and it was getting more and more intense. The range was getting wider and wider, and it had even begun to affect Burton's movements.
Originally, Burton's biggest advantage over the White Swordsman was speed. The speed of the third-order "Shadow" was very terrifying. Although the White Swordsman could erase the difference on the part of the panel with his superb swordsmanship, the speed difference brought by the third-order "Shadow" was very large, so large that it could only be compensated by skills. If Burton fought with the White Swordsman's Shadow in a completely full panel state, no matter how superb the White Swordsman's skills were, he would not be able to make up for the huge gap on the panel.
However, due to the severe discomfort caused by his injuries, Burton was completely unable to bring out the full strength of his panel, and his third-order "Shadow" advantage was completely unable to be brought into play, so he could not gain an advantage in the battle with the white-robed swordsman.
The increasingly serious injuries on Burton's body hindered his performance, but this also brought up another problem. Before the battle, in order to eliminate the impact of the injuries, Burton had injected himself with a needle of blood and used his vampire ability to recover from his injuries. However, this injection seemed to be of no use at all. Not only did Burton's shoulder injury not heal, it seemed to be getting worse.
Why didn't the blood injection work?
This problem has been bothering Burton, so taking advantage of an opportunity, Burton quickly retreated a few steps, and after putting some distance between himself and the white-robed swordsman, he tore open his clothes on his left shoulder to check. It would have been fine if he hadn't looked, but he was shocked when he did.
At this time, on Bertrand's left shoulder, there was a large area of skin that no longer had traces of the sword wound, but was replaced by disgusting pustules and tumors. There were pus-oozing sores everywhere, and the blood vessels under the skin burst out, and even drilled out of the skin and tangled together. Pus flowed between the tumors, and the whole scene was extremely disgusting.
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