Chapter 492: Constraints
In the beautiful palace garden of Baruch Palace, on the green grass lawn, Vanya, dressed in white and holding a long sword, was staring with eyes wide open, covering her neck and stepping back a few steps, looking forward with eyes full of surprise and horror, and drops of blood were dripping from the gaps between her fingers as she covered her neck, falling on the grass below and dyeing the leaves red.
Then, a faint yellow light began to appear from Vanya's hand that was covering the wound. In this faint light, the ten shallow scratches on Vanya's neck began to heal rapidly. After a while, they were completely restored to their original state and no longer bled. However, the surprise in Vanya's eyes did not disappear.
From the intelligence she had previously obtained from Shadi, Vanya knew that Mukhtar had a certain ability that, once activated, could multiply the damage inflicted back to the victim. This ability required a declaration to be activated, so at the beginning of the battle, Vanya, Dorothy, and Shadi wanted to use a rapid offensive to quickly eliminate Mukhtar, not giving him any chance to declare an attack. Vanya also always paid attention to every word the other party said, and would immediately stop the attack if she was sure that the other party had declared a counterattack.
However, what neither Shadi nor Vanya had expected was that Mukhtar's commandments declaration could actually be expressed in the form of soul language. Strictly speaking, soul language is not a language, but a form of communication between spirits that uses the vibration of the spirits to "make sounds". It can be understood as a method of making sounds using the soul as the vocal organ.
Generally speaking, the efficiency of the soul language is much faster than ordinary speech. It only takes a moment to complete the declaration, which is much faster than speaking with the mouth. In another aspect, the soul language is also highly secretive. Only spirits and extraordinary beings related to "silence" can hear and understand this "language", and can also speak it. Ordinary people and other extraordinary beings whose main and auxiliary spirituality is not "silence" are almost unable to detect the existence of this "language".
According to Shadi's intelligence, Mukhtar could activate the Discipline Declaration after making the declaration, but he did not expect that this declaration could be activated by the language of the soul. Therefore, although Vanya was very careful about what Mukhtar said when attacking, she still almost fell into the trap.
Mukhtar read out the commandments declaration in the language of souls. If ordinary people could not hear it, they would accept the attack without caution, and after causing damage, they would be counterattacked tenfold. Not to mention the injuries to the vital parts, even if the injuries were to ordinary parts, if they were a little serious, the tenfold feedback could be fatal, just like Vanya only slightly scratched Mukhtar's neck just now, but her own throat was almost cut. If Shadi, who could understand the language of souls, had not reminded her in time, and Dorothy had not used the puppet mark to help Vanya control her body and stop in time, she would have died here now.
"Hmph... you collected it just in time..."
Seeing Vanya heal her wounds quickly, Mukhtar's eyes showed a trace of gloom. With the combination of the Voice of the Soul and the Anti-Injury Declaration, Mukhtar had killed countless complacent opponents before, but now this set of skills had been solved. This meant that if he wanted to deal with the two people in front of him, it would be a lot of trouble later.
But, it was just a little troublesome. Facing the two people in front of him, even with the thunder and lightning of unknown origin in the sky, Mukhtar still believed that he had no chance of losing.
While speaking, Mukhtar touched the other two rings on his hands. The mechanisms in the rings were triggered, and the talismans and storage items hidden inside were activated. The effects of the talismans were instantly added to Mukhtar himself.
These... are two high-level "Cup" and "Shadow" talismans, and their effects are all connected to a properly strengthened body. By consuming a large amount of reserves, Mukhtar now suddenly possesses the physical fitness and reaction speed of a second-level "Cup" and a second-level "Shadow".
The effect of such a high-level talisman is extremely powerful, and it consumes a lot of storage materials. Two talismans together require more than ten points of spirituality and a large amount of money, and you need to have special connections to buy them. It can be said that they are extremely precious and not something that ordinary extraordinary people can afford. As an extraordinary person of the Red Cheng level, it is natural for Mukhtar to have such resources.
After activating two physical strengthening talismans, Mukhtar pulled out a scimitar from under his cloak, and rushed towards Vanya with the gleaming scimitar in his hand. At the same time, he lifted the rule that prohibited leaving the palace, and then used the language of the soul to read out new rules.
"Commandments, if you fight me, you cannot escape."
As he spoke, his eyes swept over Vanya and Shadi in front of him. It was obvious that he had included them in the new rules. After hearing the content of the rules, Shadi immediately shouted to Vanya to remind her.
"Be careful, you can't hurt him now, and you can't escape, otherwise it will trigger his commandments!"
Listening to Shadi's words, Vanya was slightly startled. Facing Mukhtar's attack at this moment, she subconsciously dodged and avoided the frontal blow. Just after dodging, the nun's uniform on Vanya's back was torn open again, and a deep whip mark appeared out of thin air on Vanya's back, making her originally fair skin torn and bloody, as if she had been whipped by a barbed iron whip.
Whipped by the Whip of Discipline, Vanya couldn't help but scream out in pain. Her whole body staggered due to the sudden severe pain and she almost fell down. Mukhtar saw this and immediately turned around and slashed again. When he was about to chop Vanya, an ice cone suddenly flew from the distance and hit Mukhtar's scimitar squarely. With a dang sound, the scimitar was slightly bounced away. It was the ice cone condensed and shot by Shadi not far away.
Mukhtar's slash was hindered by Shadi's interference and failed to go down smoothly. When he slashed at Vanya with the knife again, she had taken the opportunity to regain her footing and used the sword in her hand to block Mukhtar's new blow.
After hearing what Shadi said, Vanya originally thought that being unable to escape only meant being unable to run away, but she didn't expect that even dodging was counted. Her dodge just now triggered the punishment of the commandment, causing her to lose her balance and she was almost taken down by Mukhtar again. Fortunately, Shadi came to the rescue.
Seeing that he failed to kill Vanya again, a trace of annoyance flashed in Mukhtar's eyes, and then he continued to raise the sword in his hand to block Mukhtar's attacking blade. After listening to Shadi's words, Vanya could only block passively, using her sword to continuously block Mukhtar's blade without any fightback.
After taking two high-level status talismans, Mukhtar, who possessed the second-level "Cup" and second-level "Shadow", was stronger than most of the Cretaceous-level warriors in melee basic attributes, including Vanya. If it weren't for her superb sword skills and the support of her mind, Vanya would not be able to do this level of defense.
On the other side, Shadi was not in a good situation either. He stood there anxiously. Under the constraints of the double disciplines, he had no good way to deal with Mukhtar. If he attacked Mukhtar directly, he would be hurt back if he caused damage. He could not run away to find help, let alone fight with Mukhtar. He did not have the strong basic melee attributes and skills like Vanya. Although he had similar runes in his hands, they were all low-level runes of the same level as Shengku. If he used these to fight Mukhtar directly, he would be chopped into pieces in just a few rounds. Now he could only shoot a few ice cones from time to time to hit Mukhtar's weapon and help Vanya block.
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