Chapter 37: Restriction Removal
Living Mercury has only three abilities.
The first is the super strong magic resistance that the Alchemy City somehow created, so that even the Holy Knight's Holy Slash can't cause much damage; the second is the devouring talent from the slime race, but after turning into living mercury, it only devours metals.
The last one is the innate ability that Amber spent a lot of money and effort to give at the soul level - Transfiguration.
Living Mercury is a newborn child, and has not mastered this talent well, and can only imitate.
Therefore, the living mercury turned into a mercury humanoid, which looked about 70% similar to the appearance of the paladin, but the details were blurred, like a half-melted candle.
But regardless of how refined the shape is, the imitation of the paladin's actions just now is indeed very vivid.
The Holy Slash swung by the Living Mercury did not have the power of holy light, but the heavy mercury brought a powerful impact. When the holy warrior raised his sword to block, he was shocked and took two steps back.
Living Mercury pursues the victory, but will continue to use the same moves.
He raised the sword and swung it, still as fast as lightning.
But the Holy Knight would not be forced back by the same move. He simply turned the blade of his sword and used the spine of the sword to block at an angle. The power of the Living Mercury's chopping was completely removed. Then the Holy Knight took advantage of the momentum to rotate the sword and cut deeply into the Living Mercury's head.
The sword directly split the living mercury's head in half. If it were a human, such an injury would definitely not survive. But for the living mercury, this could only be considered a superficial injury.
The mercury solution healed itself, even sealing the Paladin's sword in the mercury's head. Then the living mercury followed suit and spun its own mercury sword, slashing at the Paladin's head. But when the sword was about to hit the Paladin's head, a layer of platinum light appeared on the Paladin's helmet.
Guardian Aura, the exclusive ability of the Holy Knight, condenses the power of protection through devout faith and can resist many different kinds of damage.
The mercury sword encountered the guardian aura and finally slipped past the helmet of the paladin, causing the living mercury itself to lose balance.
The holy warrior seized this opportunity and used a dazzling set of sword skills to cut the living mercury into pieces, completely dehumanizing it.
After one round of fighting, the Living Mercury was completely defeated and completely crushed in swordsmanship.
But when the paladin retracted his sword and recovered a little, the living mercury that had been cut into strange shapes quickly recovered and used the same move on the paladin.
When Amber Xiu saw this scene, he was very satisfied.
The soul of this living mercury was carefully prepared by him. Transfiguration must be combined with a strong imitation and learning ability to work. This living mercury can perfectly imitate the swordsmanship of the paladin after only one look, which shows that Amber's efforts have not been in vain.
But although living mercury has a strong ability to imitate, it can never compare with the paladin in swordsmanship.
The martial arts of every paladin have been honed through thousands of trials and tribulations. Although the paladin in the cell lacks adventuring experience, his swordsmanship is absolutely master-level.
The two swords kept clashing with each other. Although it was the same move, the paladin was always able to avoid the blade of the living mercury and then cut the living mercury with his own sword.
Even with the same swordplay, the slight differences in strength, angle, and turn can make the battle scene one-sided. If it weren't for the fact that the living mercury's body could split and reassemble freely like a slime, it would have been torn into pieces long ago.
The Holy Knight also saw the weakness of the Living Mercury. This monster could only imitate, but he didn't know which moves were fake and which moves could be turned into combos, so he could suppress it easily.
As a result, the paladin was not in a hurry and did not use the skills of other paladins. He just used the living mercury as a target for sword practice.
It was not because he was arrogant, but because he knew that his opponent was not only the monster in front of him, but also the lich hiding outside the cell.
The power of the paladin is not infinite. Now he has used up all his holy light power to deal with a monster. Then, when facing the lich, won’t he just have to sit there and wait for death?
Therefore, the Paladin was very restrained when he could still suppress the living mercury, and tried his best to use swordsmanship to consume the living mercury's power. He didn't believe that this monster could heal itself infinitely, nor did he believe that this monster could fight with high intensity without any loss.
The choice of the holy knight is undoubtedly correct. Every time the living mercury heals its body or changes its form, it needs to consume the energy contained in its body. These energies are converted by swallowing metals, and they will eventually run out.
If consumption continues like this, the newly born living mercury may not be able to defeat the strictly trained holy warrior. Before the opponent's physical strength is completely exhausted, the living mercury will be chopped down and completely lose its activity.
Amber Xiu couldn't help but sigh that the holy warriors of the Ryan Empire were worthy of their reputation, and the title of the strongest empire on the continent was not an exaggeration.
But if I lose like this, how can I continue my business? The memory crystal is recording the video, and it will be troublesome to edit it later.
Therefore, Amber Xiu could no longer be a spectator, and reminded him through the iron gate: "Silly child, you don't have to maintain your human form. Why can you only use one sword? You have more than two hands! Let your imagination run wild. Letting you learn the enemy's swordsmanship does not mean that you have to be exactly the same!"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
As soon as these words were spoken, the living mercury that had just had its head cut open and was about to heal suddenly stopped. The two halves of the head stopped healing and instead stretched and lengthened, turning into two rapiers that stabbed towards the holy knight.
The stabbing technique was not much different from the one performed by the Holy Knight before, but the two swords came out at the same time, and at an angle opposite to the forehead, which made the Holy Knight flustered in dealing with it, and the smooth rhythm was instantly interrupted.
Although he successfully blocked the double sword attacks, he also counterattacked with a fierce blow from the hilt of the sword, creating a huge dent in the chest of Living Mercury.
But this was the last struggle of the paladin.
The living mercury was reminded by Amber Xiu's words and immediately removed the restrictions.
It is true that the human form cannot compete with the Paladin in swordsmanship, but what if it is not in human form? Slimes have no form restrictions, so why should they fight in a posture they are not good at?
The living mercury's body squirmed and twisted, and many arms and swords grew out, dancing like windmills and swung towards the holy warrior.
The paladin felt as if he was being attacked by several of his colleagues. They all used the same style of swordplay, and he could tell where the attacks were going by looking at the direction the blades were swinging. The problem was... there were too many swords!
(End of this chapter)