A ray of blood leaped from the chain wrapped around the sword and instantly spread to the sword. Natalia, who was holding the sword tightly, suddenly felt a huge force coming, and there was a rebound force from the hilt that seemed to want to bounce her hands away.

Although her strength, which was almost close to that of a high-level extraordinary person, was basically accumulated through resources and medicines, and she did not have much combat experience, she still reacted quickly.

Since her combat experience is not as good as the opponent's, she will risk her life and force the opponent to fight her head-on!

All the strength in his body burst out instantly, and flames burst out from the sword body with a swish, not only dispersing the incoming force and blood, the flames even wanted to ignite and melt the chains that bound the sword body.

Edmund's face changed and he quickly retracted the chain. Even though he was very decisive, the barbed steel that had just wrapped around the sword showed signs of melting slightly.

"Damn, this guy..." He gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice. He really didn't expect that someone would launch a counterattack regardless of the consumption of energy when they were just in the stage of testing each other. It would be hard for others to think of this.

Livia next to him was also a little surprised. He had just swung his sword to force back the three bandits who had surrounded him, and was about to go to help Natalia. Unexpectedly, she suddenly burst out and forced the other party to retreat.

Seeing this, he stopped and turned around, swinging his sword at the three or four bandits behind him. He planned to take this opportunity to quickly get rid of one more bandit to complete the second task and have more strength for the next battle.

Although Edmund was careless for a moment and was forced back by Natalia's sudden outburst, he was experienced in fighting and quickly seized the moment when Natalia's explosive power subsided and launched an attack again.

Phew!

"ah!

!”

A bandit in front of Livia who failed to dodge was slashed by his sword from the shoulder, and screamed loudly. Just as he was killing the bandit who retreated later without reservation, a muffled groan came from behind him. Oops, could it be...

Livia turned her head quickly and saw Natalia bending her knees and swinging her sword to force Edmund back. The part of her upper calf that was not protected by leg armor had been torn apart at some point, and was a bloody mess.

Just at that moment, Edmund seized the moment when Natalia's old strength was about to be exerted and new strength was not yet generated, and swung the barbed chain in his hand to attack the flaw exposed below Natalia. The blade bit into her strong calf muscles like a devil's sharp teeth and tore off a piece of flesh.

Natalia gritted her teeth and took a deep breath, trying to endure the pain in her calves, but her calves were trembling slightly. She really couldn't defend herself against the attack of the thorn chain. She had never seen such a thing used as a weapon before, let alone how to deal with it. She had no idea at all.

Livia glanced at the spiked chain in Edmund's hand, which was waving randomly in the air without any pattern, with a serious look in her eyes. If he were to say that, he would not be in any good situation either.

After all, strange weapons are often the most difficult to deal with. After all, you have never seen them before and have no idea how to use them or where to attack them.

After taking a look at the completion display, Livia quickly invested the two extra attribute points in agility, breaking through the 20-point mark to 20.2.

Feeling his body lighter, his reactions quicker, and his eyes better able to catch the traces of Edmund swinging the spiked chain, Livia stood in front of Natalia with a sword. Through his observations just now, he discovered that the greatest advantage of this weapon was that it could attack at a very fast speed at a strange and unexpected angle.

This has some similarities with his Cat Style swordsmanship, but if you have to say, the opponent's attack idea using the thorn chain should be a combination of the Cat Style and the Viper Style. After all, the opponent gives him the feeling of a poisonous snake.

"You go deal with the remaining bandits, I'll hold him back first."

Livia stared at Edmund's movements and spoke to Natalia behind her.

There were only four bandits left, and Natalia could deal with them quickly even in this state, so he thought that he, who was more agile, would hold back the bandit leader in front of him who was like a venomous snake, and after Natalia dealt with the remaining bandits, they would attack the other side together.

Natalia gritted her teeth. She knew that if she continued to fight with the guy with the spiked chain in her current state, she would only be exhausted and lose her fighting power. "Be careful!"

Without much communication, Natalia turned around and limped, raising her sword to kill the remaining bandits around her, while Livia also rushed towards Edmund with all her strength.

After all, the attack range of the spiked chain is too far. If he doesn't go forward to hold it back, the opponent may directly avoid him and attack Natalia.

Before he got close, a chain with sharp spikes whizzed towards him. Compared with the attack distance and range of the long sword, the spiked chain in the opponent's hand was too far away.

Helplessly, Livia had to concentrate and stop to prepare to deal with the incoming spiked chain. It was too fast, and it was difficult for him to dodge. He could only raise his sword to block it.

Ping!

Unlike Natalia who had little combat experience, Livia swung her sword and hit the steel ring of the attacking spiked chain, deflecting it and disrupting the direction of its entanglement.

As early as in his previous observations, he found that the center of gravity of this weapon was on the several boomerang-like spiked steel rings at the head, so Livia quickly and accurately hit the steel rings with his sword, successfully deflecting it. At the same time, the opponent was unable to retract his sword for a while because of the change in force.

Edmund did not expect that Livia could see through the advantages and disadvantages of his strange weapon so quickly. He was unable to control the spiked chain that was knocked to the other side. The chain stretched to its limit and fell to the ground, unable to be retracted.

Livia naturally seized the opportunity of the enemy's carelessness and charged forward quickly, intending to launch a fierce attack on the opponent while he was unable to retract his weapon, suppress him and control the rhythm of the battle.

Seeing the horrified expression on Edmund's face as he was gradually getting closer to him, Livia, who was charging, frowned. Something was wrong. This expression was too exaggerated. As a supernatural being, he should not have the same reaction as an ordinary person with poor psychological quality.

Even he and Natalia, who had faced the warlock's desperate attack before, did not show such an expression. So how could he, who still had the advantage, have such a frightened expression?

Livia realized something was wrong after a quick thought, but she did not stop. She just quietly withdrew most of the strength in her hand, leaving only the dazzling silver light still flashing on the sword as a camouflage.

"Tsk, you didn't fall for it? This guy is not as easy to fool as that female knight."

Although Livia's movements were very secretive, Edmund still sensed that the power on his sword had been withdrawn a lot, as if he had seen through his plan.