The knight in the abyss

Chapter 212 The villain comes to the door
"Although these mountain roads are not easy to walk, we have walked about thirty miles." Lancelow frowned and thought, "The place where we killed the group of shapeshifters is not far from the Tower of Bones. If that The artifacts were indeed abandoned when they climbed up, and this is almost the largest range. Either we were unlucky and the Eye of Sarrizdun did not fall at this height, or we chose the wrong direction and should go to the other side. explored."

"Then let's turn around early tomorrow morning? Or should we continue to explore for half a day?" Kara Lin couldn't think of any good ideas, "I think we should stop walking forward, because those shapeshifting monsters will definitely try to stay as far away as possible when they flee. The Tower of Bones and its guardians..."

"Does the roast chicken smell good?" Lancelow interrupted the scholar suddenly, his face full of helplessness.

"...what?" Kara Lin was a little baffled by the human knight's words, but he suddenly remembered a familiar ringing bell, which was the signal that the alarm technique was triggered.

Lancelot had already stood up, his eyes fixed on the black armored knight who was walking in step by step.

"Enrique, that's your name, right?" Frost Zhan appeared in Lancelot's hands silently, and the murderous aura in the air suddenly became so thick that it was hard to breathe.

The dark guard didn't answer, but just raised his long sword and issued an unmistakable challenge.

"Hey, it seems that you didn't come to appreciate the craftsmanship of our halfling partners." Lancelow sighed, "Although we couldn't reach a conclusion in our last fight, I still want to know whether this conflict can be avoided. Elotesia told us your story, and I think that..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Enrique had already charged him, and Lancelo also moved at the same time.In this thirty-foot-square space, three sides are irrevocable rock walls, and the other side is a bottomless cliff, so the most important thing after the battle starts is to seize the central position.

Their first blows all chose to strike with all their strength without fancy, and there was a sharp metal impact sound, and the two swords were firmly pressed together.

A second later, the two retracted their weapons at the same time.Lancelot's Frost Slash is slightly shorter, and his speed is also slightly faster than his opponent.The long sword slashed across his head in a full circle, and slashed hard towards the shoulder of the dark guard.

Enrique realized Lancelo's speed advantage before Lancelo made the blow.He gave up his intention to continue attacking, and lowered his raised long sword to protect his side. At the same time, he turned halfway back, just in time to sway Lancelow's attack, and then, using the momentum of the rotation, he swung a powerful horizontal slash .

This is a very high-risk and rewarding move, because the body is facing away from the attacker when blocking, and the timing will lead to disastrous consequences.But if he managed to deflect the attack, the opponent's weapon would be held in mid-air due to the rebound, and the mid-section slash he followed would hardly give the opponent any time to react.

Enrique used this trick without hesitation, which shows his confidence in his swordsmanship.The dark guard's long sword has begun to turn black, as if it can absorb the surrounding light.He was determined to win this blow, and was ready to kill Lancelow directly.

But this level of predicament is not difficult for Lancelot, because he is also a fan of this move-rotating parry followed by a horizontal cut.For a top-notch swordsman like him, the speed of the sword is close to the limit of the body, and the same level of confrontation will even evolve into a turn-based battle like guessing fists. If there is a move that can combine defense and attack in one action, Is there any reason not to practice?

But now that he has practiced this trick, he will naturally study the method of cracking it.The most professional response is for the attacker to immediately withdraw the strength in his hands so that he can immediately return the sword to defend.But this is equivalent to being forced to give up an advantageous attack opportunity because of a defensive action with a low success rate by the opponent.

Lancelow once raised this question to his uncle who taught him swordsmanship, but after an afternoon of various attempts by the two sides, he had to admit a fact: withdrawing force and retreating to defend with the sword is the best choice, unless he bet that the opponent cannot A perfect block, a slash with all your strength regardless of heeding, the two sides will see the difference in one move, either you die or I die.

But he is not the same now as he was ten years ago.The power of the long sword in Lancelot's hand did not diminish at all. The moment the weapon was bounced, his own body also jumped into the air lightly, like a dancing butterfly, just passing the dark guard's horizontal slash like a thunderbolt. .

This is a response that breaks through the basic principles of knight swordsmanship.Since it is difficult for slashing attacks to break through the defense of the plate armor, in a duel between knights, both sides are less likely to suffer real damage before one of them falls to the ground.Therefore, the most important thing when fighting with armor is to keep yourself standing while knocking down the opponent. Jumping, which may cause loss of balance, is an absolute taboo, and it will not appear in any school of swordsmanship.

The way Lancelot made sure he responded was definitely beyond his opponent's expectations, and it seemed to be the case.The door of the Blackguard opened wide because his weapon missed the target, and a golden opportunity presented itself to the knight in midair.

He was about to stab out his long sword, but suddenly realized that the opponent's horizontal slash was swung with one hand, and the other free arm was tightly attached to his side, like a good The machine spring is ready to go like a crossbow.

Just like Lancelot is sure that the opponent's spinning parry will be successful, Enrique is also sure that the opponent will have a way to block his next horizontal cut, so he didn't put all his bets on that blow, but kept a Only fists are used as backhands.

Lancelot said badly in his heart, and hurriedly put the long sword that had not been stabbed in front of him, just blocking the opponent's heavy punch.

Black and red flames were burning on the black guard's fist, and that flame gave off an extremely filthy feeling.A hot and evil energy was transmitted along the blade, and the true energy in Lancelot's body was stimulated, trying to resist the erosion of this energy.

Fortunately, this punch did not hit his body, and the weird energy still failed to penetrate into his body after all.

The human knight floating in mid-air had nowhere to rely, and was sent flying backwards.But after all, he successfully blocked the enemy's attack and did not suffer much damage, so he quickly adjusted his figure and landed firmly on the ground.

"Cut." Lancelot snorted dissatisfied.Although these three moves seemed to be a tie, the opponent now occupied the center of the field, so he was actually at a disadvantage.

(End of this chapter)