The Adventurer System

The battle between Dagger and Houna was continued but at that moment Houna cast a new spell. Dagger was blown away and blinking his eyes in confusion. Obviously, it was the first time he saw that type of skill so he had no idea how he was going to respond with it.

[Entering in the swordsman state!]

A golden magic circle appeared underneath her feet, at the same time, a red light was glittering around her. To be exact, Houna was concentrating the magical power given by the magic circle throughout her body. By doing this, her speed, strength, senses, and dexterity were vastly increased, far away from her current status.

In an instant, the golden gleaming coated her entire body, and more confident to face the man in front of her. "Let's get started, Dagger?"

After she spits these words, Houna suddenly vanished from Dagger's vision which gave him a hard time determining her current location. He looked around, he just saw nothing besides the audiences and Guild Captains that were seriously watching.

"The fuck? Where she did go--?" He could not complete his words as he felt two blades were slashing his legs which pushed him to kneel to the ground.

He was gritting his teeth, at the same time, wondering why does this woman suddenly vanished in his vision. He was well savvy that because of her skill but he never anticipated it could become like this.

Blood splashes on the platform, nevertheless he immediately placed his hands on his knees to push himself into a stood-up position. Furthermore, when he regained his footing, the same thing that just happened, he can't tell where was the woman hiding.

Swoosh! Swosh! Swosh!

A sound of the rapid wind went to his ear for apparent reason. At this point, he can now easily tell that Houna wasn't missing she just had an intense speed where the ordinary eyes were impossible to catch up with.

Tsk!

He clicked his tongue and had an annoyed expression. In his mind, he had no any skills that would stop this woman from his swift pace.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Argh!

Dagger was groaning in pain after receiving several cuts all over his body. Aside from that, he tried to swing his sword in the part where he can her footstep, but for some reason, he never landed even a single hit.

"Damn it, I should end the fight when I have time. What I'm doing?" He was holding his left arm since he could not raise it as Houna perfectly aimed his veins.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

Blood was pouring into his clothes. What he could do? If Houna already corned him in the situation where the only thing he could do was to defend and receive malignant damages.

His health power was easily down to fifty percent, also it was continued to decrease as the passive bleeding was taking effect.

[Hell sword!]

Houna forced Dagger to all out in this fight since it was such a waste. Their party was already received one point after defeating Mulan so once he lost to this woman their momentum was surely gone.

In just a blink of an eye, his both arms were enveloped by fire, yet it was not just a fire, it was magma. With this, it could help him to increase his body and cast AOE skill, his plan here was to minimize the space where Houna could do a sneak attack.

He swung his sword downwards, then it created a force that could blow heavy things, at the same time, a tremendous heat that someone would be having a hard time if they were forced to get deeper.

Huff... Huff... Huff...

He was heavily panting because of the pain that he was experiencing from these wounds. He can't cast the [Hell sword] earlier since it could easily drain his mana power if that happens Houna easily took the advantage as she was just making a distance with him and waiting for it to disappear.

Or easy to say, Houna was already make research on this man because she was well aware of the strength and weaknesses of Dagger.

It annoyed him, as the scene that happened to him earlier was just happening right now. As expected, Houna stepped back 20 meters away as it was the maximum range where the [Hell sword] could reach her. She had a nonchalant expression and eventually revealed her appearance, knowing it was just a waste of mana if she continued in that state.

[Cordi ball!]

Everything was well planned, Houna were pointing each endpoint of the blades, slowly concentrating a mana into its for her long-range attack. A rounded red-orange mana was forming on it, yet, it was taking some seconds before she could release it, enough time for Dagger to attain closer distance against her.

Swoosh!

Dagger appeared right in front of her eyes, fully swung his firing sword intent to finish the fight in just one slash. One direct hit, it was all over, it was the thing inside his head. However, Houna had a malicious smile on her face after she cancel to cast her skill.

Swish!

She tossed her sword into the air, then slid between Dagger's feet that was looked like she was playing with him.

Dagger could not control his arms to stop his sword since he was at the point when he was already given his all strength came along with his massive momentum.

Boom!

It created a strong explosion where some parts were barely hitting his face and body. Moreover, he took a glance at his behind, knew with his current position it was impossible to immediately switch his position. His eyes were widened when Houna caught the silver sword whirling in the air.

Swoosh!

After that, she quickly jumped into the mid-air, then swung her two swords that were like she was creating an X symbol.

Swish!

Her sword easily slashes Dagger's nape, also, the main reason why he fell to the ground with his shivering body. He had some health power to continue the fight, but it was already been decided as Houna was pointing again her sword at him and asked him.

"Do you want me to finish the fight, or you're going to surrender?" She said in a deep tone, carefully watching his movements to know if this man had a plan to sneak attack.

Clang!

It was not the sound of two swords hitting each other, or to be simple, it was the sound of a sword that gently fell to the ground that also had a vibration sound. Yes, Dagger let go of his hands to his sword and said.

"I surrender, Houna, you have defeated me fair and square."

As soon as he spits these words, the protecting healing barrier covered the entire platform vanished. To heal easily heal the multiple wounds that Dagger received from this match.

OI! OI! OI! THE WINNER OF THE SECOND MATCH WAS HOUNA! THIS MEANS GODA'S PARTY WOULD RECEIVE ONE POINT! I THINK WE ARE HAVING A LONG MATCH TO THIS CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND!

The audience was hyped again with Gino's words, at the same time, admired this woman she made the series tied.

On the other hand, it was obvious that the second match was one-sided since Houna could not let her opponent strike back. She was not won by her luck as she gave her time and effort to research by this man, knowing Dagger was also the main threat in this match aside Grim Draigh.

"You caught me really good, Houna," Dagger said, then smiled at her as he admitted that he made a mistake why he lost in this match.

"Thank you for the match, Dagger, let's have a duel next time." Houna said in a cold tone, then headed back to the waiting section so the third match could start right away.

"No problem, Houna, I think I'll be doing some training before I fight you in a duel."

After the small conversation, two of them back to the waiting section, now, Dagger was scratching the back of his head, apologizing to them as he knew because of him the opponent tied the series. For Lorith, it was fine as she knew that Houna was one of the skilled swordsman in this virtual world.

On the other side, Asarki was looking at the man that had clueless eyes. It looked like, Grim was literally amazed in this fight.

"That woman was unstoppable, she never let her opponent strike back. She looks very know to defeat the man."

If his intuition was right, Houna already made a plan for how she was going to defeat him. Yet, he was expecting this as he gained so much popularity to the audience after showing his overwhelming power to them.

He looked at Hippie for some reason, or to be simple, he had an idea that Houna would fight Hippie once they advance to the next round.

"Hey, Hippie, if you can't still fight, you can leave to us, also take your new item. Asarki had it."

since there's a possibility