I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

"Professional habits." Cheng Rang smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay, I'll go first."

"Have you thought about the wedding?"

Cheng Rang's movement towards the doorknob faltered, and he turned around in surprise, "Fantou, when did you start caring so much about members' personal issues?"

"After all, you are special."

"What's so special, I'm not just an ordinary person."

"That's it."

Stephen responded perfunctorily, refocused his attention on the report and stopped talking. Cheng Rang, who was confused by this, raised his brows. Seeing that Fantou had nothing else to say, he opened the door and left.

[Mission Briefing: LB-ZK-007459 "DeusMachina·Maxim"]

【Successor: Cheng Rang】

[Assist: Leonardo Wouche]

[Use the Prosthetic Eye of God to track the traces of the target and find clues on the first night.Continue the investigation phase until the evening of the second day, and lock the target hiding place. 】

[Afterwards, I took Leo to eat fried chicken. I was a guest, but when I met Zhabu, I extorted the money from him with other reasons. 】

[On the third day, I also ate Mexican taco for breakfast, and the one with fried chicken stuffed was the one on 14th Street in Brighton.Leo ordered another bottle of Coke Zero, and the 0.5 Zell was credited. 】

[There are still three hours left for the task, and there is plenty of time. Leo said he didn't want to fly anymore, so we chose to go by motorcycle. 】

[On the third day of the mission time, contact the mission target at 24 minutes and 36 seconds of the remaining time. 】

[On the third day of the mission time, with 24 minutes and 35 seconds remaining, the mission target was successfully eliminated. For evidence and on-site picture information, see the attached details at the back. 】

Stephen flipped through a thin page of report paper, with a few developed photos clipped behind it with paper clips.

The empty alley was clean. Cheng Rang opened his hand in front of the camera, indicating that there was nothing left, so let me take a hammer.

"Tsk, it's still the same. The mission execution results are perfect, and the timing is just right... It's just that the briefing is a mess."

Stephen's heavy sigh came from the office, and with a thud, the seal was stamped, and this task report that was marked as 'filed' was thrown into the folder beside it by Stephen.

Stephen then dialed the phone.

"Hello? Elaine, Maxim's matter is over, um... um... Yes, there is nothing left, the same as the previous few times. There is no way, after all, this thing has the ability to regenerate, It’s too difficult for us, it’s normal and necessary for Cheng to choose to cut the grass and root out the root...Okay, that’s it.”

The phone hangs up.

......

What's the first thing you do after completing a task?

Do you still need to ask, then of course I went to my wife to ask for a mission reward!

Returning home with itching and unbearable excitement, Cheng Rang opened the door to welcome the cold wind that was more piercing than the winter cold in the empty home.

"Where's my wife!?"

After calling, I learned that Isabella was called by her master Leticia today.

This time Cheng Rang obediently walked through the main entrance and chose to ring the doorbell.

"——Why are you here to join in the fun?"

Leticia crossed her arms and looked at the guy Isabella brought into her home, with a dissatisfied expression.

"Is that why you don't want to see me? Hey, let me tell you..."

Cheng Rang pointed to Leticia's hairstyle. The long silver hair that reached to her waist before had been cut short by her and returned to its original appearance.

"what happened?"

"...uh, nothing."

Others don't know that Leticia has actually traveled through the world with her in the past few days when she disappeared, and she has also changed a lot...whether it is appearance or strength.

Sure enough, Isabella couldn't understand the conversation between the two at all, but she didn't say anything, just tilted her head.

Cheng Rang quickly changed the subject: "Have you finished your busy work?"

"Well, I'm not here these days, Isa, have you kept practicing?"

After facing Isabella, Leticia changed her tone, taking on a sense of majesty as a teacher.

"When, of course...!"

Suddenly a fireball condensed from the back of Leticia without warning, and shot towards Isabella in an instant. It exuded incandescent heat, and its trajectory distorted the air.

Isabella's reaction was also extremely fast. She cast the spell silently and instantly projected the shield from the front of her arm. Even with such a hastily condensed spell shield, its coverage area protected the entire front of her body from head to toe.

With a loud bang, the fireball exploded in front of the shield, but it didn't touch the shield.

Detonate early?

Cheng Rang, who saw this, found that Isabella hadn't noticed the multiple tiny fireballs that had split in the fire wave that exploded in front of him. Isabella's unprotected body attacks past.

The moment before Cheng Rang took action, he seemed to understand what he meant.

In the palm of Leticia's raised hand, black and gold intertwined cursed light cannons came towards her, even mixed with the power of the curse's ultimate intention, and she had to temporarily avoid the sharp edge.The original intention flashed in his hand, and he drew his sword to block it.

The guardian pendant of single-attribute defense was triggered and invalidated in an instant, and the high-sequence attack mantra carrying chaotic power even used [-]% of Cheng Rang's power to successfully offset it.

The strong mantra dissipated, and Cheng Rang put down his weapon only to see that Isabella had been knocked down to the ground.

Isabella, who seemed to have passed out for a short time, coughed a few times, and then screamed for pain, and got up from the ground in disgrace. Her beautiful long golden hair was burnt to a large extent and was curling up. Green smoke curled up.

"Not at all, you have regressed, Isa." Leticia then looked at Cheng Rang, raised her hand and pointed: "And you, if you want to be good for your wife, don't interfere, you can always protect Cheng Rang every step of the way. Doesn't she get hurt?"

"But your shot is a bit too heavy...Issa is your disciple, right?" Cheng Rang helped the injured Isabella up with some distress, and threw a healing spell on it.

"I can't die."

"Is there only this standard? It's too strict, hey!"

Leticia had a serious expression, and she said word by word: "Wounded by my hands, or died by the enemy's hands, which one do you choose?"

Cheng Rang hesitated to speak, but Leticia continued:

"I think you have a deep understanding of the meaning of revenge. Everything you do after the incident is already too late anyway. No amount of power can make up for it, right?"

People who have died will never come back no matter what... Even if the world and time and space are torn apart, it will only be another completely different person.

".....I know."

Cheng Rang nodded, looked at his slightly trembling left hand, and then clenched it tightly.

Isabella gritted her teeth and stood up from Cheng Rang's arms, smiled and signaled that he was fine, then turned serious and bowed slightly to Leticia.

"I see, Master... I'm sorry!"

"You are no longer an ordinary girl, not when you choose to take the responsibility of maintaining world balance on your shoulders, so grit your teeth and don't just use beautiful words to express your determination!"

"Yes!"

Leticia showed a strict side in front of Cheng Rang, very strict...

But it is this strictness and seriousness that can make him feel at ease...

Cheng Rang put away his weapon and stepped back.

Leticia first analyzed the shortcomings of what Isabella had just done, and then proposed a reasonable solution.

After Isabella nodded her understanding, the second spark burst out.

boom!

She didn't feel sorry for her bombed-out room at all, and Leticia had the ability to restore it all with a wave of her hand.

The hot and dancing flames hit Isabella's shield. Having learned from the previous experience, she considered attacks from other directions this time, and responded to the surrounding defenses.

But the condensed fireball didn't explode this time, but rumbled and bombarded the shield, completely smashing it from the front, and Isabella was knocked down to the ground for the second time.

Although Cheng Rang felt distressed, he couldn't deny that Leticia's practical teaching method could improve the strength and experience of the trainees by leaps and bounds.

because--

"Isa, although you have considered the variables of the enemy's attack this time, the frontal area that needs the most defense has weakened. The enemy's attack cannot be the same every time. You lose at the moment when you are not used to it. What you lose will be your life." Leticia's words coincided with Cheng Rang's thoughts, and he, who was equally experienced in combat, nodded secretly.

The battlefield is ever-changing, cruel, unknown, soaked in blood and life-life and death can only be settled in an instant, indeed.

"have you understood?"

Isabella gritted her teeth tightly and propped herself up from the ground. The clothes instantly carbonized by the high temperature had turned into ashes and fell off. The pungent burning smell and the piercing pain are radiating along the wound and running through the whole body.

Although the girl tried her best to endure it, the pain still caused her to shed tears from her eyes.

But she didn't complain at all, she just stood up again, choked up and shouted:

"Yes, I...I see!"

"Your defense logic is fine just now. What needs to be strengthened is the cohesion speed and mobilization of the spell power. The healing of the wound will come after you block one of my attacks. Let your husband rest assured that there will be no scars at all." Stay...continue!"

Isabella wiped away her tears, released the curse and temporarily bandaged the wound with a magic ribbon, then regained her momentum and faced Leticia, who was gathering sparks of the mantra from her back.

"Yes!"

Chapter 9 Pure White Curse Shield

It has been an hour and a half since the cruel face-to-face teaching, but Isabella still failed to defend against Leticia's attack once.

The defense was ruthlessly shattered time and time again, and Leticia beat her all over her body as if on purpose.

boom!

Once again, Isabella's shield was shattered, and she flew backwards, hitting the bookshelf hard.

Leticia lowered her hand, and the magic circle dissipated from under her feet.

"No, you haven't been able to reproduce the main points just said."

"Get up and continue." He said.

.......

My whole body is crying out—pain, pain...so painful!

But Isabella knew that these were just flesh wounds, and Leticia's grasp of power was amazing, and she cared about herself while being strict.

I am still too weak....

Only to such an extent, if you can't even protect yourself, how can you protect others?

Isabella is not stupid, she is very smart, and she understands that Leticia is doing everything for her own good.

But she still felt aggrieved, and pain was coming from her whole body, making her want to cry, think about giving up, and act like a baby like before...

There's no way, I'm a girl, it's okay to be a little willful!

Thinking of this, Isabella curled up on the ground, her sobs gradually amplified.

"People who want your life will not sympathize with you just because you pretend to be pitiful, get up!"

"Sister Leticia is a bully! She was able to defend herself before, so why did she increase the power of her spells this time!"

"Because I became stronger."

"But I didn't!"

"..."

Leticia stared at the girl curled up on the ground crying, her eyes showed a hint of distress, she sighed secretly, and asked in a soft tone: "Then are you willing to stop here and not continue to persist? You were doing the curse Where did your aura go during the division exam? Where did your eyes go at that time?"

After a pause, Leticia stared at Isabella's closed eyes and said, "Okay, then add another rule, if you want to give up, I can stop immediately, as long as you shout 'I want to give up, I will give up' I can’t hold on anymore’, I won’t ask you anything, and this lecture will come to an end.”

Leticia walked towards Isabella slowly, and stretched out her hand to her, when the emerald green light of the healing light flickered in it.

"But this time you need to admit your failure, come on, shout it out - 'I give up'."

Isabella clenched her fists unwillingly, gritted her teeth together, and opened her eyes again to stare at the Time Curse Healing Light that was ready in Leticia's hand.

"Choose to give up, or get up."

Cheng Rang, who was watching silently from the side, told the truth that he hoped that Isabella would give up.

Who can watch the person they like being knocked down again and again without the ability to resist?

Sweat and tears that almost formed shallow puddles on the ground were intertwined, and then dried by the scorching heat, forming rings of salt stains under the girl's body.