Eighth Crown

"So strong!"

As soon as they fought, Liu Xia felt an oppressive force from a completely different dimension from everyone in the past.

Estes' physical ability is not much stronger than Liu Xia's, roughly equal to him, or even worse, but her explosive power is extremely terrifying, and her seemingly powerless body seems to support the spine of heaven and earth. A terrifying power erupted that moved Liu Xiadu.

Moreover, her skills are extremely agile and strong, at least enough to rival Liu Xia. The two of them moved their hands, and the figure was almost to the point of leaving countless afterimages in the air, and even the air seemed to be trembling. Voice.

Even her martial arts are not weak at all. Unlike the ten types of swordsmanship that Liu Xia has sorted out, her swordsmanship is not in the slightest bells and whistles. , even Liu Xia did not have the slightest advantage.

Just looking at the strength of hand-to-hand combat, Esdes is at least the level of a first-class Servant.

The top Servant can hit a sonic boom as soon as he takes a shot, and when he leaves, it is a sonic-level charge. Esdes should not have reached this point.

But Esdes also has the ability to control ice.

Because of his reputation as the strongest in the empire, Lucia had already investigated information about Esdes' Teigu.

Although its real name is unknown, Esdes' Emperor's ability is undoubtedly to control ice, and it has reached the point where ice cubes are created directly out of thin air without the need for condensing water at all.

There are rumors that in order to allow the army to cross the river smoothly, she once froze the entire river several kilometers wide by herself, so that she could fight against nature as a human being.

Her ability to control ice is extremely powerful, and the ice is manipulated by her, without the slightest stagnation, and even completely integrated into herself, forming a very unique fighting style.

"Shhhh-"

In mid-air, hundreds of ice swords emerged, and they poured frantically towards Liu Xia with a posture of not wanting money.

"—Nine Types Feng Nagi Yunlan."

Liu Xia stood motionless on the spot, but countless wind-blade-like sword qi lingered around him, guarding him in the center without any dead ends.

When the hundreds of ice swords poured into the range of ten feet around him, they were all smashed by the sword energy that filled this field, and turned into countless ice chips that floated away.

"—The Four Types: Illusory Sun Rainbow."

After all the ice swords were resolved, Liu Xia's figure swayed, and under the high-speed rotation, the whole person disappeared directly from the open space, leaving countless afterimages in the air.

However, what surprised him again was that Esdes' eyes were able to keep up with the speed of his footwork, and the ice blue eyes full of indifference tracked his figure, but because he couldn't catch it No action yet.

Huan Rihong is a powerful move, but if the opponent's dynamic vision is strong enough, he can keep up with his speed, and the effect of confusion will also be weakened.

"—The Eighth Type: Thousand-fold Circulation."

Liu Xia slammed on the ground in the open space, and with the help of the rotating power of the magic sun rainbow, the double knives were like two huge fire dragons, and slashed towards her neck from behind Esdes.

The Thousand Layers of Flow is a sword skill derived from the ten type of the breath of water, the flow of life. The more the number of rotations, the greater the power. After forming a combined sword skill with Huan Rihong, with the help of Huan Rihong's rotation A few times, it can burst into a strong power from the beginning.

Esdes' intuition was extremely powerful, and he immediately sensed the direction of Liu Xia's attack. He stomped his feet in white high-heeled boots, and a huge layer of ice suddenly appeared behind him.

Different from the previous multi-layer ice wall, this time the ice layer she derived behind her is like a peacock opening screen, increasing layer by layer and expanding the range, completely blocking the attacks behind her in the future.

"Boom!"

Liu Xia's two knives came out together, and the two long knives like fire dragons slashed the ice layer in front of them with one knife, and took advantage of the situation to spin around again, and continued to cut into the deeper ice layer.

"Ah!"

Estes let out an inexplicable snort from his mouth, and a hunting-like pleasure appeared on his face, as if he was enjoying the battle.

At the same time, her whole body was like a flood, and the transparent layers of ice layered on top of each other, surrounding her so tightly that the ice layer thickened several times.

"No, I can't win."

After fighting with Esdes for more than half a minute, Liu Xia finally had the intention of retreating.

Esdes has not launched a large-scale attack until now, because she is afraid that this is the emperor's palace, and it is not suitable to make too much movement, otherwise it would be bad to turn the entire palace into an ice cave.

Lucia took advantage of this, and came to assassinate Esdes on the night she was staying in the palace.

In other words, the current Esdes has not actually exerted her full strength, and her real strength may be enough to reach the ranks of the top Servants.

But even if it wasn't with all his strength, Liu Xia still had a feeling that it was difficult to fight against her.

The level of the two in hand-to-hand combat is about the same, but once Esdes uses Teigu, Liuxia will be very difficult to attack and defend due to the lack of large-scale attack methods.

Even if she uses the Noble Phantasm, the Six Paths and Five Wheels, the Celestial Phenomenon of Kurigaro, she will only be able to destroy the ice layer around her, and she will not be able to reach her. Because of the absence of the trump card, the Backlight Sword has not awakened. sign.

In view of this, Liuxia really has no means to effectively fight against Esdes, and he can only remain undefeated in front of Esdes at best.

"But in this way, Esdes' strength is almost the same."

Liu Xia said silently in his heart: "The purpose is basically half completed, the battle is too noisy, and it will not be good to attract General Bude after a while.

After making a decision in her heart, Liu Xia did not hesitate to withdraw and retreat quickly, abandoning Esdes, using the [Breathing Interruption] skill with all her strength, and using invisible magic again to cover her figure, disappearing in Esdes's place. before.

"Disappeared... I can't see the figure, and I can't even feel the breath at all."

Esdes stood in the courtyard full of icy debris, her eyes couldn't find Liu Xia's figure everywhere, and even her powerful intuition was invalid at this moment.

"It's like the ultimate assassin. It's a pity that this kind of person can't be included in his command..."

Not only did she not get angry, but there was a look of extreme pleasure on her face.

Only an assassin of this level can let her experience the thrill of battle.

It was not until Liuxia left that the Guards appeared at the gate of Esdes Palace, and even General Budd, who was guarding the little emperor, was alarmed.

Liu Xia ignored the changes in the palace, and after leaving the palace in stealth, she quickly rushed back to her home and changed back to her youthful dress.

"Esdes, you are definitely my biggest and strongest obstacle in this world. In any case, there will be a life-and-death battle between me and you..."

Liu Xia made a firm judgment in her heart.