In the forest on the outskirts of the Imperial Capital, a figure swiftly moved through the trees.
"I can’t escape towards the headquarters, it would expose everyone."
Leone’s footsteps halted, her beast ears perked up, and after discerning the direction, she ran towards the swamp deeper in the forest.
"If you dare, co and get , you monster."
Leone gritted her silver teeth; she had been running for two hours, yet the sense of looming threat persisted.
Two minutes after Leone had run off, Su Xiao arrived at where she previously was.
He could only vaguely sense Leone’s direction; she was fleeing in a panic and had no ti to cover her tracks.
From the footprints and broken branches, he could deduce her specific position.
After confirming Leone’s escape route, Su Xiao quickly followed. He already knew the enemy had discovered him; now they stood in the relationship of prey and hunter.
The final outco would depend on whether the prey was cunning, or the hunter more experienced.
As he progressed, Su Xiao sensed the air becoming humid, with the strong scent of decaying vegetation in the forest.
His foot slipped as he stepped into a mud pit.
"Is this... a swamp?"
Pulling his leg out of the mud pit, he proceeded more cautiously.
A swamp is a very dangerous place. Ordinary mud swamps are manageable; even if he accidentally falls in, he can find a way out. But if it’s a water and mud swamp, it’s dangerous.
Such a swamp can swallow a person within five seconds, and the more they struggle, the faster they die because there’s a lot of soil mixed in the water. Swimming to survive in a water and mud swamp is sheer fantasy.
No matter how skilled a survival master is, falling into a water and mud swamp ans they’d rather stab themselves to avoid the pain of suffocation.
So might wonder why one would still step onto a swamp knowing it’s dangerous.
If a swamp could be seen with the naked eye, it wouldn’t be dangerous. Most swamps have a layer of dry soil on the surface, ford by the sun drying the swamp’s surface.
Sotis the wind would blow leaves onto the swamp, creating a natural trap.
Su Xiao cut a five to six-ter-long branch from a tree, about the thickness of an arm.
Holding the branch in one hand, Su Xiao ignored the swamp.
If one must traverse a swamp, the best thod is to find a long branch. This way, even if you fall into the swamp, you can find a point of leverage to break free.
Although holding a sword in his right hand and a long branch in his left might seem comical, compared to life and death, it’s not significant.
His foot slipped again, and Su Xiao’s one leg sank into a mud swamp.
Upon stepping into the swamp, Su Xiao clearly felt the suction of the mud.
With Dragon Slash inserted into the ground, Su Xiao leaned his body and pulled his leg out of the swamp, but his shoe remained forever there, with his right leg covered in mud.
Su Xiao’s face darkened; the enemy chose a battlefield that was quite a trap.
"Don’t let catch you, or I’ll throw you into the swamp to drown."
Continuing to track the enemy’s trail, about half an hour later, a row of muddy footprints appeared before him.
The enemy had also fallen into the swamp; it seed a complete fall.
Su Xiao felt a sly satisfaction, thinking to himself, you have your day too.
After leaving a row of single muddy footprints, Su Xiao’s foot slipped again.
With a splash, half of Su Xiao’s body sank into the swamp; it was still a mud swamp.
"Damn."
A minute later, Su Xiao struggled out of the swamp, his face livid. This ti he would also leave behind two muddy footprints.
The pursuit continued. Ten minutes later, a red signal flare shot out from not far ahead.
Bang.
The red signal flare exploded, leaving a cloud of red dust in the air.
"Requesting aid, huh."
Su Xiao quickly made his way to where the signal flare was fired. Two minutes later, he saw the enemy, but couldn’t make out their appearance; they were covered in mud from head to toe.
"Did I kill your relative or friend?"
Upon eting, Leone imdiately asked.
"No, you didn’t."
Su Xiao discarded the wooden stick in his hand. If he responded carefully, Leone wouldn’t be able to stir up much trouble; he restrained those like Leone who favored close combat.
Leone gritted her sharp fangs tightly; these lethal teeth appeared after her beastification.
"Since I didn’t kill your relatives or friends, why are you relentlessly pursuing , running circles around the Imperial Capital, over a hundred kiloters of distance? Is it just because I glanced at you once?"
Leone’s furry beast claws clenched with a crackling sound. Her identity was not exposed in the Imperial Capital, and she thought Su Xiao didn’t recognize her.
"Leone, main mber of ’Night Raid,’ Imperial tool is ’Hundred Beasts King Transformation·Lion King,’ born in the slums, made a living by stealing in her childhood, trained under an old monk from the ’Imperial Fist Temple’ at fourteen, acquired her Imperial tool at sixteen, joined the Revolutionary army at seventeen, and passed the selection to beco a ’Night Raid’ mber at eighteen."
A smile appeared at the corner of Su Xiao’s mouth.
"Want to know anything else?"
Leone stared blankly at Su Xiao, so of the information she herself didn’t rember.
Before entering the World of Crimson, Su Xiao had ticulously reviewed the information he had gathered. Not only did he know this information, he even knew Leone’s three sizes.
"In that case, it’s either you or ."
Leone wiped the mud off her face, her gaze like an enraged lioness.
"It’s not you or , it’s you who will surely die. Ah～, I can finally speak freely."
Su Xiao had been holding back for the past few days. Although he was not garrulous, after posing as Anbu, he mostly said ’um’, ’okay’, ’understood’.
After venting a bit, Su Xiao stopped talking. Pale blue arcs climbed over the surface of Dragon Slash.
He hadn’t had a life-and-death battle with anyone since strengthening Dragon Slash. During the encounter with Esdeath, he hadn’t given his all, and against the Giant Wolf, he only used two strikes; neither showed Dragon Slash’s sharpness.
The blade humd, and as Su Xiao stepped on the ground, dead leaves scattered. Within two seconds, he was already in front of Leone.
Su Xiao’s agility attribute was 24 points; this speed was not fast in the eyes of beastified Leone, but Su Xiao didn’t rely on speed and power to deal with strong enemies. He excelled in using technique and swordsmanship in battle, with power and agility attributes as the foundation.
The long knife cut through the air, blue radiance flowing as Leone instinctively used her claws to et the long knife. This was her customary thod.
After beastification, Leone’s claw hearts were very hard, and even so Imperial tools couldn’t break through her defense.
The whistling sound of the knife slicing the air echoed as Dragon Slash’s sharp edge seed to tear through the air.
Just before her claw heart was about to make contact with Dragon Slash, Leone felt a sting on her claw heart.
Her beast instinct told her that if she continued, she might lose this furry paw.
But it was too late to retreat now, Leone could only brace herself for defense.
The blade of Dragon Slash made contact with Leone’s claw heart, instantly cutting through the hard skin film as they touched.
With a slash.
Crimson blood scattered in the air, half of the furry paw starkly visible amidst the blood.
With a thud, half a paw fell to the ground as Leone retreated several steps, clutching her severed hand.
"How... can it be so sharp."
With a thud, thud.
Blood dripped onto the dry leaves, and the forest was silent.
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