lia glanced at Aiden, who was rushing towards her, and then, the ring on her finger shone and a white longsword appeared in her hand.
"I didn't think you would be a Body Cultivator," Aiden muttered as he noticed lia taking out her sword instead of preparing a spell.
"I am not. I am Mana Cultivator."
lia replied with a calm look on her face.
"Heh. And you are planning to fight against a Body Cultivator head-on? Maybe I overestimated you."
Aiden, who was already in front of lia laughed.
"Are your friends not moving yet?" lia, however, seed unusually calm.
This calm attitude of hers put Aiden on edge, his sword moved and slashed, trying to behead lia in one move. There was no way a Mana Cultivator could fight against him head-on, after all.
"Why would they bother joining in? If it is a close-range battle, I alone, am enough!"
He exclaid.
*Clank*
lia simply blocked his attack and then parried his sword. Aiden lost his balance, lia then aid at his chest. Aiden dodged her sword and then jumped back, creating distance and regaining his balance.
This ti, lia rushed forward.
Yes, she, as a Mana Cultivator, closed the distance with a Body Cultivator,
*Clank*
Aiden blocked her attack and then slashed his sword.
This ti, lia stepped back.
Aiden's speed, however, suddenly got faster, he moved forward and his sword slashed her arm.
lia didn't care.
A small wound like this, her regeneration would take care of it as if it was nothing.
That was the ridiculous advantage the Vampires had, small wounds like these were absolutely useless against them.
lia rushed towards Aiden again,
*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*
The two of them continued to exchange blows and the more ti passed, the more Aiden frowned in confusion.
How?
Just how in the hell was this still going on?
Why can he not push lia away?
She was clearly a Mana Cultivator.
Whether it was speed or strength, he was superior in both cases.
Then why was lia not down yet?
Why was she still blocking all his attacks and is even attacking him whenever she gets a chance?
Suddenly, Aiden attention fell on lia's eyes.
Her crimson eyes were shining brightly.
No, it was not an illusion, or not because of how focused lia was, her eyes were actually shining.
Aiden then noticed sothing,
His reaction speed, for so reason, his reaction speed was a lot slower than normal.
*Clank*
Aiden blocked lia's sword that was about to reach his neck, he then realized that if he had stepped forward before, he could have blocked this attack way before her sword got this close to him, not only that, he could have even used lia's disrupted balance to attack her, but for so reason, he didn't do it.
No, it was not like he didn't do it, but he couldn't.
His mind… it couldn't calculate that fast enough.
And that horrified Aiden.
He had spent all his life training his sword, he had been into countless fights, and he had reached the point where his body would move in the most efficient way before he himself could think about it.
How can soone like him… fail to calculate a simple move like this?
Aiden's eyes fell on lia's red eyes again.
"You… what have you done to ?"
He questioned.
lia, however, didn't reply, she just continued attacking,
*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*
Aiden finally noticed sothing else as well.
Their swords clashed as Aiden blocked lia's attacks.
In the starting, he was the one who was attacking lia continuously, his advantage was clear and so of his attacks even passed through her defenses, wounding her in the process, however, as more and more ti passed, the position started changing as well.
His advantage started vanishing, lia started blocking more and more of his attacks and soon, she was the one attacking.
*Clank*
Aiden blocked another attack and jumped back.
He needed so ti to think about the current situation. All of this was not only confusing but strangely unnerving as well.
lia, however, didn't give him any ti and rushed forward again.
*Clank*
Aiden was forced back again.
*Clank* *Clank* *Clank*
lia unleashed a series of attacks again, Aiden used his swords to block all those attacks but then,
*Slash*
One attack passed through.
Aiden failed to estimate the timing correctly, and lia's sword grazed his shoulder.
Of course, it wasn't a big injury or sothing like that.
It was just a minor scratch.
But the fact that lia, a Mana Cultivator, actually managed to hurt him, a Body Cultivator, in a close-range battle, without using any spells,
That was what took Aiden back.
The battle, from his advantage, to a deadlock, and now it has shifted to lia's advantage.
There was definitely sothing wrong here.
lia's red eyes shined again.
'Don't look into her eyes!!' Aiden shouted inwardly.
He didn't know what it was, but those red eyes were unnerving.
Aiden tried to turn away and look at lia's sword instead, but for so reason, he couldn't convince his eyes to look away. Even after closing his eyes, he could still feel that stare.
Those bright Crimson eyes…
Aiden found himself lost in them…
His reaction speed got even slower and lia's sword broke through his defense again,
*Slash*
Then, again,
*Slash*
And again.
*Slash* *Slash* *Slash*
Soon, Aiden's body was covered with sword marks, lia's attacks got faster and faster, and Aiden found it difficult to parry them all.
"I feel like this is the second ti I am saying this to you,
But you people are a little too confident."
Suddenly, lia, who had been silent throughout the battle muttered.
"Don't forget,
The one who suggested a 100 vs 13 were not you guys,
It was Nux."
lia spoke, and her words for so reason, triggered a big reaction from Aiden.
It was as if he had heard these words before,
"Nux had no reason to accept such crazy conditions.
A 100 vs 13 Deathmatch, why would he accept it if he felt like he would lose?
Did you not think this through?
What if…"
"It was all a trap to begin with…" Aiden ended her sentence.
"You are sharp,
Especially considering the state you should currently be in."
lia complinted.
"W-What do you an 'the State I am in'!? What have you done to !?" Aiden questioned as he jumped at lia and attacked. His eyes, still couldn't move away from lia's eyes.
"Anyways, you held on well,
It seems that your companions are getting restless."
lia muttered as she suddenly jumped back.
*BOOOOM*
Suddenly, the ground she was standing on exploded.
A red-haired woman appeared in front of Aiden and kicked him with all her strength,
"What the hell are you doing!? How can you betray the Clan!?"
"W-What are you talking about!?" Aiden shot back in anger.
Betraying the clan? What was this bitch talking about!?
"What? You think we wouldn't know!?
At first, I thought you were just playing around with her but you are clearly going easy on her,
Your plan to act like you are fighting her till her clan mbers deal with other mbers of our clan and then you, her, and the mbers of ExceedoGenesis will gang up on us, it is way too obvious!
You fucking bastard, so that's why you wanted to stop us from fighting! You were on her side from the beginning!
Just you wait! I'll personally make you pay after we destroy this stupid plan of yours!"
"What in the hell are you talking about!? Have you lost your mind!?
How the hell would their mbers deal with our mbers!? We completely outnumber the-"
Aiden retorted, but just as his eyes fell on the Battlefield,
He froze.
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