"You didn't introduce yourself to us, and you'll be done anyways." Xavier remarked with a mocking voice.
He didn't hesitated for another seconds and immediately dashed forward with pure intent to kill the woman as he leaped with a pounding jump towards the raven haired woman just after she took in physical state.
Blood scythes in his back, he dashed towards the raven haired woman who seems unfazed and after a meter of contact, Xavier swung both of his arms and like a scissor, he cut forward.
Swoosh!
The sound of the air being cut echoed in the night. The raven haired woman was unfazed and didn't even flinch as she calmly extended her hands to grab ahold of both the ends of the scythes. Feeling the smoothness and durability of the crimson scythes, she smirked in amusement.
Both of them were blood users, or at the very least wielders of blood-based abilities. However, this one was clearly different. He had poured every level-up reward into enhancing both his physical and magical stats, resulting in a spell that carried far more density and refinement... Unlike the crude but wild manifestation used by the black-haired girl.
In any case, the distinction no longer mattered.
Both of you will be my experience.
She tightened the grip from the blood scythe and Xavier did as well. Both sides are currently using their full strength to shaken one another.
"Interesting, with this magic, you're also proficient in your strength." The raven haired woman kept her strength at the peak as she tried her best to suppress the tightening ahold of the blood scythe. This is no different from Xavier.
"Too bad, two is better than one." As Xavier declared that, Noire, dressed in the sexy clothes that correspond to her class, makes herself in the air with both hands at her blackened katana and Xavier's Saint Sword Blade.
Boom!
She landed perfectly atop the raven-haired woman, her strike precise and merciless—yet it wounded nothing. In the instant of contact, the raven-haired woman's body shifted once more into an incorporeal state, her form turning translucent as the attack passed straight through her
.
The moment her feet touched the ground, a sharp sense of danger flared within her chest. Instinct took over before conscious thought could catch up. She retreated at once, throwing herself backward with all her strength... And not a moment too soon.
"Boo!" The raven haired woman used the curse speech again and noire was already far enough for her to receive the curse.
I'm perfectly fine... I think that curse spell is a single target spell!
Using the incorporeal form of the raven haired woman, Xavier retreated also, afraid of the unknown cooldown of the curse spell.
Just as both side took appearance on their respective sides, the window of each person suddenly pop up and from the text, the three instinctively stopped their movements.
[YOU UNLOCK THE HIDDEN CHAPTER FROM THE CHAPTER 3!]
[WHO IS THE STRONGEST?]
[CONDITIONS: THREE OR MORE LEVEL 20 OR ABOVE PLAYERS IN ONE PLACE.]
[GOAL: MAKE ALL OPPONENTS SUBMIT BEFORE YOU IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE!]
[REWARDS: TITLE OF THE STRONGEST.]
From the text alone, all three looked at each other with the raven haired woman in between of the couple. A smile appeared in their face as they prepared their weapons.
No side didn't said any words as they dashed toward each other. Xavier from the right took a detour and met the approaching Noire on the left as the raven haired woman took shape in the air before falling down just at the second floor of the apartment building, barely missing the two.
"Here." Noire tossed the silver bladed Saint Sword's blade to Xavier who easily caught it and immediately ran towards the apartment.
Boom!
He leaped forward in instance and he appeared infront of the raven haired woman, the blood scythes earlier took another form of gauntlets.
Swoosh!
He sliced forward upon landing only to met the raven haired woman's silver blade too.
Pang!
Both side collided and neither side budged. Noire appeared in Xavier's back with hands ahold of the sheathed blackened katana.
In a matter of second, Noire appeared besides the raven haired woman who was still struggling to keep up with the slightly powered up Xavier using the Saint Sword's blade and from her side, Noire took appearance with both hands slowly sheathing back the blackened katana.
Splash!
From her left abdomen towards her left shoulder, a sliced up wound appeared just before Noire's blade was sheathed.
Fuck, no good!* The raven haired woman followed her instinct and retreaded back, slightly missing the silver blade from Xavier and she was too fast to also mist another swift attack from Noire.
From her pockets, she retrieved a small vial of red liquid and drank it full while the two dashed towards her, luckily to her, she turned incorporeal again and passed between the couple.
"Time to get serious!" Noire pushed Xavier aside before conjuring a valley of blood spears from the remnant blood of the raven haired woman who was still in incorporeal form and was at the window.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Almost 10 slightly short crimson spears flew in the air and as expected, it didn't hit the incorporeal ghost, though, it struck between both walls and was strong enough to destroy both sides, causing either of them to fall towards the taking shape ghost.
"Not bad." The raven haired woman took appearance and received the falling debris. It didn't hurt or wound her in anyway but it limit her movements to one place and Xavier immediately dashed forward of her.
Boom!
He didn't used his silver blade, but kicked the debris instead, sending both the debris and the raven haired woman flying outside the window.
Noire used the unitability of the raven haired woman to move as she willed the blood spears earlier to reshape and like a smooth liquid, the crimson spears turned into one, quite long spears quickly and flew in the air with a whistle.
The woman was seen smiling amidst the upcoming blood spear. She used all her skills, be it the curse speech or the incorporeal state. But she had still something in her sleeves!
The blood whistling spear pierced the raven haired woman's chest precisely and the momentum of the fast blood whistling spear was enough for both to crashed on the ground.
The couple didn't underestimate her as both quickly flew and arrived besides the raven haired woman who was in pain, though her agonized face was still smirking, as if mocking the two.
"Heh heh... Hahaha!" The raven haired woman seemed to loss all of it as she madly laughed at her state while being watched by the couple with cold eyes.
"Ravencroft!"
"Remember my name!"
She said before the last coughed of blood spewed from her mouth.
Just as the two looked at the corpse of Ravencroft while waiting for the rewards from killing her come, both looked at each other as if meeting a long time enemy.
"Submit to me" Both side declared.
Well, both side had the same quality to be the strongest but neither side wanted to be lower than the other as the best friends was in terms of... Equality.
But for this moment or other moments that the two needed to choose who will be the top, either side will not back down.
"Don't joke with me, I'm the one who provided you with power."
"Oh, so we're talking about gratitudes now huh? Aren't I, who lead the team from the start?"
"There is no team." Xavier glared a shot at Noire's eyes and the latter did the same. Both side didn't backed down as they glared to each other.
Only when they remembered that the rewards from killing Ravencroft didn't come yet that they woke up from their argument.
"We should've received the rewards right now... Don't tell me..." Just as Noire said that, the bloody corpse of Ravencroft with her chest pierced by her own blood, was laying there.
It had no clear signs of life as she already had been died just now though there is no rewards from the killed. Both sides glanced at each other, before scanning the surroundings, then remembered one crucial thing.
"She was a ghost to begin with!"
"I think she had some sort of passive that provided her with the ghost state and now it took its final effect from her." Xavier shared.
"That also means that the hidden chapter had been annulled since we didn't really subdue her, she just cowardly escaped."
"It is not cowardly to escape like that... Hmm, its strategy, let's call it strategy."
"What ever... What now?" Noire brushed her clothes out of dust before cleaning her stained visible skin with a cloth.
"It is dead of the night, and we can't be sure of her whereabouts. For now, let's call the orges to change the plan."
"Let me guess, you're planning on sending them off then running with the responsibility?"
"You got me there."