Is this Sword Qi?
Adelle’s attack timing was impeccable.
Gauss maintained his rapid advancing pace, and in that instant, there was no time to dodge.
He blocked with his dragon claw.
"Screech!"
The white arc slash fiercely rubbed against the energy dragon scales, producing a teeth-gritting slicing sound.
"Boom!" The dragon scales quickly dimmed.
The solid sword qi actually pierced through the outer layer of energy dragon scales, leaving shallow white marks on Gauss’s arm.
A tingling pain emanated from it.
The white marks broke open slender wounds on his fair skin, with fine blood threads seeping from the blood vessels.
Gauss’s heart shook.
Injured?
He quickly retreated several steps to put distance between himself and Adelle, hastily restoring his protective position with a quick cast.
While keeping a close watch on Adelle, Gauss also glanced at his own arm from the corner of his eye.
The slender wound had already slowly begun to heal.
No more blood was seeping out.
Only a faint pink line remained, proving there had indeed been a wound here just now.
His expression became significantly more serious.
It had been a long time since he last got injured, even with minor wounds.
Because ordinary attacks find it difficult to completely breach the dragon scale defense formed by the solid scale bloodline combined with the Gauss Position at the first attempt.
Once enemies weakened his protection through repeated attacks, when he sensed the weakening of the protective spell, he would proactively refresh a new layer of protection without regard for magic consumption.
A master-level combatant, truly extraordinary.
In a single encounter, their sword skills could tear through his defenses.
And this was after his solid scale bloodline had recently been enhanced.
Before the upgrade, it wouldn’t have been just a slight injury; it would have been a deep cut.
On the opposite side, Adelle appeared calm on the outside, but internally, she was shouting that this was absurd.
Her White Falcon Slash earlier, though initially delayed by hesitation, wasn’t a held-back attack.
With a powerful priest overhead, she wasn’t worried about inflicting any irreparable injury on Gauss, and the first clash had given her a rough sense of Gauss’s protective strength.
But she hadn’t expected that layer of energy dragon scales to be so resilient.
Her nearly unfettered White Falcon Slash had barely left a few almost invisible cuts on his skin’s surface.
Moreover, with just a breath, the wound had already healed.
Looking at Gauss’s earnest and cautious expression as if facing a great enemy, she found it hard to hold back her speechlessness.
Though White Falcon Slash wasn’t yet her strongest attack technique.
But she was a master swordsman, while Gauss was merely a level 4 professional at best.
Also, what kind of perverse self-healing ability does he have?
Can he really heal with every breath?
Is he even human?
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
In the vast combat arena,
two figures flickered rapidly.
Swords and shadows continuously appeared in the air.
Sometimes, a flying slash would cut through the sky; other times, the dragon claw and sword tip would clash, sparking intense flames.
In the previous moment, Gauss’s magic missile hit Adelle’s soft armor covered in a white airflow, blasting her several meters away.
The next moment, Adelle’s flying slash shattered Gauss’s defense, forcing him to retreat and rely on the solid scale bloodline’s self-healing ability to recover his wounds.
After some time,
Adelle leapt back to put distance between them.
"No, stop fighting."
"That’s enough, I have a good understanding of your strength now."
She looked at the magic power gathering once again on Gauss’s magic wand and quickly interrupted.
After a period of intense battle, Adelle was no longer as breezy as she was initially.
Her cheeks were slightly flushed, and her forehead and neck were covered in fine sweat.
Her damp bangs clung to her fair, flushed cheeks.
Her chest heaved as she panted to recover her physical strength.
Gauss was also somewhat fatigued.
The magic and physical strength within him were heavily depleted.
After Adelle called for a halt, he also dissipated the dragon claw and spell light on his body, his golden pupils returning to an emerald hue.
He exhaled a long breath, deep in thought. He seemed to have underestimated the strength of a master-level combatant.
During their close combat, he personally experienced the differences between the master and elite stages.
It was a kind of "completeness."
He found it hard to articulate with words.
It was just an intangible awareness.
When facing a master-level opponent, the power that an elite-level professional wielded seemed scattered.
Whether it was physical, mental, the state of mind, spells, or combat skills, the powers possessed by an elite professional, appear like scattered pearls on the ground, where certain parts have great value, but lack interconnection, failing to form a smooth collaboration.
However, a master-level professional is akin to a craftsman perfectly stringing those pearls into a flawless necklace with a single thread.
Is this a significant professional tier shift?
This was the result of mastering too many abilities, layering various professional and racial talents, and having no obvious weaknesses, with attributes far superior to a common level 4 caster, hence capable of competing against the opponent.
Otherwise, an ordinary level 5 professional would be defeated in a single round.
"No wonder you were able to complete the last Black Tooth Expedition Army’s commission." Adelle said, pulling out a towel from somewhere to wipe away the sweat from her body. "Your strength is abnormally strong."
Saying this, she shrugged a towel in Gauss’s direction.
"Actually, during my last mission, most of my kills involved some trickery. I wasn’t as strong as I am now." Gauss admitted candidly, catching the towel effortlessly.