Chapter 12: Severing Hand
2015-05-07
Author: Floating Tower
——“Whirlwind Kick!”
Facing the vanishing Soren, the Legendary Monk’s reaction speed was extremely fast. He stomped his foot into the ground, then executed a whirlwind kick that sent a large amount of soil flying into the air. Subsequently, he unleashed a series of kicks that whipped up a storm, scattering the dirt in all directions and enveloping an area of more than ten meters ahead.
Indeed, he was a veteran Legendary Professionist in combat!
If Soren stayed in the same spot after vanishing into the shadows, the rising dust would reveal his location.
However, Soren was not an ordinary Wanderer. He engaged the Legendary Monk with complete dedication, instantly employing Shadow Leap after disappearing into the shadows, and had already moved away from his original position.
“Ha!”
The Legendary Monk withdrew his legs and leapt back, not daring to remain in place.
Since the dust did not reveal Soren’s whereabouts, this Legendary Wanderer had long since concealed himself nearby. Unless the opponent moved first, even he could not pinpoint the enemy’s exact location.
The Legendary Monk adopted a defensive stance.
At the same time, he moved in a circular pattern at high speed to avoid allowing Soren to find any weaknesses.
In fact,
Without pre-empowering his spell abilities, Soren was at a slight disadvantage. Fortunately, Monks were high-perception professionists, making it highly likely Soren had the advantage in attributes. Legendary Monks possessed strong instinctive evasion abilities, making conventional ambushes easy for them to detect. To deal with such an opponent, one must gain absolute advantage through an offensive.
——“Shadow Travel!”
——“Shadow Assassination!”
——“Sword Intent [Chop in Half]!”
Soren’s figure appeared eerily behind the Legendary Monk, and he swung his blade towards the opponent’s waist.
However, the Legendary Monk seemed to have anticipated his attack. With a powerful roar, at the moment before Soren launched his attack, he swiftly spun and executed a whip kick.
Transcendent Perception.
Monks possessed the highest evasion perception. Their awareness of threats was truly remarkable.
——“Fierce Tiger Out of the Cage!”
——“Shadowless Kick!”
Suddenly erupting, the Legendary Monk’s legs transformed into a blur, sweeping towards Soren’s head with astonishing speed, almost sealing off all avenues of evasion.
——“Conceal from Sight!”
——“Shadow Leap!”
Soren’s figure disappeared again, but this time did not create much distance.
——“Summon Shadow!”
A mass of twisted shadows suddenly emerged from the shadow of the Legendary Monk and lunged towards him, deftly entangling the enemy. Although the twisted shadow posed no threat to the Legendary Monk with [Transcendence] physique, it managed to hinder his movement.
——“Shadow Leap!”
A hundred meters of Shadow Leap had become Soren’s mastery of [Shadow Step] and [Shadow Domain]. His figure reappeared behind the Legendary Monk.
——“Vampire’s Touch!”
——“Shadow Assassination!”
——“Sword Intent [Decapitation]!”
Soren’s figure materialized out of thin air, activating Vampire’s Touch the moment he made contact with the enemy, while the curved blade Icebane gleamed coldly, slashing towards his enemy’s head.
Clang!
A sound akin to metal clashing rang out.
In an instant, the Legendary Monk’s palm turned golden, and he managed to parry Soren’s attack with both hands, producing a metallic collision sound.
A trickle of bl**d fell.
The sharpness of the curved blade Icebane far exceeded his expectations, and with a sound, half of his hand dropped to the ground.
“Your Excellency is truly exceptional!”
The Legendary Monk decisively leaped back, instantly creating a gap of over ten meters, his voice trembled slightly from the pain. He slightly bowed and said, “I concede! From today onward, the profit distribution of the Eastern Sea Route will be according to your requirements.”
Three high-ranking Monk guards stood beside him.
All had adopted a combat stance; in fact, they had quickly moved closer when half of the Legendary Monk’s hand was severed by Soren.
“Whoosh!”
Soren stood still, watching the other party, with lingering killing intent in his eyes. He silently observed for a moment before retracting Icebane and stated in a deep voice, “Very well.”
Monks rarely used equipment.
This was their greatest weakness; even a Legendary Monk could not withstand the sharpness of Icebane. As long as he forced them into a position where they had no opportunity to evade, Soren’s chances of victory would skyrocket.
The Legendary Monk covered the wound on his severed hand. His expression showed little emotion, only bending slightly as he said, “Then it’s settled. I will convey your requirements to the Church.”
“Farewell!”
Upon concluding, the Legendary Monk didn’t even glance at the severed hand on the ground, turning and leaving with the others.
It was only when he exited the courtyard that he slightly exhaled.
At this distance, few people could halt him. Only then did he realize cold sweat had begun to seep from his back.
If he had not decisively conceded and retreated, he might have been slain by Soren, who clearly still had trump cards to play. The Legendary Wanderer’s shadow-crossing ability was not limited to what he had already demonstrated; he had not even forced Soren to unveil his Legendary abilities. In fact, Soren had not mastered the combat skills of a Legendary Wanderer yet. He had exhausted Shadow Travel, Shadow Leap, and Summon Shadow; however, at this moment, the Legendary Monk was unaware and assumed Soren still retained some strength.
Such an enemy was truly terrifying!
The Legendary Monk silently resolved to return and inform the Church of his danger, trying to avoid conflict with this rising Pirate King.
“Brother!”
Vivian, who had been standing beside him, walked over. There was a hint of killing intent in her beautiful big eyes as she said in a crisp voice, “Why didn’t you k*ll him just now? He just injured you!”
Soren glared at her and replied sternly, “Nonsense!”
“Do you have any idea how strong the Church behind him is? It’s an organization that has guarded Ancient Evil Artifacts for thousands of years! Even the Church of the Deity holds no advantage against them.”
The Monk’s mission was to guard against evil artifacts.
As professionists of the lawful alignment, they adhered to many strict tenets. These people might not be kind, but they constantly maintained the order of the world.
Soren had no intention of starting a battle with them!
He knew the Eastern World also had wanderers who advanced to become Ronin. If an all-out war erupted, Soren might not necessarily win against those Monks and Ronin.
“Let’s go back!”
Soren glanced at Lulu, who was pouting beside him, and said sternly, “You can’t act recklessly like that anymore! Lulu is still a child; what if something unexpected happened when you let her engage with high-ranking Monks?”
“Starting tomorrow, Andrei will teach her combat skills.”
“You need to return to the Overseas Islands this afternoon. Gloria is setting up the portal to the Shadow Plane; go help her establish the transport barrier.”
The little girl, upon hearing this, immediately felt a bit wronged and took Lulu away.
Clearly, they could win!
That foolish Lulu didn’t use her trump card from the start; otherwise, that high-ranking Monk might not have had a chance to act.
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(Note: Trist has a part-time job as a low-level Ronin under Merike [Forest Goddess], which is also an advanced profession that came from the Eastern World. Most of them are promoted from Rangers or Wanderers.) (To be continued ~^~)
