Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 137: Mutual Fear
While the awakened Duff was concentrating on attacking Tifa, Claire and Samantha adjusted their posture from being knocked away, released their demonic energy, and rushed forward again.

They each picked up the greatsword dropped by the awakened Duff and slashed at the armpit joints that were exposed when Duff attacked Tifa.

"It hurts, it hurts... You beat me so hard, I'm going to tear all your limbs off!"

Duff looked angrily at the three women jumping up and down.

Iron rods formed of demonic energy grew from his fingertips, elbows, mouth, back of his head, and back, and shot them at the three women who attacked him.

The iron rods shot out at a very fast speed, but Tifa, who was standing on Duff's head, calculated their trajectories when the iron rods condensed and easily avoided this wave of attacks.

During this process, she also found an opportunity to gather strength and punch the awakener Daf on the giant forehead, causing it to suddenly close its mouth when the iron rod was about to shoot out, and forcing the most powerful attack to be directed at Daf himself.

After Tifa attracted the main firepower, Claire and Samantha easily used their swords to deflect the iron rods shot at them, and took advantage of the "afterswing" of Dave's attack to chop at his joints again.

This was the first time these three people joined forces, and they cooperated very well.

It's like old friends who have been working together for many years.

Tifa has no demonic aura, so as long as Daf doesn't focus his attention on her, she can attack him when he is off guard. The damage she causes to Daf is not very great, but it interferes with this somewhat clumsy awakener many times, preventing him from exerting his full strength.

Once Dave focuses all his attention on Tifa, Claire and Samantha, the two greatswords, will turn from defense to offense and take the opportunity to attack Dave's weak joints.

Neither of them has a high ranking.

But the heroine named Claire has learned the high-speed sword from the former No. 2 warrior Inili, and also obtained Inili's arm. Now her strength is almost at the level of a single-digit greatsword.

Samantha's demonic energy is much stronger than Claire's. Not long ago, with the help of Xu Feng, she experienced a semi-awakening, and the amount of demonic energy increased slightly.

Moreover, when she was using the demonic energy, she discovered that when she released the demonic energy, she controlled it according to the method Xu Feng had used when he was in a semi-conscious state not long ago. The originally violent demonic energy would become much calmer and easier to control. Even though she had released the demonic energy to the limit, she was still at ease and there were not many changes in her body.

It seems... even if she releases more than 80% of her demonic energy, she can still control it.

——This skill is a magical skill for any great sword.

When the Great Swords fight against demons and awakened ones, they are also fighting against themselves. Every time they use demonic energy, they are also suppressing it and restraining themselves so as not to lose control and transform into awakened ones. In essence, they are fighting with 'shackles' on.

The incomplete Dragon Elephant Prajna exercise route that Xu Feng accidentally taught her did not increase her strength, but it did lighten the "shackles" on her body a lot.

As a result, Samantha, who was originally ranked No. 23 in the Great Swordsmanship, is now stronger than her rank and is even stronger than Claire in her normal state.

Although the two of them are still no match for Dave, they can definitely cause damage to this thick-skinned awakened person if they get the chance to attack.

For a while, the three of them fought back and forth with Duff.

"In terms of physical fitness alone, Tifa, who has mastered the fourth level of Dragon Elephant Prajnaparamita, is stronger than Dajian. However, once Dajian releases her demonic energy, his physical fitness is basically the same as Tifa's. Even if Tifa uses her internal force to increase her strength, she can only be compared to Samantha, who has released 50% of her demonic energy.

In terms of absolute strength, Tifa is actually the weakest among the three, but she has no demonic energy. The awakened ones who are used to using demonic energy to determine the enemy's position and fight are very uncomfortable when facing her attacks. This actually allows Tifa to achieve better results in battle than Claire and the other two.

However, if the battle continues for a while, this advantage will disappear."

Xu Feng carefully observed the people fighting and calculated his own ranking in this world.

Dave, the awakened one, is considered one of the characters with strong combat capabilities in this world, and is considered the first tier under the abyss.

"My fighting style is more effective against clumsy warriors like Dafu, so killing him isn't difficult for me. However, when I encounter someone like the Silver-Eyed Lion King, whose fighting style is similar to mine, defeating him isn't so easy. In normal modes, I should be on par with the stronger No. 2 Awakener. If the battle environment is right, after unleashing all my strength, perhaps I can destroy an Abyss together."

After Xu Feng had calculated all his attack methods, he came to this conclusion. At this moment, he suddenly looked at the cave that Dafu had just created and instantly activated the first-level gene lock.

After opening the gene lock, Xu Feng realized that the powerful enemy was not rushing towards him, so he put away the Gauss submachine gun with unlimited bullets and changed his weapon to a throwing knife.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen flying knives imbued with internal force formed a knife net in the passage.

They collided repeatedly with several wide and thick meat belts in mid-air, creating sparks and successfully repelling the meat belts.

"West Livlu..."

Xu Feng looked at the little girl who was more than ten meters below Dafu and said softly, "You care about your boyfriend more than I expected. Dafu just suffered a minor injury and he couldn't help but run up to us."

On the other side, the girl, who looked only thirteen or fourteen, retracted her tentacles. "This isn't just a minor injury. Besides, if you attack him, Dave will most likely be killed. Without him, I'll have much less fun."

"I dare not kill him. I alone won't be able to handle your fury." Xu Feng shook his head.

"So you think you can deal with me when I'm in a good mood?" the little girl asked curiously, her arms turning into black tentacles again.

More than a dozen tentacles stabbed at Xu Feng from different directions.

But just as those tentacles extended out and broke the place where Xu Feng was standing, Livlu stopped attacking with a gloomy expression.

"I probably can't deal with you even if you're in a good mood, but... before you kill me, I should be able to kill the Awakened One at my feet."

Xu Feng stood above Duff's head, playing with the bone fragments cut from Duff's head.

At the same time, a high-frequency knife about one meter long slowly returned to the inside of his arm.

The principle of this weapon is not complicated. In the real world, there are high-frequency cutting tools used in industry, but such cutting tools are based on huge machine tools and long-term stable energy supply, making them difficult to use as weapons.

And Xu Feng, who possesses the Swallow Swallow Fruit, can definitely create a high-frequency knife that is most suitable for him.

It is powered by nuclear power, created with a super-strong alloy of magical materials from the fantasy world and science fiction materials. High-frequency vibrations and invisible sword energy formed by internal force exist simultaneously. It is extremely sharp and can cut iron like mud, and it has the power to behead souls and kill ghosts.

The armor on Dafu could block the sword of a greatsword warrior, but it couldn't block the knife at all.

If Xu Feng didn't care about Livlu's anger, it wouldn't take him too long to kill the thick-skinned Dave.

"What a sharp knife!" Livlu frowned. She looked up at Xu Feng and Tifa: "You are obviously human, but you have such powerful strength... You are not humans from this continent, right?!"

"It's indeed not." Xu Feng and the other three jumped off Duff's body.

"I have no intention of becoming your enemy. I am here just to ask you seniors to answer the questions of these two little guys and save the other two little guys."

"Save the other two little guys?" Livlu patted Dav's palm, allowing him to return to his adult form.

She said somewhat unhappily, "Dav is just one person. In exchange for the lives of the four of you, I'm already at a huge loss."

"If it weren't for that guy in the southeast, it would have been Dave's life in exchange for the lives of four of us. But with that guy in the southeast, it's a different story." Xu Feng smiled and said, "Ms. Livlu, you don't want to become weak due to combat injuries and be killed by the weapons secretly cultivated by the organization, do you?"

Xu Feng led the three of them toward the hole that Duff had dug. "In exchange, I can provide you with some intelligence. If you still want to keep us here after hearing that intelligence, it won't be too late for us to continue fighting then."

(End of this chapter)