Mercenary Wars

Chapter 159 Shadow
Seeing Makar's imposing manner, Gaucano couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised.

How could praying with a sword receive such a powerful response?

This made him want to try his own sword-wielding prayer.

But after some consideration, they decided against it. After all, there's no such thing as a free lunch, and the more powerful the response, the greater the price that will have to be paid.

He did not want to use the Sword Prayer unless in a truly critical situation.

Let's test Makar's current strength first.

Blood Regeneration!

Gaucano activated Blood Regeneration, absorbing some of the blood that had soaked into his clothes to completely heal the injuries inflicted by Silas.

"Yemen is supreme!" Makar roared in faith again, and then charged toward Gaugano amidst arcs of electricity, his massive door-shaped sword coming at him with overwhelming force.

Gao Jiano instantly dodged to the side.

"Boom!" A loud explosion rang out.

A dazzling light flashed by, and the giant sword cleaved a trench in the ground, with pale blue arcs of electricity rising up along with the flying debris!
Seeing the power of this attack, Gaucano immediately realized that even with his Earth Skin, he could not withstand an attack from Makar in this state.

Fortunately, Makar's agility clearly couldn't keep up with his strength; his attacks, though fierce, were clumsy, almost entirely consisting of blind charges. Gaucano, with the aid of Swift Breeze and Blood Rush, could easily dodge them.

With this in mind, he immediately made up his mind to make guerrilla warfare the core tactic of this battle.

"Boom!" The giant sword swept across the door panel.

Gaucano dodged again, circled around, and distanced himself from Makar.

At the same time, he took out a black steel piercing arrow, adorned with a blood-red arrowhead and ten clusters of swift breeze, and hurled it with all his might while in his Earth Skin state.

"call out--"

With a whooshing sound, guided by a swift breeze, the Black Steel Piercing Arrow struck Makar squarely on the skin exposed outside his heavy armor!

But to Gaucano's surprise, Makar, who was hit by the arrow, only suffered a minor injury and did not bleed profusely—as if he were not made of flesh and blood at all.

The small amount of blood that spilled out wasn't red, but a faint, glowing pale blue, like liquid lightning.

This made Gaucano frown.

The Blood Arrow is not much less lethal to flesh and blood than the Blood Summoning Sword. If the Blood Arrow cannot cause any significant damage, the Blood Summoning Sword is probably not much better.

He quickly verified this idea.

During a brief lull in the maneuvering, Gaucano seized an opportunity, and the blade of the Blood Summoning Sword pierced Makar's skin!
Then a flash of cold light appeared, and a small wound appeared on Makar's skin, looking more like a stab wound from a dagger. And just like before, there was no gushing of blood.

"You're quite skilled!" Makar said coldly, wiping away the pale, lightning-blue blood.

Gaucano: "I guess you can't maintain this state for long."

“It will last longer than you think!” Makar said, launching another attack. “What you really can’t maintain for long is your speed!”

Gaugano did not respond, but simply dodged again.

In fact, his storage ring contained enough blood crystals to sustain his Blood Burning Sprint for a long time.

Therefore, he can completely stall against Makar.

But he was thinking about something else entirely.

Prior to this, the Blood Sword was so deadly to flesh and blood that it left almost no survivors, which meant that the two additional enchantments, "Rossil's Touch" and "Mark of Enslavement," never had any real effect.

But since Makar is so tough, the Blood Summoning Sword can only inflict minor injuries. Wouldn't two enchantments be useful then?
"Rosier's involvement" is really useless.

Especially under the rule of one-on-one duels to the death, only one of the two can escape the duel ring, and Gaucano can't expect Makar to be the one to escape.

The "mark of enslavement" is something to look forward to.

Thus began Gaucano's long guerrilla campaign.

At least relative to their speed, it was indeed a protracted guerrilla war. The two exchanged blows at lightning speed, chasing and maneuvering within the dueling ring. The spectators were also abuzz with discussion.

"What's the name of Makar's move? Is it Avatar or Titan Power?"

"It was the God of War... no, the warrior's namer's response to his sword-wielding prayer. You know, he was one of the best swordsmen in Labzat Fortress."

"Which warrior named him?"

"Judging from Makar's style of doing things, I guess it might be Ares."

“Makal is now definitely stronger than a level six named one. His sword, which can easily split a person in two, can barely break through his skin!”

"Unfortunately, this Mossat is too fast; Makar can't even touch him..."

"Let's see who gives up first!"

Prince Eric was also watching the game.

He stared intently at the Duel Ring, then suddenly asked, "Who do you think will win?"

“It’s Gaucano without a doubt.” A voice rang out from his shadow.

"why?"

“It’s clear that Gaucano also has the sword-wielding prayer technique, but he shows no intention of using it, which means he has more trump cards up his sleeve,” Shadow continued.

Prince Eric, however, said, "Perhaps he has already used too many sword-wielding prayers."

The shadow was silent for a moment: "Possibly."

Prince Eric then changed the subject: "However, I also believe that Gaugano will win, and perhaps I should knight him and have him serve me."

But the shadow said, "He is a member of the penitent order."

"A penitent society?" Prince Eric asked in surprise.

Shadow: "The ring on his hand has the emblem of Fabian, the thorny triangle that makes Glemen frown."

Prince Eric paused briefly, then sighed: "Actually..."

“No, Your Highness,” the shadow interrupted him. “You are the future King of Liberland, and you must consider the Church’s thoughts, especially the Redemption Church’s.”

Prince Eric remained silent for a long time.

Until the shadow suddenly exclaimed, "Huh?"

There are many others who make the same sound.

"Hey, why isn't Makar moving?"

“Makar, what are you waiting for? Quickly kill that heretic!” the disciple shouted urgently.

"Could it be a human immobilization spell?"

"Impossible! Even a third-ring human immobilization spell shouldn't be able to immobilize Makar in his current state!"

However, within the ring of duels, for some unknown reason, Makar, who had been moving with great force, suddenly stopped moving.

His face still showed an expression of disbelief and horror.

Gaucano smiled.

at last!

After repeated attacks from the Blood-Summoning Sword, almost all of Makar's skin exposed outside his heavy armor was covered in wounds, with one small wound after another crisscrossing the area.

Although these attacks had limited killing effect, they finally triggered the "Enslavement Mark" of the Blood Summoning Sword!
Now, although his hands and feet are still attached to Makar's body, they no longer obey his commands!

(End of this chapter)