The one-handed knife in Mira's hand is not a fine product in any sense. The sword originally purchased from Suomir and originally belonged to Galeva was only 80 centimeters long but weighed more than 1.3 kilograms.
The lack of a tapered design that only a master forger can control results in the knife being the same thickness from the root to the tip - which may not sound like much, but the combined weight actually makes it one meter thicker than the one the Luoan girl had lost. Half the sword feels heavy in the hand with more hands.
The thick blade also has another flaw. Because the cross section is too thick, it does not perform satisfactorily in the sharp tool's job of cutting. This weapon, which prefers an ax edge to a sharp edge, may use its weight to cut. The tree can bite deeply, but lacks the speed to perform sword skills that change in rapid succession.
——In other words.
Every time she attacks, she must control the timing and distance, and her thoughts must be clear about what she is doing. If she sways randomly, she will not only consume her physical strength quickly, but she will also most likely only cut the air every time.
-The target is the chest.
Although the ghoul stands more than two meters tall with its bare hands, its overly long arms and claws that are 30 centimeters long make its attack range comparable to the sage's sword or short spear.
If the girl of Roan has not lost her excellent dwarf brigand floor armor, then she has full confidence that she can close the distance and fight with the opponent, or if the situation is more ideal, she can choose to escape or find other weapons. The distance advantage, but there are no what-ifs in the world, and she has no choice.
So she took a step forward after a brief look and launched the attack first.
"Hey!!" The ghoul reacted at an alarming speed and tried to block with its claws - it was not as numb and dull as when it was attacked by the gangster before, and fortunately our Luoan girl did not place all her bets. Over here.
Step up, lean forward, and start in a high position.
What she used was an ordinary one-handed slash from the upper left to the lower right.
"Crack!!" The ghoul raised its overly long claws in an attempt to block the attack - Mira noticed this immediately. The heavy one-handed knife slashing speed was still slow and would be blocked, but she still didn't. Close hand.
Someone once said that swordsmanship is like fighting for answers.
It's just that if you answer this question wrong, you will die.
She had done the math.
The downward slash from bottom to top or the horizontal slash aligned with the starting hand is actually faster, but she uses a slower downward slash precisely because the attack speed is slow and each strike must achieve results.
"Bang - bang!" Heavy sharp weapons are not a good thing most of the time, but if you know how to use them, weight can also be an advantage.
"Drink!" A head of short white hair was flying, and although it was relatively slow, the knife still made a "shoo" sound as it cut through the air.
"Ouch!!!" Dark green body fluids overflowed, and the five-fingered right claw was broken at the wrist, and the tip of the one-handed knife that still had the remaining force penetrated into the lower half of the ghoul's chest, scratching the ribs. After leaving a shallow mark, it made a hissing sound downwards like a good chef slicing open a fish maw, leaving a long and narrow scratch of more than half a meter on the front of its torso.
"It hurts!!" Vague human words came out of its mouth again. "Tsk——!" The Luoan girl hurriedly stepped back on her toes and took a step back to distance herself.
"Phew!" She managed to avoid the swing of the ghoul's long claws, but she also lost the maximum attack range of the one-handed knife in her hand.
"It hurts! It hurts!!" The roars and grunts were mixed with human words that made the people present shudder. What made the people behind her even more desperate was that the result of Mira's blow was not as high as expected - the half-meter-long incision only cut open the surface of the skin, and the amazing recovery ability of this strange creature immediately impressed everyone. Appear before your eyes.
In just ten seconds, while the wound on the chest healed, the ghoul's severed right wrist also closed. The dark green body fluid flowing on the ground bubbled like boiling water and then calmed down.
The result was unsatisfactory. Although being able to cut off one claw had already caused it to lose at least one-third of its combat effectiveness, she originally hoped to hit the torso before it could block and knock it down with a heavy upper-section chop. And pursuit causes more damage.
Not only did it run, this thing also attacked faster than herself - the Luoan girl realized this through this fight. Her ivory-white eyebrows frowned, but at the same time she controlled her breathing to prevent her heart from beating too fast and causing her own injuries. Exhaustion prematurely.
This was an opponent who was superior to her in all aspects. The attack just now only had a barely acceptable effect. Among the people behind her, the doctor and the oiran, who were laymen, both breathed a sigh of relief, but finally recovered from their numb state. The young master who escaped and Lulu, who had hunting experience, frowned like Mira.
"It's not good, we have to help her." Perhaps because of the combination of cold fear and sense of crisis, the heat from Mira's slap on his face still remained, Yajiro finally lost his dullness and regained his appearance as a samurai. He said this to the three people, but only Lulu nodded, while Sakura and Aya were both stunned.
"Didn't she cripple that thing?" the oiran asked directly, but Yajiro shook his head.
"This..." He hesitated for a while: "This demon monster is faster and stronger than her, and stronger than me. And it has higher recovery power. If the attack cannot be solved in one go, it will fall into a back-and-forth battle, and the loser will be It’ll be people.”
The overly elegant samurai wording made this paragraph sound a bit unclear. Yajiro paused for a while:
"If you wait too long, you will lose!"
He said this in a more straightforward way, and then glanced at the closed doors of the surrounding houses. When he saw one of the families quietly opening the door a little and peeking out, he rushed over and kicked the door open. .
"Bang!" "Oops!" The door frame hit the male owner's nose, causing him to scream in pain and fall down.
"I am a member of the royal family, and I am the eldest son of the Qingtian family in Qingzhi Town, Qingtian Yajiro Hiratake. A small farmer who closes his house and turns a blind eye, do you have farm tools such as pitchforks?" Mi, who was full of force and threatened. Jiro made this poor family of four huddle in a corner.
"Yes!" He emphasized loudly again, and the hostess stretched out her trembling fingers to point to the farm tools placed in the corner of the room on the other side.
"..." Yajiro glared at a few people, then walked over, picked up these rusty and dusty hoes, shovels and pitchforks, and ran out again.
"You?!" Aya and Sakura, who were born as ladies, looked at Yajiro in disbelief. The young master handed the pitchfork to the oiran, who was the tallest and had the longest hand, and looked at Lulu and Aya again. Falling into hesitation.
"Grab this end, with the front end flat, and point the pointed end towards the thing at the end, not towards your own person, okay?" He said this to the oiran, who nodded: "Don't think of me as a fool."
"Yeah." Yajiro took advantage of the two farm tools in his hand, and finally chose the shovel with a wider impact area. The remaining hoe was obviously still too heavy for Lulu and Ling.
The Yiren girl reacted alertly. She rushed into the farmer's house with a "whoosh" sound, and then said "Lend it to me" in Kazuto with a heavy accent as she ran. While fiddling with his hands.
What she took away was a tough rice rope hung on a beam in a farmer's home for hanging smoked items. She cut it with her pocket knife and cut it into two Lulu, turning it into a sling with a small cloth bag in the middle.
She then found some stones of similar size and weight nearby, dumped all the personal belongings in her bag on the ground, and opened the bag to use as an ammunition bag for the stones.
"..." In less than a minute, several other people who finally reacted found their own weapons.
"Cough——" "Bang!" The farmer with an injured forehead and nose looked at Yajiro outside with hatred and slammed the wooden door. Through the door, he could still be heard shouting and getting angry at his family. While giving instructions: "Trash, what door should you open? Is there anything good to see outside the door! Bring the table over and put the door up!!"
Apparently, a child or someone else at home couldn't help but ran over and opened the door.
This series of episodes happened behind Mira's back. The gangsters in the distance finally reacted and got up and left. They didn't even dare to yell and curse anymore. The corpses of their companions were still left on the ground and ignored. Afraid of attracting the monster's attention.
Sweat flowed from her forehead and flowed down her cheeks to the corners of the Luoan girl's eyes.
The salty sweat made her right eye feel sore and irritated, but she resisted and did not close her right eye. Even though bloodshot eyes began to appear due to the stimulation of the sweat, she could not spare a hand to wipe it away. Drop them.
Discomfort must also be endured.
Mira held the one-handed knife with both hands, pointing the tip of the knife stained with dark green bodily fluids at the ghoul, turning as it moved, always maintaining a threat.
The ghouls didn't attack.
She didn't know whether the other party was intentionally waiting for her to lose her physical energy and her concentration, or whether he was simply taboo about the weapon that could make it feel pain. Either way, it proved that the ghoul in front of her was more like A wise beast rather than a mindless monster.
Looking at the good side, not launching an attack immediately allowed the people behind her to find weapons and prepare; but looking at the bad side, maintaining a high degree of concentration and nervousness for a long time was also incredibly draining for her, the person at the front. .
Keeping the confrontation still will cause the muscles to become numb. The longer the time is, the worse it is for her. Once the muscles become stiff and numb, it is likely that she will not be able to react when a fight is triggered, and she may not even be able to use a knife. Hold tight.
She had to make an immediate decision whether to attack before she was too exhausted or to continue the confrontation.
Mira, who was engrossed, had no time to communicate with others, but luckily Lulu, who was well prepared, also threw up the sling immediately and decisively because of the hunter's instinct to never miss an opportunity again.
"咻咻咻——" The sling was spinning faster and faster in mid-air. After it accelerated to a certain extent, Lulu let go of the rope on one side. However, because it was made temporarily and the stones were not polished, plus Worried about hitting Mira, she aimed a little higher, and the blow flew over the ghoul's head with a "whoosh" sound, and landed near the dead gangster behind her.
"Ha--" The sudden movement caused Mira to turn her attention to the body of the gangster behind her. She suddenly remembered that people killed by ghouls in the past had the possibility of becoming undead, but this time the person lying on the ground The corpse seemed to be just a corpse.
——At least its claws and teeth might not be poisonous?
Being bleeding from sharp claws and teeth is bad enough, but if the attack also contains poison, the situation becomes even more embarrassing.
In any case, the combination of kicking the door in front and Lulu's sling made the Luoan girl successfully realize that her companions had also started to act. Yajiro, who noticed this, walked to the right side of the alley with a shovel and at the same time He motioned Sakura to walk to the left with the pitchfork, and then spoke:
"Go back and come closer." If he had suddenly shouted this in a tense state, it might have interrupted Mira's concentration and killed her, but the Luoan girl realized that her companions were also ready After preparing for the battle, her mentality changed a lot. While staring at the ghoul in front of her, she listened in all directions and heard Yajiro's words in time.
Following the instructions of the young master who had finally become reliable, Mira kept the tip of the knife pointed and stepped back step by step. The ghoul, who hesitated for a moment and wanted to follow, was greeted by a high-speed flying stone thrown by Lulu.
"Bang!!" The sling, which relies more on skill than physical strength, is a commonly used tool for hunters. Lulu nimbly climbed up to the ridge of the roof, attacked from top to bottom and used it for the second time, quickly mastering this temporary weapon. With the correct calibration, Lulu accurately threw the stones on the ground in front of the ghoul.
"Bang -" The projectile attack made it instinctively shrink back a step, and it was this shrinking that made Mira successfully retreat to her companion holding two long-handled farm tools.
"There is a hoe at the back." Yajiro reminded, and the Luoan girl nodded, turned around and wiped the sweat from her forehead and eyes with her sleeves, blinked her sour eyes and took the hoe from the doctor's hand. At the same time, he shouted to Lulu above: "Can't you miss it?"
"The stones are different in size and weight." The Yi girl replied simply and clearly. The stones used in a serious sling must be polished until they are roughly the same size and weight, so as to ensure a similar feel. But even though Lulu tried her best to collect stones that were about the same size temporarily, they still fluctuated.
This caused the rocks she threw out with the same technique to fly too far or too close because they were lighter or heavier.
In an emergency, the weapon can be sharpened in battle. Being able to ensure that it falls next to the ghoul at a distance of five to six meters is already considered her talent for projectile weapons.
"Okay, just keep harassing."
It had only been a little more than six minutes since the ghoul appeared, but the group of people in the midst of tension felt as if they had experienced a battle that lasted for several hours.
The soreness in her eyes had not completely subsided, so Mira tore off a piece of cloth and wrapped it around her forehead as a sweat towel to prevent sweat from affecting her vision again.
The advantages this monster had were still there, it was taller, faster, bigger, and more resilient.
But fortunately she is not alone.
Her companions who had sorted themselves out were also ready to fight, and even the ten seconds of breathing space she got was enough to relieve her overly nervous spirit.
"Come on you ugly thing."
The Luoan girl stuck the sword in the dirt for faster access, and at the same time held the handle of the hoe with both hands.
"second round."
"Hiss-ho!" As if he understood her meaning, the ghoul roared, and then leaned down again.
