The white-haired girl held the long sword in her hand tightly. She was panting a little. The target on the other side had several wounds on the outer skin of her head, which was made of hardened leather armor, but none of them were deep enough to be considered fatal.
Not even blood spilled out, as if the slash she aimed at with all her strength could not even be called a skin wound. And the thick skull also allows it to stagnate slightly under the impact of 1.4 kilograms of steel, but it will recover very quickly without being dizzy like humans, giving her no chance to pursue.
She tried several attacks on the head, but it didn't seem to feel pain. Even if it suffered repeated heavy blows, it still tried to get closer and attack with both claws.
——'The sword is too light' Mira thought.
——'This style is not good at cutting.' She sorted out the situation at an extremely fast speed and tried to find a better solution.
The Otolo standard long sword is a military sword. Compared with the slashing sword that is more popular among adventurers, it is lighter and has a narrower tip. This kind of sword tip is very suitable for piercing observation holes and gaps in plate armor or It penetrates through the holes in the mail, but its ability to cut soft targets is slightly inferior.
——To put it bluntly, weapons are a special type of tool, and just like hammers are used to strike iron and tongs are used to move hot metal, they have their own working objects designed to deal with them.
The opponent in front of him was the worst enemy for the sword in Mira's hand.
Except that it has no tail, it looks like a crocodile that walks upright on two legs. It has a hard skin and thick limbs. Although it has no weapons, its claws with black tips and a mouth full of fangs do not look like an opponent that should be allowed to get close.
The battle started almost immediately after they entered the village. Since the villagers have been on the run for more than half a month, they don't know what's going on inside, and the infected people with peeling skin on the outside seem to be some kind of abandoned people - or that's not necessarily true, because when Henry used After the big sword in his hand repeatedly killed three villagers in three consecutive batches, the villagers who appeared in the fourth batch were obviously different from the previous ones.
"More perfect alienated fingers, fangs have also grown in the mouth, and the skin has become obviously thicker and rougher, making it difficult to cut with a knife." The doctor's mouth seemed to be simply analyzing, but the expression on her face was More and more dignified.
The situation was beginning to feel familiar to her and others.
This kind of change in the way of dealing with certain characteristics in the battle is very similar to the difficult enemy that the group encountered when they first met.
The unparalleled Kramer can still easily cut through the thickened and hardened skin, but the weapons of others have obviously become less efficient.
Lu Lu originally only had a low-power hunting bow, and she seemed at a loss after trying to shoot without success. When Leng Tou Qing stabbed the fifth batch of six enemies in one go, the tip of the spear made by Kazuto's top craftsmanship was blocked by something after piercing the outer skin, and failed to hurt the internal organs. Instead, he pushed the whole thing forward.
Although Mira who tried to assist later hit the fragile neck with a sword and cut it to only a layer of skin, she also exposed herself to the attacks of other targets. If Henry hadn't solved the other enemies after If we return to defend and assist, we will probably lose the fortune.
The inefficiency of the weapons of the other members forced our Mr. Sage to do more work, but as if he had expected this - the sixth batch, the enemy they were dealing with right now, fired at 12 enemies in one go. The first digit appears.
The enemies that appeared at this time were more like some kind of bipedal reptiles than humans. Mira noticed that Henry's expression changed obviously when he saw them. The newly appeared enemy's back, which was supposed to be a weak point, was covered with oily and slippery scales. When the sword struck him, it bounced off the weapon with a "ding" sound like steel armor. Although there were no hard scales on the front of the body, there was a layer of scales. Thick, hard leathery skin.
Correct
The excellent defensive ability and tenacious vitality coupled with the astonishing number directly resulted in Henry not being able to stop them all at the first time.
Elongated upper and lower jaws and wider masseter muscles, thick and bulging limb muscles and hard skin. These things are more like beasts, monsters, or—— than humans.
Dragon-like creature.
A wise man remains a wise man.
With a tall physique and a powerful sword, he first struck out and destroyed the lower jaw of the crocodile man in front and grabbed his left hand forward. Then he kicked him away while flipping the sword over to maximize the attack range. Guang's horizontal slash hit the two targets on the right at the same time. When the crocodile man with only half his head fell down, he withdrew his sword and hit the other monster on the left with a counterweight. eye sockets.
But except for the two beheaded ones, the first monster that fell to the ground and the one that was hit hard by Henry stood up again quickly as if nothing happened.
The sage's attack affected about half of the enemies in an instant, and then he attacked the other half. But these things seemed to be immune to fainting, so they immediately got up and entangled them. Even if Henry moved around and tried to find a way to attack enough targets, there were still some crocodile-men who were not blocked. They just faced Mira and Kaleva on both ends. .
The big shield-wielding Leng Tou Qing has never learned any fighting techniques, but he has advantages in equipment, strength and physique. Although the monster that mutated from the Kazuto villagers has become thicker and fiercer in appearance, it is still only 1.67 meters tall. Leng Touqing's reactions are always slow and his character is very simple, but because of this, he remembers Henry's teachings like a dogma and uses the tip of his spear to maintain oppression. Once he is approached, he will use his spear to push back, and from time to time Always use a large shield to protect the horses, Ling and Lulu behind you.
And after our Luoan girl saw the tenacious vitality of the monster that was still standing after a heavy blow from her teacher, she decisively chose to imitate his attack and slashed the crocodile man's head with a sharp blade in an attempt to kill the enemy with one blow. -- but with little success.
"Hugh——" If Lu Lu behind him hadn't used a hunting bow to shoot from time to time to attract its attention, Mira would have been injured by the crocodile man at close range.
"Calm down, calm down." She controlled her breathing and cleared her mind, and time seemed to slow down in an instant.
The sword in her hand was designed to be better at stabbing rather than cutting. She had avoided using stabbing before because the stopping force brought by stabbing was insufficient and she was approached by her opponent without wearing full body armor. I'm afraid I'll get hurt.
But swordsmanship exists for this purpose.
"It's still obsessed with the human form, so its weaknesses should be the same." Aya shouted a reminder from behind.
No matter how many changes there are in appearance, the remaining strands and height also imply that this is still the result of changes by the villagers. Like previously encountered objects, they should still retain biological organs.
This is a living thing, not a skeleton activated by magic or some other weird undead, and living things can be injured.
To move a limb, you need muscles, and muscles need to be attached to bones.
With her left foot forward and her center of gravity pressed forward, she raised the Otolo standard sword in her hand and rested it on her right shoulder.
Angry style.
Place your heel on the ground, turn around, and step forward with your right leg, using the strength of your step and twist to increase the power of your slash.
"Pacha!" This time the target was no longer a thick skull. She accurately hit the inside of her opponent's right forearm, incising the skin and tendons. Her claws immediately relaxed and no longer had the same pressure as before. . The overly elastic Otolo long sword kept shaking and even reached the hilt, making her mouth numb. However, as an experienced swordsman, our white-haired girl would no longer let go of her hand because of this problem. Weapon - she held the counterweight tightly in her left hand, twisted the blade and hit it again, this time the target was the opponent's right shoulder and clavicle - and then immediately stepped back to avoid the attack of her left claw without greed.
The crocodile man's right claw drooped, and since he had no pain, he couldn't notice the fact that he was injured.
——The attack worked, and she repeated it again.
Retract the long sword, turn your body sideways, raise your left hand and use your elbow as the support point of the sword blade to align your eyes with the tip of the sword and aim at the target——
Key type.
He staggered the attack, thrust forward, penetrated the skin of the left arm shoulder, and then twisted it hard——
The sharp and narrow point of the Otolo long sword was originally designed to break through the soft armor. The hard skin did not provide much resistance in front of it, but when the Luoan girl touched the shoulder blade and twisted it hard, she tried to cause When the damage was greater, she clearly felt something was wrong with the tip of the sword.
"Ding--!!"
The strong and strong muscles that were as strong as rock formed a strong pressure, as if they were stuck between the cracks of the rocks. Mira tried to twist the edge of the sword but broke the tip of the sword. She was a little panicked but immediately drew the sword and retreated.
The crocodile man raised his only usable left hand and tried to grab it again, but the tip of the sword broken in the muscle seemed to have just stuck on the shoulder blade, making it impossible to effectively raise his left arm. And Lu Lu, who had shot several times, had mastered the trajectory of its movements. This time, the arrow shot missed and whizzed accurately into its emotionless golden body——
He has lost vision in his left eye and does not know how to feel pain. Naturally, he does not know how to protect his weaknesses.
"Dang Qiang——!" Mira threw away the long sword with a broken tip and pulled out the short sword made of the same material as Kramer that Henry had given her in the past.
The dagger, which was very reliable in hardness and sharpness, successfully penetrated the side of the crocodile man's neck. Then when she touched the neck bone, she clenched the hilt of the sword with both hands and pressed forward hard against it.
"Peng——!" The humanoid creature with reptilian dark green skin lost balance and fell to the ground, but was still trying to struggle. The Luoan girl sat directly on its left arm, pinched her whole body tightly with her thighs, and stepped on its half-crippled right arm with her left foot. Then he pushed the dagger downwards with all his strength.
"Sokka, die quickly!!"
"Kacha——" The moment the struggling crocodile man finally stopped moving, Henry and Kaleva also resolved the battle on their side.
There were no casualties.
In addition to the broken tip of an Otolo long sword and the many deep scratches on the surface of Kaleva's hardwood shield that would be very frightening to a human body, they were only slightly tired.
"It should be gone. According to the number of people reported by the villagers, and taking into account the 'leftovers' consumed." Henry's tone was still steady. He shook off the blood on Kramer, and the ten crocodile men were chopped into pieces. Many muscles in the body are still trembling, as if they are alive.
"What the hell is this? Why is it so-" Mira complained, but after squeezing in adjectives for a long time, she could only squeeze out the word "weird".
Its tenacious vitality and lack of pain are very similar to those of a ghoul, but it is obviously different from the existence of a ghoul that is driven by magic power - it is alive, has vital organs, and has various organs.
"It's made of human materials, a poor imitation." The sage said with a shrug.
"Imitations, do you mean there are prototypes?" Ling blinked. After everything was settled, she immediately ran to the dead bodies for inspection. The more she inspected, the more she discovered the similarities and differences between these creatures and humans.
"With any luck, you will be able to see it after a while." Henry continued: "But now, we'd better go to the center of the problem quickly and solve it completely."
"This should be similar to something we've encountered before, so if the root cause is not addressed, the problem will reoccur."
"Well, finish it quickly and go to Fuso Capital. My sword is broken." The white-haired girl muttered, looking very unhappy.
