Chapter 365: Falling to the Ground

"Slish."

Blood sprayed.

Reflecting the gorgeous pink on the top of the head, it was like cutting an extremely thick piece of cowhide. The black-gray sword blade cut through the skin that had been ground away from crystal particles and only left a layer of skin with blurred pink meaning with a slightly stagnant posture.

In contrast, the muscles and bones afterward were much easier, and the sword blade passed through silkily until the skin on the other end, before it became stagnant again.

It was already the last crystal person on the field. Xia Nan could actually stop the sword here, like Margaret, not completely cutting it off, leaving the outermost layer of skin, connecting the head that was cut down, hanging on the shoulder and chest.

It also saved a little effort.

But perhaps out of some habit he had gradually developed in countless battles and killings, uh... or rather, a hobby.

Xia Nan didn't mind consuming a little more physical strength that could be restored by just standing in place and panting twice.

His forearm exerted force, his wrist drove the sword body, and amidst the sound of blood spraying, he cut off the last layer of epidermis remaining on the crystal person's neck.

Following the head that was brought by the sword blade's power and flew and spun away from the shoulder in the blood.

Decapitation.

Recalling the feeling in his heart, he was slightly disappointed.

He felt that the crystal person's physical defense was too strong, and it was far less smooth to cut than a goblin.

"How is everyone, is anyone injured?"

Behind him, Margaret asked panting.

The 【Swordsman】 profession focuses on strength and explosive power, exchanging defense ability for higher lethality, and is not good at endurance.

The type with extremely high physical defense like the crystal person is one of her most hated enemies.

In order to break through the defense of crystal particles, the repeatedly released 【Secondary Wheel Slash】 consumed a lot of her physical strength, and sweat soaked her dark gold hair, sticking to her cheeks.

At this moment, she was holding a small bottle of potion-like supplement in her hand, gulping it down.

They were all just minor injuries.

Under 【Tooth Hunt】, Xia Nan's agility and mobility had reached the top level of the same level. As long as he was slightly careful and not too adventurous, with the speed of these crystal people who had become corpses, they couldn't even touch the corner of his clothes.

After a whole battle, he only suffered a few scratches on the surface of the 【Lianyu Pulse】 armor, which was mainly made of purgatory steel, when he supported the dwarf Suoerding because he needed to help the other party attract the enemy's attention and rushed into the crystal crowd.

But there was no injury itself.

And Margaret and Suoerding, although their actual combat power was inferior to Xia Nan, were after all veteran adventurers who had climbed up from the bottom step by step.

lv4, behind every level, represented countless killings, and combat experience was incomparably rich.

Facing crystal people whose individual strength was far inferior to them, who simply piled up numbers, and who had obvious weaknesses, they were only embarrassed at the beginning of the battle because of the lack of information, but after getting familiar with it, they quickly controlled the rhythm of the battle. The minor injuries they suffered did not affect their actions at all, and they didn't even need bandages.

"I'm fine!"

Suoerding responded loudly.

This dwarf, who had attracted the siege of two-digit crystal people through taunt-type combat techniques after the battle started, was now very relaxed, and after the battle, he threw the pressure he had just borne to the back of his head.

The three cleaned up the battlefield.

Actually, there was nothing to clean up.

Unlike those wild monsters, or other adventurers who launched attacks on them.

The crystal people themselves were just ordinary residents in Yangjiao Town before being transformed, and it was impossible to say that they would inexplicably explode an enchanted equipment.

The only thing on their bodies that could be called a useful material was probably the pastel gem embedded in the skin and flesh of their chest.

But... obviously, the female swordsman and dwarf who witnessed the miserable situation in Yangjiao Town could not have any contact with this kind of ghost thing again.

And for Xia Nan, who had already tested and knew that he couldn't absorb the energy in it, he wouldn't do anything extra to cause trouble—if he dug out the gem and took it out to infect residents in other places, that would be his sin.

In the square, while Margaret was panting to restore her physical strength, she felt a little distressed looking at the long sword in her hand.

As a veteran adventurer whose professional level had reached lv4, her main weapon was naturally an enchanted equipment, which had a certain damage bonus in cutting and slashing.

She also cherished it very much, and would go to the blacksmith shop for comprehensive and detailed maintenance every time the mission ended and she returned to the city.

But right now, facing the skin of the crystal person covered with gem particles, the sword body, especially the position of the sword blade edge, was left with many obvious scratches.

Making her feel distressed in her heart.

Compared with this, the surface of the 【Ash Meteor】 straight sword held by Xia Nan was as smooth as new, and the friction and collision with crystal particles in the fierce battle did not leave any traces on its sword body.

As for the reason... there are actually many things that can be said, such as 【Tooth Hunt】 impact inertia, 【Spinning Slash】 swinging technique, Ba'en's superb craftsmanship, etc.

But in the final analysis, to sum up, it is actually one word—

"Expensive!"

Nearly 300 gold/gram of "Cationic Iron Plating Powder," under the premise of providing main materials, still had a manufacturing cost of four-digit gold coins.

It can only be said that, at least in terms of enchanted equipment, expensive... really has the benefits of being expensive.

Sweeping his gaze over the dozen or so crystal people corpses with their heads cut off on the square ground, Margaret couldn't help but click her tongue secretly.

Even though the experience of fighting demons in the goblin nest before made her clearly know that this adventurer with black broken hair had an exaggerated combat power that was completely different from his young appearance.

Fighting side by side again, it still made her feel surprised in her heart.

If it weren't for the fact that she could inquire about Xia Nan's clear growth experience in River Valley Town, she would even suspect whether the other party was a direct descendant of some transcendental family who went out to experience.

Xia Nan naturally didn't know what the other party was thinking.

Right now, what he was thinking about was things outside of this battle.

"Where is Moxi?"

A glimpse at the church door just now, he could clearly see that the entire church, except for the twenty-odd believers who had already crystallized.

That old priest who was suspected of being the mastermind was also praying under the Goddess sculpture.

"Why didn't he appear just now?"

In his cognition, based on the other party's identity and appearance, he should be that kind of purest priest profession, needing teammates to contain the enemy and output from the rear.

In this case, twenty-odd thick-skinned crystal people were undoubtedly his best helpers.

Xia Nan, who realized this, paid extra attention throughout the whole battle just now, guarding against threats from outside the battlefield.

But unexpectedly, that old priest... never appeared.

Xia Nan's face was calm, but his heart sank.

After a simple cleanup, the three rearranged the formation.

No one proposed to retreat. ===== CHAPTER 366 =====

Not a single person suggested retreating.