Chapter 610: Fierce Battle! (Part 2)

Seeing Knight Hartna acting in such a manner, Jier was too scared to look back, focusing instead on his escape.

He did not need to run very far, but instead headed straight for the wooden hut where Yeluba had previously lived. Upon approaching the hut, he jumped into the entrance passage, then grabbed a leverage point with one hand and climbed inside.

Once Jier entered the wooden hut, his entire person vanished from sight.

Knight Hartna, approaching outside the hut, furrowed his brows. He suddenly could no longer hear Jier's footsteps, which made him somewhat vigilant, yet he still charged straight forward until—Boom! —he collided with the outer wall of the wooden house.

This was a very humiliating scene. Fortunately, no one around saw it; everyone was blinded, shouting and screaming in chaos, and absolutely no one witnessed his embarrassing moment.

"Hah—Hah!" Knight Hartna gathered strength in place for a second, then kicked off the ground for leverage. His whole body leaped up, turning sideways, and with both feet together, he kicked the entire wall of the wooden house to pieces in one blow.

With a loud rumble, most of the wooden hut collapsed. Knight Hartna swung his sword several times on the spot, but still failed to discover any trace of Jier.

"As expected, you have some of the Church's strange methods. Come out and face death!"

Knight Hartna lifted his foot and encountered the collapsed wooden pillars nearby, kicking them away casually. These pillars, as thick as a person's waist, flew and landed in the surroundings with a loud crash, scaring the nearby Defeated Soldiers and Mao Mao so much that they dared not approach, scrambling away from the area.

And Jier appeared immediately at the spot where he had just vanished.

He was startled the moment he came out. He had originally been inside the house, but upon emerging, he saw the house was gone?

All that remained around him was a pile of collapsed lumber, and Knight Hartna in front was standing in place, swinging his sword at random.

Jier immediately realized that his reappearance from the Lady's dream had made no sound, which allowed Knight Hartna, trapped by the Divine Power blinding, to not discover him at the first moment.

Jier then held his breath, aimed his Long Sword at Knight Hartna, and quickly charged toward him.

But Knight Hartna raised his hand and parried Jier's sneak attack with his sword: "Holding your breath? But your killing intent is too obvious!"

Afterward, Knight Hartna deliberately moved closer to Jier, raised his left fist, appearing as if he were about to repeat the previous attack.

This terrified Jier. After he had entered the Lady's dream earlier, he had spent the beginning scratching his head, unable to figure out why his left arm wouldn't move. Even when he lay on the Treatment Mushroom, he could only move his arm on those mushrooms; once he walked away from the Treatment Mushroom, his left arm became uncontrollable, stiff like the arm of a corpse that had been dead for many days.

It wasn't until he returned to his camp by the Pond and sat in a chair, using his spirit to carefully perceive the Life Energy within his body, that he discovered a strand of Life Energy that did not belong to him had surged into his left arm.

This Life Energy from Knight Hartna was not only destroying his left hand but was also locked in a fierce struggle with the Life Energy he himself had left in his left arm.

Jier immediately realized where the problem lay, recalling the knowledge about Life Energy that Knight Kela had introduced to him earlier. He then began to mobilize his forces within his body, diverting Life Energy from other areas to support the "battlefield" in his left arm.

Because Jier did not know how to precisely control Life Energy to eliminate the invading foreign Life Energy one-on-one, he could only adopt a method of flooding, letting the Life Energy within his own body spontaneously eliminate the invaders.

This was a long and painful process.

"Long" refers to the fact that Jier spent a full half-day in the Lady's dream before finally eliminating the invading Life Energy, allowing his left hand to move freely.

"Painful" refers to the fact that when his own Life Energy was eliminating the foreign invading Life Energy, because the battlefield was his own left arm, any attack between the two resulted in him, Jier, being the one who got hurt.

Every time he eliminated a tiny bit of Life Energy, Jier would roll on the ground in pain; sometimes it would itch so much that it made Jier's face contort. In particular, a kind of numbness and itchiness that penetrated deep into the arm bones was what left the deepest impression on Jier.

No matter how he used his right hand to scratch the skin of his left hand, he could not remove that numbness and itchiness that went deep into the Bone Marrow.

Whenever this happened, Jier would catch a Mushroom Boy wandering nearby, beat it with all his might to vent, and only after smashing this unlucky Mushroom Boy into a dried mushroom would he consider the "endurance" to be over.

Once he had finally purged the Life Energy Knight Hartna had left on him, Jier immediately and viciously strapped on a new Dwarf Soldier Spear, then gripped his Long Sword tightly and emerged from the Lady's dream.

Time returned to the present. Facing Knight Hartna raising his fist once again, making a gesture to give him the same attack as before, Jier was immediately scared into taking a few steps back.

Although his reason told him that a method like the one just used, which directly utilized Life Energy, clearly could not be used many times, his feet subconsciously disobeyed him and retreated.

"Forget it, if it happens again, I won't be able to take it." Jier muttered, then threw the Hunting Sword with his right hand. Taking advantage of Knight Hartna swinging his sword to deflect the Hunting Sword by listening to the wind, Jier took down a new Dwarf Soldier Spear from his back, gripped it with both hands, and relying on the length of the spear, he took just one large step forward and thrust the spear straight at Knight Hartna's chest.

This strike was insidious, especially by utilizing the situation of Knight Hartna being blinded, as well as the opponent's inertia in thinking he only had one spear like the previous one.

Although this strike did not activate the Dwarf Rune on the spearhead, the Sharp spear tip, combined with Jier's strength, was still very lethal.

With a clang, the spear tip pierced through the thick Knight Armor on the knight's chest, erupting in a burst of bright sparks. But it was a pity; Knight Hartna had arranged a buffer layer inside his armor, on the chainmail at the heart position, to protect against impacts to his vital heart area.

Although this thing had no heat-insulating function, the dense and elastic buffer layer immediately trapped the spearhead. The former caused Knight Hartna to have been severely burned by fire on the battlefield previously; now, the large areas covered by the Knight Armor that could not be seen were actually almost all burned on the surface of his body underneath.

If it weren't for the fact that knights were tough and could rely on Life Energy to sustain their injuries and prevent them from becoming infected and dying, it would still be very serious.

Just speaking of this strike, Jier thrust the spear into Knight Hartna's chest armor and immediately sensed something was wrong. It didn't feel like piercing a human body; it was more like thrusting a spear into sand, or into thick tree bark.

The next moment, Knight Hartna's left hand immediately grabbed Jier's spearhead. Feeling the texture was wrong, he reached forward to grab the spear shaft behind the head, then exerted force, wanting to pull it out.

But Knight Hartna forgot that he was not Jier's equal in pure strength.

Jier held the tail of the Long Spear with both hands, his feet kicking the ground to charge forward, and unexpectedly, he kept pushing Knight Hartna to retreat backward continuously.

With a loud boom, the knight crashed through the other wooden wall that was still relatively intact, completely destroying the wooden house.

One of them was thrusting the spear forward, while the other was gripping the spear stuck in his chest and retreating continuously; the situation was very urgent for a moment.

Knight Hartna was not doing nothing; he swung his sword horizontally forward repeatedly with his right hand, wanting to chop off the shaft of the spear. But for some reason, no matter how hard Knight Hartna swung and chopped back and forth, the shaft of the Dwarf Soldier Spear could not be damaged.

Let alone damaged, the spear didn't even have the slightest deformation. Instead, every time he attacked, a burst of light would shine on the spear's body, as if an invisible force was substituting for the spear to withstand the knight's attacks and destruction.

Finally, just before hitting the wooden fence behind him, Knight Hartna managed to pull Jier's spear out of his armor. The next moment, he jumped sideways, and with several large leaps, he opened up the distance between himself and Jier.

Jier did not hesitate either. After recalling the Hunting Sword, he also quickly charged over, but first found a Defeated Soldier who was waving his weapon wildly after being blinded, thrust his spear through the opponent's body, and activated the Magic Tool rune on the Dwarf Soldier Spear.

The Dwarf Soldier Spear, now imbued with the 【Sharp】 attribute, would not be blocked by Knight Hartna's armor this time.

Jier accelerated his pace to kill Knight Hartna, while Knight Hartna actually managed to recover his vision before anyone else on the field.

He struggled to open his eyes wide, looking at the scene around him blurrily, then swirled his long sword, rolled up a soldier's tent beside him, shook it twice to roll it into a ball, and then flung it at Jier.

Jier furrowed his brows, seeing the sign of Knight Hartna recovering his vision. He steadied his nerves, flicked his spear to knock the flying tent away, and then charged toward Knight Hartna without slowing down.

At this moment, the knight glanced at the weapon in Jier's hand, then looked at the other Metal Spear not far away that was still connected after piercing through the knight's Metal Shield.

"So, you possess more than one of the same weapon."

He squinted his eyes and looked at Jier from head to toe: "You don't look like someone who possesses a Magic Tool for quickly retrieving weapons..."

He could not understand how Jier, clearly wearing a set of "ragged" thin metal plate armor, could actually have Church Divine Power items that could dispel Life Energy, as well as space equipment that could take out weapons anytime and anywhere.

This should not be a high-level Magic Tool that someone at Jier's level, or rather, at Jier's level of wealth, should possess.

The Divine Power item that could dispel Life Energy could still be said to have been brought for Jier by the Church before they sent people, having anticipated that there would be enemies of the Knight Rank. But the latter was different.

Almost all churches did not have large-scale equipment of space items; even if they had some, they were all captured or purchased with money from some distant magic organizations that were not too hostile to the Church.

And those rare things were unlikely to be given to a newly promoted young Knight-rank Warrior like Jier to carry.

Selling all the villagers of Changmai Village would not be enough to exchange for even one piece of space equipment, so naturally, they would not risk losing it by giving such space equipment to such an inexperienced young man.

Unless.

This thing itself belonged to Jier.

Knight Hartna felt a surge of greed; his family, and even the local Baron family his superiors belonged to, did not possess a single piece of spatial equipment, yet the young man before him did. If he could kill this person and have his Adjutant Piluo bring the weapons and equipment back to his family, even if he himself died here, it would be considered a break-even—no, a massively profitable account for his family.

Thinking of this, Knight Hartna looked left and right, confirming that his Adjutant Piluo was carefully huddled beside the entrance tunnel of his house, afraid of adding trouble to his battle.

After confirming the person's location, Knight Hartna no longer held back, deciding to kill the young man before him with all his might. Before he died, he would seize the spatial item on the other party; as long as it was handed to his adjutant to take away, everything here would not matter at all.

"Kill!"

Knight Hartna's eyes narrowed, and he spat out a cold word.

Afterward, he no longer entangled himself with Jier, charging head-on at Jier.

Jier was actually startled, not understanding why, as they were fighting, Knight Hartna suddenly changed to such a fierce style? He himself was actually quite invested in this battle; he had hoped that the time spent exchanging blows with Knight Hartna could be longer, if possible.

To better experience and learn how knights should fight.

As for winning the battle, Jier had actually thought of a method with a high probability of an easy victory the moment he first saw Knight Hartna. But he did not use this method; that would be winning unfairly, and it would be of no help to the improvement of his own skills and combat experience.

Taking a deep breath, Jier also quickened his pace, charging toward Knight Hartna, not believing that he would lose in a head-on fight.

Because his weapon had the advantage, being longer, and after activating the 【Sharp】 rune, as long as he stabbed the knight's body, he could easily break through the protection of the Knight Armor on the other party's body.

Although his own armor had no advantage in protection, and was even at a disadvantage, comparing the weapons and armor of both sides, one would find that both were in a state of high offense and low defense at this moment.

If both sides clashed, they could both quickly kill the other.

This brought an extremely thrilling suspense to the two's battle, and also made Jier feel his blood boiling!

The two sprinted toward each other, and after colliding, their weapons emitted a violent clashing sound.

Clang—

A large group of people around painfully covered their ears; Knight Hartna gripped his Sword tightly with both hands, while Jier also held the spear shaft with both hands, front and back, forcibly weakening the shaking of the spear shaft and struggling to keep it in his grip.

But soon, it was Knight Hartna who stabilized his weapon first, then he ran off to the side, using the longer distance to accelerate, his body leaping up, killing toward Jier like a hawk in the air.

"Stupid!" Jier cursed, raising his Long Spear, intending to give Knight Hartna, who could not flexibly react in mid-air, a taste of his own medicine.

But who knew that Knight Hartna would pull at a pouch on his waist, crush the money pouch with one hand, and then forcefully throw the coins in his hand at Jier.

"Shameless!"

Jier cursed again; he had to dodge and avoid the "hidden weapons" attacking from the sky. Those coins thrown at random struck the ground, kicking up a whole cloud of dust, and some coins even hit Stones and bounced everywhere, causing some people standing or lying around to wail in pain.

Jier threw the Hunting Sword at Knight Hartna, but such a weapon simply thrown was directly swatted away by the knight's sword.

After landing, Knight Hartna's landing spot was actually not the area where Jier had just been standing; this discovery made Jier feel extremely surprised. The next moment, he knew exactly why Knight Hartna had made that superfluous move earlier.

It turned out that Knight Hartna's landing spot after jumping was not to attack Jier, but to pick up the place where Jier's previous Long Spear and his Knight Shield had fallen.

"Damn it!" Jier shouted, but no matter how fast Jier accelerated to rush over, he could not be faster than Knight Hartna, who simply hooked his toe and picked up the Dwarf Soldier Spear that Jier had used earlier into his hand.

The knight put away his Sword, kicked away his Knight Shield, first forcefully swung the Long Spear in his hand, exchanged blows with Jier for an instant to deflect Jier's attack direction, and then stepped on the edge of his olive-shaped shield, kicking the shield up and stowing it on the armor behind his back.

"Now, you fledgling little Warrior, you don't even have the advantage of a weapon."

After Knight Hartna finished speaking, he took a deep breath, weighed the weight, length, and the position of the center of gravity of the weapon in his hand, and then thrust the spear to kill Jier.

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