Chapter 536: Direct Collision with the Crimson Valkyrie!

Looking at Shengzai before him, Brian couldn’t help but recall something Gajeff had said to him during a drinking session after he regained his resolve.

After meeting Sebastian and Klem, Brian regained his spirit and once again set Gajeff as his target to defeat.

But at that time, Gajeff had plainly told him that although the outside world still called him the Kingdom’s strongest warrior captain,

the Kingdom’s strongest combatant was no longer him.

When Brian heard Gajeff say that, he had curiously asked who had surpassed him to become the Kingdom’s strongest combatant.

After burping, Gajeff had named a person right before him: Shengzai Trans Ignar Leir Vanshuf.

“The Kingdom’s third prince?”

“Yes, that Prince Shengzai. Brian, I used to believe there might be people born with extraordinary talent.

But with enough effort, strong will, and hard work, one could overcome barriers once thought insurmountable.

Yet after meeting Prince Shengzai, I realized some people in this world cannot be judged by ordinary standards.

All the hard work and training of ordinary people merely grant us the right to stand before him.”

When Brian heard Gajeff’s words, he had dismissed them, even thinking Gajeff was completely drunk.

Undeniably, the Kingdom’s third prince, Shengzai, was indeed a famed sword prodigy, and the fact that Gajeff gave him such praise proved he had real substance.

But Brian firmly refused to believe that the third prince had already surpassed Gajeff and become the Kingdom’s strongest combatant.

How old is the third prince now? Even with the best talent and potential, how could he have surpassed them at this age?

As for talent, were he and Gajeff really that inferior? Shengzai was a Xiuliankuangmo , but didn’t he and Gajeff also improve themselves?

Recalling the scenes from earlier, then glancing at Shengzai before him, Brian now understood: Gajeff had not lied to him.

Never mind distant comparisons—just the fact that Shengzai had blocked Xia Tiya’s recent strike alone was enough to label him a “monster” to most humans!

“You two go ahead. Since she’s looking for me, I’ll handle holding her off.”

Hearing Shengzai’s words, Klem had wanted to say something, but Brian quickly grabbed his arm.

“Klem, let’s go. You know as well as I do that if we stay here, we’ll only be in the way.

This level of battle is beyond our capacity to interfere.”

Brian wasn’t willing, but he knew full well that against Xia Tiya Bradforn, they couldn’t even lift their weapons before her.

Even if they wanted to help, staying here would only hinder them.

Since Shengzai had blocked Xia Tiya’s strike, it meant he still had some fighting power left.

Even if he wasn’t her match, without us as burdens, he might still escape safely.

“Xia Tiya Bradforn, perhaps now I’m not even worth remembering by name.

But I swear, one day I’ll make you remember Brian Anglaus!”

After saying this to Xia Tiya, Brian grabbed Klem, who was still dazed, and leapt off the rooftop.

But Xia Tiya clearly found Brian’s act of making threats and fleeing deeply unsatisfying.

Moreover, neither Klem nor Brian’s faces were among the humans Dimuugos had ordered her not to kill, so Xia Tiya had no intention of letting them go.

“Self-Time Acceleration—!”

As Xia Tiya cast this spell, time around her froze as if paused, while she herself remained completely unaffected, dashing forward in an instant to catch up with the fleeing Klem and Brian, then extending her claws to tear them apart.

“Ding——————!”

Just as Xia Tiya’s sharp nails were about to rip through Brian and Klem’s bodies, a long blade suddenly slashed in from the side, colliding with her claws and spraying sparks.

Compared to the first time he blocked her attack, Shengzai’s interception this time left Xia Tiya visibly stunned.

Because the “Self-Time Acceleration” she had just used was no casual test attack like before—it was a spell of extremely high rank.

According to the intelligence Sebastian and others had gathered, humans in this world should not be capable of using seventh-rank or higher magic.

Yet now, Shengzai, like her, was using the ninth-rank magic: Self-Time Acceleration!

With a powerful swing of his long blade, the stunned Xia Tiya was swept away by Shengzai’s strike.

Her flying body shattered numerous roof tiles and generated a massive shockwave.

As the Self-Time Acceleration effect ended, Klem and Brian, who had just leapt from the roof, felt a powerful wind blast them backward.

The next instant, accompanied by a thunderous crash, the rooftop they had just stood on had completely collapsed into ruins.

Pushing off the ground with one foot, the immense recoil sent Shengzai flying like a launched rocket, closing the distance to Xia Tiya in an instant.

With a flash of cold light slicing through the air, Xia Tiya barely raised her droplet spear to block—but her mask shattered completely under the force of Shengzai’s sword qi, revealing a pale yet exquisitely beautiful face.

“You’re also a powerhouse!”

From that single strike alone, Xia Tiya realized the Kingdom’s third prince was no ordinary figure.

Because she had lost the memories of being controlled by “Beauty That Shakes Nations,” Shengzai now appeared to her as the strongest human she had ever encountered.

As a white light enveloped Xia Tiya’s body, the white gown she wore instantly transformed into a full red armor.

The crimson full armor, though inferior to her divine-grade droplet spear, was still a legendary-tier equipment.

Xia Tiya had two forms: one was the lamprey form of the vampire true ancestor, and the other was the Valkyrie form, nearly the complete opposite of the lamprey form.

In lamprey form, Xia Tiya was stronger, but her reason and intelligence also dropped correspondingly…

(End of Chapter)