blueteamnovel Chapter 22 Lillian's Score?
Chapter 22 Lillian's Score?
Lillian smiled broadened, immediately summoning back the potion and preparing herself for the tag team. Xander came at her, much slower compared to before, his hands covered in a blazing flame. (2)
Testrie nimbly followed behind Xander, knowing that he was most suited to be the frontal attacker.
Xander's hands flashed towards Lillian. The flames reflected in her blue crystalline eyes. Lillian ducked, grabbing a handful of sand and chucking it in a wide arc—some of it managed to pass through Xander's fiery defences.
Irritated by the small cloud of sand entering his eyes—he lost control over his flames, letting them go out. Lillian, seeing that it was the perfect moment to attack, slashed her sword at him—intending to lop off his head.
However...
CLANG!
It was surprisingly parried. Testrie, with her rapier, gracefully lunged forward and stabbed her blade over Xander's shoulder—protecting him against the chilling blade.
Lillian squinted her eyes at this, revealing a brief moment of shock before dashing it away. She then swiftly brought her hand before Xander's face and blasted him away with water. (2)
This caused him to fly back—knocking into Testrie.
They both roughly landed—clouds of sand rising from their position. Testrie
Hastily pushing off the still-blinded Xander, she held up her rapier and blocked an overhead swing.
Lillian pushed against her blade—scraping against it.
Testrie furrowed her brows. She was losing in the contest of strength.
She glanced to the side and watched Xander, who had rolled quite a bit away, slowly get off the floor. His eyes red from rubbing—a bit teary in the corners.
Her face flashed with concern, unfortunately for her, she wasn't able to dwell on this feeling for long because...
She watched as her arm holding her rapier was severed from her shoulder. She doubled over, clutching her stump, hissing in pain.
Blood poured out from her wound, leaving her feeling drained and light-headed.
Her face contorted in a variety of expressions, each visibly painful to look at than the last; she was glad the pain was reduced.
"Well then... I'll be taking that health potion of yours..." She stated calmly.
While this was happening, Xander had finally steadied himself. His eyes narrowed in on Lillian—darting between her and Testrie; she sat before her, seriously wounded.
"Not good..." He mumbled under his breath.
Xander's hand unconsciously caressed his wounded chest. He was glad he was quite sturdy enough to move around like this.
"We're talking about the family that caused a ruckus in the Royal Ball, right?"
Testrie gave a slow nod.
Xander couldn't help but shake his head—dumbfounded. "Who knew a troublesome and silly family like them to produce such a strong member? Even I'm shocked."
He then paused his shaking and asked, "What place is she and what is her score?"
After a while of searching, his previously narrowed eyes slowly opened. He then smiled in defeat.
"I see... you really are quite tough, aren't you?" He said, feeling someone standing behind him. Testrie shouted out for him to get out of the way, but...
THUD!
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In a heavily dense forest, with trees several dozen metres tall and about an elephant or so wide, was a mountain of corpses of what seemed to be a bee-like creature.
Soon after, they all began to digitalise and disappear, revealing a tall woman with long pitch-black hair that flowed down over her shoulders and back like a waterfall of darkness. Her eyes shined a deep red that seemed to pierce through the shadows formed from the thick canopies of the trees.
In her hand, she wielded a two-metre-long guandao. Its steel curved blade was still stained in blood but was soon after cleansed of the blood drawn from the creatures it had just slain.
She looked up towards the sky, her eyes narrowing as she pierced through the canopy and directly at the leaderboard.
["1. Marionette Von Roselle: 120 Monster kills, 32 Contestant Eliminations."]
"How lucky of me to stumble upon a hive of bees..." Marionette shifted her attention to the massive hive that hung on the sides of multiple trees. Its deformed body only continued to release waves of swarms, all targetting the human under it.
She then glanced back towards the leaderboard and scanned through it before landing on a particular name.
["26. Lillian Ker Arius: 61 Monster Kills, 18 Contestants Eliminated."]
["24. Lillian Ker Arius: 61 Monster Kills, 20 Contestant Eliminated."]
"... She's doing rather well..." She mused.
Marionette then planted her guandao into the ground and pushed her hand out to the side. A mystical darkness surrounded her hand before lengthening into a black shadowy javelin.
With a twirl, she hurled the javelin at the swarm, piercing through many and pinning them into a tree. Marionette then formed another one and began to chuck each one of them at the swarm half-assedly.
"I've already passed... so I might as well enjoy myself now..."
She then paused for a few moments before sighing, "I should've drank a cup of coffee before coming in here..."