Chapter 199: Contract (Supplement)
Su Jiu wouldn’t give the opponent time to hesitate, her gaze swept over the opponent’s wounds, and a coldness appeared.
Her body flipped, and the short sword in her hand struck out again. It was as if one sword strike had not finished before another arrived. The frost and snow blew away her goose-yellow hanfu and her flowing green silk hair, her delicate face filled with solemnity.
Even an old and frail Intermediate Battle King like Count Sam was not someone she could compare with.
Her previous strike was far from as effortless as it looked. The opponent’s last-minute reaction was very strong. If it wasn’t for E Huo transforming into armor on her entire arm, she might have been injured.
Now, she could only rely on the String Moon Swordsmanship to win by trickery!
“What a strange swordsmanship! Are the talented individuals of the Dragon Country truly this terrifying?”
Seeing Su Jiu attacking again, Count Sam’s gaze turned cold, and he turned his rapier forward. With a “whoosh,” black and red sword qi spewed out from the blade, exuding a biting chill, like a poisonous snake.
But just as he was about to meet Su Jiu’s strike, he suddenly felt blood rushing to the wound on his face.
This strange feeling made him stop involuntarily. It was this pause that caused his rapier to be deflected when he met Su Jiu’s short sword.
If it were against an ordinary person, a deflected sword would be deflected, but he was facing Su Jiu…
A deflected sword meant that the Wuyi Qi was the father of many things.
“Clang!” The sound of collision rang out again, and the entire sea surface was stirred up into giant waves. Then, the cold air froze the giant waves again, appearing extremely spectacular.
Su Jiu was shaken back five or six positions before stabilizing herself with External Qi. Her face under the mask was somewhat pale, and her right hand was trembling. As an Initial Stage Battle General, she had forcefully endured two strikes from an Intermediate Battle King, and it had exhausted all her strength.
Count Sam, on the other hand, retreated a step, and his shoulder just shook, as if he hadn’t been affected at all. However, his old face was full of astonishment, and he muttered in a low voice:
“It’s that move again. Where did I get hit…”
The next moment, a crimson line appeared on his neck, and he immediately reacted, covering his neck madly, staring at Su Jiu intently.
“If she were even a bit stronger, I would be dead!”
He could clearly feel that his neck had been cut open by nearly 1/10. If it weren’t for the high survival rate brought by his Battle King Level and Vampire heritage, he would have been finished now.
“I can’t maintain the second stage of Elegy anymore. The opponent is too strong—completely on a different level from the fake Battle King, Bald Pastor.”
Su Jiu pressed her trembling hand and swallowed a mouthful of reverse blood, forcing herself to withdraw from the second stage of the Elegy mode.
The previous impact had made her blood and qi churn violently, and her entire arm was numb. Intermediate Battle Kings and low-level Battle Kings were simply not comparable.
“Blood Surge!”
Suppressing the churning qi and blood, Su Jiu’s eyes focused. She held her fingers together and pointed them upwards at Count Sam. This was her only method to win against a stronger opponent and her strongest move in a one-on-one fight.
As long as she wounded the opponent with the String Moon Swordsmanship, she could continuously interfere with him using Blood Surge in subsequent clashes, and then find opportunities with the String Moon Swordsmanship.
“Blood Surge! You’re from Count Rose.”
Count Sam held his neck, his aura suddenly weakening. His yellow eyes stared intently at Su Jiu and said each word clearly.
He even suddenly pulled away from her, and after widening the distance by tens of meters, the feeling of blood about to spurt out lessened considerably.
“Heh heh… It doesn’t matter who I am.”
Su Jiu found that her control over Count Sam’s blood was almost nonexistent, and she wasn’t surprised. After all, skills had their limitations. The limitation of Blood Surge was around fifteen meters.
The latter, having lived for so long, naturally knew some ways to avoid blood clan skills.
At this moment, Su Jiu suddenly felt a warmth all over her body, and her power and other attributes were enhanced. She subconsciously looked towards Bairnis.
She found that Bairnis was covering her chest, hunched over, with one hand emitting a blue light, and faint butterfly afterimages drifting from her palm.
“Whoosh!”
After receiving healing and enhancements, Su Jiu didn’t hesitate much and struck out with her drawing-knife technique. Without the augmentation of the second stage Elegy, her skill only unleashed a swallow-like impact, barely comparable to a Battle General’s attack.
But for the heavily wounded Count Sam, this was still a damage that could not be underestimated. Seeing the frost-infused swallow attack, he got up and dodged.
His old eyes looked at the still-condensing giant thunder sword, and he moved his body, landing above the giant sword. He took out a metal prism resembling a remote control from his body and sneered at Su Jiu, “I originally planned to use it slowly, but now I have to use it to deal with you. You can be proud.”
Saying that, he made seals with his right hand. After a few seconds, he gently tapped the prism. Suddenly, the blue formation below turned blood-red, and the expressions of those watching from within the formation instantly became grim.
They were like ordinary people whose air had been sucked dry, clutching their throats and beginning to beat the blood-red shield. The two counts in the largest formation were particularly affected. Their faces showed expressions of terror, and they had lost their Battle King Level pride.
With Bairnis’s augmentation, Su Jiu forcefully used the second stage Elegy again. Her gaze was stern as she looked at Count Sam, the tip of her sword gathering power, as if a white dragon was roaring.
Opportunities were running out!
After this sword strike, she would only be able to last for another half minute at most before exhausting her strength.
Following the contorted movements of the people within the formation, the sword of judgment hanging in the sky emitted a dazzling light, seemingly accelerating its condensation. Immediately after, a blood-red orb appeared about a meter above the coffin. Upon closer inspection, specks of blood were constantly gathering there, coming from all directions.
Some came from under the sea, some from within the formation, but the largest portion emerged from the coffin itself.
In just a few seconds, the orb seemed to condense to its fullest, transforming into a blood-red line connecting behind Count Sam. A smug look appeared on his aged face, his aura seemed to be constantly recovering, and even his eyes exuded disdain for Su Jiu.
Seeing the opponent begin to recover and even strengthen his aura, Su Jiu’s expression slightly condensed. The short sword in her hand flipped, and her sword qi transformed into the phantom of E Huo’s adult form, roaring out as if to tear the opponent apart.
“Roar!” The dragon’s roar echoed through the sky, and the surging seawater began to freeze again. The rain in the sky actually turned into hailstones.
With Bairnis’s augmentation and the speed boost from her boots, Su Jiu’s figure turned into several afterimages, “whoosh,” as if riding on the white dragon, her sword following her shadow, determined to quickly kill Count Sam.
“That Priest was killed by this move, wasn’t he? His death was not unjust.”
Count Sam looked at the roaring white dragon, a solemn expression appearing in his dragon-like old eyes. The next moment, the rapier in his hand flipped.
His black and red sword qi flickered, and a phantom of a giant blade carrying blood appeared in the sky. The frozen seawater below seemed to be overturned, with layers of shattered ice shards flying up.
“Boom!” The two collided, and a deafonic boom followed. After the ice shards shattered, a monstrous tsunami erupted.
“Clang clang clang clang!”
Immediately after, the sky erupted with light like twinkling stars, the sound of weapon clashes soared into the sky, and the resulting air currents impacted the sea, continuously emitting loud watery sounds.
Under such high-pressure combat, beads of sweat broke out on Su Jiu’s forehead. Count Sam seemed to be much more cautious. After each sword clash, he would leap back, making it extremely difficult for Su Jiu’s String Moon sword strike to land.
During another clash, Count Sam looked at Su Jiu with a smug smile and said triumphantly, “Haha, I have already used the power of the sacrifice, and my strength will recover soon. Conversely, you have used a secret technique and will soon be depleted.”
If it weren’t for his severe injuries, she would have been defeated long ago. Seeing the smile on the opponent’s face, Su Jiu’s heart sank to the bottom.
Sensing the blood bead on the coffin, Bairnis’s face turned even paler. Suppressing her bad premonition, she shouted at Su Jiu, “Look over there! That should be the power of the blood sacrifice. If it’s not cut off, he will only get stronger!”
Upon hearing this, Su Jiu didn’t hesitate at all. Her eyes flashed with blue light, and her body darted towards the coffin. Her hand flashed with afterimages, and she continuously swung her drawing-knife technique towards it, unleashing five Dragon Roar strikes.
Count Sam was startled but quickly moved to block these uncharged strikes. He glanced back at the blood bead behind him with a lingering fear, lowered his gaze, and smiled at Su Jiu, “It’s useless! Even if you cut the corpse in the coffin, the blood that flows out will still feed me…”
After clashing with the opponent again, Su Jiu’s body was thrown back more than twenty meters, and a trace of crimson flowed from the corner of her mouth. She could no longer maintain her Elegy state.
“Damn it… Time’s up. I don’t have any more energy to support this level of combat. Has Mr. Knight finished yet?”
When she tried to raise her sword again, her body could no longer muster strength, and even flying became a problem. While gasping for breath, E Huo in her hand transformed from a sword into a motorcycle-sized mount, carrying her.
“What are those idiots doing?! Why has the formation’s strength weakened?”
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt the supply from his body slow down considerably. With an uncertain expression, he looked at the blood bead again. At this moment, the blood bead had shrunk considerably, and the blood-red formations shattered with a “crack.”
It seemed that the blood bead had lost a supply point.
The people below the formations were suddenly released. They were like death row inmates who had just seen the sunlight. After emerging from extreme joy, they looked at Count Sam with unfriendly eyes.
“Old thing Sam, if you are unkind, don’t blame us for being unrighteous!”
After the other two Initial Stage Battle King Counts exchanged glances, they each picked up their weapons and charged at Count Sam, looking as if they were determined to kill him.
Su Jiu was secretly shocked by this scene. Was it Yun Xi?
The others also scattered. Laura kept her distance and constantly contacted the Battle King Level experts waiting for her outside via phone.
“Someone has infiltrated the laboratory.”
Count Sam looked at their angry faces, his old eyes narrowed, but he chuckled and said indifferently, “How much strength do you have left on you? Hasn’t the formation drained you to only one or two layers left? Leave now, or don’t blame me for being merciless later.”
“Mr. Samber, you are also seriously injured. We are not much different.”
Hearing Old Count Sam’s words, the two Counts’ eyes flickered, as if they were contemplating.
At this moment, Su Jiu spoke, mockingly smiling at him, “Do the two of you really believe someone who tried to kill you? If this old Count transforms into a High-Rank Battle King in this sacrifice, you should think about your future situation.”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, Count Shetuo and the other two’s gazes turned cold. They exchanged a glance and then turned into black shadows, attacking Count Sam.
“If you help me kill that girl, I’m willing to share the sacrifice.” Count Sam looked at Bishop Mode, who was desperately holding on in the distance, and thought to himself that it was not good and he had to go quickly to support him.
“Haha, what Samber says is still so humorous. I’m afraid the sacrifices for the ritual are us?” Count Shetuo sneered and attacked without holding back.
Su Jiu watched the battle erupt ten to twenty meters ahead. She relaxed slightly, about to close her eyes to recuperate, when she suddenly realized that the healing and augmentation on her body had disappeared.
She instinctively turned her head sharply and saw Bairnis, not far away, as if she had lost her support, falling directly into the sea.
“Go get her.”
Seeing this, Su Jiu quickly patted E Huo’s head. E Huo understood and let out a “whoosh,” forming a V-shaped arc to catch the falling Bairnis.
Looking at her tightly locked brows, pale face, and the caved-in chest of her clothes, her skirt still stained with viscous blood.
“She’s not going to make it.”
Su Jiu, having studied medicine, instantly understood the situation. One hand emitted a dark green light.
With the other hand, she supported a Frosty Aura Shield, enclosing the three of them and shielding them from the rain. She then directly tore open her clothes.
She was shocked to find that inside was only minced meat blown apart by insects. Her heart seemed to have been cracked open, with only two or three surviving maggots wriggling on it.
“These maggots can’t die. If they die, she will die with them.”
Su Jiu took a deep breath and began to treat the maggots above. However, it seemed that her vitality was still continuously draining.
Su Jiu’s treatment of the maggots was not decisively effective. Her body was too dilapidated. In this place, without medicinal herbs or clinical alchemical artifacts, it was impossible to repair.
However, Su Jiu, who had experience with the strange doctor, would never give up. Gritting her teeth, she was about to use the Spring Bloom Technique with a larger dose…
Even if that didn’t work, she had a final plan – she had asked Doubi Xi when she was playing games:
“Are vampires considered monsters? But I’ve never seen humans make contracts.”
The other party looked at Su Jiu like an idiot and explained with a smile, “Of course! Pure-blooded vampires can also make contracts, but pure-blooded vampires simply despise humans, and their transformed weapons are not suitable for humans to use.”
“With this effort to please a pure-blooded vampire, you could sign a contract with the descendant of a Battle King or even a War God monster.”
……
At this moment, her hand was suddenly grabbed. Bairnis weakly opened her eyes, shook her head at her, and looked into the distance at the coffin with a distant gaze, without much sadness.
Resurrected in the sea, died in the sea, this was belonging… and retribution.
Just as she closed her eyes again, a dazzling white light emerged. She turned her head and saw Su Jiu’s face full of bulging veins. On Su Jiu’s hand was a white formation—a beast pet contract formation.
“Sign this contract and live.”
