Chapter 299 Intel
The corpse crow flock carrying death power directly detonated the surrounding dense death aura. At the cost of consuming all the death aura previously laid out, it set off waves of huge energy explosions.
Looking at the large area of smoke and dust blown out by the explosion in front of her, Kazumi summoned the black coffin to her side. She calculated the time slightly and had already begun to prepare for a retreat in her heart.
Yes, Kazumi had already begun to consider retreating.
The moment the young girl chose to consume the favorable environment around her to inflict damage on the enemy, she knew that the scales of victory had begun to tilt towards the opponent.
Not to mention the trump cards the opponent might have, the overdraft of the death aura throughout the rooftop meant that the capabilities of both the corpse crows and the ghouls would be reduced to their original values. If the ghouls, with the environmental buff, could not stop the opponent’s advance, then without this amplification, they probably wouldn’t even be able to hold them back for that moment.
Although she still had some trump cards that could change the situation, in the current situation, she only needed to stall for time here and had no need to sacrifice so much. That would clearly be a disproportionate return on investment.
While thinking about the escape route, Kazumi’s eyes were also fixed on the aftershocks of the explosion. The dissipation of the death aura caused the comfortable feeling around the young girl to disappear little by little, but what concerned Kazumi even more was Yuz’s current state.
With this tactic, even if it didn’t harm the opponent, it could force out one or two new abilities. Based on this, the young girl could choose whether to pursue victory and take this extremely valuable flesh and blood material, or to flee immediately.
As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, what appeared before the young girl were large pits filled with rotting flesh, and the field of vision was empty.
[As expected, they dodged.]
A hint of understanding flashed in her mind. After falling for a move, Kazumi had a way to deal with it.
Her right hand, resting on the black coffin, exerted a slight force. A ring of green energy fluctuations was emitted from the black coffin, directly coloring a transparent humanoid shadow in the distance with a faint hue.
Then, several pre-prepared energy attacks were shot directly towards the shadow.
“Swish—”
Knowing that her ability had been seen through, Yuz no longer made any other moves. He directly revealed his figure and shattered the young girl’s attack with a few slashes. The hooded hoodie he wore, unstained by even dust, proved that the young girl’s previous attack had not even caused basic damage to the opponent.
However, the transparent energy spheres surrounding Yuz, which had completely dissipated, also proved that dodging this wave of attacks had consumed a considerable amount of energy, at least on par with the previously released [Anti-Air] barrier.
Several more transparent energy spheres appeared in front of Yuz. Yuz swept his long saber and charged at Kazumi again.
[The energy spheres have decreased!]
While summoning ghoul cannon fodder from the black coffin, Kazumi released energy attacks to try to stop Yuz’s advance. However, the young girl’s keen observation skills had discovered a change in the opponent’s abilities.
After consuming all the transparent energy spheres twice, this time, the colorless spheres summoned by Yuz’s ability were noticeably one less.
This also proved that the opponent’s ability had a usage tolerance, and after multiple uses, it would definitely be weakened. Although it was not of much use for now, it was at least a piece of intelligence that could be recorded as a weakness.
As for how to deal with the opponent’s abilities, Kazumi had also discovered some clues from the two rounds of exchanges just now. Yuz’s [Word Spirit] ability relied more on the transparent spheres around him, which could be combined into various attributes or abilities for use.
However, the problem was that the three blue spiritual energy spheres that had always been surrounding him had not been self-replenishing. This proved that compared to other replenishable energy spheres, the opponent’s spiritual energy spheres were consumable, or at least he himself did not have the ability to convert and replenish them.
And now, there was only one spiritual energy sphere left on Yuz, and the spiritual energy enhancement on his blade had been almost consumed by the ghouls.
The previous battles had also proved that unless there was spiritual energy enhancement, it was difficult for the opponent’s ordinary blade to break through the defense of Little Black’s sharp teeth armor.
What Kazumi needed to do was to consume the opponent’s last spiritual energy reserve sphere with her own abilities. In this way, the opponent, who was wary of Little Black’s abilities, would not be so reckless in launching attacks, especially since the opponent was an experienced professional hero.
If it were a reckless rookie hero, Kazumi might have been a little worried. But for an veteran hero like Yuz, who had been working in the hero profession for four or five years, Kazumi could easily guess his thoughts.
The opponent’s goal from beginning to end was only to prevent the sealing magic array from being broken, and the current situation was that Kazumi had not shown any intention of uncovering the array. Therefore, Yuz had no need to fight the young girl desperately.
Under the premise of ensuring that innocent civilians were not harmed, engaging with the opponent and waiting for teammate support for a righteous group assault was the quality that a true professional hero should possess.
Don’t talk about individual heroism. Those naive newcomers with such thoughts would probably not last the second professional year.
Another point was that Kazumi had completely seen through the opponent’s ability release method.
Although Yuz’s swordsmanship was such that there was no way to deal with it without Little Black confronting him head-on, Kazumi had also noted the act of releasing energy spheres.
The transparent energy spheres could be converted into various abilities, serving as support, enhancement, or possibly direct attack effects.
However, the opponent had never used his abilities to transform into attack-type attributes to attack Kazumi from a distance. Instead, he picked up his weapon and broke through the encirclement of ghouls to engage in close combat with her.
This did not make sense at all.
Kazumi believed that Yuz definitely had such abilities, but what was the reason why he had never chosen to do so?
Too slow.
