Ivar made a strange "chuckle" as he spoke. He only held a table knife in his gloved hand, but the dangerous aura he exuded made Perlis shudder.
This...is going to be a tough battle.
Perlis swallowed her saliva and then clenched the butterfly knife in her hand. There was no turning back now. The man who killed her father was right in front of her. She had to kill him and put an end to all this.
A blizzard swept around the Iron Castle, and the strong winds hit the French windows of the banquet hall. Under the lights of the banquet hall and the gazes of countless Wanrenshan lords, two [Blades of Babel] faced each other.
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6) Blood and Steel (Part 7)
"Is it the Pure White Fireworks? That's the one..."
"The Federation man who escaped from the Angel..."
"What is she doing here? To die?"
"Smash her head and feed it to the dogs..."
The appearance of Perlis obviously broke the silent atmosphere of the banquet. Most of the lords stood up and whispered to each other while looking sternly at Perlis who was confronting Ivar.
This is really a difficult situation.
Perlis quickly looked around and saw that more than a dozen soldiers wearing giant armor had surrounded her, pointing their guns at her.
If we spend time entangled with them, there is a high chance that Ivar will escape.
But if I focus on confronting Ivar, the factor shield that can no longer be replenished will probably be shattered by these investigators soon, and then I will be smashed into pieces by the overwhelming shotgun shells...
Just as Perlis was hesitating, an excited voice came from behind the main table:
"Everyone, stand back! Let them fight! Let them fight!"
Venia's face was filled with excitement, as if he didn't care whether the banquet could continue, and as if he had turned the riot in front of him into a part of the banquet program.
After hearing the order, the soldiers wearing giant armor slowly retreated and put down their guns. They formed a circle like a steel wall, preventing the lords from intervening in the battle while trapping Perlis and Ivar inside.
In the circle, Ivar looked at Perlis uninhibitedly, forcing a wicked smile on his face:
"What? Little Flower, you don't want to say hello to Uncle Ivar when you see him?"
Ivar spoke in a mocking and joking manner, while constantly throwing and catching the beef knife in his hand, looking cynical.
Looking at Ivar's hateful face, Perlis's face was full of anger, and she squeezed out a few words from her throat like a roar:
"It was you who...killed my father..."
"Ah... Are you talking about Edward? Let me think... It seems so..?"
Ivar pretended to be terrified, and then instantly laughed with a bit of madness:
"I forgot to tell you, hahahaha. Can you forgive Uncle Ivar?"
Without saying anything more, Perlis suddenly activated the factor bracelet, leaped in front of Ivar with a flash of red light, and swung the knife fiercely -
"Dang——dang——dang——"
Ivar wielded the dinner knife in his hand to attack Perlis effortlessly. He almost perfectly predicted the position of each of Perlis's strikes, and he wielded the dinner knife very skillfully.
“Hehehe…hehehe…hehehe…”
Perlis's brows furrowed further and further, while Ivar laughed crazily.
"Ahhhh!!!" Perlis roared. She swung the butterfly knife even harder, but it was still easily blocked by the giggling Ivar.
"Dang——dang——"
Seeing the increasingly angry expression on Perlis's face, Ivar's expression became increasingly hysterical:
"You are so! Far! Aren't! You! So! Different! Than Him!!! Stupid Little Flower!!"
Ivar roared and exerted force, swinging his knife at the moment when Perlis's blade came, and hit it hard. Perlis didn't react for a while, and the butterfly knife slipped out of her hand.
"General!"
Ivar shouted with success. He spun the dinner knife in the air and then swung it hard at the unarmed Perlis. Perlis reacted quickly and ducked to avoid Ivar's horizontal slash.
However, Ivar seemed to have known that she would duck, and he kicked her hard in the chest the moment Perlis lowered her head.
"Well!!"
Perlis' eyes suddenly widened, and she only had time to let out a scream before Ivar kicked her frail body away, rolling several times on the ground before stopping.
"Nice fight! Woohoo!" Venia waved his fist happily on the main table. Maybe it was the effect of alcohol, but his face turned red.
Perlis gently rubbed her belly. Should I say this is worthy of Ivar? This blow was so powerful...
But... Damn it, if it weren't for the protection of the factor shield, I would have been seriously injured...
Perlis steadied herself and slowly got up. Before she raised her head, an object was thrown to the ground in front of her:
It's a butterfly knife.
Perlis looked up at Ivar, who was still standing there, with no intention of chasing her. After meeting Perlis's eyes, Ivar saluted gracefully:
"Edward didn't fall down so quickly, did he? Come on, stand up and play more with Uncle Ivar, little flower."
This guy is really annoying...
Perlis grabbed the butterfly knife with one hand, swung it lightly, then unfolded the blade that was shining red and held it tightly in her hand.
"Well, great, this is Edward's daughter."
Watching Perlis pick up the butterfly knife and stand up again, Ivar showed a satisfied expression:
"Try harder and don't let me down, okay?"
As Ivar spoke, he casually twirled the table knife with his slender gloved fingertips, as if he was playing with a pen. It was casual, relaxed, and elegant, and paired with his crazy expression, it created an extremely strange aura.
Perlis looked at Ivar viciously. She slowly lowered her body. If she continued to attack him directly, he would block her directly. She had to find a way to outsmart him.
Even though there were countless strong emotions in Perlis' heart that wanted to burst out, she gradually suppressed them at this moment. If she was facing those miscellaneous soldiers, it would be fine, but the enemy in front of her was the [Scavenger] Ivar Sekepas, who ranked three places higher than her in the [Blade of Babel]. This was definitely not an enemy that could be easily dealt with.
Perlis looked at Ivar carefully. It was obvious that he was not carrying any factor shield or factor energy weapons. The suspicious young master Venia would never let anyone other than his own descendants and soldiers bring weapons into the banquet. He probably never thought that Perlis would sneak in disguised as a maid, but he would definitely be wary of dangerous people like Ivar.
In this case, Ivar's breakthrough point is probably his weapon. Perlis carefully looked at the table knife in Ivar's hand. Even though the butterfly knife had little factor energy left, the previous rounds of fighting had left several small gaps on the silver table knife. If he could be disarmed, the chances of winning this battle would be great.
What a pity... If the factor energy index here is normal, in this case, Perlis would probably only need one [Factor Burst] to deal with the unarmed Ivar. The abnormal factor energy on the snowy mountain is really inappropriate.
"Hey, little flower, you're not scared again, are you?"
Seeing that Perlis had been standing there without moving, Ivar spread his hands helplessly:
"Uncle Ivar will be very disappointed if that happens, hehe..."
"Shut up, you're noisy." Perlis said coldly.
"Wow... so fierce... I don't remember teaching you to talk to adults like this, cute little flower..." Ivar scratched his head in fear, "Did you learn bad things from the Thebits?"
"I told you to shut up..."
Perlis gently turned her wrist, releasing some of the factor energy stored in the bracelet, then she turned the butterfly knife twice and injected more factor energy into it.
"I am not a captive flower of the Federation, nor am I the [Blade of Babel]..."
Perlis raised the butterfly knife and pointed the tip at Ivar.
"Perlis Hafgard died a long time ago. The ghost standing before you is the Scarlet Shadow, a raging fire that will burn your spine..."
Yes, the little girl who was kept in the dark and kept as a loyal dog of the Federation... the little girl who watched her ordinary and perfect days being ruthlessly taken away and could only cry in the icy rain, is dead.
She wants to end it all with the sharp blade that once belonged to her father.
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6) Blood and Steel (Part 8)
Looking at Perlis who looked serious and determined, Ivar stared at her blankly for a while, then murmured:
"【Red Shadow】...Who are you talking about..."
Ivar pretended to be thinking, and asked the lords around him one by one:
"Do you know...? What about you? Do you know who the [Red Shadow] is?"
Most of the lords looked at Ivar with disgust, as if they were looking at something dirty. After Ivar asked around without any results, he suddenly clicked his head as if something had clicked:
"Oh! Yes! I remember now!"
Ivar looked directly at Perlis with an ugly smile:
“Didn’t I kill [Red Ghost]?! Hahahaha!!!”
Seeing Ivar's disgusting look, Perlis felt a surge of anger. She no longer suppressed her impulse, but let her body take over her plan freely:
"Ahhhhh!!"
Accompanied by a flash of red light, Perlis flashed forward, appeared in front of Ivar, and swung the butterfly knife fiercely.
"This again? Are you bored?" Ivar calmly picked up the table knife and rushed forward. The butterfly knife and the table knife collided with each other.
"clang--"
Ivar accurately caught Perlis's blow, just like before.
However, this time, Perlis's strategy changed. At the moment of the blade collision, Perlis suddenly released her strength, kicked her legs backwards, turned around and rushed towards the encirclement formed by the giant armor behind her. She ran to the edge of the encirclement in a few steps, then leaped up and kicked a soldier on the chest armor, using the force to kick -
"call out--"
This series of actions took place in just two seconds. From Ivar's perspective, Perlis disappeared from in front of him almost instantly, and then flew back into the air.
Perlis adjusted her posture in mid-air, then turned lightly and swung the butterfly knife in her hand fiercely -
"clang--"
Ivar reacted very quickly and caught Perlis's butterfly knife for the second time. This time the attack with charged force was obviously more fierce than the previous one. The difference was that Perlis concentrated almost all her strength on this point, so Ivar had no chance to deflect the knife.
"Xiaohuaer, you are so smart..."
Ivar muttered, and just as he was about to do something, Perlis followed suit and jumped back under the acceleration of [Factor Potential Energy]. She once again leaped onto the chest of a giant armored warrior and leaped up -
"clang--"
Afterwards, Perlis continued to carry out this step silently. More and more soldiers were used as springboards by Perlis. Because of Venia's order, these soldiers could not retreat or open fire. They could only silently serve as Perlis's tools.
"clang--"
"clang--"
"clang--"
Ivar tried to find some opportunities to counterattack, but Perlis's speed was getting faster and faster. She almost abandoned all the factor energy used to maintain the factor shield, and instead used all the factor energy to increase her speed.
Seeing that Perlis was getting faster and faster, Ivar could only passively swing his sword to block.
Finally, after a powerful blow from Perlis, Ivar felt the knife in his hand suddenly become much lighter.
"Ding--"
The butterfly knife with weak factor energy finally cut off the table knife in Ivar's hand. The silver half of the blade flew up under the lights of the banquet hall, reflecting the brilliant light from the banquet lights and the gift tree.
Ivar's fighting instinct drove him to react very quickly. He loosened his right hand, letting the hilt of the knife fall to the ground, and then grabbed Perlis's right hand holding the knife, trying to control her wrist.
However, as if she had known that Ivar would use this trick, Perlis threw the butterfly knife in her right hand into the air in advance, and concentrated on slowing down the time in front of her. At the same time that Ivar's right hand grasped her wrist, she used her left hand to catch the butterfly knife that was constantly spinning in the air.
Then, Perlis did not use the butterfly knife to cut Ivar's throat as usual. She aimed at Ivar's throat when she stabbed him in the back, for she predicted that Ivar would be on guard. She gently lowered her left hand, and the red-shining blade went around Ivar's throat. As expected, Ivar protected his throat with his left arm in the shortest possible time. At this decisive moment, Perlis aimed at Ivar's heart.
"Rest in peace, Scavenger."
Pearlis opened her lips slightly, she knew that she had won, and won completely.
Time slowed down. She saw the momentary astonishment in Ivar's eyes, and the disbelief that the unruly man showed after he made a misjudgment.
It's over, everything is over. The moment Perlis knew the truth, the [Scavenger] in front of her and the man who held her hand in the icy rain were completely separated, as if they were two completely different people.
Passing through the smoke of Charon and tearing through the blizzard of Thebe, all of this seemed to be for this moment.
Perlis stabbed with all her strength the butterfly knife in her left hand. The sharp blade, shining with red light, pierced through Ivar's heavy defenses and hit him directly in the chest.
It's over, it's finally over.
However, at the moment when Perlis thought everything was over, a sound that was impossible to happen sounded where the blade met Ivar's chest -
"clang--"
