Iri had no intention of giving Death Knight another chance to attack, so she seized the opening Death Knight exposed, generated a Pure Throwing Spear in her hand, and locked onto Death Knight's chest.
The debt for that cut on my chest! I'll pay you back immediately!
"Pure Throwing Spear!" Iri flicked her hand, launching the light spear.
When Iri generated the light spear, Death Knight noticed the magic circle that appeared on her chest, indicating she was locked on. However, when she saw Iri's light spear shooting towards her, she didn't choose to dodge, but instead chose to take it head-on.
"Damage Transfer!"
Before the light spear pierced Death Knight's chest, she activated a spell, distributing the damage from the light spear. Even so, the light spear still caused a considerable amount of damage to her body.
Iri hadn't expected Death Knight to not dodge, but to simply use brute force to take the Pure Throwing Spear. She had thought Death Knight would dodge, and then she would witness the scene of the light spear pursuing her no matter how she tried to evade it. Does this one hit directly reveal that the Throwing Spear's characteristic is a guaranteed hit? She's indeed a troublesome opponent!
"Hehe! Not bad, you brat... To actually be able to injure me... Hahahaha..." Death Knight's tone was a bit distorted as she spoke. Since her head was lowered, it was impossible to tell her current expression, but it was certainly a standard yandere face.
"We're even... You gave me a cut, I stabbed you once. Well then, Heigen-jie, it's time for me to make my exit. Until we meet again." Iri also felt it was time to leave and stop courting death.
"You think you can still leave?! What?!" Death Knight raised her head. Her normally heterochromatic eyes, one black and one white, now had the white eye emitting an eerie red light.
As soon as Iri saw this red light, her body instantly felt paralyzed and she couldn't move. But the next second, Iri could move again. Was that an abnormal status attack?!
Iri once again glanced at her Guardian Ring out of the corner of her eye. The charges were reduced by one... Indeed, she couldn't waste any more. Two out of three daily charges were already used!
"What a pity, Heigen-jie... Although I don't know what you did to me, your little tricks don't work on me." Although she was panicking internally, Iri still maintained a facade of composure on the surface.
She couldn't let her perceive her inner turmoil; she had to trick her into thinking she was completely immune to abnormal status attacks.
"It actually didn't work... You brat, you really surprise me!" Death Knight said, dragging her scythe as she walked step by step towards Iri.
She had to find a way to escape before the last abnormal resistance was used up! Iri's mind went into overdrive. What she needed to do now was to gain an opportunity to use a High-Tier Teleportation Scroll.
But for Death Knight, who was completely enraged, she wouldn't just watch her use a scroll. She had to create an opportunity, preferably one that could restrict her movements, even if only for a short while. However, among all the skills she possessed, restrictive skills were the most lacking! She could only try!
"Magic Boost! Hellish Ice!" Iri pretended to chant a spell, activating Ice Aura against Death Knight, who was approaching her step by step. However, the freezing air generated from Iri's feet was repelled by something as soon as it reached Death Knight's side. Does she have resistance equipment?!
"So... what other moves do you have?! Use them all! Resist as much as you can!" Death Knight laughed happily when she saw Iri use another inexplicable spell that had no effect on her.
"I still have 108 moves, and if I use them all, I'm afraid Heigen-jie won't be able to handle it, so let's decide the winner with my strongest ultimate skill!" Iri said with a confident smile.
"Hoh... Your strongest move? Hahahahaha... Come on!" Death Knight laughed loudly and stood still, seemingly wanting to see what Iri's so-called strongest ultimate skill looked like.
You fell for it! There's no such thing as a strongest ultimate skill! I just said it to trick her. My trump card, Unclean Impact Shield, was just used. Iri naturally had a purpose in tricking her into thinking she was going to use an ultimate skill.
"Take this! My strongest ultimate skill!" Iri gripped the handle of her hammer with one hand and plunged the end into the ground. At that moment, numerous white magic circles instantly flashed around Iri's body.
That's right... Iri's choice was to directly cast Ultimate Magic. However, Iri wasn't casting Skyfall this time, because she had no experience points stored, so she couldn't cast it at all... So this time, Iri was still using Sky Transformation, which could be cast without experience points.
"This is...? Hahahaha... How surprising... To think there's still someone in this era who can use Ultimate Magic, hahahaha! What an unexpected turn. But... you brat, aren't you afraid I'll slice you into pieces before you even activate it?" Death Knight asked with a laugh, looking at the white magic circles around Iri.
"Why should I be afraid? You won't attack me before I activate it, will you, Heigen-jie?" Iri said with considerable confidence.
"Hmph, haha... To be seen through by you, you brat, it truly displeases me." Death Knight's smile became increasingly twisted.
Plan complete! Iri secretly rejoiced in her heart. This gamble had indeed paid off. The self-important look on that guy's face when she heard she was going to use her strongest ultimate skill, she knew her 'nature'.
If she were attacked before her Ultimate Magic was activated, it would mean that Death Knight was afraid of the Ultimate Magic Iri was releasing, and wasn't confident in blocking Iri's strongest ultimate skill. In that case, even if she killed her, Death Knight's twisted personality would probably feel displeased, so... Iri's gamble, where she bet her own safety, was won by Iri.
"Then! Please accept my strongest magic! Ultimate Magic! You all!! Hold her down for me!" However, as Iri activated the Ultimate Magic Sky Transformation, she immediately cast Ruling Spell on Black Scripture, Handsome guy, and Holy Hymn behind Death Knight!
Death Knight's attention was likely fully on the Ultimate Magic Iri was about to cast, so she didn't react immediately and was tackled by Handsome guy and Holy Hymn from behind, who held her tightly.
Tsk... Ruling Spell actually didn't work on Black Scripture, who is a Divine Human... I need to note that down. Well then... Goodbye! Iri immediately pulled out a High-Tier Teleportation Scroll and activated it during this opening.
"You!!" Death Knight then realized she had been tricked, and with a single swing of her scythe, she flung Handsome guy and Holy Hymn away, but it was already too late.
Iri was seen sticking out her tongue at Death Knight and making a funny face before her figure vanished before them.
"D-damn it!!! You remember this!! You brat!!" Then, Death Knight's roar echoed through the forest.
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