CHAPTER 771: 604 THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A YOUNG GIRL

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a deafening roar that was inaudible to others, a terrifying pressure suddenly descended from the sky, enveloping the battlefield within a radius of several dozen meters.

Reiger was shrouded by this sudden pressure, feeling his entire body become immensely heavy.

No, it wasn’t just his body that had become heavy.

If Reiger wasn’t mistaken, his mind was also under an unimaginable strain. If it weren’t for his immunity to mental interference, he would probably be experiencing abnormal mental phenomena such as sensory confusion, dizziness, dull nerves, or even vertigo by now.

Without a doubt, this was a phenomenon created by Liz’s Spiritual Power.

However, the Spiritual Power that swept out from Liz was on a completely different level than before.

Liz’s Spiritual Power had never been this strong before, nor this terrifying.

The little princess, burning with her own immense Magic Power, which even surpassed that of a typical strategic Magician, turned it into astonishing Spiritual Power. While pressing it towards Reiger, she moved with divine speed and fluid swordplay to launch an upper-level slash directly at Reiger.

It took Reiger almost a few seconds to get his body to react. In an extremely urgent state, he flashed to the side with all his might.

The unexpectedly sluggish body response shocked Reiger to the extreme and made Liz’s movements seem as if they were at their utmost swiftness, as if she had anticipated Reiger’s actions. The trajectory of Moslo’s sword, initially a downward slash, changed into a powerful horizontal cut.

Facing this horizontal cut, Reiger wanted to dodge but found his body couldn’t keep up with his exceptional reflexes.

"Clang!"

At the critical moment, Reiger unsheathed his sword in a backhand grip, swung to the side, and just managed to deflect the incoming slash of Moslo’s sword, narrowly avoiding disaster.

Sparks flew between the black blade and the unsheathed golden sword, adding a hint of gunpowder to the master-servant duel.

Amidst the shower of sparks, Reiger leaped away as if borrowing force, creating distance between himself and Liz.

Almost at the same time, Liz shot forward, slashing a large arc of sword light towards Reiger.

"Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang——!"

Instantly, the black blade and the unsheathed golden sword collided frequently, sending sparks scattering everywhere.

Reiger and Liz, one defending with sword blocks and the other attacking with violent slashes, allowed their weapons to strike each other again and again in their ballet of advance and retreat, filling the air with the continuous sound of metal clashing against metal.

"Yah!"

Liz’s eyes, at some point, had begun to glisten with a transparent sheen, her sword pressing in, which prompted a similar resistant glow to emerge in Reiger’s eyes.

In that moment, both master and servant read each other’s moves through the transparent world.

The trajectory of the sword...

The movements of the body...

The distance between them...

Breathing, footwork, gaze, line of sight, muscle movement, the flow of blood, individual habits... and so on and so forth—the two almost instantly understood all of this and reacted accordingly.

Thus, the intensity of the master-servant battle escalated further.

The Spiritual Power emanating from Liz surged, and the Magic Power burning in her also increased.

Streaks of lightning-like light flashed over Reiger’s body, boosting his speed dramatically.

Liz charged at Reiger with a full-force thrust, only to be met with a direct counter-thrust in the same posture from Reiger. The tips of the black sword and the unsheathed golden sword collided with millimeter precision and repelled each other with friction.

This time, Reiger gained the upper hand.

He only took a small step back, while Liz was sent flying a great distance, her petite form tumbling backward as if struck.

Seizing the advantage, Reiger crushed the floor beneath his foot, his form turning into a bolt of lightning, the black sword enveloped in thunder as he slashed ferociously at the retreating Liz.

Liz’s body suddenly erupted with Magic Power, unleashing a storm formed of Spiritual Power that blasted the oncoming Reiger away.

"Swoosh!"

In the next second, Liz, riding the storm created by her Spiritual Power, swept through the space, her figure eerily creating multiple shimmers as if warping space.

Seeing this, Reiger could confidently tell anyone that if he weren’t immune to mental interference, he would definitely be seeing countless Lizs charging at him.

Reiger could only continue to transform into a bolt of lightning, while dodging the Kasaya Slash that brought a trail of phantoms from Liz, as he delivered a slash of high-heat, lightning-shaped cut.

"Thunder Breathing, Five Forms, Hot Realm Thunder!"

The substantial bolt of thunder, like a slashing lightning bolt, shot towards the close-at-hand Liz, leaving her with no room to avoid.

"Breath—inhale—"

In a critical instant, Liz’s breathing rhythm also changed.

She no longer attacked Reiger with a storm-like Spiritual Power, but suddenly darted back and forth like a nimble cat, managing to avoid the lightning-like slashes.

"Love Breath·Third Form·Love Cat Rain!"

The sheathed sword of Moslo traced a path reminiscent of a cat leaping through the air, creating swathes of sword light that sliced at Reiger from all directions.

The relentless barrage of strikes caused Reiger, transformed into a figure of lightning, to falter and become enveloped in a net of slashes, left with no place to hide as if surrounded by a tide of sword light.

Faced with this onslaught, Reiger had to admit that unless he used magic, he could not possibly withstand this attack with sword techniques from Thunder Breathing alone.

But the purpose of this exchange was to test the changes in Liz at the moment; resorting to magic now would defeat the purpose.

Immediately, Reiger did not hesitate to switch his breathing style.

"Moon Breathing·Five Forms·Moon Essence Disaster Vortex!"

This was a defensive technique that could be executed without drawing the sword.

Reiger swiftly rotated his body, and a massive blade wind in the shape of a vortex burst forth, lifting up countless crescent moon blades.

"Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang——!"

In an instant, the countless sword lights slashed out by Liz were repelled by the vortex-like blade wind, scattering in all directions, striking the ground, and leaving gashes as though from steel blades, with cracks spread all over.

"Boom!"

As she reached Reiger, Liz, agile as a cat, was also repelled by the blade wind. With a dull thud, she seemed as though struck by a heavy blow, retreating explosively as her feet skidded across the ground.

"Ahh!"

Liz didn’t give in. Instead, she shouted fiercely, as if trying to prove herself, and charged towards Reiger once again.

"Clang——Clang——Clang——Clang——Clang——"

In the spacious courtyard, the clash of blades resounded fiercely once more, drawing the attention of many people within the Franzel family estate.

Reiger and Liz engaged in a fierce battle here, moving patterns intertwined, swords crisscrossing, producing sporadic bursts of sword light, blade light, thunder light, moonlight, and storms of Spiritual Power.

Liz, undaunted by the mighty foe, pressed her attack on Reiger, the transparent glint in her eyes growing ever brighter, her Magic Power increasing steadily, entering a trance-like state that intensified the ferocity of her assaults.

Reiger could clearly feel the pressure that Liz was exerting at this moment.

He grasped his sword firmly, deflecting a direct slash, and before he could catch his breath, a second strike aimed at his neck forced him to keep parrying with his sword.

But having just blocked that sword strike, within 0.01 seconds, another burst of sword wind from the flank demanded Reiger’s continuous defense with his sword.

Then came strikes at his throat, shoulders, wrists, thighs, and chest, one after another, each repelled by Reiger but followed up relentlessly with further attacks aimed at his throat.

Facing such fierce and sharp assaults, even Reiger had to get serious involuntarily. Although he had not yet resorted to Sun Breathing, mixed breathing techniques, or magic, Reiger found himself pushing the sword techniques and powers of Thunder Breathing and Moon Breathing to their limits without realizing it.

This left Reiger in astonishment.

"This girl... Has she really become this strong?"

By now, Reiger had gained a preliminary understanding of Liz’s transformation.

In general terms, Liz’s own strength hadn’t changed significantly.

Whether it be strength or speed, Liz showed no difference compared to her former self.

In the terminology of Earth Mistake World, Liz’s attribute values actually hadn’t increased, whether it was "strength," "endurance," "dexterity," or "agility," all remained identical to before.

However, while her attribute values hadn’t increased, Liz’s qualities in other respects had exploded upwards.

For example, her reaction time had become significantly stronger, as though she had developed the "fast attack" ability like Reiger himself.

Moreover, Liz’s combat instincts, combat intuition, and combat literacy had undergone transformative improvements.

Furthermore, Liz’s Magic Power, stronger than that of a typical strategic-level magician, made her sword techniques unprecedentedly powerful.

As is well known, the sword techniques of the Akasha continent not only hone the body, stimulating it with Magic Power to become stronger but also high-level sword techniques can activate a variety of special abilities comparable to Magic.

Liz’s War King Sword Skill was a prime example, capable of activating Spiritual Power to interfere with and suppress opponents’ minds, among other effects.

Now, Liz was squandering her enormous Magic Power, skyrocketing her Spiritual Power to dozens or even hundreds of times stronger than before, to the point that even Reiger felt pressed by her Spiritual Power, as if his body was weighed down, not his own, unable to keep up with his developed reflexes and consequently displaying less than half his strength.

This was merely the effect Reiger felt with his immunity to Spiritual Power interference, without which, he could have fallen prey to illusions and been toyed with by Liz.

The current Liz seemed like an entirely different person, or as though she had switched bodies, with every aspect of her potential and literacy enhanced more than tenfold!

"Is this the true nature of a Reinnaier’s bloodline?"

Reiger’s look towards Liz had completely changed from before.