บท 71: Edwin VS the White-robed Figure
Amidst the snow covered forest, Edwin carefully sneaked towards the white-robed figure to attack it.
The image of how he was framed was still fresh in his mind, the explosive attack from the bow, and that projectile that released the blinding light.
In addition, there was also that powerful attack from the bow, but Edwin knew that it wasn't because of the real power of the figure, but it was from the weapon itself.
Plus, he wasn't really planning to kill the figure, but only scaring and also to take the bow to teach it a lesson.
Also, he wanted to test his new strength into full potential. When he encountered the demonic crocodile, he could only evade, while when he met Rein, he wouldn't even get to retaliate or escape.
He thought he was even lucky that the deer didn't kill him in the end, like it was about to do in the first place.
With what occurred during these last few days in the Monarch Forest, it also attested on how dangerous the inner region of the said location was.
Even though he wanted to teach the white-robed figure a lesson, Edwin was still cautious by this point, because anybody weak could be stronger than one would initially see.
When Edwin got exactly some distance away from the back of the white-robed figure, the former saw from behind the bush he was hiding at, that the latter was drinking water from an unfrozen stream.
He unsheated both of his daggers and waited for an opportunity.
-whoosh-
Edwin initiated Burst Steps and ran towards the white-robed figure.
The figure sensed something was wrong and immediately dodged to the side, but it was a bit too slow, and Edwin got to kick the figure away its sides, making it fly away.
When it landed on the ground, the figure swiftly took out a short sword from its sleeves. At the same time, Edwin rushed towards the figure with Burst Steps, and both the short sword and daggers collided.
-clang-
The figure took several steps back due to Edwin's overwhelming strength, after all, the latter was exactly one sub-level above the former.
On the other hand, Edwin was surprised when he felt that his hand has gone numb after the exchange. He glanced at the opponent's weapon and saw that the short sword also has a faint engravings just like the bow.
He attacked again while the figure only defended. This time, Edwin used his full strength and sent the figure flying away, however, his hands went numb again, and this time, the numbness that was inflicted was much greater than before!
"A specially enhanced weapon?", Edwin realized what kind of weapon the short sword was. He redirected some of his internal energy to his hands, but the numbness didn't even fade away!
Soon, the white robed figure stood up from the ground and counterattacked with its short sword.
This time, Edwin didn't dare block or parry the short sword and only kept dodging, or else he would lose his daggers after his hands got too numb!
After a while, ironically, the white robed figure slowly suppressed Edwin, which annoyed the latter, after all, his strength was a level above the enemy!
-sou-
A flash flew from Edwin's daggers each, the said action caught the opponent off guard and forced it to meet both of the flashes head-on with its short sword.
The flashes made the white robe figure take a few steps back due to their strength, but it was met by more flashes than then split into smaller ones, which was none other than Multi-Flash.
After a while, their distance from each other increased. Now, there were a few cuts on the enemy's robe due to getting overwhelmed by the flashes.
"I need to finish this.", Edwin said to himself. The white-robed figure wasn't that powerful in terms of pure strength, however, the enhanced weapons that it was wielding closed in the gap between their attack power.
But before he could even start to act, the white robed figure readied its bow, then immediately launched several arrows in a very fast pace!
-whoosh- -whoosh- -whoosh-
"Oh s-...", Edwin's sentence was cut midway because he started to dodge the arrows.
-boom- -boom- -boom
As the arrows were released from the bow, they turned into beams of light and piercing sounds echoed throughout the surroundings along with explosions.
"How could I forget about the bow!", Edwin grumbled. He was too focused on the short sword that he didn't pay attention on the bow.
While shooting out arrows from time to time to hinder Edwin, the white robed figure started to back off, in a bid to leave the area.
'I'm not going to let you leave!'
He initiated Shadow Steps at its limit and evaded the beams of light while closing in the distance on the figure.
The figure's chin instantly rose in surprised that Edwin got to dodge the attacks while decreasing their distance from each other.
However, rather than panicking, it started to nock two arrows at once!
-whoosh-
The first arrow was dodged, but as soon as Edwin evaded it, the second arrow was by his side!
He avoided the second one, but due to the short distance between the two arrows, his face was grazed by it and a wound formed!
Soon, more pairs of arrow were simultaneously shot out, however, this time Edwin anticipated it and avoided all of them.
As soon as their distance from each other shortened at a certain point, Edwin disappeared in an instant.
The figure was startled and stopped pulling the bowstring to equip itself with the short sword.
However, Edwin reappeared on the back of the figure and took this opportunity to pull away the bow from the latter's body!
He successfully pulled the bow and threw it away, and taking this chance he also grasped the enemy's wrist!
He also took this chance to pull out more weapons which were hidden, like the short sword, the small crystals that gave off blinding light, and a tiny box.
Everything happened swiftly that the figure didn't even get to retaliate, after Edwin was sure that there were no more weapons, he kicked the figure on its abdomen and flew a few meters away.
"The things that occurred these past few days... is really stressful!", Edwin angrily shouted as he approached the figure.
"First, I was forced to hide like a coward from a demonic crocodile!", he sent out a flash.
The flash hit the side of the figure, who was about to try to stand up and escape, but the flash hindered it from doing so.
"Then I got framed by you and a herd of deers chased me endlessly!", he sent out an another flash at the side of the figure, almost hitting it.
"After that... a freaking deer almost raped me to death! But no... it was actually enjoying me trying to escape, as if I'm a pitiful animal!", Edwin exaggerated and sent out an another flash to block the escape of the figure.
"Then I was forced to work together with that deer to escape a Magic Frostbite!", he sent out an another flash.
"Now, I was just going to teach you a lesson for framing me, because your strength is one freaking lower than mine!", he sent an another flash.
"But oh wait, no, instead I was almost trashed like an animal again, by somebody who is suppose to be much weaker than me!", he wiped off the blood flowing from the wound on his face and put some pressure on it with his hands.
He sent out an another flash to the side of the figure.
"I can live with the issue about the demonic crocodile and the deer, but not getting overwhelmed by the likes of you, because I still have a freaking pride!", Edwin angrily said and sent out more flashes to the enemy's sides.
"I already considered that I shouldn't kill you, but because of what happened, you might call more of your friends, after all, you're obviously not alone in this forest with that kind of level of strength!"
When he reached the white robed figure, he kicked its abdomen again and pinned it down, "Consider yourself dead!"
He lifted up one of his daggers and filled it with internal energy.
As he was about to kill the figure, the latter coughed out blood and the large hood that was covering most of the upper part of its face was removed.
Edwin stopped his action at last moment, when he saw the face of the figure.
"An elf?", he blurted out in surprise.
However, it wasn't just an elf, but a female elf!
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