manynovel Chapter 1268 Dillian's Death
Chapter 1268 Dillian's Death
In the arena, Su Xiao began to take the initiative to attack.
His figure moved swiftly across the sand, the Dragon Slayer Blade drawing blue-green arcs in his hand, each strike aimed at Dillin's vitals.
Dillian retreated step by step, her rapier barely able to parry Su Xiao's attacks. Each strike forced her back a step, and each strike intensified the numbness in her arm.
Her boots left footprints of varying depths in the sand, stretching from one side of the arena to the other like a winding line.
Tiny fragments of exile appeared beside Su Xiao and then flew towards Di Lin.
The fragments were so small they were almost invisible. They floated in the air and moved slowly toward Dillian, as if Su Xiao were trying to drive Dillian away with banishment.
When Dillian saw the exiled fragments, Li Yuansu shifted his wings and turned his head with all his might, barely dodging the exiled creatures.
Her reaction speed was indeed fast, and her coordination in the air was excellent. The exiled fragments grazed past her ears, less than a centimeter away from her skin.
But just as she thought she had dodged it, the exiled fragments suddenly split apart, turning into countless dust-sized particles that drifted in the air and completely enveloped her.
Dillian's pupils contracted slightly.
She knew what it was; Serphilia had told her during training that it was the basic form of exile, which, after splitting, would attach itself to the target and continuously erode the target's energy circuits.
But she also had a way to deal with it. Serphia had fought against the previous Spellbreakers, so of course she had a way to deal with banishment.
"Li·Resonance Explosion".
A shockwave spread outwards from Dillin's center; the shockwave was not a physical phenomenon, but rather a resonance at the energy level.
It penetrated those exiled particles, triggering an energy resonance within the particles and breaking them down from the inside.
Those tiny particles exploded during the resonance, turning into even smaller specks of light, and then completely dissipated into the air.
The shockwave blasted the fragmented Exile away, pushing the remaining particles to the edge of the arena, where they crashed into the barrier and exploded into a shower of golden light.
Dilline's breathing quickened. The resonance explosion was very taxing on her, and each time she used it, her mental strength would drop by a level, but she had no other choice.
If the banishment is not removed, those particles will continue to erode her Li element, making her weapons and wings increasingly unstable.
She gritted her teeth and reconstituted the Li element wings. Golden light unfolded from her back, slightly dimmer than before, but still enough to support her flight.
Just as Dillian was being held back by exile, Su Xiao made his move.
Instead of rushing towards Dillian, he threw the Dragon Slayer Blade from his hand, the longsword spinning in the air as it flew towards Dillian.
Dillian caught a glimpse of the approaching black shadow out of the corner of her eye. She quickly held her rapier horizontally behind her, the blade colliding with the Dragon Slayer, producing a crisp metallic clang.
Dillian blocked the Dragon Slayer Flash, but her expression was not good.
A small crack appeared on the blade of the rapier, spreading outwards from the point of impact like a fine spider web.
Her arm was trembling, and the wound on her hand was torn open a little more, with blood flowing down the hilt of the sword and dripping onto the sand, spreading a small patch of dark red among the golden grains.
But what terrified her even more was that after being blocked, the Dragon Slayer did not land, but hovered in mid-air, its tip turning around and thrusting at her again.
Su Xiao used the Boundary Lines to perform a remote control maneuver. Those delicate threads were connected to the hilt of the Dragon Slayer Blade. Under his control, the Dragon Slayer Blade was like a puppet being pulled by strings, drawing strange arcs in the air and stabbing towards Di Lin from various angles.
However, Dilline had learned her lesson about the broken boundary line when she was on the barren island, so she went back and specifically studied how to deal with it.
She reached out with her left hand and a short sword of the Li element appeared in her palm. She threw the short sword at the Dragon Slayer, and the blade collided with the Dragon Slayer, deflecting its trajectory slightly.
At the same time, she thrust her rapier forward, the tip pointing directly at Su Xiao's chest.
Su Xiao dodged the rapier by sidestepping, pulled the Boundary Severing Line with his right hand, and the Dragon Slayer Flash drew an arc in mid-air before returning to his hand.
The moment he got his grip on the hilt, he took a step forward and unleashed a horizontal slash, the blade aimed straight for Dillian's waist and abdomen.
Dillian had no time to dodge and could only parry with her rapier held upright at her side.
The moment the sword and blade collided, the energy of the Azure Steel Shadow spread up the rapier, not towards Dillian's arm, but towards the longbow in her other hand and the Li elemental wings on her back.
Dillian felt a cold current travel through her rapier, through her palm, up her arm, and then split into two streams at her shoulder: one flowing towards the longbow in her left hand, and the other towards the wings on her back.
She instinctively tried to release the rapier, but it was too late.
With a cracking sound.
All the Li elements manifested by Dillian shattered simultaneously.
The longbow exploded in her left hand, turning into countless golden fragments that scattered in all directions.
The wings on its back began to disintegrate from the base, and the golden feathers fell off one by one, swirling in the air a few times before dissipating.
Her body lost its support and began to fall from mid-air, her boots hanging less than a meter above the sand, making her look like a bird with broken wings.
The next second, Su Xiao delivered a side kick, striking Di Lin in the ribs.
The kick was incredibly powerful; the moment the sole of the boot made contact with Dillian's body, it produced a dull thud, like a heavy hammer hitting a sandbag.
Dillian felt a dull pain in half of her torso. It wasn't a sharp, stabbing pain, but a dull pain that spread from her bones outwards, as if someone had broken her ribs one by one and then inserted red-hot iron blocks into the broken points.
She heard a sharp crack as a rib broke, and Dillian flew out with a whoosh.
Her body traced an arc in mid-air, like a stone kicked into the air, moving so fast that it left a blurry afterimage in the air.
She crashed into the light barrier at the edge of the arena with a loud bang, and the entire barrier trembled slightly.
Her back pressed against the wall of light, then she slowly slid down, collapsing onto the sand, her head bowed, her long golden hair falling over her shoulders, obscuring her face.
The moment Su Xiao landed, he shot out like a cannonball.
He was so fast that he left a deep groove in the sand, and sand grains flew to both sides, forming two trails of white dust.
As he passed the spot where the Dragon Slayer was stuck in the sand, the Boundary Line began to contract, and the Dragon Slayer was pulled out of the sand, spun a few times in mid-air, and landed steadily in his hand.
He thrust forward with the long sword, the tip aimed straight for Dillian's chest.
Almost instinctively, Dillian raised her hand, and a shield of Li elemental energy condensed in front of her.
This is her fighting instinct, a conditioned reflex honed through countless battles. She doesn't need to think or judge; her body reacts automatically.
But it was this very instinct she usually relied on that caused her harm at this moment.
The Dragon Slayer Flash pierced through the Li Element Shield without any obstruction.
The blade pierced through the shield from the front and exited from the back, with golden fragments exploding on both sides of the blade like a blooming golden flower.
The blade didn't stop; it continued forward, piercing Dillian's shoulder, passing through the gap in her shoulder blade, piercing the muscle, piercing the blood vessels, and only stopping when the tip of the blade struck the light barrier behind her.
Dark red blood gushed from Dylin's shoulder, trickling down the blade and dripping onto the sand, spreading a large, dark, damp patch among the golden grains.
Dillian gritted her teeth, her lips turned white, and her forehead was covered in cold sweat, but she didn't make a sound or even frown.
Her right hand clenched tightly, her fingers forming a fist, her nails digging into the flesh of her palm. The pain kept her conscious until the very end.
"Ah!" Dillian roared, her voice radiating a fierce, almost manic intensity. Her voice echoed through the arena, carrying a near-mad, desperate resolve, like a wild beast driven to its last gasp.
With her left hand gripping the blade of the Dragon Slayer, ignoring the pain of the blade cutting her palm, she pulled it out of her shoulder with a sudden jerk.
Dark red blood gushed from the wound, splashing a blinding red across the sand.
puff.
Dillian's right arm flew off. It wasn't Su Xiao who cut it; she cut it herself.
She used the Li element to condense a short sword and severed her own right arm with one stroke.
The severed arm tumbled several times in mid-air before landing on the sand, its fingers still twitching slightly.
There was no large amount of blood gushing out from the cut, because the high temperature of the Li element burned and sealed the blood vessels the moment they were severed, but the smell of burning permeated the air, making people nauseous.
Dillian's eyes were filled with madness.
She wasn't harming herself; she was saving herself.
Her right arm had already been largely eroded by the Blue Steel Shadow energy. If it wasn't severed in time, the energy would spread throughout her body via her blood vessels, and then she would truly have no last chance.
She would rather lose an arm than admit defeat like this.
Su Xiao frowned slightly as he watched Di Lin's severed arm fall onto the sand.
He then delivered a straight kick to Dillian's lower abdomen.
That kick was even more powerful than before. The moment the sole of the boot made contact with Dillian's abdomen, it produced a dull thud, like a muffled thunderclap.
Dillian's body flew backward and crashed into the light barrier behind her with a loud bang. Blood splattered and exploded on the light barrier, and dark red blood droplets flowed down the light barrier, leaving winding blood streaks on the surface of the barrier.
Dilline slid off the wall of light and collapsed onto the sand.
Her left arm hung down at her side, while blood was still seeping from the severed wound on her right arm, and the smell of burning flesh grew stronger.
Her breathing was rapid, and each breath aggravated the wound in her chest, causing her brows to furrow involuntarily.
"Bastard." Her voice was hoarse, carrying an indescribable emotion.
It was as if she was questioning Su Xiao, or perhaps questioning herself: Why couldn't she win?
She prepared for so long, used so many trump cards, and paid such a high price, so why couldn't she win?
puff.
Another stab.
Su Xiao appeared in front of her, unleashing a horizontal slash that sliced across her throat.
Dillian's neck was slashed open with a deep, bone-revealing wound. Dark red blood gushed from the wound, flowing down her neck and soaking her collar.
Her eyes were fixed on Su Xiao, her pupils bloodshot, her lips trembling slightly as if she wanted to say something, but only a broken breath escaped her throat.
At that moment, the various earrings on her right ear all lit up with a blue light.
Those were life-saving items given to her by Serphilia. Each earring was sealed with a powerful protective spell that could save her life in critical moments.
Blue light emanated from the earring, forming a thin shield over Dylin's body.
But Su Xiao's blade was too fast; it was so fast that before the shield could fully deploy, the blade had already sliced across her throat.
The blue light flickered a few times at the wound, then quickly dimmed, and the earrings shattered one by one, falling from her earlobes and landing on the sand, breaking into tiny fragments.
As Dillian watched the fragments of the earrings scattered on the sand, reflecting tiny blue lights among the golden grains, her last glimmer of hope shattered.
She looked up at the man in front of her who was holding a long knife.
The blue-green arcs of electricity on the blade reached their peak at that moment, and a blinding light exploded in the sky above the arena, illuminating the entire sandy area as if it were daytime. He took a step forward, his body spun, and the longsword drew a perfect arc in mid-air.
Blade Path - Absolute Darkness.
In Dilling's vision, the world around her suddenly turned pitch black.
She could see nothing, hear nothing, and even the sound of her own heartbeat had disappeared.
Her senses were completely disabled in the darkness. She couldn't sense where Su Xiao was, where Zhanlong Shan was, or even her own body.
All she could see were those three slashes, the slashes that were coming straight at her.
Dilling gritted her teeth; she couldn't just give up like that.
Her left hand gripped the cracked rapier. She could still feel the faint reaction of the Li element on the blade. Although it was unstable, it was still usable.
She swung her sword to parry, while simultaneously using her last bit of spiritual energy to condense weapons of the Li element in front of her.
The weapons were very unstable; some disintegrated as soon as they took shape, and others vanished after only half of them had materialized. But at least a few of them stood in her way at crucial moments.
Three lines of blood were drawn in mid-air.
The first line of blood runs diagonally downwards from Dillian's left shoulder, across her chest, and down to her right waist.
The second line of blood extends diagonally downwards from her right shoulder, across her chest, and down to her left waist.
A third line of blood ran across her abdomen, connecting the first two lines and forming an inverted V-shaped pattern on her chest.
The rapier in Dillian's hand was shattered, the fragments scattering and landing on the sand with a soft clattering sound.
The Li elemental weapons that were blocking her way shattered, the golden fragments flashing briefly in the darkness before fading away.
Three deep cuts appeared on her chest, so deep that the muscles and bones underneath were visible. Dark red blood gushed from the wounds, instantly soaking her clothes.
Su Xiao looked at Di Lin; he had seen many people like her before.
Before Di Lin could speak, Su Xiao's long knife had already pierced her chest.
The knife tip pierced directly below the sternum, traveled diagonally upwards, and precisely penetrated the heart.
The slash was so fast that Dilling didn't even feel the pain; she only felt a chill on her chest, and then the whole world began to blur.
Her gaze was wavering; the arena lights made the blurry figures in the stands sway; everything was swaying.
Dilling's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but only a broken breath escaped her throat.
Her left hand loosened, and the broken rapier slipped from her grasp, landing on the sand with a crisp sound.
Her body began to lean forward, her forehead resting on Su Xiao's shoulder, her long golden hair cascading over his black trench coat like a golden waterfall.
Su Xiao didn't move; he just stood there, letting Di Lin lean on his shoulder.
He simply stood there, like a silent bystander, witnessing the end of a life. (End of Chapter)