Walking through the wall of water that Incus made, Ulna pinched herself.

"So this isn’t a dream, I suspect that everyone here already knows that we’re in a novel... why did you take so long to tell me." Ulna sighed, drinking a mana potion she pulled out of Alleus’ pouch.

"Would you have rather be told that you were in a novel as soon as your companions died or later." Alleus then stared daggers at me, " We didn’t want you to fall deeper in despair, so we held it off."

"Everyone get ready for combat, a demon is nearing!" Lieur shouted, squinting at something far in the distance.

Reading the window screen in the air, Incus is going to be battling another demon but this time it wasn’t just a normal demon.

Suddenly, something fell from the sky and crashed into the ground.

Swiping the thick cloud of smoke away, a tall lanky demon with four arms, wore the same clothes as Gratius was looming over Incus.

"Well well well, what do we have here... it was strange seeing that large chunk of stone falling from the sky since it was Gratius’ strongest spell. Do you know what happened to him, after all his trace of mana had completely disappeared." The four armed demon then licked one of his sickle shaped swords.

"You must mean Gratius. Yes, it was me." Incus said bluntly.

A wide face ripping grin then appeared on the demon’s face.

"You must be quite the opponent then, I shall brandish my blade in your blood—!"

Interrupting the demon, Incus suddenly bolted forward.

With their blades forming sparks, as their swords scraped against each other.

"Impatient are we now!" The demon then slammed Incus away.

Catching herself before she made impact with the water, Incus said:

"Check status." As Incus stepped forward, an interface in front of her appeared.

╔═══〔Status Window〕═══╗

𓆩༺「Information」༻𓆪

[Name: Tigbone]

[Class: Warrior]

[※ Equipment]

✦ Star crimson cloak of the arch demoness

✦ Steel blindfold

[※ Weapons]

✦ Demonic sickle sword

✦ Demonic sickle sword

𓆩༺「Stat points」༻𓆪

[Strength: 80]

[Agility: 78]

[Vitality: 65/65]

[Mana: 75]

[Intelligence: 32]

𓆩༺「Skills」༻𓆪

[Mastered Dual swordsmanship] [Advanced Limit surge] [Advanced Blade aura] [Mastered Perception] [Advanced Acrobatics] [Unique Skill: Movement copy]

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Looking down, Incus’ finger twitched slightly.

"Getting cold feet? Of course you should... I am the strongest amongst the legion!" The demon ’Tigbone’ laughed maniacally.

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[Chapter 142: The purifying of the water kingdom (2)]

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Scrapping all swords on the ground, the demon Tigbone lunged forward.

Jumping out of the way, Incus summoned the [Lightning Hero’s sword] and [Fire hero’s sword].

"Excaliburn!"

An arc of flame shot out but Tigbone had slashed through the blaze.

Stabbing one of his [Sickle sword]s into the ground, Tigbone grabbed Incus by the collar of her armor before throwing Incus at the buildings.

Crashing through multiple buildings, Incus used excaliburn to stop herself from flying away any further.

’This bastard is stronger than me... but I’ve faced stronger, he is no Dragonborn.’ Incus spat a mucus of blood, ’I wonder if I’ll finally get stat points once I defeat Tigbone... not even slaying Gratius raised my level.’

Picking herself out of the rubble, she glanced around.

There were still plenty of survivors that remained, it seems that the knights couldn’t get past the wall of water.

"Gather all of the survivors and make sure they don’t get in my way, I’m not going to be able to protect you while fighting." Incus coldly glared

"O-Okay!" The survivors then began running away, picking up any stranglers.

"Excalibolt." Cloaking herself in lightning, Incus blitzed towards Tigbone. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

However Tigbone had met her half way as he had grown impatient.

"Let’s get this party shall we!" Tigbone slammed two of his swords down, making Incus crash to the ground.

Catching herself, Incus jumped back up and threw the [Lightning hero’s sword].

Blocking the throw, Tigbone groaned, not out of agony but because of the simple minded attack.

Outraged, he lunged forward and swung a combination of sword strikes.

"Scales of dragon, block every attack!" The scales then shot out, attempting to block every slash.

But because of the sheer strength of the strikes, the scales didn’t provide much defense aside from delaying attacks.

Summoning back the [Lightning hero’s sword], Incus was being pushed back.

Their clashing of swords destroyed the environment near them as every slash was enough to kill the average knight, multiple knights.

Deflecting the attacks, Incus was accumulating a multiple amount of blunt damage towards her ribs.

Not bothering with the injury that was slowly growing bigger, Incus gritted her teeth.

Jumping back, Incus quickly summoned the [Fire hero’s sword].

"Excaliburn!"

Dodging the arc of flame, the demon Tigbone coated his blade with mana, using [Blade aura] and countered with an upwards strike.

Barely dodging the attack, Incus hammered the hero swords against each other.

"Let’s pick up the pace shall we? Although it’s been fun, I’ve grown bored of your simple minded swordsmanship... there’s no way someone like you defeated Dragonborn." Tigbone scoffed.

Incus’ eye then twitched.

Blitzing forward with lightning speed, Incus jumped around from building to building.

The environment around the demon Tigbone was a complete static of electrifying lightning.

Laughing madly, the demon Tigbone raised all four [sickle sword]s.

"Scales of dragon, hasten my speed."

Wrapping around her legs, the [Dragon scales armor] surged incredible speed within Incus.

Shrouding her blades in [Blade aura], Incus began slowly cutting down the demon Tigbone.

Leaving himself completely defenseless, Tigbone sighed a breath of cold air.

When Incus was about to deliver a killing blow, Tigbone shifted his weight and slammed all four of his swords down.

"Urgh!" Incus groaned, the abrupt impact catching her off guard.

"Like I said... let’s pick up the pace." The demon Tigbone grinned upside down, still not impressed by the flashy display of swordsmanship.

With his muscles bulging, Tigbone pushed Incus down to her knees.

"You are strong indeed, but this strength is not yours. It’s evident in how you compose yourself." Looking down at the pitiful sight with black hair, Tigbone continued. "You improvise everything that you do... tell me, have you actually taken time to truly train your body. Your techniques aren’t even worth copying."

"Shut up!" Incus pushed Tigbone away.

With a bulging vein on her forehead, Incus activated [Limit surge]

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