WOORFFF !!!

the three dog-men let out huge deafening howls that looked much like lion roars as they slashed downward at the humans that were coming out.

But Claire was fiercer than ever as she advanced without fear before rolling directly to the right as she saw Lester and the others go help Philip and Eillen that were about to fight the two rat-man, followed just after by Hector that blocked three incoming slashes but got pushed back by the sheer strength of their attacks.

But he wasn't sent away as he tough as his body was leaving the ground, Clement came behind him just before it happen, stopping him with his shield making him grunt from the pain, they quickly nodded each other as they looked at each other, before Hector came back this time retaliating diagonally at the beast closer to Claire stopping him from moving using all his weight as their sword clashed, not caring for the other dog-men that were about to slash at him.

Claire didn't miss the chance as she leaped at him swinging her sword diagonally with all her strength aiming for the dog neck.

pufffff!!

the dog men head flew in the sky before falling back on the road, but Claire continued with the momentum of her attack to block the two incoming slash of the two dog men remaining, as Hector rolled to her side standing up before dashing back at them, stepping to the side and slashing at the one to his left that looked at him with a terrified face as he just understood he was going to die but suddenly his eyes became red as he came out of the entanglement with Claire that tried her best to block both beasts.

Her eyes filled with unwillingness her heart beating faster as she felt her energy inside her body quickly reacting to her command as she mentally gathered energy both from the air and her own mixing them together and shot it at the one still blocked by her, like a bullet as she felt that no matter the form of the energy she gathered as long she knows how she wanted to use it, it will automatically adapt, as her energy coming from her bloodline would shape it to her will although it required more fluidity to make it work perfectly she instinctively started to understood how to use it more efficient during this battle both excited and frightened as she knows that if it wasn't for John and Hector who followed her when she came out she might have died.

hoping she could finish him in time and maybe help Hector.

Hector on the other hand didn't panic as he felt everything happening in front of him and as the sword of the dog man touched his sword he suddenly shot with all his strength stopping his horizontal slash to a vertical one using tilting slightly his wrist taking the sword off the hand of the dog men, to finally slash downward with the same intensity opening the head of the dog men and then cut his head off.

everything happened so fast that even he didn't know what he just did, since during this slight movement when he saw the dog men attacking him his body did what he learned for his basics sword movement as he felt that he didn't have time to use his shield to block this attack even if it would only take one to three seconds but those seconds would have decided if he would survive or not.

all of this happened in just two to three seconds, his hands still trembling both of fear and excitement as he knows that if that dog man wasn't taken by surprise by his move it would be his head that would be cut off.

he was amazed, not sure if it was thanks, to the system skills, that he could execute this parry movement so fluently and still keep going with a heavy slash that opened the dog men head his body seemed like if he had done it all his life.

Claire's fight finished just as she tough she would she was much worried about Hector that had a huge wound from his chest to his left cheek making it look really gloomy as he smiled at his victory and it seemed he himself didn't notice he was wounded as he was smiling stupidly.

but she quickly looked at Philip and Eillen the both of them were dealing with the two rat-man ..............

She was speechless as she saw what was happening Lester and Clement were able to encircle them with Philip and Eillen but they weren't able to kill them only leaving small cut, but for them, their body was now covered with their own blood and multiple wounds.

ha....haaa.....haa

Philip was looking for a way to finish them but they were too fast for them, they were lucky that they weren't enough strong to wound them seriously otherwise they would be dead already.

But in a last attempt to finish them when he noticed that they tried to come out of the encirclement he looked at his wife as the both of them dashed at one of them, and both slashed horizontally to the right and left of the rat that easily blocked them retaliating with new vigor but this time they learned their pattern attacks they gritted their teeth and came closer as they felt a gust of wind on their cheek and neck as they blocked their attack as small sparkle shined on their blade.

using the clash against the rat-man sword to keep their balance fearing to get sliced if they let them take some distance, forcing the two rat-man to step back as they tried to slice at the neck of those humans without themself having their neck sliced.

Eillen was able to pierce the rat man in front of her pushing his body on the ground and piercing his eyes before he could react getting at the same time-sliced by the rat-man blade but she didn't mind it it was a price she was happy to make since after being so much sliced all over her body she didn't mind one more cut if she could kill him, she got clawed by the rat-man free hand on her shoulder, she gritted her teeth tears falling on her cheeks finishing him off as he stopped moving, her eyes full of anger and pain.

haaaaa!!

taking a deep breath as she unconsciously restrained her breath all this time she turned her head to her husband saying his situation she ran toward him.

and taking the risk Philip blocking the attack other rat-man didn't retreat his blade and instead pulled all his strength to maintain the blade in place as his wife went to finish him only to be kicked to the stomach and be sent to the ground as she let out a painful sound, the rat-man eyes shinned in daylight seeing that it get ride of one of the insects and looked at the one that was blocking his sword, but he got destabilized as he kicked the woman and Lester behind his shield seeing the opportunity dashed at him with his shield hitting his back making him fall to the ground.

This time Philip both filled with anger and hatred of being cut like a piece of meat and seeing his wife being kicked like that in front of him, sliced the neck of the rat as he put his leg on the sword stopping the rat from attacking Lester and killed him.

Congratulations on Killing a Foreigner level 7 rat-man, gained 1380 energy point

A smile on his face as he saw the prompt but quickly came back to his sense when he remembered his wife and came to check her, but not before thanking Lester for his help.

Fred and Alex all this time we're looking at what was happening just after Claire and Hector left the shield wall made by Hector and Lester and the others the fight changed quickly as Philip and Eillen were already on a fight and they know that if they entered to help they might cause more trouble and instead looked to the side ready to help if anything goes wrong, but they felt bitter knowing that this time their teamwork with only both of them couldn't work and that they had to adapt to fight with the others, as they looked at each other understanding that.

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To Lisa side, things were about to change as Edward and the snake completely blocked the rat-man and when he tried to leap in the air to escape the encirclement as he felt the newcomer giving off a pressuring aura, he wanted to join the dog men only to be stopped by the snake attacking him his maw wide open and he could only back off, since before he could try to pierce the eye of the snake he got attacked by the red-haired woman that jumped in front of him, before throwing him back on in their encirclement as she slashed diagonally at him.

John joining the fight with the rat-man stabilized the situation, blocking the space the rat-man could run but it was only temporary as it seemed that the rat-man although it was slightly stronger than them was so fast that they couldn't dealt real damage only small cuts on his tough skin, but they got deep wound at each of their clashes as they could only see the arm of the rat-man moving and the next second his blades was at twenty or so centimeter of their face as they hurriedly block it their face sweating as they gasped for air their heart bumping like if it was about to explode.

looking at each other as they tried to communicate as best they could and from time to time shout words to better understand each other.

" ok we go all out, be ready I will go first you guys take this chance to finish him off "

Edward said as the rat-man was being held off by three to four arrows of Emily followed just after by an ice cone of the size of a small trunk tree, that landed at the foot of the rat-man as the freeze spread to his feet but Edward and the others were also caught in it not expecting this, and the snake let out a hissing sound toward Sarah as he backed a little from the frozen ground.

John body now was as hard as the hide of an animal and as hard as a rock his heavy aura slowly merged with him as his bloodline started to slowly make him realize how to use his aura to enhance his body defense, preparing to wound himself as he knows that the only fast person here was Lisa, and both him and Edward could only block the rat-man so that she could take him down.

but with Emily and Sarah support the fight quickly came to a halt welcomed, Lisa suddenly remembered she had her ability still not used and suddenly she instinctively connected her energy with her snake as her bloodline reacts to her will she felt a faint line of red energy being shared by both of them as it mixed with her energy, and her snake but slowly this red line became thicker as it pulsated like a vein with energy going back and forth and just as the freezing of Sarah ice cone subsided and that she could feel her foot once again, she let this energy spread in her body as her bloodline seemed to form a path to let it melt with all of her muscle body making her feel lighter and stronger.

She wasn't aware of it but her iris were becoming completely red, making he able to better understand with her human mind and her bloodline instinct what was happening, and if someone looked at her now he will be mesmerized by her eyes with black pupils and red iris that seemed to want to suck their energy from them.

" gooo!!! " and as she heard Edward's voice she dashed, and she saw John dashing at the rat-man and swung his sword horizontally to the left of the rat-man as Edward did the same to his right, one aiming for his neck and the other for his leg.

communicating with her snake, telling him to attack from the back, at the same time her figure disappeared from her position as she let a deep footprint of about one centimeter, and appeared directly in front of the rat-man as her sword pierced his chest and came out of his back, while he blocked John and Edward attack easily at an astonishing speed slightly turning his body left and right, and was about to swing his sword at them as they got destabilized giving him an opening to kill them, only to see a sword pierce his chest as the figure of one of those human launched on him pushing the sword deeper.

turning his face toward her, his eyes quickly became bloody red as his arm became slightly bigger from the energy coursing in his blood vessel at high speed and slashed downward at her but before he could reach her head, John appeared in front of her pushing her to the side as he showed his back to protect her and Edward near them looked at all of this eyes wide open, quickly reacted and subconsciously used his only skill, energy shield putting it in front of Lisa and John as they were close from each other.

Smassshshh!!!

But it shattered instantly as the sword landed, but it gave time for John and Sarah to dodge the sword as it fell John shoulder instead of his neck making him let out a painful moan as he focused on his body sending his energy on his shoulder enhancing his body sturdiness for a second or two as he turned back slashing the sword away.

But unexpectedly before the sword could fall on him, Lisa's snake appeared behind the rat-man biting his head.

John and Edward felt a chill rain down their spine as they looked at the body of the rat-man falling on the ground, the unexpected appearance of the snake's made them almost stumble as they retreated two steps backward.

their body subconsciously learned the hard way as they were muscle tensed ready to react if something happen, their weapon in front of them in a fighting stance, their heart beating faster, as they looked at the snake's raising their head looking at his two enormous eyes, his shadow covering them, like a giant looking down at small insets, they gulped unconsciously before shifting their gaze toward the others.

they didn't felt so afraid when fighting others beasts that were taller than them, as most of them were either slow or they could escape quickly, using their small body, but now they understood that it wouldn't work against all beasts.

Congratulation your snake killed a level nine rat-man.

pushiii!!!!

closing their eyes as they didn't want to have blood in their eyes, they didn't care about the blood on their body anymore although some of them didn't still completely adapt to the strong scent of blood that assaulted their nose every time.

Clanngg! clannnnnng!!

seeing Lisa snake's kill the rat-man they sighed in relief only to come at their sense Chris was still fighting alone as they turned their head in his direction, they couldn't believe what was happening right in front of their eyes.

It was like the swordsmanship fight in the movie but here there weren't those extravagant moves only attacks aiming either to destabilize the opponent or for weak spots to finish in one swing of their swords.

Chris was starting to sweat profusely as he kept blocking incoming slash from his right and left aiming from time to time for his legs but strangely he was smiling he know that he didn't have the upper hand and that a single mistake could cost the lost of hi arm or having cut off, but it seemed like if he found the purpose one of the purposes of his bloodline amidst this deadly fight.

All the leg movement or how to deviate a sword the most efficient way but still being able to counter-attack all those techniques seemed to imprint themself during his fight as time goes by he could slowly but steadily block equally the attack no more steeping back.

And the dog-man seemed to sense something was off as the more he applied strength or tried to change the flow of the battle at his advantage by suddenly leaping forward trying to bait the human, this human instead retreated even if he showed so much opening, and his fear was right as the moment he decided to finish this fight gathering his energy spreading it at his wrists, legs, and waist and dashed forward.

Chris took this opportunity seeing the dog-man make such a stupid move that at the start of their fight he would have seen as if there wasn't an opening to fight back with how the dog-man positioned his sword protecting his head and torso but now he saw through it, his sides and leg were exposed and he could easily break his posture and finish him on the spot.

his bloodline and energy suddenly responded to his will as he felt small currents spread at some muscles in his legs shoulder and arms that he didn't know of and maximized their potential to their limit as I dashed forward feeling so light as if I was a birds feather floating in the air.

responding to the dog-man coming for me with red-eye, his body seemed to be slightly bigger with a horrendous pressure coming from him at the same time, we quickly appeared in front of each other as I slightly turned my body facing him taking support on my right leg and swung my sword at him aiming for his neck and at the same time he swung his sword at me.

my speed was so fast that all the plan of destroying his guard and then finish him off my mind was thinking faster but body couldn't, my train of tough leaving me with the only recourse was his neck as I saw him slashing at me letting his neck and torso unprotected, even before we reached each other.

and it was the first time I wished so much to win either because I wanted to live or just the adrenaline to be able to control my body perfectly and to finish it as I wanted my mind was clearer than ever as a flow of energy mixed with my bloodline rushed toward my brain fastening my thinking process.

but it seemed it wouldn't happen as the sword of the dog-man approached me faster half the way to my neck I tilted y head as much I could turning my waist and back like in some kind of matrix movie but it seemed as if the sword was glued on me and kept its course on me.

taking resolve knowing that it was either me or him I pushed in my last resort in my arm, vein appearing all over my arm to my wrist transferring the power to my sword as I felt it cutting the dog-man throat, but it seemed it was also the end for me as I felt the sword cut my throat the same way from I could feel my energy rush toward my neck trying to contain the blood loss as my regeneration worked on me fiber by fiber trying to close the wound deep of two centimeter.

But before I could know the result I passed out as I felt a huge pain in all my body muscles like if they were tearing apart themself and the fact that my energy was focused on healing the huge gashes to my neck didn't help.

and before I know it I fainted, hearing system voice in my head and at the same time a prompt appearing in my eyes and after that it was a total blackout.

suddenly from everyone point of view, the figure of both Chris and the dog-man disappeared as they saw reminiscent of their figure followed by sparkles, not of sword clash but of blood as the body of the dog-man falling Chris lying to the ground too they weren't sure how he fell but what was on their mind whether or not he survived as they all rushed toward him.

Lisa was the first to arrived as she pushed the dog-man body to the sides but she still make sure he was dead her eyes filled with rage stabbed his heart twice but she was stopped by Edward that came behind her.

" Stop it it's not the time for your craziness and you should be worried about Chris instead"

Hearing what he said she quickly came to her sense remembering why she was stabbing this piece of shit, her mind suddenly calmed as she felt the red energy still entering her body and not stopping and she could tell at the same time it was filled with killing intent as the one she could feel from any evolved beasts they met so far, breathing heavily she focused on stopping [Sprit Fight] afterward she felt the connection between her and her snake cease but she felt weak for a second as she felt pain all over her body.

Enduring it she came at Chris body lying on the ground blood covering all his body, Sarah was lying next to him, her face was so white pale that she looked as if she was taken off of all her blood, her hands were emanating faint blue light as she was trying to heal Chris neck wound but she underestimated the amount of energy needed and after continuously helping the other by launching ice cones she was already out of energy but she was sucking on the surrounding energy without trying to use it to restore her energy but to increase the efficiency of her healing skills.