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Chapter 2078 Avoid your edge?

Leo Kane, the Griffin King and leader of the Sky Clan from the Feathered Peak of the Arrogant Region, has begun his trial.

Just as a young male lion challenges the king, the victor gains all the lionesses, vast lands, and a crown as dazzling as a night sky adorned with endless stars.

That was a trial where one could achieve great things with little effort, and ascend to godhood in one step.

But when it actually stood at the moment of trial, no, challenge, it felt a sense of heaviness.

It wasn't the carnage and bloodshed that came from countless battles, but pure "heaviness." Each bead on that crown was like a real star, dazzling and too heavy for ordinary life to bear.

Along with the heaviness came a sense of oppression from within oneself, stemming from understanding the adornments on that crown.

Leo Kane, the griffin king who had descended from the sky with an air of frivolity and arrogance, lowered his head. He knew perfectly well who the challenger was.

Leo Kane, the Griffin King, removed his battle axe from his back. He would not fight without a weapon just because the other party had put it down.

Whether the king in front of us, wearing the crown of night, uses that invincible divine spear or not makes no difference. On the contrary, once it puts down its weapon, it is as if it has given up a part of its fighting power.

That goes far beyond arrogance; it is an act of ignorance.

Arrogance requires capital, which it lacks.

"Roar ah ah -"

Leo Kane roared in challenger's fury, raising his battle axe and slashing it down at Blaze with a simple, unadorned vertical slash, using only three-tenths of his strength, the remaining seven-tenths to counter Blaze's evasive maneuvers.

"Should I avoid your sharp edge?"

Blaze, equipped with the Aegis of Aegis, swung his right arm and unleashed a silver moon, beautiful yet indestructible. The battle axe that collided with this silver moon was instantly deflected, the force of the swing turning into a reverse impact that numbed Leokkan's arms.

But the numbness only lasted for a moment. Leo Kane exerted his strength, bulging his arms to expel the impact from his arms with even greater force.

Greenland, who was watching from the sidelines, clicked her tongue in disappointment. She could see that Leo Kane had held back his axe strike. Of course, this was not because Leo Kane was holding back; in a duel between masters, it's always three parts attack and seven parts defense.

If Leo Kane were to unleash a full-force attack, Blaze's perfect shield counter would render Leo Kane powerless to resist, forcing him to his knees and rendering him a death sentence, rather than simply interrupting his action.

This is also the biggest drawback of divine skills like shield parry. High-level monsters either have an extremely large size, making shield parry impossible due to the size difference, or their size is just right, but their combat intelligence is extremely high, and they always hold back their strength to test the waters.

When Leo Kane realized that his heavy blows were ineffective, he immediately changed his tactics to a fast attack, his battle axe flying like butterfly wings while simultaneously delivering powerful, charged stabs like venomous bees.

A shield parry can also deflect a thrust, but just as there has always been a conflict between the two, thrusting and shielding have always been mutually restraining. When the two collide, one of them will inevitably be damaged.

At the same time, piercing attacks are the most difficult and risky to parry, bar none. Other slashing attacks can be blocked with a shield even without a perfect parry, but when facing piercing attacks, you either have to complete a perfect parry or fail and be pierced through the body, or have both the shield and body pierced through.

However, if the opponent is using a long polearm, and a polearm with a certain degree of flexibility, then even a perfect shield parry is meaningless.

The power of a perfect shield parry lies in sacrificing the shield's stable defensive capabilities and taking the risk of having the opponent's attack force completely deflected back. Polearms, on the other hand, can easily use their flexibility to disperse the deflected force through twisting and then continue thrusting.

The battle axe in Leo Kane's hand is a typical polearm. The main pole is made of an unknown branch, which is hard enough to be used as the pole of a heavy weapon like a battle axe, while also possessing great flexibility.

It's like a very stiff spring; only with enough force can it be deformed. Leo Kane possesses that kind of power. His body, which seems to be made of steel, can make the huge battle axe lash out like a whip, or steadily pierce through the long-handled battle axe in a straight line.

Blazer was now in an awkward position. He couldn't use Shield Parry, and because the Aegis itself was a small shield, it couldn't have the same defensive space as other large shields to unleash its full power to withstand Leo Kane's attacks.

"Then that's fine."

Blaze casually put the Aegis back on his back, and took a step into the attack atmosphere of Leo Kane's long-handled battle axe. The Godslayer Greatsword fell from the warehouse into his hand, and a storm was generated, like a heavy hammer falling down under his swing.

The reason this greatsword, forged to hunt giants, has so many uses is that it can be used to challenge giants and, like giants, to wreak havoc on the world.

That would undoubtedly make the battle against the Nemean Giants much easier.

Just as the storm's hammer was about to fall, Leo Kane spread his enormous, dark gold wings, instantly dispelling the storm's hammer and restoring calm. Even the storm swirling around the Greatsword of the Hunter vanished.

Blaze paused for a moment, though it was only a brief pause, but in Leo Kane's eyes it was the first opening he had seen, and he immediately began to frantically swing his long-handled battle axe at him.

Blaze swung his Godslayer Greatsword precisely to block every swing of Leo Kane's sword, but thanks to the flexibility of the long-handled battle axe itself, the impact of the collision was minimized.

For some reason, the Storm Power was dispelled, and the Greatsword of the Godslayer became an ordinary sword—hard enough, but not heavy enough—which Blaze found quite unsettling.

Leo Kane saw this and that's why he chose to keep launching fast attacks, not giving Blaze a chance to switch weapons.

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With a powerful blow, the Greatsword of the Hunter God flew out of his hand and was thrown into the air.

Blazer deliberately let go; he didn't have any particular manners. If there wasn't time to switch weapons, he would just throw the weapon away.

The moment his hands were freed, Blaze changed his pace, his legs becoming as if rooted to the ground. He raised his left hand, his incredibly strong elbow forming a stable triangle with his body, deflecting the long-handled battle axe's strike. His right fist clenched and thrust straight at Leo Kane's side.

He stated that the concessions to Leo Kane were limited to not using Gungnir.

(End of this chapter)