Life Dungeon Game

This move, just like the previous probing attack, was swift and decisive, aiming straight for He Ao's life.

This time, however, he did not sit up straight as before, leaving himself an escape route.

This was no longer a test of He Ao.

At the same time, after Heo brandished his spear, Driss's action of standing up was also a way to bypass the barrier between the two, using offense as defense, and directly closing the distance between himself and Heo.

Short weapons are inherently disadvantageous against long weapons in open areas. Once the distance increases, Heo can easily attack Driss, who is wielding a soft sword, while Driss cannot reach him. This would give Heo the advantage in terms of weaponry from the very beginning of the battle.

Conversely, if Driss forces the distance to close and confines himself to close combat, the range in which the spear can be used will be limited. In addition, given the unpredictable and versatile nature of the soft sword, Heo will be at a disadvantage in terms of weaponry.

In addition, given the existing gap in strength between him and Driss, this disadvantage will be further amplified.

Both of them were well aware of this.

So when Driss drew his sword to thrust forward, preparing to pull Heo into close combat, Heo simultaneously pushed off the ground with both feet, leaped backward, and swung his gun with both hands, aiming for Driss's neck.

He also used offense as a defense.

However, his spear was longer than Driss's flexible sword, and given that the two were already at a basic distance, his weapon made it easier for him to strike the target.

Of course, he didn't intend to slit Driss's throat with this strike, but rather to force Driss to back down and keep the distance between them wide.

However, seeing He Ao's spear tip coming towards him, Driss did not dodge at all. He looked at He Ao, chuckled, and was not afraid of He Ao's attack at all. He directly raised his other hand to grab He Ao's attack.

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With a sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh, Driss actually managed to grab the junction of the gun blade and the handle. The sharp end of the blade cut through his flesh, and red blood appeared on the cold blade.

However, He Ao no longer had the energy to look at the blood on the gun blade.

Although Driss was stronger than Heo, Heo's dual pistols were not something Driss could withstand with one hand.

The flick of the gun butt still impacted Driss, but it didn't give him another chance to hurt a vital organ.

At the same time, although his body was impacted, he still maintained his offensive momentum, thrusting his soft sword toward He Ao's brow, and even briefly restrained He Ao's weapon.

In this extremely short distance, this very first move seemed poised to become a deadly strike that would finish off He Ao.

Despite being stronger and more powerful than Heo in both strength and overall ability, Driss did not underestimate Heo in any way. He even sacrificed his own health to gain the opportunity to kill Heo in one blow.

Fortunately, Heo did not rely entirely on using his spear to force Driss back; as he deflected the spear blade, he also shifted his body to the side.

As he watched the sword thrust towards him, he continued to dodge while simultaneously bracing the spear and grabbing its base.

With a sudden twist, the slender spear thrust upwards, then abruptly contracted, its sharp blade slicing through Driss's palm as he gripped the blade.

All of this happened almost simultaneously. As He Ao retracted the gun handle and turned to dodge, the tip of the short sword had already reached He Ao's front, almost grazing his cheek.

If He Ao had hesitated for even a second, the tip of the sword would have pierced his brain.

But as the sword grazed Heo's face, Driss's hand did not stop. Instead, he suddenly drew his sword and slashed horizontally at Heo's nose.

There was no pause between the two moves; the transfer of force was as smooth as flowing water.

Clearly, Driss had already considered his options in case the first attack failed.

If this sword strike succeeds, He Ao's head will be split horizontally in two.

Keng——

However, the scene of red and white flying everywhere did not appear as imagined. The tip of the short spear that He Ao had just raised, which had been shortened, blocked the blade of the soft sword.

At the same time, He Ao used the momentum to step back and tilted his head to the side.

Almost simultaneously, the tip of the soft sword bent, bypassed the tip of the short spear, circled around He Ao's neck, and then bounced back.

If He Ao had been a fraction of a second slower, he would have been pierced by the sword tip by now.

Almost at the same time that Heo and Driss started their battle, several C-class monsters who seemed to have merged with the corrupted monsters also emerged from the stairwell.

But as soon as they came out, they saw Heo and Driss engaged in a dazzling battle.

Although Heo and Driss had exchanged several blows, it was all over in the blink of an eye.

They only saw Driss draw his sword and pull it away, and Heo swing his spear and pull it away.

However, in this back and forth, it seems that Heo has blocked Driss's attack, that's for sure, and his own leader seems to have been injured.

They seemed never to have imagined that anyone could stop Driss's attack, especially when they caught sight of the C-rank corpse on the ground. For a moment, they were stunned and dared not move forward.

"What a weapon!"

At that moment, Driss merely glanced at the cane and pistol in Heo's hand and uttered a word of praise.

If it weren't for the gun's ability to retract naturally and He's reinforcement of it with his divine sense, preventing it from being broken directly by Driss, the battle would have ended the moment Driss grabbed He's gun.

Even so, Driss managed to deliver three deadly blows to Heo in just a couple of moves, each one fatal.

Furthermore, He Ao's current condition is not as good as those C-level members around him perceive it to be.

Even though he blocked Driss's killing move and even caused Driss a minor injury, not to mention that the injury was intentionally inflicted by Driss, at this moment, the distance between the two had been completely closed.

Once Driss gets close and bites, he will never let go.

This means that He's previous strategic intention to create distance and take advantage of his long spear has completely failed.

The already huge gap between the two has been further widened.

"What a sword!"

However, He Ao was not afraid at all. He responded and immediately withdrew, using his short gun to deflect Driss's soft sword.

Instead of retreating, he advanced and thrust his gun towards Driss's heart.

Driss also leaped up almost simultaneously, dodging...

As He Ao thrust at him with his spear, he raised the soft sword that He Ao had deflected, and like a soaring eagle, he swept it from top to bottom, slashing at his neck.

Realizing his attack had missed, Heo didn't hesitate. He turned around, his short gun swung overhead, deflecting the incoming soft sword. Taking advantage of the moment when Driss landed, he crouched down, his legs forming an arc, and thrust the gun at Driss's neck again.

The shot was extremely fast, but it was still blocked by Driss's rapidly swinging soft sword, which deflected its force.

So Heo spun around and tried to create distance between himself and Driss again, while Driss took a step forward and continued to bite Heo.

In that instant, Heo spun around, did a somersault, and thrust his spear like a dragon, aiming straight for Driss's face.

Driss seemed to have not expected Heo to retreat in order to advance, but he was not nervous at all. He simply swung his soft sword, the blade of which blocked Heo's short spear, and with a forceful pull, he deflected the short spear that Heo was thrusting at him to another place.

At the same time, the soft sword retracted towards the butterfly knife that was stuck in the gun barrel, attempting to scrape the butterfly knife directly off the gun barrel.

He immediately shook the gun, gripped the crank and twisted it, turning the short gun into a long gun, and thrust it at Driss's face again.

Driss tilted his head slightly to dodge the attack, but the soft sword slid along the gun and fell off naturally.

However, Driss, who had lost control of Heo, smiled slightly, and with a backhand flick of his soft sword, he thrust it upwards towards Heo's abdomen.

He Ao immediately blocked the sword with his spear.

At the same time, He Ao's center of gravity became unstable due to the sudden withdrawal of his gun, and the force was transmitted to his body, causing him to roll backward to dissipate the force.

But Driss's hands didn't stop moving at all. He thrust forward, and although Heo rolled away to dodge, the sharp tip of the sword still cut open his abdomen, and the blood with a purplish-red glow soaked through his white shirt.

Seeing the gleam on the blood, Driss's gaze narrowed slightly, but his hands did not stop; he continued to thrust forward.

He Ao blocked the attack again, but the two men, who had been slightly apart, were brought closer together once more.

At the same time, He Ao, who was still tumbling in the air, instantly changed his spear into a short spear. Then, he touched the butterfly knife on the top of the spear and actually took the butterfly knife that served as the spear blade. Then he flipped and landed.

Driss's eyes lit up slightly, and he smiled, "Good decision."

At this moment, Heo realized that Driss would never allow him to distance himself, and that a soft sword had an advantage over a short, rod-shaped weapon like a short gun.

So He Ao decisively disassembled the short gun, turning it into a butterfly knife and a cane, one long and one short, transforming a single weapon into two, offering more options to suppress the unpredictable and ever-changing soft sword.

In fact, he is now completely outmatched in terms of weaponry. If he continues to use the same tucked-back gun stance and tries to gain an advantage by using the long gun to create distance, he will be dead within five moves at most.

This is also why Driss praised Heo for his decisiveness. In such a fleeting battle, few people can react to this problem, and even if they can, they will be greedy for the advantage of the spear and want to try to pull away.

Even clinging to just one more second could mean the difference between life and death.

While Driss was praising him, his hands didn't stop moving at all.

Although he was stronger than Heo and did suppress Heo, he did not gain any significant advantage in this brief exchange.

He's speed and reaction, as well as his ability to deflect force and his terrifying combat instincts, have narrowed the gap between the two.

There are differences between them, but not that big.

He Ao's moves didn't have the same overwhelming sense of pressure as the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but each move was sharp and relentless, a willingness to die for life.

This proves that the 'old brother' in front of him is also someone who has crawled out of life and death countless times.

Of course, Heo was not complacent in the face of Driss's praise.

He knew very well that he was now at a disadvantage.

The super memory in his mind was already trying to build a combat model of Driss and predict Driss's movements from the start of the battle.

However, Driss's movements had almost no obvious repetition and were relentlessly pressing forward. He estimated that by the time the combat model was finalized, the battle would have already ended.

He only has ten seconds to unleash his power, and even if he only gathers his strength intermittently during the battle, half of that time has already been used up.

He gripped his cane and butterfly knife.

Life or death hangs in the balance in these last five seconds.

The next second, Driss swung his sword at Heo again. Heo raised his butterfly knife to block the blade. Driss immediately drew his sword and slashed down from below. Heo quickly rotated his wrist, pointing the blade downwards, and blocked the attack.

A slight, tingling sensation lingered on his wrist.

Holding a weapon in one hand means losing the strength of gripping a gun with both hands. Faced with Driss's powerful attacks, he could only try to adjust his posture and use the power and technique of his fists in reverse to neutralize the offensive.

Of course, this wasn't the first time he'd used this technique; he'd been trying to neutralize Driss's attack since the start of the battle, even from that initial probing attempt.

By this point, he had gained a preliminary understanding of these techniques and began to integrate them with his own boxing style, turning these techniques into moves and further supplementing his boxing style.

These techniques for neutralizing force, while not directly increasing his strength, allow the force of an enemy's attack to be absorbed throughout his body, preventing a particular area from being suddenly breached.

Although he suffered the same amount of damage, this method of neutralizing the force clearly allowed him to fight for longer and withstand stronger forces, indirectly enhancing his endurance and defense.

At the very beginning, Driss attacked with more than a third of his strength, which he could not possibly withstand with one hand, nor could he possibly withstand with one hand. This is why he did not immediately use two weapons.

After Heo blocked Driss's series of double attacks with one hand, Driss finally paused for a moment and looked up at Heo.

He realized that Heo had actually grown during this battle and, in a sense, even made a breakthrough.

What kind of insane talent is this? Is the talent sequence for traditional martial artists really this abnormal?