Persona: Devil Summoner

There was fine loess under his feet, and dry stone walls around him. Five layers of circular seats stacked up like the Roman Colosseum trapped Jiang Tianwei.

The round sky visible when looking up is neither azure blue nor grayish white, but a mixture of pitch black and scarlet red. The two colors seem to be invading each other in the sky like inseparable pigments.

This weird scenery... Where is this place? !

Jiang Tianwei was startled and broke out in a cold sweat, then he suddenly woke up.

boom!

Suddenly there was a crisp sound, and the torch on the wall not far in front of Jiang Tianwei suddenly burst into a ball of fire!

Boom boom boom!

With this as the beginning, the surrounding torches burst into flames one after another, and the originally dim arena suddenly became bright.

Thanks to the excellent lighting, Jiang Tianwei saw another person in the arena.

The Colosseum was originally a popular entertainment venue for the ancient Roman people. They pushed foreign prisoners captured in wars into the arena to entertain the audience through bloody battles...

And Jiang Tianwei's opponent...

“Kokoko…Come on, let’s fight—Come on, cheer!”

A man wearing a tight-fitting blue top, white pants, and a gorgeous emerald hat, raised his arms and shouted to the empty audience of the Colosseum! His clothes were covered with beautiful golden patterns, and the tailoring was very much like that of European nobles hundreds of years ago.

But beneath this gorgeous clothing is a cold skeleton. There is nothing in the black eye sockets, which makes it even more terrifying.

What’s even more terrifying is that, judging from the outline of the clothes, there should be a body of flesh and blood similar to a living person inside, otherwise the clothes would not be able to support it...but the body exposed outside is all bones.

"Who are you? You got me here?!"

Jiang Tianwei asked.

The skeleton man just laughed, and his cold and eerie temperament made people's teeth ache. Fortunately, skeleton soldiers are now common fantasy creatures in the second dimension. Jiang Tianwei didn't feel scared at all, but simply felt that the voice made people uncomfortable.

"Kokoko, it's not me, it's you - you called me here! Come! I am the demon - the bullfighter. Come and fight!"

The Demon Bullfighter unfolded a long roll of red cloth in his right hand and drew the silver scimitar from his waist with his left hand.

Although Jiang Tianwei was still confused, a smile appeared on his face at this time: "Thank you so much for being so simple and clear! Then, I will not be polite - I will take your life!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 64: Demon War : Matador

When it comes to bullfighter, everyone will think of Spain.

Wearing gorgeous clothes, holding red cloth, fighting bravely with bulls, and pleasing the audience with blood. From this point of view, bullfighters and the arena are quite compatible. After all, the core is performance, the focus is blood, and at least one of them must die... and the most important point is that both sides firmly believe that they will not be the one to die!

The two of them just confronted each other cautiously at the beginning, and neither of them was willing to get close first. However, being unwilling to get close does not mean that they cannot fight!

Jiang Tianwei pressed down the mask, and the plain white mask was instantly stained with strange patterns. Correspondingly, the plain white giant behind him turned into a huge bow and fell into Jiang Tianwei's hands.

The bow was fully drawn, and the energy condensed into a golden arrow between Jiang Tianwei's hands, aiming at the bullfighter...

"Kokoko..."

The bullfighter just watched. Although the skeleton had no expression, Jiang Tianwei always felt that he was laughing at him.

That calm look seemed to be saying: If you have the guts, just shoot!

Jiang Tianwei certainly wanted to shoot... but he couldn't gamble. Based on his experience of activating Hou Yi mode last time, he was afraid that once he shot this arrow with all his strength, he would lose his fighting power for a while. If this arrow killed the bullfighter, everyone would be happy. What if it didn't? Then he would definitely be the one to die.

(Did the skull see through me?... Did it see through me and make me afraid to shoot?...)

Originally, Jiang Tianwei's shooting of the bow was a tactical deterrent, intended to force the opponent to flee first so that he could wait for the opponent to tire himself out. However, he did not expect that the opponent would be so calm.

Jiang Tianwei's tactics were fine, but he misjudged the enemy's strength. The profession of a bullfighter requires calmness the most. Perhaps modern people's understanding of bulls is either beef or what they see on TV. Few people know that with its strong physique and sharp horns, it is a creature that can kill people with just one charge.

The bullfighter has to face this fierce attack with his flesh and blood! If he just evades in advance, everyone can do it. But if he wants to win applause in the bullfighting ring, he must wait until the maximum distance, evade the bull's attack with the smallest amplitude, and use gorgeous skills to cause damage to the bull.

Accustomed to such life-and-death scenes, Jiang Tianwei's action of drawing the bow and arrow did not scare the bullfighter at all.

(Well, let’s try it out first!)

"Bicorn! Charge!".

Jiang Tianwei deliberately used a two-horned beast that had a similar attack method to that of a bull, ready to see how the opponent's skills were. The two-horned beast's huge black body stood up and rushed towards the bullfighter.

"Kokoko..."

The bullfighter just laughed and stood there stupidly. The distance between the two-horned beast and him was getting closer and closer! Ten meters! Five meters! Two meters! One meter! The two-horned beast also noticed that the opponent might have ulterior motives. When it was within one meter, it let out a dull roar and its speed increased instantly!

And the bullfighter actually stayed where he was!

(Succeeded?! He looks so impressive, but turns out to be just a rookie?!).

Jiang Tianwei couldn't help but squint his eyes, feeling mixed emotions in his heart. It was obviously a good thing that the enemy had weak combat effectiveness, so why did he feel so disappointed?

"Kokoko..."

However, the next moment, there was a loud bang! The body of the two-horned beast flew out more than ten meters due to inertia! It landed heavily on the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust! Then it turned into a ball of blue flame and disappeared!

"【Huh?! What happened?!】".

This sudden change scared Jiang Tianwei so much that he even spoke his native language!

The ending should have been that the bullfighter would be knocked down, but how come he was distracted and fell down as a two-horned beast?

And where the bullfighter had just stood, there were only four severed horseshoes left on the ground!

This is why the two-horned beast flew away! At the moment of contact, all four hooves were cut off!

"Where's that skeleton?!"

Jiang Tianwei hurriedly looked for the disappeared skeleton... On the left... No?! On the right? No either! Could it be?!

Jiang Tianwei looked up and saw the blue collar falling rapidly in the air like a meteor, landing on the ground without any sound! Not even a few pieces of flying dust were stirred up! The bullfighter seemed to have no weight and landed lightly on the ground!

At this time, the straight-line distance between Jiang Tianwei and the bullfighter was only two meters!

"persona..."

Before Jiang Tianwei had time to switch his persona from Hou Yi's bow mode back to giant mode, the opponent's blade had already arrived!

The bullfighter's agility was far beyond his imagination!

In fact, the speed of a bullfighter is not particularly fast. Speed ​​and agility are two different concepts. The most typical example is long-distance running and shuttle running. You run 2,000 meters in a straight line, and you run 20 meters and turn back and forth 100 times. Although the distance is the same, which one is more difficult is obvious.

However, the bullfighter's agility and the fact that Jiang Tianwei was caught off guard made him feel that the bullfighter's speed was much faster than normal!

In panic, Jiang Tianwei leaned back as far as he could, trying to avoid the knife!

Without special training, ordinary people will have an instinctive fear when facing weapons.

There was a news report about a martial artist who won the first place in the province five or six times. He was stabbed several times by a knife-wielding robber. The robber did not have any special ability, he just had a knife in his hand. According to the interview with him afterwards, he frankly said that he was afraid instinctively because he saw the knife in the other party. No matter how many kung fu skills he had, he could not use them.

What's more, Jiang Tianwei's boxing skills are just at the level of ordinary people. He is neither a boxing champion nor a trained killer. Faced with the sudden scene, he fell into complete confusion!

And this is exactly the scene the bullfighter is looking forward to!

Use your insight honed to the extreme to counterattack, use your agility honed to the extreme to toy with your opponent, and wait for the opportunity to launch a fatal attack!

If the demons I had seen before all relied on their own brute force or physical characteristics to fight, then this

It's no wonder that this bullfighter was nicknamed "Demon"! This guy thinks just like a human!

Although Jiang Tianwei barely retreated and dodged the bullfighter's head-on blow, his posture completely collapsed and he fell to the ground! How could the bullfighter give him a chance to regroup? The knife that chopped in the air drew a silver light in the air, and the long knife changed from sweeping to slashing, slashing towards Jiang Tianwei's body from top to bottom!

In a panic, Jiang Tianwei could only raise the longbow in his hand to meet the attack. With a crisp bang, the bullfighter's long sword and Jiang Tianwei's longbow collided. The demon's exaggerated wrist strength overwhelmed Jiang Tianwei's defense in an instant. The silver blade pressed the bow and forcibly cut into Jiang Tianwei's shoulder!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 65 Blood Andalusia

In literary works, there is often such a description: the protagonist relies on his strong willpower to force himself to grit his teeth and not make any sound even when being cut by a knife.

Now Jiang Tianwei just wants the person who wrote that kind of sentence to personally experience the pain of having his shoulder cut by a sharp blade.

"Ahhhh!"

Jiang Tianwei shouted without any tough guy aura, blood spurted out from the wound! The bullfighter's dry skull was stained with sticky blood and became scarlet, adding a bit of horror to the atmosphere.

"Kokoko!"

The bullfighter obviously knew that he had the upper hand, and the skeleton arm gathered all its strength, just about to chop Jiang Tianwei and the bow into two pieces...

Click!

Suddenly, a loud thunderclap sounded in the chaotic sky, and a ray of lightning that fell from the sky accurately hit the bullfighter's body!

This lightning is obviously not a natural phenomenon! After all, this is obviously not reality!

Behind the bullfighter, lightning flashed between Fang Zexia's hands, and the dazzling arcs of electricity were like scattered jewelry, spinning on her fingertips!

The bullfighter endured the severe pain and numbness from the lightning and reached out to pull out his long sword... However, when he raised his wrist, he couldn't even lift the sword? !

It shifted its sight, and in its dark eye sockets, it clearly saw that Jiang Tianwei's cut shoulder had healed! From the audience next to it, a blonde beauty with white wings flew out from under the cover of the wall! It was Jiang Tianwei's mid-demon [Angel]!

Humans' self-regeneration ability is definitely not that fast. Obviously, that is the effect of healing magic! Using magic to quickly heal one's wounds, then the healed wounds themselves will become an obstacle to pulling out the knife!

A knife is a weapon with an edge only on one side, so it is easy to cut flesh with the blade, but it is several levels more difficult to do the same thing with the back of the knife!

Of course, if the bullfighter chooses to draw his saber, it won't have any impact, but Jiang Tianwei calculated that he wouldn't do that... because... it's also a [human]! Since it has human thinking, it will naturally have human thinking flaws!

Someone has done an experiment. There are two elevators, A and B. People are deliberately asked to queue up in elevator A, while there is no one in elevator B. Even if there are many people in the queue of elevator A, the subsequent testers will choose to queue up in elevator A and ignore elevator B. Because they instinctively think: since there is no queue in elevator B, there must be something wrong with elevator B.

Similarly, if a person has a defective door and needs to lift the door handle every day to go out, then even if the door is repaired, he will continue this habit.

The bullfighter's knife just now chopped from top to bottom, so when he realized "There is a problem here! I want to retract my weapon", he would instinctively choose to return the same way!

That's why Jiang Tianwei chose to sit on the ground just now! Because once he sat on the ground, the bullfighter who was taller than him would only have a few attack modes to choose from. And considering the cunning of the bullfighter, stabbing was impossible. First of all, unless the stabbing attack penetrated the heart, it was very difficult to kill someone in one stab. At this distance, if he couldn't win with one strike, the big bow in Jiang Tianwei's hand would be a huge threat.

Therefore, he would definitely choose to chop head-on and lure Jiang Tianwei to raise his bow for defense, in order to block his bow. Unexpectedly, he was actually used by Jiang Tianwei in return!

"Laugh, why aren't you laughing? Keep laughing for me, ke ke ke!"

The bow in Jiang Tianwei's hand turned into a green flame, and in the flame, a huge metal giant took shape!

It is the melee combat posture of the persona that Jiang Tianwei is proud of, Overlord Xiang Yu!

The metal giant punched the bullfighter's skull fiercely! With a crisp snap, the bullfighter flew backwards! The long knife in his hand also fell out of his hand and remained on Jiang Tianwei's shoulder!

Jiang Tianwei got furious and drew out his sword. The angel behind him chanted the healing magic again.

Jiang Tianwei then breathed a sigh of relief. Although the two knife wounds made his face pale, the look in his eyes could not suppress the pride.

Yes, just like the bullfighter was plotting against Jiang Tianwei, Jiang Tianwei was not the kind of person who would allow others to plot against him!

Although he didn't know what the bullfighter was planning or capable of, his instinct told him to be on guard. So, he deliberately used the two-horned beast, which had a similar attack mode to the bull's charge, just to lull the opponent into a state of carelessness.

Taking advantage of the moment when the other party used his proud bull-slaughtering skills, it was naturally one of the few times when he shifted his sights from Jiang Tianwei to the two-horned beast! Taking advantage of this moment, Jiang Tianwei summoned Fang Zexia and the angel.

Although I don't know what kind of attacks the enemy is good at, there is a ghost girl, Kasumi Yoshizawa, who is as intelligent as humans, and an angel who can heal wounds. I chose these two just to be able to deal with the worst situation...

The result is what it is now!

The bullfighter was punched and flew away! At almost zero distance, he took a punch from the Overlord Xiang Yu. That was no joke!

Originally, with the agility of the bullfighter, he could dodge even this kind of close-range punch if he tried his best to dodge...but he had just been hit by Fang Zexia's lightning, and his body was paralyzed by the lightning, and he could not use any strength!

Yes, it is such a coincidence that Fang Zexia’s lightning attribute happens to be the weakness of the bullfighter!

"Kokoko..."

The bullfighter was knocked far away and fell miserably to the ground. He barely managed to stand up and his whole body was shaken, with dust and dirt flying off his body.

He shook the red cloth in his hand, and a light blue light enveloped every bone of his body. He took small steps, and his body swayed slightly, accompanied by the blue light, as if several bullfighters were dancing!

This is his special skill, and also his ultimate move as a demon. It is called [Blood of Andalusia] - this is a special skill that uses keen insight to observe the opponent's attack, then dodges with agility, and then waits for an opportunity to counterattack! It can be said that this is the most powerful secret of the bullfighter profession.

It is named Andalucia because the most famous bullring, the Ronda Bullring, is located here. The pride of naming its own place here is overflowing.

If the enemy does not attack, he will also attack the enemy with this strange pace! In an instant, he will launch dozens of attacks! Want to dodge? You can't dodge, the bullfighter's agility won't let you dodge. Want to defend? You can't defend, the bullfighter will definitely choose your weak defense to attack. Want to counterattack? That's even more impossible. It's almost impossible to win the bullfighter in close combat by competing with reaction.

Although Jiang Tianwei didn't know what he was up to this time, the ancient sage Cao Gui once said that the first attack will weaken the momentum, and the third will be exhausted. Now is the time when his energy is at its peak, so naturally he must press on to win!

What's more, he also noticed that Fang Zexia's lightning strike was very effective!

He then ordered his persona to move forward to meet the attack, and at the same time, had Fang Zexia wait for an opportunity to launch a lightning strike...

The metal giant rushed out, and its huge and solid fists intertwined into a meteor shower, making people want to shout "Ola Ola" involuntarily...

However, in this dense rain of punches, the bullfighter stood as if strolling in the garden, pushing the red cloth in his right hand, and his body easily dodged all the punches! In fact, the speed was so fast that it almost left an afterimage!