After preparing, Iri faced the fully armed Death Knight. What would happen next, Iri couldn't say for sure.
Their last encounter was just a quick exchange of two moves, and Iri even suffered a loss. This time, she was facing a fully armed, serious Death Knight.
The information Iri currently had was only about her invisible attack. Ainz had said that the first thing in PVP was the intelligence war. Once you understood all of your opponent's tricks, it was hard to lose unless you got too cocky.
It was like how Shalltear, despite having such obvious professional advantages, was still soundly beaten by Ainz. Well, that was with the help of cash shop items.
"Can we start now?" Death Knight asked. Iri nodded in response, but before she could reply, she saw Death Knight swing the double-bladed scythe in her hand, causing a cloud of dust to rise around her.
"!" Relying on her powerful survival instincts and sense of danger, Iri quickly rolled to the side with her body's strong reflexes. She saw something resembling a blade of air slice through the spot where she had been standing just a fraction of a second ago.
It was that invisible attack again! And the attack range was so far!
The distance between Iri and Death Knight was about ten meters. As soon as Iri saw her swing her weapon, the invisible attack arrived instantly.
The speed was also incredibly fast. If Iri's reaction had been even a little slower, she would have been killed in one blow!
Death Knight didn't seem surprised, as if she knew from the start that Iri would be able to dodge. She then raised the double-bladed scythe in her hand again and swung it three times in a row at Iri.
The result was still the same. Every time Death Knight swung the double-bladed scythe, Iri had to rely on her reaction ability, observing the attack trajectory of Death Knight from ten meters away to dodge.
Although these three attacks were dodged without much danger, this situation was not sustainable. Being passively beaten was too disadvantageous.
But with such a long attack range, it would be difficult to get close. Last time in Wu Da Forest, she only suffered a loss after getting close. Presumably, the double-bladed scythe in her hand had other abilities besides its long-range attack capability. Iri had to be careful.
"Ice Lance Projectile!" Iri could only choose to keep her distance and tentatively use a long-range attack, as she was too wary of that one strike from their encounter in Wu Da Forest.
So Iri used Ice Aura to generate an Ice Lance and flung it at Death Knight. As expected, as soon as the Ice Lance was thrown, it was directly cut to pieces by Death Knight's swinging scythe.
Indeed... the outcome of rashly getting close might be the same as that Ice Lance. But although Iri claimed to be a Magic Caster, long-range combat should be her strong suit.
However, in reality, she used a deceptive "magic." If she were to actually blast her with Explosion Magic, this place would probably be blown to smithereens.
Dueling in such a place was a great disadvantage for Iri, who only knew how to use wide-area annihilation magic. It meant that Explosion Magic and Skyfall were directly sealed. So the only long-range attack she had left was... "Pure! Throwing Spear!!" Without another word, Iri directly locked onto Death Knight's shoulder, intending to disable her arm and make her lose mobility!
That's what Iri thought. So she threw the Pure Throwing Spear that had already formed in her hand. 'Try cutting this, I dare you!'
Seeing the beam-like light spear attacking her, Death Knight showed no intention of dodging. Just like last time, she didn't dodge or evade, directly taking the Pure Throwing Spear head-on.
The light spear pierced through her shoulder, but she continued to swing the scythe in her hand and counterattack as if nothing had happened.
Iri once again focused on dodging the incoming attacks, while also not forgetting to continue using Throwing Spear to lock onto Death Knight. This time, she fired three Throwing Spears in total, and the result was still the same... all of them hit her.
But she still stood there, looking completely unharmed. Was some divine artifact protecting her again?
It was impossible to take four Throwing Spears head-on and be completely unscathed! But looking at her expression, it was the same as at the beginning, showing no signs of injury or pain, not even a hint of fatigue. Instead, she had that rampant smile.
"Very good, very good... this is the opponent I've been looking for!" Death Knight laughed and began to swing her scythe again.
And this time, the speed was even faster than before. Iri now had no chance to counterattack; just dodging was already very difficult. After dodging a few more strikes, multiple torn areas began to appear on her clothes.
Finally, a burning stinging sensation came from her arm... leg... and shoulder. Iri knew she had been cut, but she had no time to worry about these things. If it was a battle of speed, then... "Self-Time Acceleration!" Iri silently activated this, and in an instant, everything around her lost its color. Iri entered her state of Self-Time Acceleration.
This was a form of time stop. In the space where time was stopped, Iri could easily observe the blades of air generated by Death Knight swinging her scythe, frozen in mid-air.
In this state, she could clearly see the blades of air, but she couldn't maintain this hyper-accelerated state for long. She could only maintain it for nine seconds, and after it ended, it would take nearly a minute to recover before she could activate it again. So using this to dodge was simply a waste!
However, nine seconds was enough for her to get close. So Iri quickly ran behind Death Knight, but when she was about to deactivate the acceleration state, Iri was stunned by something behind Death Knight.
What was going on? Why was this thing here? Why was this appearing here?
Iri was completely frozen, so much so that she forgot to deactivate her acceleration state, and it automatically ended after nine seconds.
Death Knight immediately realized that Iri had teleported behind her and directly turned around, swinging her scythe.
At this extremely close range, dodging was impossible. Plus, Iri had been flustered by what she saw behind Death Knight, so she had no time to dodge at all.
"Justice Descends..." Iri subconsciously whispered, and then Death Knight's scythe sliced across Iri's body, which was enveloped in white light, making a sound like metal being scraped. This made Death Knight frown.
"..." Death Knight's expression changed when she saw Iri after the white light receded. She was also very surprised, not expecting Iri to have something like this hidden.
And the key was... what Iri was wearing was very familiar to Death Knight.
"Originally, I didn't really want to fight you seriously, just a little bit would have been fine, but... I've changed my mind now. I'm going to beat you down and force you to explain where your equipment came from!" Iri said with a fierce expression.
"Hehehehe! That's what I wanted to say too. I didn't expect the missing part to be with you... After I defeat you, will you hand over the missing part? But by then, it won't be possible for you to refuse." Death Knight said.
"Come on!!" Iri roared and charged forward with her hammer.
Why did Iri immediately become enraged when she saw what was behind Death Knight?
That was because... Iri saw the emblem of Nazarick clearly printed on Death Knight's red cloak.
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