Chapter 443: Chapter 458: An Unusual Duel Chapter 443: Chapter 458: An Unusual Duel Lancelot chose a four-foot hand half sword as his weapon, a training sword made of a hard, dark wood that reminded him of the wooden boats beneath the feet of the Ferryman Demons on the Stygian River. Although it was only a wooden sword, it was slightly heavier than Frostslash, and it had a metal hilt, which was crucial in defending against the attacks of agile opponents.

“All set?” Tijana had already made her way to the center of the arena, “If you’re ready, then come on over.”

Lancelot took a deep breath and walked steadily towards Tijana, stopping ten feet away from her. He bowed in a knight’s salute, then spread his feet left and right, stepping forward with his right foot and rotating his left foot outward by forty-five degrees. This was the most basic stance in swordsmanship, allowing him to move swiftly in any direction.

His upper body leaned slightly forward as his arms extended diagonally downward, the tip of the sword pointing to the ground ahead. It was a rather cunning stance, with an apparently wide open guard that could easily lead an opponent to believe that an attack would land effortlessly, but in reality, it allowed him to respond quickly to an enemy’s attack.

As he assumed his stance, all other duels in the area stopped. The demons retreated to the edge of the arena, watching Lancelot with curious, mocking, or envious gazes, waiting for their lord to make a move.

“Ready?” Tijana asked with interest, “If so, here I come!”

“Please enlighten me.”

Upon hearing this, Tijana wasted no more words and swiftly approached Lancelot. Her sword-wielding right hand was raised high, its tip slanted downward, threatening the Human Knight’s head, which was far from his own hand half sword, while her left hand with the shield was held in front of her belly, ready to fend off any lower attacks from her opponent.

In response to Tijana’s stance, Lancelot’s left hand subtly moved up, cupping the pommel weight at the end of his hilt. As the succubus just entered the threat range, his left hand pressed down on the hilt, and the longsword, pivoting on his right hand near the hilt, flipped up abruptly, blocking the path of the succubus’s attack.

“Oh, your weapon seems quite excited!”

Tijana let out a playful laugh. Before Lancelot could press her weapon to the side, she quickly flipped her wrist, shifting her sword blade to the inside. Her actions were so swift that, although Lancelot realized the succubus’s intent, he was too late to adjust his blade to counter.

At the same time, Tijana’s left hand with the shield came to rest on the wrist of her sword hand, then forcefully pressed down. Perhaps the Succubus Lord was slightly inferior in physical strength, but at that moment Tijana was pressing on her opponent’s sword tip near the hilt; with the leverage, she easily deflected the Human Knight’s weapon to the outside. Then she slid up the flat of the blade, aiming directly for her opponent’s sword-holding hand.

Although Lancelot could not keep up with Tijana’s initial response, as an experienced warrior he anticipated her subsequent attack. His sword hand moved forward instead of back, pushing hard while spinning the blade, using the suddenly vertical sword guard to catch the succubus’s chop.

Tijana tried to change her tactic again, but Lancelot’s determined move gave her no chance to respond. He thrust his sword upward with both hands, but instead of following through with a thrust to the succubus’s face (his sword blade was still on the outside), he let go with his right hand at the highest point, lunging with his left hand toward the empty space behind him, as if ready to strike downward with his sword.

At the same time, Lancelot’s previously trailing left foot shot forward, instantly bringing their bodies close together, with both their weapons positioned behind him. The only difference was that his right hand was now free, and his body perfectly positioned on the left side of the succubus.

The Human Knight hugged Tijana around the waist, using his thigh behind the opponent’s buttocks as a pivot point, and threw the Succubus’s body to the side.

If he had been facing someone else, this move would have toppled the opponent to the ground, and what would follow was the execution move for the fallen foe. But this time, Lancelot tightly clamped his right hand around the Succubus, causing her to fall into his arms, like an elegant dance move.

Their eyes met, and Tijana’s were full of embarassment and annoyance. With a fierce jerk of her head, her antlers slammed hard against the faceplate of Lancelot’s helmet. At the same time, her body, helped by her wings, spun like a snake and wriggled free from Lancelot’s grapple.

Though the blow didn’t cause him substantial harm, the impact on his head momentarily took over his instincts. Lancelot leapt back a full five feet with the speed of lightning, which kept him safe from a possible counterattack but also made him miss the ideal chance to pursue.

“Ah, who taught you to headbutt?” Lancelot shrugged helplessly, “That’s not a move a lady should use!”

“A Dwarf, who else?” Tijana flashed a toothy smile, “The music hasn’t stopped; let’s continue!”

Lancelot gave a slight smile. This time, he rested his weapon on his shoulder and advanced towards Tijana with an oppressive step. As he was about to enter striking range, he suddenly took a large step forward and brought his longsword down hard, with a speed that gave almost no time for the enemy to react.

But the Succubus was even faster than Lancelot anticipated. She stepped back right as the blade of the Human Knight left his shoulder, distancing herself while swinging out her shield in her left hand, striking hard against Lancelot’s sword and diverting his attack. At the same time, her one-handed sword in her right hand lashed upwards, aiming with a sinister angle straight for his groin.

Although Lancelot wore a full suit of armor and the Succubus’s weapon was not sharp, if the strike connected, it was likely the Human Knight would lose his combat capability for the next few days.

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Normally, such a strike would have been impossible to dodge, but Lancelot was no ordinary man. He made a movement that went against the basic principles of swordsmanship without hesitation: lifting his left foot off the ground, his body rotated counterclockwise on his right foot, allowing the Succubus’s upper slash to cut only the air on the outside of his thigh.

At the same time, he swung his left arm to increase the speed of the rotation, finishing with a vicious elbow strike.

At that moment, Tijana’s shield was still on the outer side of her body, and her empty-handed strike couldn’t be retracted in time. Lancelot’s metal-bound elbow was about to collide with the Succubus’s delicate nose, but Tijana once again displayed an unbelievable body movement technique. In the nick of time, she leaned her upper body back like bowing, a move no creature with a spine could make, completely evading Lancelot’s elbow strike.

However, the show wasn’t over. Her body continued to bend, even passing under her own crotch and flipping over, to face Lancelot from below. Her right hand, holding the sword, also thrust out from under her crotch, the point of the sword stopping at Lancelot’s throat, while he was still waiting for her to recover her upper body to an upright position in the normal manner.

“You’re dead,” Tijana said with a grin, flipping backwards to stand up straight again, “But you’re much stronger than I expected. Not bad.”