"So strong!"
As soon as they started fighting, Liu Xia felt a pressure that was completely different from the pressure she had felt when she fought with him in the past.
Esders's physical ability was not much stronger than Ryuga. It was roughly the same as him, or even worse, but her explosive power was extremely terrifying. Her body seemed to have no power, but it was like the spine that supported the sky and the earth. The terrible power that broke out made Ryuga moved.
And her skill was extremely agile and vigorous, at least enough to compete with Ryuga. When the two fought, their figures were already so fast that they left countless afterimages in the air, even the air seemed to tremble and made a burst sound.
Even, her martial arts were not weak at all. Unlike the ten forms of sword skills that Ryuga sorted out, her swordsmanship did not have the slightest fancy. Every sword was aimed directly at the body's vital parts, full of deadly sharpness. In the competition of swords, even Ryuga did not have the advantage.
Only looking at the strength of hand-to-hand combat, Esders was at least at the level of a first-class servant.
The top servant could make a sonic boom as soon as he made a move, and it was a supersonic charge as soon as he moved. Esders should not reach this level.
But Esders still had the ability to control ice.
Because of the title of the strongest in the empire, Ryuga had already investigated the information about Esders's Teigu.
Although its real name was unknown, Esders's Teigu ability was undoubtedly to control ice, and it reached the point where it did not need to condense water at all, and it directly created ice out of thin air.
There were rumors that she once froze the entire river that was several kilometers wide in order to let the army pass through the river smoothly. She was able to fight against nature with the human body.
Her ability to control ice was extremely powerful. The ice was controlled by her without any stagnation, and it even completely integrated into her body, forming a very unique fighting style.
"Swish swish swish —"
In the mid-air, hundreds of ice swords emerged, and with a free posture, they poured toward Ryuga crazily.
"— — Form of Nine, Wind and Clouds."
Ryuga stood still on the spot, but countless wind blade-like Sword Qi circled around his body, protecting him in the center without any blind spots.
When the hundreds of ice swords came within three meters of him, they were all shattered by the sword Qi that filled the domain, turning into countless ice shards that drifted away.
[Form 4: Illusory Sun Rainbow]
After the ice swords were dealt with, Ryuga's body flashed. Under the high-speed rotation, she disappeared from the ground, leaving behind countless afterimages in the air.
However, what surprised him once again was that Esders's eyes were actually able to keep up with the speed of his footwork. His ice-blue eyes were filled with indifference as they tracked his figure. It was just that he couldn't catch him and didn't make a move for the time being.
The Illusory Sun Rainbow was powerful, but if the opponent's dynamic vision was strong enough, they would be able to keep up with his speed, and the confusion effect would weaken.
"— — Form 8, Thousand Layers Circulation."
Ryuga stomped on the ground in the open space, and with the help of the rotating power of the Illusory Sun Rainbow, the dual blades were like two huge fire dragons, slashing toward Esders's neck from behind.
The Thousand Layers Circulation was a sword skill derived from the Form 10 of Water Breathing, Life Circulation. The more the number of revolutions, the greater the power. After forming a combination sword skill with the Illusory Sun Rainbow, with the help of the number of revolutions of the Illusory Sun Rainbow, it could erupt with great power from the beginning.
Esders's intuition was extremely powerful, and he instantly sensed the direction of Ryuga's attack. With a stomp of his feet in white high-heeled boots, a huge ice layer suddenly appeared behind him.
Unlike the previous multi-layered ice walls, the ice layer behind him this time was like a peacock spreading its tail, increasing layer by layer and expanding the range, completely blocking the attack from behind.
"Boom!"
Ryuga's dual blades struck out together, and the two fire dragon-like long blades spun and cut the ice layer in front of him into pieces. Then, using the momentum, they spun again and continued to cut deeper into the ice layer.
"Ha!"
Esders let out a soft snort of unknown meaning from her mouth, and a carefree feeling of hunting appeared on her face, as if she was happy for the battle.
At the same time, transparent ice layers appeared around her like a flood, and layer by layer, continuously stacked on top of each other, surrounding her so tightly that not even a drop of water could escape. The ice layer was several times thicker.
"No, I can't win."
After fighting fiercely with Esders for more than half a minute, Ryuga finally wanted to retreat.
Esders had not launched a large-scale attack until now, because she was afraid that this was the Emperor's palace, and it was not suitable to make too much noise. Otherwise, it would be bad if the entire palace turned into an ice cave.
Ryuga took advantage of this, so she came to assassinate Esders at night when she lived in the palace.
In other words, the current Esders actually did not exert her full strength, her true strength was probably enough to reach the top servant.
But even if she did not exert her full strength, Ryuga still had a feeling that it was difficult to be her enemy.
The two people's level in hand-to-hand combat was about the same, but once Esders used the Teigu, Ryuga would become very difficult to attack and defend because of the lack of large-scale attack means.
Even if he used the noble phantasm – Six Paths and Five Wheels: Kurigara, he could only destroy the ice layer around her, and he could not touch her. Because he did not use the trump card, the Backlight Sword did not show signs of awakening.
In view of this, Ryuga really had no means to effectively fight against Esders. In front of Esders, she could only remain undefeated at most.
"But in this way, I almost know the strength of Esders."
Ryuga said silently in her mind, "The purpose is basically half completed. The battle is too big. It will be bad if General Budo is attracted in a while. I should stop now. Let's go."
After making a decision in her mind, Ryuga did not hesitate to withdraw and leave Esders. She fully launched the skill of [Breath Blocking], and again used invisible magic to hide her figure and disappeared in front of Esders.
"She disappeared … I can't see her figure, and I can't even feel her breath at all."
Esders stood in the courtyard full of ice chips, and she could not find Ryuga's figure everywhere. Even her powerful intuition failed at this moment.
"She is just like the ultimate assassin. It is a pity that this kind of person can't be taken in as my subordinate …"
Not only was she not angry, but she also had an extremely happy expression on her face.
Only this level of assassin could let her experience the pleasure of fighting.
Until Ryuga left, the guards appeared at the door of Esders's palace, even General Budo who was guarding the little emperor was alarmed.
Ryuga did not pay attention to the changes in the palace. After leaving the palace invisibly, she quickly rushed back to her home and changed back to the dress when she was young.
"Esders, you are definitely my biggest and strongest obstacle in this world. In any case, there will be a battle of life and death between you and me …"
Ryuga made a firm judgment in her mind.
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