Chapter 2854 - 1353: Fed Up

Academy City’s inner ring district, opposite the second exit of the comprehensive library

"What the hell... is this really still human..."

Cautiously peering from the shop’s rear window at the scene outside, Scarlett Diesel was dumbstruck at this moment. Even though she was burning with excitement not long before, spurred by the upfront reward, she was all pumped up; but after the first batch of collaborators, intentionally marked as [cannon fodder] in the mission plan, were slaughtered by Double Leaf... yes, slaughtered by Double Leaf until none were left, this once-confidence-overflowing person thought that as long as she was teaming up strongly with the shield on her arm, she wouldn’t just be able to hold back a seemingly intimidating high-level mage peak all-rounder, but even in the comprehensive knight battle tournament, duo-killing Silent Brother wouldn’t be a problem, with just one hand she could probably give herself a good beating twice with the Snow Bathing Sword, she was confident she could exchange a few moves with the latter.

Mhm, just a couple of moves... at most three moves... five moves! Five moves is the limit, no more! She’s not Silent Brother, and she doesn’t have that impressive Wang Ba mount either!

Honestly, that Wang Ba really made Scarlett, Liya Delin, and even Gavinrad envious. You know, the Diesel Family folks are mostly pragmatists, so although many proper knights can’t accept riding a Wang Ba into battle, in the eyes of these few people, Silent Brother’s Wang Ba can easily crush four or five common Black Dragon Colts, and that creature’s intelligence is remarkably high (during training at the White Oath Knight Academy, it would even peek under girls’ skirts), sometimes it didn’t even need Silent Brother to say anything to know what to do. Although it looked massive and heavy, once it charged, its speed couldn’t be underestimated.

This level of mount can increase a knight’s overall strength by over sixty percent, and if the two are in sync, they might even create a chemical reaction where one plus one is greater than two.

Silent Brother and that Scarlett’s dream tortoise naturally have such a mutual understanding, and indeed they displayed strength far greater than two in that team battle finals. As Liya Delin said, if she were to spar with Silent Brother riding his Wang Badan, at most three moves, this outstanding youth from the Diesel Family would be directly defeated.

Of course, Liya Delin, whose face was slightly flushed at the time, also mentioned that if they were really in such a state to spar, with Silent Brother’s tolerance and gentlemanly manners, he would definitely not be so quick to defeat her but rather let both of them finish the match with grace.

However, for Scarlett now, the focus isn’t on that distant cousin who’s impulsively had her first crush, but rather an exceedingly clear chain of combat strength—

Under normal circumstances, at full capacity, she could hold out in front of Sister Lia for over three hundred moves without losing, but defeating her opponent with extremely high all-around quality wouldn’t be easy, with a win rate probably around forty percent.

As for facing Silent Brother with Wang Badan, Liya Delin says she could last at most three moves before being defeated.

Next up, in the previous team battle finals, Silent Brother faced the Snow Bathing Sword with a wounded left hand, held on for a while before being thoroughly defeated, although he completed his tactical purpose, both he and the turtle were unscathed in body and shell, and according to him, this was with the swordwoman showing mercy.

Summarizing, after obtaining a new shield to allow herself to boast about lasting five moves in front of the Snow Bathing Sword, Scarlett Diesel was unprecedentedly inflated at this moment.

Yet, using the Diesel Family’s secret skills to obscure her aura, Scarlett had been hiding behind a shop window since the beginning, observing (OB—Observer), for a few minutes she concluded coldly that her current task’s target, supposedly only at a high-level peak standard, the Miracle City Exchange Group official member, the girl named Double Leaf... her threat level was unexpectedly not below that of the Snow Bathing Sword!

Despite one being a swordmaster and the other a mage, with completely different fighting styles, the sense of oppression they gave Scarlett was indeed on the same level!

Although Scarlett repeatedly confirmed that ’the data wasn’t wrong, the target indeed only had high-level peak hard strength,’ this result offered her no comfort.

You should know that that young white-haired human, whose weapon was taller than its user, the Snow Bathing Sword also never demonstrated a strength stronger than ’high-level peak,’ but this still didn’t prevent her from being one versus a hundred in same-tier battles.

The small girl who casually waved out dozens of instant-cast + silent-cast high-level magic, completing nineteen consecutive kills of the same tier within half a minute, the sense of oppression she brought was not just matching the Snow Bathing Sword but even superior!

It’s not that Scarlett could instantly discern who between this orange hair and the previous white-haired one was stronger, but anyone with above-normal intelligence could see the girl currently standing before the library killing maliciously was truly going lethal! It’s a completely different concept from the previous Snow Bathing Sword, who always showed mercy.

"This... this... this this..."

Scarlett, observing the battle through an observational device concurrently given with her equipment [an alchemical product akin to a wide-angle telescope], swallowed nervously and muttered in a trembling voice, "A monster of this level, can merely someone like me restrain? Ghost Card brother and that Red K, are they really sending this lady to her doom? Can I really... damn release it!"