Lisa, on the other hand, seemed very excited; she couldn't wait for Marcus to fight her.
A Plaga parasite tentacle, like a spear, once again shot fiercely towards his head!
"Sizzle...!"
Marcus tilted his head and dodged, decisively avoiding this fatal blow.
The sharp longsword scraped against the Plaga parasite tentacle, cutting downwards fiercely, sending out intense sparks.
Immediately, Marcus directly used his fingernails to cut open his palm, and blood flowed from his palm, adhering to the blade.
A blood-red pattern formed on the outside of the blade.
Then, Marcus quickly exerted force with both arms, looking at the Plaga parasite tentacle's weakness, and chopped out fiercely.
"Poof!"
"Thud..."
Something incredible happened.
With a circular slash, the thick Plaga parasite tentacle was instantly severed and fell heavily to the ground.
A large amount of liquid flowed out from the smooth, clean cut of the Plaga parasite tentacle.
"Oh...?!"
Looking at his severed Plaga parasite tentacle, Lisa raised an eyebrow, appearing somewhat surprised, because she hadn't expected Marcus to be able to cut off her Plaga parasite tentacle.
It must have been the blood that enhanced the sharpness of the blade.
Did the blood of the blood clan progenitor actually have the ability to enchant weapons? This was quite unexpected—
However,
The severed Plaga parasite tentacle immediately returned to its original state, with new Plaga parasite tentacles rapidly growing out from it.
The recovery speed was incredibly fast.
The G-Virus itself is known for its recovery and tenacious vitality.
If it came to a prolonged battle, Lisa could easily accompany Blood Clan Progenitor Marcus for an entire day, as a prolonged battle is what the G-Virus fears least.
"It's time to slightly increase the difficulty."
"After all, the prey has started to bare its fangs at the hunter.
If I don't show some deterrence, how could these prey be afraid...?"
Seeing that Marcus had already learned to resist, Lisa murmured to herself, then immediately raised her finger again, controlling the Plaga parasite tentacles on her back to begin a frenzied stabbing attack.
Each Plaga parasite tentacle was covered with a dark metal film, greatly strengthening its hardness, not just at the tip.
Even the long body was like this, evolving directly from a plastic tube to a steel cable.
Now, no matter how sharp Marcus's greatsword was, it wouldn't be able to penetrate its defense.
"Hiss..."
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Not only that,
As the heads at the tips of the Plaga parasite tentacles opened their mouths, sharp poisonous barbs were exposed inside, and what sprayed from the barbs was a green, viscous corrosive liquid.
Like streams of water guns, they sprayed towards Blood Clan Progenitor Marcus, greatly increasing the difficulty of survival.
Lisa was even more eager to see how Blood Clan Progenitor Marcus would retaliate more fiercely...
...
Meanwhile, on the other side—
Viktor, as a blood clan elder, was confronting Javier.
To be honest... Viktor's mood was very relaxed now, without the previous panic.
Because the opponent he faced was Javier, a genuine human, whose strength absolutely could not be as outrageous as Lisa's.
Given that... he had nothing to fear.
Just a mere human, he could easily deal with him.
But little did he know,
As an Infected of the T-Virus,
Javier's physical abilities were similar to a Vampire's, whether in speed or strength, and his upper limit was even slightly stronger.
Because the T-Virus can evolve slowly and is not fixed, while Vampires rely on the purity of their bloodline to determine their strength.
So, in a sense,
Their strengths were actually similar, not that far apart.
But Javier possessed swordsmanship, combat mastery, firearm mastery, and the enhancement of various item weapons, so his methods were definitely much stronger than a mere Vampire like Viktor.
And now...
Javier had already started buffing himself.
Hair gel was applied to his hair, and after casually styling it, the achievement [Magical Hair Gel Hand] was unlocked.
The power of the item directly buffed Javier's strength, speed, and stamina by one level.
"Whew..."
He let out another deep breath.
The Breathing Technique activated, and a large amount of oxygen was immediately inhaled into his body.
His blood began to flow and boil rapidly, his cardiopulmonary function increased, and his physical abilities were buffed by another level.
With the two invisible buffs stacked, an imperceptible gap had already opened between Javier and Blood Clan Elder Viktor.
Now it was time to make his move.
"..."
"Quickdraw... Iai!"
Bending down into a drawing-slash stance,
Without the slightest hesitation, aiming at the Blood Clan Elder Viktor in front of him, Javier immediately activated the Yamato's teleportation ability.
His entire body turned into a flash of light at his original spot and instantly disappeared, then immediately reappeared behind Blood Clan Elder Viktor 0.1 seconds later.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
And quickly swung the blade.
The Yamato's four consecutive Iai slashes instantly chopped out, aiming fiercely at Viktor's back.
The sudden attack,
Coupled with the pirated Yamato's teleportation ability, it could almost be done silently.
Javier had now also evolved from an unremarkable ordinary person to an overpowered mode.
Facing the flash and ultimate skill entry, Viktor had no time to defend.
His back was quickly struck by the Yamato's continuous Iai slashes.
"Splurt, splurt!"
His back, struck by the blade, was no surprise.
The Middle Ages armor he wore was instantly split into countless pieces, and blood splattered.
Along with the flesh inside, deep wounds were immediately exposed, even revealing his white shoulder blades.
"Ah...!"
A scream.
If it weren't for the protection of the Middle Ages armor, the wound should have been a bit deeper, at least enough to sever Viktor's skeleton.
But it seemed there would be no second chance now.
Feeling the intense pain from his back, Blood Clan Elder Viktor, who had reacted, quickly covered his back and rolled backward.
A Vampire's recovery ability is very fast, especially for Viktor, who is an elder; his blood purity is very high.
The large gash on his back, which had been cut open, was recovering at a visible speed.
And in response to Javier's sneak attack, Viktor retaliated in kind, throwing out the shuriken bombs confiscated from the Vampire Warrior, quickly throwing them towards Javier...!
"Whoosh, whoosh!"
Two explosive shurikens were thrown out, their circular shells sprouting several sharp blades, and the red lights on them began to flash rapidly.
The explosion method inside was basically similar to a grenade.
Both were filled with steel balls, using the shockwave of the exploding gunpowder to heat and propel the steel balls, causing widespread destruction to surrounding creatures.
The blades on them were not for killing enemies, but for hooking into the enemy's flesh or clothing.
Once hooked, it would be difficult to shake off, thus suffering close-range explosive damage, increasing lethality.
However,
The slow speed of the explosive shurikens,
It would be very difficult to hit Javier's body, especially since after the last version update, Javier had already cosplayed the soul of Demon Vergil.
Even the bug of not being able to double jump was fixed, after all, another skill he obtained was double jump.
He could float and step in mid-air during a jump to perform a second jump, one of the most common game designs in side-scrolling games.
But our Mr. Vergil doesn't have it,
Or rather... he doesn't have the double jump skill, even if he searches online and asks his biological son Nero, he still won't have double jump.
After all, it was maliciously obstructed by the wicked development team.
They just wanted to play a character gag, so they kept delaying giving Vergil double jump, and later, the fact that Vergil couldn't double jump was even accepted as a design flaw.
And Javier's double jump, in addition to the regular second jump, can also be upgraded to triple jump, quadruple jump, quintuple jump, and even the ultimate move of infinitely jumping in place by stepping on his left foot with his right foot!
"Double Jump!"
Therefore,
Without any hesitation,
Looking at the explosive shurikens rapidly flying towards him, Javier decisively used the double jump skill, performing a backflip to the side.
And while in mid-air,
Although his feet were floating, it was as if he had stepped on the ground, allowing him to perform a second support jump.
This directly allowed Javier to quickly make two jumps to the left, rising to a height of about five or six meters, comparable to a two-story building, which was a form of light-footed movement in a sense.
"Bang...!"
"Boom!"
And the next second,
The explosive shurikens beneath him quickly exploded, releasing a scorching fire that spread in all directions.
The densely packed steel balls contained within them all ricocheted off the surrounding walls and floor, creating clouds of smoke.
However, taking advantage of this opportunity,
Javier quickly descended,
Using the smoke from the explosion to obscure visibility, he gripped the Yamato in his hand and attacked towards Viktor again.
"Yamato Consecutive Slashes!"
The sharp blade slashed down fiercely.
The sudden strike from the rolling smoke caught Viktor off guard.
He hurriedly raised his knight's greatsword to block.
Because the previous Quickdraw Iai, which involved teleportation,
had already split open the armor Viktor was wearing, he now had no protection on his body.
If he were stabbed in vital areas like the heart, it would be very easy to suffer severe fatal injuries, so Viktor had to be extremely careful from now on.
However,
As a blood clan elder who had survived for nearly a thousand years, Viktor was no pushover.
His past identity as a Middle Ages warlord also proved Viktor's formidable strength.
His close-combat ability was in no way inferior to Javier's.
He raised his knight's greatsword and, with a tricky angle, immediately parried and deflected Javier's incoming Yamato slash.
He even slid fiercely down the Yamato's blade, intending to smash the Yamato's tsuba with a powerful downward strike.
However,
"Clang!"
A crisp sound.
Javier bent down and turned, his Yamato also quickly reversed and swung, making a circle to borrow force for a second time.
This attack was an upward, rising slash.
The force was also very great, perfectly matching Viktor's knight's greatsword in an upward and downward slash.
Viktor's knight's greatsword was falling with the momentum, while Javier's Yamato was rising!
"Crack!"
"Boom!"
However,
Something unexpected happened to Blood Clan Elder Viktor.
The moment the two blades collided, intense sparks immediately flew.
Like glass,
With almost no possibility of resistance, Viktor's knight's greatsword instantly broke into two pieces.
The middle part turned into scattered fragments, and the front end of the blade spun rapidly into the air, then fell and stuck into the ground.
Viktor's Middle Ages knight's greatsword was almost no match for the extraordinarily hard pirated Yamato.
After all, his cold weapon was not a special weapon, so it naturally couldn't withstand such intense impact.
If Javier wanted to,
He could even pull out the Executioner Verdugo's tail blade from his storage ring, which was the loyal servant of Lord Raymond in the Resident Evil 4 dungeon, the castle lord.
Perfectly Infected and mutated by the Plaga parasite and black water, its tail grew sharp blades capable of cutting through large amounts of metal; even steel would be easily cut like tofu.