Looking at the Ephemeral Sword constantly attacking him, Nango Torajiro seemed to experience a hallucination...
That sword didn't seem like a sword, but a giant character for 'Death' rushing toward him. He didn't even have the ability to dodge; he could only wait for that massive death to descend!
Not good!
If this continued, the War God of the Far East was going to die!
And he had just said those words in front of the two girls...
'I am the strongest!'
But those words now seemed like a joke floating over Torajiro's head, making him feel incredibly ashamed.
He... had actually called himself the strongest in front of such powerhouses? And even told the two of them to come at him together?
If he wasn't a clown, what was he?
So, for the sake of survival, Nango Torajiro had to abandon his previous playful attitude and bring out his true skills to oppose Jingliu!
That was the 'Desperado'!
In this world, Desperados were considered a taboo subject. Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for ordinary people to know about them.
But who was Nango Torajiro?
He was the first Desperado in the history of the Far East. Naturally, he had walked a long path and had his own unique understanding of the Desperado realm.
Despite his advanced age, his combat power remained formidable, and he was still active in the world of Blazers.
And so, Torajiro erupted.
The aura belonging to a Desperado and that unique Power of Destiny began to swirl around Torajiro, helping the old man rewrite the destiny that was about to arrive, namely...
The 'future of being hit by Jingliu'!
However, why?
The power of the Desperado had erupted in full, and all of it was applied to the woman named Jingliu before him, but destiny didn't change in the slightest. She still rushed straight toward him.
"Is such a destiny unchangeable?"
Watching the chill get closer and closer, Torajiro's perception of time seemed to stretch at this moment, and even the trajectory of his life began to flash before his eyes.
Was this a revolving lantern?
It is said that before death, people subconsciously recall everything they have done in their lives. Those fragments play like a slideshow until the end of their life.
"No, it can be rewritten. It's just that your strength is too weak..."
A cold voice rang out from behind. A silver-white blade emerged from beside Torajiro's head, blocking Jingliu's strike that was about to kill him, while simultaneously kicking this ninety-plus-year-old child toward the door.
The person who did all this was, naturally, Skirk.
Ever since the battle with Torajiro began, both Jingliu and she had discovered a crucial problem...
This Torajiro seems very weak?
Although a Desperado's true strength can only be seen after they enter their state, at the very least, right now he was just an old man with some room to maneuver. Even if he became stronger, it wouldn't exceed the girls' expectations.
Both Jingliu and Skirk had over a thousand ways to instantly kill this old man, but doing so would be meaningless.
Killing a Desperado was not only a provocation to the local powers but would also affect the world situation to a great extent, easily inciting a world war.
While Jingliu and Skirk didn't care about such things, throwing the world into chaos would bring them no benefit.
[Mission 1: Both of the roleplayer's characters step into the Desperado realm.]
[Mission 2: Recruit at least two disciples and train at least two to the Desperado realm.]
Looking at the two missions given by the system, both were related to 'Desperados,' which was enough to show that in this world, the Desperado realm was everything.
Those who do not enter the 'Desperado' realm are all ants!
When they arrived in this world not long ago, Jingliu and Skirk had not become Desperados. They were merely adapting to the 'destiny' of this world and had unintentionally released the 'Mara' within Jingliu and the 'Abyss' within Skirk.
Because these two powers were too unique, Saikyō Neine had misunderstood, thinking they were Desperados...
But in reality, they were still a significant distance away from being Desperados. It was only because of the uniqueness of their roleplayed characters that they possessed such powerful strength.
Back to the present.
Skirk had realized just now that if she or Jingliu used their true abilities to fight Nango Torajiro, they would definitely accidentally cut off his head during the battle.
What they needed to do was not fight, but to demonstrate their true strength in front of this old man!
Most things in the world require'strength' to accomplish. Only by making Nango Torajiro realize the gap between them would he truly let go of those extra intentions in his heart.
That's why this scene occurred...
Jingliu had fallen into her Mara-Struck state due to certain memories, subconsciously using terrifying power that easily gave Nango Torajiro the sensation of death.
If not stopped, let alone this residence, even the distant Hagun Academy would be slaughtered clean by the Mara-Struck Jingliu. Even the entire Far East would likely not have a single survivor left.
No matter how strong a Blazer was, they couldn't possibly be stronger than a Xianzhou person, right?
So, was there anyone in this world who could stop the Mara-Struck Jingliu?
No!
However, just because there was no one in this world didn't mean there was no one present who could stop her.
After all, there was someone on the scene from the same place as Jingliu, and that was Skirk.
So Skirk moved. At the moment the old man was about to be killed, she easily neutralized Jingliu's attack and simultaneously kicked Nango Torajiro to a safe place, letting him sit in the audience and watch the upcoming battle properly...
"Hahaha! Abomination, prepare to die!"
Playing a madman is indeed a difficult thing; no one knows what a madman is thinking.
But for Jingliu, it was easy. In her Mara-Struck state, she didn't need to do anything extra; she only needed to fixate on one thing, which was...
Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill—!
Kill those she knew, and kill those she didn't.
As long as the killing felt good, she would kill to the end.
This was the best way to roleplay being Mara-Struck!
And to prevent this place from turning into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, Skirk also had to bring out her true strength.
As a disciple of the Supreme Evil Knight, Skirk was also a member of a Cosmic Power. Naturally, she had trump cards that could clash with the Luofu sword champion, Jingliu.
So next, what appeared in Nango Torajiro's eyes was a battle that exceeded his imagination!
Endless frost fell from the sky. The cold air around Jingliu easily froze all the trees around the residence. Those sword beams carrying frost even froze the small mountain not far away.
But what followed was the shattering of space. Countless spatial tears, like sword scars, directly shattered all the frozen objects in the vicinity.
It was fortunate that Nango Torajiro lived alone in the woods and there were no extra people around. Otherwise, if outsiders had come here, they would surely have been crushed to pieces by the ice and space in this unprecedented battle.
Even Nango Torajiro himself was desperately mobilizing the Power of Destiny, influencing the surrounding environment to protect himself.
Torajiro had already noticed that if he focused destiny on Jingliu or Skirk, it had almost no effect on them.
These two were like the favored children of destiny, existing outside the Three Realms and not within the Five Elements, their fates completely impossible to rewrite.
But if he focused the Power of Destiny on the surrounding environment, it was still of some use...
Who would have thought that one day, the taboo Desperado power of this world would actually be used for such a thing?
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