Reincarnated as a Son of the Sword Saint and the Sage

Chapter 387  Let Me Guess

I had been fighting this woman who had taken over the body of Edith for several minutes, and due to our pace, I felt like it had been hours. In the course of time, a small area of the forest had been destroyed every second or two. We exchanged blows one after another, and none of us had successfully landed a fatal strike on each other yet. I was holding back the whole time, careful not to harm the host body. On the other hand, my opponent was seemingly enjoying our fight, and she basically had been toying with me, knowing my priorities. I had to find a way to land a hit on her without causing fatal damage to Edith's body. I had some skills available to use, but I had to consider anything before using them. I could apply Lust of the Overlord of Sins to her, but there was a high chance that our battle was currently being observed. Seeing how much this woman had turned one-eighty after casting Lust would alert the observer, and they would immediately conclude that I had some manipulating abilities. I might be using Azrael's ability, but revealing my cards to my enemies was still a bad move. Imbuing soul-damaging properties on my attacks might be effective, but there was a chance that I could damage Edith's soul as well. I did not even know the nature of this assimilation—whether their souls were combined, still separated in her body, or if Edith's soul was still there. The other way was to transport ourselves to a place where we could not be observed, such as a dungeon, but I personally used this trick when I was fighting Prince Richard. Moreover, we had revealed that our family had discovered a dungeon, so it was undeniable that they might shift their attention to my family. I had been casting Anti-Skill, a unique skill, on her, but it seemed ineffective. She might be using an ability that might be superior to the Anti-Skill or even an ultra one, which I should be wary of. "Fufu. Why aren't you fighting seriously~?" "..." She taunted me for my indecisiveness and kept playing with me. I distanced myself from her, tightly holding my scythe, as I was racking my brain to come up with a solution. And then I engaged in a fight with her again and went to her flow so I could focus more on my brain-racking. For a very brief period of time, I thought thoroughly about how to overcome this dilemma. But let me take note that she was not getting serious yet and only uses a handful of skills, spells, and techniques, so she might be several times more powerful than she was currently. However, earlier, she said that her strength was limited by the time. There were some abilities that had varied effects based on time, like Extra Skill: Photosynthesis, which made the holder more powerful and sustainable when in contact with the sun that only occurred in the daytime; Nocturnal and Nightlife, which were the opposite; and above all...the Ultra Skill: Monarch of the Night. The Ultra Skill: Monarch of the Night could only be acquired by inheriting it from direct predecessors possessing that skill. My sister and I got ours from our Mother, and I distributed a copy of it to each of my clones like a pirated movie or game. But Mother did not inherit it from her parents at all; she stole it from a holder using her legendary weapon. From what I had learned so far, all the Monarch of the Night holders I knew had their skills linked to one person. All the Monarch of the Night skills actually originated from that person, Rubina the Nightmare. If that person who possessed Edith had that ultra skill, then connecting the dots would lead me to the plausible conclusion that she was probably related to Rubina. She might even be her child, as my clones had incidentally crossed paths with her youngest son. Under the absolute influence of my Lust, Rubina told me about the life she had and even mentioned her children. But her memories of them were updated around seventeen years ago, so there was no guarantee that they would be the same as seventeen years ago. But if she really was one of Rubina's children, it would narrow down my margin to identify her identity. I should use the information that I have gotten so far while praying for good luck to strike at me. In the meantime, I mentally prepared the things that I needed to execute my plan. "If you are not a Dragonborn or a Dragonoid, perhaps you are a Cambion, an offspring of a Dragonborn or Dragonoid and a demonic being." "..." As soon as I said that, she parried my scythe and stepped back, ceasing our fight. "Silence means right, yes? That was what you said to me before." "Can you tell me how you came up with that nonsense?" "Observation and guessing, I guess?" I shrugged my shoulders to sarcastically indicate my uncertainty. "But it seems like I hit the mark." n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Silence!" She snapped and scowled her brows. "I want my toys to be in pristine condition, but you have learned too much, and I think slightly damaged goods are still usable. Play time is over. I should have ended the fight sooner." Saying that, her daggers suddenly glowed with a golden shine. She had finally activated one of the ultra skills she probably had. Her daggers were now able to scrape my soul, so I should be careful not to get hit by those. Whoosh! Clinkkkk!!!

In a flash, my eyes did not catch her rush toward me, and my body reflexively raised my hands to miraculously block her blades with the handle of my scythe. "Ugh—?!" The impact was so powerful that I was sent flying without any signs of slowing down. As I was still in the air, she was already on my crashing site, waiting for me to arrive.

"Ugh... Fuck it...!" I desperately tried to fly, and I managed to force my body to move upwards. My speed naturally slowed down as I was going against gravity. Regaining my balance, I started to levitate and stay stationary in the air. After that, I heard that thing that I had been waiting for a few minutes ago.