Black Sail
Chapter 196: CXCVI. Maple Forest

Chapter 196: CXCVI. Maple Forest

Accompanied by thunder, a torrential rain washed down.

In the previous duel with the disfigured face, the wounds inflicted by the Magician had burst open completely; blood gushed out from the injuries on his chest, abdomen, and limbs.

This newly joined disfigured face was no ordinary opponent.

It had been a long time.

Joshua felt the risk of imminent death as his hands were gradually losing strength, but the Evil Power filling his limbs and bones kept him going.

The sizzling sound of high heat eroding flesh and blood kept coming.

With Evil Power flames burning in his hand, Joshua smeared the longest wound on his chest, instantly burning the flesh into a hard and brittle blackened char, which steamed thick smoke in the rain and made a sizzling noise, horrendously stopping the blood flow—it was excruciating to even look at.

He didn’t even frown.

Gawain, whose left leg was broken, gasped in shock—this man was ferocious.

Joshua shook his hands and moved his body a bit.

Since the beginning, he had been battling Fen for a long time on the fast-moving train, his arm had also been injured, and after the recent major battle, his condition had deteriorated even more, and his stamina was almost depleted.

Surrounded by so many people, he was bound to lose over time. He had to sweep through these people completely with one terrifying burst.

The suitcase contained a weapon named "Maple Forest."

It was not forged by a swordsmith but was the work of an Alchemist and Mechanical Master; besides being able to be dismantled and recombined, each sword inside had gears and levers that could be wound up to boost internal energy, and the high-speed buzzing over-frequency vibrations made its sharpness unparalleled.

It was always Joshua who robbed others, plundering national wealth from other countries—there was never a time when he was robbed.

Youth is to be feared, but it ends here.

He nudged his toes toward the last component inside the suitcase, an Arm Armor, flicking it into the air and slipping his hand into it seamlessly.

The Arm Armor was also full of mechanisms, covered with nine black gears of different sizes, subtly matching the nine swords from before.

As Joshua injected Evil Power into the Arm Armor, dark green flames violently burned and the nine gears began to turn furiously.

Snap!

The swords in Joshua’s hands were dismantled in an instant, the gears on the weapons grinding against those on the Arm Armor, sparking like a waterfall splashing.

Shifting.

Joshua was already charging toward the Magician who posed the greatest threat.

The two women beside him, acting like mediums, were being controlled by the Magician’s spell power threads, preparing something even more terrifying than before.

He couldn’t let him cast it again.

The river of flesh and blood just before had already severely injured Joshua; another such attack and there would be no chance of survival.

Each time he used the Evil Power to blink through, it blasted the rain curtain, deafening.

In an instant, his aura escalated to an incredibly terrifying level; Evil Power corroded, swords transmitted rapid buzzing sounds, vibrating as if the metal was screaming, the blades of the Maple Forest generating high heat, evaporating any raindrops that touched them.

Liszt cursed a thousand times in his heart, "There’s even a third phase?"

"Half a minute... just give me half a minute."

Fin spoke these last words and then closed his eyes, controlling Izumi and Yutong with magic threads as strange black runes appeared on the brows of both women.

They had become Fin’s proxies, reducing the strong backlash brought by the Stone Tablet Fragments.

Fin wasn’t using the Stele, just as using an Ether Crystal as a medium to enhance the power of a spell, he was merely using the Stele as a medium.

Let’s see how much it could be amplified.

Joshua flew towards Fin like a dark green long rainbow, the roaring Maple Forest steaming thick smoke under the rain, swooping aggressively.

"Half a minute, huh?"

How could Morison give Joshua that chance? His condition wasn’t much better after the fierce battle with Grim, holding dual guns and confronting him.

Joshua had no intention of fighting this tough disfigured face. Using Evil Power to bypass him, he headed straight for the unguarded Fin.

A dark red arc slashed through.

An eight-meter-high Wind Erosion Rock Tower collapsed, as Liszt anticipated his sudden appearance, the ten-ton column already tilting and collapsing.

Joshua was about to be crushed.

But just like he cleared the stone pile in the tunnel before, the scene was too horrifying.

Nine bizarrely buzzing queer weapons in Joshua’s hands flew like acrobatics, forming arcs of light; whipped fiercely by the Evil Power Shaping Flame Column Chains, he himself also slashing with two blades.

In an instant.

Blades and sword lights exploded into thousands of fine lines of light, as if weaving a silver massive net.

Even the hardest rocks, under countless slashes, were chopped into numerous fragments within two seconds, clattering to the ground.

Buzz...

He continued to wind up his sword blade, with the gears of his Arm Armor scraping out a waterfall of sparks, his momentum even greater than before.

Lastly, the few huge rocks that fell were about to drop on him.

Under the magnificent display of fighting skills and body techniques, bam! bam!

A succession of wind-piercing high kicks turned them all into dust.

Shadi was dumbfounded—damn, that was fierce.

Gawain, Lu, Weber, Claude—these four had completely lost their combat abilities.

But the others could still fight. Shadi and Meredith had only broken arms, while Swan, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, could also continue to fight.

They absolutely couldn’t let him get to Fen.

Shadi, using only one hand, drew a blood-red mist with his swordsmanship and chopped vertically, Joshua agilely dodged, and Meredith and Swan rushed in succession.

At this point, they had all given up the idea of killing him; Meredith took over the Great Curved Sword swung to her by Gawain, swirling it in a dance, while Swan also shot out Hidden Weapons, just to entangle him.

The sound of metal clashing rang out.

The trembling sharpness of those gear-driven oddities was unrivaled; even the Great Curved Sword, despite being mixed with Magic Energy Material, was split open by Joshua in less than three seconds.

This time, the object Swan threw was not made of iron, but a nerve toxin prepared by Mika, and like before, a wall of Evil Power flames suddenly rose, completely evaporating it into nothingness.

Shadi furiously struck with Zahak’s instructing sword, pulling out a bright red light trail.

Nine buzzing odd weapons were assembled together.

Bang!

A Special Large Sword slashed down.

This blood-red blade, first cracked from the surface, then shockingly burst apart.

Shadi was knocked back several meters.

"Damn my eight Golden Dragons!"

Shadi was truly furious, his Qi filled his palms, and with a fierce chop of his hand, although Joshua dodged the vital parts of his head, the Qi also sliced open his left ear, and with the secretion of a red line, the blood suddenly split it into upper and lower halves, gushing blood profusely.

Joshua was so careless because his attention was entirely on guarding against Liszt, whose touch-means-death blade was the greatest threat.

Because Fen and the others were behind, Liszt could only fight in close quarters, slashing fiercely with both swords, but Joshua’s body techniques had reached a transformative stage, receiving and sidestepping, dodging them all.

Morison, holding dual guns, descended from the sky, his whole being turning into a blade, all weapons in his hands changed their nature, always ultimately returning to his essence.

A storm of stranglehold fiercely poured.

Joshua dared not shift and waste his Magic Power again; the gears of his Arm Armor whirled as he quickly disassembled them into nine swords and knives to meet the attack.

During their battle, the sparks were dazzling to the extreme, not only the clashing of weapons, but Joshua’s swift fighting skills also struck furiously, the sword blade and fist peaks and legs turning into a killing machine.

Morison’s physical strength was greatly depleted, but even against the berserk Joshua, he still gained the upper hand, wielding a long spear to find the gap, knocking away two buzzing blades.

Joshua’s skills were not limited to this.

Spiritual Bodies—it wasn’t only Fen who could transform.

But unlike the Academy and Conquest Factions, Joshua only needed one Spiritual Body, capable of dual-focus combat, both precise and ruthless.

Evil Power Shaping·Phantom Avatar.

A Joshua stepped out from the dark green flames behind him, took over the weapons flung by Morison, and simultaneously attacked Morison.

Morison was somewhat shocked; this was a level that could make it to the final peak match of the Continent Martial Arts Competition in mid-September.

Two Joshuas overwhelmed Morison, making him somewhat unable to cope, yet Joshua could still spare the attention to fend off the attacks from the others.

But for a time, he was indeed held back.

To defeat two top-notch fighters consecutively?

Morison was also almost drained, hesitating whether to break his code.

A sword, after all, was just a piece of iron with blades on both sides.

But it just happened to be this most ordinary weapon.

It’s said that 1,800 years ago, the Pope of the Divine Mother Sect was slain by an unnamed hero with such a sword, severing the connection between this world and the supreme will, cutting off heaven and earth.

The most basic weapon, yet encompassing the balanced philosophy of moderation.

In a duel between masters, having the most versatile weapon and one specialized in a particular field makes a vast difference.

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