Romance of the Four Kingdoms

Chapter 53

Mitsuko deflected an oncoming attack from the sky piercer and swings her scythe at the side. Lu Bu easily blocked the attack and pushes the crescent blade away and strikes overhead as he steps forwards to have more of his strength in the attack. Mitsuko barely had enough time to block the attack with the polearm. She Managed to force it to land on the ground and swings again with her scythe aiming at his neck, though this was futile as Lu Bu's superior skills shone through as he anticipated the attack and stepped back with ease before thrusting his sky piercer aiming of her torso. Mitsuko withdrew the scythe in time to grab a hold of the polearm with both hands and push the sky piercer away to her left. She took another opportunity to swing the scythe at Lu Bu's neck. Though Lu Bu's experience revealed itself as he doesn't put all his strength into it so he doesn't stumble forwards onto the oncoming crescent blade and simply stepped away from the blade before he came into contact with it. Mitsuko gritted her teeth and was infuriated with not hitting him. She kept on her offensive swinging trying to get a hit in though every attack she swings Lu Bu anticipated and dodged out of the way of all her attacks. She knew she had to try and be smarter with her attack. After her last strike she raises her crescent blade high to strike his skull.

Lu Bu anticipated the attack and deflected the attack leaving Mitsuko vulnerable as he simply swatted the scythe away. As Lu Bu strikes overhead Mitsuko could stumble to the same direction the scythe was deflected at. Lu Bu's sky piercer destroys a part of the flooring while keeping the blade itself intact. Lu Bu then thrust again at Mitsuko. This time hitting her serpent shoulder pad.

'Gotcha!' Mitsuko let her body turn with the momentum of the thrust giving after hitting the shoulder pad making Lu Bu thrust that little extra giving Mitsuko an opportunity to attack. She swings her scythe aiming again for his neck. Lu Bu steps back however the tip of the crescent blade was close enough to leave a horizontal scar on Lu Bu's armour at his chest. Even though her shoulder pad was destroyed Mitsuko smirked at the damage that she did to Lu Bu's perfected armour. He ran through the scar with one of his fingers but instead of getting angry he wore before suddenly attacking Mitsuko. The more she blocked with the polearm the quicker the attacks from Lu Bu became as he stepped forward more and more putting Mitsuko on the defensive as she had to step back. She eventually found herself overwhelmed with his flurry of attacks as Lu Bu swings his Sky piercer one more time from the side. Mitsuko barely had enough time to block it. However instead of withdrawing the blade Lu Bu pushes with all his strength which surprises Mitsuko. She couldn't prevent herself from being knocked over as she landed on her back. She groaned in pain as she made contact with the ground. She got back up to see Lu Bu smirking which infuriated her and yet in a strange way she was getting a little bit excited. She charges in again for another attack.

Gyuki managed to catch up to LingQi as she just kept sprinting however she started to slow down due to exhaustion, even so she still attempted to keep the same pace. Seeing this Gyuki picked her up and places her on his shoulder.

'Hey what are you doing?' LingQi protested and was about to dismount before Gyuki speaks up.

'Well I thought you may want to have a quick rest before we reach the castle. If you get tired you can't help Mitsuko can you?'

'I...I suppose.' LingQi sighed in defeat, as much as she didn't want to admit it Gyuki was right. Though the idea of just sitting around and waiting while Mitsuko and her father was in danger didn't sit right with her at all.

'Don't worry, despite my size I'm quite fast you know.' Gyuki reassured her as he ran through the trees as fast as he can, even knocking a couple of them over. Though all of a sudden he stops.

'What is it, why did you stop?' LingQi questioned anxiously.

'I sense a mystic nearby.' Gyuki whispered.