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Chapter 171 The Gift of Revenge (Part 2)

"Demon!" Alicia drew her two-hand-sword and stepped protectively in front of Mira.

"... Demon?" Her voice was cold, didn't bare any emotion, "That's the way, you call those orphans and abandoned babies who are sent to the monastery to get raised, from whom you chose your own witches?"

"What are you talking about?!" The warrioress snapped back, "The church shelters them because of God's kindness. Without the Church's mercy, how many of them would be able to survive until their day of adulthood? But the pervasive Devil will always corrupt the weakest of them, leading a very small number of girls astray. But as soon as it is discovered that one of them degenerated into a witch, the Church will immediately treat the fallen ones. You are totally turning the cause and effect upside down!"

Hearing the word "treat", the golden pupil of the witch dimmed by a lot, raising her large sword with one hand she declared. "I'm not too interested in persuading a dead person anyway. So be it."

Even before her voice had faded away, the owl spread her wings and flew into the sky, and the witches figure rushed forward. Alicia could still clearly remember how her comrades had tragically tried to defend themselves and had instead been split in two, so she decided, I will never retreat, I have to advance forward.

Facing the right-handed extraordinary, she threw herself to the lower right sight just like she had trained in her fencing lesson. Her instructor had mentioned it more than once, if the enemy is heavily relying on their right hand, the bottom right will be the most difficult position for them to reach. After all, their sword grip is limiting their movement, so if they wanted to change the direction of the blade, they would first need to spend an additional half a breath to change their grip.

Closely avoiding the beheading strike with her leopard like dive, she immediately grasped her own two-handed sword and slashed at her the moment she passed the enemy's body. But the extraordinary reaction was too fast, with a small jump she easily avoided Alicia's counter swept, and also simultaneously changed the direction of her greatsword.

Until now, Alicia hasn't even landed yet.

Within a flash, the sword cut through half of her calf, with it sending blood into the sky. Sending a tearing pain throughout her whole lower body, almost making her lose her consciousness. Instinctively gritting her teeth, she was luckily strong enough not shout out on the spot from the pain.

The gap is too great.

She now understood, how hard had Abrams task been to give them so much time to escape, after all he was able to exchange ten or so moves with the extraordinary.

Alicia struggled to turn around, she was just in time to see how Mira removed a hidden hand crossbow from her back, and see her raise her hand and aim it at the body of the unaware extraordinary witch.

This is my last chance, she realized, perhaps, if I'm able to grab her attention!

But before she could even think about what she could say, a greatsword swept over with the force of a whirlwind. She then only felt her throat became tight, and then her world had turned upside down...

No, perhaps it's I who am flying, and then, she saw how her own body was unable to support itself any longer and fell onto its knees. At the same time, she saw the owl flew over in the direction of Mira. Turning into a girl in midair and severely hitting the official... Afterward, Alicia line of sight quickly began to blur, as she finally hit the ground, falling into a boundless darkness.

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"That damned stone!" Maggie touched her head while complaining out loud, "You were too careless, if it wasn't for my help just then, you would have been hit by that crossbow's arrow!"