Chapter 21 Viewing Each Other With New Eyes

The dozen or so residents of the City of Sin, who had been lying on the ground, shifted their gazes towards Soft Mist. Each let out a whoop before swarming forward.

Sword Wind Points slowly climbed to his feet, a sinister smiling emoji floating above his head.

Tang Rou had fallen for his scheme and was utterly disgusted by this insidious fellow. This time, she was truly enraged, more so than when she had been ambushed and killed by the guilds earlier.

Without a word, Tang Rou directly controlled Soft Mist and charged towards the dozen approaching residents. However, the cold light of the Red Moon Spear pointed directly at Sword Wind Points, who was standing there unscathed.

Sword Wind Points was somewhat intimidated by Tang Rou's momentum. However, seeing the dozen savage residents of the City of Sin lined up like a wall in front of him, he immediately regained his composure.

This girl is as belligerent as the residents of the City of Sin! It's already hard to say if she can escape at this point, yet she's advancing instead of retreating. This looks a bit foolish.

Sword Wind Points remained unmoved, watching as Soft Mist collided with the rushing residents. He had no intention of leaving. He was still calculating the location of the Christmas thief behind Soft Mist. Of course, he wouldn't mind killing Soft Mist if he had the chance.

*Boom!*

Soft Mist unleashed another Falling Flower Palm. The overbearing power of this low-level skill was unmatched by many high-level skills. The palm landed in the middle of the crowd, and the force rippled outwards. The *boom* sounded like popping beans, continuous and never-ending. It was as if a bomb had been dropped into the crowd, blasting them apart in all directions, sending them tumbling.

Sword Wind Points was shocked. This palm produced such an effect, Soft Mist's control was even better than he had imagined. However, even though the Falling Flower Palm was well-executed, it wouldn't be so easy to charge over, because of that six-level level suppression.

The level suppression was too great!

The normally sharp blow-away effect of Falling Flower Palm was greatly weakened by the level suppression. This palm was indeed a beautiful strike, but it didn't achieve Tang Rou's intended effect at all. She was about to have Soft Mist charge forward and attack Sword Wind Points relentlessly, but two cold glints flashed towards her. Two residents had pounced on her.

The Falling Flower Palm didn't achieve its full effect. Many of those hit weren't blown away far enough. As a result, the monsters Tang Rou had expected to be knocked over were unharmed and immediately launched an attack on her. Those who had been knocked down also scrambled to their feet with surprising agility.

Sword Wind Points sneered. In this situation, he assumed Soft Mist wouldn't dare engage with the two residents, otherwise, she would be surrounded by a dozen residents and unable to escape.

However, a red light flashed. Soft Mist's Red Moon Spear stabbed out diagonally, unexpectedly engaging the two residents, completely contrary to Sword Wind Points' expectations.

Sword Wind Points paused, then chuckled dismissively, "Foolish!"

The arc of light slashed out by the Red Moon Spear was a Sky Strike, launching both residents into the air.

Immediately after, Soft Mist thrust out with her hand, a Dragon Tooth hitting one of them squarely, sending him flying towards Sword Wind Points. Soft Mist followed up with a step forward, waving her spear again, stabbing another resident. With a flick of her wrist, she drew a semicircle, throwing the resident behind her. The resulting shockwave knocked all the surrounding monsters to the ground.

Shocking!

Sword Wind Points was truly shocked this time.

Sky Strike launched the residents into the air, but the level suppression prevented them from flying too high. Yet, in that brief moment, Soft Mist had completed a Dragon Tooth and a Circle Swing, both with incredible precision. This hand speed, this micro-control, made Sword Wind Points reassess her skill once again.

He dodged the resident charging at him with Dragon Tooth, only to see a flaming Battle Mage Mana Spark flying towards him, hitting him just as the impaled resident flew past him.

The Battle Mage Mana Spark exploded, and even Sword Wind Points was affected by the blast. Fire-attribute Battle Mage Mana Sparks had a slight area-of-effect damage.

So, not only Dragon Tooth and Sky Strike, but she also released a Fire-attribute Battle Mage Mana Spark at that moment? And she timed it perfectly. It shouldn't be a coincidence that she blew him up.

This woman! Her control is so amazing!

As Sword Wind Points was thinking, Soft Mist had already charged in front of him. The Red Moon Spear struck his face, threatening to crush him into mincemeat.

Sword Wind Points wasn't as easy to deal with as those NPC monsters. He took a step sideways to avoid Soft Mist's attack. Then, with two quick backsteps, Soft Mist's spear chased after him with two consecutive stabs, but both missed. The composure and ease he had shown when dodging Soft Mist's attacks were gone.

Tang Rou was startled.

In this situation, her competitive spirit erupted, greatly enhancing her performance. Both her hand speed and micro-control were better than usual. She believed that this consecutive thrust was quite swift, but she didn't expect her opponent to anticipate her move and jump away. Tang Rou had already initiated the command, and with her high hand speed, she couldn't stop in time. This consecutive thrust, in Tang Rou's eyes, made her look like a fool who had been tricked.

Sword Wind Points chuckled and countered with an upward sweep. Without thinking, Tang Rou jumped back, but *puff*, she was hit by a Christmas thief who had caught up to her.

This thief's aggro was naturally on Soft Mist, and he wasn't thinking of using this opportunity to escape!

The horde of City of Sin residents who had fallen earlier were now rising to their feet, relentlessly charging forward. In this situation, Tang Rou was even more stubborn than the NPCs, still charging towards Sword Wind Points.

The Red Moon Spear lashed out, a Sky Strike slashing across, but Sword Wind Points easily dodged it again.

She half-turned, swinging her left hand. A domineering Falling Flower Palm, but it missed again.

Why can't she hit him?

Tang Rou didn't think there was anything wrong with her controls, but it was as if her opponent always knew what attack she was going to use. Tang Rou vaguely felt that she should know the reason, but in this urgent situation, she couldn't calm down and think about it. At this moment, she only had one thought in her mind: Fight!

Even if she was eventually surrounded and killed by these monsters, she would at least drag this insidious fellow down with her and force him to revive in the main city.

Tang Rou's fighting spirit surged once more, and she frantically continued her attacks.

Thrust, stab, sweep!

This time, she only used normal attacks. With the spear's slowest attack speed, the rhythm was now like a gale. Tang Rou's hand speed had risen to another level, but the sacrifice was the precision of her micro-control. Tang Rou wasn't even sure if these three consecutive attacks had accurately hit Sword Wind Points. She only knew that her attacks were in that direction, Sword Wind Points' direction! She would move forward, even if it meant dying on top of this guy's corpse.

Basic normal attacks, but they had an unexpected effect.

This time, Sword Wind Points was unable to dodge with such ease as before. The three consecutive attacks threw him into a flurry, and he failed to dodge the final sweep, getting hit in the waist, causing his character to stagger sideways. The calm and ease he had shown when dodging Soft Mist's attacks was nowhere to be seen.

Tang Rou suddenly understood what was happening.

This fighting technique was what Ye Xiu had taught her. Familiarize yourself with skills, pay attention to skills. And that Sword Wind Points was using this method. In that brief moment, Tang Rou's Soft Mist had used Falling Flower Palm, Sky Strike, Dragon Tooth, and Circle Swing, and then quickly rushed in front of him.

At that time, all four skills were on cooldown, and the Battle Mage Mana Spark could only be launched when a target was hit. Then, Soft Mist, this level 31 Battle Mage, only had one skill available: Consecutive Thrust.

Sword Wind Points had correctly judged this, allowing him to accurately predict that Consecutive Thrust. After that, Soft Mist's skills came off cooldown one after another, and Tang Rou used them one after another, which Sword Wind Points had calculated and dodged each time.

Tang Rou's hand speed actually helped her opponent. Because her hand speed was fast, she used skills quickly, allowing her to unleash a barrage of skills in an instant. Then, the cooldown times of the skills allowed the opponent to judge her moves.

This Sword Wind Points was indeed not simple. The method Ye Xiu had taught Tang Rou, she had practiced, but this method of judging was easy to say but difficult to achieve. Tang Rou was still at the stage of paying attention to her own skill cooldowns, far from being able to know the opponent's skill usage and cooldowns during battle. And this Sword Wind Points, whether it was because he was a lower level with fewer skills, or not, he had done something that Tang Rou couldn't do.

However, this time, Tang Rou's three quick normal attacks caught him off guard. Normal attacks didn't have cooldowns and could be used at any time. Sword Wind Points couldn't use the same method to predict her moves. As a result, he suffered a great loss due to Tang Rou's super-fast control.

He staggered from the sweep, but before he could stabilize himself, a red light flashed before his eyes.

Sky Strike!

Soft Mist's Sky Strike came again. This time, Sword Wind Points knew it was coming, but he couldn't dodge it in time and was launched into the air.

Circle Swing!

The Red Moon Spear stabbed through Sword Wind Points, impaling him, before being flung back and slammed to the ground. The resulting shockwave knocked over the surrounding monsters.

However, this time, Tang Rou wasn't as careful in protecting her Soft Mist. She was hit by the monsters a few times.