At the same time, Zerina was in motion too. She matched her attack perfectly with Bob, her side kick came like a fierce gale aimed for the back of Reinahrdt’s knee.
"When the Holy Blade is drawn, it must never falter. Your belief and hard work shall become your stance and your heart the blade that will destroy all evil".
Those exact same words that he told them when first showing them the [Holy Blade Arts]. Line by line... it was the essence of the first technique of the Divine Testament of the sword, the first light.
A horizontal slash transitioning into a full moon arc, so clean and beautiful that it seemed to part the wind itself.
The wooden blades clashed, and the shockwave sent a ripple through the ground, sending both Bob and Zerina back.
"Go!!" Bob shouted, the wooden sword in his hand left his person, [Limitless], and aided Zerina, who used his sword as a foothold to spring back towards Reinhardt. A move that will definitely catch their Commander off guard.
Of course, they did not underestimate a level 10 knight, the one acclaimed as a hero. To make sure Zerina connected, Marcus and Grey coordinated their attacks from the side at the precise moment when Reinhardt’s wooden sword stopped moving.
"North Sword Style" Bob was still in the play, he kicked his sword, a style he learned when travelling to a foreign kingdom with the order of the temple of light.
Marcus stepped forward first, his stance lower than before, his blade held in reverse grip. He began rotating at an extreme speed— Cyclone Form, a technique that used rotational force to generate a spiraling wall of strikes. The wind around him thickened, forming a vortex of pressure.
"Hmph, child’s play," Reinhardt snorted. His sword rose not fast, not dramatic, but was carried with absolute certainty.
He stepped forward and entered the storm. The wooden sword in his hand executed the second technique and attacked the focal point of Marcus’ technique, thus rendering his attack meaningless.
"Don’t look down on us, Commander!!" From the other side, Grey attacked. He used the very same movement that Reinahrdt used just a moment ago. Second Technique of the [Holy Blade Arts].
"You have learnt well. However, you are yet to understand its true essence."
The Divine Paladin executed the second technique too when... his foot suddenly sank into the ground.
Looking back, Marcus was giving him a ferocious smile.
"I’m not done yet," saying that, the holy knight stomped on the ground hard enough with his current Low (High) stats and executed a technique called pulse step that created micro-vibrations in the ground, disrupting balance and masking approach.
Grey was coming from the right with the second technique of the [Holy Blade Arts], from his left, Marcus was disrupting him with his quirky footwork, and from the front came Zerina in hot pursuit with a punch.
How will you deal with this? Their expression said.
"Haha, well done. If I could, I would call it a challenge. However, that would be generous... [Holy Blade Arts] Seocnd Technique".
What? Marcus was shocked, their Commander was actually managing to keep a perfect balance even while the ground around him moved. Instead of resisting the vibration of the ground, he was actually flowing with it.
Dammit!! Unable to create a distraction for his teammate, Grey’s attack was easily stopped by Reinhardt, who executed a horizontal slash aiming at the opening shown by his opponent.
BANG... the holy knight was flung back. Everything happened so fast, from Bob’s and Zerina’s attack being deflected to the two other holy knights being flung around like that. One could say that not even two seconds had passed.
Yet in that extremely small timeframe, Reinahrdt managed to overpower all four of his holy knights.
Now only Zerina remained. With her support now gone, she was all alone. However, it didn’t seem like that was enough to break her spirit. She came roaring at him with her fist as if she wanted to take revenge for something by punching his mug.
Too bad though, there was no one who could touch a single hair on him. His sword moved, intending to end it when Bob charged up towards him, bypassing Zerina.
When did he...? Looking back, he saw Marcus and Grey falling down on the ground with their hands outstretched towards his direction. It appeared that those two had flung him here.
"Haha, doing something unnecessary. However, I like your resolve come" Thanks to his [Divine Remembrance], it was just too obvious to him that Bob was going to tackle.
And with no surprise, he did. Reinahrdt dodged his futile attempt with a side step. His footwork was precise, heel toe glide, half step to the side, and weight shift that made him seem like her was floating just out of reach. There was not even a single wasted movement.
His tackle failed; Bob’s momentum carried him outside.
Reinahrdt didn’t keep his eyes on the former for long as he knew the real attack was coming from Zerina, who was flying at him with a punch.
"Haaah!!" Zerina roared, showing him a fierce expression that was not much different from when they did it.
His sword moved, a blindly fast horizontal stab, and the match was over, or it should have been. At that moment, since the start of the battle, Reinhardt’s eyes opened wide for the first time.
Just now, when Bob tackled past him, where was his sword? He believed that the other party kicked the sword towards him in North Sword Style. So where did it go?
Before he could realise it, his horizontal slash was right in front of Zerina’s face. In that fraction of a second, that woman managed to utterly surprise him.
While in mid air, she shifted her weight, twisting her torso and performing a tight summersault. His horizontal slash that should ended this match, was dodged. The woman swung upside down in the air, making a curve behind him.