So, Rein instantly made a combat judgment, he could not dodge the opponent's attack now and had only to withstand it.
As Rein turned around, "Click!" the blade Finger Tigers shot out, and he crossed his arms in front of his chest.
At that moment, a few meters in front of Rein, a flurry of light and shadow flashed, and suddenly, where there had been no one before, a sinister man holding a Skull Warhammer abruptly appeared.
And just as the man appeared, his attack followed!
Rein took the blow with the blade Finger Tigers on his armored gloves, but in the haste, he could not muster his strength. Rein was hit like he'd been struck by a cannonball, and his body was instantly flung seven or eight meters back, crashing heavily against the cliff behind him!
At the cliff, dust billowed!
Without looking, one knew that Rein's entire body had been smashed into the cliff.
"Eh, quite a quick reaction! Unfortunately, the outcome will not change," Vallord said, showing slight surprise at Rein's ability to react to his surprise attack and turn to block.
But once his strike hit, he knew it was all over!
Even if the opponent were a Great Knight, he would be severely injured under his surprise attack, let alone this young man.
Suddenly, Vinica let out a piercing scream!
She then somewhat frantically cast a Water Membrane Technique to protect her body and began to rummage through her chest for something.
After landing his blow, Vallord was no longer in a rush to attack again.
Instead, he regarded the beautiful young girl before him with interest.
Seeing the panicked expression on the girl's face brought a perverse pleasure to Vallord's heart.
"Don't move! Take your hands out," Vallord commanded, lifting his white Skull Warhammer.
At that moment, Vinica glanced at the white Skull Warhammer in his hand and seemed to realize something. She tremblingly extended her fair fingers, pointing at Vallord and said, "You...you are 'Skull Crusher' Vallord, the leader of the Bloodsail Pirate gang!"
Hearing the girl's words, Vallord was obviously startled and glanced at her, slightly surprised.
"Eh, you actually know me?"
Vallord scrutinized the young girl before him carefully. She wore a pale blue Wizard Robe, and additionally, her bird seemed vaguely familiar. He hazarded a guess at her background and said gravely, "You are with the Empire's navy."
Before Vinica could answer, Vallord discerned the answer he wanted from the girl's astonished eyes.
This made his smile even brighter.
This was really interesting!
The Empire's navy had just chased him like a dog at a loss, and now, he had ironically found a girl affiliated with the Empire's navy, just right to quench his resentment.
However, the next second, Vallord's smile froze.
He felt something was amiss.
He immediately looked to the side.
Vallord's eyes widened in disbelief at the scene before him.
Where the cliff was, after the dust had settled, the young knight who should have been embedded in the cliff had disappeared.
This alarmed him immediately!
In the next second, he felt a wind at the back of his head, only to see a silhouette swinging down a Two-Handed Warhammer at him!
Vallord instantly turned to block!
The grating noise of the hard object striking echoed!
Vallord firmly caught Rein's strike.
Although Rein had not pushed his Intermediate Giant Strength Talent to its utmost, at this moment, he was exercising at least over eighty percent of his strength, but Vallord managed to steady himself and catch this blow.
Rein's pupils contracted, indeed worthy of the Black Sail Pirate gang leader, very strong, and even stronger than the rebel General Parix.
On the contrary, Vallord was more surprised!
Being a senior Great Knight himself and having attacked a knight by surprise, it was impossible for the other party to be unharmed!
It's really unbelievable!
The fact that Rein had just been flung by Vallord's blow was not because his danger perception hadn't worked.
Having been alerted in advance, Rein was mentally prepared and his muscles tensed, taking the nearly full force of the other's surprise attack.
Otherwise, any Great Knight in that situation would have been severely injured by Vallord's surprise attack.
At this point, besides the Water Membrane steel armguard on Rein's arm being severely dented, the rest of his body, thanks to the "Steel Body" talent, was practically unharmed.
While both were lost in their thoughts, the fighting on the scene grew increasingly intense.
Rein took the force of the leap to swing his dark hog-head hammer again, deploying the heavy hammer jump strike!
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Vallord's surprise grew even more!
He had thought his recent block would have flung Rein several meters away, but what he hadn't anticipated was that the opponent had almost simultaneously absorbed the shock from the collision of the hammers and then launched another attack!
Rein followed one blow with another, launching a fierce attack at Vallord!
Rein's attack speed became faster and faster, the dark hog-head hammer now barely discernible in outline, and the sound of hammer striking hammer was so fast it almost felt like a continuous line!
This sight left Vinica beside them with wide eyes and her small cherry lips agape as if she could stuff an apple into her mouth!
"According to the information, Vallord is both a senior Great Knight and a senior third-level Wizard Apprentice...nearly stepping into a full-fledged Wizard."