No Need, But Must Have

The Sea Pirates watched the two of them cut down one man with each stroke, and they immediately descended into chaos. They turned their bows to shoot at them, only to wound their own men, so they could only switch to blades and charge forward.

How could mere Sea Pirates possibly be a match for the two of them? Aside from their strength draining away and a slight tremor in the web of their hands when blades met, these men could not harm them in the slightest.

It was practically a one-sided slaughter.

"Move aside—"

With a great shout, the Sea Pirates packed together in a clump scrambled and rolled away. The man who had shouted did not wait for them all to clear out before lighting the fuse.

Pan Yun turned her head just as the gunpowder propelled a lead shot flying toward her. She raised her sword vertically before her face. With a clang, a lead ball struck the blade and ricocheted away...

Then more than a dozen lead shots poured forth. Pan Yun flipped aside to evade them, while Xuan Miao was even more nimble. Her body shifted and twisted through the air, dodging as she seized the gap while they reloaded and lit their fuses to fly forward and thrust her sword...

Pan Yun followed close behind. The dozen or so men holding firelances hurriedly raised their guns to block...

A firelance fell, and Pan Yun reached out to grab it. With a flicker, it vanished from her hand.

She was very curious about this world's firelances.

Xuan Miao had already grabbed the throat of the man who had shouted "Move aside." Denying him any chance to kill himself, she struck him unconscious with her hand.

The government soldiers' counterattack came swiftly. Several cannonballs blasted over,