More than a dozen breaths ago, having his neck clamped, Lynn entered an extremely bizarre state. All pain seemed to be rapidly fading away, replaced by his brain's thinking activity increasing severalfold.
For a moment, Lynn couldn't help but wonder if he had already journeyed to the world after death.
Yet no, he could still clearly perceive that the blood and oxygen flowing to his brain were being forcibly blocked, and his body was gradually losing vitality.
Before long, he would truly die!
Faced with such a perilous crisis, Lynn unexpectedly failed to produce any sense of panic.
When someone was choking you by the neck with an oxygen-deprived asphyxiation, how should you fight back?
Naturally, it was tit for tat, an eye for an eye!
Since I don't need oxygen, let's all just stop breathing!
Sensing the vast, sea-like elements in the void, Lynn's mind stirred, using his Mental Power as a net to wrap around the active oxygen molecules and instantly pull them away!
What happens when a person is in a low-oxygen environment yet still breathing?
Andre was the best example!
A large amount of useless gas rushed into his lungs, and his blood pressure rose rapidly. In just a few breaths, the symptoms of oxygen deprivation had already appeared, and Lynn acutely sensed that the palm clamping him showed signs of losing strength!
Right now!
Lynn abruptly opened his eyes. Based on his prior memories, the standing position and reaction of everyone in the room turned into data that poured into his mind. Lynn could even base his actions on the angle at which Andre raised his arm to perform a very detailed stress analysis for his own neck.
Countless complicated data points were sorted out in an instant. Lynn constructed a three-dimensional scene with a hundred percent restoration in his mind and deduced the best sword-striking plan.
[Raise hand, direct thrust, forty-seven-degree angle!]
Lynn raised his arm and simultaneously thrust his short sword. The iron-tower-like brute in front of him completely lost the ability to resist under the strong oxygen-deprivation reaction, and could only watch helplessly as the tip of the sword pierced into his neck.
The fragile neck clearly could not stop the sharp short sword. Scarlet fresh blood spurted out like a fountain, splashing onto Lynn's clothes and face.
Andre's eyes stared wide, his mouth involuntarily opening and closing, and his hands desperately clutching the continuously bleeding large hole at his neck, falling down filled with fear and resentment.
Lynn did not hesitate. The moment he broke free from the clamp, he kicked Andre's body, sending the corpse flying toward the stunned Blainey, while he himself used the recoil force to break away from the low-oxygen domain.
Blainey had completely not expected that the situation on the field would suddenly reverse. A look of astonishment instantly surfaced on his face, and his reaction was a beat slow, subconsciously catching Andre's corpse. After seeing the other man's manner of death, his pupils could not help but shrink, and a chill slithered from the soles of his feet straight to his heart.
Those bluish-purple facial features, dark red lips, and dilated pupils were all proving that Andre had suddenly fallen into asphyxiation, which was why his neck had been pierced without any defense!
How could this be?
Blainey was terrified. Clearly, it had been Andre pinching Lynn's neck just a moment ago, yet he himself had inexplicably fallen into suffocation. Could this be some bizarre spell that harmed both enemy and ally?
Lynn took rhythmic, deep breaths, rapidly restoring vitality to his limbs. Being locked by the neck for as long as a minute, coupled with forcibly manipulating a massive amount of oxygen elements, caused his brain to ache faintly.
Despite narrowly killing one of them by utilizing the principle of asphyxiation, Lynn did not dare to relax in the slightest. The brief exchange just now made him understand the gap between the two sides.
According to the memories in his mind, these witch hunters were all sharp-shooting elites with extraordinary martial prowess.
The original body's swordsmanship was fine for dealing with a few bandits, but once pitted against the witch hunters dispatched by the Holy See, it appeared far from adequate.
A myriad of thoughts flashed through Lynn's mind, and immediately afterward, a prompt sounded.
[Warning, under overload mode, system energy is rapidly depleting, and forced shutdown is expected in two minutes and thirty seconds.]
Lynn's body involuntarily paused, only then understanding that his sudden surge in mastery over elements was based on the brain's assistance.
Then... let's try magic!
Lynn's gaze froze, clutching the blood-stained short sword in his hand, his Mental Power spreading into the air once again to frantically capture the 'water elements' in the air...
A ball of water emerged in the void, and then rapidly condensed into shape...
First-ring magic--[Blade of Ice]!
The ice blade carrying biting cold air was like an arrow loosed from a string. Blainey's expression hardened, and instead of choosing a head-on collision, his long sword slashed out diagonally, striking the side of the ice blade and deflecting it from the magic's trajectory.
Yet just with this momentary pause, the spell preparation was already complete. Gray powder hovered in Lynn's palm, then erupted to transform into a scorching fireball...
That was precisely another first-ring magic mastered by Lynn--[Fireball]!
The temperature inside the room rose abruptly. As another first-ring magic, the power of [Fireball] was vastly more formidable compared to the [Blade of Ice]!
Most crucially, there was simply nowhere to hide in this cramped room!
Blainey caught the scent of death, fiercely kicking a tattered cabinet and sending it crashing toward the violent fireball, before flipping Andre's corpse over to cover himself as a human shield!
The next moment, the fireball collided with the tattered cabinet and violently exploded, scorching firelight instantly filling the entire room.
Lynn stared intently at the scattered smoke and dust ahead, breathing laborantly. He did not have a precise concept of the power of first-ring magic, but judging from the effects, it would not be weaker than a grenade combined with an incendiary bomb. Taking it head-on, even if he didn't die, he would be heavily injured...
Just as he was thinking, a sharp long sword cleaved open the hazy smoke and dust, its blade reflecting the firelight as it slashed straight toward Lynn!
This sword was shockingly fast. By the time Lynn realized it, the sharp long sword was already close at hand.
Fortunately, at this very moment, thanks to the connection between the neural network and the brain, Lynn's reaction speed had increased severalfold, and his body's coordination had also been vastly enhanced. He held his sword horizontally with his right hand, braced his left hand against his right wrist, slightly lowered his posture, and propped the tip of the sword against the mottled wall beside him.
Clang~
A sharp, grating dull echo reverberated in the narrow room. Under the impact of the two forces, Lynn only felt a sharp pain in the web of his hand, and the sword tip braced against the wall sank deeply into it, a slender crack even bursting open along the blade.
So heavy...
Only this single feeling remained in Lynn's mind, and then he discarded the sword with both hands, sinking downward to drop to the ground, dodging the incoming whipping kick with a few rolls that narrowly avoided disaster.
A fierce whistling wind swept past his head, followed by another dull impact. Lynn turned his head to look, and the mottled wall had already been kicked out with a dent.
[Wall stress is approximately 1.75 tons; sixty-five percent probability of an American bison impact...]
A momentary data analysis flashed through his mind, and Lynn's pupils constricted. If he were kicked head-on, his internal organs would definitely burst open.
Body modification? Cyborg? Battle qi?
Lynn was well aware that a normal person, even after undergoing the most scientific and professional training, could never kick out such terrifying power.
This completely transcended the limits of the human body!
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