The Kings' Claymore came crashing down toward Su Xiao's back, its sharp blade slicing through the air with a chilling wail.
Su Xiao ignored the Kings' Claymore completely. A crystal layer spread over his left arm and armpit as he tightened his grip on his long blade and swung it upward.
Pfft.
Blood exploded from Caros's chest. Her fingers dug into the ground as she shook her head, unable to understand what had just happened.
With a roar, a beam of emerald-green light slammed into the Kings' Claymore and blasted it away.
Caros indeed hadn't seen what happened, but her younger sister, Camilla, riding on her back, had.
Time rewound to 1.7 seconds earlier. When Su Xiao was surrounded by attacks coming from both front and back, he first formed a crystal layer over his left arm and armpit. At the same time, he slashed a Blade Glow toward the front.
The Blade Glow struck Caros's chest, slowing her pouncing motion for an instant. Taking advantage of that moment, Su Xiao immediately turned sideways and leaned forward, raising his left arm so that his armpit faced the descending Kings' Claymore.
The instant the Claymore came down, Su Xiao clamped his left arm tight and caught the Kings' Claymore under his arm. To ensure nothing went wrong, he had already formed a crystal layer over his left arm and armpit.
Was that all? Of course not. While trapping the Kings' Claymore under his arm, Su Xiao used the momentum of its swing to flip through the air. Using the Claymore, which was a full twenty centimeters wide, he blocked the emerald-green beam Camilla fired toward him.
The Kings' Claymore flipped through the air and embedded itself diagonally into the ground with a click. Su Xiao planted one foot on its pommel