Star Country, Sword Flower University.
In the Rock Training Field, Ingrid spun like a top, her twin swords leaving clear gouge after clear gouge on the Stone Statue Puppets. The puppets' lower limbs were fitted with rollers, and they kept closing in on Ingrid, but depending on where and how hard Ingrid damaged them, the Stone Statue Puppets would react in various ways: "displacement," "stagnation," "slow down," and so on.
As time passed, the Stone Statue Puppets drew ever closer to Ingrid. It wasn't that Ingrid's combat strength had dropped, but that in the high-intensity battle, her weapons' sharpness had fallen to the White Blade level, leaving her unable to inflict limb-severing damage on the Stone Statue Puppets.
The Stone Statue Puppets' basic strength was equivalent to a growing-stage Fish-Slaying Dragon. If a Swordsman did not deal limb-severing damage, it was very difficult to stop the Stone Statue Puppets from approaching with impact damage alone.
Ingrid suddenly crossed her twin swords, the edges ringing sharply against each other. In an instant, the sharpness of both blades rose to the Purple Blade level. Two-Winged Art Spirit "Sharpening," One-Winged Art Spirit "Fish Scale," and One-Winged Art Spirit "Iron Scraps"—these three utterly unrelated Art Spirits formed the Swordsmanship Miracle "Purple Blade Sharpening," which could hone any two swords against each other to the Iron-Slaying level. It was also the miracle Ingrid currently relied on the most.
During the one second she spent sharpening, the Stone Statue Puppets swarmed in around her all at once. Ingrid took a deep breath, her taut long legs launching her upward. Her boots slammed heavily onto a stone head, using the momentum to leap backward out of the Stone Statue Puppets' encirclement, then her crossed twin swords tore through the puppets like a whirlwind!
Crash!
The instant Ingrid's