Hoolay gritted his teeth and laboriously pulled himself out of the wall as his body regenerated, dropping back to the ground.
Then he reached up and pulled the steel blade out of his chest, staring gravely at the four little things opposite him.
This was going to be tough...
Really tough...
When had the Xianzhou gained so many troublesome opponents?
Then he saw Jiang Yu and the other three charge at him together. They raised their swords and leaped high, their silhouettes blotting out the sunlight as all four came down with Jumping Slashes!
Hoolay roared and charged forward, fighting for his life.
Encountered Xianzhou children while fleeing. Their frenzied jumping slashes were monstrously powerful. Unable to defeat them despite giving it everything.
"You failed again."
Tir Anders's voice rang out.
Hoolay's eyes shifted. He tried to struggle, only to discover he could not move a muscle.
He could only sit on the ground in resignation, his gaze passing through countless frozen images to settle on that Intellitron knight.
A Knight of Beauty?
Could someone so cruel truly become a Knight of Beauty?
He had already seen so much, witnessed countless failures of his own. After being smashed to death by the Xianzhou pups' jumping slashes, he had made several more attempts. Although Hoolay had absolutely no idea what was going on, the images Tir Anders provided still told him that all his subsequent attempts had failed.
His subsequent failures included, but were not limited to: being crushed beneath a gigantic Old Iron and then locked in the Factory; being crushed to death by Yanqing's Skyfall; being poisoned to death by Jiaoqiu; being beaten to death by Argenti, who was "passing by," when he tried to hurt Jiaoqiu; trying to detonate his heart, the Scarlet Moon, to drive the