The crucial thing was that the blade in her hand seemed to have been tampered with. The slashes it left on him healed more slowly than any wounds he had ever suffered.
All of that had given him an idea. He used Blood Demon Art: Crystal Child to create five ice dolls to hold her back, then rushed out to kill Tetsu no Sosuke and Shinobu Kocho.
That would throw Kochou Kanae off her rhythm.
His first target had been Shinobu Kocho, but the blacksmith had suddenly charged out for some reason and dodged his Blood Demon Art with a clumsy scramble.
And now... Tetsu no Sosuke was attacking him with these wild, utterly unstructured blows.
"How absurd! Can't you just die properly?"
After taking a barrage of blows, Doma thought, You could become one with me and gain eternal life. Why put up such foolish resistance?
"Too weak..."
He got the two words out, but Tetsu no Sosuke's strikes kept coming like rain pounding banana leaves. Hammer blows filled the air, falling one after another without end!
He couldn't mount an effective counterattack in the short term, yet he stood his ground. If this sort of attack made him take even one step back, he would count it as a loss. "Even if you keep hammering me forever, what harm can you do?"
Tetsu no Sosuke paid Doma no heed.
In fact, when his first hammer blow struck Doma's iron fan, he heard something else...
[Hardness -1] [Toughness -1]
That notification brought a sliver of clarity to his fevered mind.
A collision between the Forging Hammer and a weapon had actually worn down the other weapon's attributes!!!
He had never expected that. In an instant, he made his decision!
Smash his weapon to pieces!!!!
He controlled where