18 Astonishing the Tigeress

Crey skidded to the distance and finally used his sword to stab into the ice floor to use it as an anchor to stop his skid. He sighed in relief as he realized that he was vastly underestimating the girl. If he had to turn over the tables he had to give his all.

Suddenly, smoke began to rise in the air. He looked down to see his neon sword had pierced a hole in a thick sheet of snow and now was rapidly melting snow away. Damn! He had nearly shattered his ground where he was standing.

"Oh, sh*t!"

Crey pulled up his sword and stepped back several steps back to avoid falling into the freezing water below. This plasma blade was not a good weapon for every region especially snowy like this.

"Clang!"

Girl struck Crey while he was backing off, her jump was almost horizontal to the ground along with her katana aiming at the arm of Crey. But despite her abrupt jump, he was able to parry her katana. Up until now, he had already observed her 'ability' therefore he was able to react to her.

TogerGotFangs Ability - Fast reaction time

The Opponent Girl's eyes widened as she observed that her lanky enemy was able to react to her speed. She stopped and then used her katana to deliver slashes rapidly. Her speed was so fast that her actions were barely visible with naked eyes and surely one could not keep up with rapid attacks if he waited to observe first and then react to it.

'No way!'

Thought TigerGotFangs as this opponent of hers was able to parry every attack of her quickly. In her eyes, it looked like it was just pure luck due to which he was able to counter her katana by just inches. But she was mature enough to realize that luck could help only a few times, not like this where he was almost matching her speed of sword fight.

Sparks and flickers were emerging in the air as katana and sword were striking again and again with each other. The Girl seeing his tenacity decided to step up her speed a notch above again. It was unbelievable that despite showing such speed she was not yet giving her best, that is she was holding back till now….. while thoughts in Crey's mind were the complete opposite.

'F*ck! Who is this monster? Does her speed mutation give her so much advantage over us normals? If it continues like this, forget being injured, I will be slain by her. And I don't want to get….killed in this game. That pain would be traumatizing.'

'Bang'

A minor shockwave occurred in the air as the girl increased her speed again. Her katana began to move with such fluidity and velocity that it turned blurry even in the eyes of Crey. He tried hard to keep up with it but surely how could he, an ability less, hold in front of her.

The new super-fast sword exchange resulted in Crey holding out only for two seconds before he switched to defense and then to just protect his vital areas. In four seconds he was on his way to get killed.

Under the quick barrage suddenly Crey used his sword to stab into the lake surface and plowed the frozen surface using his burning sword. Due to the sudden aggressive burning of the lake surface, the ice turned into steam quickly which blew up in the air. The sudden white vapor smoke acted as a cover between two fighting freaks.

Just as white steam covered the area, The Girl cautiously jumped back immediately as she sensed danger the moment he had dropped his sword down. There was significant apprehension in her eyes as she waited for the steam to die down. Just as she stepped back, a sneaky sword appeared from a sharp angle and pierced the white smoke. If she hadn't stepped back then this sword must have ended up puncturing her waist.

Slowly, the smoke cleared away to reveal heavily breathing Crey. His whole body was trembling along with his hand holding the sword. Just from a quick look, there were almost a hundred painful small cuts all over his body. He was injured badly with a scorching katana in the rapid hand-to-hand combat where he failed to match her speed.

Despite him being able to deflect most of her fast slashes to his non-important body parts. The pain he was feeling was too much for him to handle therefore he was trembling at this moment struggling to keep himself going.

Seeing him slashed all over, the girl instead of feeling easy clenched her katana more tightly. She couldn't believe the scene in front of her, as he, despite not being comparable to her in speed, was able to keep her from severing his throat or piercing his heart. She suddenly realized he is different from those normal players she was used to fighting within this game.

Moreover, he was still standing after getting slashed all over, which could be only possible that he had turned his pain sensitivity level to the lowest. Or as she thought, to tolerate pain caused by a thousand degrees katana was not an easy thing for a normal person to bear.

Crey's mind had blanked out the moment she had stepped up her speed. All distracting thoughts, his usual motivation to remain careless and lazy were all thrown out of the window. Now only pent-up rage was flickering in his eyes after getting so severely beaten up.

"Shhhh..."

Crey exhaled a puff of white smoke out of his clenched teeth as he raised his eyes to meet with the tiger-masked Girl. Suddenly he shot towards the girl which was a little bit unexpected for the girl. As she never thought he would be so bold to close distance again after a previous terrible whipping.

It wasn't like she hadn't lost before. There are several fighters better than her in the game around local servers but all of them always keep a distance from her. Because her superior speed is deadly at close range. And after getting a practical dose of her speed he was trying to close the distance, why?