Chapter 51, Strength Becomes Speed
Thud!
With [Intuition], the adjutant quickly turned sideways and dodged Freya’s simple charging straight punch in advance.
As War Freya brushed past him, the adjutant raised his arm and brought an elbow down hard into her back.
He held nothing back with that blow.
Although he did not use the extraordinary ability [All-Out Strike], he still used his maximum strength.
War Freya was immediately smashed into the ground by the elbow. Combined with the enormous momentum from her charge, she rolled away in a miserable state, sliding more than thirty feet across the ground and even crashing through a roadside wall before finally slowing to a stop.
The shattered wall and scattered stones completely buried her small figure.
If an ordinary person had taken that hit, they would be dead beyond any doubt.
But the adjutant still wore the same grave expression as before, staring fixedly at the ruined wall in front of him.
Sure enough, a hand soon reached out from the rubble.
It pushed aside a large piece of broken wall from the top, and War Freya slowly stood up.
She casually patted the dust off her clothes, then walked out of the debris as if nothing had happened.
In her heart, she silently thought that fortunately, because of Special Affairs’ encirclement plan, the civilians in a large surrounding area had already been evacuated in advance.
That meant she could fight freely now without worrying about accidentally injuring civilians.
Also, although they had only exchanged one round, War Freya had more or less gained a sense of the situation.
The opponent’s [Intuition] was stronger than hers, and his combat experience and combat technique were far richer.
Simple, direct attacks would probably have a hard time landing.
Likewise, the adjutant instantly guessed War Freya’s extraordinary path.
A War Path [Warrior].
He immediately felt that this would be extremely troublesome.
War Freya’s defense was too high. His normal attacks would have a hard time breaking through.
The only thing that could deal effective damage was [All-Out Strike], but he could only use it three times.
And one had to remember, [Warriors] also possessed [Intuition].
If the adjutant drew a gun and charged up now, he would definitely miss.
Normally speaking, the two sides should have fallen into a stalemate, and no winner would be decided in a short time.
But in the next second, War Freya took out a dagger.
However, this dagger was not meant to attack the adjutant.
It was meant to attack War Freya herself.
War Freya did not hold the handle, because doing so might cause the blade to snap when she used force.
Instead, she used the index finger and thumb of her left hand to pinch the thicker middle section of the blade, then pressed the dagger toward her right wrist.
If an ordinary person stabbed her with a dagger, they probably would not pierce her defense.
But War Freya herself was very strong.
If she stabbed herself, then as long as she was careful not to break the dagger, she could pierce her own defense.
Soon, scarlet blood flowed from War Freya’s wrist.
As she continued to apply force, the wound gradually deepened, and the bleeding became faster and faster.
Combat experience and combat technique were not things that could be improved quickly in a short time.
So if the mechanics were not enough, she would make up for it with raw stats.
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Seeing this, the adjutant felt his scalp go numb.
Of course he knew what War Freya was doing.
But for normal War Path practitioners, no one would actively farm [Blood Fury].
The War Path was indeed very strong when heavily injured.
But the stronger they became, the closer they were to death.
And as long as someone was normal, they would not want to die.
If she started the fight by activating [Blood Fury], her base attributes would rise, sure.
But fighting from the start while already heavily wounded… would she really not accidentally die?
What if she accidentally triggered [Battle Continuation] while fighting?
The adjutant was speechless.
“No, seriously. This is our first time meeting. I don’t even know who you are. Do you really need to go this hard?”
How was this any different from taking a walk and suddenly running into a murderous lunatic?
No, there was still a difference.
War Freya was not an ordinary murderous lunatic.
She was also a Rank Four practitioner.
War Freya had no intention of responding to the adjutant.
She only continued deepening the wound while walking forward, until she cut open the artery in her wrist.
Blood gushed out like a fountain.
Spurt.
War Freya’s pain nerves had already been removed by Life Freya, so she no longer needed to worry about pain.
In the next second, War Freya casually threw away the dagger and launched her second charge at the adjutant.
This time, however, she did not throw a punch.
Instead, she opened both arms, expanding her reach as much as possible and increasing her attack range.
Then she lunged toward the adjutant with her whole body.
“Damn it!”
The moment War Freya moved, the adjutant received a warning from [Intuition], telling him to avoid this attack.
He did indeed move the moment he received that warning.
Unfortunately, War Freya’s physical ability was rapidly increasing with every passing moment as she bled.
[Intuition] could detect incoming danger and automatically present the simplest method of defense or evasion in the War Path practitioner’s mind.
But whether the practitioner could actually perform the corresponding defensive or evasive action had nothing to do with [Intuition].
In truth, based on War Freya’s speed at the start of her sprint, the adjutant could have dodged perfectly.
But halfway through the charge, War Freya’s speed suddenly increased by a large margin.
That caused an “error” in the evasive movement [Intuition] had initially guided him toward.
In the end, even though the adjutant tried his best to shift his position, he still failed to escape the range of War Freya’s outstretched arm.
War Freya’s left wrist slammed into the adjutant’s abdomen.
Immediately after that, her right arm also wrapped around him.
Now, she was in a posture that looked like she had buried her head into the adjutant’s chest.
Normally, this kind of pose most often appeared in dating sims or anime.
The heroine happily threw herself into the male lead’s arms, then showered the audience with sweetness.
As for the male lead being hugged, one only had to imagine it to know he must feel amazing.
Of course, the adjutant absolutely did not feel that way right now.
To him, what soft, sweet-smelling beautiful girl?
He felt like he had been hit head-on by a speeding train engine.
Soft and sweet?
She was clearly hard as iron.
“Gah!”
The adjutant’s eyes bulged, and saliva flew from his mouth.
Along with several crisp sounds of breaking bone, he could clearly feel multiple ribs snapping in an instant. His organs felt as if they were throwing a party and running wild inside his body.
Thud, thud, thud!
In just a few seconds, the two of them crashed through three or four houses.
The huge noise could be heard clearly even several blocks away.
But the adjutant suddenly clenched his teeth and forcibly endured the terrible pain.
He clenched both fists and deliberately let the middle knuckles protrude slightly.
Then he aimed those protruding knuckles at War Freya, who was still in his arms.
Spirituality began to gather.
He struck heavily at both of her temples.
Bang!
Even War Freya, with her extremely high defense, felt her brain buzz from that blow.
For a moment, she lost all perception of the outside world.
Her vision and hearing both failed, and her entire body became dizzy and unsteady.
Of course, if her pain sense were still there, her skull would probably be hurting terribly right now.
Seeing War Freya’s tackle slow down, the adjutant pressed his advantage.
He used a combination of [Reset Stance] and [All-Out Strike].
But in the next second, War Freya decisively let go.
With a swift sideways roll, she dodged the adjutant’s second strike.
“How?”
Seeing this, the adjutant’s eyes widened.
Even for a Rank Four [Warrior] known for physical strength, it should have been impossible to recover this quickly after taking a heavy blow to the head.
But what the adjutant did not know was that although War Freya had taken a heavy blow and temporarily lost her perception of the outside world, Life Freya had already arrived nearby.
Her [Mind Sense] was operating at full power.
And all the Freyas were essentially the same person.
Their senses were shared.
So whether War Freya could see or not had no effect at all.
As long as her body could still move, she could keep fighting.
After dodging that second strike, which would truly have been fatal if it had landed, War Freya closed her eyes.
She also used [Reset Stance], immediately stabilizing her body and adjusting her condition back to its peak.
Then she raised her left hand straight ahead, treating her entire arm like a spear, and thrust out with a hand blade.
Spurt.
The adjutant, who had just used both [Reset Stance] and [All-Out Strike], had no way to dodge.
War Freya’s arm pierced straight through his chest.
In truth, War Freya only realized something at this moment.
When the adjutant had first struck her temple, her own [Intuition] had warned her too.
But because she had been fully committed to the tackle at the time, she had no room left to dodge, which was why she had been hit.
However, she actually had [Reset Stance].
If she had handled it properly back then, she could have avoided the blow.
In other words, that had been entirely due to her lack of combat experience and a mistake in execution.
She had taken an extra beating for nothing.
From another angle, though, that strike had nearly cracked her skull open and further deepened her injuries.
That caused War Freya’s physical ability to rise again, laying the groundwork for this hand-blade strike.
And when War Freya pulled her left hand out of the adjutant’s chest, there was something in her hand.
A heart.
