Nightmare Despair

Chapter 33 Broken Sword
However, Zhou Kai overlooked a thick, withered tree.

It provided enough cover for something.

boom!
A powerful gust of wind tore through the air, cleaving through the torrential rain and rushing towards us!

A loud bang rang in my ears.

A rusty meteor hammer, chained and covered in metal spikes, flew past Zhou Kai's shoulder, leaving two hideous bloody marks on his face, before finally smashing the door of Shelter No. 777!
Zhou Kai felt as if his blood had instantly reversed, and his whole body felt ice-cold.

He was more worried about that door than his own life...

A flash of lightning illuminated the tall figure standing in the middle of the muddy ground.

Except for its hands and feet, its entire body was covered in heavy metal armor.

The firelight from the fireplace inside the shelter shone through the broken doorway and fell on it, but it remained motionless.

Either it is not afraid of fire at all, or the armor has a special protective effect.

Chain-hammer armored warrior.

Zhou Kai took a deep breath; he knew he had no way out.

To protect the shelter from further damage, he had to fight, or at least... lure this guy away!

Oh!

Oh!

Before the armored soldier could retract his meteor hammer, Zhou Kai had already placed his two swords on his shoulders and charged forward, the steel blades slashing straight down the taut iron chains!
Metal rubbed against metal, creating blinding sparks in the rain.

Veins bulged on Zhou Kai's face as he used all his strength to fiercely strike the soldier's head.

Two-handed swords are heavy weapons, and their armor-piercing effect is not weak... With my current strength, I should be able to handle it!

clang!
Bang!
The sword slid down the helmet and finally landed on the soldier's shoulder.

A shallow dent appeared on the heavy armor shoulder plate, as if someone had pressed it with their thumb.

This sword strike achieved nothing.

Breathe.

Zhou Kai maintained his chopping posture, his heavy breathing clearly audible in the rain.

The endless cold rain poured down on him, just like the reality before him, chilling him to the bone.

There are differences between monsters.

Being able to easily kill wanderers and parasitic corpses doesn't mean you can wrestle with this metal can.

This thing is much harder than I imagined.

"How to do?"

Zhou Kai's cold sweat mingled with the icy rain, sliding down his cheeks.

Should we put all three remaining general experience points into armor penetration on two-handed swords?

He had seen the armored soldier's movement speed; his own level three light footwork was simply no match for it.

At best, I can only rely on my reaction and short bursts of speed to keep up with it. Once it gets out of the way and chases me, I will definitely lose!
In a state of heightened awareness, Zhou Kai's thinking was lightning fast and incredibly decisive.

His first strike failed, and in the brief moment of stalemate, he immediately changed his tactics.

The sword tip slashed upwards along the soldier's shoulder armor, sparking a trail of sparks, and then wedged itself into the helmet like a crowbar.

Exert force suddenly!

Oh!

A sound of flesh being torn apart rang out.

Zhou Kai actually ripped the helmet off!

In the darkness, Zhou Kai could see nothing and could only rely on his other senses.

The moment the helmet fell off, the sound of chains being dragged could be heard, and the armored soldier moved.

"Alright, I'll go with it!"

"Three points, two-handed sword, armor penetration! Die!"

The amulet wrapped around his wrist flashed with blue light, and Zhou Kai's thoughts were instantly responded to.

In that instant, he saw the armored soldier's face clearly.

Its eyes were pierced by two long nails that went all the way to the back of its head; these nails also seemed to serve to secure the helmet.

The helmet was pried open, along with half of its scalp, revealing a pale brain inside that resembled a mass of maggots wriggling within.

Zhou Kai immediately realized that the head was probably not its vital point.

But the sword's momentum had already begun, and there was no choice but to strike!

Zhou Kai could only continue hacking downwards with all his might...

During this process, a faint light shone on one side of the blade of the two-handed sword, as if an invisible force was attached to it.

However, right now.

The armored soldier raised his unarmed hand, fingers spread, as if trying to grab the sword blade with his bare hand. The next moment...

puff!

The heavy sword slashed into his palm, shattering his metacarpal and arm bones.

The armored soldier's thick forearm was severed by Zhou Kai's sword at an angle!
If it weren't for the fact that the armor was so sturdy, Zhou Kai was confident that even after losing his arm, the remaining force would still have been able to injure his torso.

But being able to cut off the arm is already quite good.

It's better than not being able to break through the defense at all!
"continue!"

Zhou Kai clung tightly to the armored warrior, preventing it from shaking off its rampages and forcing it to passively endure attack after attack.

However, losing only a forearm did not seem to weaken the warrior's fighting ability in the slightest.

Once it retracted its chain hammer and began swinging it wildly, Zhou Kai could no longer find a chance to get close.

His expression stiffened, and a sense of foreboding began to grow in his heart.

The longer the battle drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for him.

He could sense that something else was approaching from the surrounding darkness.

"It can only be this way!"

After several unsuccessful attempts, Zhou Kai's eyes turned cold, and he chose the only plan he had at the moment.

He roared, grabbed the severed arm from the ground, turned and ran, rushing back to Shelter 777, where he threw the severed arm and the Moonlit Orchid Amulet into the living room.

Zhou Kai slammed on the brakes and turned to run wildly in the opposite direction from the shelter.

Even with the morning star's warning, knowing that he couldn't die easily...

But today, I'm afraid I really have to die once.

Even death would bring enough benefits.

Holding his sword, Zhou Kai reached up to the window sill of the building next to him, and with a sudden burst of strength, he climbed up to the second floor in a few steps, using the wall as a springboard.

Meanwhile, the armored soldiers who were rushing in from a distance crashed directly into the first floor and followed closely behind.

Zhou Kai ignored the armored soldiers and lit the oil lamp.

Bathed in light, he slashed and hacked indiscriminately inside the house.

When he searched the stairwell entrance.

boom!
The hammer flew from beneath his feet, shattering the floor.

Zhou Kai dodged the attack without sustaining any injury.

A parasitic corpse that was about to pounce on him was smashed and only half of its body remained.

Before the armored soldiers could launch another attack, Zhou Kai pounced on the corpse and finished it off.

A few hissing sounds.

[You have killed 'Diavolo Parasite (Complete Form)', Universal Experience +7]

"Add some points to Falcon Strike!"

The progress bar for Falcon Strike is rising rapidly.

Zhou Kai's strength and speed increased instantly, but of course, it was still far from enough to deal with the armored soldiers.

Keep running!
The farther away from the shelter, the better!

Zhou Kai held his long sword horizontally in front of him and slammed it against the window.

Wow!

The entire window shattered with a crash.

Zhou Kai, covered in shards of glass, leaped from the second floor, rolled to dissipate the impact, and crashed into another building.

By this time, the once quiet town had been completely revitalized by him.

A few minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

After killing another "Wanderer".

Zhou Kai was cornered by four types of monsters at the town's clock tower, just one street away from Manor No. 1.

Nightmare Parkour was forced to stop.

A hairy monster covered in fur, with countless insect legs protruding from its sides.

A tall, dark figure, similar in stature to the loitering man, carrying a rusty street lamp.

Chain-hammer armored warriors... and swordsmen of similar height who dragged longswords.

They all moved with stiff steps, swarming around us shoulder to shoulder.

This was only what Zhou Kai could discern in the light of the oil lamp...

Beyond the firelight, in the darkness, even more chilling beings lurk, ready to pounce.

(End of this chapter)