A Knight's Journey Begins in Faiz

Jiang Yang charged straight up without a weapon, fighting bare-handed. Of course, he held back his strength, otherwise the IXA prototype wouldn't have been able to fight Gaim.

At first, Jiang Yang used some force when he was fighting, but as the fight progressed, he suddenly stopped using his strength and even took the hits himself, then retreated several meters away.

In Murakami Kyoji's eyes, this meant that he was constantly getting stronger. In just a short while, his opponent, who had been fighting him on equal terms, was now only able to take hits.

Jiang Yang grasped the large orange pill.

"Give me back my belt!"

Shouting, he rushed forward and slashed, not daring to use too much force, for fear that the other party would discover that he was acting.

"It's pointless resistance. Give up now. As long as you tell me where the child is, my previous promise to you still stands."

"Damn it, no way. I'm warning you, you'd better take off the IXA right away. You can feel the pressure from the IXA device, right? It's something I specifically designed to deal with you Orphnochs. Once the pressure reaches a certain level, you'll die instantly."

Murakami Kyoji was only slightly taken aback, and then he burst out laughing.

"You think you can fool me with such a clumsy lie? This pressure is clearly the real feeling of my strength improving. The greater the pressure, the more my strength has improved. You think you can deceive me? It seems you're not being honest."

With a counter-attack, Jiang Yang fell to the ground and rolled several times.

"This is your own choice, family. I reminded him, but he didn't believe me," Jiang Yang thought to himself, while shouting at the same time.

"You, you, no, no, that's not right, that's a side effect of the belt, take off the ixa now."

The more anxious Jiang Yang became, the more Murakami felt that his guess was correct.

Although he didn't feel any increase in his strength, the increasing pressure and the increasingly easy enemies he faced reflected an improvement in his abilities.

He can't be wrong.

While torturing Jiang Yang, he asked him questions. Several minutes passed, and he did feel that the pressure was a bit too much, but this pressure was still far from enough for his physical condition.

Moreover, compared to the power to increase, what is this little bit of pressure?

Just then, the roar of a motorcycle appeared, and in the distance, the figures of Kusaka and Takumi appeared simultaneously. Then, Gaim was seen being brutally beaten by IXA.

Just as Murakami punched Daio-maru, Jiang Yang conveniently released his grip, sending Daio-maru flying. Then, IXA simply kicked him, sending Gaim flying.

Murakami turned around and looked at Takumi and Kusaka.

"You've come at the right time. Hand over your belts as well."

Kusaka and Takumi exchanged a strange glance. They had contacted Kiba, but Kiba was busy and couldn't come. Therefore, the Ixa in front of them couldn't be the one that Kiba Yuji had.

In other words, this is the previous ixa.

Thinking of this, both of them looked at Jiang Yang, who was lying on the ground struggling to move, somewhat confused about what had happened. However, they still understood that the Ixa in front of them was an enemy.

Both of them took out their belts and began to transform.

Seemingly very confident in his abilities, Murakami had the opportunity to interrupt their transformation, but he simply stood there and watched them transform.

Murakami really made Jiang Yang cry his eyes out.

Getting up from the ground and looking at the nonchalant ixa, Jiang Yang silently mourned for Murakami for three seconds.

I reckon it's about time.

Jiang Yang ran to the side of the large orange pill, picked it up, and connected it with the Peerless Military Sword to form a naginata.

On Murakami's side, from the very beginning of his fight with Faiz and Caesar, he noticed something was wrong. Why did it feel so difficult to fight? Not only was their strength not as great as he had imagined, but he was also constantly being suppressed by their weapons.

Let us quickly reiterate that there is a difficult-to-bridge gap between hand-to-hand combat and weapon combat.

Murakami felt increasingly uneasy as the fight progressed, sensing that there was something he had overlooked.

But I just can't remember.

However, they soon stopped needing to think about it.

The ixa sounded an alarm and the warning lights flashed.

Before Murakami could react, an immense pressure suddenly appeared on him, completely unlike anything he had felt before. It was like being run over by a bicycle and a bulldozer.

The pressure he's under is making him feel like he's being torn apart.

"Finally, finally, it's been so hard-won."

After acting for half a day, I'm finally overloaded.

As Jiang Yang spoke, he removed the lock and placed it in the groove of his military knife. He was now waiting for the overload to end and the IXA to disintegrate; only when the IXA disintegrated could he deal full damage.

Most Rider systems have a function that will automatically disintegrate to reduce damage when they suffer too much external damage, so it is rare for a Rider to be killed directly in their transformed state.

Of course, there are exceptions. There's the example of Gang getting thrashed, the Negative-living Gates, even Ixa from a parallel world, and those Riders who were humiliated by Xiaoming. It turns out that wearing the Rider Gear can also lead to instant death.

Of course, we won't discuss that situation here. After all, this mechanism will trigger successfully most of the time. If it doesn't trigger, well, good luck to you.

Jiang Yang waited, but Kusaka and Takumi didn't. Faiz and Caesar's double kicks hit him directly. Before Jiang Yang could react, Ixa exploded, and the force of the explosion swept Murakami into the river.

Jiang Yang: "???"

What's going on? He kicked it into the river, but he didn't die, did he?

Jiang Yang rushed to the riverbank, and as expected, Murakami Kazuya was nowhere to be seen in the river. Only a pile of rose petals remained.

"what?"

Jiang Yang was speechless. If you guys keep playing like this, he really needs to consider changing his teammates.

"Stop looking, he's definitely not dead. Go back and get ready, it's about to begin."

Jiang Yang turned around and left immediately. If Murakami Kyo didn't die here, he would definitely be surrounded by a large army when he returned.

Even with IXA, he still took two Knight Kicks and couldn't possibly be unharmed, not to mention the side effects of IXA. He probably hates himself now.

However, this guy actually came all by himself without any other Orphnochs, which is quite arrogant.

After deactivating his transformation, Jiang Yang retrieved the ixa belt.

The ixa belt was surprisingly undamaged during the explosion. I just don't know if it's still usable. It's a shame that such a good item is ruined like this.

On the other side, Murakami Kyoji climbed out of the water, his whole body wracked with excruciating pain. He would remember this grudge.

Once he returns, he will immediately summon the Orphnochs. The king must be in his own hands, and Jiang Yang must die.

Clutching his chest, he struggled forward. Suddenly, he heard a rustling sound, as if something was in the grass. Almost simultaneously, a feeling of being watched by a wild beast washed over him.

He turned around abruptly and saw, not far behind him, the presence of a black armored figure covered with white photon blood vessels.

"Delta."

The moment he saw that figure, he knew he had no choice, no way out. It was either victory or death. He couldn't survive without fighting.

He transformed directly into an Orphnoch.

"You think you can kill me all by yourself? Don't underestimate me!"

"Fire!"

It was a clear, crisp female voice.