Crystal Palace from Infinite Anime

Chapter 5 He is just a summoner with some swordsmanship

Under the moonlight, the witch with a cold temperament stood on the edge of the roof and looked down at Lin Zhiyu.

After a brief eye contact.

"Shh!"

The witch fell from the sky and landed in front of Lin Zhiyu.

She crossed her arms, looked at Lin Zhiyu with interest at a close distance, and said softly:

"As expected of someone who defeated the 'Black Swordsman of the Demon Realm', you actually discovered my existence."

Lin Zhiyu stared at the witch in front of him expressionlessly and said slowly:

"Iron Witch, Anne Roz... I have long admired you, but I'm not sure what it is that brought you here, Miss Anne Roz?"

Although Lin Zhiyu seemed doubtful in his words, he actually already knew what was going on in his mind.

According to the plot that Lin Zhiyu knew, if he had not taken action, it would have been Anelloz who took Tachibana Rikuro away from the slave trader.

This means that when Lin Zhiyu was fighting with the minotaur Abang, Aniloz had already appeared nearby and was lurking in the dark, watching.

The reason why she followed him all the way after the battle was simply because of Tachibana Rikuro.

After all, he is the male protagonist of the work Iron Witch.

Although Tachibana Rikuro has a weak character, he possesses an extremely rare talent.

The powerful ability called "immortality" allows Tachibana Rikuro to be resurrected after a period of time even if he is torn into pieces by five horses, as long as the fragments of his body are put back together.

In the plot, why did Aniloz take a fancy to Tachibana Rikuro and sign a master-servant contract with him?

It was because he saw Ju Rikuro's extraordinary talent that he took him in for his own use.

Now, Lin Zhiyu did what Aniloz was originally going to do and snatched Tachibana Rikuro from the slave traders.

Anneloz, with the mentality of giving it a try, said frankly to Lin Zhiyu:

"The slave you rescued earlier is the reason for my trip... Name your price! Sell him to me, and if you need help with anything in Amidahara in the future, come to my detective agency and I can give you a discount."

Lin Zhiyu had no intention of letting Tachibana Rikuro go. Aniloz might be able to command a high price in the future, but Lin Zhiyu wouldn't stay in this world forever, so the money in this world wasn't very appealing to him.

So Lin Zhiyu shook his head, called Tachibana Rikuro "not for sale", and rejected Anneloz outright.

Anneloz narrowed her eyes slightly, and a dangerous light flashed in her brown pupils.

As the "Iron Witch" who has established a great reputation in the dark city of Amidahara, Aniloz is not a wicked person, but she can be said to be decisive in killing.

In this city, apart from the Red Queen in Hongtian Tower and the White Snake of Kowloon Society, there are very few people who dare to ignore her like Lin Zhiyu did.

At this moment, Lin Zhiyu also felt the faint murderous aura emanating from Anneloz, so he changed the subject and immediately said to Anneloz with a smile:

"Let's not talk about Tachibana Rikuro. I've always heard that Miss Aniloz runs a detective agency in Amidahara. As long as the money is paid, you can ask Miss Aniloz to help you with many things. I actually have a commission here and I'd like to ask Miss Aniloz for help."

Just seconds ago, Lin Zhiyu refused to sell Ju Rikuro to Aniloz.

How dare you talk about commission now?

Aniloz stared at Lin Zhiyu as if she were a fool, and immediately raised the corner of her mouth to reveal a sarcastic smile, "You have something to entrust me with? Haha, but I'm not interested in money right now."

"I simply want to ask Miss Anneloz to investigate someone," Lin Zhiyu said to himself. "This person's name is Barood Barnett, nicknamed 'Magician.' He's a middle-aged man who often wears a black suit, a top hat, and a monocle. If Miss Anneloz agrees to investigate him, I will immediately give her a deposit of 100,000."

The money in this world was enough for Lin Zhiyu, not to mention that he had killed Abang's gang before and got a lot of money from their corpses?

The deal hasn't been done yet, but you can get a deposit of 100,000 yuan. To be honest, the price offered by Lin Zhiyu is still very attractive.

But Aniloz shook her head and said with a faint smile:

"One hundred thousand is not enough, at least one million is needed."

Asking for such an exorbitant price is not a business attitude at all.

Aniloz was deliberately making things difficult for Lin Zhiyu.

She knew that Lin Zhiyu couldn't possibly come up with a full deposit of one million, and she wanted to test Lin Zhiyu's abilities herself, so she added:

"I can also do this for you for free, but the prerequisite is that you have to fight me."

Having said that, the witch took two steps back, distanced herself from Lin Zhiyu, and took out her legendary sword called "Vajra Yaksha", pointing it at Lin Zhiyu.

A witch is a woman born from the intermarriage between a human and a demon. Because they carry half demon blood, witches inherit the demons' ferocious and bellicose traits to a certain extent.

Before, Aniloz hid in the dark and watched the entire battle between Lin Zhiyu and the Minotaur Abang. She knew that Lin Zhiyu was unfathomable and was not forced to use his full strength by the Minotaur Abang.

Anneloz has been staying in Amitābha for a long time as the top master. Apart from the white snake Li Meifeng from Kowloon Club who always conflicts with her, she hasn't met an opponent who can motivate her for a long time. Now Lin Zhiyu is a bit interesting, which makes her interested.

"Don't worry, I won't kill my potential client. At most, I'll just let you lie in bed for a few days." Annelozzi added, as if she was worried that Lin Zhiyu might be afraid to fight.

Seeing that Anillos was very interested and seemed to be determined to have this fight, Lin Zhiyu smiled and said to himself in his heart, "No fighting, no acquaintance"; at the same time, he stretched out his right hand and produced the horizontal sword stored by the Infinite System.

Anneloz stared at the sword in Lin Zhiyu's hand, then slowly shook her head:

"It's a weapon of excellent workmanship and material, but it's just an industrial product."

As the words fell, the witch suddenly exploded, turning into a black shadow and rushing towards Lin Zhiyu.

Lin Zhiyu swung his sword to meet the attack, accompanied by the clanging sound of metal clashing. In the dimly lit alley, only two black shadows were seen intertwining for a moment.

In this cool dark night, Anneloz, dressed in black, seemed to have merged into the night. With her extremely fast attacks, she suppressed Lin Zhiyu and forced him back deeper into the alley.

Lin Zhiyu gradually retreated to a position where the moonlight did not shine in, and could not see Aniloz's movements clearly, and the pressure doubled for a moment.

Human females are generally three points weaker than human males. But Aniloz is a witch who cannot be judged by common sense. Her strength is no less than that of the minotaur Ah Bang, and her speed and swordsmanship are far superior to Lin Zhiyu's.

Lin Zhiyu relied on his powerful strength and perception to barely fend off Aniloz's swift attack. It felt like this was simply Busujima Saeko with all-round enhanced strength, agility and endurance!

Although there are certain differences between their martial arts and combat methods, both of them have extremely high attainments in the use of weapons and can be called masters!

In comparison, Lin Zhiyu is just at the entry level, and often still relies on brute force to fight.

This kind of fighting style of using one's strength to defeat ten's skills can suppress Busujima Saeko, but it cannot suppress Anneloz who has stronger physical fitness!

Several times, Lin Zhiyu felt that he had found an opportunity and slashed at Aniloz with a knife, but Aniloz seemed to have predicted it and dodged it in time.

Then Aniloz counterattacked with a sword.

Lin Zhiyu had no choice but to withdraw and step back.

until a certain moment.

"Snapped!"

Lin Zhiyu's back hit the steel wire gate at the end of the alley.

Seeing that Lin Zhiyu had nowhere to retreat, Aniloz suddenly paused her attack. Less than ten feet away from Lin Zhiyu, she stroked the blade of the Vajra Yaksha and said with a smug look on her face:

"You don't seem to be very good at fighting, do you? Why not consider selling me that unfortunate boy captured by the slave trader? Maybe then I'll show you some mercy."

Lin Zhiyu leaned against the steel wire gate and did not answer Aniloz immediately. Instead, he looked at the sword in his hand and found that there were several gaps on the blade.

The horizontal sword produced by the system is solid and sharp.

But it is just an ordinary item after all, and cannot withstand the Iron Witch and the legendary weapon Vajra Yaksha in her hand!

Lin Zhiyu even had a feeling.

If he keeps hitting me, even if he isn't crushed to pieces, the knife will be broken into pieces!

"Except for strength, I am not as good as her in martial arts, speed, and weapons. She is worthy of being the famous Iron Witch." Thinking of this, Lin Zhiyu has fully recognized Aniloz's strength, but he did not feel afraid or panic because he was forced into a desperate situation by Aniloz.

He even raised the corners of his lips and smiled at Anne Lorze.

"Miss Aniloz's martial arts are even more powerful than I imagined, but it seems her perception is still lacking..."

While saying this, Lin Zhiyu raised his head, as if looking at Aniloz, but actually his eyes were behind Aniloz.

At this moment, Aniloz was startled, bent over and suddenly jumped up.

Just as Aniloz jumped up from the ground, a bloody mouth bit into empty space where she had been standing, and then it made a hissing sound with its forked tongue sticking out.

"Snake? A white snake?"

After Aniloz jumped up, she kicked the walls of the buildings on both sides of the alley. After just a few seconds, she landed at the other end of the alley. With the witch's innate night vision ability, she could see clearly what had attacked her.

It was a huge white snake.

At this time, the white snake stayed beside Lin Zhiyu, raised its head, and kept sticking out its tongue beside Lin Zhiyu's shoulder. Its pair of beastly and ferocious eyes were staring at Aniloz.

"How's it going, Miss Aniloz? Do you want to keep fighting?"

Lin Zhiyu put away his sword, raised his hand and touched Yiji's head, then looked at Aniloz with a smile.

Chapter 6 The Red Queen's Bad Taste

"demon……"

Staring at the fierce-looking white python beside Lin Zhiyu, Aniloz's expression grew serious. She then pointed the Vajra Yaksha at Lin Zhiyu and asked, "What is your relationship with Li Meifeng from the Kowloon Society?"

Li Meifeng, the number one killer of the Kowloon Society known as the "White Snake", is Aniloz's mortal enemy. Lin Zhiyu, who has watched the anime, naturally knows this person.

But up to now, Lin Zhiyu has never even met Li Meifeng. Why does Aniloz feel that he knows Li Meifeng?

"I've only heard of Meifeng Li, but I haven't met her yet."

"Hmph! Do you think I'd believe you? It's said that Li Meifeng was called 'White Snake' because she absorbed the power of a demon whose original form was a white snake. And what's more, the bar you came to just happened to be the Kowloon Club's place?"

The more she talked, the more Aniloz became convinced that Lin Zhiyu and Li Meifeng had a close relationship, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Lin Zhiyu became dangerous again.

Lin Zhiyu then realized that it was Yiji's presence that caused Aniloz to misunderstand him, so he then summoned Fengji. Two giant pythons, one white and one yellow, stopped on his left and right, making the already narrow alley seem so crowded.

"Hiss..."

After the giant yellow python appeared, it looked at Aniloz with a fierce look, and quickly retracted and stuck out its tongue.

Lin Zhiyu raised his hand and touched Feng Ji's head again, then explained to Aniloz:

"There are countless demons in this world. Just because I have a white snake as my pet, it's assumed that I have a close relationship with Li Meifeng. Don't you think that's a bit too arbitrary, Miss Aniloz?

"Besides, Miss Aniloz and Li Meifeng have been enemies for a long time, so she must know Li Meifeng very well. Then Miss Aniloz might as well think about it again. When has Li Meifeng ever directly summoned a demon snake to help her in battle like I did?"

After hearing what Lin Zhiyu said, Aniloz thought about it and realized that although Li Meifeng had absorbed the power of a white demon snake according to the rumor, she had never demonstrated the corresponding ability as directly as Lin Zhiyu. The so-called rumor might even be false.

And Lin Zhiyu was not just explaining.

He summoned Feng Ji again to tell Aniloz not to get stuck on the "White Snake" issue because of her mortal enemy Li Meifeng. At the same time, he was demonstrating to Aniloz and further show her his methods.

Anneloz was naturally not afraid of Lin Zhiyu and the two yellow and white pythons.

Just now, when Lin Zhiyu was fighting with her, he kept hiding his moves until he was forced into a desperate situation, and then he summoned the magic snake to help. And she also held back the whole time, and didn't even use the blood thorn magic that she was proud of!

However, judging from the current situation, if the two were to fight with all their strength, it would probably cause a big commotion.

It would be no fun if both sides were to suffer losses in the end and were taken advantage of by the countless jackals and hyenas in the city that came here smelling the scent.

Thinking of this, Aniloz suddenly had an idea in her mind, and then she put away the Vajra Yaksha and said to Lin Zhiyu with a smile:

"Okay, I believe you have no connection with Li Meifeng! As long as you have nothing to do with that annoying white snake, then we can be friends."

Unexpectedly, Aniloz suddenly changed her attitude and her tone became gentle. Lin Zhiyu frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

At this time, Aniloz came step by step to Lin Zhiyu, and was not afraid of Fengji and Yiji who were staring at her on both sides of Lin Zhiyu.

She smiled, extended her hand to Lin Zhiyu, and said with a hint of pride, "Let's meet formally! I am the Witch of Steel, Aniloz Figueroa."

Lin Zhiyu gently shook Anneloz's soft, boneless hand and introduced himself, "Lin Zhiyu, from... um... from Zhonglian, but I don't work for any organization or force. I'm what's commonly known as a vagrant."

"Haha! What a homeless man!" Anneloz smiled lightly, then turned her head to look at the half-open back door of the bar.

"Didn't you just say that you wanted to entrust me to investigate someone?"

"Let's go to the bar and have a couple of drinks together, then we can talk slowly."

After she finished speaking, without giving Lin Zhiyu a chance to reply, Aniloz immediately walked towards the back door of the bar.

Thinking that Tachibana Rikuro was enjoying his last dinner in the bar, Lin Zhiyu frowned, fearing that something unexpected would happen again, so he hurried to catch up with Aniloz.

After a while, the two returned to the bar from the back alley.

The bar, which was originally extremely noisy, became quiet in an instant after Lin Zhiyu and Aniloz came in.

Lin Zhiyu didn't want Aniloz and Tachibana Rikuro to have any contact, so after entering the bar, he gave Jin Meiting and Busujima Saeko a look, asking the two women to continue sitting in their original seats. He then walked to the bar and said to the bartender:

"One beer for me and the lady next to me."

Lin Zhiyu didn't know Aniloz's taste, so it would be a good idea to order two ordinary beers.