The Swamp Shadow had its tongue cut off, unable to speak, filled with pain and resentment. If it were a human, it would have already died, but the Swamp Shadow, a giant fish-man, had dominated this generation for decades with its incredibly strong vitality. It violently swung its claws, sending two fish-man soldiers flying like small hills, and charged towards Izayoi like a dark shadow!
The opponent was huge, but Izayoi extended her body and thrust her spear with the length of the gun. Unexpectedly, the Swamp Shadow's body was unexpectedly agile. It leaped up and its tattered cloak spread open, resembling the shadow of death in a cave.
Izayoi instinctively used her spear to fend off, but the Swamp Shadow unexpectedly kicked off the cave wall and jumped to the other side, quickly crawling on the wall using its special body structure, reaching the top of the mountain cave, out of Izayoi's attacking range.
The Swamp Shadow directly hung upside down from the cave ceiling, suddenly releasing its foot hook and attacked Izayoi's head from above.
Izayoi quickly dodged, but the Swamp Shadow's agility exceeded her expectations. After landing, although the swamp shadow missed with its giant claw, it quickly kicked Izayoi with tremendous force, sending her flying.
Izayoi tumbled in the air and on the ground, barely dissipating the impact.
"So fast!!!" Izayoi was sweating on her forehead. She never expected such a huge body to move so strangely and agilely!
Izayoi rolled to the side, and several nearby fish-man soldiers attacked her. She swung her gun left and right, piercing through them.
At this moment, the Swamp Shadow attacked again, still extremely fast and elusive.
Izayoi jumped backward, narrowly avoiding the Swamp Shadow's giant claw. However, the black giant claw unexpectedly had a sinister hook nearly a foot long.
"Poof!" Izayoi's shoulder on one side was grazed!
The Swamp Shadow stomped on the ground and jumped again towards the flying Izayoi, with the cave wall behind her.
Izayoi flipped in the air, stepping on the cave wall to flip her body and leaped behind the Swamp Shadow, then stabbed its spine with a spear!
"Puchi!" A large amount of black blood was brought out by Izayoi's long spear.
Izayoi's shoulder and waist were injured, and the Swamp Shadow was not lightly wounded either!
Both sides paused for a moment, then immediately resumed the second round of life and death struggle!
The Swamp Shadow took big steps forward, spinning its body and swinging its giant claws towards Izayoi.
This time, Izayoi saw the opponent's claw technique clearly! The Swamp Shadow was fast and powerful, but its attack style seemed to be single-minded.
Izayoi seized the Swamp Shadow's claw technique, swayed her gun to the side, and used the recoil as leverage to bounce off. She flashed past the claw and circled to the side of the Swamp Shadow. Taking advantage of the gap when the Swamp Shadow's all-out claw attack missed, she turned her spear and stabbed its neck base.
"Puchi!" The sharp edge of the long spear deeply pierced the Swamp Shadow's neck base, causing it to kneel in pain. Izayoi pulled the gun back with force, and blood sprayed out from the back of the Swamp Shadow's neck again!
The Swamp Shadow suffered a severe injury, but it became even more frenzied. It disregarded everything and lunged at Izayoi.
Suddenly, Izayoi moved her lower body forward, deliberately sliding down and directly avoiding the Swamp Shadow's claws. She passed under the huge body of the Swamp Shadow and then turned around to stab from above. She pierced its crotch area and abdomen!
"Poof!" Blood sprayed like a fountain!!!
With the long spear impaled in its body, the Swamp Shadow could no longer move. It howled and convulsed. Izayoi let go of the spear, jumped up, and pulled out the dagger from her waist. With two precise movements, she severed the tendons of the Swamp Shadow's feet. The giant creature collapsed with a thunderous crash, but the long spear was still impaled in the ground.
Izayoi jumped directly onto the back of Swamp Shadow, who was already on the verge of death. Her snow-white arms wrapped around the dying Swamp Shadow, whose yellow eyes, though still expressionless like fish, seemed to flicker with despair.
Izayoi embraced the thick neck and large fish head from behind and made a cut across his neck. The huge neck, with excess flesh, opened up, and blood gushed out, filling the ground. Swamp Shadow lost all resistance and could only twitch as the spear pierced through him, nearing his death...
The remaining two or three merman soldiers, seeing their king killed, lost their will to fight and escaped into the water in the cave!
The most notorious creature of this generation, the Swamp Shadow, has finally been eliminated today!
"Hu--!!!"
Izayoi weakly leaned against the wall, gasping for air with wide-open mouth, her shoulders in excruciating pain.
If she hadn't severed her opponent's tongue with a surprise attack at the beginning, she would have either died under the opponent's claws or been stripped of her clothes and subjected to humiliating acts under that gigantic body... The path of a female adventurer is truly dangerous!
However, for Izayoi, who doesn't belong to this world and yet remains forever youthful, when will this road come to an end?
Izayoi rummaged through Swamp Shadow's clothes and found his backpack. With a rough look, there seemed to be many valuable things inside, such as various precious gems and a shiny metallic piece the size of a fan. Suddenly, Izayoi realized that it wasn't just a metallic piece but dragon scales!!! There were three water dragon scales in total!
Izayoi put all of them into her backpack. Then, she remembered the female knight apprentice lying limp in the corner.
She walked over and asked, "Are you okay?"
However, the female knight apprentice simply sat on the ground, completely forgetting about proper ladylike manners. There was a large wet stain beneath her, and her gaze was unfocused, looking towards the side.
Izayoi shook her head and took out the cool spring water from her waist, making the apprentice drink it. Only then did she slowly come to her senses.
Looking at the gigantic monster Swamp Shadow impaled by a spear on the side, as well as the corpses of a few of her own companions and the merman soldiers, the apprentice couldn't help but feel immense regret. "It's all, all my fault. If it weren't for me, they wouldn't, wouldn't have died. It's all my fault... Waaah..." She burst into sorrowful tears.
Izayoi didn't really want to sympathize with such a spoiled young lady, but seeing her saddened by the fate of her companions instead of caring about her own safety, Izayoi's heart softened. She bent down and embraced Rosea, letting her cry in her own arms.
