Chapter 184: Silent Lamb.

Xiao Fen was already one level lower than Sophie, so it was impossible to talk about being able to dodge this bullet. On the other hand, Sophie thought just now that since Xiao Fen could enter this Trial World, he should be at least Level 3. To pursue the absolute kill effect, she approached to such a distance.

The trump cards of both sides were revealed one after another. The result was that Xiao Fen fired a new venom shot again, while he himself was hit in the head by the pellet bursting from the Matchlock. His entire body flew backward, flew for several meters, and crashed into a wall before stopping. He hung his head down, and for a moment, life or death was unknown.

Sophie didn’t expect that this shot would actually hit Xiao Fen’s vital point. She was just about to step forward when she felt her body go numb and she was unable to move. It turned out she was hit by Xiao Fen’s poison agent and fell into a paralyzed state.

One second passed in a flash. Sophie felt her body improve slightly. She was just about to take a step when suddenly her body went numb again.

A Level 3 Trialist did not have very high resistance to various abnormal statuses. Plus, Sophie herself was a Spirit-priority Trialist, so her sensing effect for this kind of status was increased in a disguised form. Therefore, although the damage of the Paralytic Poison Agent to Sophie did not increase, the paralysis effect produced was enhanced.

The paralysis, which would originally gradually weaken, occurred repeatedly. It took at least 5 seconds before Sophie felt that a part of her body was controlled by herself. Secretly shocked in her heart, she became even more determined to kill Xiao Fen as soon as possible. If she delayed any longer, she feared the result would be even worse.

She slowly moved a few meters, and the Halo behind her had already caught up. Seeing Xiao Fen continuing to sit in the corner with his life unknown, Sophie smiled secretly in her heart. Being hit in the head by a Matchlock pellet was not an injury that could be easily resolved. Even if it didn’t cause immediate death, it would at least cause dizziness for a while, and severe injury was unavoidable.

On the other hand, Sophie was also surprised by Xiao Fen’s resourcefulness and endless fighting methods. She was, after all, not good at close combat. Facing such a diverse opponent, a slight carelessness would probably lead to a reversal of life and death.

Thinking of this, although Sophie continued forward, wanting to kill Xiao Fen as soon as possible, her speed had slowed down. She did not continue to reload ammunition but took out the short knife from before and advanced cautiously towards Xiao Fen.

She was waiting for her Halo to completely catch up with her. After entering the 10-meter distance, she would use the power of the Magic Array to kill Xiao Fen in one fell swoop and avoid putting herself in danger.

Seeing that she had walked two steps, the distance of ten meters from Xiao Fen was only a step away. Xiao Fen, who had been sitting weakly on the ground, suddenly raised his head. A bloodstain on his forehead was constantly rolling with blood, covering his face, making him look like an evil ghost from Hell. But Xiao Fen’s eyes were shining brightly. Where did he look like he was seriously injured at all?

Seeing this, Sophie was greatly shocked. Before she could stop her steps, Xiao Fen had already raised his hand and threw three bluestones at her.

Sophie subconsciously took a step back. At this moment, the Magic Array had appeared under her feet. The light flashed suddenly and completely shattered the three bluestones.

However, at this time, Xiao Fen did not retreat but advanced. He suddenly exerted force and rushed up. At the moment of entering the 10-meter control area of Sophie’s Magic Array, the Staff in his hand flashed again. With a bang, Qigong and the Greek Fire behind it arrived one after another.

The light of the Magic Array flashed again, wanting to destroy these two Skills. However, Qigong and Greek Fire were both formless things, so how could they be eliminated?

Only two bangs were heard. The first sound was Qigong hitting the unprepared Sophie’s head. The other sound was the light in the Magic Array hitting Xiao Fen in the air, whipping Xiao Fen’s body away.

Xiao Fen rolled chaotically in the air, crashed into the wall with a bang, and fell to the ground. He coughed violently twice and spat out a large mouthful of blood. He slowly stood up holding the wall. On his chest, the necklace Lycaon gave him had already become dull. Not long after, it suddenly shattered. This was the result of Xiao Fen using up the effect of resisting two fatal attacks in that short time just now.

However, compared to Xiao Fen, Sophie, who was hit in the head by the Qigong shock and retreated a few steps before falling backward, was even worse. The black cloth used to cover her face was already in pieces. Her face, which might have been considered fairly pretty, was now a blur of flesh and blood. At the same time, a raging fire had ignited on her body, which was exactly the effect of Xiao Fen’s Greek Fire.

What surprised Xiao Fen was that these raging flames seemed to float on Sophie’s body. To be precise, they floated on the surface of that piece of clothing on Sophie. It looked incomparably fierce, but it almost did not cause any harm to Sophie.

After a few seconds, Sophie slowly sat up from the ground. Although Xiao Fen’s Qigong was fierce, it was still unable to cause fatal harm to Sophie. Her left eye had been destroyed by the Qigong shock. Now, she opened her only remaining right eye, staring dead at Xiao Fen, wanting to say something, but only made a “hissing” sound.

Xiao Fen was slightly stunned and immediately understood the reason. Although Greek Fire could not cause direct damage to Sophie, Greek Fire consumed oxygen. Such intense combustion had already created an oxygen-free environment around Sophie. Under these circumstances, Sophie could not breathe at all, let alone speak.

However, Greek Fire only lasted for about 10 seconds. Under the resistance of Sophie’s strange clothes, it extinguished ahead of schedule.

Xiao Fen cautiously stared at the Magic Array under Sophie’s feet, which had become somewhat dim but had not disappeared, and did not dare to advance rashly. On the other hand, after enduring the process of severe pain and hypoxic suffocation just now, Sophie did not dare to launch a new attack on Xiao Fen rashly, fearing that she would suffer a counterattack from Xiao Fen.

The two just looked at each other like this for a while, and their injuries were silently worsening.

Xiao Fen was hit directly in the forehead by the Matchlock pellet just now. Although this fatal attack was transferred by the necklace’s effect, the huge impact force was enough to cause cracks inside his skull. The Magic Array attack after that also caused severe damage to Xiao Fen’s internal organs and bones. Although death was narrowly avoided, severe injury was unavoidable.

As for Sophie, maintaining the Magic Array seemed to have become very difficult for her as well. At the same time, maintaining the Magic Array made it impossible for her to ensure her body recovered. Moreover, being stared at by Xiao Fen like this, she didn’t have the extra thought to reload pellets.

The two of them maintained silence like this. Although they both knew that the other might fail immediately or even die with just one new attack, neither could guarantee that they would be the winner.

It looked like Xiao Fen seemed to have taken some initiative. He could go get those bluestones and launch new attacks on Sophie from a farther distance.

But firstly, the bluestone attack was meaningless to Sophie in the Magic Array. Secondly, if he bent down to look for those bluestones, he would also be rapidly approached by Sophie, who was more than ten meters away, and fall into the attack of the Magic Array.

So at this time, neither of them had the initiative. Xiao Fen’s injury was further aggravating, while Sophie was gradually unable to maintain the Magic Array. The light of the Magic Array was constantly dimming.

Needless to say, both of them knew that if Sophie’s Magic Array stopped operating, Sophie was likely to be the losing side, but the premise was that Xiao Fen’s remaining life could allow him to persist until that moment.

The two stopped in the dark for a while. Both had gradually heard the other’s breathing begin to become heavy. What was being compared now was not combat skills. Everyone was just comparing who could persist a little longer and ensure their attention was a little more concentrated.

In the end, feeling a headache as if it were cracking, and his body constantly exploding with pain sparks in his mind, Xiao Fen could not hold back. He cautiously took a step back, watching Sophie not move, and then took another step back.

A fierce smile suddenly appeared on Sophie’s face, which could already be described as gruesome. She began to reload bullets, following Xiao Fen neither too fast nor too slow. Although her reloading speed was not fast, it was basically unsolvable for Xiao Fen.

He could not rush up. Although the light of the Magic Array was dim, it was still dangerous. If he retreated, Sophie could still keep up. As Sophie slowly recovered from the severe dizziness of being hit in the head by Qigong just now, the situation on the battlefield began to change rapidly. The situation Xiao Fen faced began to deteriorate rapidly.

Xiao Fen glanced at Sophie, exhaled a long breath, suddenly lowered his body, and rushed out diagonally towards Sophie’s left side.

Sophie was stunned for a moment, only seeing half of Xiao Fen’s body, and then it became a blur. Only then did she realize that Xiao Fen had rushed to a place she could not see, using the visual blind spot created by her having only one eye.

She was shocked and turned around suddenly, but did not see Xiao Fen’s figure. Indistinctly, she heard that Xiao Fen seemed to have run behind her. Sophie gave a cold smile, wanting to say something, when suddenly she heard the sound of something breaking through the air behind her, as if something was rushing towards her fiercely.

The next second, she suddenly felt a burst of heat on her back. The flame that had burned violently on the surface of her clothes just now appeared again on her back.

Sophie let out another cold snort and said, “Stop doing useless work. My clothes can isolate flame Skills below Level 2.”

This was her last sentence, in this Trial World, the last sentence in her life.

As soon as her voice fell, she suddenly realized something was wrong. The intense flame had somehow penetrated onto her back. The intense burn caused that part of her skin to necrotic and go numb rapidly, so she did not feel the pain immediately. When she realized the pain, it was too late. The flame quickly spread into her clothes from her back, burning everywhere on the surface of her body.

The isolation of the clothes from the flame became the truly fatal factor at this moment. Neither the temperature nor the flame could escape from the clothes, constantly swirling around the body inside Sophie’s clothes. Not long after she let out a sound of intense despair, her body suddenly paused, then slowly fell to the ground and never moved again.

Xiao Fen exhaled a long breath and sat down on the ground with a plop. He watched the Greek Fire slowly extinguish inside Sophie’s clothes. The graceful body inside the clothes turned into a mass of black charcoal. In his heart, he did not know whether it was sorrow or joy for a moment.