26 The echo

I fell to one side avoiding the cut by a few centimeters the remaining wind from its inertia hit my face, reminding me that in the battlefield every moment was a life or death situation regardless the situation, meanwhile I rose again and adopted a defensive position, this time I knew I was not alone.

Although he could only see a small thread of silver Qi it was enough to follow his path but insufficient to determine his position.

He was at an impasse, he had the confidence to avoid his attack this time he was on guard and could see the residual trace of the Qi, but he had no way to stop or attack it, an uncomfortable situation, where he did not have the opportunity to emerge victoriously.

"To fight a battle in which you can only survive and not win is certainly frustrating..." I muttered as I tried to find a solution that would help me simplify this battle, but my enemy did not have the same thoughts as me...

The tenuous silver Qi line was heading in my direction, I knew that their attack would arrive long before the residual Qi, accelerating the Blood Qi of my body, I made a wide blow with the claymore, while evading in the same trajectory as my attack, was the only solution I found so far, I knew that my enemy didn't have to have a good defense because he was hiding and launching furtive attacks, so I shouldn't be able to take my attack from the front, although it was only a probability it was safer than throwing me in any direction in an attempt to get out of the trajectory of his attack.

But it was not as I expected, silence took hold of the room, the sound of metal hitting the floor woke me from the stun, this time the attack had not been so simple.

Looking towards the ground I found the claymore blade cut cleanly, while only a third of the initial claymore blade remained in my hands, the attack was so sharp that the claymore was cut like tofu without feeling the resistance in my hands, this time the enemy was not simple demons with training, instead some superior being.

In my mind there was only one thought, to survive a second more to find an opportunity to emerge victorious from this room, only occurred to me to lock myself in the prison I used against the berserker, if my enemy could even pierce my Blood Qi then there was no chance to get out alive, I could only lament my recklessness and inability.

Without wasting any more time I stopped supplying Blood Qi to my eyes, it no longer served any purpose to locate the enemy, I could not block it, and I had underestimated its speed and prediction.

The enemy's attack capacity was so overwhelming that it could not take another blow under the current conditions.

The Blood Qi penetrated the ground through the structure of the spell, this time I emptied all the reserves, I didn't need to attack, just survive, as long as I was alive there was minimal hope.

Blood Qi began to solidify in lances creating a cage around me, the color of the lances this time was brighter, giving it a more solid aspect, the rewards of the battle to life or death against the Berserker continued to bring benefits that even I did not know it had.

This time I couldn't see the trajectory of the next attack, but I didn't care, I knew it wasn't the important thing, I needed to find a plan to counteract.

Without any more worries I sat on the ground, anyway if the spears couldn't withstand the incoming attack, everything would be over, the pressure for victory vanished completely.

Whenever I was in a moment of life or death, all unnecessary thoughts disappeared, I didn't know if it was a Berserker trait, or if it was my own personality after going through so many situations on the verge of death?

The seconds passed until my senses shook suddenly, I had felt a spear being pierced a few centimeters into my back, but the blow had stopped after those centimeters, and the spear was slowly regenerating to its initial shape.

With a smile I got up from the ground, this exchange had given me enough information, analyzing it calmly I thought about the situation.

The enemy could not break my Blood Qi, perhaps because of the battle Berserker had become so dense that it was much more resistant, or it could also be because the Blood Qi is not so easy to penetrate by its attack, but this was not all, because of the exchange I had felt everything through my spears as if they belonged to my body, the spears could provide me with information and also had a more exquisite control.

Now that I had everything under control I had to think of a form of attack, my defense was already covered, I tried to search even in the knowledge I acquired through my life on Earth, humans, there are many things we can not see, for example, air, because we do not capture the different wavelengths, perhaps the enemy worked in this way too ...

Immersing myself in my thoughts, I received some more attacks but these could not advance more than a few centimeters while there were several layers of lances around me protecting me.

I could only think of one idea, to add something that could detect the invisible presence so I could know its exact position, this is the same method that was used for Butane gas, an additive was added that gave it a specific smell to recognize it, my Blood Qi could be totally detected, I could only try this absurd idea, if it didn't work I could always rethink another plan and put it into practice.

I dissolved the Blood Qi of some spears, I was surrounded by 3 layers of spears, so removing some spears would not do any harm, I needed to feed my acupuncture points a minimum of Blood Qi to generate more Blood Qi, but at the same time a spear returned to receive an attack almost breaking, the circulation in my body was interrupted to detect the incoming attack and diverted to the first layer of lances, these lost their brightness instantly, to recover it half a second later, while the echo of a heartbeat resounded.