"Are you thinking that this one is enough to defeat me?" Clovis threw the pillar to Erwin.
Erwin smirked and placed his hands horizontally with a gap between the palms. He moved forward as if planning to stop the pillar, but the pillar ended up passing through the gap between his palms.
Then he planted the wires and stopped the pillar’s momentum with his own before swinging the pillar.
"Of course not!"
Clovis furrowed his eyebrows. Even he would have a hard time stopping the pillar with this much force. So Clovis chose to jump, avoiding the pillar.
The pillars ended up hitting another pillar and breaking each other apart.
"What? You’re running away, Clovis?!" Erwin grinned and pulled himself to one of the pillars. Before his feet touched the ground, Erwin grabbed one of his wires and pulled himself back up. He jumped from one wire to another like a monkey.
"Aren’t you the one running away?" Clovis harrumphed and ran toward Erwin. As expected, to defeat Erwin, he had to destroy most of his wires. Hence, that was what he was planning to do for the time being.
"Nope!" Erwin jumped off his wire and charged at Clovis.
Clovis waved his swords at full speed, this time leaving 20 strikes in one second.
"!!!" Erwin smiled excitedly as he had been waiting for this. Even if it wasn’t Clovis’s limit, he knew that Clovis had no choice but to fight him seriously.
Erwin stretched his fingers and started moving his arms, blocking Clovis’s strikes just a few centimeters from his body. "Raaaa! Come on!"
Even after releasing twenty strikes, he still didn’t manage to break through Erwin’s defense.
On the other hand, that action actually shocked the people who watched the match.
"What?" Shion widened her eyes in shock. "I’m sorry if I’m wrong since I couldn’t see all those strikes. But from what I could see, there are more strikes than what he has shown us so far. 19… No, there might be 20 strikes in that one second."
Shion dropped her jaw to the ground. "That is the realm of a Tier 4 with Blood Affinity. Has Clovis’s strength actually reached Tier 4? And he is supposed to be only 16 years old."
The audience couldn’t believe what Shion said, but Shion’s assessment should be pretty accurate.
Rafael stood up with his mouth wide open. "What? 20 strikes? How is this even possible? Who exactly is he? Father, what kind of background does this person have to be this terrifying?
Don’t tell me, someone stronger than my father… a Tier 8 human?"
Aileen clenched her fists while Lana couldn’t help but observe her expression. "Aileen… Is he…"
"Yeah. He might really have that kind of power. In fact, he might still be holding back. If not, Erwin wouldn’t be so excited." Aileen gulped down.
"How can this be? A Tier 2 human with the strength of Tier 4… I know that the gap between each tier at the low level isn’t that big, but it’s completely impossible to have that kind of strength…" Lana bit his lips.
Aileen squinted her eyes. "Watch them carefully. If Erwin is not careful, he might lose to him. Even the Eight Swords and us, Bloody Rose, might also be devoured alive."
"…" Lana remained silent, but she understood what she was supposed to do.
"Still… Erwin has yet to show his full power. It will take more than that to defeat him."
As Aileen said, while receiving all Clovis’ strikes, Erwin actually shot out one wire after another.
Erwin even looped around Clovis and added the number of his wires around them.
After everything had been set up, Erwin actually stopped Clovis’ swings and used his fingers to actually catch his blades.
It didn’t manage to stop Clovis, but he managed to buy a split second from him. The moment Clovis pulled his blades, Erwin waved his hands, sending forth the sharp wires toward him.
There was something wrong with these wires. Instead of coming from right and left, the wires actually came from above.
"!!!" Clovis had no choice but to jump back, avoiding the wires.
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But the wires ended up sticking into the soil. Then, Erwin lifted up both hands, cracking the ground and actually lifting it up.
Clovis was dumbfounded, not expecting that Erwin would actually smash the ground at him. It didn’t have a symmetric form like ground tiles, but it certainly had enough power and weight to crush him.
He wanted to destroy it, but it would just tire him out. Hence, Clovis moved to the side, trying to escape. That was when he felt a sharp pain in his cheek.
"!!!" Clovis hurriedly tilted his body to the side while swinging his blade, cutting down an invisible wire that almost defeated Jay in the group match.
Erwin smirked and took that opportunity to swing the giant platform to Clovis.
"Tsk." Clovis clicked his tongue and struck the platform with both swords. This wasn’t enough to stop the platform, but Clovis managed to tilt it toward the wire area. After that, he spun his body to avoid the platform before cutting the wires attached to it, letting the platform fall and crush the wires.
Bam!
The platform shattered into pieces, kicking up the dust on the ground.
’He has changed the color of his wires to match the bright terrain. I have expected this, but it’s truly hard to see those very thin, sharp wires.’ Clovis bit his lips. ’Even so, I still have some cards to use. In that case, I will reveal them one by one and see to what level Erwin could—’
Clovis’ thought abruptly stopped. That platform wasn’t the only attack Erwin released. There was one more thing that he released aside from that boulder and the moment the shattered platform kicked up the dust, it became a very effective smokescreen to mask Erwin’s hidden attack.
"That’s…" Shion dropped her jaw while looking at the screen that was focused on Clovis’s back.
Clovis couldn’t help but grit his teeth as if he were in pain.
After all, on his back, there was a small throwing knife planted out of nowhere.