"It's not a big deal, worry about yourself first. I only lost an arm temporarily!"

The bald man with sunglasses didn't seem to have the ability to regrow his arm, which made me feel relieved. I thought he would back off after getting hurt, but he just quickly treated his wound, then looked at me calmly and said:

"So this is the power of Water Angel? It really touches the legendary realm of gods. But maybe I just need to be more careful and dodge your sword attacks?"

Actually, his punch affected me quite a bit too. Even though I used healing magic right away, my left shoulder still feels numb. I couldn't help but ask in confusion:

"You're seriously injured now. Can you still fight with just your left hand?"

After all, he wasn't my target for this mission. I was at a disadvantage earlier because he was attacking with both hands. But now the threat level has dropped by half, and he doesn't seem to know any magic. I don't think he can handle Water Abyss Sword anymore.

"I admit you're as formidable as the records say, but as the captain of the Horizon Tide Team, I haven't used my full power yet! Anyway, before I meet a real god, I won't give up easily!"

Even at this point, the bald man still looked ready to keep fighting. Although he couldn't fly, he could still quickly get close to me by using the surrounding cliff walls as stepping stones.

"God?"

When he mentioned this word, I couldn't help but think of a mysterious race I met before.

In my experience, the only ones who could truly be considered gods were those "Holy Ones." But they didn't seem to think of themselves as gods. They rarely showed themselves, and except for angels who could sometimes communicate with them through light elements, other races rarely heard about their existence.

Could these System carriers know about the "Holy Ones" too? But there was no chance to confirm it because the bald man was already jumping close again.

" Our target wasn't even you, it was Reider! Why do you have to keep getting in our way!"

Since this was our first meeting and we had no real grudge, I really couldn't understand why this guy was rushing to get himself killed. I could only guess he was trying to keep me busy so I couldn't help Adrian fight Reider.

Even though he only had one arm left, I still didn't dare underestimate him, so I quickly flew back into the air.

But then something amazing happened - as the bald man jumped toward me with his fist raised, a figure separated from his body, and the situation turned into "two people" attacking me!

This figure looked very similar to the bald man, but with one difference - his "entire body" had an unnatural deep purple color, making it easy to tell apart from the original.

At first I thought this might be some kind of illusion trick, but the purple figure suddenly accelerated, and reached me first.

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"Is this some kind of clone?"

I'd never seen such a bizarre fighting style before, but then again, maybe it wasn't so strange coming from a System carrier?

To be honest, this clone's strength was a bit weaker than the original. Otherwise, that hit should have sent me crashing straight into the ground instead of just dropping a few meters before I stabilized myself in the air.

"You can see it?"

The bald man with sunglasses seemed surprised at first, as if other people shouldn't be able to see his clone. Then he landed and "kindly" corrected me: "This isn't a clone, it's a Stand! I just learned it recently. If I wasn't in such an embarrassing situation, I wouldn't use it now!"

This Stand made my situation much more difficult again. It had all four limbs intact and could even fly, completely making up for its weaker strength.

I'm not sure if this Stand was completely controlled by the original or had some independence, but either way, they worked together perfectly! In the following battle, they could pull off weird moves like double jumps and 90-degree turns in mid-air. The most annoying part was that the Stand wasn't affected by Water Abyss Sword's dehydration effect! With it blocking attacks in front and the original throwing heavy punches from behind, the advantage I had just gained completely disappeared.

Two fists can't fight four hands... well, three hands! Anyway, I eventually felt overwhelmed and could only keep flying around.

"Feliciana, how are you doing? How can he fly? And why does he seem even stronger after losing an arm?"

There was such a big purple Stand chasing and hitting me, but Adrian couldn't see it?

"I'm not dead yet!"

Unfortunately, I had no time to explain. But thanks to the Stand's flying speed being slightly slower than mine, I could hold out for a while even at a disadvantage.

Luckily, the battle with Reider below was coming to an end.

First, Reider seemed to be running out of "qi" and rarely used moves like shockwaves anymore. But he seemed to know Adrian's weakness in close combat, so he kept moving around and trying to fight hand-to-hand with weapons.

But on Adrian's side, he still had a "Golden Gatling" left - that's a powerful weapon that even Camille had to avoid! How could Reider get close?

The Golden Gatling had never failed except against Nicola! Suddenly caught in dense bullet rain, Reider was completely panicked, could only dodge around, and started cursing.

He might be able to endure normal bullets for a while, but with the Gatling enhanced with "Explosion" Battle Qi, even one hit would leave him a bloody mess.

"Captain, I'm coming to help!"

Seeing that he really couldn't handle the Gatling's super dense bullet rain, this guy desperately jumped into the air toward me. His intention was obvious! Since he couldn't win, he thought of using me as a shield, and this move really worked.

Adrian was shooting happily but when he saw me suddenly appear in his line of fire, he quickly lowered his gun and didn't dare shoot. The result was that Reider fought dirty, attacking me together with the bald man from two directions.

There was nothing Adrian could do since he couldn't fly. He could only watch anxiously from below, trying to shoot arrows to interfere, but it didn't help much.

"In that case, don't blame me for getting serious!"

Finally pushed to my limit, I made up my mind, gritted my teeth, turned around and rushed down, quickly returning to Adrian's side.

As I expected, the two enemies and the Stand soon landed too, but they didn't dare advance when they saw the Gatling gun aimed at them.

"As long as the captain is here, we won't lose even if both of you attack together!"

Seeing this, Reider thought I wanted to team up with Adrian. Then he took out a bean from somewhere and handed it to his captain, warning: "That kid with the Gatling is really tough to deal with. To be safe, you better recover first!"

"You still have some left after all these years?"

Even at this point, the bald man with sunglasses couldn't help asking in surprise as he took the bean and swallowed it. The next moment, his severed right arm instantly recovered.

"What is that thing?"

Adrian hadn't read that manga, so naturally he found this scene amazing. Although I was mentally prepared, I was still surprised - because when the captain ate the bean, I could sense very rich water element energy coming from his body. This was the first time proving that things from manga had some connection to elements!

But now wasn't the time to worry about these things. After all, the bald man back at full strength couldn't be handled with normal methods. To turn the situation around, I had to use my final trump card, so I very seriously said to Adrian:

"Get behind me!"