Levi did not expect Bob to be able to counterattack. To her surprise, although shestepped back immediatelyin an attempt to dodge,Bob still slashed through hershoulder, leaving a five-inch long cut on her armor.However,the cut was not deep enough to injure her.

"This armor is expensive." Levi examined the cut on her armor. "Good job cutting through it. You’re good. I can see why Travis lost. That attack was the Thousand Blades School’s Pincer Strike. Coming from me, very few people could have countered it. If not for the Behemoth wearing you out, I’d have a harder time fighting you."

"Travis was my student you know? I taught him the Thousand Blades style. Now, for my deceased student, I will get serious." Levi added.

"I can see the similarity between the two of you. You both talk a lot." Bob pointed out with a smirk.

At this moment, Bob inhaled deeply, holding his breath as he stored a tremendous amount of Mana into his sword. However, before he could react, Levi stabbed him through his upper left chest as if she teleported to his location. Boom! A shockwave from Levi's high speed dash struck Bob right after. "Now, this was Phantom Blade School’s Vanishing Thrust." Levi said. Bob could sense her attack with his Danger Sense, but he could only react fast enough to move his heart out of the way, preventing an instant kill.

"NO!" Tiffany shouted.

"Cast Kill Zone now!" Bob shouted.

"Of course this is inevitable. Did you really think the two of you can win against a Saint? You weren’t even Holy Knights." Levi said to Tiffany as she jumped back intending to pull her sword from Bob. However, Bob held on to Levi’s sword with his left arm. As she tried to jump, Bob pulled her back without letting go.

"Octa-cast Divine Spells: Kill Zone!" Tiffany shouted.

Using his Danger Sense, Bob saw that Levi could have cut through his left chest and evaded the Kill Zone spell afterwards. He did not have enough strength to prevent this. However, while it happened, he would have enough time to drive a sword into Levi’s chest! So, he used his left hand to hold on to her sword at its cross guard and stabbed her with his sword.

Levi, noticing what Bob was trying to do, immediately let go of her sword and jumped back. She did not try to injure Bob more than this, despite her being able to.

Bang! However, Levi did not go far, her back hit a giant redwood tree, which stopped her temporarily. With this chance, Bob stabbed her left chest. Unfortunately, due to his injury, Bob lost precise control on his Divine Power. Aura from the Reinforce Blade spell on his sword dissipated and the stab was again not deep enough. Bob lost strength in his right arm and his sword clattered to the ground after it hit. Then, he jumped backward and away from Kill Zone.

At this moment, Tiffany's Kill Zone spell hit Levi with a mix of spells from multiple elements.

"So, Danger Sense doesn’t show me futures where I don’t get hurt." Bob thought.

"Right, Danger Sense always shows you the worst case scenarios using what you have seen. It cannot tell what your enemy is thinking." The voice in Bob's head said.

Bob coughed blood and fell.

"Bob!" Tiffany cried as she rushed toward Bob. She caught Bob before he hit the ground and carefully laid him down on his side, so that the sword on his chest wouldn’t dislocate.

As the Kill Zone spell hit Levi, steam and smoke obscured her location. Tiffany quickly carried Bob away to a safer distance.

After the Kill Zone spell ended, Levi cast a spell, "Divine Spell: Wind Gust," and blew off the smoke from the area. She was not injured at all.

"She must have blocked all of the attacks using Water Walls and Stone Walls." Tiffany thought.

With Bob's wound, typically, blood loss would be minimized by not moving the sword. However, when Levi poured her Aura into the sword, the wound widened by half an inch at each cutting edge. Bob was bleeding profusely.

Upon seeing this, Levi said, "Tiffany, if you..."

Levi suddenly dashed backward very quickly. Multiple Water Slicers and a Water Dragon struck the ground between Levi and the couple. Following behind the Water Dragon was a black robed masked man. The ground shook as mud and dust blown up from the force of the attack. Once the dust settled and the smoke cleared, Tiffany spotted the man's back and wondered, "Is that N? What is he doing here?"

The man in black faced Levi, pulled out a sword and extended his black silver aura. His aura was apparently a magnitude weaker than Levi’s, it was about as strong as Bob's before he fought the Behemoth.

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"Judging from your Mana, you’re about as strong as a Holy Knight, but I don’t recognize you." Levi said as she picked up Bob's sword and carefully examined N. "I guess you will not be introducing yourself?"

The black robed man calmly said to Tiffany, "Take him away and use a first aid kit. Hang in there and wait for me."

Tiffany recognized that the man was N. "Ok." Tiffany answered as she carefully carried Bob away. N stood wary between Levi and Tiffany, protecting them.

After Tiffany carried Bob away, N answered, "Thank you for waiting, Saint Levi. I am a demon. Nice to make your acquaintance."

"And I must commend you for your bravery..." Levi clapped by hitting her shield with the side of her sword. "To openly admit being a demon in front of a Saint."

"I am flattered. Now, what are you going to do?" N asked politely.

"Um… do you even need to ask?" Levi, who was not in a good mood, asked back with animosity.

"Try it." N stopped smiling. He took a deep breath, stood sideways and pointed the tip of his sword at Levi’s waist. As he concentrated, the occasional swirl of Mana on his sword became steady. Instability of Mana in the Reinforce Blade spell was a weakness. The sword was the toughest when all of its Mana were concentrated and pressured into an immobile cluster.

"What is that stance?" Levi wondered. It was not from any of the four major combat schools. The typical stance would point the sword upward toward her throat. "Perhaps it is a stance from a lesser school? But the most striking to me is that he has no sidearm or shield on his left hand. Would someone with much weaker Mana dare challenging a Saint without a shield?" With hundreds of years of fighting experiences, Levi felt that something was off, but she could not tell what it was. She carefully got closer to the demon with a fighting stance. "Let’s test it out with something safe. Thousand Blades School: Flash."

First, she quickly thrusted her sword at the demon’s eyes in a distance. She closed her eyes as a bright flash of light shone. It could temporary blind a person. Since she was still not in range for an actual attack, she stepped forward to her left and delivered a strike aimed at knocking down the demon’s sword to disarm him. N slightly tilted his sword and evaded the strike. Then, with her sword pointing downward, she dashed ahead and performed a slash at N’s legs. N took a step back and easily evaded it.

"You could still see after my Flash spell?" Levi inquired, but she was not surprised because many experienced fighters could also counter it.

"First, I need to impress her." N thought before saying, "I closed my eyes after reading your glyph."

"Glyph reading? Now, that is a rare talent." Levi commented and was impressed by N. The huge majority of people used the Divine Spells without any understanding of what the glyphs were showing. This was especially true among high ranking combat-oriented knights, who were mainly muscle heads.

Without a break, N continued his assault. "Stone Lances." Three clusters of Stone Lances shot up from the ground at an angle, targetting Levi. They surrounded her from her left, right and back from about five meters away. At the same time, he swung his sword downward from her front, cutting off any potential escape route to the sky.

Levi did not expect someone to be able to perform Triple Cast. Caught by surprise, she jumped back and got grazed by the Stone Lance on her back. Her back was slightly injured and bleeding. Thanks to her strong Divine Power and Stoneskin, the wound was not deep. However, it was quite painful.

"I understand now." Levi suddenly realized what had been bothering her. "A Triple Caster! The way he spread out his Aura is similar to that man from centuries ago. Interesting."

"Water Slicer, Lightning Bolt, Stone Bullet,." N cast three spells at once, and again from 3 different directions, while attacking with his sword.

Levi blocked the Water Slicer with her shield, deflected the sword strike with her sword and raised a Stone Wall to shield herself from the Lightning Bolt and Stone Bullets on her back. However, one defensive spell was not enough to block two offensive spells - her Stone Wall was quickly shattered and her back was again struck by the Stone Bullets.

"I need to come up with strategy to fight against Triple Cast." Levi thought as she endured the pain.