"Okay, I agree." Mo Yu said to Parado and Asilos, "People from the Mad Sword Tower are never afraid of challenges. Are you ready?"
Parado nervously squeezed the weapon in his hand. He looked at his grandfather and family members in the audience, who were all looking at him with worry. He also saw the two people in the Secret Sword Tower staring at him with ill intentions. He took a deep breath and nodded firmly.
"Very good. Then let's do the fight on this stage. Since it's a competition between fellow disciples, let's just stop at that." Mo Yu said.
"That's enough? What do you mean?" Amaranto asked.
"Just don't hurt the other person intentionally."
"The competition between the Secret Sword Tower and the Mad Sword Tower is an internal competition within the Sword Tower, so of course we have to be careful to hold back. However, we have a healing magician here, so if anything goes wrong, it won't be a big problem. Ron, Coslin, do you know?" Amaranto said to the two.
The two men nodded, their eyes moving unfriendlyly between Parado and Aciros, but judging from their expressions and behaviors, they seemed to have only listened to the second half of Amaranto's words and had no intention of holding back.
Amaranto said, "Since there are only two of us, there is no need to compete one-on-one. How about a two-on-two match?"
Mo Yu and Gao Wen exchanged glances, and Gao Wen nodded slowly.
Parado and Asilos had actually been trained in combined attack tactics. Mo Yu and the other three had been mercenaries for a long time and had experienced many life-and-death battles. In a real battlefield, no one fought alone, and they all emphasized team combat.
Parado and Asilos, the two strongest students, naturally had a lot of cooperation. If two people attack together, they will not interfere with each other, but because of cooperation, they will play a role of one plus one greater than two.
Gawain knew what Amaranto was thinking. He must have felt that the two men he sent out were at a slightly higher realm than the two men from the Mad Sword Tower. If they could attack one person together, they could quickly defeat them one by one.
Little did Gawain know that the situation was quite the opposite. The attack of the secret sword was elusive. If Parado and Asilos fought alone, it would be easy for the opponent to take advantage of them. Now they could take care of each other.
Ten minutes later, the four of them were ready and stood on the stage.
Ron and Collins were both dressed like typical secret swordsmen, without any armor on their bodies, only shoulder and chest guards, and wrist guards on their hands. Two secret swords hung on their waists, exactly the same as the swords that Mo Yu and others saw in the Canyon of Swords.
They both drew their swords and used their mental power to connect to the secret sword, making it float less than a meter in front of them. Parado and Asilos drew their long swords from their backs, clenched their hands, and stood close together.
There were both powerful saints and many villagers watching. Neither side had much to say. They watched the other side's movements warily, hoping to find the enemy's weakness. Amaranto gave the order to start, and neither side attacked immediately. Instead, they moved slowly, looking for opportunities.
Parado could feel the sweat in his hands soaking the cotton cloth wrapped around the hilt. He moved in sync with Asilos's rhythm, taking a deep breath and slowly mobilizing his madness to wrap around his body.
Madness spread from his neck to his head. Parado felt that his emotions changed immediately. All his worries and fears began to fade away when the madness wrapped around him, but his instinctive aggressiveness and killing intent began to spread. His body also began to change under the stimulation of madness. Both he and Asilos began to have red eyes, blue veins bulged, and they began to lose the perception of pain, but their strength began to increase. This is the frenzy state of the Berserker. If it were an ordinary Berserker, it might become difficult to control in this state, and even turn a blind eye to his relatives. But as a swordsman inherited from the Berserker Tower, he had a steel-like will at this time. Mo Yu called it "calm madness". The higher the level of the Berserker, the greater the positive effect of frenzy and the smaller the negative effect. At Mo Yu's stage, if he starts to frenzy, there will be no external changes, but the strength will increase many times.
The change in Parado's appearance was very obvious, and this change quickly made Ron and Collins on the opposite side realize that they had to launch an attack immediately to interrupt the frenzy process.
The secret swords in their hands came out at the same time, transforming into sword lights that were almost unrecognizable to the naked eye, and stabbed towards the two people in front of them who were surrounded by madness.
The secret sword is flatter and thinner than an ordinary sword, and it does not reflect light. At high speed, it is almost invisible. For ordinary people or warriors with lower realms, they may be cut in the neck or pierced in the heart before they can see the sword clearly. However, Parado and Asilos are both very powerful. They have both seen Gawain's secret sword and remember the feeling of being punished by that sword. Compared with the irresistible pressure given to them by Gawain's secret sword, the two swords in front of them are much easier to deal with.
The two men each guarded a direction, wielding their swords and quickly blocking each other's attacks.
Although the secret swords were fast, the two people who were bursting with madness were not slow either. They protected their vital points, slashed left and blocked right, and actually managed to deal with the two lightning-like secret swords. Although there were some omissions, allowing the secret swords to hit less important parts of their bodies, but under the protection of madness, only a few shallow sword marks were left on their bodies, and the mad swordsman felt almost nothing about it.
However, the speed of the secret sword was still too fast for them. It seemed that the two of them could not do anything other than defense, let alone counterattack Ron and Collins.
In the audience, Lothar clutched his robe tightly, his forehead covered with sweat. He said to Elder Hain: "Aren't you from the Secret Sword Tower going too far? You are not giving Parado and the others any chance at all. They have only been at the intermediate level for a few days, and you are completely bullying the weak!"
Elder Haien stopped him and said, "This is a competition after all. Since you have agreed to compete, you can only use your own skills. Don't worry, Ron and the others know their limits."
Yvette, who was standing nearby, interrupted after hearing what they said, "It looks like Ron and Collins have the upper hand now, but if they don't change their tactics, they won't be able to defeat Parado and the others for a while. On the contrary, Parado and the other two are constantly consuming Ron and the others' mental strength. If they keep attacking to no avail, they will be defeated due to mental exhaustion. This battle is far from being decided." (To be continued)