"Here it comes!" Mimir's gaze once again fixed on the battlefield.

  One of the Rolands charged directly at Kenley, while the other remained motionless in place.

  Kenley's eyes narrowed slightly. Was this a tactic of close-range attack combined with long-range support? Sorry, teacher. I've engaged in battles with you no fewer than a hundred times in the game.

  Watching the approaching doppelg?nger of Roland, Kenley immediately executed a two-segment backward leap.

  "Do you think you can escape?" Roland instantly gave a powerful stomp, surging forward with a violent swirl of air.

  "You've fallen into my trap, teacher," Kenley smiled faintly.

  "What?" Roland was taken aback.

  Before she could react, Kenley gave another stomp while still in mid-air, performing a triple jump! This was an exclusive ability of Honor Knights.

  "How is this possible?!" Evidently, Roland had not anticipated such an occurrence.

  However, Kenley's third jump was not an act of fleeing. Instead, he charged straight towards Roland's front. But Roland was quick to respond. Her body began to radiate a series of blue glows, clearly indicating that she was buffing herself with various enhancement states.

  "Bloom!" In an instant, Kenley vanished while aloft.

  "Using my own swordsmanship in front of me, do you really think I won't fathom your intentions?" Roland immediately spun around and lifted her sword to parry!

  "Just as I expected!" Kenley's offensive attempt failed, and a faint smile played on Roland's lips.

  But her smile faded in an instant, for Kenley's subsequent move completely shattered her preconceptions.

  "Bloom!"

  "This is impossible!" She was well aware of her own swordsmanship. After each use, there was a five-second elemental replenishment period. Moreover, since Kenley's swordsmanship had been forcefully interrupted by her, it was simply inconceivable for Kenley to execute it again so soon!

  Kenley's sword landed a hit!

  "How could this be?!" Mimir was equally shocked. He had never expected that, from the start of this battle until now, the first one to sustain damage would be Roland.

  The move "Bloom" carried the characteristic of causing imbalance. Roland immediately felt her body lose its equilibrium. In this state of imbalance, she was unable to unleash most of her skills, except for activating equipment skills and using crowd-control removal abilities.

  Imbalance generally did not persist for long. In the game, the maximum duration of imbalance would not exceed one second. This was a fundamental setting of the game. Even with equipment buffs, the imbalance would be forcibly set to one second.

  Even a Sword Saint who fell victim to imbalance would inevitably suffer injuries.

  Critical hit!"HP - 2320"!

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  There was a critical strike. Upon seeing the red text, Kenley smiled faintly. All his efforts to stack the critical strike rate had not been in vain. His current critical strike rate had reached 40%, so the probability of achieving a critical hit was rather high.

  However, what troubled him was that even with a critical hit and fixed penetration, his damage output of over 4000 points only managed to inflict 2320 points of damage on the Sword Saint.

  Although this was not significantly different from his calculations, when the actual damage figure popped up, it still presented a somewhat daunting situation.

  Kenley gathered his sword energy, and a flower-like sword qi began to coalesce. Here came the second move,"Flower Slumber"!

  But how could Roland fail to discern Kenley's intention?"Kenley, don't be negligent."

  Just then, Kenley felt a sharp killing intent emanating from behind him.

  "Falling Petals!" It was Roland's sword intent.

  "So, the one in front of me is the real body?" Kenley immediately grasped the situation.

  At that moment, a white silvery thread shot through the air like a falling meteor, piercing through Kenley's body from behind.

  So incredibly fast!

  The effect of Roland using the Purple Flower Language was entirely different from that of Kenley using it. When Kenley employed "Falling Petals", it was more like a series of punches and kicks, with a highly three-dimensional attack pattern. But when Roland used it, it seemed to come with its own special effects.

  The stance of Kenley's sword shifted:"Sword Moon!"

  Using "Sword Moon" at such a close range? Roland was somewhat puzzled. But the next second, she understood why. Two strikes of "Sword Moon" shot towards her like crossed armor-piercing rays of light.

  "Trading injuries for injuries!" Roland realized Kenley's true objective.

  Moreover, while executing "Sword Moon", Kenley's sword, as if leaving behind afterimages, struck at the real body behind him with one swing and at the sword intent doppelg?nger stabbing towards him with another.

  "Three-Blade Swift Slash!"

  HP - 1260

  HP - 2447

  HP - 1235

  HP - 1240

  HP - 1281

  HP - 2413

  ...

  A series of damage values burst forth in an instant. The reason for choosing "Three-Blade Swift Slash" instead of "Six-Light Continuous Slash" was that, through extensive practical combat research by numerous players in the game, the special skill "Sword Moon" allowed for a technique known as "knife canceling" during its application.

  Since "Six-Light Continuous Slash" required a forward rush during its execution, in close-range situations, it would result in a scenario where only one unit could be attacked.

  But what Kenley aimed for was to cover both Roland's doppelg?nger and the real body, thus enabling him to unleash a high burst of quadruple damage.

  Behind Kenley stood the terrifying accumulated experience of tens of thousands of players over time. Summarizing, engaging in battles, and summarizing again and again, they had thoroughly explored and understood all the characteristics and achievable functions of every skill. With such a terrifying accumulation, what was exchanged was Kenley's combat power, which was akin to that of a war god.

  Roland, you've fallen into the trap!

  Crack! The magical puppet placed beside Mimir shattered nearly halfway!

  "This... This..." Mimir was left speechless with astonishment.

  Tia's expression was almost dazed, while only Fei kept clapping:"Come on, master! Come on, master!"

  HP: 32628/59708

  This was Roland's current HP. With just this one high burst of damage, nearly half of Roland's health points had been depleted.

  "Terrible, truly terrible. This young man is the most formidable opponent I've encountered in all these years," Mimir murmured to himself.

  However, this was not the most terrifying aspect. The truly terrifying part was that Kenley had only been struck by one of Roland's attacks!

  "I..." Roland was at a loss for words. Although she did not feel the pain as the magical puppet took the damage on her behalf, she could clearly sense the shattering of the magical puppet.

  Kenley had been affected by "Falling Petals" and his body was in a state of imbalance. Roland raised her sword, poised to retaliate. She had to inflict sufficient damage on Kenley.

  Although she was unsure why Kenley was able to execute the Double Three-Blade Swift Slash, she now had to immediately reverse the unfavorable situation. Otherwise, she would be the one to taste defeat.

  According to her calculations, Kenley's skills were currently in the elemental replenishment period. She had to seize the opportunity of Kenley's imbalance to deal damage to him. If Kenley used "Warrior's Roar" to remove the imbalance, then the doppelg?nger would also use "Falling Petals" to control Kenley, leaving him with no chance to counterattack.

  "Warrior's Roar!"

  Sure enough, as expected, Kenley used "Warrior's Roar" to break free from the control.