An arrowhead flew, cutting through the air and going straight for Enzo.
Enzo easily moved to the side in an instant, causing the arrow to spiral and miss its mark.
"Don't let him move, go now!!" Windbery barked, panic in his eyes.
He had fought Enzo before; a single moment of distraction with him was a moment that could very well be a life-and-death one.
Not wasting a moment, the old man Dandan blasted forward, appearing in front of Enzo in an instant, a short katana screeching.
There was not a lot of time; they had to dispatch Enzo before preparing for Victoria's arrival. So with a swing of his foot in the air, he knocked Enzo's head down and swung down executioner style.
He was going to cut his head off.
-grinnnnn
In midair, he suddenly heard the sound of an engine, as from nowhere a spinning dagger tip rose from Enzo's hand and went directly toward his eye.
"Fuck!!" Dandan's eyes widened at this sudden move as he pushed himself against the wind and tried to create space.
Enzo just now had allowed him to hit him, placing himself in a deadly position. And all for what? So he could land a clear blow and kill him.
'What a fucking lunatic,' Dandan spoke.
He wasn't like the normal infected monsters; there was a tinge of self-preservation in his innate sense. Dying unnecessarily was not what he wanted.
"Where are you going?" Enzo's voice suddenly resounded as he burst forward, leaving his cloak and heading straight for Dandan once again.
They wanted to end his battle quick, but not as much as him. He was currently going against three beings that were at least one realm above him.
He couldn't waste time. The faster he reduced their numbers, the better for him.
But of course, he wasn't fighting inexperienced kids or the mindless monsters of the desert world.
"Foolish child," Dandan blurted as the horns on his head began to shine with a lustrous glow.
"Shit!!" In the next second, a beam of light shot point-blank at Enzo, threatening to tear him in half. Dandan was one of the vampire queen's many generals.
He was not only loyal, he was incredibly experienced at battle. Pressure was not a thing that could cause him to falter.
The blast from his horns wrecked Enzo, sending him flying into the ground and causing a cloud of murky dust to pick up.
Fortunately for Enzo, his last-minute actions saved his life, if only barely.
"Hmm." As the beam of energy dispersed, the old man Dandan caught a view of Enzo now holding up a shield made from a lustrous steel component.
Enzo had spent weeks killing creatures in the canyon, and with every creature, he didn't only gain strength and experience, he also acquired echoes which he had hidden from Thane.
'I'm already using my trump cards. This is going to be harder than I thought,' Enzo said in his mind, holding his shield tightly as he prepared for his next move.
Shadow step.
This time he didn't go for the old man; rather, he seeped through his shadow and went straight for the easiest target he could think of.
Windbery.
He was the most recent addition to the sentient blood's army and, as such, hadn't completely recovered his previous strength. Facing off against him before now told Enzo he was easy pickings.
Enzo suddenly rose from the shadow of the rock Windbery was hidden behind and launched into a mad sprint, aiming directly at his center with a newly materialized spear.
Windbery's eyes widened hearing the footsteps; he forcefully pushed himself out of the way as he barely held his balance.
But Enzo was a step ahead this time….
However, even now, he wasn't his only target.
"Woosh"
Halfway, Enzo threw a spear outwards, and with a flick of his hand, the spear duplicated into two pieces, each going their separate directions, aiming at both Kara and Dandan… while Enzo followed through with his assault on Windbery.
"He's crazy. Does he really think he can take all three of us?" Dandan asked as he cut down the spear thrown at him in two, causing both halves to impale the ground.
It was one thing fighting against someone stronger than you, but three? Did he have a death wish?
As Dandan seemingly mocked Enzo's poor decision-making skills, in the corner of his eye, he noticed Kara pull out the tip of a spear from her shoulder and throw it on the floor as she healed rapidly.
Enzo's spear hadn't separated into two as he thought; it had become three, with the initial one hiding in the trajectory of one.
Kara didn't know this and only defended against one, which saw her stabbed by the second one.
Clearly, Enzo had put a lot of thought into these attack patterns of his. What if that had been lined with poison? Or worse, something that could inhibit the blood parasite's spread?
"Maybe I should take this more seriously," Dandan said under his breath as he turned to nod at Kara.
A second later, they stepped forward at a similar pace.
Enzo wanted to fight all three of them? They would give him a chance to fight all three of them at once!!!