Chapter 37: Battle of the Swordmaster Hero!

Chapter 37: Battle of the Swordmaster Hero!

Tom was thinking that the person in front of him was shorter than the first person he had defeated before, so he was certain that he could win this time.

Soji drew his sword and instantly transformed into a jet warrior using the rocket thrusters installed at his back. He launched a super high-speed charge towards Tom, and just as his sword was about to strike Tom, he finally snapped out of his delusion that he could defeat her.

Realizing that he was about to be hit, Tom quickly ducked his head down, narrowly avoiding the sword strike by a hair's breadth!

"Swish~~~ !"

The blade, shining with a faint blue light, barely grazed Tom's scalp. If Tom had reacted even a fraction of a second later, his head would have been separated from his body.nove(l)bi(n.)com

After the strike, the rocket thrusters slowly stopped their work, and now Soji was standing about ten meters behind Tom.

"Did it work?" Soji turned around after the strike and looked towards Tom's position. She could see that Tom's head was completely gone, cleanly and neatly vanished.

Soji let out a sigh of relief. The heavy stone in her heart finally dropped. She had initially thought that if she couldn't inflict any damage, she would use the momentum from the charge to accelerate and fly into the sky, giving herself a chance to escape.

But now, it seemed like there was no need for that anymore.

Soji was certainly confident in her own strength, but... she witnessed it with her own eyes last night. Tom casually knocked out someone with a stick, then picked up a rotten branch, threw it into the sky, and shot down another person. Who wouldn't be confused?

So when Soji realized that she had been discovered, she was momentarily frightened.

Being defeated wasn't scary... well, maybe not that scary. But being defeated in such a bizarre and maddening way, that was truly terrifying!

Tom touched the top of his head and noticed that it felt different than usual, rather prickly. Instantly panicking upon realizing something was wrong with his head, Tom quickly took out a mirror from behind and examined his scalp. To his astonishment, he found that all the hair on his head was gone, leaving it completely bald!

At that moment, Tom's face turned extremely sad, despite knowing that his hair would magically reappear in just a few seconds in a way that no one would notice. Jerry, who had just landed nearby, couldn't help but want to mock Tom immediately. However, he reconsidered, as they were in Bai Song's presence. What if mocking Tom ruined his own chances?

"Clang!" In an instant, Soji's katana collided with the tattered umbrella in Tom's hand, producing the sound of metal clashing.

Due to the added thrust from Soji's rocket thrusters, she gained the upper hand in their struggle, forcing Tom to continuously retreat. However, there was no hint of satisfaction on her face. Instead, she became even more restrained.

Why? How could this cat, wielding a shabby umbrella, block her full-force strike? Could it be that this tattered thing was some kind of treasure? Was that even possible? Was it logical?!

Continuing the push for a few more seconds, Soji's durability and mana attributes were so extremely low that she lost any advantage in the struggle. What was once a one-sided push against Tom turned into a stalemate, with no movement whatsoever.

Soji knew this wouldn't work. If she continued like this, she would definitely lose to this strange cat!

Seeing the situation, Soji abruptly pulled her katana backward, causing Tom, who was fully focused on pushing forward, to lose his support and topple forward.

"Now is the time, Shine (die)!" Seizing this crucial moment, Soji raised her sword with both hands and delivered a downward strike towards Tom.

On the side, Jerry, frightened by Tom's predicament, covered his cheeks with both hands and took off about ten centimeters from the ground. After landing, without looking back, he rushed towards the wall, running up the uneven surface to a height of one meter.

Then, Jerry used the wall to propel himself and leaped towards Soji. At the same time, a fencing pe appeared in his hand, directly slashing upwards towards Soji's sword!

"Clang!" With a slight sound, Soji's katana was deflected back, returning to an upward position. Her body even started tilting backward. When she focused her gaze, she realized that a mouse in mid-air was flicking her sword with a toothpick?!

Seeing this mouse deflect her with a toothpick, Soji's pupils contracted in disbelief. "How is this possible?!"

Before she could snap out of her extreme confusion, Tom had already recovered from the imbalance and thrust the tattered umbrella into Soji's soft abdomen.

Feeling the touch on her abdomen, Soji looked down and saw Tom poking her stomach with the umbrella's tip. However, it didn't cause any harm, not even any pain. Just as Soji was thinking, "Is this the extent of his attack power?"

Tom pressed his thumb against the button to open the umbrella.