282: Clarissa's strongest attack

Swish! This sword struck Arnostim's head as he swooped down.

The brilliant sword gleam firmly pressed against Arnostim's head.

Arnostim's extremely 'stubborn' head, his hardest skull, along with his dragon scales, dragon horns, and the Death Force surrounding his body—

Clarissa's sword still held its ground, locked in a stalemate with him.

Where they clashed, space continuously shattered, healed, and shattered again.

The ripples spread outwards.

From a thousand meters high, the ground shattered beneath them, countless cracks spreading out for thousands of meters or even further.

Boom!

Arnostim still withstood the sword. This time, unlike the previous one, Arnostim was already prepared.

The sword only broke through his Death Force's defense, striking the dragon scales on his head.

The dragon scales shattered, but they did not harm his body; only the dragon scales broke.

Arnostim opened his mouth and spat a mouthful of Death Breath at Clarissa, who was a hundred meters away.

At such close range, this breath covered a vast area, basically engulfing everything in front of him.

Clarissa swung her sword again.

Second Sword!

With the 'charge' from One Sword, Second Sword was unleashed.

An even more terrifying sword gleam erupted.

In terms of 'energy rank,' Calamity Black Flame, which was no weaker than Death Force, accompanied this sword, directly piercing through the Death Breath, flowing upstream, and charging towards Arnostim.

Arnostim saw this familiar scene. Last time, he was injured.

This time, he wouldn't 'overturn' again.

An indescribable power fluctuation emanated from Arnostim's body.

A dense aura of death spread out.

Clarissa saw this and knew that her opponent was likely using the so-called Death Authority.

Second Sword struck, affected by the Death Authority.

It seemed to 'die,' its power continuously fading.

Before it even touched Arnostim, it had already lost nearly half of its power.

Boom!!!

The remaining power struck Arnostim's body.

Even with only half its power, it was comparable to One Sword.

It exploded on Arnostim's body, causing him to sway slightly. There was some damage, but not much.

The brief contest between the two sides displayed extremely pure and direct power.

At this level, it's a war of attrition, a battle of the purest strength!

People nearby had already retreated a thousand miles away, and even a thousand miles felt a bit unsafe.

Matilda City was out of the question. Clarissa and Arnostim's battleground was directly above Matilda City.

Matilda City had long become a ruin.

Only the vaguely recognizable remnants of what were once buildings could hint that this might have been a city...

Arnostim flapped a wing, raising his body slightly higher, looking down at Clarissa from above.

Looking down gave Clarissa a certain sense of pressure.

Although Clarissa didn't care about this slight pressure.

"Roar!!!" Arnostim roared, staring at Clarissa.

"What's wrong, Great Arnostim?" Clarissa looked up, a smile playing on her lips, watching him.

In these few exchanges, it seemed as if she was evenly matched with Clarissa, and Clarissa had seemingly used her full power, but so had Arnostim.

If both sides were to unleash all their trump cards, then the end result would only be the most primitive close combat! A bayonet charge, a battle of true hard strength, to see who could last until the end.

However! The problem was that in these few brief exchanges, Clarissa sensed that Arnostim was somewhat strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Arnostim pondered for a moment, then said to Clarissa, "You are not from this world!"

After these few encounters, Arnostim simply did not believe that Clarissa was from this world.

"Indeed, I am not from this world." Clarissa nodded, admitting it very generously.

Her identity didn't matter; what mattered now was to eliminate Arnostim.

Clarissa was charging up, quite happy to engage in banter with him.

"Since you are not from this world, why do you want to stop me? What happens to this world has nothing to do with you, right?" Arnostim asked.

He could see that Clarissa's power was extremely strong, and unless absolutely necessary, he did not want to fight Clarissa to the death.

Having died once before, he knew the taste of death. Even with Death Authority, it didn't mean he couldn't truly die.

Having already revived from death, he couldn't die again.

After all, this was merely Death Authority, not Death itself.

If Arnostim were Death itself, he would have already hammered Clarissa's head.

Then he wouldn't be able to fight back and forth with Clarissa.

After all, the Death Law itself of a level 3 world represents one of the 'strongest powers' and 'root powers' of this world.

Life and Death, these two, are no less fundamental to the composition of the world than the laws of 'Time' and 'Space'.

"No, you're wrong. What happens to this world does concern me. One reason, hmm..." Clarissa pondered for a moment: "At least Bella is my friend."

"Bella?" Arnostim looked at Clarissa.

"There ~ that dragon." Clarissa glanced at Bella in the distance. This made Bella famous 'in front of the whole nation'.

"...It's a dragon. I won't lay a hand on it. Even if it defies me, I can overlook it for your sake," Arnostim thought for a moment, then said to Clarissa.

His unspoken meaning was to persuade Clarissa to give up fighting him to the death.

After all, neither of them was from this world, so there was no need to fight to the death for it.

"You're wrong again. My goal is to... hack you to death!" As soon as Clarissa finished speaking, she attacked fiercely.

Clarissa, having fully charged, suddenly launched her offensive.

Dragon Blood Boiling!

Clarissa activated Dragon Blood Boiling, which she had rarely used.

Although it was an ability acquired earlier, this buff, compared to Calamity Descent which had no side effects,

Dragon Blood Boiling, though acquired earlier, was more powerful than Calamity Descent and had side effects.

Although these side effects were related to the duration of activation.

An extremely terrifying power erupted from Clarissa's body, and the power of Calamity Black Flame received another massive boost.

"This sword! I hope you can withstand it!" Clarissa's eyes burned like torches as she unleashed a sword strike.

Before it could even be called a specific move, Clarissa's arm began to crack, and countless drops of blood splattered from the 'cracks'.

One Sword! Second Sword!

Two swords struck simultaneously, combining into one, further amplified by Clarissa's charge and the burst from Dragon Blood Boiling.

This sword, in the true sense, was the strongest attack Clarissa could currently unleash!