Palace of Heroes, another corridor.

Miranda's sword made a zigzag line in the air.

"Qiang!"

Amidst the crisp metal collision, she gritted her teeth and passed by Chloe.

The next second.

"laugh!"

A stream of blood spurted out from Miranda's lower abdomen, and Chloe's left leg armor was severely deformed.

The two people with their backs to each other distanced themselves, shook their figures, and both fell to the ground.

"Haha, you are worthy of being the chief." Kroesh sat on the ground with a tired face, endured the pain, used the edge of his sword to pry open the deformed leg armor, and pressed the bones: "You can still do this even if the injury has not healed.

situation."

Miranda was leaning against the wall dripping with cold sweat, tightly covering the wound on her abdomen, and kept playing the Pegasus movement to slow down the flow of blood and tighten the muscles, but ignored her words.

They knew that after a short but fierce fight, each other reached their limit, and the rest was a competition of perseverance and spirit.

"Tell me," Miranda said with difficulty: "Betray your friends, kill the king, and use the End Tower to satisfy your own ambitions."

"How do you feel, Ash?"

Kroesh paused for a moment, then turned his eyes to the sword in his hand.

That is the sword obtained in the Tower of the End: Leader.

The hilt of the sword is engraved with the unique logo of the "Pegasus" series: Silver-winged Pegasus represents unswerving faith.

"Feels great, Mira."

Chloe retracted her gaze and sneered: "The pleasure of breaking the rules."

Surprisingly, Miranda didn't look angry or confused.

Miss Allende just looked at her quietly, her eyes subtle.

"Ai Xi," the female swordsman said softly, her tone full of sadness: "You must have had a bad life in the past few years after leaving the tower, right?"

Chloe trembled slightly.

Her arms stiffened.

"I heard from Kaslan that you were rejected by the White Blade Guards."

"Otherwise you wouldn't"

Miranda sighed: "But I beg you, don't lose yourself and think about your 'Heart of the Sword'."

The corridor became quiet.

Chloe's breathing became faster and faster.

Heart of Sword.

My heart of sword?

"Mira," Croash gritted his teeth: "You are a noble heir from the North. You served under the Flower of the Fortress just after graduation."

"Shunsui is like you. Of course you don't understand what kind of struggle a woman from an ordinary background has to go through in this world."

Miranda was slightly startled.

Just when she was about to ask "what's the struggle?", the other party suddenly got up from the ground and limped towards her!

Miranda was startled and jumped up regardless of the pain in her abdomen!

"Qiang!"

The long sword "Eagle Soaring" and Croaish's "Leader" were in a stalemate in the air.

"White Blade Guards?" Croash's arms trembled, condescendingly suppressing his opponent.

Miranda could only deal with it with all her strength.

Both of them were listening to the power of the swords while trembling. The intersection point of the two swords was constantly shifting back and forth, each trying to find the most suitable point of force and attack rhythm.

"More than that, from the most noble Longxiao City to the most remote country manor, no lord is willing to hire me, even if I can beat all their guards and patrols to the ground," Croixi said bitterly: "

For more than a year, I carried the expectations and skills in the tower, but wandered around like a beggar that everyone despised."

"So, when Rumba reaches out to you," Miranda noted the injury on the enemy's other leg, turning her steps calmly, looking for an opportunity, "you are determined to retaliate with death, even if it violates your creed?"

The hand holding the sword trembled slightly.

Miranda's eyelids twitched and she immediately seized the opportunity.

"Keng!"

She twisted her long sword and quickly got out of the suppressed disadvantageous position. Then she made a sharp turn and used the advantage of her feet to strike out with a sword!

But contrary to Miranda's expectation, Chloe, whose left leg was injured, did not retreat as she expected, and then fell into her rhythm.

The round-faced female swordsman shouted angrily, and regardless of the injuries on her legs, she kicked the ground and rushed forward!

What?

Miranda's pupils shrank.

The long sword grazed Chloe's short hair, taking away a few hair strands, and the blade of Chloe's sword went straight to Miranda's injured abdomen.

"Boom!"

At the critical moment, Miranda finally dodged the opponent's sword, but was hit in the ribs by the enemy's sword hilt.

In severe pain, Miranda looked bitter and kept retreating until she fell to the ground.

Oops.

rib cage

The wound from the previous battle with the Sword of Disaster was also aching faintly at this moment.

In front of Miranda, Chloe, who had exerted too much force, also collapsed. She supported the ground with her long sword and firmly held down her left leg, which was getting worse.

"You don't understand," Croash said painfully: "Finally, in Menton City, a viscount finally agreed to hire me as long as I am willing to marry him."

"I know, there has been a similar situation before. He probably wanted a woman who could open her thighs at night after wielding the sword gracefully." Croash smiled sarcastically: "I thought,

What he wants is the sense of accomplishment where his dignity is satisfied and makes him feel like a man."

"I refused."

Miranda felt the injury in her ribs and listened to the same words from the same period with a pale face.

"'No matter how powerful you are, you are still a woman after all,' that's what he said," Croash gritted his teeth and said with red eyes, "That's right."

"Just because he gave me the drug"

"Before the attack."

Miranda was shocked!

She looked at her friend in disbelief, and saw the sad look on Chloe's face.

The latter laughed sarcastically.

Miranda felt sour in her heart, and she whispered: "Ashe"

"I don't care about the things he did!" Chloe's unusual smile made Miranda feel uneasy:

"In fact, he didn't do anything, right?"

"But that night, I will always remember the look in his eyes, the humiliation and contempt in the words he said," Chloe's tone became urgent: "And the panic in my heart at that time, as if I was very worried.

You are about to lose all the value of being a woman."

"From that day on, I understood one thing."

The captain of the female personal guard of the Grand Duke of Black Sand had a cold look in his eyes.

"The reason why I hit walls everywhere and no one accepts me is not because of my lack of ability, not because of my poor physique, not because of my lack of experience," Croache straightened up tremblingly, put his weight on the sword, and said coldly

typical:

"Just because I'm a woman."

Miranda looked at her old friend sadly and heartbroken, feeling a tightness in her chest.

Croach

you

"In the North, they don't believe that a woman can become a warrior, wield a sword and fight, or survive independently," Croash's eyes were solemn and he staggered towards Miranda, "They don't even allow it!"

"This world cannot tolerate women being 'stronger' than men, because that is their exclusive privilege," Kroesh took a deep breath, "and it cannot tolerate women surviving on their own without relying on men, because that is also their privilege.

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"Once you figure this out, a lot of things will fall into place."
To be continued...