Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 200: Prisoners Surrounded by Two People
The surviving prisoners were all stunned by the superb skills of Ogata and Atachi.
They all stood outside the attack range of the two men and only dared to surround them from a distance. They looked at each other, not daring to move forward, nor did they want to retreat.
"how?"
A-Ming spoke to the prisoners around him in a mocking tone.
"Don't you want to have some sex?"
After saying that, Ating raised his left hand and patted his right shoulder which was not covered by any cloth.
"You were yelling about what you were going to do to me just now, have you turned into a coward so quickly?"
It can be said that Ating's merciless ridicule directly angered the prisoners.
The blood on their heads and the evil fire attacking their hearts - the two worked together to give the prisoners the courage to fight again.
Looking at the prisoners who were coming to attack him again, Atachi silently pulled out the wakizashi hanging on his lower back with his backhand.
At the same time, he used his left hand to pull out a kunai tied to his belt.
“Ahhhhhhh! Ugh…!”
A fat prisoner rushed towards A-Ming, howling.
However, before he could even scream a few more times, a kunai cut through the air and accurately hit the prisoner's throat.
This kunai was naturally thrown by Ating.
After throwing out a kunai with his left hand and hitting the prisoner's vitals, Atachi stepped back and rushed towards the prisoner, stabbing him accurately in the neck and giving him another blow.
While Atachi was giving these ungrateful prisoners a heavy blow, Ogata was silently "cleaning up" the "garbage".
The prisoners seemed to realize that in a one-on-one situation, they were no match for Ogata.
So they cleverly gathered together, and five of them came up at once, attacking Ogata from five directions.
Behind these five people, there are more people waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Although these prisoners had a good idea, they made all kinds of mistakes when they took action.
For example, the five people who came to kill Ogata did not cooperate well with each other, and the encirclement they formed was in a mess.
Ogata did not directly confront these five people.
Instead, he used paddling steps to easily escape from the siege of these five people, and then killed the prisoners who were standing behind these five people, waiting for an opportunity to move.
The first opponent Ogata chose was a short guy.
This guy didn't expect that Ogata could break through the encirclement of those five people so easily and kill them in the back row.
Therefore, this guy was caught off guard by Ogata's attack and could only raise the sword in his hand and stab at Ogata in a hurry.
What a coincidence - the sword technique that Ogata used against this guy was the bird thorn of Sakakibara Ittoryu.
The two swords stabbed at each other almost at the same time.
However - Ogata's sword directly pierced the guy's throat, and the guy's sword was still more than a fist away from Ogata's body.
"Are you a fool?" Ogata asked softly, "Faced with an enemy who is bigger than you, you actually want to compete with him to see whose sword can hit him first?"
This prisoner, who was scolded by Ogata as a fool, was probably less than 1.6 meters tall if converted into modern earth length units.
He is more than ten centimeters taller than Ogata, so naturally his arm length is far shorter than Ogata's.
The two men were so different in size, and the swords in their hands were both katana of ordinary length, so it was inevitable that Ogata's sword would pierce the guy first.
Ogata did not pull the sword back, but left it directly in the guy's body.
This knife has been used to kill several people, and the blade is covered with too much blood and fat. It is no longer as sharp as before, and it doesn't feel as good to hold as before.
There are plenty of knives now anyway, so there is no need to stubbornly use a blunt knife, so Ogata threw away the knife and instead drew a new knife from his back.
While drawing out the new sword, Ogata used the stepping technique to quickly evacuate from where he had just stood and rushed towards a lone prisoner.
For some reason, the prisoner stood outside the crowd with a knife.
He looked as if he was saying to Ogata: "I'm alone, come and kill me."
Facing Ogata rushing towards him, the prisoner panicked and swung his knife at him.
Faced with this chaotic and incredibly slow attack, Ogata didn't even bother to take a step forward. He just relied on his agility value of 9 points, slightly turned sideways, dodged the prisoner's attack, and then swept his dragon tail towards the prisoner's face.
Without exception, these prisoners were wearing armor.
So in order to save some energy, Ogata aimed his knife at the necks and cheeks of the prisoners that were not covered by the armor plates.
Ogata's knife entered the prisoner's right cheek and exited on the left cheek.
As the blade slashed the prisoner's left cheek, splashing a few drops of blood, a system voice suddenly sounded in Ogata's mind:
[Ding! Since you have mastered the use of Sakakibara Ittoryu Martial Arts·Ryubi, Sakakibara Ittoryu Martial Arts·Ryubi has been upgraded to an "intermediate" skill! ]
——Hmm? Dragon Tail has been upgraded?
After this system sound fell, Ogata couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
——Continuous battles have made me more and more proficient in using my dragon tail, so I have reached the "intermediate" level without realizing it...
Unlike upgrading using skill points, this process of upgrading based on "proficiency" does not give Ogata a feeling of "suddenly becoming stronger".
To use a vivid metaphor - using skill points to upgrade martial arts is like pouring a large amount of water into an empty bucket in one breath, filling the bucket directly.
Relying on "proficiency" to improve martial arts level is like slowly pouring water into an empty bucket until the bucket is full.
Although both can fill the bucket with water, the feelings they give people are different.
After using the Dragon's Tail to take care of the prisoner in front of him, Ogata swung the knife in his hand violently, then used the Step Technique again to kill another prisoner.
While "cleaning" the garbage, Ogata was also paying attention to the situation in Atachi.
From beginning to end, Ogata never kept himself too far away from Ating, so that he could rush over to support her immediately if she encountered any danger.
But Ogata's worry was obviously unnecessary.
Ogata could tell at a glance that Atachi's swordsmanship was actually very average.
However, although she was not an expert in close combat, she was more than capable of dealing with these prisoners who only knew how to commit crimes.
A-Machi holds a wakizashi in his right hand and a kunai in his left hand.
The kunai in the left hand can be used as a long-range weapon, and can also be used as a dagger.
At the same time, Atachi can also use a special jutsu.
Ogata could no longer remember how many prisoners much larger than her had been easily knocked down and how many arms had been broken by Atachi using this special jutsu.
A-Machi had just introduced this to Ogata - this is their Shiranui jutsu.
According to Ogata's judgment, he found that compared to swordsmanship, A-Machi seemed to be better at this jutsu in their Shiranui.
