Infernal Artist

"Liu Ping, your weapon is already the strongest weapon I can get. I will replace it for you when my strength increases in the future."

"I'm not in a hurry. After all, my fighting style basically depends on everyone." Liu Ping said.

"Leave this to me."

Andrea said, taking out a long knife from the floating weapon.

"Cat demon," she shouted.

"Hmph, call me sister." Zhao Chanyi said unhappily.

"You look too young, about the same as me." Andrea said seriously.

"——I like to hear this."

A long knife was handed over by Andrea.

Just listen to her say:

"Leave the Shadow Sword to Liu Ping. It's not weak if you use it."

Zhao Chanyi took the knife and waved it twice casually.

I saw overlapping shadows of knives appearing around the long knife, cutting rapidly and silently in the void.

Zhao Chanyi's eyes lit up and she asked:

"This sword seems to have other powers?"

"The name of the sword is "Lian Lian", it is extremely fast, and the continuous cuts will be blessed by multiple sword shadows." Andrea said.

Zhao Chanyi tied the knife on her back and said with a smile:

"I won't say thank you. Liu Ping has a very good upgrade method. I will give you a boost later to ensure that your strength will be greatly improved."

"Hehe, okay."

Andrea stepped forward and hugged Zhao Chanyi, then looked at Norton and said, "Welcome to join us."

She handed over a wooden scepter.

Norton took the scepter, waved it lightly, and saw ripples appearing in the void.

He tapped the scepter on the ground again.

Boom!

The arena stage shook violently.

"It is compatible with space magic and can be used in close combat. This scepter is powerful!"

Norton was overjoyed and quickly saluted Andrea.

Andrea returned the greeting and looked at Libertas.

Libertas became nervous and spoke first:

"Uh - I'm Libertas, Liu Ping's loyal teammate and classmate. I fight alongside him every day and have been saved by him in danger several times. I can't be more iron-clad!"

"Okay, I'll give you this pair of daggers."

Libertas looked at the two daggers in the opponent's hands.

One of the daggers appeared and disappeared, like a transparent shadow; while the other dagger was surrounded by a thunder that could not go away.

I have never used such an advanced weapon in my life!

"Thank you very much! I'll put them to good use!"

Libertas took the pair of daggers and danced with joy on the spot, looking like he couldn't put it down.

Andrea looked at Hua Qingkong again.

Hua Qingkong smiled and waved her hands: "I'll forget it, I don't need weapons for my attacks."

Andrea regretted: "It's a pity that I have just woken up. Just wait for me for a while, and I will find a way to get you a set of armor later."

"Thanks in advance." Hua Qingkong said.

At this time.

The void above the arena shook violently, as if something was about to arrive.

Andrea glanced at Yana, who was bare-handed.

"Paladin……"

She whispered, reaching into the depths of the void and dragging something outward with difficulty.

"What are you doing?" Yana asked in surprise.

Andrea said: "I have heard before that truly powerful paladins like to use heavy cold weapons..."

"Liu Ping, help me." Andrea shouted.

Liu Ping stepped forward, stretched his hand out into the darkness, and pulled it outward——

A crimson sword that seemed to be made of blood appeared in front of everyone. It was almost as tall as Andrea and was very heavy to hold.

Yana looked at the sword and couldn't help but move her hands.

"It's a two-handed heavy sword—it probably requires both hands to exert the power of this sword." Zhao Chanyi commented from the side.

Liu Ping handed the sword to Yana.

Yana caught it with one hand, waved it casually, and said: "For a cat, it can't hold this sword with both claws at the same time, but for me, it's just right to use it with one hand."

The long sword drew blood shadows in the void, and the fierce wind pressure it brought up was like a storm.

Zhao Chanyi was about to explode, but seeing the power of this giant sword, she couldn't help but hesitate.

Liu Ping stepped forward and held her.

She just stopped making trouble.

Libertas stroked his messed-up hair, feeling that every time the giant sword whizzed past him, he couldn't help but feel his heart beat faster.

——This huge sword can almost break oneself.

Libertas sighed and whispered:

"He also said that he would take Liu Ping to the Machinery City bar for a drink in the future... depending on the situation, I'd better go by myself."

Yana put away her sword and nodded to Andrea: "This sword suits me very well. We will talk about it later."

She dragged the bloody giant sword to the center of the arena.

"It's time to get started. Let's go back to the card book first."

Liu Ping said.

Everyone moved and turned into cards and returned to the card book.

In the arena.

Only Liu Ping and Yana were left standing there waiting.

The next second.

High in the sky, a vague shadow suddenly fell down, hovered in the air for a while, and stood opposite Yana gently and skillfully.

The vague shadow had not yet stood still, and suddenly shouted:

"Yana! My good Yana!"

Yana and Liu Ping were stunned at the same time.

The spatial fluctuations on the shadow gradually dissipated, revealing its original appearance.

——It turned out to be a snow-white, furry alpaca that was taller than a human!

Its big watery eyes burst into tears, and it opened its hooves and flew towards Yana.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-I miss you so much, Yana!"

shouted the alpaca.

Yana trembled all over, put down the bloody giant sword, opened her arms and hugged the alpaca tightly.

"I missed you too," she whimpered.

Everyone and the hunchback burst into tears.

Liu Ping stood aside and stared blankly.

"——He seems to be an old acquaintance of hers."

Zhao Chanyi came out excitedly and looked at the alpaca carefully.

The alpaca spat at her while crying, which scared Zhao Chanyi and hid behind her.

Immediately afterwards, everyone else reappeared and gathered around to look at the alpaca carefully.

…

After a while.

Everyone sat in a circle in the arena.

Yana's eyes were still red, but her mood had calmed down and she explained:

"Everyone, this is my mount, Maggie."

"Why did it appear here?" Hua Qingkong asked.

"At this moment, I have been cursed by my mistress and have to get acquainted with Aldrich——"

Alpaca Maggie said from the side: "Aldrich covets our Nana's body. Nana is under a curse. The only way to resist him is to keep giving him her most important cards to delay time."

Yana continued: "After all my cards were given out, the curse had tortured me to the point of death - I had no choice but to die and come to the eternal night to avoid Aldrich, but he still chased me. You want to capture me in a divine battle and gain the position of God of Torment.”

"All the cards? What are you talking about?" Alpaca Maggie couldn't help but ask with a question mark on her face.

But everyone else basically understood.

Yana falls.

By chance, he met Liu Ping, who had just passed the card master trial and started to choose the God of Samurai.

She became Liu Ping's patron saint.

Then--

This is the final battle of the dark drama.

The six paths of reincarnation appear.

Aldrich chased after her, hoping to capture Yana in one fell swoop.

He was killed by Death's followers.

And Liu Ping took Yana back to five years ago.

Every month, he must accept a battle to ascend to the gods, until the day when the battle to ascend to the gods begins five years later.

"The Goddess of Torture... I think the one who is really enduring the torture is Yana herself." Hua Qingkong sighed.

"Yes, I have to give my cards to others one by one even though I know they have evil intentions. Just thinking about it is enough for me." Libertas snorted unhappily.

Snapped!

A glob of saliva smeared on his face.

Alpaca Maggie twisted her mouth and said disdainfully: "Smelly man, what qualifications do you have to interfere with our Yana's affairs?"

Libertas was furious, drew his sword with both hands, looked at the number "50" floating on the upper left side of Maggie the Alpaca, and hesitated for a long time without daring to stand up.

"It was a little naughty, I apologize to you on its behalf." Yana apologized.

"It's okay, it's okay, that's understandable." Libertas put away his sword and said angrily.

Liu Ping looked at the alpaca and asked:

"Are you the first card given out by Yana?"

"Another stinky man!" Maggie opened her mouth to spit, but Yana quickly patted it.

Maggie was startled, looked at Liu Ping carefully, swallowed back her saliva and said:

"Yes."

Liu Ping thought for a while and said: "Yana, how often do you need to give out a card?"

"Sometimes two months, sometimes a month, in the end a card must be given out every half month to offset the torture of the curse." Yana said.

"Maybe we can capture one of your cards in the next Ascension Battle," Liu Ping said.

Yana was startled, and then gradually came back to her senses.

"It's also strange... I asked why Maggie never showed up after he asked her to leave... There are also many cards in the same situation..."

She and Liu Ping looked at each other.

timeline!

In the timeline, although Aldrich claimed Maggie from Yana at the current moment, she was won by Yana five years later in the battle to ascend to the gods.

So Maggie never showed up.

Although history has been changed, it has perfect logic, making everything self-consistent!

"Yana, please tell it about the current situation first," Liu Ping said.

"Um."

Yana responded, led the alpaca Maggie to the side, and whispered something.

Liu Ping looked at the crowd, clapped his hands and said:

"Okay, there's one more thing we have to face now."

"—The Card Master of Time outside, he must have woken up."