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Word of Power: Moment, this is Ha Ji-yeon's Word of Power, which can increase the speed of her sword strikes.
The speed of enhancement increases in increments of powers of 2. Historically, the maximum speed of this word of power was 2 to the power of 9, which is a speed increase of 512 times.
However, Ha Ji-yeon's speed is not that exaggerated. Her maximum speed increase only reaches the third level, which is 2 to the power of 3, or 8 times the speed.
Moreover, while this way of swinging the knife is fast, it lacks power.
Because if the force is too great, it is easy to tear your own muscles at high speed, which will cause damage to yourself.
Therefore, Ha Ji-yeon's several strikes landed on the dragon scales without breaking through their armor.
"It hasn't used its word yet, so be careful." Raymond spoke, having taken over command while Ha Ji-yeon was fighting.
Jeon Hyo-min's dragon claws were as hard as steel; when they clashed with the goose-feather saber, they remained completely unharmed.
Jeon Hyomin glared at Gu Ran with resentment, and suddenly her dragon claw shot out, aiming to grab Ha Jiyeon.
Ha Ji-yeon reacted quickly and immediately used her knife to block.
But in that instant, a force suddenly came from Jeon Hyomin's dragon claw, which actually sent Ha Jiyeon flying five or six meters away, sword and all!
As Ha Ji-yeon flew backward, a thunderous airburst rang out.
"Cough cough cough, Word of Power - Yin Thunder, it uses Yin Thunder as a shockwave." Ha Ji-yeon's internal organs were jolted, and she couldn't stop coughing.
At this moment, Jeon Hyomin stepped forward to pursue Ha Ji-yeon.
Raymond's sniper rifle was aimed at Jeon Hyomin, and he fired immediately when the two separated.
But Jeon Hyomin also seemed to be keeping an eye on the sniper rifle in the distance, because the mercury in the bullet made her very uncomfortable.
So Jeon Hyo-min quickly dodged.
The bullet missed it.
Gu Ran held the kunai in his hand, looking for an opportunity to strike.
Taking advantage of the moment when Jeon Hyo-min was dodging bullets, Gu Ran immediately rushed into the battlefield.
Shadow Dance Leaf!
With a high kick, Jeon Hyomin was caught off guard and sent flying into the air.
Gu Ran used all his strength to kick Shadow Dance Leaf, sending it flying more than three meters off the ground!
Lion Bang!
This was the first time Gu Ran had used a combination move in actual combat. He kicked it several times in mid-air, hitting its stomach repeatedly!
But Quan Xiaomin reacted very quickly, immediately using its dragon claws to protect its abdomen, preventing Gu Ran from landing a solid kick.
But it still crashed heavily to the ground.
"You're not Kim Seok-woo, who are you?" Jeon Hyo-min looked at Gu Ran in surprise. The Kim Seok-woo she had her eye on before clearly had no power at all.
Gu Ran was too lazy to chat with her, so he took the kunai in his hand and plunged it into its body.
Jeon Hyo-min instinctively tried to block with her arm, but the needle pierced her flesh.
Gu Ran did not draw the kunai, but immediately stepped aside.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Raymond immediately fired a shot, which hit her in the shoulder!
Jeon Hyomin clutched her shoulder and suddenly let out a sinister laugh.
Then it waved its hand and threw something around in the air.
Gu Ran realized something was wrong and immediately warned, "Watch out, it's throwing hidden lightning!"
But then, he heard a series of thunderous sounds.
Bang bang bang!
"Watch out for the Shadow Lightning! Shadow Lightning can be used as a stun grenade!" That was Raymond's voice.
Shockwaves rippled through the surroundings, and two people, caught off guard, were thrown back by the Yin Lightning.
While the destructive power of a yin thunderbolt is not as great as that of a modern hand grenade, the shockwave can cause significant damage to the human body.
Gu Ran instinctively went on guard and barely managed to defend herself.
Jeon Hyo-min spotted the gap and immediately rushed towards it.
The other four team members then dropped their guns and engaged Jeon Hyo-min in close combat.
Ha Ji-yeon was unaffected because she remained detached from the battle.
At this moment, she caught her breath and immediately rushed forward to continue entangled with Jeon Hyo-min.
Despite being surrounded by five people, Jeon Hyo-min remained completely calm.
At this moment, Ha Ji-yeon suddenly noticed that Jeon Hyo-min's abdominal injury had somehow healed!
She was shocked; its healing speed was too fast, surpassing that of a typical third-generation species!
Suddenly, Jeon Hyo-min attacked, piercing a person's heart with a claw!
Ha Ji-yeon frowned. Seeing that Jeon Hyo-min had her back to her, she immediately grabbed her knife and rushed forward, intending to take advantage of the chaos to attack Jeon Hyo-min's head.
But that was a deliberate opening by Jeon Hyomin. Suddenly, she swung her buttocks, and a long, sharp thorn appeared from her rear end, piercing Ha Ji-yeon's right chest.
Ha Ji-yeon suddenly felt pain and knelt on one knee, but she still swung her knife at Jeon Hyo-min's neck.
Several companions immediately stepped in to rescue them.
Seeing that she was about to be surrounded and attacked, Jeon Hyomin pulled out the spike stuck in Ha Jiyeon's chest and immediately retreated to the side.
At this point, she stopped running away.
Because she was confident that she could completely control the situation on the field!
"You're dead!" Jeon Hyomin said, glancing at Ha Jiyeon.
Ha Ji-yeon clutched her chest, feeling a burning pain in her wound. She looked down and saw that the blood flowing from the wound was black.
"Correction: It's a secondary species, a dragon wasp. Be careful, its stinger is poisonous!" Ha Ji-yeon desperately relayed the information she had found over the communication.
Her communication records will be uploaded back to the school by Norma, so that other people in the executive department can see them.
In this way, even if she dies here, people who come after her will know its attack methods.
Dragon slaying often involves using human lives to gather intelligence.
"I'm going to kill you all! You lowly, filthy half-bloods!"
Chapter 64 Detoxification
Jeon Hyo-min was no longer in human form at this point.
Her entire body was covered in scales, and she had a retractable bee stinger on her buttocks. Her hands, shaped like dragon claws, had become even larger.
Raymond also joined the battle; he couldn't continue sniping from a distance, or the dragon would escape.
They misjudged the situation this time. They originally thought the target was only a fourth-generation species, and at most, a third-generation species.
Therefore, the personnel and weapons for this operation were designed to counter third-generation variants.
But unexpectedly, the target was the next generation.
During a lull in the battle, Raymond issued commands through his headset:
"Gu Ran, retreat immediately. Norma is gathering nearby officers. We'll have reinforcements in fifteen minutes at most."
Gu Ran thought to herself, "Can you hold it off for fifteen minutes?"
He stood up and glanced at the situation on the battlefield.
"Gu Ran, retreat! Leave immediately!" Ha Ji-yeon, barely holding on, issued her final command. "Ordinary swords and blades are useless against it; we must use alchemical weapons..."
Before she could finish speaking, she felt her head getting heavier and heavier, and she fell backward, about to lie on the ground.
Gu Ran came to her side and hugged her.
"You... hurry, retreat!" Under the influence of the poison, Ha Ji-yeon felt her consciousness becoming increasingly blurred.
"Don't speak." Gu Ran carried the unconscious Ha Ji-yeon and quickly went to the riverbank. He gathered chakra in his hands and enveloped a little water in the river.
He roughly tore open the fabric near Ha Ji-yeon's wound, glanced at the location of the wound, which was two inches below her collarbone.
"Fortunately, no internal organs were damaged here, otherwise I really wouldn't have dared to do it."
The technique of extracting the small ailment can help her detoxify.
He used water encased in chakra to seep into the wound, then controlled the chakra, sensing the toxins near the wound.
For the best results, the technique of extracting small ailments should be used in conjunction with an antidote.
However, an antidote is probably not available right now, so Gu Ran can only dilute the toxins in her wounds with water and try to extract the toxins from her body in small amounts and multiple times.
"Fortunately, the time was short and the toxin did not spread."
Gu Ran felt a little calmer. He steadied himself, completely blocking out the sounds of fighting nearby, and focused all his attention on Ha Ji-yeon's wounds.
He slowly gathered the toxins near the wound together and mixed them with water.
Then he slowly extracted the water, along with the toxins, that was enveloped in chakra.
After extracting the toxins, he disposed of the toxic water in the grass by the river.
Suddenly, the grass looked as if it had been scalded with boiling water, becoming shriveled and turning yellow in no time.
After performing the operation four more times, Gu Ran's face was covered in a fine layer of sweat.
However, the poison in Ha Ji-yeon's body has been expelled, and now her wounds have turned from black to bright red, showing a normal state of flesh and blood.
Gu Ran took out some Yunnan Baiyao powder from his bag and sprinkled it on Ha Ji-yeon's wound.
Her bleeding has stopped, but she lost a lot of blood and is currently unconscious.
Seeing that she was not in any danger, Gu Ran looked towards the battlefield.
At this point, only two members of the six-man squad from the South Korean branch remained capable of fighting.
Both of them were injured, yet they remained standing.
Raymond held two swords in his hands, but his clothes were tattered and he had many wounds, though none of them were fatal.