Chapter 772: What to Do When Constantly Schooled by Pontiff Sulyvahn? Teach Him a Lesson with Parries!

"What--?!?" Cailanbell's eyes turned green with envy as she glared at Boss Fang.

You can't even cast Wrath of the Gods in here! This is purely a test of skill, all right?!

Even I, at the peak of the Saint stage, failed miserably!

Pointing at the computer, she sneered, "You try it then!"

The surrounding elves gathered around to watch the drama unfold.

Cailanbell stomped her feet in frustration; oh, these elves, not a single one was standing up for her!

All they knew was how to watch the show—she hoped they choked on it!

At that moment, Boss Fang found a corner seat and sat down. "Since I happen to be at this part, I'll play through it once."

"You must use the Farron Greatsword!" Cailanbell quickly added another condition. After all, she wasn't stupid; what if he used some cheesy, underhanded strategy to pass it?

At this point, they saw Boss Fang take off the Wolf Knight Greatsword, which he had exchanged for the Abyss Watchers' soul, as well as the Caestus on his left hand. For some reason, there was still another soul of the Abyss Watchers in his inventory (Boss Fang was already on his second playthrough).

So, he switched to the Farron Greatsword.

"Oh my god!"

"I'm shocked!"

"The boss is playing?!"

A crowd of elves quickly swarmed over again.

Cailanbell was absolutely bursting with anger; how come they all ran over the moment he started playing, but when she was playing, they all ran away!

With her hands on her hips, she stood behind Boss Fang, huffing and puffing as she stared at the ragged-looking game character.

"That looks so ugly!" she added as a critique.

Clearly, Boss Fang was wearing the Master's set.

"Hmm? The boss is playing?" A few Saints also gathered around.

"Why is he using this sword?"

"Can he even pass with this?"

They saw that Boss Fang had actually made it before Pontiff Sulyvahn as well.

Their hearts felt slightly balanced; it seemed that as Saints, they hadn't fallen behind others.

A few others had slight smirks on their faces, because they had summoned NPCs to help and directly skipped Teacher Sulyvahn's class.

They felt very proud, utterly unaware that the more classes they skipped, the more insanely they would suffer later on.

"The boss isn't going to breakdance too, is he?" someone whispered nearby.

"That elf just tried it... it's completely unplayable..."

"He's definitely going to be taught a lesson in a moment."

Cailanbell, whose sharp ears caught these whispers, felt extremely pleased and grew even more confident. "Stubborn, are we? Let's see how you clean up this mess later!"

They saw that Boss Fang didn't focus on the greatsword portion of the Farron Greatsword, but instead took the matching short dagger in his hand and shook it a bit, seemingly testing its weight and feel. After testing it for a while, he finally walked into Pontiff Sulyvahn's room.

The entire cathedral was massive. Sulyvahn was at the very end, at least twenty Zhang away from the entrance.

The surroundings were dead silent. Pontiff Sulyvahn stood silently in the center of the grand hall like a withered corpse.

It was as if he were waiting for the enemy to arrive.

When the distance between the two closed to only about ten Zhang, the flames on the twin greatswords suddenly ignited. Moving from stillness to motion in the blink of an eye, he instantly crossed the distance of over ten Zhang. The fire of the Profaned Greatsword shot forward like a flash of lightning piercing the darkness!

Everyone watched this strike with rapt attention.

Generally speaking, meeting Sulyvahn for the first time and facing this abrupt strike, people often failed to dodge it or were forced into a frantic rush. But clearly, Cailanbell had already dodged it before using the Farron Greatsword.

Boss Fang was holding the Farron Greatsword right now, so it shouldn't come to...

"He's not moving?!"

They suddenly saw that Fang Qi stood in place, completely motionless!

He even walked straight toward Sulyvahn, step by step.

"Does this guy not even know how to breakdance?!" Cailanbell couldn't help but mutter under her breath.

But just as her voice fell, they saw that Fang Qi did not use the Farron Greatsword in his right hand, but instead raised his left hand, which held the dagger that paired with the greatsword.

Clang!

Greatsword against dagger, a piercing clash of metal and iron, with sparks flying.

"Is he crazy?!" The onlookers behind all cried out in shock.

Parrying a greatsword with a dagger—even a fool knew what the outcome would be.

But at that exact moment, they saw the Profaned Greatsword in Sulyvahn's hand suddenly deflect!

Immediately following that, it was violently batted away!

"This... this is...!!??" Cailanbell suddenly remembered that when she faced that Master before, the exact same situation had occurred! It was as if her own strength had been completely deflected back into her own body, shattering her entire stance in an instant, leaving her unable to muster a shred of strength!

"This is—!" Her eyes suddenly widened, staring intently at the screen.

In the next moment, she indeed discovered that Sulyvahn was trapped in this "parry and staggered" state, looking exactly the same as she had back then! For a moment, Sulyvahn couldn't move either!

Fang Qi directly raised the Farron Greatsword in his hand and slashed down heavily!

Crack!

This single strike sliced a terrifying wound directly across Sulyvahn's body!

Sulyvahn clearly became more cautious, no longer swinging his sword recklessly.

Meanwhile, Fang Qi confronted his opponent in the cathedral as if he were taking a leisurely stroll in a courtyard.

Sulyvahn's figure shifted around Fang Qi like a phantom, searching for an opportunity to strike.

Inadvertently, a sword thrust out from the side like a flash of lightning at an extremely tricky angle!

"Ah—!" Everyone was startled by this sudden sword strike, but before they could even react, this strike was actually parried back once again!

The Farron Greatsword slashed down yet again, nearly taking off the head of that incredibly hardened body.

Everyone stared blankly at the screen: "..."

Are you even using the Farron Greatsword?!

Black flames immediately erupted like a fountain!

As if possessing foresight, Fang Qi directly stepped back to avoid it.

A dark shadow, resembling a dark angel, split from his body. Two Profaned Greatswords, blazing with roaring fires, seemed intent on igniting everything in the world!

The flames pierced into the ground, and the surging fire forced Fang Qi to temporarily retreat a bit as well.

Of course, Boss Fang also casually explained a few words at this time: "You ask me how to beat Teacher Sulyvahn? Just parry. Who said the breakdance sword can't parry?"

"Who was the first one to teach you how to parry? Hawkwood (that despondent swordsman next to the Lords of Cinder thrones, the one who will hunt you down until you delete your save if you hit him twice), do you know him?" Boss Fang said, "That guy just ran away from the breakdance squad. If you don't even know how to parry, how do you have the nerve to say you know how to use the breakdance sword?"

In the next instant, the Profaned Greatswords in the hands of the Pontiff and that phantom figure resembling a dark angel slashed down almost simultaneously!

Boss Fang shifted his weight slightly, evading the colossal sword that plunged down like a waterfall of dark flames, and with a subtle lift of his hand, parried Sulyvahn's blade once more.

Another heavy downward slash!

"So, what do you do when Teacher Sulyvahn tries to teach you a lesson? You teach him one right back with a parry!"

"..." Silence fell over everyone standing behind him.

The melee combat system in Dark Souls shared certain similarities with Devil May Cry; it lacked ranged options, but the concentrated strength, speed, and technique made its offensive potential truly terrifying.

As anyone knew, dispersed power might cover a broader area, but in terms of sheer force, it could never match the devastation of a focused strike.

Even an attack like Orochi's was only able to ignore this principle because it was overwhelmingly powerful for most people, but if it encountered an opponent of equal or superior tier, it could still be deflected.

As gods, their vast divine power allowed them to sustain wide-area techniques, yet these could still be blocked; for instance, in the subsequent battle against the Nameless King, heavy shields like the Dragonslayer Greatshield were used to withstand wide-range lightning strikes and shockwaves.

For non-divine races, however, the focus leaned heavily toward technique and concentration, a characteristic that was particularly evident in Dark Souls.

Consequently, as the weaker humans, they devised a countermeasure to oppose such might.

Parrying was a highly unique technique, somewhat resembling the Royalguard Release in Devil May Cry, with the difference being that humans could almost never master the Release in Devil May Cry, whereas parrying was a skill genuinely within human capability, not restricted to demons.

Derived from this were weapon parries and spell parrying, which the system had clearly recreated to absolute perfection.

A weapon parry was precisely the move the Expert had used against Kelanbell, deflecting the attack in an instant and using the counter-shock to drive the force directly into the opponent's body, delivering a violent tremor to the flesh and internal organs that could instantly leave the attacker defenseless.

Equipped with a specialized shield, spells and ranged attacks could also be parried, though the effect was naturally less pronounced.

Of course, the conditions were equally harsh; this sequence of movements had to be executed at the exact millisecond of contact with the enemy's weapon, otherwise one was highly susceptible to injury.

Perhaps... before being buried, the protagonist was never a weakling to begin with, and with shields suited for parrying, or even using just a bare arm, the parry could be executed seamlessly, showing complete mastery where the player only needed to grasp the timing, which significantly lowered the difficulty.

But to bypass Sulyvahn in such a manner...

"Do you think I am a god?!" Kelanbell screamed internally.

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