Behind Rowan, the Death Knight had transformed into a cloud of black smoke and rushed over, its speed even a few notches faster than Rowan’s.
Perhaps it felt that a single Death Knight was more than enough, as no ordinary Undead followed in pursuit.
“Damn it, why is my luck so bad?” Running wildly all the way, Rowan finally managed to rush out of the cave.
However, the Death Knight had no intention of giving up and continued to pursue him.
Looking at the situation, it was about to catch up.
Rowan took a deep breath.
“You want to fight, right?
Then let’s fight!” The Death Knight is only Hero Rank.
Even if it is at the peak of Hero Rank, I possess two rare classes, so I shouldn’t be much weaker.
[Death Knight (Mid-Tier Undead)] [Level: 35] [Class: Skeleton Knight (Lv15), Defender (Lv10), Death Knight (Advanced Lv10)] (Note: Classes containing a race name are considered racial classes, such as Skeleton Knight, Goblin Warrior, Ogre Warrior, etc.
Humans have no racial classes.) “Heh, the Death Knight only belongs to the Mid-Tier Undead.
Compared to those ‘High-Tier Undead’ I destroyed before, its title is actually much weaker.” The “Mid-Tier” recognized by the system is not the same level as the “Mid-Tier” recognized by the Adventurers Guild.
In the eyes of the Adventurers Guild, this Mid-Tier Undead should actually be considered a “Super-Tier Undead.” Draw sword, charge power.
The Death Knight had closed the distance.
Rowan unleashed a charged strike: Martial Art – Draw Slash.
A white sword aura slashed horizontally.
This move was powerful; even a Third-Tier Undead would be sliced open without any resistance.
However, it was a Death Knight after all.
A Death Knight’s attack power might not even reach Hero Rank, but its defense absolutely surpassed Hero Rank.
This was an Undead creature with extremely strong defense.
It raised its shield, and the sword aura struck the shield without leaving even a scratch.
The corners of Rowan’s mouth twitched slightly.
Rushing up to clash a few times, Rowan’s arm went numb.
The opponent’s strength was higher than his, and its speed was also slightly faster.
Fortunately, the gap wasn’t too large!
After clashing a few more times, Rowan used Draw Slash again.
The Death Knight raised its shield just like before, but this time Rowan didn’t retreat.
Instead, he stepped forward and placed his hand on the opponent’s shield.
The opponent’s shield was extremely cold, like a block of ice.
“Degradation!” A powerful surge of energy was extracted from the opponent’s body.
Rowan keenly felt the opponent’s aura drop by a notch, but it didn’t turn into rotten bones immediately like ordinary monsters.
The Death Knight let out a roar and swung its sword to slash.
It felt that it had become weaker, but it didn’t know why.
Its empty brain couldn’t process such complex questions.
Rowan jumped away, dodging the Death Knight’s attack.
Degradation was effective, but the gap in their levels was significant, so Degradation only caused its strength to drop slightly.
“Very good, as long as it works.” It’s just a pity that Degradation can only be used three times a day; otherwise, Rowan could just keep spamming it until it died.
Seizing an opportunity, he used Degradation again.
The Death Knight’s aura was weakened once more.
Two instances of Degradation caused the Death Knight’s strength to drop significantly, as if it had been hit with a Weakness debuff.
Rowan estimated that, originally at level 35, its strength was now less than level 30.
Before, its strength and speed both surpassed Rowan’s, but now they couldn’t compare to his.
Degradation is too useful.
How does that old saying go?
“Rather than improving yourself, it is better to belittle others.” Against an evenly matched opponent, although its defense was high, Rowan’s defense was not low either.
Rowan held onto the last use of Degradation without using it, and the man and the monster began to compete in swordsmanship.
It was equally matched.
Although Rowan slashed the opponent a few times, it acted as if it didn’t feel any pain.
Using Draw Slash would just be blocked by it again, and based on his estimates, Asura Slash would also be unable to cut through the opponent’s shield.
“Hiss, this guy is really troublesome.
Its defense is too high; even after two uses of Degradation, I still can’t cut through it.” It’s just like an iron bucket; there’s absolutely no opportunity to strike.
In the plot, watching the Death Knight that Ainz Ooal Gown summoned casually slaughtering everyone, he found it funny.
But when facing a Death Knight himself, Rowan couldn’t laugh at all.
“Second-Tier Magic, Lightning Spear!” The Death Knight raised its shield.
The Lightning Spear hit the shield without causing even a ripple; it didn’t even take a step back.
But when it lowered its shield, Rowan was already gone.
Without thinking, it raised its sword and slashed behind it.
However, it was too late.
“Asura Slash.” A black sword beam shot up from below, striking heavily on its left arm, forcing the heavy Death Knight to retreat repeatedly.
Although the bone in its right hand wasn’t severed, a long crack appeared on it.
“Good opportunity.” Draw Slash to close the distance; the Death Knight raised its shield.
Circling behind to charge, Asura Slash.
The devastating Asura Slash struck the same spot again.
This time it succeeded, and Rowan successfully severed the opponent’s arm.
Having lost its shield, the Death Knight’s strength dropped by more than half.
Normal slash, Draw Slash, and the final charged – Asura Slash.
Rowan’s final Asura Slash severed the Death Knight’s head.
The red light in its head gradually extinguished.
[Experience + 550,000] The massive amount of experience instantly filled up Rowan’s experience bar, and Rowan let out a long sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the Death Knight was just an Undead with little intelligence.
If the opponent had intelligence similar to a human, Rowan wouldn’t have been able to win so easily and would have inevitably had to use his two ultimate skills.
Being able to take down the Death Knight relying only on minor skills is already quite good.
Hmm, I even saved one use of Degradation.
A level 35 Death Knight, nothing special.
It didn’t even trigger its final life-saving effect to negate a fatal blow.
The Death Knight is still very useful when facing super-high-level enemies.
No matter what skills the opponent has, even Super-Tier Magic can be withstood; its trait allows it to negate death once.
However, when facing enemies where the gap in strength is not that large, this passive is very difficult to trigger.
There is still an unknown, powerful enemy hiding underground.
I should improve as much as I can, so Rowan put points directly into Alchemist.
I don’t know if any information has been leaked.
Everything else is fine, but if information about Degradation is leaked, it would be quite troublesome.
“The summoner of that Death Knight must be hiding right here underground.” It was as if two little people were fighting in Rowan’s head.
The enemy’s strength is definitely not weak.
After all, to be able to summon a Death Knight, they are nine times out of ten an Transcendent.
However, if I run away directly, information might be leaked.
Furthermore, I haven’t used my two ultimate skills yet.
So what if they are an Transcendent?
It’s not like I don’t have a chance to fight.
Rowan hesitated, but in the end, he chose to take a risk and enter the cave to take a look.
Everything is still just his own speculation.
“Perhaps there is no such thing as a’summoner’ in the cave at all?” Maybe I’m just scaring myself.
Maybe it’s not a big deal now… maybe it will be later.
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”