The red aura that appeared around Hyneward solidified into an armour surrounding his body. This armour had various spikes and looked extremely menacing. It was clear that, this armour was not only for defense but was here also for offense. It was crimson red in colour and looking at it one might think that Hyneward gad bathed this armour in the blood of his enemies.

The large axe in his hand also started to get covered in blood and increased in size by one level. Tomoe was able to feel the increasing power of the axe and she was not sure if she could withstand a heavy attack from this axe with her sword or not. But now she could only face him head on so Tomoe also started to get ready to face off against the now strengthened Hyneward.

This was also a good opportunity for her to check out a new skill that she had just recently learned. Tomoe immediately sheathed her sword and took a stance with the sword in her hip. Then lightning covered her whole body and also her sword. Then the lightning started crackling and started getting unstable. It felt like Tomoe was just about to unleash a devastating attack and it would definitely be very powerful.

Seeing this Hyneward was also thrilled and got ready to unleash his own powerful attack. He jumped high up and held the axe in an overhead position. Then the blade of the axe started to burn with black flame as he got ready to make his move.

But before he could bring the axe down, Tomoe suddenly appeared just beside him while drawing her sword. She was so fast that it almost felt like she had teleported beside Hyneward. Even though that was not actually the case and it was just Tomoe's speed that had made this move possible.

This new skill that she had managed to master was called "Thunderclap". It allowed her to boost her speed by 100 times for one tenth of a second. But the short time was enough for her to move extremely fast as if she was really teleporting. In the future, Tomoe just needed to practice so that she could activate her Thunderclap for a longer duration and it would become a powerful trump card for her.

This attack was so fast, that Hyneward had absolutely no chance of dodging it. But still he did his best to somehow resist this attack as much as possible.

For that he tried to strengthen the part of the armour where Tomoe's sword was going to hit as much as possible. It was a good call by him but unfortunately Tomoe's attack was quite strong and on point, so the armour was not able to resist it for long and Tomoe's sword reached his skin.

While enduring the pain of getting cut by powerful sword aura and his insides getting burned by powerful lightning, Hyneward used his own body to prevent Tomoe from moving and brought his sword down on her with all his powers. Tomoe was able to free herself at the last moment but that was not enough to completely dodge this attack. So she was scratched by this attack but even only that was enough to send her flying toward the ground at a very high speed.

Just before hitting the ground, Tomoe slightly shifted her position to lessen the impact as much as possible. She was successful in this procedure and was just slightly injured. On the other hand, Hyneward was injured a lot more from this exchange.

Even though vampires had very fast regeneration speed, Tomoe was also using her very powerful lightning to prevent healing as much as possible. So even with his powerful self healing, the attack that Tomoe had managed to land on him had hurt him quite badly.

After this both of them continued fighting. Even while being injured Hyneward was extremely powerful. And after seeing Tomoe's Thunderclap once, he was not taken in by surprise again and became able to handle this attack. So the pace of the fight was completely in his hand. But Tomoe did not give up and continued fighting while using her superior speed to her advantage.

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While this high calibre battle was going on, the head butler named Max was looking at the scene of the fight with utter shock. Hyneward was the strongest person from the Moronto family and also a pillar supporting it. He had not expected that this unknown dark elf girl would be able to match someone legendary like him.

He was not among the servants who was with Duke Karl Moronto when he went to meet with Elena. So he had not seen Tomoe's fighting power with his own eyes. But he had heard from the other servants that this girl had barely managed to get a draw against the duke and even then she was at a disadvantage.

For this reason he had not taken Tomoe seriously at all. Duke Moronto was definitely strong but was nothing if compared to Hyneward. So someone who had not managed to defeat the duke had no choice of defeating Hyneward. But now it turned out that this bitch was actually hiding her strength and was also going easy on the duke.

Max was so adamant on getting his hands on the heart was because this heart involved an ancestor from his family. So if the truth about this incident came to light, then the reputation that his clan had managed to gain after so many years could get destroyed by this. That was the main reason why he was trying this hard to get rid of the heart and hiding this whole incident.

But now it looked like doing so would be impossible. So the best option for him would be to just run away. That was why he slowly started to make his distance from everyone while they were busy watching this epic fight and tried to make his escape.

But after going back just a few steps, he suddenly found himself enclosed inside a barrier. Even though he was not as strong as even the duke, he was still a S rank powerhouse. But still without him noticing anything, he had been trapped inside a barrier.

Max immediately tried to use all his power to break the barrier to escape but his attacks had no effect on the barrier and it was intact. Gritting his teeth, he took out an item from his storage and after looking at it reluctantly for some time he activated this item. But nothing happened.

This made Max to almost go mad with rage. What he just now activated was a prized item that could allow him to teleport away from any troublesome situation. But after seeing that it had also failed, he lost all his methods to get away from this situation.

But fortunately for him, the epic battle between Tomoe and Hyneward was leaning toward Hyneward's favour. Tomoe had definitely gotten stronger but it looked like she still had some ways to go before she was able to match Hyneward.

As Max was getting optimistic about the situation, he saw the beautiful golden haired elf looking at him with a slight smile. Seeing this smile a chill immediately ran down his spine. At the same time, the voice of the duke was heard and it was definitely something that Max did not want.

"What is going on here ?"

So now what was going to happen next ?

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