"Courage burst? I'd like to see who gave you this courage!" Rosalyne said, exasperated and arrogant.
Alex directly stepped aside, fully revealing Clorinde's figure.
"Hello," Clorinde politely greeted Rosalyne.
Who is this? The Lady didn't know. In fact, as for the people of Fontaine, that wasn't her area of responsibility. She had never seen him before, and she had no time to learn about other nations.
Rosalyne looked at the smug Alex with endless ridicule: "Haha, so he's just a rat who only hides behind women."
"Do you think bringing this big-chested woman will be enough to defeat me? None of you will leave here today!" Rosalyne said, directly attacking the two.
Countless ice shards rapidly assailed them from the ground.
This woman actually started fighting directly. Alex had no choice but to unleash his Combat Skill, summoning two more Furinas in front of him.
He himself quickly retreated at the same time, hiding behind Clorinde.
Clorinde's eyes flickered. She hadn't expected this Fatui Harbinger to be so difficult to reason with. Why did he start fighting immediately upon meeting?
Clorinde's figure moved, as if instantly appearing before them.
The Vision on his chest glowed, and countless bolts of lightning spread out from Clorinde's body.
This speed was very fast, and the unfortunate Fatui members who were caught in the attack immediately lost their Combat Power, falling to the ground and falling asleep.
Rosalyne quickly gathered an ice armor arm to block Clorinde's attack.
She noticed her subordinates lying down out of the corner of her eye. None of them were dead; they just seemed to be knocked out. It appeared he hadn't intended to kill them.
Ice and lightning clashed continuously between the two women.
Alex watched from behind with great interest. Two women fighting was uncommon, and both of them had excellent figures!
Although he stood on Clorinde's side, Alex's gaze lingered on the Lady.
Until the surrounding temperature dropped instantly!
Alex and Clorinde, who was fighting him, both saw him instantly enveloped in an ice cocoon.
"Hiss, it's so cold," Alex hugged his arms. The surrounding temperature was like winter.
The Fatui lying on the ground were also awakened by the surrounding temperature. They looked at the situation around them, then quickly dragged their injured bodies away, returning to the distant camp to recuperate.
The opponent was very strong. The next battle was for the Harbinger, and they couldn't interfere.
Meanwhile, Clorinde continuously fired his single-handed pistol at the ice cocoon, but with little effect.
There were no extra warm stoves around for him to hit, Alex sighed, this was still somewhat different.
How should this Lady fight? I don't have fire abilities right now.
Fortunately, the stalemate didn't last long, and Alex discovered red fire butterflies not far from Clorinde.
It turned out that Rosalyne was beginning to transform into the fire element under the protection of the ice cocoon. The fire energy overflowing from the ice cocoon dispersed outwards, forming fire butterflies.
That's not bad, he can fight!
Looking at the fire butterflies, Alex ran over and reached out to touch them. Unexpectedly, the fire butterflies instantly dissipated and merged into Alex's body surface.
This state, imbued by the fire butterflies, was not aggressive. Instead, it instantly warmed his cold body.
Alex took out the harbinger of dawn and slashed at the ice cocoon.
The next moment, the ice cocoon made a "crack" sound, and a huge crack appeared.
It had cracked, but it hadn't fully split open yet.
It looked like it would need a few more tries.
Clorinde watched Alex's actions from the side and understood.
So very quickly, the ice cocoon instantly shattered and disappeared.
A force pushed the two people around him away.
Rosalyne fully recovered and transformed into: the Witch of Scorching Flames.
Her body floated in mid-air, her clothes also changed, her skirt became very long, and especially behind her, two huge wings made of flames appeared.
Then fire whips, fire tornadoes, and fire butterflies continuously assailed the two.
Alex had no choice but to join the battle. His two Combat Skill babies continuously spat water bubbles and water blades at Rosalyne.
At this time, he should play a supporting role! The DMG output could be left to Clorinde.
So, Alex pulled out the dual-wielded weapon he hadn't used against an enemy yet: thunderous pulse - oni's edge!
He was Hydro, Clorinde was Electro. At this moment, Alex's babies were frantically applying Hydro to Rosalyne. Clorinde only needed to attack, and it would be very easy to trigger Electro-Charged.
At the same time, Alex activated his "Waterland" element burst.
In this state, Alex did nothing else but shoot Electro bullets at Rosalyne with his dual guns.
This could continuously trigger thunderous pulse - oni's edge's weapon skill: when hitting an Electro-Charged enemy during an element burst, it increases the Electro DMG taken by 60%!
Thus, Rosalyne's Fire Witch state lasted less than a minute before she was defeated by Clorinde.
"Pfft, cough, cough." At this moment, the defeated Rosalyne had exited her Fire Witch state, and her injuries were not light.
She looked up at Clorinde, her eyes filled with defiance. Who was this person, and why was he so powerful?!
"Help me~" Unexpectedly, Alex suddenly spoke. The next moment, a jellyfish appeared in front of Rosalyne, constantly swaying.
Her injured body also recovered continuously with the swaying of the jellyfish.
After less than half a minute, Rosalyne's body had recovered to its state before the fight.
Actually, the recovery was quite slow. His artifact set wasn't a healing set, nor did he have a healing bonus circlet. His skills were also completely unrelated to healing. But it was barely enough.
Minor injuries could be healed, but for major injuries, he would need to find others.
Perhaps, he could also farm a healing set in the future. Anyway, he could change it freely, right?
Perhaps because Alex kindly restored Rosalyne's state, Rosalyne's tone improved significantly. She looked at Clorinde and asked, "You are very strong. Tell me your name."
Clorinde looked at Rosalyne, actually also thinking he was a good opponent, so he introduced himself: "My name is Clorinde, and I am Fontaine's Champion Duelist."
"Fontaine's… Champion Duelist." Rosalyne repeated, then showed a look of understanding: "So it was you, no wonder…"
She had indeed heard some rumors about Fontaine before.
She hadn't expected that the Champion Duelist of Fontaine was the Clorinde in front of him.
Now that she had seen him in person, he was indeed as powerful as they said.
She wasn't even the strongest among the Harbingers.
Fortunately, Fontaine had other Harbingers to solve the Gnosis problem… Then Rosalyne looked at Alex again, then at the still-undissipated jellyfish, and asked, "What do you mean by this?"
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