To be more precise, the round ended up in a draw. Both of the sides were hurt badly.
Kent and Karl had suffered greater injuries, while Ricky's situation was not very serious in comparison.
"Theo, now! Kill them!" Half kneeling on the ground with one hand holding his weapon to support himself, Ricky loudly urged Theo into action. It was the best time to kill Karl and Kent once and for all. Otherwise, they would have enough time to restore their strength. By that time, it would be tricky to handle them.
"Ricky, now? I... " Ricky's cold-blooded order made Theo hesitate. He had no idea what to do. Somehow, he felt like killing the men at their weakest was ignominious. Besides, he was a bit scared to kill a person.
"I'll do it instead!" Kayla stood up and offered. She knew that Theo did not have the heart to butcher them. So, she took her sword and walked toward Karl and Kent.
She raised her sword high and was ready to pierce them with it.
She did not want to kill people either. Despite that, she understood that if she did not kill them, they would kill her and her companions. That was just a cruel fact.
"You want to kill us? In your dreams!" Kent roared.
In the next moment, he gathered his last breath and his strength. He forced out a drop of blood essence from his forehead and threw it toward the array which had almost faded away.
People usually had two types of reactions in such a life or death moment like that. One way to react was to be too scared to do anything at all, and the other would cause one to fight until their last breath to try to kill their enemy with everything they had in them. Even if they were going to die, they would not let their enemy kill them so easily. The latter was exactly what Kent tried to do.
"Kayla! Step back!" Ricky immediately shouted a warning to Kayla in concern.
Luckily, she was agile enough and withdrew back a few steps before he even warned her.
Kent, on the other hand, formed a blood claw, ready to attack again. Seeing Kayla step back, he decided not to attack her. The primary reason that he did not attack her was because he was not sure that he could manage to kill her. Kayla was in her prime, after all. What was more, he was losing his strength after he used a drop of blood essence. That loss of strength had made him extremely weak.
So, he changed his mind. There was another target near him. His new target was Ricky.
Kent turned to Ricky and intended to throw the claw at him. Although the claw only had the power of the seventh grade of Blood Purification, it was strong enough to kill Ricky, given Ricky's injured body.
"Ricky! Watch out!"
"Ricky!" Theo and Kayla cried out trying to warn Ricky about the claw.
Their warnings were too late. The blood claw already reached and covered Ricky. With a loud bang, the blood wave had engulfed him.
"Ha-ha, ha-ha! You want to kill me? Well, you can go to hell!" Seeing Ricky covered in the blood claw, Kent burst into loud peals of laughter with a vicious glare. Soon enough, he stopped laughing and began to cough loudly before he fell to the ground.
He had already lost two drops of blood essence. In addition, he had suffered from the Devouring Fire. Now he was starting to approach death.
"Finally, he is dead!" Karl sighed in relief when he saw what happened to Ricky.
As long as Ricky was dead, they could deal with the rest of the guys easily. They could kill Kayla and Theo at the cost of another drop of blood essence. At this crucial time, their lives were more important than the blood essence.
If they could succeed in killing all of them, they would be able to enjoy the great power of the dragon blood in the lava lake. Their hard work would finally pay off!
Of course, that was only what they imagined in their heads.
"Whoosh!"
While they were still day-dreaming about their plan, something unexpected happened. A saber appeared, flew out from the blood claw, and went through Kent's body in a blur.
Kent stopped laughing abruptly. Slowly, he fell onto the dusty ground with his eyes open wide and a confused look on his face. Within seconds he was gone.
Meanwhile, Ricky appeared beside Kent's dead body.
He was not as exhausted as he had been earlier anymore. Instead, he was carrying a strong blood vitality and was almost at his peak power.
"You are the one who died, not me!" Ricky stated in a distant tone as he looked down at Kent's body. Then, he turned his sharp eye to Karl.
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