Chapter 707 - Killing the Clown
*Bam!*
The conclusion came in a sudden, where Alex suddenly released a strength that shouldn"t exist in the body of an 8-Star Martial Monarch.
Alex pushed him back before pinning him to the ground with his strength alone.
"What?!" The people were utterly speechless. Adrus was by no means a weak person. His strength alone was one of the highest of his peers. Yet, Alex still completely overwhelmed him with a huge difference.
When everyone dropped their jaws to the ground, Evelyn was giggling as she said. "As expected, big brother Alex is hiding his strength. That Adrus can fight a normal 1-Star Martial Saint. Even if he isn"t at Eric Hinga level, he is still powerful. Yet, he couldn"t handle a single swing from big brother. That would need a strength of 1-Star… No, 2-Star Martial Saint.
"I have known that big brother also cultivates his strength, but to think it"s to this extent." Evelyn sighed. "This would mean my confidence is only around fifteen rounds."
On the other hand, Adrus was still struggling to break free from Alex. He gritted his teeth and stomped the ground, creating a huge crater on the stage.
The height difference before and after the stomp was quite significant, and Adrus used that to leave Alex"s suppression. After spouting such a claim, Adrus was already getting into trouble in the first exchange. Without even anyone addressing it, Adrus already became a joke in this entire hall.
"You b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" Adrus roared and released all of his Spiritual Energy, wanting to turn everything around.
Alex activated his Spirit Eyes and watched how this Adrus would attack. He remembered the hards.h.i.+p when he fought the monsters in the Potential Tower and thought Adrus was pathetic compared to them.
The Centaur and Minotaur had extraordinary strength and a sense of friends.h.i.+p. Their skin was also powerful since they could even block a full barrage of his Pure Fire Element. The Elf couldn"t do anything against him, but her concealment and a.s.sa.s.sin ability were top cla.s.s, while the Lich was really powerful support. On the contrary, Adrus"s couldn"t be compared to them; neither his strength nor strategy.
Alex raised his hand, looked at his sword, and thought. "That strength alone is around 1-Star Martial Saint, but my strength is close to 3-Star Martial Saint after boosting it with Dragon Aura and Spirit Step. I a.s.sume this is the effect of the rank 8 Strength Pill… He might have swallowed it, but I doubt there are many Perfect Purity Pills. That"s why the effect can only have him reach that stage."
Adrus slashed his sword forward and shot out a powerful Sword Wave.
"Even though I want to threaten the Ancient Blue Family with my power, it"s not like I can really show all my power against all of them, right?" Alex took a glimpse of it and thought. He wondered whether to use his Pure Fire in this battle. In the end, he decided to end this battle quickly to a.s.sert his dominance.
Pure Fire started gus.h.i.+ng out of his sword as he slashed his two weapons toward this Sword Wave. "Heaven Light Slas.h.!.+"
"No way!" Adrus opened his mouth in surprise. As someone who released the attack, he certainly knew how powerful that attack was. Yet, Alex shattered it into pieces with a single swing again.
Alex thrust his spear and shot out a beam from the tip of his spear. "Mythical Spear Cannon."
"!!!" Adrus leaped to the side as fast as he could, avoiding Alex"s Mythical Spear Cannon. His body had yet to react because he would never expect Alex"s strength to be this powerful. "I—!"
Alex furrowed his eyebrows and thought Adrus wanted to surrender. Hence, he appeared in front of Adrus and slashed his weapons.
"Triple Draws!" Alex attacked him from six different directions, wondering whether this Adrus had the speed to parry all these attacks.
"Serpent Sword Dance." To his surprise, Adrus"s movement suddenly became fluid as he parried all the attacks one inch from his body.
"Ho." Alex was slightly astonished. It seemed that he still had some abilities to back his claims.
On the other hand, Adrus gnashed his teeth, never expecting he needed to use all of his power and Original Sword Skill to block Alex"s attack. Little did he know that Triple Draws and Mythical Spear Cannon were actually Alex"s Original Art. Except… Triple Draws looked very normal compared to any other attacks as long as it wasn"t used together with other Martial Arts. Meanwhile, his Mythical Spear Cannon looked like Fire Manipulation, considering it was shooting a beam.
The only difference between them was Alex had yet to use all of his power and simply took advantage of his extraordinary strength.
Alex continued his attack by summoning ten fire swords above his head. Although the number couldn"t be compared to Sherry"s, the strength was far more powerful than her, considering he had his Absolute Blade Intent.
Adrus gritted his teeth and leaped to avoid these swords that would soon shower him. At this time, Alex smiled as he successfully made Adrus get overly conscious of his fire swords and didn"t see the kick that was coming toward his stomach.
*Bam!* The next thing he knew, Alex already blew him away straight to the wall before shooting him with his fire swords.
"Argh!"
Alex activated his eyes and saw that Adrus"s energy was still going strong and noticed that there was another set of energy that was stimulating all of his energy.
The smoke was blown away by his Spiritual Energy alone as Adrus roared. "Curse you! You are the one who forced me to use the Heavenly Raging Pill! I will bring you with me to death!"
"That is not possible." Alex shook his head and slashed his swords six times.
"Triple Draws."
"Mythical Fire Slashes!"
"Hmph! My strength is now equal to you! Do you think I can"t destroy this?!" Adrus harrumphed before he struck at these six Sword Waves.
"Serpent Sword Dance!"
Adrus used his Original Sword Skill once again and swung his sword back and forth. Because he didn"t make a large swing and instead many small swings, he could strike all the six Sword Waves more than fifty times before they reached him. Albeit…
"What is this? Can"t they be stopped? Why can"t I destroy them?" Adrus remarked out loud before it turned to be his last remark as Alex"s Sword Waves cut him into pieces.
"Boom!" The Sword Waves exploded and shook the entire hall, especially the barrier that was protecting them, but soon they dropped their jaws when they noticed the state of the barrier.
Although it was nearly impossible to spot it, Elizabeth still saw that the barrier was thinned slightly because of those explosions. If she checked the Spirit Crystals that she used to maintain this barrier, she would realize that she had lost big from this attack alone. After all, Alex"s Pure Fire wasn"t just ordinary. It also had a burning effect. It was a flame after all. She looked at Alex and turned serious.
Alex had no change of expression as he had predicted this would happen. Adrus was a strong opponent if he fought seriously from the start, but he just chose to underestimate him from the beginning. Alex didn"t let this go and kept pressuring him to make him unable to use all of his strength, and it was pretty effective, considering he could win this easily.
He reached out to his s.p.a.ce Ring and tossed it to Evelyn. He took another glance at Adrus and thought, "It"s a fight between two Original Skills with Pure Fire and a single Original Sword Skill. It would be weird if you can stop it."
Alex nodded to Elizabeth and flew toward his seat where Evelyn and Song Jiaoren waited.
"As expected of Big Brother Alex." Evelyn grinned and a.s.sured him. "Don"t worry. We will handle the rest."
"Thank you." Alex smiled and patted her head.
Song Jiaoren only cupped his hands with a smile. He never expected that Alex was this powerful. If he were the one who fought Eric, he wouldn"t end up pitifully like him. What he was thinking right now was if he fought against him… Would he be able to win?
Song Jiaoren shook the thought off his head and sighed. He had decided to follow Alex to get a chance to move to the main clan, and he also needed to talk about it to Alex sooner or later, so Alex didn"t feel he was cheated by him.
Meanwhile, the reactions from others were also quite extraordinary. Eric Hinga was already leaving this banquet due to his injury, but there was a disciple watching this extraordinary battle. He panicked and left the hall almost immediately.
On the Ancient Blue Family side, the potential Family Head candidate, Rio, was already discussing with his elders.
"Then, what should we do now?" The elder asked.
"My b.e.s.t.i.a.l instinct is telling me that man is seriously dangerous. He must also hide his strength this entire time… And the way he looks so composed this whole time means he has been planning for this banquet for a long time. I should say that he is very confident in his plan. I think I will need to advise the family head to reconsider our alliance with the Fire G.o.d Clan."
"Why?" The elder narrowed his eyes.
"It"s simple. We don"t know the extent of Spirit Nest… And from our information, the Spirit Nest always calls him "Young Master". In other words, there will probably be a peak Martial Saint behind them. That"s why they are so confident in this battle."
"10-Star Martial Saint…" The elder gasped.
"Yeah. The best thing we know is the fact that his influence isn"t really that big. If not, he would already use it in those fights against other influences. Let"s see… He must have a group consisting of elites that are trying to reach the pick before he becomes the head of that influence." Rio narrowed his eyes.
"!!!"
"As you just realized, there is a chance for him to destroy an influence in Heavenly Continent to be the next head of that alliance. Remember what he told the branch family when we clearly helped the Fire G.o.d Clan to fight him on the Sacred Continent?" Rio paused for a moment. "He told us not to cross our line. I a.s.sume that he doesn"t really want to fight us if necessary and only target… No, because the Fire G.o.d Clan is enough.
"Besides, he seems to have planned all the way to the demise of the Fire G.o.d Clan, starting from the alliance between him and the Blackwade Clan and that Evelyn from the Drunken Pavilion. If we are fighting those three with only the Fire G.o.d Clan, then it"s not possible to win." Rio sighed.
"I see. Although the Fire G.o.d Clan has offered us big time by letting the second young miss marry that Eric, it"s not worth the exchange, considering he always razed the entire influences to the ground if they were his enemies. Besides, that Eric also lost his hand, so…" The elder didn"t continue.
"Indeed. Rather than having this gamble with overwhelming odds, we better stay quiet for a while. I should also start consolidating my foundation in the family while trying to reach 2-Star Martial Saint as soon as possible." Rio nodded.
"I understand."
At the same time, Astennu was laughing inwardly as he found this development pretty interesting. He glanced at Alex before sending a thought transmission to Song Yu. "He is really one of a kind."
"Yes, he"s always been." Song Yu asked. "Are you going to partic.i.p.ate in this mess?"
"No way. I need to handle all the matters about you first… And I also don"t like fighting in this chaotic situation. We better lay low for the time being. Besides, I am not sure if I want to help him or not."
"Sure. He doesn"t need help from me anymore, so I will just pray for his well-being inside the sect."
"Hehe… You are going to meet him after this banquet, you know."
"Yeah. I am looking forward to it."
As the discussions were still going on, Elizabeth still needed to continue the banquet and had no choice other than ignoring those discussions.