Chapter 297: Inner Disciple Tournament 2
297 Inner Disciple Tournament 2
Alex saw the sword come to replace the buried sword. This was an intriguing Sword Art, he thought.
After reaching this point, Alex couldn"t use his Sanguin Sword Art anymore as it was already a bit too weak for him to use. Luckily, he had Seven Stars Cut in his repertoire. But it didn"t change the fact that he abandoned one of his Sword Art.
He was wondering whether to replace it with another Sword Art or not. But after he found this sword art, he felt this sword art was perfect for replacing his Sanguin Sword Art.
This Sword Art was similar to his Desolation, where he summoned five illusory swords. But this Sword Art used real swords, and this made it even stronger than Desolation. Another reason why he felt this sword art was a good replacement was because he had too many swords in his inventory.
He never had any chance to use it or sell it. Rather than sitting in his inventory for a long time and being forgotten, he chose to use it with this Sword Art.
Since he had this goal in his mind, Alex deliberately prolonged this match so he could copy this Sword Art. It seemed the name of this Sword Art was Running sword.
The principle of the Sword Art was not complicated. Alex managed to copy it within five minutes.
"Pentagram Slas.h.!.+"
Alex sent five streams of light toward Himura Minami. She immediately recalled the sword back and used them to protect her from Alex"s attack.
"Sword s.h.i.+eld Formation."
Each sword took one slash from Alex, and just like that, his attack was blocked by her. Unfortunately, Alex only used this move so he could get time to take out his swords from the system.
He took out five rank 3 swords and let them fly toward Himura Minami.
The entire stadium didn"t get shocked as they thought Alex must have learned this sword art before. But it was different from Charya and the rest.
They knew Alex could copy a Sword Art easily. But they almost forgot about it because Alex never did it again for a long time. Seeing this again immediately jogged their memory.
They looked at each other, and involuntarily laughed.
Alex made the swords fly toward Himura Minami. Her thought was the same as the audiences, she thought Alex had mastered this technique before.
She also sent her swords to intercept him. But Alex didn"t stop there. He used his Pentagram Slash once again and hid them behind the swords.
So when the sword repelled each other, the slashes appeared from behind the swords and flew toward Himura Minami.
"What?" Himura Minami got shocked by it. She quickly took out another sword but only had the time to pull one. She parried three slashes, but the other two managed to wound both of her feet.
"Flash Step."
Alex used this chance to approach her and pointed out his sword against her. Alex looked at Elder Dolf.
"Alexander Sirius Wins!"
"..." The crowd was dumbfounded when Alex, who was a 7-Star Martial Grandmaster, could defeat an 8-Star Martial Grandmaster that easily. They finally remembered that Alex won the champions.h.i.+p of last year"s tournament when he was only an 8-Star Martial Master.
The people finally cheered once again, and Alex"s fans that came to the ninth peak because of him cheered as hard as they could. At first, they were disappointed as they could not meet Alex. And a few days ago, they heard Alex suddenly became the number one. They were cheering for that and immediately went to the battle tower.
But they never saw Alex go out of the battle tower. They thought Alex rigged the battle tower to his convenience, and that made them a bit disappointed. But after they saw Alex defeat an 8-Star Martial Master easily with his cultivation, that thought disappeared, and they cheered for him with all their might.
On the other hand, Alex did not care about it. After he finished his match, he quickly came back to Charya"s room.
Charya and the others congratulated him.
After a few more fights, the second round finally arrived. This time, Putri was matched up with a 7-Star Martial Grandmaster while Alex would fight with Nakagawa Ryuu, an 8-Star Martial Grandmaster.
Evelyn came to tease him about his luck since he might need to fight the former 10th place if he won this time. But Alex only shrugged his shoulder as he was planning to win… for the system reward.
Charya told him that he would get the same reward as the previous year, only slightly better. Alex immediately lost his interest. 10 Premium Tickets or whatever that Special Summon Ticket was better than the reward from the sect.
After waiting for two hours, Alex"s turn finally came again. He once again saw the familiar muscular, and strict guy. This was the same person that he met back when he took the test on that particular stone monument.
This person seemed to have forgotten about Alex. He looked at Alex with that strict eyes like he wanted to beat him as soon as the match started.
"You are just a cheater. I don"t know what kind of trick you used to get a perfect score in the battle tower. But I will defeat you here so everyone could know that you cheated." Nakagawa Ryuu snorted.
Alex looked at Nakagawa Ryuu weirdly. This person didn"t have a weapon with him, so it left him two possibilities. First, Nakagawa Ryuu was an elemental user. However, after looking at his muscular build, Nakagawa Ryuu seemed to be the latter, which was a body cultivator.
Alex was wondering where this person got his confidence. He then looked at Elder Dolf and nodded.
"Match Starts!"
"Singular Fist!" As soon as the match started, Nakagawa Ryuu jumped forward and threw his fist.
Alex could see a huge amount of energy on this particular fist. But Alex was not afraid to take this fist head-on.
He covered his fist with Spiritual Energy and punched it toward Nakagawa Ryuu"s fist.
A shock wave vibrated the entire arena. They thought Alex was a fool to use his fist to counter a body cultivator, but what they found shocked them the most.
The one who got pushed back was not Alex but Nakagawa Ryuu. Alex had two dragon strength while Nakagawa Ryuu was still short five hundred bulls strength to reach two dragon strength.
He had destroyed all of his enemies with his body. But in front of Alex, he got pushed back. He couldn"t accept it. Nakagawa Ryuu immediately threw another fist toward Alex.
Alex didn"t let him do it. He opened his fist that was still colliding with Nakagawa"s fist and grasped his wrist.
"!!!" Nakagawa Ryuu was alarmed by the sudden action. But it was too late. Alex grabbed his wrist and threw his entire body away.
"Boom!"
He crashed into the wall. Alex immediately used his Omnislash and let them fly toward Nakagawa Ryuu.
The reason why he used his Omnislash at this time instead of his new Sword Art, Running sword, was because he felt some similarity between them. After experiencing combining two Spear Arts, Silver Raven, and Bear Sovereign, not only his spear knowledge, Alex"s knowledge about swords also got deeper.
He felt these two Sword Arts could be combined by him. Those ten swords flew and plunged to Nakagawa Ryuu.
But before his swords managed to do it. Another giant fist appeared and knocked his swords away. He then came out of the wall and looked at Alex fiercely.
*Cheers*
The crowd cheered them loudly. This match became more interesting. They thought Nakagawa Ryuu would lose easily like Himura Minami. But Nakagawa Ryuu seemed to be able to put up a decent fight.
The disciples slowly remembered what kind of person Alex was. He was a person that could easily defeat people with two stars above him. This Nakagawa Ryuu should lose sooner or later.
Nakagawa Ryuu charged toward Alex again. He didn"t accept himself losing to someone who had a weaker cultivation than him. This time, he used his Fist Intent fully.
"Superior Fist!"
He punched to the air in Alex"s direction, and the air suddenly sent a wind pressure toward Alex. Alex could see that this wind pressure contained Nakagawa"s Ryuu fist intent.
His expression became serious. To defeat Nakagawa Ryuu that had become serious. He would also need to be serious.
Alex raised his sword as an overbearing Sword Intent started hovering on his sword. His Sword Intent was far more ferocious than Nakagawa Ryuu"s Fist Intent. In other words, they were not at the same level.
Alex swung his sword down and split this incoming wind pressure into two. It split the wind pressure right in front of him.
Alex jumped forward and waved his sword toward Nakagawa Ryuu"s neck. Ryuu immediately parried Alex"s sword. Both of them continued to clash.
They clashed for about one hundred rounds in five minutes. There were many wounds on Ryuu"s body. Alex had been suppressing him this entire time.
He even used his metal elements to strengthen his body to withstand Alex"s brute strength. But it was not enough as Alex was still able to pierce his defense with his Sword Intent.
Although Nakagawa Ryuu could send his fist intent along with his attack and that made him a half-step Fist Grandmaster. But Alex was already a Sword Grandmaster, and his domain was not smaller than any other people who competed in this tournament. It was normal that Alex could break his defense easily.
Even so, Nakagawa Ryuu couldn"t accept such an outcome.
"Metal Blanket!" He shouted. At the same time, his entire body started turning black like a metal. When Alex saw this, he remembered his spirit, Greg. Nakagawa Ryuu"s transformation was similar to Greg"s transformation.
"I might not be able to compete after this if I used this move. But as long as I defeat right now, I don"t care. Because I don"t accept losing to anyone whose cultivation is lower than me!" He said out loud while looking at Alex.
Alex finally realized his motivation by fighting him like this. It turned out to be like that. Alex thought he was ordered to fight him like this, but in reality, it was only his pride. Alex shook helplessly.
Ryuu misunderstood this. He thought Alex underestimated him.
"How dare you!" He disappeared.
Alex got his movement with his Spirit Eyes, and he immediately jumped backward. And he was right. As soon as he jumped backward, Ryuu appeared in front of him and had punched the ground. The arena got cracked. If Alex didn"t avoid this, his bone would be the one that got cracked like this… maybe.
Ryuu disappeared again to pursue Alex. Alex saw that Ryuu"s energy was depleting so fast. Alex would be able to win sooner or later as long as he dodged every attack from Ryuu.
He was a careful person, but he was not a coward. Ryuu"s attack didn"t scare him at all.
"Take this attack if you are a man!" Ryuu shouted at him.
"You wis.h.!.+" Alex immediately stopped.
"Supreme Fist!" Ryuu grinned when he saw Alex stopped on his track. He immediately threw a fist against him. He thought Alex wouldn"t be able to receive this fist. Although he was surprised to see Alex was able to push him back at their first clash, he was sure Alex wouldn"t be able to do it this time.
"Immovable Step!"
Alex used his Immovable Step to double his power. His previous two dragon strength became a four dragon strength. Ryuu had increased his strength significantly, but it was far too short to meet Alex"s strength even if he used his fist intent.
Their fist finally collided and sent another shock wave that was far bigger than their first clash. And once again, Alex pushed him back entirely.
This made the entire arena shocked, especially Ryuu. Alex didn"t let this chance go and grabbed his wrist once again. He didn"t throw Ryuu to the wall again but to the ground.
He pinned him to the ground as he summoned his Omnislash and shot them to the ground. Of course, the swords didn"t hit Alex or Ryuu, but the result was clear.
After looking at this, the third elder immediately announced,
"Alexander Sirius Wins!"