Chapter 249: Duel III

Then suddenly, but as expected, Drille released a great amount of sharpness-energy energy from his single-socketed sword.

What he couldn't do with his body, he could now do it with the treasure-sword that he wielded.

The astonishing amount of swordforce energy that was instantly produced by the sword, abruptly transformed into hundreds of large swords that spanned thirty feet each in size.

Then as soon as they formed, they shot out towards Alex at blazing speeds.

Alex who was ready for Drille at the far distance that he floated at, quickly released great amount of swordforce energy from one of the two treasure-swords that he wielded.

Then the shocking amount of sharpness-energy released, instantly compacted and shaped into large numbers of huge swords that shot towards the similarly massive sword-shaped attacks unleashed by Drille.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!...

Hundreds of loud bang sounds rang out as the huge swords of energy collided into each other. Then as soon as they clashed, due to the same degree of solidness and denseness that they possessed, both attacks shattered into smithereens which then reverted back to slivers of swordforce energy that returned to the realmverse. However, once they impacted each other, with the intents to reduce the other into fragments, powerful waves of tyrannical, sharpness-bearing energies surfaced from the points of their collisions and swept into the far distance with great destructive might. Just about anything caught in their devastating paths would be instantly lacerated to millions of extremely small bits. Also, as soon as they collided, powerful currents of air shot off from the points at which they collided and raged into the distance like frenzied dragons.

Once they saw that their attacks canceled out, they quickly unleashed more attacks at each other.

Alex was actually using a sky-rank weapon to fight. If one began to wonder why he could so, that was because of his body's new degree of toughness. Due to the tempering by the extremely destructive, Beyonder-class tribulation lightning that descended on him, his body had been refined and made to gain more hardness against physical damages.

Therefore, in this case, his tempered body was able to withstand the aura of power coming from the treasure-sword, since he only operated a single array in a voidstone out of the twenty voidstones that were plugged to the many sockets of the sword and contained their own energy-generating arrays.

However, Alex was thinking of making more arrays in one of the two treasure-swords that he wielded to begin to operate. He actually wanted to know the degree of his body's toughness.

Seeing Alex use a sky-rank weapon like he was using an earth-rank weapon, caused Drille's mind to spin in awe.

'How's that even possible?' He asked inwardly with terrible shock coming from his tone.

Alex should have coughed out blood by now and look exceedingly pale. But he was fine where he was.

Anyways, he knew that Alex wouldn't go beyond his boundary and make more arrays in the voidstones to begin to work, or he would only call for his own doom.

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As soon as their attacks shattered into fragments and resulted in the eruption of powerful waves that possessed tyrannical slashing power, and then the release of powerful and violent air currents that swept with rage into the distance, both of them quickly released more amounts of swordforce energy from their swords.

Once the huge amounts of sharpness-energy were produced, they abruptly condensed and shaped into thousands of swords that shot at insane speeds towards the other.

Seeing the massive number of attacks that were shooting towards him, Drille couldn't help but be shocked.

'What battle methodology is this guy using?' He thought with great shock.

Alex had employed a powerful method called 'Hiding Cloud Swords of Banishment', which he studied from the Banishment Sword methodology that he studied.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!...

Loud thunderous sounds incessantly rang out as the thousands of enormous energy-swords that were fired by the both of them, impacted each other with a momentum that invoked the feeling that they wanted to totally destroy the other. And as soon as they clashed, waves of laceration intent energies, erupted from the point at which they collided and rushed into the distance. Also, strong gales of wind that could seemingly reduce boulders and rocks into nothing, manifested from the points at which the attacks tyrannically impacted each other and swept into the distance with an howl like they were furious beasts that had broken free from their cages.

Not long, both Drille's and Alex's attacks nullified each other.

However, due to the amounts of swords of energy that Alex produced, not all were involved in a collision, as many of them went on to try to impact Drille who had a deeply surprised expression in his face. But the astonished expression in his face, vanished in the same time that it appeared, as Drille quickly replaced his armor with an average-grade, sky-rank armor that immediately appeared on his body, and then rapidly sent out a rectangular-shaped object from his spatial ring at the incoming deadly attacks.

The instant that the object appeared in the air, it transformed into a massive, rectangular-shaped shield that shot towards the focused stream of sword-shaped attacks to impact them and possibly reduce their momentums or even totally destroy them.

BOOM!!!

A deafening boom sound rang out as the huge swords struck the massive shield all at once.

Then due to their momentums, and the simultaneous, exceedingly heavy strikes that they unleashed, the colossal shield was viciously knocked back at Drille who was then shoved into the far distance by the force produced by the tremendously heavy strikes which still went on to try to annihilate their target.

As soon as the immense shield wickedly smashed into him, Drille couldn't help but scream out in pain.

Although his body was slightly protected from the damage that would be caused by the shield which smashed hard into him and further shoved him at tremendous speed into the far distance, the shock that was transmitted to his body from the insanely heavy impact, caused his blood to roil greatly that it forcefully shot out of his mouth like a fountain which then spread out as it diffused in the atmosphere to color it.

Not long, he crashed into the earth at about forty feet away.

Alex who saw that his concentrated, enormously-sized attacks had shoved Drille far away, quickly flew towards him to deal with him.

Swoosh!

Flying through the air at a great speed and continuously expelling tremendous amounts of tribulation flame-enhanced pyroforce energy at an extremely rapid rate from his feet, which further augmented his flight speed, he arrived in the blink of an eye at the place were Drille was knocked to.

Then with a thought, the treasure-wings that were attached to his back and bestowed him with the Power of Flight, disappeared from his back and appeared in his dad's spatial necklace. So, not being supported by the wings which kept him afloat at a great altitude in the sky, he plummeted to the earth surface from that shocking height that he was at in the air. He wasn't even scared of breaking his legs as he landed without any support from that altitude.

Bang!

The ground cracked when Alex landed, then he went to meet Drille who slowly stood up to his feet.

"I see that you are powerful, but would you dare to touch me, a genius of the Ancient Heavenly Cauldron academy?" Drille asked.

"Haha. Of course! Why can't I touch you? Because you are a genius of the academy that you mentioned that you are from? If everyone are scared of touching you, I am not" Alex replied calmly.

Drille's eyes shone with a cold glint immediately after Alex said that. Then he said "Do you think that because you dominated the earlier battle that you think you are powerful? Remember that I am a Sky Lord stage cultivator, I can still squash you like the bug that you are."

Haha!

Alex laughed.

"If I am a bug that can be squashed, then you are an ant that can be stepped upon and matched to death" He said coldly.

Hahahahahaha!!

Drille's maniacal laughter boomed to the sky, causing people in the area around them to be greatly alarmed. The laughter was simply like that which originated from a Devil God that was out for slaughter and carnage.

Then with eyes that erupted killing intent, he pointed at Alex.

As soon as he did so, twelve enormous rays of lights shot out from his spatial ring. These then instantly turned into twelve massive, six-armed, black-silver metallic puppets that wielded immense swords and sabers.

These puppets which were each fifty-feet tall, towered to the sky like giants, and in the process, casted their shadows upon a great stretch of the land that Alex stood upon.

Black-silver in color, they looked ferocious and frightening to anyone that would see them. Then possessing six-arms each which wielded massive swords and sabers, they invoked the feeling of unbounded fear in anyone. Then in the next instant after they appeared, the aura of gloom and slaughter burst out from them which then spread into the distance.

However, these puppets were only average-quality, sky-rank puppets.

Once these appeared, seventy-two threads of light shot out from Drille's body towards the puppets.

These threads of light were formed from an energy called puppetforce energy; an energy called puppet-control or puppet-manipulation energy which allows a cultivator to control statues, dolls and puppets. There was simply no need to send shreds or fragments of one's souls into puppets to control them which could result in multiple soul injuries if the puppets were destroyed or shattered. So this energy helped prevented that, and was way more comfortable and efficient than inhabiting the bodies of the puppets or dolls with one's subsouls to control them.

Then as soon as the threads of light connected with the bodies of the huge puppets, the large dim eyes of the massive puppets began to glow very brightly.

Then they glared at Alex.