301 Smack!

"After making sure that there was no possible way to wake you up, Lan understood that there was no way to deal with this dilemma in a small time frame, so he asked me to either return you to Battle City or at least take care of you till you woke up…"

"And…"

"Yes, just as you can see, since I was too lazy to take you back, I decided to choose the latter and enjoy some fresh air until all of you naturally wake up, which seemed to work pretty well."

I was obviously trying to sound as nonchalant and arrogant as possible within the correct limits, which was really necessary to build up for my scheme.

"So he just left us like this, in your lazy hands just because his so-called Master was urgently asking for his presence…?" Mountain who had hardly managed to maintain his silence till this moment asked in an aggressive tone as he looked at me in irritation.

"Senior…" Sean tried to calm him down and stop him once again only to…

"No need to say more, he is obviously looking down on us and needs to be shown his place." It seemed like Mountain didn't have any plans of holding back...

"Yes, Master's call is more important than you all, who do you think you are? I would have probably got rid of you three if Lan really insisted on wasting time on you anyway, so stop whining about it…" I said provokingly…

"Huh? You wanted to attack us while we were unconscious? Are you really such a coward?" Mountain's face distorted as he already placed his hands on his sword's handle…

"Would it really matter if you were unconscious or not? Anyway, my favor is already done, I hope I won't see you soon, goodbye."

I pretended to be getting ready for leaving, but I mentally gestured for the sprout human to stay still, this was only part of the plan.

"Did I say that you can leave?! I demand a more reasonable explanation!"

As Mountain finally grabbed his great sword, I was also ready to summon 'Lightning Cloud' any moment, after all, this was my target, I basically wanted to… Show off!

Which was why I acted that way in order to make the hot tempered mountain act unreasonably as well so that he would be the first to attack which means that I could show my prowess to them in return.

"Such barbaric acts, you really don't deserve the few hours I spent on you to be honest…"

Dodging the great sword that Mountain lunged towards me with, I displayed the ability of my spatial ring as I summoned 'Lightning Cloud' out of nowhere, transformed it into great spear form, before using it's sturdy pole to smack mountain on his head.

Smack!

"What was that…?" Mountain questioned the sudden appearance of 'Lightning Cloud' as he tried to stabilize himself after losing his balance due to my smack.

'This shouldn't be too hard…'

The reason I was acting as if I was some bully was simple, I really wanted to show off my non-existent background.

Since I didn't plan on showing my full capabilities in my Lan persona, in order to receive most logical support from whichever sect I would join and so that no one would question my power excessively, I planned to use my Zero persona along with my true capabilities to strengthen the thoughts that were already built about my 'Mysterious' background.

Showing my backing was also my main reason for choosing this 'Lan already left' scheme instead of just using a simple 'I woke up now strangely just like the rest of you' strategy to hide the facts about the base or at least limit it.

Of course doing that might not be the simplest method of fake-proving my background in a more understandable way, but it might be more effective…

"You!"

Mountain finally seemed to get more serious as he understood that dealing with me wasn't easy.

This meant that I was unlikely to have it that easy as well, since he probably wasn't going to go for a full physical exchange like this one and start actually using his third stage Earth elemental abilities…

But that was also my goal, since just physically bullying someone wasn't going to prove my prowess which I need to show for the trio so that they would naturally make it reach Battle City for those who actually cared to dig for my info.

"Can you be less louder?" seeing the great sword shining in earthly light, I prepared the Lightning vein of 'Lightning Cloud' for activation as well…

Thud!

The great sword had already turned to what seemed to be a mountain splitter, sending a raw but massive earth element attack towards my way, but I simply used my beloved battle option, to dodge once again!

"Too bad."

Smack!

Spreading Lightning elements through the Lightning vein, I had simply used the spear's pole once again as a stick to smack Mountain's head once more.

"Can we stop this please…?" Sean tried to intervene and stop the mini battle that had just started, but Mountain who had several veins bulging on his forehead simply ignored him…

'This is…'

Thud!

Stomping the ground to jump high, I surprisingly managed to avoid what seemed to be a geographical collapse in the place I was standing at.

'He is really not kidding anymore…'

This was obviously a genuine third stage elemental control attack, it didn't seem like one that inflicted direct damage but one that used the surroundings for that purpose.

"Well, aren't you being too excessive?"

I didn't plan to extend this show off play much longer as I would lose my impression then, not to mention that I really didn't want to be a real bully.

"What? Are you finally afraid or something?"

"Well, not really…"

Jumping once again from my slightly far landing place, I landed exactly in front of Mountain as I…

Smack!

Smacked him for the third time!

'Good night.'