Chapter 48: 48. Orion vs Second Guardian - 1

Chapter 48: 48. Orion vs Second Guardian - 1

After quickly checking his stats, Orion wasted no time and headed straight for the portal. Upon reaching it, he stepped onto the glowing surface and vanished from the arena.

Not long after, he appeared in the temple once again.

Looking around, he observed and found that he didn't see Runo here.

'Looks like he went to fight the third guardian.'

He furrowed his brow as he mulled over the situation. Despite his dislike for Runo, he couldn't deny Runo's strength. So he hoped that maybe he would be able to defeat the third guardian and end this once and for all.

'I should also defeat the second guardian in the meantime.'

Thinking of the second guardian, he remembered that its strength lay at the peak of bronze rank.

But he didn't know how he would fare against it. If he would have a hard time fighting against the second guardian, then he should forget about fighting the third guardian.

'Let's fight and see it for myself.'

He thought as he went to the portal at the other end of the hall before stepping on it and disappearing from the temple once again.

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A moment later, Orion again appeared in a similar battle arena as the last two times.

Looking ahead, he spotted a figure clad in golden armor, standing tall with a sword resting casually on his shoulder, gripped firmly in his right hand.

'A golden one?'

If there were any difference between the second guardian and the first one, then that would be the color between the two. The second guardian's armor appeared fully golden in color, while the first guardian's was white.

Orion tightly held a sword in both of his hands as his eyes narrowed at the guardian. He wanted to fight the second guardian head-on to see if he could hold his own against someone at the peak of the bronze rank. This would also help in determining whether he had any chance with the third guardian or not.

As Orion took his stance, the guardian started running towards him.

Seeing this, Orion activated his curse—Burdened Gravity which increased his weight tremendously.

Seeing that, he tilted his head in time to dodge the first one, while he hurriedly brought his sword and placed it in front of him to block the second one.

He had been running this whole time while deflecting and dodging the golden swords. So it took only a moment before he arrived in front of the guardian once again.

But this time, instead of slashing his sword at the guardian, he threw his sword straight at it.

The guardian reacted by deflecting his sword, but at that moment, two more swords came at him from both of his sides.

Seeing that, the guardian rotated his body like a tornado and deflected those swords too.

But that was enough for Orion to buy him some time and distract the guardian while he disappeared from the arena.

The guardian swept his eyes around the arena and saw that the one he had been fighting until now had disappeared from the arena.

At that moment, he suddenly felt a sensation of touch behind his back as he swiftly turned around and slashed with his sword, but to his surprise, there was no one standing behind his back. Seeing the strange phenomena, he once again felt confused.

However, what the guardian didn't notice was that a purple glow appeared in the part of the armor where he felt that sensation of touch. It appeared to be pulsating like a heartbeat.

Orion, who had been hiding in a different dimension, could see everything that was happening in the arena. But he didn't know how to explain that.

To him, it felt as though he hadn't moved from his place at all, but layers of invisible walls appeared on all sides of him, making him invisible.

These layers of invisible walls made him feel like he had been trapped in a cage where even a sound couldn't be heard outside of it.

Strangely, though, he could see everything happening outside the cage and could also come out of there anytime he felt like it.

Although he didn't understand the basics of this, it didn't stop him from using it to implant a ticking bomb on the guardian's back that would blow up anytime he wanted.

Seeing that the guardian was still clueless about it, Orion detonated the bomb he planted.

"Boom!"

A blinding purple light emanated from the guardian before an explosion happened at the back of the guardian, blasting it forward like a broken kite.

Sliding and tumbling across the arena, he left a trail of broken tiles in his wake as his body continued its uncontrolled rampage before gradually coming to a halt.