Chapter 143 142: Battle



Name: Jian

Class: Wind Swordsman

Talent: Instant Teleportation

Level: 158

Strength: Orange Star [48%]

Agility: Yellow Star [69%]

Dexterity: Yellow Star [13%]

Constitution: Orange Star [93%]

Intelligence: Orange Star [65%]

Endurance: Orange Star [49%]

Astral Mana: Yellow Star [87%]

"Well this is something."

Corey mumbled in a low voice as he looked at the stats of his opponent.

'He's level 158 but he only surpasses me in agility and dexterity.'

Corey's brows furrowed slightly as he had this thought.

In terms of strength, his opponent was at 48% Orange Star while Corey was at 50% Orange Star, surpassing his opponent by just two percent.

In terms of agility, his opponent was at 69% Yellow Star while Corey was at 50% Orange Star. His opponent surpassing him by a wide margin.

In terms of dexterity, his opponent was at 13% Yellow Star, while Corey was at 50% Orange Star. His opponent once again surpassing him by a wide margin.

But in terms of constitution, intelligence, endurance and astral mana, Corey surpassed his opponent, especially in intelligence and astral mana by a wide margin.

His opponent's constitution was at 93% Orange Star, while Corey's was at 70% Yellow Star, almost surpassing his opponent by an entire star.

His opponent's intelligence was at 65% Orange Star, while Corey's was at 50% Green Star, widely surpassing his opponent by almost two entire stars.

His opponent's endurance was at 49% Orange Star, while Corey's was at 50% Orange Star, surpassing his opponent by 1%.

As for the last attribute, astral mana. Corey's opponent was at 87% Yellow Star, while Corey's was at 25% Blue Star, heavily surpassing his opponent.

Basically, Corey surpassed his opponent in almost everything which was shocking and confusing to Corey since his opponent, Jian was level 158.

'Not only is he level 158, his talent is instant teleportation.'

Corey thought with a slight furrow of his brows as his eyes never moved away from Jian, but a second later,

Jian disappeared.

Corey's pupils constricted and without hesitation, he activated the Hexagon Barrier skill but his response was just a tad bit too slow.

Slash

Rip

"WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE! THE SMILE REAPER HAS ANOTHER DEFENSIVE SKILL?"

"JUST HOW MANY DEFENSIVE SKILLS DOES HE HAVE?!"

"IS HE THAT SCARED FOR HIS LIFE?!"

"ALSO, IT SEEMS THE SMILE REAPER HAS NO ANSWER TO THE SWORDSMAN OF THE WIND!"

"THE SWORDSMAN OF THE WIND IS JUST TOO FAST FOR THE SMILE REAPER."

With an expression filled with fake excitement, the announcer spoke, riling up the crowd with false words.

However Jian,

"Motherfucker."

Despite Jian successfully slashing a part of Corey's back, he could not help curse when a white bone like armor appeared around Corey's body, stopping his slash from cutting deeply into Corey, possibly dealing a fatal blow.

Not wanting to stay close to Corey, Jian teleported further away from Corey with cold eyes.

Meanwhile Corey clicked his tongue as he looked at the Devourer's Armor which appeared without him willing for it to appear.

'Another ability of mine is exposed once again.'

Corey thought as droplets of blood dripped from his back unto the floor.

'His instant teleportation is too fast and is too instantaneous for me to react to.'

Corey frowned slightly as he looked at Jian who had changed his stance.

'Do I have to expose another skill?'

Corey released a soft internal sigh as he looked at Jian.

Just as he sighed, Jian crossed his swords together causing Corey to frown slightly.

"Wheel of the Swordsman of the Wind."

Jian muttered softly and two seconds later, he slashed at Corey.

As soon as he slashed at Corey, two diagonally crossed green colored sword slashes appeared and moved towards Corey while spinning at a fast speed.

'Eyes of Omniscience.'

'Focus.'

Seeing the incoming attack, Corey entered his focused state while activating Eyes of Omniscience.

The world changed in Corey's eyes as his eyes turned pure white.

As he looked at the incoming fast attack, he was no longer seeing a spinning diagonally green attack, what he was seeing were different symbols joined together, spinning and even changing.

With a calm expression, Corey raised the axe in his right hand and slashed sideways.

'Axe Intent.'

A colorless translucent horizontal axe slash appeared and moved towards the incoming rotating green diagonal attack.

"WHAT DOES THE SMILE REAPER THINK HE'S DOING?"

"THERE'S NO WAY SUCH AN ATTACK CAN DEFEAT THE SWORDSMAN OF THE WIND'S ATTACK."

"HAS HE FINALLY GONE MENTAL?"

As Corey's attack moved towards Jian's attack, the announcer spoke with genuine confusion in his tone and expression.

But a few seconds later, when Corey's attack collided with Jian's attack, something which nobody expected to happen, except Corey, happened.

As Corey's attack and Jian's attack met each other, instead of Jian's attack overpowering Corey's attack or Corey's attack overpowering Jian's attack.

Corey's translucent axe slash cut apart Jian's rotating green diagonal attack and moved towards Jian who was completely stupefied at what he just saw.

Not only was Jian stupefied, the entire audience and even the announcer were shocked and stunned.

"ON THE GODS OF THE SEVEN SEAS PEOPLE!"

"DID YOU SEE THAT?!"

"DID YOU FUCKING SEE THAT?!"

"THE SMILE REAPER'S ATTACK JUST CUT APART THE SWORDSMAN OF THE WIND'S ATTACK WITH EASE."

"IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THE SWORDSMAN OF THE WIND'S ATTACK WAS JUST WIND, A HARMLESS BREEZE."

"… OH WAIT… IT'S ACTUALLY JUST WIND."

Unlike what the announcer said, the attack of Jian was not just wind.

Okay, yes it was.

But what Corey did, was actually not as simple as it looked.

What Corey did, was basically attacking the weak point of Jian's attack.

This was one of the usefulness of the Eyes of Omniscience which allowed Corey to see the invisible symbols that forms whenever people manipulate mana to use a skill.

This was one of the things Corey learnt in the three day period that he used to train.

When Corey was 'creating' the skill, Hexagon Barrier. Corey at some point, knew he had to test it out against an opponent and since Corey had quite a number of powerful recorded beings, Corey decided to fight some of them.

Like the Bird of Oblivion, the tier 2 Smiley and even the right Guardian of the temple of flames.

It was during these fights that Corey realized that he could try to find the imperfections in attacks and even a lot of things.

Although he could see the imperfections in some attacks, it was not in all attacks.

Corey guessed that the higher the proficiency in the attacks, the lower the number of imperfections. Also, the stronger the attack, the lower the number of imperfections Corey could see.

Now, back to reality.

As Corey's axe intent moved towards the dazed Jian, Jian sensing the danger of Corey's incoming attack, instinctively used the surest method of preserving his life.

He used his talent, Instant Teleportation and this time, as Corey was looking at Jian, he saw something different.

As soon as Jian activated his talent, Corey saw numerous complex silver symbols form at an extremely fast speed around Jian, then the air, the space around Jian cracked then broke apart like glass and in the next instant, Jian disappeared from Corey's vision.

But this time, Corey saw certain parts of space in front of him, crack then reform but this was occurring at an extremely fast speed.

What Corey was seeing was occurring in less than the time it took to blink.

And just as Corey was struggling to track the cracks in space, he felt an extremely minute killing intent above him and he looked up.

Just as he looked up, he saw Jian around five meters above him, spinning in an anti-clockwise manner and a second later, a roar escaped his lips.

"FURY OF THE SWORDSMAN OF THE WIND!"