Chapter 354: Mako Vs Alexi (Part 3)

Chapter 354: Mako Vs Alexi (Part 3)



Mako hadn't displayed his resonated ability to anyone in the school yet as he wanted to keep a secret trump card up his sleeve at all times.

However, in such a dire and important time, Mako believed it was time to go all out as he activated his Energy Manipulation ability and gathered a small charge in his hands that he blasted right into the right side of Alexi's abdomen, dealing some real damage.

The blast wasn't very powerful as Mako was only able to charge it for a couple of seconds, but since Alexi wasn't expecting such an attack and had left himself wide open with no protection whatsoever, the damage done by the blast was still able to deal enough damage to make him stagger and limp over as he tried to quickly recover.

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Mentality was an attribute that Mako learned the importance of very quickly after he had obtained his first ability.

It was not only the measure of his mental strength and resilience but also his mental capacity. Storing an ability within one's body requires significant mental capacity, with the required capacity increasing as the ability's level and the number of associated skills grow.

Mako had always made sure that none of his attributes lagged behind because he wanted to grow as balanced in every attribute as possible which wasn't the best strategy as this was the reason that Mako had failed in the past because a specific attribute like Strength or Agility was a high enough level to get the job done. After all, he had wasted his attribute points trying to level up the other attributes as well that didn't play a role in that scenario.

On the other side; however, thanks to Mako investing attribute points in every single attribute, he never had a massive weakness as all of his stats were balanced and complimented each other well.

His Strength, Stamina, and Agility made it so that the opponent couldn't find any weaknesses in his fighting style as his speed matched his strength and he had the stamina to keep fighting at that pace.

His Intelligence and Perception worked together so that he could still calmly process and analyze things while in the heat of the battle to make sure he didn't make any errors.

His ever-growing Mentality allowed him to store 5 different abilities inside his body which include: Fire (Level 5), Lightning (Level 5), Earth (Level 3), Poison (Level 2), and Energy Manipulation (Level 2).

However, since he had obtained so many abilities in such a short amount of time, his Mentality was still not leveled up enough to handle all of their growth.

Sometime after Mako had reached Level 15 and the system went through its third update and introduced the new attribute system, Mako received a notification informing him that his mentality had reached its capacity once more and until he was able to upgrade it further, the progression of all of his abilities would be halted at 99% and would not level up.

He quickly planted his swords into the ground, using them as a conduit to influence the ground. In an instant, tens of thick earth slabs were raised from the ground in between Alexi and the blast to protect him.

The blast made contact with the first wall and tore and easily tore through leaving a perfect hole in its center.

The blast continued forward, tearing through the walls one by one, but losing some of its power with each impact.

Alexi was shocked to see the blast being so powerful that it successfully tore through fifteen thick earth slabs and was still coming towards him.

With no more space to raise more earth wall, Alexi gritted his teeth and steeled his resolve as he quickly pulled the swords out of the ground and crossed them in front of him, creating a magnetic barrier to stick them together once again.

The blast made contact with Alexi's blades trying to blow past them as well, but Alexi was strong enough to match the force of the weakened blast and was able to stop it in its tracks. However, the energy stream wasn't over as Mako had continued to release it for 20 seconds. Alexi gritted his teeth with blood started to drip from his nose as he withstood the rest of the blast, his feet digging deep in the ground to stop him from moving back and his swords getting hotter by the second from withstanding the blast but still holding.

The high-tier swords were far tougher and more resilient than the earth walls as even after a continued 20-second blast, they remained intact.

The blast kicked up a lot of dust and smoke making it so that Mako was unable to see whether Alexi was defeated or not.

As the smoke cleared, Mako saw Alexi rushing toward him at top speed, his swords drawn and crackling with lightning once more.

Mako was honestly quite surprised to see Alexi still having the strength to continue fighting after he had poured a good chunk of his energy into that blast to make sure the fight would

end.

He reached to unsheath his katana once again and resume the fight; however, for the first time in this fight, Mako was the one with cold sweats as his hands grabbed nothing but air.

As he quickly looked down, he was left in shock to see the katana missing from his sheath.

Mako gulped down hard as in time he was able to process that he no longer had his katana with him to fight, Alexi was already upon him with mighty fury waiting to be unleashed.