Chapter 134 - Explosion (1/2)

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!*

The powerful explosion resounded in the entire forest. Even the participants far away could detect it.

Their faces changed completely. As level-three, they could feel the power behind that explosion, and none of them could be sure they could endure something like that.

'To think that there is someone so strong inside this game.' They thought.

Most of the participants instantly moved away from the place of the explosion. None of them wanted to face the one responsible for the attack.

Only a pair of people remained around. As for their intentions, nobody could know them.

Everything in a twenty-meters radius was burned down by the explosion. Many ghosts were unable to scream before being turned into ashes, and nothing remained from the blue-skinned man's corpse.

But the enemies were not the only ones affected by the explosion.

Unfortunately for Aleen, when the explosion happened, he was inside the most dangerous area.

Though he shielded his body with a layer of mana, the explosion of lightning was terrifying. If not because Aleen received a temporary boost in his mana due to the failed breakthrough, he would have been unable to endure the attack.

Claire, on the other hand, was in a much better situation. She was pretty far from the epicenter of the explosion when it happened, and although she was impacted by the shockwaves, a layer of flames appeared automatically on her skin and resisted most of the impact.

When the dust finally cleared, Claire immediately searched for Aleen.

"Brother! Brother!"

Claire did not realize that she reverted at her former way of calling Aleen, but she would not care about it even if she realized. After all, she was too worried about Aleen's wellbeing to mind it.

Fortunately, she heard a groan of pain coming from a few meters away one second later.

"Urgh!"

"Brother!" She called happily. Claire instantly ran towards the source of the sound and helped Aleen up. She stared at Aleen with a concerned expression and noticed the numerous injuries on his skin.

"Cough cough!" Aleen coughed intensely and vomited a mouthful of blood. He then groaned in pain once more and tried to circulate his mana to alleviate his injuries.

His body was filled with burns everywhere. Aleen could hardly breathe without feeling a bout of pain due to them.

Miraculously, though, his limbs were complete.

Aleen thought that he would lose at least an arm or leg after that explosion, but besides a few dangerous looking burns, he was mostly alright.

It happened because his body was still filled with energy when the explosion happened and said energy protected him from the plasma and lightning. But Aleen did not know it. He just thought he was very lucky.

"Are you alright, Aleen?" Claire asked looking worried at Aleen. Her way of calling him returned to Aleen instead of brother.