314 Transcendental Battle Power (1/2)
”I'm going to have fun dismembering your limbs and parade your head around the city after I'm done, but don't take it too personally, kid. You only have yourself to blame for being born into the wrong family and kingdom.”
”Less nonsense and just fight!”
Leon was not interested in listening. Any place would have its own struggles and hardship.
”You are too insolent, kid! Since you are in a hurry to reincarnate, let me send you off!”
Balthazar growled as a malevolent aura gushed out his body like a tidal wave with pulsating pressure. After drawing his sword and slicing his own body, his flesh split open, and blackish-red blood oozed out of his fresh wounds like goo.
The blackish-red blood was incredibly thick and evil. It spread like boiling bubbles and contained thousands of human faces that appeared like their very souls were trapped within.
It was uncertain how much lives were taken to reach such a sickening state of blood refinement that emanated a pungent and putrid stench of iron and death.
After covering Balthazar's entire body, sword included, the blood hardened into a black armor with crimson sheen.
[Blood Armament]
Balthazar locked onto Leon's figure with sharp eyes, and his billowing malevolent aura surged with sharpness as they start to converge on the tip of his sword.
Whether it was bravery or foolishness, Balthazar had no intention of going easy on Leon just because of his superior cultivation level.
”Eat my sword!”
Balthazar hacked out with a vertical sword slash, and an energy wave of bloody aura swept towards Leon in the form of a crescent moon!
Crimson Moon Slash!
Realm of Sword Spirit! Infusing spirit into one's attack!
”So, you are also a Swordsman!”
Leon dodged to the side without any intention of changing his weapon as the bloody aura narrowly missed and cleaved the earthen wall behind apart. Since he had taken out the 'L' shaped black spear, he will use it!
The bloody aura did not stop and continued to strike the old buildings of Lost Isle Alley, but Leon did not turn to check the damage. He could not afford to divide his attention in the middle of battle.
The ring of grey energy within the black vortex of his sea of consciousness was set ablaze and transformed into a ring of fire.
Leon tightened the grip on the black spear and channeled the fiery energy into his spear along with his infused indomitable spirit before sweeping out with an attack of his own!
However!
Due to his spear's shape, the fiery energy was discharged oddly like an ill coiling dragon learning how to be a frog. As it headed towards Balthazar, it seared the ground with each bounce.
”Hmph! What a joke!”
Balthazar snorted.
Such an attack was a complete embarrassment!
”Old bastard, help me straighten out my spear!”
Right then, a forceful spear blow dropped down from above Balthazar's head as the flames of the fiery dragon attack disperse from the slap. After his first attack, Leon had not been idle and had followed close behind the fiery dragon like he chasing the dragon's tail before leaping in the air with a downward swing.
”Hmph! Want to compete in physical strength? You're not—”
Balthazar snorted and received Leon's blow with confidence, but his expression drastically changed when the sword and spear were contacted.
”What!”
Boom!
It was like Balthazar had been struck five times in the span of one attack, as Leon struck with the force of five echoes, a fivefold increase in his physical strength. Under the augmentation of Divine Will, his attack received a further 50% boost in physical strength.
Balthazar's hands trembled greatly and cracked the ground beneath his feet with the first wave, while the subsequent waves forced Balthazar down on one knee as he suffered the brunt force of Leon's almost 70,000 jin spear strike.
If not for the Blood Armament reinforcing Balthazar's defense, he would have been crushed into the ground. What kind of strength was this?!
Balthazar flushed with rage after losing to Leon in a contest of brute strength. Was this little bastard actually a beast in human skin?!
A 9-star Ranked Awakener only had 9000 jin of physical strength, while a Transcendent's physical strength was 10,000 jins!
”Haaa!”