A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 247: Duel I

Seeing the attacks coming towards him, Alex quickly discharged tremendous amounts of darkforce energy from his entire body. And due to the amounts of darkness-energy that had erupted from his body, it became as if he was engulfed by a gigantic, jet-black fog.

Alex was using a technique called "Darkness Concealment", a perverse obscuring method in the Butchering Fiendgods Darkness methodology which he first studied when he acquired the entire wealth of the Azure Beastsman.

Then as soon as the ink-black fog which was a great amount of roiling darkforce energy appeared, the mind-controlled energy swords created by Drille, using his sharpness-energy, shot into the jet-black fog that engulfed Alex's figure to cut him into pieces.

This fog which was formed from obscuration energy and spanned hundreds of feet, simply hid Alex's figure completely. Therefore, not able to pinpoint exactly where Alex was, the flying energy-swords moved by Drille's mind only shot about chaotically within the immense dark fog.

After several minutes of doing so, he recalled the swords.

"So, is that how you are going to hide in there like a coward? If you are a man, come out of that stupid black fog and face me, you foolish coward" Drille said angrily.

However, he didn't hear a thing from Alex.

Hearing no response, Drille became exceedingly angry.

Then he began to release swordforce energy from his hands. Many minutes later; twenty minutes to be precise, the swordforce energy that he erupted from his hands, accumulated to an astonishing amount that it engulfed his figure also like a fog which spanned many feet.

He just couldn't try to do it like Alex who explosively discharged shocking amounts of darkforce energy from his entire body in an instant.

And him witnessing that, caused him to be shook to the core.

It was like he had seen the most outrageous thing in the world. Then this made him more angry as he felt that Alex's talent was tremendously better than his. He then vowed to eliminate Alex. But first, he must torture him severely, then kill him.

The sharpness-energy that had appeared and concealed his figure, began to revolve insanely fast around him. Then it transformed into a furiously rotating cyclone of energy which then moved on the earth surface towards the dark fog that Alex was in. And as it moved, it caused the earth to be rived apart.

Continuously emitting the power of Sharpness had caused the earth to slash apart. It was like a large sword had stabbed deep into the earth and was then pulled into the distance.

Spanning a great size and revolving at an insane speed, it entered into the massive fog and tried to slash it apart.

Few moments later, due to the sky-level power of sharpness emanating from the sword energy-cyclone, the fog vanished.

But Alex could be seen nowhere.

Huh?!

Drille was taken aback.

'How the fuck did that bastard vanish from there?' Drille asked inwardly.

Then he walked towards the place where the dark fog initially was. He then looked around on the earth surface to get a clue on how Alex seemingly disappeared from within the fog.

"Bastard, don't tell me you have ran away! Come the fuck out wherever you are!" Drille shouted.

"I am right in front of you, asshole"

A voice suddenly responded from nowhere.

Drille's eyes widened in shock. Then before he could emit swordforce energy from his palm, a thin, square-shaped barrier that glowed in all the colours, suddenly became visible in front of him.

Then a hand which clenched into a hard fist quickly shot out from the glowing colorful barrier that had suddenly surfaced before Drille and heavily struck him in the chest.

Bang!

Once the solid fist impacted him, Drille was launched away into the far distance. Then he crashed heavily into the ground of about seventeen feet away from where he initially stood.

Alex then came out of the thin barrier which vanished in the next moment. And as soon as he came out, he quickly dashed towards the place where Drille crashed hard into.

Alex had actually employed a powerful concealing skill from the Light methodology that he studied.

The move which was called 'Screen of Invisibility', would render him totally invisible. Therefore, by erecting a barrier of light and using his light-control power to allow light to pass through it, he was made totally unseen to the naked eyes.

However, Drille should have been able to perceive details that would enable him to know that Alex was right in front of him; that Alex was hiding behind a barrier, since he was at a higher cultivation stage.

But because Alex infused his invisibility-rendering barrier with numerous slivers of his phantasmforce energy, an energy that created realistic illusions, Drille wasn't able to sense the barrier that was just a feet in front of him.

Anyways, Alex still being imperceivable should not have been possible, as Drille who was at a higher cultivation stage, would have an increased power of perception of the world.

But because of slivers of divineforce energy in them, the two energies were powered beyond normal; they became quasi-sky level energies; energies that could nearly match that of Drille's in abilities and qualities.

Therefore, because of wisps of divineforce energy in them which powered their abilities to a degree that made them almost almost on par with that of a Sky Lord stage expert, was what enabled Alex to achieve his invisibility, and then unleash a heavy, unanticipated attack at Drille.

But unluckily for Alex, Drille was wearing an armor. So the immensely heavy punch that he sent out couldn't do much damage to him or cause him severe injuries. However, Drille's blood churned from the shock that was transmitted to his body which then settled after a few moments.

Then with a kip-up, Drille sprung back to his feet from the ground.

Alex who was dashing speedily towards him then stopped, immediately after he noticed that Drille had stood back to his feet.

Then he became surprised that Drille could stand up undamaged to his feet. However, he realized in the next moment that Drille was wearing an armor.

'Shit!' He said unhappily in his mind.

He thought that the thundering punch which he delivered at Drille would make him win the deadly duel that they were having.

Hahahaha!

Drille laughed maniacally.

"You are amazing bro. What a fucking genius you fucking are. Damn! You simply have so many unknown ways of winning a battle. Where did you get your all your methods from? If not for my beautiful, treasured bronze armor, I would have become a defenseless lamb waiting to be slaughtered by a wolf. Anyways, you were the wolf then. I am now. Right at this moment, you have just driven my determination to kill you to a degree that cannot be fathomed by gods themselves" Drille said with a creepy smile now appearing in his face, once he finished saying what he was stating.

Then unexpectedly, he flew high into the air to a height of ninety feet and remained afloat at that altitude. Now staring down at Alex like he was an ant, he said "Get ready to be destroyed by me, the lamb turned wolf. Haha!"

Suddenly, he released a great amount of swordforce energy from his hands. This then turned into hundreds of large swords that shot out towards Alex who was on the ground.

Alex who was always prepared for unexpected, unfavorable outcomes, had already permeated his eyes and the nerves of his body with speedforce energy. Therefore, now seeing in slow motion, and being accelerated to a degree that was obviously way beyond normal by the speed-perception energy that he had infused into his nerves, he quickly executed a long-range backflip away from where he initially stood.

Slash!

Slash!

Slash!...

Hundreds of slashing sounds rang out as the swords stabbed into the earth where Alex previously stood.

Immediately Alex landed, he quickly released terrifying amounts of radiantforce energy from his entire body which then abruptly condensed and shaped into thousands of short swords that shot at insane speeds towards Drille who had an extremely arrogant posture in the air.

Seeing the massive number of attacks that were shooting towards him, Drille quickly forced a tremendous release of large amount of swordforce energy from his two hands, which then fused to form a single mass that immediately transformed into a large hand that began to radiate sharpness.