touchnovel Chapter 1008: Blue
Chapter 1008: Blue
Chapter 1008: Blue
Lord Mighty's leap was nothing short of an incredible physical feat. He didn't only cross tens of meters with a single jump. He had also perfectly controlled his strength, arriving exactly where he planned to land.
That alone showed how Lord Mighty was no mere brute. His explosive energy and physical prowess were scary, but his ability to implement them in such a perfect display of battle experience was scarier. However, Khan didn't experience anything remotely close to fear.
In the past, Khan wouldn't have been able to move freely while his body was tense. That was one limit of the Lightning-Demon Style. Yet, the Transcendent Step was a different beast, allowing him to use the mana inside his legs to perform sharp, explosive sprints.
Khan could attack Lord Mighty before his massive arm could move by another centimeter. That was the depth of his aerial combat mastery, but someone had challenged him in that field anyway, without even wielding flying techniques.
The event irked Khan to no end. Lord Mighty probably didn't go as far as underestimating Khan or belittling his aerial mastery. His face actually said otherwise, but Khan couldn't let that stand anyway. He had to teach the Royal Guard the gravity of his mistake.
Lord Mighty was still in the process of lunging his arm forward when his limb suddenly stopped, losing the accumulated momentum. Something heavy but precise had slammed on his elbow, perfectly opposing its forward force to disperse it.
The evolved Thilku barely had the time to lift his eyes and notice the figure standing on his elbow before his vision spun. Khan slammed his knee on Lord Mighty's flat nose, unleashing every ounce of power his existence could muster, and cracking noises echoed through the sky.
Nevertheless, Khan couldn't help but consider different, more profound factors. Evolved warriors were more than blood and flesh. They would die without them, but their existence stretched past those physical constraints.
As tough as Lord Mighty was, nothing should be able to survive Khan's condensed entropy. Even the arena's resilient floor had eventually succumbed to it. Yet, Khan had failed to leave lasting marks on the evolved Thilku, and his attention inevitably moved to his existence. Someone's existence was an ethereal thing but no less real. It was similar to people's auras but also very different. One was a simple echo through the symphony of what a warrior wielded, while the other was denser and more profound, acting as another piece of a body. Khan could touch Lord Mighty but couldn't deeply affect his existence, making any wound he caused shallow. Khan could hold his ground in that superior realm, but victory was something he had yet to learn how to achieve.
Khan considered his level. Unlike other evolved warriors, his attunement with mana was still lacking. That was bound to be a hindrance when attempting to summon strength worthy of that superior realm, but Khan didn't feel like putting all the blame there.
That was more than a simple hunch. By then, Khan had seen various evolved warriors, even spotting a few special cases among them. Bruno was stronger than Mister Adrian and Miss Christen, and the Emperor was far superior to his Royal Guards, but the attunement with mana couldn't explain that difference.
'What I pulled with Brigadier General Meadrey's flames shouldn't be it,' Khan considered. 'I think. It should be about the element and its power.'
That brought Khan nowhere. After all, how was one supposed to enhance destruction? Khan wasn't even sure mere concepts like greater or deeper damage suited that superior field. They sounded too superficial for something so profound.
"[Ah]!" Lord Mighty eventually cried, tired of the break, as he lifted his head at the sky." [Blind Sword was right. You can put up a fight, Blue]!"
'Did I just get a nickname?' Khan wondered, meeting the evolved Thilku's excited gaze. Something about that simpleminded, alien face reassured him, pushing aside his complicated thoughts. He suddenly remembered that there were better ways to get answers.