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Eren’s eyes looked like they were going to burst into flames, after he thundered in rage, his strong figure shook lightly.
A few dedicated warriors from the Lenoir family who were preparing on the side rushed up and carried Ethan away. They quickly gave him medicines, hastily trying to heal him.
Thomas (Ethan’s grandfather) dug his fingers into the stone chair. He sat there still, not moving an inch, but his eyes were full of immense hatred, staring at the faraway Fredrick.
Fredrick was also furious-looking, he exchanged stares with Thomas hatefully.
“Mary Dunn wins! The Dunn family wins the bet, we may continue to the next match.”
At this moment, the director’s emotionless voice rang from the other side of the round table.
The arena was filled with boisterous discussions. The onlookers were all surprised at Mary’s ability.
With a cold expression on her face, Mary stood in the center of the field proudly, staring at the Lenoir family members with her frosty eyes, like a snow lotus on a snowy mountain.
Those observing warriors also gazed at her hot body with sparkling eyes. They were surprised by her brutality but still couldn’t stop complimenting her.
On the Lenoir family side, everybody had a rigid face.
Thomas was trembling with anger, but could do nothing except stare at Fredrick in hatred.
This was the Martial Competition. The loser couldn’t say anything about a public defeat. He could only win back his prestige in another battle.
“Family Head, Young Master Ethan is not heavily injured, but he won’t be able to train his Martial Arts for three years.” One minister of the Lenoir Family came up from behind, and said to Thomas and Eren.
Both of them suddenly quivered at his message, with grief crossing their eyes.
“Young Master Berkan, that woman is strange! Her strength surged half way through. That’s too weird!” Harris who was behind Leylin suddenly remarked in a low voice as he kept staring at him, seemingly asking for an explanation.
“The women isn’t strange, but the methods involved to achieve this feat is nefarious.” Leylin said calmly, while he silently shook his head in disappointed of such a weak and primitive method employed by Dunn Family.
Although he already had foreknowledge about this particular incident but after his months of research on different specimen, poison, elixir and pills with his top grade supreme skill he can proudly and disdainfully look down on such methods.
The children from the Dunn family have taken the Blood Vigor Pill, made by the Poison Dragon Valley of the God Blessed Empire. The Blood Vigor Pill allows one to increase their strength by twofold for a short period of time at the cost of being unable to use their martial powers for a whole year.
For Leylin such methods are so primitive because the backlash was too harsh, currently Leylin also have means to overstimulate himself with some losses but one year is too preposterous of a result, such a backlash is a definite failure of a medicine or portion in Leylin’s opinion.
Harris was confused after listening to Leylin words and seeing him not explaining he turned his attention to Eren, who had a strange expression on his face as well.
At the halfway point of the battle, Mary’s face suddenly turned pale, and it was at that moment, the Profound Qi in her body became much more dense and circulated much faster, which was abnormal.
“Mary come back!”
Just then, Fredrick demanded, “We are not going to change the wager, and invite a battle with the Lenoir family again!”
The battle field turned silent at once.
Those onlookers noticed this strange occurrence. They stopped gossiping, but looked at the two families in confusion.
“Keep the wager, and Dimitri, you go up!” Fredrick announced at a low voice again, with a cold smile climbing up his mouth.
“Dimitri Dunn from the Dunn family. Nascent Realm, Third Sky. Please enlighten me!”
Dimitri’s robust body stood in the center of the arena, and he sneered, “I’m quite curious, does your Lenoir family still have people to fight me? Do you dare?”
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“Another loss.” Leylin mummers closing his eyes not bothering to Lenoir family issues and demise, to be honest if he wants Leylin can stop this from happening but to him injuries to a few weak juniors mean nothing quite opposite to that, the greater their fall would make his image that much bigger and the family would become that much easier to manipulate.
Harris could only grit his teeth listening to Leylin as the fight began and alas, Lenoir family was served with another distasteful miserable defeat.
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The whole God Stone Square was silent.
The Dunn family clamoring seemed to echo in the arena.
Eren face was in a grimace, and he was trembling in rage. He almost wanted to go to the middle of the arena and slap everyone to death.
The Crystal, Delaney, Ashdown families all looked at Eren. Many warriors around the arena were looking at Lenoir’s in sympathy.
At this point, everyone could see the vicious heart of the Dunn family, and they also knew that they had definitely used some unusual means.
However, that’s what the Martial Competition was like. Each side would use their own methods, and as long as they’re not strongly against the rules of the arena, no matter how tragically the loser turned out to be, no one would say a thing.
Even if the Lenoir family were highly displeased, at that moment, there was nothing they could argue about. And the others of course, would not step into such murky waters.
“My time has come.” The two Lenoir and Dunn family were fighting as Leylin opened his eyes and glanced at Paul who suddenly came up from behind the people of the Lenoir family and passed a slip of paper to Eren.
Eren was barely able to control his anger. As he took a glance at the note, his expression suddenly froze.
He looked at the words on the paper with a grim face. He finally knew what the Dunn family had done because Katz has given him a detailed information about the Blood Vigor pill.
Just to deal with the Lenoir family, Fredrick had sacrificed a year of his grandchildren’s cultivation. In turn, this caused Ethan and Mark of the Lenoir family to be bedridden for at least three to five years. This method was ruthless to the extreme!
“There’s a taste of fear
When the henchmen call
Iron fist to tame them
Iron fist to claim it all!” Leylin walked serenely towards Eren as he slowly said, “I am going up.”
Ethan expression was gloomy and listening to Leylin he was monetarily stunned. Looking at him, he suddenly could not decide how to proceed.
From the Dunn family a competitors was already in the ring, at the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm. But after taking the Blood Vulgar Pill, he would have the ability of a Human Realm warrior. Human Realm warriors could break the second stage of Leylin Petrification Martial Spirit.
Leylin had only started cultivating recently, so Eren naturally thought that he lacked real battle experience.
In this situation, Leylin could be crushed by his opponent. But he had twin Martial Spirits. In a long run, he would definitely become as good as Kyle. He was the true future hope of the Lenoir family.
If this battle led to him losing miserably and suffering heavy injuries, not only would it slow down his path to success, the strike could probably devastate him forever.
The more he weighed his options, the more hesitant Eren felt. He almost had the thought to protect Leylin even if he were to be disgraced.
Then, at this moment.
Before he had started talking, Leylin disappeared and appeared in the middle of the arena. He spoke lightly, “Berkan Lenoir from the Lenoir family. Human Realm, First Sky. Please enlighten me!”
A great disturbance stirred in the crowd!
The silent arena suddenly became louder than the street markets. Many were in utter shock, puzzled, as they looked at Leylin.
“Who’s this kid? I’ve never heard of this guy in the Lenoir family.”
“Right, he never showed up in any of the previous Martial Competitions. When did the Lenoir family get such a genius warrior? Already at Human realm and so young!”
“Berkan Lenoir… I know. Isn’t he that young master of the Lenoir family who loves to study ancient texts? This guy never practiced martial arts. I only know him because he always caused trouble.”
“No way! He has never cultivated in martial arts, but still is at the First Sky of the Human Realm?”
“Who knows? But even if he is at the First Sky of the Human Realm, what can he do? You saw what happened when Dimitri, who’s only at the Second Sky of the Nascent Realm, went against Mark who was at the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm. About this guy, maybe it’s only because Eren doesn’t want to be embarrassed so he sent him.”
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Around the arena, the sounds of gossip rose everywhere. Some were shocked, while some contemplated but a sudden Human Realm warrior did take them off guard, because people like that are top level genius in the five families, not to be underestimated.
On the Crystal family’s side, Elrod Crystal also furrowed his brows slightly. He turned his head to a dedicated warrior on the side, “What’s the deal with Berkan? Why was there no news about him? When did the Lenoir family get someone like him, Human realm kid? Did he appear out of thin air?”
“Master, I didn’t know either. Since a young age Berkan Lenoir didn’t have the Lenoir’s Martial Spirit, so we didn’t spend much effort observing him. Who knew that he suddenly…”
“A little strange.” Elrod nodded, he frowned and asked no more.
Kyle Crystal of the Crystal family twin martial spirit genius was dazed for a second, as a flash of surprise gleamed in his eyes. He stared at Leylin for a while.
Leylin looked to be under 20 and already at Human Realm, it’s a really impressive feat one that would put him just a bit below him in matter of talent, but that wasn’t the main issue but rather the friendship with Ashdown family and it’s genius Neelam who when added into the fray would be a tough obstacle for him.
“Ahem, head of the Lenoir family, you can put out your bet now.” The director standing at the round table shouted out.
“Master!”
“Master!”
“Master!”
At the Lenoir family tower, many of the dedicated warriors shouted, clearly indicating their displeasure.
All of them had heard about Leylin. Even if he had somehow reached the First Sky of the Human Realm, everyone believed that it was for nought, and that he would lose.
If Lenoir family lost the fight again, not only would they would be crushed in the competition, they would also lose their high-value bets, the repercussion of which, would last forever.
Eren, who was hesitating over his choices, looked at Leylin’s confident and aloof expression. And for some reason, he actually did choose to believe in him. He suddenly roared, “Begimay City! Two mine! And the commercial street in the south of Vilman City!”
“We would add three more mines, Giroh go!”
“Giroh of the Dunn family, Third Sky of the Nascent Realm.”
“Let the battle begin!”
The referee’s announcement officially started the much anticipated battle.
Giroh was wearing a cold and arrogant smile.
In an instant, streams of electricity came out of his body, materializing into electric snakes.
Those electric snakes intertwined around his whole body, which made him look dazzling.
Giroh, a warrior of the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm, stood in the battle arena with pride, while electric snakes were circling all over his body. His Lightning Martial Spirit was apparently way more powerful than Mary.
“Giroh, prove yourself as soon as possible. Don’t let others look down upon you. Show everyone that even the Nascent realm warrior of Dunn family are better than Lenoir’s family garbage!” Fredrick reminded him indifferently.
Hearing that, Giroh quickly understood what to do.
In an instant, like Mary, his face turned as pale as a zombie, which was extremely horrifying.
As his face gradually turned pale, those electric snakes kept twisting around his body, looking hideous and seemingly wanting to eat people.
Looking at his changes, Leylin kept his body normal without using his Petrification Martial Skill, while Giroh yelled once and lightning intertwined his arms.
It was exactly the same.
In his body, the flow of his Profound Qi accelerated many times! A certain energy that didn’t belong to him seemed to be triggered and invaded his entire body. His aura suddenly stirred.
“There it goes!” Thomas yelled in anger, “They must have played a certain trick! This is not the type of power that could belong to a warrior of the Thrid Sky of the Nascent Realm!”
“I won’t let him go peacefully!” Thomas greeted his teeth.
“Why isn’t that little bastard using the Petrification Martial Spirit!” Thomas asked enraged because unlike everyone else he knew that not only does Leylin have a Human Realm cultivation but he also have miraculously gained the Lenoir’s family inherited Martial Spirit.
“Bang!”
Giroh kicked off the ground with one foot and the solid metal stone made a thunderous sound as if it had been cracked.
He shot towards Leylin like a sharp sword at his fastest speed, intending to cripple him as soon as possible.
Leylin smiled indifferently without fear, as he directly met Giroh, with his sheer physical strength only.
Giroh released the lightning flashes, green balls of light burst out from the center of his palm. They began to strike Leylin heavily.
“Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!”
One after another, green light balls struck Leylin and but as they were about to hit him, the lighting ball exploded and a simple fist appeared before Giroh.
Just then, the Profound Qi in Giroh’s body surged again meeting the punches! But Leylin figure disappeared and he appeared in front of Giroh suddenly from behind the green balls.
The lightning flashes which were magically forming an electric net in the sky, to wrap up Leylin were broken in an instant.
“You energy equals that of a Human Realm Warrior but it’s a pity, it’s akin to having no strength at all before me. ” Leylin calm voice sounded as the time freezed between the two, Giroh gaped in horror as his body remained still and Leylin fingers slowly stretched towards his neck.
Giroh’s neck was tightly entangled by Leylin’s pale weak looking fingers as he struggled to get escape it but failed.
At this time, Leylin slow yet extremely impactful punches kept striking him one by one reverberating throughout the arena and drove him back.
Giroh trashed trying to escape but Leylin nonchalantly kept striking him with his arms and legs.
Giroh was bleeding severely from the corner of his mouth, but he couldn’t fight back because of the hand that bounded his neck tightly.
What a thorough defeat!
Everybody was stricken dumb in amazement as they stared at Leylin, who was striking Giroh who could not fight back.
“Woa! What the hell is that?”
“Who knows? Why is that kid so powerful? It’s weird, too weird!”
“Is he really only at the First Sky of the Human Realm? Although the gap better Human and Nascent realm is not small, it’s not this much exaggerated, even more so when Giroh Profound Qi intensity is no weaker than a Human Realm Warrior on it’s own right, Or could it be that the Nascent Realm warriors of the big families one level higher than us?”
“Confusing! Too confusing!” All the warriors nearby were dumbstruck and couldn’t figure out what happened.
“Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!”
After receiving the endless strikes, Giroh was bleeding severely and his eyes gradually began to dim.
Fredrick stood up at once and demanded, “We lose!”
“Battle stops! The Lenoir family wins!” the director looked at Elrod Crystal who nodded and called out immediately deciding to intervene.
Leylin finally stopped his attacks and took a few steps back with Giroh in his grasp. Smirking, he laughed,
“Blood is spilt while holding keys to the throne
Born again but it’s too late to atone
No mercy from the edge of the blade
Dare escape and learn the price to be paid!”
Then he looked at Giroh cruelly tightening his grip.
“Sto-!” Thomas screamed but before his words finished a body was thrown with great momentum towards the Dunn Family, as it crashed on the floor.
*Boom*
“What? Did the Dunn Family head thought I would continue after the match is over, the Lenoir’s don’t conduct themselves in such lawless manner like others.” Leylin remarked listlessly glancing at the brutalized body of Giroh he threw towards them, as he stretched popping his joints.
Dunn family experts rushed onto the arena silently like a ghost and carried Giroh back, who was drowning in his own blood, and asked those family ministers to check on him.
Those ministers were in a muddle, as they firstly put a handful of pills into his mouth, with serious faces.
The battle field turned silent at once.
Those onlookers noticed this strange occurrence. They stopped gossiping, but looked at the two families in confusion.
The Dunn family stared daggers at him while Leylin glanced at his status.
[Beep! (Berkan Lenoir) Leylin Farlier, Strength: 14.8, Agility: 14.1, Vitality: 18.7, Profound Qi: First Sky of Disaster Realm. Status: Healthy]
Leylin current status has already far surpassed a normal Magus, reaching the physical attributes of a Warlock already experiencing a heart remodeling. Through his calculations although the power system and exemplary strength is different in both Grace Mainland and Magus World, but some approximation for the physical prowess can be drawn and through detailed analysis Leylin has paired the Disaster realm to be homologous to the Official Magus Rank Or Rank 1 Magus.
Obviously Leylin and his physical stats are not a good representative of this conjecture because he is too much perverted for the scaling.
Even still, a Disaster realm expert would have the energy, lethality as well as physical prowess to match a full fledged Magus.
In a more microscopic observation the line between the Acolytes and Magus is quite obscure here, obviously the gap is remarkable but not absolutely unbreakable. A properly trained and groomed well experienced Third Sky of Human Realm Warrior can also be parred with a rather weak Magus, the like of which promote through Grine water.
And if the said warrior has Martial Spirit and rather high class Martial skills then he can match a proper Magus too, this is the superior advantage of a cultivator but on the other hand their life span are shorter and flexibility is questionable.
Magus are researchers, students of the game, they are schemers, and truth seekers their most dangerous trait to adapt and adjust with that in mind, even with a superior physical constitution and greater strength at similar level, Cultivator may not necessarily have the advantage.
