Chapter 233: Hiding his real strength (1/2)

The small fireball blasted the incoming spikes and made the sand burst around, generating blackened dust.

After the spikes were blasted away, Mr. Earth King leaped out of the sand and charged in towards his enemy.

”!?”

An exclamation point together with a question mark appeared on top of Mr. Earth King's head when he noticed his enemy had disappeared.

He looked left and right but he could not spot him.

Maybe the enemy fled away? He thought. But then, he suddenly felt a grab from his tail. Also, his momentum stopped, and saw himself in mid-air.

He glanced behind, but then he suddenly felt the world was twirling.

”Dammit!” He spat after noticing that his enemy grabbed his tail and spun him around. ”Dumbass! Let me go! Eek!” he hissed and tried to struggle but to no avail.

A moment later, he saw his body fly upward. Damn! The enemy threw him into the sky! In any case, how did this man suddenly disappear and appear behind him?!

Inside the Citadel, ”How the heck did that happen? That person teleported at the back of Mr. Earth King!” One person shouted in disbelief.

Mr. Earth King felt a foreboding feeling when he started to descend.

Looking at the descending figure of the Lizardman, Mr. Earth King, a grin happened in the face of The Mysterious.

”What was that guy planning to do?” Some random Ranker in the Citadel asked the question.

”Probably, attack the descending Mr. Earth King with a strong punch, or let him crash into the desert.” Another person replied to the former.

”That's impossible! Mr. Earth King had sturdy scales and he's an earth Elementalist!” The former disagreed with the latter.

Mr. Earth King wanted to summon a Sand Shield to fortify his defense, but he must be in contact with the sand or any earth-made objects to do it.

His only option now was to envelop his body with a Magical Shield, a higher version of Mana Coating.

With it, he believed that his defense was impenetrable.

Seeing the shining body of Mr. Earth King, ”I know it! Now it's impossible to break his defense!” Shouted a person in the Citadel.

However, everyone noticed the newbie Ranker gripping a dagger in his right hand. Then he summoned crimson-colored magical energy onto it.

After summoning magical energy on his feet, he leaped in the air to launch an attack.

His dagger drew a long vertical slash from below towards the sky.

Everyone in the Citadel gaped while staring at the figure split into two.

”How did it happen?” Everyone's thoughts.

It was so obvious that Mr. Earth King's defense was so high. Also, the newbie enemy was only using a low-tier dagger. Whereas, Mr. Earth King's armor alone was enough to block it. With the addition of his magical shield and hard scale, his survival rate was supposed to be higher.

But how come that an iron dagger was able to split him in two in just a single strike? Everyone was baffled at the thought.

In truth, it wasn't only a single strike. Yman repeatedly used his Time Warp. In total, he struck the enemy 5 times. But because of its speed, the audiences only noticed one strike.

However, it did not escape to the eyes of some real experts.

Even the younger brother of the Gustav family narrowed his eyes. As expected, this Crimson was hiding his real strength.