Chapter 141: Outclassed (1/2)

”Ghost generals are often hard to vanquish, I'll go help out the group,” The delegate told Hermes and the piggy.

”Go on,” Hermes stared at the delegate.

Meanwhile, the piggy was still glaring at Hermes.

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-The floating sandstone temple-

Alex gulped as his mind spun with thoughts about this fight's prospects.

It seemed like the whole temple was alive, and out to harm him under the command of the ghost king.

However, he didn't have time to think, as a kick made its way for his abdomen.

Alex dodged the kick and looked at his opponent.

She was a stone woman, yet her movements were flexible, swift, and light.

He didn't have any difficulty dodging, but every time he tried to land an attack on her....

'Her stone components simply return to the ground...!'

This battle continued on, and none of them landed an attack on the other.

After a few minutes of this meaningless fight, the ghost king burst into laughter.

”Baby, how high are we?”

”High enough to kill an immortal, ghost king,” As usual, the stone woman replied monotonously.

Alex frowned at this sudden inquiry.

Though, he abruptly lost his footing and felt his body falling.

A hole formed itself in the spot where he was standing.

”Sly!” Alex exclaimed frustratingly.

He had to be careful since the whole temple was alive.

Nonetheless, he wasn't going to die, as the ghost king had thought, and his wings firmly stabilized him in the sky.

Since the ghost king wasn't aware of this, he recalled the spot where the latter was standing and flew right at it.

Prometheus had turned into a dagger, and while it wasn't his weapon of choice, he wielded it well.

*Clank*

As his dagger dug through the floor of the temple, he expected to find himself in the interior.

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'Is this floor thicker than I remember?' Alex was digging through for a while but did not enter the temple.

Suddenly, the stone cracked, and Alex saw a flash coming towards him.

The dagger parried the attack, and the resounding sound of stone against metal reverberated in his eardrums.

”This whole temple is alive, remember that~~~,” The playful voice of the ghost king remarked.

Alex established some distance from the stone silhouette and looked at the ghost king.

This battleground was really troublesome and unpredictable, hence he had to find a way to render it useless.

Athena's Incarnation was the best for parallel thinking, so he therefore immediately activated it.

'Aphrodite's control over fertility won't work on stone and sand...'

'Ares' powers won't help against the entire temple...'

While dodging any incoming attacks, he calculated all of the possibilities.

'There's still that!'

Alex's body turned from slender and lean, to short and stout.

His eyes shined a fiery orange, and Prometheus turned into a heavy hammer.

”You have some interesting powers, young boy,” The ghost king yawned as he watched the fight.

”You haven't seen anything yet!” His two hands were placed firmly on the ground.

'This power burns through Faith Energy, I have to be quick about it!'

Unexpectedly, the sandstone in the perimeter around Alex gradually turned red color.

The sand became liquid glass, and the stone became heavy magma.

Because of the change from solid to liquid, the searing hot materials spilled out of the temple and into the ground far below them.

There was now a wide hole in the temple, and it was continuously expanding.