240 Insane. (1/2)
It was his arm inside that box!
He could still see all the weird black runes moving around the skin as if they were alive. Even when separated from him, the arm had still grown proportional to his body as if they were still connected in some way.
Though Ozul only had a single thought inside his mind as he noticed the floating box of glass,
'My arm...'
It had been decades and the sense of completeness he had once felt was almost forgotten by now. But seeing his arm again with those black runes made him remember why he was putting so much effort into all of this.
It was all because he wanted to feel complete again. He wanted to feel that sense of contentment when he was surrounded by nothingness.
And since he was deprived of his comfort, he had to burn whatever came in his way to feel the warmth again.
The old man in front of him might be stronger than Rank-9, but he wanted his arm back right now!
”Give me my arm back...” he again spoke, but this time, his voice sounded so deep that it almost felt as if it was an entirely different person speaking.
However, the old man utterly ignored him and the hall continued to shake now with even bigger pieces of the earth starting to float.
By now, all those rubbles and rocks had formed a giant blanket in the air.
”Luthien had reported to me that you were strong... let me see how strong!” the old man muttered and motioned his hand towards Ozul.
All the rocks and rubbles that were previously floating still in the air suddenly shot towards Ozul with an unimaginable speed.
Ozul was ready for that attack, so when the endless barrage of hundreds of rocks came at him, he simply created a shield with the Ball of Purity before him.
The rubbles and pebbles all hit the shield as if they were a meteor!
However, the shield bore the attack like it was nothing.
The attack did not stop at that, because the giant rocks hit the shield next.
*Bam!*
Each rock shot at the shield with an even greater speed. After the collision, they broke down into smaller parts and scattered everywhere. Even these were not able to create a dent in the shield.
Just as Ozul had thought that the attack had ended, even the smaller pieces of the rocks that had scattered behind him suddenly shot towards him!
He immediately covered his back with the shield, but a couple of small rocks managed to get past it before the shield was deployed.
*Tink!*
Fortunately, these small stones only hit his metallic prosthetics.
'He is tricky,' Ozul thought out inside his mind as he contemplated his next course of action.
He wondered why no one knew about this old man. But it wasn't the time to think about his identity or how the old man seemed to be referring to Emperor Luthien as if he was just a kid.
But no matter how hard Ozul tried to think, there was just nothing that came to his mind.
'I will just have to fight and see then,' he decided before removing the shield around him.
The old man was also now floating in the air with the box containing his arm behind him. He looked amused at the fact that Ozul was unscathed by his attack.
”Kahaha! You want your arm back?! I want the rest of your body parts!” the old man stated with an arrogant laugh.
Ozul decided to take the initiative, so he shot at the old man from the ground with just two chips of the Ball of Purity under his feet while the rest joined to form a giant spear that also shot at the old man.
The old man seemed surprised by his attack for some reason and immediately created a rock shield in front of him.
To his astonishment, the spear broke the shield and continued to shoot towards him.
”You brat!” the old man shouted and the crumbling rocks from the previous shield somehow got back together. This time, there was a layer of a glowing brown Mana covering the shield.
This time, when the spear collided, it only pushed the old man and the rocky shield back. The shield had a dent this time, but that was pointless.
Ozul noticed that the shield didn't break, but he wasn't disappointed. He already expected it because the old man was a half-step Rank-10 Mage.