105 One Battle! 1 (1/2)
Chapter 105: One Battle! 1
Garen slowly lifted up his hand and looked at his palm. His slightly enlarged palm was faintly glimmering with a black metallic luster.
He felt that the Blood Qi Ball within his body had not release any Qi and blood to assist in the expansion of his body.
”This feeling is different from when I was using the expanded form of Mammoth Martial Art, but it is still slightly stronger than normal. Since the degree of expansion is not large, I'll consider this as the first form.”
Garen forcefully waved his arm around, and felt that the hardness of his skin was around half of his defense when he was at full power. At the same time, it was around twice the hardness of his normal state. After mastering Mammoth Martial Art, his defense when using all of his power was four times that of normal situations. This sort of terrifying Body Hardening Technique allowed him to block the attacks of most martial artists using only his eyelids.
Slowly relaxing his body, Garen's gigantic body gradually shrunk like a deflated balloon from 1.9 meters to 1.7 meters. Under his normal state, he looked just like an ordinary person that was slightly muscular. It's just that his powerful physique made him seem more like an adult than a seventeen year old teenager.
Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom!
Suddenly, the sound of urgent knocking sounded out from the door of the dojo.
”Senior brother Garen! There's trouble, the people from Celestial Circle Gate are here!” Imogen Lilliette's voice came from behind the door.
”Celestial Circle Gate! Is it Andrela?” Garen walked over to the locked wooden door and opened it.
Standing at the door, Imogen Lilliette looked frantic and was still wearing black pajamas.
”Calm down, what's the situation?” Garen softly asked.
”I don't know, almost everyone from the Celestial Circle Gate is staying a hotel near the railway station. However, their leaders, Andrela and a few others, were nowhere to be found. What should we do, senior brother Garen!?” Imogen Lilliette was slightly at a loss.
”The Southern Twelve Gates are all targets of the Celestial Circle Gate. Don't forget about the Seven Moon Gate and the Red Obsidian Gate that joined them. There two sects are definitely not pushovers. Let's take a look at the result first. There's no need to hurry.” Garen smiled as he comforted Imogen Lilliette, while gently rubbing her head.
Feeling Garen's unworried and relaxed mood, Imogen Lilliette began to relax as well and became less anxious.
Actually, she had no idea why she was so anxious either. When she heard that Celestial Circle Gate had arrived, she immediately panicked.
”The Celestial Circle Gate is walking the just and honorable path by fairly challenging each sect to a duel. If they want to unify the entire southern martial arts world, they need to comply with the rules or it will all be for naught. So we'll only need to face them head on and not have to worry about them playing any tricks. After all, the Celestial Circle Gate is very confident of their abilities...” Garen simply said. ”If my guess is right, Andrela is currently already fighting with the Seven Moon Gate.”
He was faintly looking toward the direction of the Seven Moon Gate headquarters as an inexplicable gaze flashed in his eyes.
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Da da da...
A series of rapid footsteps rang out as a three-storey hotel near the railway station was completely surrounded.
The surrounding area was completely quarantined by numerous police vehicles.
Under the night sky, there was a cold-looking young man wearing black leather clothes. With shoulder length silver hair, a beautiful face, thin waist, and long legs, he expressed an androgynous beauty. If it was not for the fact that he had an adam's apple and no breasts, no one would believe that he was a man.
The man was slowly putting on a black and red gauntlet—with brutish spikes on it—with a calm gaze
”Commissioner Karanan, I am relying on you to help out in the quarantine this time,” he simply said.
The middle-aged man with a potbelly standing next to him nodded while smiling. ”Chairman Shia is being polite. The fact that I am able to help out the Seven Moon Group is a great honor for me. Not to mention that the governor specifically mentioned that I should fully support the Seven Moon Group in all of your activities. This is also part of our duty as the Metropolitan Police.”
The beautiful man called Chairman Shia nodded. Then without saying anything else, he beckoned with his hand.
The men dressed in black outfits in the area immediately created an opening for him to pass through.
Shia walked into the encirclement and looked up the small white building toward the window on the third storey.
”Shia Ludanni from Seven Moon Gate is here to welcome senior brother Andrela from Celestial Circle Gate. Please come out to meet me.”
His voice was androgynous and was a mixture of women's softness and men's rigidity, giving a strange sense of indifference and severity.
There was no noise at all. Although there were over a hundred men dressed in black surrounding the small building, there was no sound coming from the building at all. Even the policemen outside the perimeter were affected by the nervous mood and lowered their volume.
There was only silence in the small building and no one replied.
A sneer appeared on Shia's face.
”During the exchange gathering, we really owed it to Celestial Circle Gate. This time, since senior brother Andrela has come to our Dinah City, it's only natural that we, as the host, should properly take care of the guests. Could it be the fellow disciples from Celestial Circle is unwilling to give Shia this honor?”
There was still no reply from the small building.
Shia's face slightly contorted in anger.
”Since senior brother is unwilling to come out on your own, then I'll just have to personally invite you!”
A few of the men dressed in black slowly drew out black daggers as cruel sneers appeared on their faces. They were the most elite of the core teams within the Seven Moon Gate. The reason why the Seven Moon Gate was able to develop so much and obtain the best territories in the entire province was due to the efforts of teams like theirs.