Chapter 357 Fake fight? (2/2)
Alex who was evading the onslaught of attacks from all sides was still finding it pretty easy. He was amazed at how fast his reflexes were. Even though he fought Leon before, he couldn't really get a feel of how strong he was since they were both of equal strength. Now that he was fighting people that used to be at the same level as him, Alex finally knew just how much he had improved in this one year apart. Though it was apparent that Oliver and Niel, even Kei had improved greatly over the past year, but compared to Alex's improvement it was nothing much.
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Seeing how calm and collected Alex was, coupled with that cocky smile of his, Niel, Oliver, and even Kei shared a look and nodded their heads. The three of them only planned to fight a bit realistically so that they won't alert Richter to their plans but seeing Alex like that was pissing them off a bit.
Well even if they went all out, base on Alex's current strength he would be able to handle it, at this point they weren't even thinking about how they're being made to kill each other. All the three of them were thinking was to get a hit on Alex, and pull him down a peg.
The three of them stopped attacking and changed their stances. Oliver lifted his sword in an overhead position. Niel went down on the ground and looked like he was a lion about to pounce on his prey. Kei, on the other hand, changed from kneeling pose, to crawling pose.
Alex who saw them changed their stances, knew that things were about to escalate. He for the first time in the whole fight took a stance and was ready to receive his friends. Without any signal, Niel was the first to move. Even Alex wasn't able to see Niel's initial movement, but he felt a wind blow which alerted him of Niel's location, which was behind him. Alex lifted up his sword, but Niel's wires got a hold of it. While Alex was trying to pull his sword away, he suddenly let go of the hilt and did a dodge roll. A bullet passed by where Alex was standing moments ago, Kei was able to shoot without Alex noticing he fired.
Alex who had successfully dodged, lifted his hand in a prayer position as he caught a sword that came falling down from above. Oliver had attacked with perfect precision, it was a good thing Alex's reflexes have improved or else he would have been sliced in half.
'These guys are seriously trying to kill me now!' Alex screamed in his head. He then felt Niel was about to strike, so using the downward sword momentum, Alex made Oliver bump into Niel. Using this opportunity Alex charged at the weakest member, Kei.
Kei who saw the fast approaching Alex tried shooting at him but to no avail. Alex then punched Kei in different points of his body with speed and precision. After that one combo attack, Kei fell his body stopped moving.
Oliver and Kei were surprised to see that happen to Kei. 'Did Alex actually kill him?' Both of them thought of that at the same time, which was not a good idea. Even getting distracted for a fraction of second was enough for Alex to exploit. He used the same attack on Niel next, which gave a similar result as Niel fell down looking lifeless.
”Alex what have you done! Why did you kill them! I thought you had a plan!” Oliver suddenly screamed as Alex attacked him the same way. As Oliver's consciousness was fading he heard Alex speak to him in his normal stoic voice.
”Killing you is part of the plan.”