108 The youngest Powerhouse (2/2)

”Good, good very good, you truly are special” the red hair man said as a bright red aura surged out of his body making his robe flutter ceaselessly, evaporating every single raindrop that fell in a fifteen meter radius. The man took three small steps before jumping ten meters high and slashing down at Hartley with lightning speed, his sword now resembled a molten piece of iron as it glowed a glaring red increasing the temperature of the surroundings producing a thick fog around the two.

With concentration on his face, Hartley didn't dare to take this strike head on, ice-blue mist crawled and twirled over his body as he took a step forward and blinked out of existence. The red hair man's sword landed where Hartley was and a gigantic explosion occurred, debris from the stone castle and a massive chunk of the surrounding earth went rising towards the heavens, the strike could be heard and felt miles away as the earth quivered and shook violently.

The strike left a crater one hundred meters in diameter and ten meters deep with the red hair man stood in the middle of the destruction, there wasn't even any evidence that a castle used to stand where the man was..

Hartley flickered back into existence behind the red hair man as he stepped out of the twirling ice-blue mist with a dull glow. He immediately slashed with his short elemental sword in his left hand aiming the man's waist. Without turning the red hair man twisted his body at an awkward angle and vanished from the spot, Hartley's blade went through an after-image of the man which wriggled away like smoke.

The red hair man had a startled look mingled with a hint of alarm on his face, the youth had stepped into a spatial crack and avoided his attack with consummate ease.

One had to know that stepping into a a spatial crack exerted mind numbing pain and pressure on the physical body, anyone below the saint realm could literally explode by stepping into a spatial crack on a whimand yet the youth stepped in and out of a space crack looking none the worse for wear. He wasn't sure that even he himself could step in and out of a spatial crack so nonchalantly. He had to rely on his speed as a 9th layer xiantian and maneuvered himself five meters to the left to avoid the attack from his back.

The glowing sword came speeding back at Hartley from the left, the red hair man bared his teeth in a snarl as he put absolutely everything he had into his sword strike, rocks as big asmelons were whipped up and tossed around tornado-style as the two clashed in the middle of the huge crater in the unrelenting pouring rain just as there was another crack of thunder from the heavens.

Hartley used advanced minute movement technique coupled with his advanced state of focus and slipped pass the glaring red sword that radiated heat like a mini-sun, suddenly 100x gravity slammed down onto the crater, fresh astonishment blossomed on the man's face as he stumbledback, the debris that were being whipped around were forced back down into the groundbringing with it an explosion of dirt, rocks and mud splashing everywhere.

The red hair man rocked back onto his heels, losing his balance for a split-second when a blue flash came fizzing at him, it was a strike quicker than any he had ever seen before, under the restriction of Hartley's gravity field the man clumsily got his sword up to block the strike with another explosion of multi-colored sparks.

Hartley moved ghost-like to his right, his movements seemingly unhindered under the influence of such a strong gravitational force as an overhead chop with his long sword came down like mountains falling from heaven, the blue flash cut through the gloom of the rainy evening as the red hair man clumsily tried to evade the strike....

Commander Haiyuan stood about five hundred meters away soaked in the rain watching the battle keenly, water droplets spooled on his eyelashes then fell towards the floor as streaks of water clumped his hair and raced down his face.

Surprisingly the youth was holding his own against his subordinate, he couldn't help but be nervous. It was unthinkable that one of the strongest below the saint realm from Sasko could fall to a no-name youth on the soil of this small affiliate country but reality was crueler than fiction and he was witnessing the undeniable reality with his own two eyes.

All of a sudden the battle that seemed evenly matched took a drastic turn, the red hair man started to stumble and the youth was launching a vicious series of strikes, then there was a scream of pain and the red hair man was missing an arm which was sent flying away and out of sight in the gloomy evening.

Commander Haiyun stood in gaping shock at the sight of blood gushing out of the jagged stump left as Kan Jin's right arm.

With a somber and nervous face the commander said ”Chang Lee prepare to get us out of here.”

”Yes sir” the quiet middle age man dressed in black replied, Chang Lee was commander Haiyuan's final trump card, even though he was only in the 8th layer of the xiantian realm, he had an affinity to space so he could travel through spatial cracks carrying another person with him for a moderate distance.

The commander has always kept this man close by his side as a last resort and it was time to use his last resort...

Ahhh! After failing to evade the strike, the red hair man's right arm went flying away with his sword still gripped in the severed hand as he shrieked in disbelief watching his arm and sword disappearing from sight.

Hartely's battle with this red hair man had given him vital experience in dealing people in the 9th layer but it was time to end this now. As the man backed away with widened nervous eyes preparing to run for his life, the color bled from the world.....

The next thing commander Haiyuan saw was the youth appearing next to Kan Jin and beheading him mercilessly.. ”It's time to go now” he shouted at the man next to him.