Chapter 1275: Surging Will (1/2)

After retreating from the wounded Fifth Officer, Jiang Fei put away his sword and relaxed. The reason he did that was simple. He did not want to kill despite it being so easy for him, since the enemy were the Valsalrians. Moreover, the Fifth Officer was but a small fry. There was still the top brass, Commander Alexis he would have to face. Jiang Fei was almost certain that he could not defeat Alexis and even if he did, there would definitely be other Commanders ready to barge in.

Why cultivate enmity when he could use this situation to cultivate fear. He could give an impression to the Valsalrians that Earth was not just some random planet in a random galaxy of a random quadrant of space. Earth had fighters, strong fighters such as Jiang Fei to defend it.

If Jiang Fei were to actually kill a Valsalrian, it would only give them the motivation to seek revenge; giving them the excuse to destroy all of Earth. That was the last of his plans before he had to opt for his contingency plan. Even now, he still bore hope, wanting to save Earth. Ten billion people were living on Earth and if Jiang Fei were to choose the wrong path, all ten billion people would die.

“Why didn’t you finish the job?” Alexis asked. Up until now, many had fought the Valsalrians and perished. Some that were stronger that managed to put them to the ground were more than eager to kill them. Another reason to kill them when the opportunity arose was because of their rapid regenerative ability. As long as they were still breathing, recovery would always be possible.

“We are not enemies. Even though you are here on a mission, you have not done anything for me to bear arms against you. Why should I kill him?” Jiang Fei smiled, shutting down his domain ability.

Even though he could technically activate and maintain his domain ability for as long as he wanted, he turned it off anyway to show his enemies that he was the kind that would fight at any given chance. In a more important and less noble manner of speaking, Jiang Fei did not want Alexis to know too much about himself.

“I see,” Alexis smiled back and said. Jiang Fei’s display of sportsmanship had only solidified Alexis’ deduction that Earth had powerful fighters. To be fair, even amongst Valsalrians, there were only a handful of them that could possess combat levels exceeding one million.

“Commander, please forgive my inability,” said the Fifth Officer as he bowed and apologized. The alien’s body was already healed enough to allow him to move around freely. Even though he was not fit to fight Jiang Fei again, he was, by all means, well. That was the first time Jiang Fei had seen someone recover from being stabbed by a Godblade!

“Enough, go back. You’re only embarrassing me in front of the Terran,” Alexis said.

“To be honest, I never expected to witness such a fight coming from a Terran of a savage planet. The reason you’re here, alone, is to protect your home planet, no?”

“I am, yes.”

“Good. We, Valsalrians, admire strength and appreciate the powerful. If you can defeat me and hand over the Core of Time, I promise you, no Valsalrian will ever set foot into your system,” said Alexis.

Jiang Fei was a little confused by his notion. If he were to win the fight, why should he surrender the Core of Time. Even so, his offer to never set their eyes on the Solar System was a generous notion. If the Valsalrians gave their word to not attack the Solar System, half of the intelligent species across the Universe would share the same thought. They wouldn’t want to wrong the entire Valsalrian race and bring doom upon their own.

“Let’s fight first,” said Jiang Fei. Even though he was calm and composed, he was a nervous wreck. He had been able to defeat the Fifth Officer easily but against the Commander, he lacked the confidence.

“Good answer!” said Alexis and in the next fraction of a second, he was already in Jiang Fei’s face, delivering a punch packed with explosive power.

WHAM!

Jiang Fei was completely caught off guard. The punch was so powerful that it felt like being hit by a bullet train!

After spinning and dragging across Ceres, Jiang Fei stood up and spit out a mouthful of blood. The fact that he was still alive after taking the punch without activating Omnisurge was a miracle. The ring had a barrier that was always activated and deployed around him and it had helped Jiang Fei to absorb a portion of the damage. As a consequence, the Energy Crystals in the ring were drained by a notch. Because 0541 was not brought along, Jiang Fei had moved all the Energy Crystals to Braveheart. The remaining Energy Crystals inside the ring’s space was hitting rock bottom. Right now, Jiang Fei was basically by himself.

“So weak?” Alexis gasped after seeing Jiang Fei take such huge damage. He had not expected him to still be at 60,000 combat level when he landed the punch. If he had been without tech, the young Terran would have been vaporized by the punch.

Jiang Fei cleaned himself off and started to take things seriously. With a surge of willpower, Jiang Fei activated his domain and his combat power rose to over a million.

“Now that’s more like it! But, it’s still far from enough!” Alexis chuckled. If Jiang Fei was really only at 60,000 combat power, Alexis would be greatly disappointed and would end the fight there and then.