47 Strength of Transcendents (2/2)
When an Awakener breakthrough and become a Transcendent, their power increases by ten-fold. The difference between the two could be imagined. Beneath Transcendent, all Awakeners were ants!
Leon speculated that the ratio of different elemental users among awakeners are so unbalanced had something to do with their lifestyle and understanding of the elements.
The living residences of most people are built with earthen substances. The usage of wood and metal were in the minority. In addition, these people interacted with the earth the most in their daily lives. Thus, many tend to awaken as earth-users.
People like the Duke Ignis and Duke Agni's family, who tinker in the blacksmithing business and played with metal and fire all their life naturally had greater chances of awakening as fire-users and metal-users.
The queen's maiden name was Elizabeth Arkwright. Ignis Arkwright was her uncle. It's understandable that her personality went through a complete transformation after being torn between family and relatives. She was also the only member among the fire-element family to awaken as a metal-user before marrying into royalty.
Leon was confident that bloodline had nothing to do with one's affinity to the elements. He himself was the best example. He's body was remolded and attuned to all five elements, but he awakened as a fire-user thanks to his past life's comprehension of fire laws.
The world had a severe misconception of awakening!
The staff members had no idea what to do in this situation and could only remain silent and obediently in their corner. They had no idea who Leon was or who he worked for and was afraid that Leon would silence them.
Leon was still self-absorbed in his own thoughts and had no idea what were going through these people's minds. His body moved to extract his acupuncture needles from the heads of the dead bodies and from the wall.
Through this battle, he had a clearer understanding of his strengths and weaknesses. His close combat prowess was terrible as usual, but his killing potential could only be described with one word. Frightening!
With his medical skills and comprehensive understanding of the human body, he can perceive all life and death acupoints like an open book and strike them with pinpoint accuracy.
Doctors were the masters of life, but they can also be the masters of death! They can deliver heavenly pleasure and pain like hell with the touch of a hand and decide life and death with the use of one needle.
If Leon hones his throwing skills properly, even 5th step awakeners may not be able to dodge his needles like Osmond successfully did the first time. Leon was clear on what to focus. To build upon the foundation he already has and increase his killing potential. Increasing his killing potential would also increase his martial prowess, killing two birds with one stone. As for battle experience? It can only be gained through battle.
Leon was ready to head back to the Deadly Nightclub. The only reason he let Alroy live a bit longer was because there was something, he wanted to test out on him. In other words, Alroy had become another lab rat for one of his experiment.
Alroy was still unconscious, while being delivered to the nightclub. He had no idea what fate had in store for him.
Leon was ready to return after collecting all his needles. He smiled wryly at the state of his needles. Some of them had lost their straight pointy form and were no longer usable. He needed to get his hands on a set of stronger needles, but steel was already rare on the market. Acquiring needles made with metals stronger than steel is going to be a very difficult task. However, he has no choice but to figure out a way if he wants to become stronger.
”Oh right.” Leon turn towards the staff members. ”You can all return home for today. Someone else will come clean up the mess. Business will resume tomorrow like usual.”