153 Four Perilous Lands (2/2)

He blocked the figure's sword attack with his black spear. He had expected an ambush and had been prepared for it, except the force of the blow was stronger than he had anticipated, blowing him back a few yards.

”Oh? You knew I was going to ambush you?” Easton said with surprise.

”It was too easy to predict. You shouldn't have touched those Mutated Ghouls.” Leon answered with squinted eyes. He viewed each mutated ghoul as a fat sum of money, but all 15 mutate ghoul had been sucked dry. That was a tremendous of wealth! Leon would naturally be unhappy. But at least, he would get some karmic virtue to make up for it by killing the person. It was better than nothing.

After the block, Leon lunged forward for a killing blow, thrusting his black spear straight at the other person's head.

Swoosh** The attack missed.

”Phew, that was scary.” Easton said with relief, after evading the blow. ”Aren't you even going to ask who I am and why I'm attacking you?”

Leon ignored his words, lunging forward with a one-handed swing of his spear. The other hand sneakily flicked a few needles at the other figure's acupoints to immobilize him. Unfortunately, the assailant's reaction was extraordinary, swiftly blocking both attacks with a [Blood Wall].

However, Leon's attack did not stop there. He followed up by dashing to the side and aimed for the head with his black spear again.

The assailant was caught unprepared and hastily tried to parry the blow. The spearhead only managed to graze the other person's cheeks before the person retreated a fair distance in alarm.

”Hey, hey, that was too dangerous. I almost died there. You are much stronger than I anticipated.” Easton said, before he smiled. ”It seems I had asked a stupid question. Since you could predict my ambush, you would also be able to guess my identity.”

He was a fellow member of the Bloodfiend Sect. The same as the ex-team leader, Elias, except much stronger. This person's strength was at two-stars. The mutated ghouls must have boosted the person's strength a fair bit.

Leon frowned as he could guess that much. The other person was stronger than him. Leon also could increase his attacking power threefold and reach the same level of strength at the other person, but he refrained from doing so. He didn't know if there were any other members of the same sect lying in ambush. he didn't want to use such double-edge skills without confirming.

”Your strike is very decisive. I guess you learnt your mistake from my fellow sect member. It's a surprise that you're not afraid of my strength with just your one-star strength. Perhaps you are still holding back? Afraid that I'm not alone? Well, you don't have to worry about that and fight wholeheartedly. Us members of the Bloodfiend Sect tend to act independently.” Easton carelessly said as blood seeped out of the cut on his cheek and formed a solid blood helmet to protect his head.

After hearing those words, Leon's face twitched. He didn't expect to bump into such a talkative and stupid person while fighting. The person basically sentenced his own death. Although he would like to subdue the other party and fish some information out the person's mouth, he could not be careless.

In a battle between experts, life and death could be decided in a single instance. He had to fight with the intent to kill.

”Is that so… Then you can go die now!”

Leon closed the distance by half with explosive speed using [Extreme Vanishing Step], before coming to a grinding stop and fired his black spear with impossible speed from his hands, using threefold strength.

What!!!

The spear was too fast! It was already right in front of him. Easton exclaim mentally in horror as it was too late to dodge. Although it seemed like he was underestimating Leon, he was actually provoking him to attack. But in the end, he still severely underestimated Leon.

The black spear was wrapped in three elements! The destructive and penetrative force was enhanced by fire and lightning, while metal made it sharper and even faster!

Boom!

The black spear shot through the blood cultivator's head like a hot knife through butter and penetrated through several other trees before finally stopping. Those were extremely sturdy trees! Even after so many years logging business, only so many trees had been cut down from Extreme Misty Forest!

Leon widened his eyes in shock, visibly shaken by the results himself. The force of that attack had been far greater than he anticipated. His attack should've only produced the strength of three-stars, but it rivaled the attack of a cultivator at four-stars!

”Where did the extra force come from?” Leon pondered. Calculating the force of the three elements, it was still far from reaching four-stars. What was he missing?

Recalling his previous attack… he had dashed very fast, before throwing his spear… dashed… very fast... speed…?

His eyes lit up as he understood what he failed to calculate in his attack.