Chapter 19 I doubt that you can blink them properly (2/2)
Still, with Alina's current Mental Power, it was way stronger than the Space Barrier that she can create when she was a Tier 999 Esper.
The space barrier was able to slow down the lizard's kick, but before Alina could feel relieved, the humanoid lizard let out a roar as it applied more force on its legs.
”Puchi!” Alina was barely able to dodge as she humanoid lizard's kick went right past her torso.
With Alina dodging out of the way, she was able to prevent her torso from being cut into two.
However, the kick still managed to gouge a deep wound from Alina's stomach.
”Gh!”
Alina gritted her teeth as she activated her third move, which she called the Space Blast.
This move requires the presence of the Space Barrier first.
Once the Space Barrier was present, Alina will then remove the compression of the space in the Space Barrier.
When she does this, the reaction of the compressed space will be quite similar to the reaction of a compressed spring that was released.
Both of them will expand outwards, bringing large amounts of energy with them.
That was exactly what the Space Blast was.
It was a blast that was produced by the recoil of decompressing a Space Barrier.
This move of hers had taken down many tricky opponents before already.
”Boom!” the resulting space explosion generated large amounts of energy that it looked like the whole place around Alina and the humanoid lizard was covered in light.
Both Alina and the humanoid lizard was pushed back by the Space Blast.
Alina, with her Esper Ability, was able to reduce the damage of the blast on her body.
As for the humanoid lizard, its body was caved in on many places. One of its arms were also gone while its body looked extremely bloody.
It might look extremely miserable, but Alina could feel that this humanoid lizard could still move.
Alina wiped the blood that dribbled from her mouth as she muttered,
”Let's finish this.”
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Alex and the kid were both staring at each other intently, making sure that one of them will make the move before their opponent could.
”Say, are you a kid or an old man?” Alex said as his face suddenly became relaxed.
”Huh? Don't call me a kid! I am much older than you!” The 'old kid' declared as he lowered his body further.
”Oh, in that case, I will not feel guilty anymore once I kill you. After all, I hesitated on killing you earlier...” Alex said with a relieved expression on his face.
”Huh? Are you telling me that you could have killed me earlier, but I just survived because you thought I am a kid? Now that is just making me more pissed!” The 'old kid' snarled in reply.
The 'old kid' then pointed his sword at Alex as he said,
”As a thanks for your 'kindness' earlier, I shall kill you by decapitation. Maybe you can count how many blinks you can do when your head is cut off.”
”.....”
”.....”
”Now!”
Both of them let out a shout as they started to make their move.
But before they could even activate their Esper Ability, they were suddenly covered by large amounts of light.
This light was the light produced by Alina's Space Blast!
Alex was unaffected by the sudden increase of light, as he subconsciously filtered the light so that only the right amount of light reaches his eyes.
But as for the 'old kid', he let out a shout of pain as he covered his eyes in agony.
”!!!!”
Even though Alex only allowed the right amount of light to reach his eyes, he could still sense that there's a sudden increase of light around him.
He also noticed what happened with the 'old kid'.
”Now is my chance!” Alex knew that he can now make his attack, as the 'old kid' was distracted by the sudden increase in brightness.
And the best medium for Alex's attack right now was all the new light around him.
”Gather!” Alex shouted as he forced all of the new light around him to be compressed on his palm.
This compression was different from changing an EM Wave's wavelength.
What Alex did right now was pure, physical compression of the light wave.
This resulted in an increase of temperature of the physically compressed light.
He then shot it towards the old kid's eyes, which started to slowly open.
Alex made sure that the compressed light that he shot was around the size of the old kid's eyes.
”......”
Alex's attack perfectly penetrated the old kid's eyes when he fully opened it.
”Sizzle…” Alex started to smell cooked flesh as his attack proceeded to burn both of the old kid's eyes.
”Argh!!” While the old kid was in pain because of his burnt eyes, Alex rushed towards him as he waved his Star-Crusted Dagger.
With Alex and Alina under the effect of the Star-Crusted Dagger, Alex knew that stabbing the old kid with the Star-Crusted Dagger would not help increase his Mental Power at all.
But Alex was not planning on stabbing the 'old kid' anyway.
”Sprut!” With a scary precision, Alex deftly decapitated the defenseless 'old kid'.
The old kid's head flew into the air, before landing on the ground with a thud.
Anyone who saw what Alex did can say that this is not the first time that Alex decapitated someone.
Alex then let out as sigh as he looked at the head of 'old kid'.
Alex proceeded to wipe the blood from the Star-Crusted Dagger as he said,
”Well, you can try counting your blinks now. But with your eyes burnt that badly, I doubt you can blink them properly.”
”...…”