Chapter 20 Its time to Cook (1/2)

”Ugh… Where did that light come from?” Alex knew that if it were not for that massive surge of light, then it might be his head that is rolling on the ground already.

”.....” Alex tried to ignore the old kid's headless body as he watched Alina's fight with the lizard.

Except that there is no lizard in sight.

What Alex could see was a bleeding Alina squaring off against a human-looking lizard man?

”Huh. What the hell is happening here?” Alex then shook his head as he realized that it's not the time to ask questions now.

Since he still had some time left before the time limit is up, Alex decided to assist Alina in in every way that he can.

”But what can I do?” Alex thought sourly to himself as he saw the intense battle between the two.

Because of his limited Mental Power, Alex can only rely on his vision to see everything that happened.

But even with that limited sensing, Alex could not help but feel that he was lucky to have Alina with him right now.

”Even if Alina became a temporary 1 Star Esper, she was still able to perform these powerful attacks… D**n, if she attacked me right now, even my danger sense would be unable to save me.” Alex grimly thought as he realized the gravity of his main mission.

”If Alina and this Class SS Lizard was already this strong, then how strong would the other Star Espers would be?”

Alex then shook his head as he put this matter at the back of his head.

Alex had just been in this world for 2 days, and now he already had the power to protect himself.

Give Alex more days to train, and his progress will be greater!

Asteria seemed to have detected Alex's melancholic thoughts as she said, ”Traveler, you may not know it, but when you became a Traveler, your body had been remodeled by the Endless Monarch.”

”Your body right now will accept all kinds of cultivation and strengthening techniques, provided that you can afford it with your lifespan.” Asteria said these words that can make any cultivator faint in anger as if it they were just mere facts.

”Not only that, but your ability to grow stronger has been improved in your current body too.” At this point, Alex can already understand what Asteria was saying now.

”Traveler, that just means that as long as you put in the effort to get stronger, then you will stronger quickly.” Asteria concluded as she patted Alex's cheek.

Did Asteria just became sympathetic to Alex?

”So make sure that you do not do anything stupid now. Because if you die, you can't experience the quick growth that I am talking about.”

Nope, Asteria is still the same.

”Hai, hai, I won't die here.” Alex said as he looked around him.

With the intensity of the fight between the lizard man and Alina, there is no way that Alex could get near right now.

In that case, Alex has no choice but to only use long-range moves to assist Alina.

”But there is no way that my attacks can damage that thing.” Alex knew that if this lizard man can stand toe-to-toe with Alina, then that must mean that his power is around the Star Esper Level too,

Alex's Mental Power of relatively measly 122.5 won't do s**t on that lizard man.

”If direct attacks won't do, then that just mean I can only assist Alina by somehow distracting or slowing the lizard man down.” Alex muttered as his mind began to churn.

With his brain enhanced by the boost, Alex was able to think up of thousands of possible ways to slow down or distract the lizard man.

Alex discarded the ways that required a long time to use, and the ways that are too unrealistic to use with his current Mental Power.

Alex then quickly eliminated the remaining ways until there was only one way left.

Alex suddenly wore a fearless smile on his face as he digested the contents of the remaining way.

He shook his head as he glared at the lizard man balefully.

”Well then, here I come.” Alex whispered as his face suddenly turned focused.

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”This is getting worse.” Alina thought to herself as he continued exchanging attacks with the humanoid lizard.

With the lizard's speed, most of Alina's attacks missed and those that did were unable to hit the lizard's vital spot,

Alina was also getting slightly overwhelmed by the lizard's attacking speed, as she has to create numerous Space Barriers at a time to protect herself.

Add Alina's stomach injury that is not getting any better, and Alina was being slowly pushed into the corner.

Right now, there are only 1 and a half minutes left before her boost gets used up.

Looking at her current situation, Alina knew that she is already f**ked up.

”It seems like I have no choice but to do that…”Alina thought as an extremely determined expression appeared on her face.

”My sister will not be happy once I did this, but this is the only way that I can win right now.”

But right before Alina could start doing that, she suddenly remembered that she was not the only Esper in here.

There is still Alex with her!

”S**t! If I do that here, Alex will surely be implicated too!” Alina's eyes narrowed as she decided to make Alex run away now.

With her busy attacking and defending , Alina can only use her sensing of space to see how Alex fared.

She could sense in her space that Alex was relatively uninjured, with a headless body and decapitated head near him.

Alina tried to identify who the unfortunate victim was, and to her surprise, it was someone that she knew!

”Mindbreaker is dead...” Alina thought grimly as she was perfectly sure that this guy was a loyal minion of Lord Ergo.

”From what I know, Mindbreaker was supposed to be doing something at the mansion now, so how come he just suddenly appeared here? And why did he and Alex even fight! And how was Alex able to win?”

There is no way that Alina's questions can get answered right now, with her being extremely busy.

As such, she can only inquire Alex about his matter with Mindbreaker on their next meeting.

That is, if they can still stay alive here.