Chapter 411: Intentional Attacks (2/2)

He didn't know if he was hallucinating it or not, but he felt like his sword has a simple white outline to it. However, it was too faint to know if it was really there because it was, or because he wanted there to be one.

He sliced at the weaker lioness who barely managed to dodge it. However, even as it dodged the attack, a thin amount of hair fell from the lioness' neck.

'I did it?' his eyes brightened as he thought that.

To him, that was definitely a success, however small it was. He was starting to figure out the concept behind the intents and he was so happy that he wanted to celebrate. All of a sudden, he tried to move to the side, but…

BANG

He was suddenly hit from the side due to a moment of carelessness. He flew through the air until he hit a tree and broke it in half.

”Ughh!” he said as he stood up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw one of the lionesses attacking him, so he rolled over to dodge.

'I can't focus elsewhere right now,' he thought and quickly got up despite the pain on his right ribs. He truly believed that some of the ribs had to have been broken for sure.

Still, he would have to be beaten up a few more times to be dangerously injured.

He stopped thinking about what just happened and prepared to attack once more.

'I am the sword. I want to cut. I need to cut. CUT!' he thought once more and dashed forward to slash at the weaker lioness who tried to block his attack.

However, as if the sword had gained a new life and increased sharpness, it cut through the paw-like it was a piece of butter.

”RAWR!!” the lioness screamed in pain and jumped back. Alex was surprised once more.

'T-that's way too high damage. That's at least in the middle of Meridian Tempering realm,' Alex thought. Up until now, he had been hacking and slashing really hard to cleave through the neck of the lionesses, but the attack just now didn't have as much force behind it.

Due to his focus behind the intent, his attack hadn't had as much intensity behind it, and it still managed to do quite a lot of damage.

'Do intents not follow a person's cultivation base and all have their own damage?' he wondered. He thought back to the competition in which Du Yuhan fought 3 similar strength puppets and overpowered them by just increasing the intent.

Then he won against that guy from his own group by revealing the Sword Qi, which was the next stage after Sword Intent. Even though his opponent's cultivation base was clearly higher, Du Yuhan even managed to beat him.

In fact, Du Yuhan had even managed to push back a True Realm cultivator.

”Does that mean…” He quickly stopped. This was simply too early to be making conclusions and he needed to keep on fighting.

He quickly dodged and rolled aside when the stronger lioness attacked. The lioness didn't let him take any rest and came back to attack every time he dodged.

Alex jumped back, rolled to the side, and dashed sideways so many times that he was starting to get dizzy. 'This isn't going anywhere,' he thought and quickly started calling back his intent.

He needed focus as the intent was in no way natural to him yet if he could even call it that at the level it was at. However, the lioness kept on attacking without stopping.

Alex was starting to get a little tired as well. He couldn't keep it going and needed to finish it soon. Suddenly, he stopped dodging.

The weaker lioness had decided to join the attack, and he welcomed it with open arms. He got hit on the sword, but at the same time, jumped backward to lessen the blow. He was using the momentum from the lioness' attack to get away.

'Finally,' he thought. The lionesses ran towards him, but he didn't need to worry about them as he had ample time to prepare now.

'Cut… cut… CUT!!' he thought to himself. The white light that tethered on the edge of visibility and invisibility appeared once more as it covered the entirety of his sword.

The stronger lioness attacked him right then. He rolled forward to dodge the paw and came face to face with the weaker one. The weaker lioness used its left paw to attack him, while he used his sword in return.

”CUT!”

His sword passed through the left paw and well and went halfway into the skull. He couldn't fully cleave the skull, but that wasn't necessary as he had already damaged the brain and the beast was dead.

He pulled the sword out and turned around to fight the final opponent.

Both of them wasted no time and ran towards each other. Alex's sword was still glowing a little from the intent he had set up.

'CUT!'

He kept reminding himself as he fought the beast. Somehow, his sword wasn't strong enough to cut through the body of the stronger lioness as he did with the weaker one.

'So that's the extent of my sword intent's damage?' he wondered. Still, the sword cut the skin and flesh of the lioness pretty easily and after a minute of continuous fighting, he managed to put so much wound on the lioness that it was simply too much for the lioness to continue fighting.

Alex struck aside the paw and took the opportunity to drive the sword through the left eye of the lioness, killing it finally.