Chapter 449 - Black Venom (1/2)

Alex was down on the ground as pressure crashed all over him. This pressure was way stronger than the person he had just fought before.

In fact, it was stronger than that time Zexi had him pinned on the ground in the alleyway too.

'No way! Someone in True Lord realm? Or maybe even higher,' he thought. The aura was less than his masters', but he wasn't sure by how much.

He tried to use his Qi to escape but no matter what he did, his Qi just wouldn't move. The pressure was too much for him to use any technique.

Warm energy rushed from within him that lowered the pressure on the inside, but he was still unable to use his techniques.

”So, someone is indeed here,” A voice came from behind Alex. He quickly sent out his spiritual sense and noticed a lot of people around him.

'Shit!' he thought.

”What's that?”

”It's a corpse. Hey isn't this that new guy Phillip or whatever his name was?”

”I think so. Boss, someone killed your arrogant new star.”

”Wait, didn't he have a small group of his own cause he wanted to act like a leader? Where are they?”

”Probably dead like him, right? Hahaha”

People started laughing all around Alex. Finally, a person landed in front of him.

”Is he alive, boss?” someone asked.

Alex could see a fully black-robed person with a black mask that had a single design that made it look like a snake's tongue was coming out of it.

Other than that, there were 2 holes through which amber-colored eyes were staring at him.

”You look young. Did you kill my person?” A hoarse voice escaped from behind the mask that made the boss sound like he had lost his voice after speaking for hours.

Alex didn't answer. He was too busy checking how much trouble he was in.

His spiritual sense could now clearly see the nearly 3 dozen people surrounding him.

Each and every single one of them was wearing a black robe and a rather tight-fitting black mask on just on their mouth and nose.

”Are you conscious kid? The boss is asking you a question,” a man said. However, he didn't come close to Alex and stayed far away.

”He's conscious; just look at him fidgeting,” the boss said.

Suddenly a force pulled Alex off of the ground and he was face to face with the boss. The pressure crashing on him lowered and he could finally move his body around.

He could also use techniques with the pressure mostly gone, but now that he was away from the ground, he had lost his chance to escape too.

He wanted to turn invisible, but just a single burst of aura would make him unable to stay that way. He wanted to conceal his aura, but it wouldn't work against someone at a higher Major realm than his.

He wanted to simply teleport away, but everywhere was surrounded by the goons. Teleporting would still leave him within the encirclement, in range of the boss' intense pressure.

So, he really only had one choice, and he did it.

His Spiritual sea churned as a massive vortex appeared that quickly turned into mist and flew to the sky. They gathered there to form the shape of a fist and it escaped away from that place.

Heaven's impact flew directly at the boss, but just before it hit the boss, the mask glowed a shiny white and his spiritual attack was stopped.

”Oh, you just used a mental skill on me? How? I didn't see you use any techniques,” the boss said with a chuckle in his voice.

Alex was horrified. His one plan that should have worked, didn't.

'How?' he thought. 'Mental protection items are so rare. How does the boss of a bandit group have those?'

'It's the mask. I need to get rid of it,' he thought. His sword was still on the side of his hand, dangling beside him.

From what he could see, the boss still believed him to be unable to move. He didn't know that thanks to his inner warmth, he could now move.

'I need to take this opportunity carefully,' he thought.

”Yeah, I'm sure he killed him. That is truly a surprise. A Mind Tempering realm kid killing a True realm cultivator. Hmm…” the boss looked around.

”He must've gotten help from what I can see. Someone else was here and they ditched him.”

”Were you betrayed? Do you want to take revenge on the person that left you behind?” the boss asked.

”I… I want to,” Alex said. ”I want to kill him. He ruined my life.”

”Hehehe, do you hate society like every one of us here?” the boss asked.

”Yes!…” 'I need to fight.' ”… I do.” 'Soon.'

”Hehe, but then you will have to—”