Chapter 449 - Black Venom (2/2)

Alex suddenly swung his golden-white sword across the boss's face and cut the mask in half.

Alex was still hanging in the air, but he saw the boss's mask drop from his face.

”A woman?” he asked in surprise.

”You!” the boss's normal, female voice was revealed once the mask disappeared.

Alex was about to use his Heaven's Impact, but he suddenly felt that he was in a state of euphoria. He almost couldn't do anything.

It felt like his mind, body and spirit became one. However, just then he felt his mind get hot and that woke him up.

He woke up just in time to see the notifications about the toxins being destroyed from his body.

He looked up front and saw the woman's face anger up. He then saw her taking out another mask from her storage bag and was about to put it on.

”Oh no!” he thought and immediately sent out another Heaven's impact. This one managed to barely slip through and hit the boss just before she put on the mask again.

Just as she put on the mask, she lost consciousness too. Her control over Alex dropped and he fell to the ground. He immediately started his Earth Devour techniques.

His Qi traveled across his body at incredible speed and came out from under him to open the ground. But, even as that happened, he could see the boss's eyes coming back to life.

He didn't know if Heaven's impact wasn't as strong due to her putting on the mask, or if the mask had mental healing properties, but she had recovered from her unconsciousness and he was in trouble.

The ground below him had barely opened when the boss stopped herself from falling and immediately sent a palm attack towards him.

Alex felt like he had lost his control over the Focus mode and time was back to moving slow.

He could see the slow opening of the ground and the palm attack flying towards him at incredible speed.

He knew for sure if the palm hit him, he was dead. And… it seemed it would reach him before he escaped.

He was doomed.

He started worrying about what to do. Whether to teleport or to use an attack of his own, but that was impossible.

His body was still sending out Qi for the ground below him, and he couldn't use it right now. Even if he could, it wouldn't be fast enough to dodge the palm attack that was right in front of his face.

'Am I dead?' he thought.

Suddenly, something flew out of his robe and stood between him and the palm attack.

Bright yellow light shined from it and a golden barrier appeared in front of him just in time to block the attack.

Alex looked at what it was and was thoroughly surprised. ”Master's talisman!” he shouted.

The talisman managed to stop the attack and both of them disappeared.

The ground opened up fully and swallowed Alex while the rest of the people there couldn't see what had happened at the last moment.

”That… That bastard saw my face!” the Boss's hoarse sound appeared once more. ”Find out where he went! I want him dead.”

The boss spread out her aura all around her and suffocated her followers, but couldn't find any sign of Alex.

The other bandits were shocked to see their boss rage like that and didn't dare make another peep.

”Go find him, you bastards!” the boss shouted.

”Yes, boss.” Immediately, everyone jumped out of their place and went around the forest to search.

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Alex was released from the ground and he quickly stood and immediately went invisible and hid all of his aura.

He then cleaned himself of all dirt and looked around.

'Am I far away? I hope I  didn't go closer into towards the inner forest,' he thought. He slowly flew up above the forest and looked around.

'Where do I go now?' he wondered. He flew up even higher, but all he could see was the forest. He had come in way too deep.

'Do I leave or do I stay around until the morning arrives?' he thought.

He looked around more to make sense of anything, but his eyes could see nothing for the forests and trees. There was not a single thing around him to tell him of his location.

”Sigh, I guess I will wait until the morning then,” he thought and went down to the ground.

Instead of staying in one place, however, he decided to keep moving and find some alchemy ingredients throughout the night.

So, he chose a route he thought was correct and started moving. The night had just started and there was a lot of time still remaining for the sun to come up.

So, he did all he could and moved forward.