Chapter 729: Ashen 1
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Garen’s gaze was fixed on that man. He rubbed his chin, and the edge of the mask there had actually cracked slightly when it was hit by the white light.
‘Be careful, it’s not going to be easy dealing with this guy,’ Black Sethe whispered in his ear. ‘He’s a top spiritual energy user, I did not expect a master level user to appear in this world.’
Garen slowly nodded his head and stared at that guy with his left eye.
From his clothes to his hair, even his skin was extremely pale, this was Ashen Castine, the world’s one and only strongest Blood Breed.
“So he’s the first Death Apostle, the Ashen Lord,” Garen slowly said. “As the leader of the light party, it’s truly unexpected that you will appear to rescue the Death Apostle of the Secret Party.”
Ashen stood silently on a tree branch, and Garen was below him. The two of them were seven or eight meters apart, but the area’s atmosphere felt as if it was being vaguely split into two halves.
He gently caressed Tu Lan’s hair with a complicated look on his face.
“In this world, there hasn’t been any new Death Apostle for many years, so every Death Apostle is my neo-humans’ greatest assets.”
He was the leader of the Light Party and he had always advocated that the blood breeds were leaders and evolved humans, whereas the Death Apostles of the Blood Breeds were the final evolution of humans.
Unlike the Secret Party, as they believed that the blood breeds were a higher ranked species than humans, while the Light Party considered themselves to be a member of the human race.
“That’s your own business,” Garen said calmly. “I have my own principles, and you have your own way of doing.”
Ashen was stunned, he did not think that Garen would not do him this favor, “If you insist on fighting…”
“Show me the strength of the first leader.”
The moment Garen spoke, he lifted his right arm, which had grown bigger and thicker, and swung it at Ashen.
Boom!!
More terrifyingly, a large group of black shadows had suddenly burst out of his right arm. It started stretching and morphed into a huge slender arm. Then, it swung at Ashen.
The arm was more than ten meters long and it was still stretching!
Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang!!!
A large area of the forest, about 10 meters wide, was directly cut down by the huge black shadow hand, and the whole forest became an open space with hand-shaped prints all around.
Strangely, he did not find any traces of Castine, and even Tu Lan seemed to have disappeared.
“This is a meaningless fight,” Castine’s voice came from all around Garen.
Garen sneered coldly and quickly tapped his shoulders around ten times with his left fingers.
Hooo!
A cache of black gas swelled up once again within him.
“Third star! Activate!!”
His entire body seemed to grow bigger and bigger, and the green-black blood vessels on his body looked like twisted wires. His muscles were bulging tightly, and each pec was like steel castings. At this point, he was more than two meters tall and he looked like a back metal giant.
At the same time, his overall attributes were once again raised by an average of seven points to achieve an average twenty-one points. With this terrifying increase in sense of perception, Garen finally caught a glimpse of subtle flaws in the surrounding space.
“Left!”
His left arm slammed like a cannonball to the left.
Boom!!!
The giant green-black hand fell like a hammer on the seemingly empty space.
Instantly, a slight muffling sound was heard, and it seemed like Ashen had been hit. A huge horrifying force suddenly created a high-frequency vibration which made the space somewhat unstable, and a small buzzing sound could be heard.
“Holy Technique – deactivate,” a clear voice was heard coming from the air.
As he heard that sound, Garen’s pupil suddenly shrank.
‘Be careful! It’s the nature of time ability!!’ Black Sethe warned. “Retreat!!”
Without hesitation, Garen retreated like a black lightning bolt, and in just a blink of an eye, he was ten meters away. The moment he retreated, there was a burst of white gas that seemed to be in pursuit. A strange looking white face appeared mid-air, which opened its mouth and appeared to be growling, although there was actually no sound.
“Fourth star!!” Garen’s body suddenly swelled and started growing once again. He put his hands together and held them high up above his head.
“Waterbird Fist Profound – White Jade!!”
At that moment, his tanned-skinned hands morphed into a black knife and made a slice. A similar looking white destroyed shadow was being drawn in mid-air. The black knife actually drew out a white destroyed shadow!
The difference between this and the other two profound techniques was that the White Jade was not as strong as the Flight and did not have the large-scale attack of the Dual Blade. The only ability it had was to increase the defense of both his hands to its limit and concentrate all his spiritual energy into his hands. It could forcefully increase the strength of his hands to a terrifying level in a short time, and together with Garen’s physical quality, if he were to activate the fifth star, the profound White Jade that he cast would be able to surpass the thirty points physical limit.
Not only did this surpass the limit of his body, it also strengthened the hardness of his exterior to an extremely high level, equivalent to turning his flesh and blood into iron and steel like a non-living thing for a short period of time. By abandoning his flesh and blood, he was able to obtain an extremely great strength. Because there was no living activity, his body would not be restricted by his physical limit.
This trick did not seem to be effective when he was against Nadia, therefore, this was his first time using it in an actual fight. Even so, without a doubt, White Jade’s effect was the strongest.
More terrifyingly, he was able to sustain this effect for about ten minutes at a time.
Garen’s hands turned into knives and it directly slashed the white face which was flying towards him.
Ahh!!!!
As if someone was screaming in pain, the moment they collided, Garen only felt a slight pain in his body, and he was pushed back by three steps!
When his palms came in contact with the white gas, there was an explosion and the white gas evacuated. Garen had to take a few steps to stabilize his body. He did not have any problems with his palms, but the upper part of his arms seemed to be slightly affected.
Right at this moment, Ashen Castine and Tu Lan appeared mid-air in front of the collision.
He covered his mouth and seemed to cough, and traces of blood could be seen between his fingers.
“So powerful…. I’ve heard about how powerful the Holy Fist Palace is but I thought they were just rumors… I didn’t expect… Cough-cough!” Castine coughed.
He stared at the young blond man in front of him. In nearly a million years, he had never met such a powerful human.
Every breath that he took created small holes on the ground. The heat emitted from his body was as hot as a furnace, and just by getting close to him, he could feel the huge radiation of heat from his body. Even by speaking casually, the vibration could cause an ordinary person to lose consciousness.
This level of power, he can no longer be called human…
The blonde man standing was wearing a mask on his face, one that had countless black tiny eyes carved onto the forehead, and he stood at almost three meters tall. With his horrifying green-black muscles, it gave people the impression that he was a giant monster truck that would block the cars behind.
Under his terrifying breathing sounds, he sucked in waves of air, and then spewed it out again, stirring up a small whirlwind around. Just by breathing, he was able to induce such a powerful air current.
Even Castine was slightly shocked.
Compared to his neo-human Blood Breeds, he was less like a human!
“I thought that there weren’t any worthy strong opponents in this world,” Garen slowly opened his mouth and spoke in a low voice that sounded like thunder, and his body began to expand again.
He could actually continue to get stronger!?!
The look on Castine’s face finally changed, and he took a few steps back from the air flow made by Garen’s speech.
He was not the only one who was astonished; Tu Lan who was standing behind him was stunned and could not get any words out. When Garen spoke, she felt the ground tremble and the vibrations from the huge sound wave.
A human being able to train to this level, he could no longer be considered human! Compared to Garen, she suddenly felt that the Blood Breeds were so much more ordinary….
Hooo!!!
A gigantic airstream started spreading in all directions with Garen as the center point, and trees were being uprooted and falling all around.
All this was just from Garen taking a step forward, yet such a ground shacking impact had been caused.
“Ashen Castine….” Garen stared at him quietly with his remaining left eye. “You are eligible to witness my strongest form.”
“You….!” just as Castine wanted to say something, he suddenly felt the earth shaking for a moment, as though there was an earthquake.
“Let’s have a showdown!”
His roar was like a thunderstorm which growled right in front of him, and even though Castine was horrifyingly strong, he was still shaken by the impact.
At that moment, Castine saw a giant figure suddenly appearing in front of him. The giant was more than three meters tall and the shadow of his terrifying physique overshadowed him and Tu Lan.
Armor-like bulging muscles formed on Garen’s shoulders, and the muscles on his whole body were like a horrifying ferocious heavy armor, complete with an obvious metallic sheen on them.
His right and left palms were coming together in their direction as if he wanted to directly squash Castine to death. The palms of his hands were larger than his head and looked like two giant iron bricks, and as they closed in, they were creating a terrifying, whistling sound.
Without having much time to think, Castine hurriedly took a few steps back.
“Holy Technique – Light!!”
An unknown ancient language was coming from his mouth, and his words were articulated, his speed was sharply raised and he streaked into a white light.
This was similar to what he had done just now. The speed of the white light was extremely fast, and he instantly broke free from Garen’s range.
But right at this moment.
Bang!!!
As Garen clapped his palms together, a horrifying sound wave erupted with an extremely strong vibration and explosion, which smashed into Castine and Tu Lan.
The two of them moaned in pain at the same time and tumbled onto the grassland not far away, as blood dripped out of their ears.
Garen moved his body forward and made a huge leap. It was actually a few meters long leap, but it seemed as though he’d teleported right in front of Castine and stepped on him!
A loud bang was heard, and a cloud of white gas which was more than 10 meters in length and width exploded and wrapped around Garen.
The air current swept away everything around Garen; the trees, dirt, rocks, living creatures, and even Tu Lan were blown away by the terrible explosion. Bang-bang-bang sounds were heard hundreds of meters away as huge trees were shattered. A figure slowly fell to the ground, covered in blood and on the verge of death.
“Holy Fist Garen….”
White gas had gathered during the explosion and formed into a white-haired man figure, which was Castine.
He covered his mouth and could no longer hold it in; his nose and ears were bleeding, and the drops of blood dripped onto his white clothes and stained them red. The blood could no longer return to his body, which indicated that he’d completely lost his vitality.