The young blond man looked at Minos with contempt, while at the same time, the young Stuart seemed confused as he wondered, 'I contacted your woman? Who is this guy talking about?'
Despite not knowing his opponent's strength, Minos was not afraid as he was sure that this blond man was not someone beyond the beginning of the 5th stage.
If this man was stronger, then there would have been no need for the previously activated spiritual array.
This young man was probably trying to separate Minos from his soldiers, so such a person shouldn't be that strong.
And even if he was someone that Minos couldn't handle, the young Stuart could still use the Spatial Kingdom to escape.
Minos looked at the young blond man, who wore a silver robe and seemed to be ready to attack him. With his brows furrowed, Minos started speaking, "Ehh, did you say you are going to teach me a lesson? Can I know what your name is and who is this woman you're talking about?"
'Does this guy have any relationship with Elena? However, I have yet to do anything with her, and that woman only constantly accompanied us...' Minos thought to himself while waiting for the young man before him to respond.
When Luke heard Minos' question, he laughed, "Haha, so you are like the ones who mess with another person's woman, yet still ask who I am, huh? But that's okay. I am going to give you the pleasure of knowing my name!"
"I am Luke Nash, the young master of the Nash family!"
"So, Scared of whom you dared to provoke?" he then asked with a smirk while looking for any change in Minos' expression.
'The young master of the Nash family?' Minos thought to himself.
He didn't have much information about this person, but he had heard from Elena that the Nash family had two young masters. However, she hadn't gone much into detail about anything vital related to them.
"Are you sure that you are not mistaking me for someone else? I arrived in this city just a few days ago, and I haven't met many people here. Elena is the only woman I have spent the most time with, but she didn't tell me that she had a boyfriend. So, maybe that's what you're talking about?" Minos asked with a trace of curiosity on his face.
It was because it was Elena who had been constantly trying to flirt so he was a bit curious.
Upon hearing this, Luke felt an even greater urge to hit this guy before him.
He then started to speak with even more anger, to the point where he had started to scream like crazy. "Elena? Don't play dumb. You know very well that I'm not talking about that woman. Enough talk. Unless I spank you till you're half dead, I won't be able to have peace."
'This guy is an idiot! If it's not Elena, then there is no one else with whom I have come into contact with...'
Minos didn't know what to think now as he wondered if this guy just didn't have a normal sense.
'Well, he'll serve as my fighting partner till that array falls apart... Hmm, hitting a lunatic shouldn't be considered bad…' Minos thought calmly, shaking his head from side to side while watching Luke's outrageous behavior.
Meanwhile, Luke had quickly activated his attack technique, Assassin's Claws, this technique helped the user to create a blade of energy in their hands, it was a Black-grade technique which specialized in hand-to-hand combat.
Indestructible Body!
Devouring Art!
Meanwhile, Minos also activated his defense and support techniques, preparing to fight.
As soon as the attacks were activated, immediately a black circle formed over the area that the spiritual array had isolated.
Luke didn't know this; right now Minos was his enemy and using such an array was a mistake that was going to cost him a lot and not just the spiritual crystals which he had to use for activating the array!
With the help of Devouring Art, not only was the spiritual energy of Minos' enemies sucked away, in fact, the technique was also sucking away the energy contained in the array. This was simply because spiritual arrays used spiritual energy to function.
Thus, although Minos might not be able to affect the energy already used by the array, he could still consume the energy stored in it resulting in shortening of its operational time and also weakening it.
Not long ago, while still in Portland's region, Darell's defensive array was also compromised by both outside attacks and Minos' Devouring Art, which was constantly depleting that array's energy reserves.
Jumping the Mountain!
Luke activated his movement technique shortly after. He didn't want to let his enemy last any longer. All he desired was to immobilize Minos and then torture him until the spiritual array he had set up stopped working.
Whoosh!
Then, Luke quickly jumped right in front of Minos and struck several blows towards the guy's belly.
Just when Luke's blade-filled hands were approaching his opponent's 'helpless' body, his lips slowly curved upward.
'It's over...' Luke sneered in his heart.
Poof!
However, much to Luke's surprise, his attack was completely blocked by Minos' body. It was as if his enemy's flesh was as hard as a high-level spiritual weapon!
Finding this peculiar Luke's pupils widened in shock as a thought went through his mind. 'What the fuck! How can he have such a sturdy body while being only at level 33?'
At the same time, Minos smiled as he saw the blades of energy touching his abdomen and had left gashes in his clothes, removing a sword from his spatial ring, he also initiated his attack.
Spatial Sword!
Minos did not even give Luke the time to breathe before activating his attack technique and as a result, any movements in the surrounding space quickly started to freeze, while Luke had his speed reduced.
Minos then made a move with his sword, delivering a blow in the direction of Luke's right arm.
Swooish!
When he saw this attack coming towards him, Luke cursed Minos in his mind before activating his defense and movement techniques simultaneously with all the strength he could muster.
He knew that he could not take this blow lightly because this attack was even stronger than his own!
'Damn it! How can this be? Why is this guy so strong?' Luke was alarmed as he tried to escape Minos' attack.
The blow passed quickly over to the right side of Luke's body. He had barely avoided it, but still, it had cost him a lot. After all, activating two techniques at the same time for someone at level 40 was still not easy. In addition, it also required a lot of spiritual energy, something he did not have yet, for being able to fight at high intensity for a long time.
'Phew! Ah! I almost got hit! But, this wretch must have also spent everything he had on executing this technique…'
Luke laughed out with a mocking smile on his face. "Haha, you didn't expect that, huh? And now, will you be able to launch another one of such attacks?"
However, while Luke laughed happily, Minos made another movement with the sword while running towards his opponent.
Spatial Sword!
Swooish!
With that, Minos' blade quickly started approaching Luke's straight shoulder.
'What a disgrace! How can he do that?' the young master of the Nash family cursed while feeling his speed decreasing with each moment.
Steel Shield!
Luke promptly activated his defensive technique, this time utilizing all of his remaining spiritual energy.
He knew that given his current condition, this time he would not be successful if he were to use two techniques simultaneously. And as a result, he could only try to defend himself against his enemy's strange attack!
Crash!
Minos' sword and Luke's shield clashed briefly, but Luke could not hold on to this attack much longer after that and was thrown backwards smashing his back hard against a wall.
"Aaaaah!"
Pow!
Minos lowered his sword after seeing this unfold while being almost exhausted and had beads of sweat all over his face. Although he could use his opponent's energy, it was not easy to fight given such a difference in levels!
'It looks like he is completely exhausted.' Minos thought and then glanced at the spiritual array that was beginning to show several thin lines of cracks in the air.
Meanwhile, Minos walked towards the young master of the Nash family, who was in a miserable state with several cuts on his luxurious clothing and blood covering his right shoulder.
He was lying on the floor, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Clearly, the last blow had caused heavy damage to his internal organs.
Luke looked at the cracks in the air and was delighted 'Good thing that the array is almost breaking! If it took any much longer, who knows what this monster could do to me…'
Minos stopped in front of him and asked with a serious face, "What is the name of the girl you were talking about before?"
Luke stared at Minos with fear and uttered with his lips shaking, "Elen.. Elen Nash."
After hearing the answer, Minos opened his mouth in surprise not knowing if he should kick this guy's head, 'Eh? It seems that I was not wrong. This guy really is stupid!'
"Well, I don't have that kind of relationship with Miss Elen. But since you attacked me, I will take away all the belongings of your spatial ring," Minos said with a wide smile on his face while quickly picking up a ring that was on one of the fingers of Luke's right hand.
"What? You can't do that. These are the Nash family's belongings!" Luke protested in an appealing voice.
"Hmm, I know that. But it's your fault for challenging someone like me," Minos smiled, keeping the ring inside his own.
Crack!
A moment later, the spiritual array collapsed, and Minos headed towards the stairs to return to the first floor. He was curious if those people at the concierge had caused any problems for his group.