Chapter 42
Xavier didn't care about the harrowing screams of the 2 guards. He went forward without looking back.
He remembered the route of the cavern and was close to the exit.
He was about to get out of the cavern when he felt an impact on his back. He shot out like a meteor falling from the sky and he went through the entrance through the cavern and hit the trees.
The impact was so powerful that Xavier spat out some blood and he heard his spine crack under the pressure.
The force with which Xavier hit the ground formed a crack which was about the same width as himself.
Xavier stood up with difficulty and moved his such towards the entrance of the cave.
From the cave, 3 shadows came out. One of them was the guard that Xavier thought that he had knocked out earlier and the other 2 were old my green who looked like they had half a foot inside their graves.
They were the 2 elders 8f the Wade family and the head of the shadow guard grip who were sent to protect Roger and Reginald.
The guard looked at Xavier, with who knows what expression he had behind his mark and clapped," Nice, well done, you have managed to kill or incapacitate 3 out of the 4 shadow guards sent to this back water place. Even though they were the weakest of our shadow guards, they were not so bad that they would be killed by someone from this city."
"It seems that you have some secrets of your own, like that flame of yours. It doesn't seem ordinary. I'd like to get my hands on that if possible." The guard rubbed his hands.
The 2 elders who were standing beside the shadow guard also had been in their eyes. They had seen the effect of the flame. Not only had the 2 guards not been able to extinguish them, even then, Martial Lord stage experts felt danger when they went near that flame even though it was just a small alarm which was buying the 2 guards.
If they could get their hands on the flame, they could easily advance to a higher level of power and then they would be recited to the main family branch in the capital.
The guard felt the greed in the eyes of the 2 old men and he snorted. "Don't even think about it. If I report to the family that you two kept something which you should not have, you will know your fates."
The 2 old men shrunk their heads and shivered. As the guard said earlier, they were just external elders who got their pets because of pills and the guard, who was a peak Grandmaster but an elite level in that stage could fight with them for a long time without taking into a disadvantage. But being a shadow guard, he had his own methods which made both the elders fearful of the consequences of their actions.
The guard looked at Xavier and said," Bit, I'll give you a chance. Join the Wade family and serve it for life. I will make sure that I'll look after you and you'll be pardoned from the crime that you have committed."
Xavier, when he heard this, laughed aloud and said," Join the Wade family? It's more like asking me to die. Don't think that I don't know what your actual motives are."
"I know that once you make me join the Wade family, you'll try your best to gain whatever I have and then there me away or even wise, to suffer the growth of a threat in the crib itself, you might like me or even wise, you might cripple me and throw me away to escorting a fate worse than death."
"Don't think that I have not seen the world at all. Even though you are wearing a mask to cover up your face, I can see through the thoughts of motherfuckers like you have like you're an open book."
"So you don't want to accept the conditions?" The guard asked.
Xavier asked his middle finger and said,"Fuck you as off!"
The guard finally lost it and ordered in an enraged voice," Kill him."
The 2 Martial Lord experts as well as the guard jumped at Xavier. Xavier quickly took out his sword and brought it in front of him to take on the attack.
The old man who had come to the guards earlier was the first to reach Xavier. He held a broadsword in both his hands and slashed at Xavier.
The broadsword, being way heavier than the sword Xavier had in his hands, bent the sword so much that it almost broke.
Xavier was sent flying and his bones creaked. He was not even given a chance to recover when the other Natural Lord elder hit him with his dagger.
And the guard, who had magically made his way to Xavier's back, kicked him at the same time.
The sword, which Xavier had taken from the guard, broke into 2 pieces and the father hit his cheeks causing a cut right down to his jaw while he was sent flying forward to the shadow guard's kick.
But Xavier didn't give up. Just before he went a little further, using his amazing body control, he fired a hidden weapon at the elder.
It was a long needle. The surface of the needle was covered with numerous patterns but they were so minute that anyone who saw them with the naked eye would think of them as a poorly done job of refinement.
The needle stuck right in between the ribs of the old man on the left side. The old man was caught off guard and he let the needle penetrate his ribs.
He immediately circulated his qi and expelled the needle out of his body but the damage was already done.
If one could look inside the old man's body, they could see countless particles which were even smaller than the cells of the human body dispersing throughout his whole body.
Each of these were nanobots which Xavier himself had created. They were made of metals used to make grade 1 metals but they were far more complex than any other thing which the current cultivation oriented world could do.
Probably, only Xavier who was well versed in so many fields like mechanics, formation, engraving, alchemy, poisons and many others could achieve this.
He brought the equipment needed to manufacture this from the system as he could buy anything he could make from the system and created the nanobots with the site purpose of dealing with the Martial Lords.
But there was one big disadvantage. Because they were very small, without a constant source of energy from the outside, they would not work and thus they could not be asked into the air. Another thing was that they were very weak. They couldn't penetrate the qi defenses of any other person.
The only way Xavier could make this work was by directly making the nanobots come in contact with the person's blood.
After they came into contact with the person's blood, they will make their way into the dantian where all the qi of the person is stored.
These nanobots absorb the qi and store it till they reach a saturation point. Xavier had sent in enough nanobots so that they could completely absorb all the qi in that Martial Lord level old man.
After they absorbed the energy, they would burst in an explosion, with power equal to 5 times the full power attack of that Martial Lord who was affected.
But that would take some time and in order to buy that time, Xavier had to do something more. He also had a manual failsafe for emergencies but the effects would be stifled.
He landed on his feet and spit out a mouth of blood. He touched the place where his mask was broken by the attack from the dagger wielding Old man and wiped the blood off.
He took out the sword which he himself had made. It was a longsword which was pitch black with numerous given lines in it.
It was made up of profound black iron and was inlaid with Star qi gold to form the engravings.
The sword was the best piece of work he could do at his cultivation stage and was the perfect weapon for his Pure Yang Sun Flame.
Xavier released his qi and channeled it through the sword, lighting up the sword with his Sun Flame.
The blistering heat requested from the sword and the 2 old men and the shadow guard, who were about to jump onto him, stored in their tracks.
Even though they had the advantage, they were still wary of the lethalness of the flame.
The shadow guard said," You two, cover yourselves with your qi and use your martial skills. Abbey you create an opening, I'll go in for the kill."
The 2 men nodded.
The broadsword wielding old man wanted his sword and a brown qi covered his sword. He shouted," Earth Splitter Wave!"
The dagger wielding old man jumped towers Xavier and roared," A thousand cuts of death."
The two attacks hit Xavier and pushed him back like a stone in a sling shot. He spit another mouthful of blood and his sword broke again. This level of impact was something which he couldn't handle.
The shadow guard who was watching this also attacked. Xavier, seeing that this attack was way more than what he could handle as the skill itself was more advanced and refined than the 2 old men's, Xavier triggered the failsafe.
Just as the shadow reached bear the dagger wielding old man, the old man felt something in his dantian and the next moment…
BOOM!