Chapter 14 - Insane battle prowess
As for Hilgamech, his eyes turned cyan. He was employing the 'Wind Elixir' technique that was mentioned in the manual to be dangerous, as it could block the Energy Circuit of a cultivator's body. It was a boost and should therefore be used wisely, or continuous use of it will affect one's Energy Pathway—clogging it or entirely ruining it.
He wanted to try the Wind Elixir technique—which had been unpracticed for a long time to determine its power and how best to apply it to dominate or conquer a battlefield.
As soon as he used the skill, air began to gather around him, swirling at a great speed. Then in the next moment, large amounts of AeroFlux energy began to rush into his body through his pores, then into his Energy Circuit where it flowed at an astonishing rate to his glowing Receptacle of Essence, gathering there into a violently churning and seething, tumultuous pool of energy.
A moment later, a thin, durable sphere of compacted air swiftly formed around his figure, carrying him high into the air.
This sphere carried Hilgamech up to a height where he was about twenty feet above the massive cavern's floor. And while using the technique, wind began to swirl really fast around him, making him seem like a young, teenage Wind God.
While floating at this height, his entire body began to glow intensely in cyan light, simply because the cyan-colored AeroFlux energy had entirely filled his Energy Circuit. It was moving in really large quantities to his glowing Receptacle of Essence. As for the enormous mass of air that revolved at a shocking speed around the thin wind sphere that enclosed his figure, it also grew to a tremendous size at a rapid rate.
Then following the steps for the 'Hundred Domineering Blades of Seven Chaotic Wind Monarch' technique—a powerful, next-three-tier technique, which was one of the reasons why he used the enormously boosting Wind Elixir technique in the first place, he suddenly aimed a palm at the incoming rampaging beasts in the distance.
Immediately he did so, a tremendous amount of AeroFlux energy instantly erupted from his aimed palm. But this time, the energy surprisingly had bright golden hues on it, which tinged the cyan-colored energy, making it golden-cyan.
Once this dual-colored energy erupted from his aimed palm in a really large amount—in only a few seconds, it abruptly condensed and shaped into great numbers of huge solid blades that shot out at extreme speeds towards the large horde of Skorrpaetigers. And as they did so, they pulled along with them tremendously strong gusts of ravaging winds.
PUCHI!
PUCHI!
PUCHI!
...
The Skorrpaetigers didn't even stand a chance. They were instantly cut cleanly into halves. The places at which they were divided into two parts were too smooth, almost like a mirror.
Then the blades furiously slashed at the earth with a great amount of force, making hundreds of deep gashes in it.
So, in just a few seconds, he had annihilated so many beasts.
The Myriad Horizon Academy students trembled in shock at this sight. Then they began to wonder why Hilgamech's power seemed to grow by leaps every time he fought. They just couldn't understand how he did it.
The power of the attack he just unleashed could rival that of someone in the peak Condensation realm—a cultivation rank just above the Entry stage. As for the floating thing that he seemingly effortlessly executed, they had great marvel and astonishment explode within their minds. It was simply a shocking thing to see.
While they were massively awed and astounded, deep inside a particular route in the cave, a powerful ancient entity whose form constantly released ripples of a tremendously marveling power, was studiously observing the whole situation.
It was surprised at how Hilgamech's AeroFlux energy had slivers of Deity Originforce Energy in it, and a couple other supreme energies that it surprisingly couldn't identify. It was these energies that were responsible for the abrupt change in color of his natural, cyan-colored energy, and as well for the unusual sudden gain or indecipherable development of attributes or characteristics of certain energies that he didn't cultivate.
Speaking about the Deity Originforce Energy, it was simply an energy that he shouldn't have come into contact with until he had crossed the Immortal realm. So, it was this energy that tremendously amplified Hilgamech's various attacks.
The being who continuously gazed at Hilgamech, studying him, couldn't help but deeply marvel before saying with a bright glow in its unfathomably deep, luminous starry eyes that seemed to hold the secret of the whole universe, "What a tremendous blessing from the universe this child has. He can be an inheritor for my master's great legacy. Only he might be truly worthy of obtaining it." It concluded.
The Skorrpaetiger King roared thunderously in extreme rage—since eighty percent of its beast worshippers had been killed, then it suddenly dashed towards them with great fury emanating from its large, frightening figure.
Nalgorria quickly tried to launch her own attack to halt the Skorrpaetiger King in it frenzied rage towards them.
So, a second later, her hands began to glow in intense yellow light, then she put a hand on the ground. Suddenly, the portion of the earth she placed her hands on cracked and fragments of it were attracted to her arm.
They swiftly wrapped around her arm to form a powerful-looking gauntlet of earth. Then with the addition of more shreds of earth that fused with it, the gauntlet increased in size and weight.
As more splinters of earth fused with the gauntlet, TerraFlux energy moved from her glowing Receptacle of Essence to her Energy Circuit where it poured like a raging flood into the large and heavy gauntlet that had fully enclosed her arm.
Immediately the shining, yellow-brown energy saturated the earth gauntlet, it immediately emitted a dazzling yellow-brown light that dyed the earth beneath them in its color.
Infusing the gauntlet with TerraFlux energy—which was another cultivation energy that she nurtured other than the Fire Originforce Energy that she cultivated because of her family, had caused it to increase in both density and hardness by multiple folds, such that ranking their power in terms of numbers, would be 60 for the earth gauntlet without TerraFlux energy, and 390 for the earth gauntlet with TerraFlux energy. This simply meant that its destructive capability had been upped by many whole levels.
Then using a special, high-grade technique called Great Earth Supreme Punch, she abruptly punched out with the aim and fierce, overwhelming intent of slaughtering the Beast King that was howling with berserk aura exuding from its large, intimidating figure towards them.
WHOOSH!!
The massive, glowing earth gauntlet abruptly shot out at a tremendous speed of one hundred meters per second towards the raging Skorrpaetiger king. And as it barreled off like a furious projectile through the air, its density multiplied exponentially that it became many times stronger than a substance that was ten times denser than steel. As for the weight, it became so heavy that it was weightier than a large, fifty-foot-wide rock.
BANG!!!
The Beast King was immediately knocked backwards with immense force for dozens of feet by the astonishingly powerful gauntlet formed from the fusion and heavy compaction of earthly materials, and then massively reinforced with TerraFlux energy that entirely permeated it.
But, not even a mark couldn't be seen on its colossal form. It wasn't damaged by the impact of the gauntlet with its body in any way.
Then unexpectedly, it roared loudly and angrily, before having its body begin to glow in intense purple light.
Now lifting itself on its rear limbs, it suddenly stomped the ground really hard with its powerful fore limbs that had begun to exude visible purple waves of a palpable, tremendously fierce power.
The instant it stomped the ground, a form of berserk, purple-colored energy instantly rippled out from its fore limbs in all conceivable directions. Then as the dazzling wave traveled from afar with might in all directions, the ground beneath it continuously shattered in a ripple-like fashion, while large pieces of it blasted off like furiously speeding cannonballs towards both Hilgamech and the group of students from the Myriad Horizon Academy.
Nalgorria saw the incoming, inborn-power-charged attack and her eyes widened with great fear, since the attack could instantly annihilate all of them.
Very quickly, she slammed the ground with her left palm and utilized a certain defensive technique called Multilayered Earth Shield.
Abruptly, many large, solid blocks of earth that spanned dozens of feet wide and long, instantly jutted out of the earth.
The instant these large, dense blocks of earth emerged, the ripples of purple energy smashed into them with great destructive power. However, they couldn't stall for even a few seconds. Quickly, they collapsed to the ruined cavern floor like a wall of sand that had a small rock catapulted at them.
As for the purple-colored, devastating energy wave, it moved on with seemingly interminable tyrannical force, looking fully bent on destroying both Hilgamech and the group he was with.
Abruptly, thin spheres of air formed around everyone of them, before large columns of wind that twirled at great speeds, suddenly manifested around the spheres, lifting them really high into the air—to his current floating level of twenty feet above the ground.
In this way, they had evaded the murderous destructive wave. And to execute this—a rather astonishing feat, Hilgamech had used the Conjuring Wind Sense, which was powered greatly by the Wind Elixir booster skill to do so.
Hilgamech had helped them dodge the decimating energy wave by extending his air control power towards them.
As for the thin spheres enclosed by the speedily revolving, large columns of air, they remained afloat in the air under the powerful influence of Hilgamech's air control power.
Hilgamech, at the moment, looked like a silhouette-shaped cyan sun because of his entire body that glowed in exceedingly bright cyan light. This was due to excessive amounts of cyan-colored AeroFlux energy moving in great quantities into his body and overly saturating it.
Due to this effect, the vortices of air around Hilgamech tremendously increased in size because winds from far distances were pulled into this route where they infused into the miniature cyclone that rapidly revolved, enclosing his figure, as well as the levitating wind spheres that rotated around him.
As AeroFlux energy continued to rush into his glowing Receptacle of Essence in overwhelming amounts, he felt he could explode to bits very soon if he didn't stop. And at the moment, he had become very pale, in which he looked sickly.
Without wasting time, immensely large amounts of AeroFlux energy instantly erupted from his entire body, making it seem like he was suddenly engulfed in an enormous, mushroom-shaped cloud of dazzling cyan energy.
But, this massive cloud of energy continued to increase to an astonishing size as AeroFlux energy continued to flow out of Hilgamech's whole body into it like seemingly unstoppable, large furious tides.
Then using a certain technique called Glorious Three-Step Profound Annihilation Fists, which could be used up to a really high cultivation level, he decisively punched out.
The instant he did so, the vast amounts of energy that rapidly erupted from his entire body, forming into a tremendously large cloud around him, instantly condensed to the point of being a hundred and ninety times denser and heavier than a rock that couldn't be cut by the sharpest steel sword, before instantaneously shaping into a massive illusory fist, then into two and three colossal illusionary fists that shot out at shockingly great speeds—thousand meters per second and in millisecond succession towards the howling and exceedingly wrathful, red-eyed Skorrpaetiger King.