Chapter 46: The last smile
The sound of battle echoed in Lucen’s ears, the continuous firing of the Arquebus and the Thunderspear could be heard, but all his focus was on the man in front of him.
Even though they had only exchanged a few moves, sweat already clung to Lucen’s brow. The intensity of this battle was high, but because of his many passive skills and traits, his breathing immediately stabilized.
Lucen had looked at Alpha using the eye of Judgement and saw a blue glow surrounding Alpha, meaning even though he was trying to kill him, he didn’t feel anything for him. Lucen was simply someone he needed to kill.
Lucen kept up the pressure, firing his revolver from mid-range. Alpha, who was bleeding while moving around, took out some sort of medicine from his pocket and ate it. The blood that was flowing out of his body had lessened after eating the unknown medicine.
Behind the Fox mask, Alpha started breathing in a different way. Lucen, who had just reloaded his revolver, felt a chill crawl down his back. He raised the weapon, but the moment he blinked, Alpha was gone.
This time, Lucen wasn’t that surprised since Alpha had used this trick multiple times in battle now. Lucen now understood the trick. It was that Alpha wasn’t disappearing or teleporting. He was simply timing his bursts of movement to coincide with Lucen’s blinks and gaze shifts.
Alpha appeared to the right, swinging his crescent blades. Lucen bent down, aimed his revolver at Alpha, and shot at him.
Alpha, also now aware of what kind of weapon Lucen was using, had anticipated such a counter and evaded the shot with a sidestep, and then pressed forward.
’As expected, he understood that sticking close to me is his best option.’
Seeing how Alpha stuck close to him made Lucen smile. Lucen let go of the revolver, and it dissolved into particles of mana.
He then gathered mana into his hand and, with a weaker version than the one he used on the young fire dragon, Lucen made his mana explode in point-blank range. It was weak but enough to injure the two of them.
