Chapter 754: Max’s intentions
But Max was already moving. Golden light exploded around him as he summoned forth his Heavenly Luminance energy in full, forming a brilliant golden sword crackling with divine luminance.
This time, he didn’t hurl it from afar—instead, he gripped the hilt firmly in both hands, his black scales glinting under the shimmering glow as he shot forward like lightning. The battlefield blurred around him into streaks of red and black as he closed the distance in an instant.
Clang!
The golden sword collided with the Ascendant’s jagged, obsidian claws in a blinding shower of sparks. The force of their clash detonated outward like a bomb, sending shockwaves blasting through the ground and pushing back rivers of blood in rolling waves.
Dust and gore exploded into the air as both figures were flung backward, skidding through the broken earth, each leaving trenches gouged deep into the battlefield by the sheer momentum of their retreat.
But neither paused for even a breath. The instant Max’s feet touched ground, he lunged forward again, a golden comet streaking across the chaos. His sword flashed in a blur of light as he executed a flurry of lightning-fast strikes, each swing bursting with the pure essence of his light element, sharp and precise enough to slice through space itself.
The Ascendant met him blow for blow, its claws slashing in brutal arcs, each impact throwing out shockwaves that cracked the ground and sent fragments of black stone spinning into the sky.
Golden trails of sword light intertwined with streaks of obsidian as they battled in a whirlwind of close combat, each clash accompanied by thunderous crashes and explosive flashes. Max’s movements were a seamless fusion of speed, technique, and raw power, his figure constantly shifting in rapid flickers of blue lightning as he dodged killing strikes by mere hairsbreadths.
He channeled every ounce of his Heavenly Luminance energy into his blade, each stroke leaving luminous gashes in the air that seared into the Ascendant’s void-forged flesh, drawing more sprays of black blood that hissed and sizzled on contact with the divine light.
And yet, for every wound he carved into the Ascendant, the creature retaliated with savage fury, its fists hammering down like meteors, its claws raking sparks off Max’s scales. The ground around them fractured under the weight of their titanic blows, forming a spiderweb of cracks radiating outward as the duel raged on in a violent, mesmerizing dance of light and shadow.
All around them, the Second Circle battlefield seemed to blur into insignificance as expertsand Ascendants alike paused, eyes wide, unable to look away from the impossible sight: a lone Master Rank genius holding his ground against a Seventh-Level Champion Rank Ascendant, their battle blazing so fiercely that it illuminated the entire hellish plain like a second sun rising amidst the carnage.
’I can kill the Ascendant if I use my full power,’ Max thought as he battled on, each heartbeat pounding like a drum of war in his ears, his black-scaled form darting and striking with relentless precision amidst the rain of sparks and blood.