Chapter 101: Alex vs The Earth Patriarch (21)
Khepri landed heavily, skidding across cracked stone as dust and gravel exploded beneath his feet. He didn’t have time to steady his breath before Alex was already there again — a blur of golden light, streaking toward him with a roar of thunder.
BOOM!
Alex appeared directly above him, katana raised — no wasted motion, no hesitation. It came down like a divine decree, splitting the air.
Khepri crossed his shield and khopesh in a tight guard just in time, but the impact drove him a full meter into the ground, his knees digging trenches as he struggled to hold his ground.
Before he could even retaliate—
Another flash!
Alex was gone — and then behind him, a thunder kick sent Khepri crashing into a stone wall with a sickening crunch. The wall shattered on impact, and Khepri burst out of the rubble a heartbeat later, arm raised to summon help.
He called upon his stone warriors, dozens of erupting from the earth, along with a flurry of floating stone weapons, spears, swords, hammers — a whole storm of enchanted armaments ready to encircle Alex.
But they never made it.
As they charged, they were torn apart before they even reached him.
A single swing from Alex released an arc of thunder that lanced through the entire wave, obliterating stone like wet paper. Bodies crumbled, weapons shattered, and the sky turned white with crackling electricity.