“Ten Thousand Pound Fist!” Jim’s fist screamed through the air as it viciously flew toward Jeremy.Jeremy unsheathed his sword with reverse grip and blocked the punch. However, it was stronger than he thought, and his feet slid backward. “Kugh,” he frowned visibly.There was so much raw power in that attack. Jeremy felt like it was a punch that could kill an elephant in one blow. He didn’t like the fact that Jim could exert such force even without needing to use vivre.“SKY POUND!” Jeremy released energy through his sword that rippled through the air and resisted Jim.Unlike Jim’s attack, Jeremy’s attack used vivre and released constant pulses of energy, which eventually added up and managed to push Jim back.Jim landed on his feet, but Death Knight attacked him from behind with a punch. “Sound Fist!”Jim didn’t even look back but put his left hand under his right armpit and shot an electric bolt through his finger. Death Knight was struck by it in the blink of an eye. The attack went
“I’ll break that sword of yours first!” Jim thrust his vivre-sharpened hands at Jeremy incessantly. “Thousand Pound Spear Shock Barrage!”Each strike had so much precision and power that Jeremy’s sword vibrated upon impact, and the vibrations were felt even through Jeremy’s arms and whole body. He tried to resist it with his vivre, but Jim’s power somewhat bettered him. “Krgh, how annoying.” He used his ‘Sky Pound’ technique to defend himself from the attacks, but that didn’t stop Jim, and he could hear the sound of clashing slowly change. And then saw small cracks forming in his sword. “Don’t get cocky just because I’m defending myself, you punk!” He twisted the sword along his palm. “Whirlwind Spear!”Similar to his previous rippling attack, a powerful and sharp whirlwind formed horizontally and swallowed Jim a whole.It was such a powerful attack that even the ground where it touched was sheared off.But Jim’s spear hands managed to tear apart the whirlwind.Jeremy leaped back to d
Doug watched with his mouth wide open as Joker was able to fight both Death Knight and Moonbreaker at the same time. “I-I had no idea he was this strong.”“If not for Bloody Corpse, he would have long gone to the third floor,” Ace opined. “If you ask me, I think Lord Joker can even stand his ground against Jeremy, though he might not win because his battle style is not consistent. His skills depend on which card he pulls out. Luckily, he pulled out the joker card. It’s his strongest card, so he’s definitely not going to lose to those two. At the very least, he’ll be able to keep them from joining Jeremy. That also seems to be his intention.”Meanwhile, the battle between Jim and Jeremy moved on to another street as they pushed each other through different buildings. With whitish vivre releasing from their bodies, they both looked like two missiles in motion.Every time they clashed, a tremendous amount of heat released and increased the temperature, making people suffocate as they ran
“Bone-Breaking Fist!” Jim didn’t just use his brute strength but also his vivre in the attack. This helped him generate a lot of force behind the punch.Jeremy raised his hand high and caught Jim’s fist with some visible effort. “Can’t you wait until I’m fully transformed? Are you that afraid of facing me at my full strength? How can you call yourself a hero when you act in such a cowardly manner?”“Shut up!” Jim forcibly pulled his fist back and rained punches fast, but Jeremy was able to catch up to his speed comfortably.“Anger won’t get you anywhere. Didn’t you mom or dad teach you that, Jim Drake?” Jeremy asked. “Or do you want me to call you Jim Draknor?”Jim’s eyes slightly widened. How did he know his family name? His real family name? “H-How did you…”“We demons have eyes and ears everywhere,” Jeremy grinned. “I can tell you what your father did in his younger days if you want because my friends have observed him back then. In fact, I can talk about your grandparents or their
Moonbreaker and Death Knight withdrew from the battle after seeing Jeremy get blown away into the distance.“Fucking hell,” Death Knight was visibly shocked. “How could Jeremy lose like this? We’ve invested so much time and effort for him. What the hell are we supposed to do now?”“Let’s just focus on going to the third floor now,” Moonbreaker said.“I hope that Bloody Corpse won’t demand too much from us,” Death Knight said.“Let’s take some delicious meat with us just in case,” Moonbreaker suggested. “I heard that he loves to eat heart and liver. So let’s take a lot of hearts and livers.”“Sounds good.”Meanwhile, many people saw Jeremy as he got sent scraping along the second floor’s ceiling. However, only about one percent of them were actually able to tell that it was Jeremy because Jeremy was traveling quite fast at the time.Nevertheless, the news of Jeremy’s defeat spread throughout the second floor faster than a wildfire ever could.“That Jeremy is defeated? No way.”“Who cou
Everybody on the second floor was preparing for the monster wave. Many villains from the third floor were watching on their laptop and television screens to see how the monster wave assault would turn out this time because the top ranker Jeremy had died.“I can’t believe that guy defeated Jeremy,” Little Nightmare was sparring with her sister. She was learning how to make the whip release attacks at variable speeds, but was having it very difficult even though her sister showed her how to do it multiple times. “He definitely wasn’t that strong when he fought me.”“I’ve seen his growth on the first floor with my own eyes,” Nightmare_lily smiled as she blocked her sister’s attacks with her bare hands. “So, I’m not that surprised. What makes me wonder though is how he’s going to deal with Barbosa and Bloody Corpse. They are not people that anyone wants to fight, much less defeat for obvious reasons. From what I heard, Jeremy was a member of the Hunter tribe, which was one of eight beast
On the second floor, most of the villains were waiting at the borders that were closest to the caves.After all, the monster wave was coming soon.They could already faintly hear the growls of the beasts from inside the caves.“I’m going to get all the ivory of the six-tusk mammoth this time!”“I’ll collect the blood of the ghost fox! They say it can vastly improve your agility and stealth. I’m going to drink enough of it and then sell the rest for a lot of gold!”“If you really want gold, then you better capture the Monk Goose! There were people who had seen it really lay golden eggs.”“How can it lay golden eggs?”“Because it’s a freaking cyborg. It can shoot fire beams out of its mouth. If you’re not careful, you’ll burn to death! After all, even the top three villains together couldn’t kill that thing over multiple attempts! For a duck, it has an abnormal amount of defense.”“Then how the hell are we supposed to capture it?”“We have Boss King with us this time, don’t we?”“Is he
A few minutes earlier.“Boss, why are you exercising right before the monster wave comes?” Doug asked. “You should conserve your stamina instead. You are going to be fighting a lot of monsters, so having stamina will greatly help because it’s going to last many hours. There were times when it lasted even days.”Jim was doing deadlifts with 10,000 pounds without using his vivre, and he was barely sweating from doing it. “Damn it!” He let go of the long bar and looked disappointed. “Even this much weight is not giving me any thrill. Mm?” He noticed that Doug was standing at the door. “What?”“I was asking you why you’re exercising at this hour,” Doug said. “Shouldn’t you be conserving your stamina for the monster wave that’s going to hit us soon? It’s going be a long battle, after all.”Jim noticed that Doug’s arms had gotten a little bigger. “What did you do to your arms?”“Ah, this?” Doug squeezed his muscles and showed his biceps that looked almost twice as big as they normally would