17 Awakening

Elior let go of the sword, noticing Lara regained her will. Her face was pale and blood was dripping from her lips. She wanted to apologise to Elior or thank him, but the person she was looking at had his entire attention on the top runner of the trial.

Lara decided to step back and help the others ward off other participants.

"Tell me, do you have any strength left to fight me?" Renal asked Elior as he crept towards him.

Elior said nothing. He gazed at the silver sword in the arms of renal. His experience as a Mana Engineer told him this was a weapon that could at least be off the third order. Meaning only guardians above level 100 could bring out its full potential. It appeared whoever Renal's daddy was; he used quite a sum for him to enter the trial with such a weapon.

It would be a little harder than he thought. He had exhausted his mana fighting off others, even his body was fatigued. He took advantage of the short time Renal wasted on his dramatic walk to invest all 12 of his free attribute points on intelligence.

The 130 points of mana turned into 250 with 120 points to spare at the moment. It should be enough to deal with a trash like this.

On that note, Elior infused mana into the tip of his spear. Cold light flickered a little in the two weapons as they met each other.

Elior had the experience of a decade, where Renal was swifter, stronger and more mana; not to say about the treasured sword. Even a toothless child could tell who had the upper hand in the battle.

But Elior was not of the kind that backed down from a challenge. He used all his skill, swift movement in this battle.

"What is it?" Renal tried to taunt. "Can't go further with your minuscule ability?"

"Do I need to use all my ability to deal with a human-faced trash like you?" Elior replied with narrowed eyes. "Tell me actually, what you seemed to achieve playing in a league that was meant for the lower world, and that too with a gang of participants and a weapon way over the league?. Did it feel good to trample over kids—the ones have no foundation in mana usage?"

Coldness flashed in the top runner's eyes. "It is not something a fool like you could understand," he hissed in malevolence.

"You are nothing but a human skinned trash," Elior did not rest there. "Tell me, what do you even amount to on your own without any help from your daddy?"

Renal's face turned red, hearing the abuse. He worked up every bit of his strength and mana in his next attack.

The silver sword moved in finesse. Elior blocked it with his spear, but his basic equipment was three leagues lower than Renal's silver sword. The spearhead broke with the impact of the sword.

Renal gave a satisfied grin. "You are nothing but trash from the lower world. Do you see the difference in our strength?"

"Just when it was getting exciting," Scarlett complained from behind. She eyed Renal and Elior, then to Mopher. "Mopher, would you give your sword to him for a while."

"At you your command, your Highness," Mopher said. He left Scarlett to walk next to Elior.

But before he could give his sword to Elior, he was stopped.

"Thanks, but no thanks," Elior said. "I don't need it."

"Am I fighting such a retard guy?" Renal laughed loudly. "At least take the sword. It might make me use more of my muscles."

Mopher waited there, but Elior put no mind to him. He eyed Renal. "Trash of the Mother world," he said. "Do you have any mana left to continue?"

Elior's question flabbergasted Renal. As the weapon was way over his league, it took all his mana in the last swing. It appeared his opponent taunted him consciously, so that he would use all his mana recklessly. He had to say it was quite a good plan, but not enough to stop him.

Renal smiled and looked at Ileana. "Give me your best buff."

Ileana nodded, as she was still under the spell. Lights appeared in her palms, then it shot directly towards Renal.

Elior frowned. He could notice Ileana had some buffing ability that not only helped strengthen the body, but it also recovered the mana sooner.

And that was not all. Renal gave a mocking smile, bringing out a vial of mana recovery potion. It was of the lowest level that he was rewarded in the trial, but it would be able to recover half of his mana in seconds.

"How does it feel when you see your friend's ability is working against you?" Renal mocked. He was waiting for his mana to recover more.

Elior tilted his head. His eyes were narrowed and cold. "Looks like I have to convince you further," he said, walking towards Renal. Arrogant as anyone ever was. "Your abilities; whatever ability you have, count shit in my eyes. Didn't you talk about the difference in ability?

"I will let you see a faint bit of my ability."

Elior's eyes glowed with coldness. He walked in leisure towards Renal.

Renal did not put any mind to Elior's blabbering, nor did he need to; he was stronger than before with the Buff. He swung his sword again, but his opponent ducked even before, like Elior knew where he would attack next.

Elior did not attack. He even let go of the broken spear.

Swings and dodges continued for a short while until Elior caught Renal's arm—the one that held the sword.

"Watch closely," Elior said with a tilted head.

Elior did not let go of his opponent's palm. Shockwaves and vibrations formed in between the contacts at the very moment. Then a faint light pulsed and in the next moment, Renal's palm was gone.

The top runner howled in pain, dropping to the ground. Fountain of scarlet blood sprayed in the air and the flesh and bone turned into dust.

"What just happened?" Lyra asked, confusingly.

A moment ago she saw Elior was holding Renal's palm and in the next moment, his entire arm was gone. It was not just her. Shin, the twin sibling, even the two people from the Mauhar Empire, were stunned. They did not have the faintest idea what just transpired.

[Congratulations! You have awakened the Abstraction of Void LVL 1.]

Among Guardians, some of them stood apart from the crowd. Those who possess an ability that set them apart from the crowd. Like in his previous time, Shin at his peak could call forth storms, make tornados out of thin air. That was his ability, manipulating the weather.

While Elior's ability was this. It was the power of the void itself. The last time he had awakened it after his third-class advancement, and it was the ability that redefined him and stood him at the peak of the world.

That single attack he made on Renal consumed every single bit of his mana. That was not all, his mana circuit was damaged just because he pulled this ability on such a low level. Even the blood in his veins was shaking.

Well, the result was just as he had imagined. There was no sign of the arm. It burst into thin air into millions of fragments. Even at just LVL 1, this ability was deadlier than anything, even though all it could do was distort the space.

Elior thought he could do it without much problem. He did ward off most of the damage towards his opponent, but drawing the shock waves with his right arm, made it jiggle. It was still trembling. He wasted no more time to bring out the minor recovery potion from his leather coat.

Warm energy spread to his right arm where most of the damage was done. His mana circuit that was raging soothed with the warm energy. Even his mana was recovering fast. He finally sighed in relief. Even a minor recovery potion was worth quite large credits, but he did not feel it was a waste.

The silver sword was in his arm. His power was not strong enough to destroy an artifact of this level, nor did he try to. When Renel's arm burst into millions splinter, Elior caught it.

He walked nonchalantly towards the poor guy without one arm on the ground, struggling like a fish out of the water. He walked close to him and stooped just before him. Elior stooped towards the poor guy's face and said, "As I said, a trash like you amount shit to me."

"You," Renal said with a tone of crying, agonising, and enraging. "How dare you? Do you know who am I? Do you know who my father is?"

Elior shook his head. "Tell me."

"You—"

"Tell me, " Elior said. "Your father is just as condemned as you for not teaching you well. No matter, I will do it in his place.

"Listen up, you piece of trash. If I ever saw or heard you abusing your power to hold anyone, especially women, against their will, I'll make you a limbless beggar on the street. Even other beggars will feel pity for you."

Renal shuddered in fear. The eyes that looked at him like a piece of garbage, nothing else, announced that. And he believed that.

Elior nodded at his silence. He stopped further and put his palm inside the armless guy's cloak. Inside, he found all the tokens he needed. Over two thousand of tokens were bound into bundles of hundred.

Elior was not so forgiving, took away all of them with no pity

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