Chapter 32 - Battling Lukka (II)

Chapter 32 - Battling Lukka (II)

Bang!!

Immediately Maxmillan pressed the trigger of the gun, a thunderous bang sound immediately rang out to accompany the explosive discharges of splinter-shells from the six barrels of the pump-action shotgun.

Plush!

Lukka's head scattered into bloodied pieces that shot like projectiles into the distance.

"Look who is dead and headless." Maxmillan mentioned with a savage light emitting from his eyes, before looking away at the countless rubles that had covered up the routes to many other caves.

However, just before he would take his leave, he heard a voice ring out from somewhere within the cave. It sounded both near and far at the same time.

"Are you really sure that I am dead?" A voice asked. And from its tone, one would easily perceive that it asked that question in a derisive manner.

While Maxmillan who wasn't expecting that, immediately developed an astonished expression in his face, as the voice that rang out was completely similar to that of Lukka whom he just annihilated in a gruesome manner.

"Yes, you are. It's your stubborn spirit talking. Just find the gateway to the underworld in the spirit plane and leave me alone. Or you want to be obliterated a second time? If so, be my guest." Maxmillan who already had a faint inkling of what exactly happened, said snidely with a fierce look in his face.

Hahaha!

The voice laughed in a maniac-like manner.

Then all of a sudden, a massive volley of enormous fireballs suddenly appeared in the distance and shot like gigantic flaming cannonballs towards Maxmillan who wasn't expecting them.

But very quickly, using his peak-human reflex, agility and contortion ability, he evaded the volley of fireballs sent out at him.

Actually, with his top-notch, ground-to-air maneuverability skills and formidable mid-air evasion capabilities, coupled with his enhanced peak-human capacities, he was able to evade the furious flurry of massive fireballs that ragingly shot towards him from different directions.

However, the heat that the fireballs radiated were extremely high that they caused blisters, swells and serious burns to appear all over his skin, such that they covered his whole body and caused his senses to be racked with terrible stinging and aching pains.

'How is he not dead yet?' Maxmillan asked within himself. But he retained the look of fearlessness and ferocity in his face.

"Why hide like a coward? Show yourself you cowardly madman!" Maxmillan asked as he warily looked around him in a state of total readiness to evade or block whatever attack would be sent out at him.

"Here I am." Lukka said and appeared at a distance of thirty feet away, exactly at the entrance into the cave.

'Huh? How?' Maxmillan asked within himself when he saw Lukka at that distance looking energetic and clean, as he was without any sort of wound or injury. Even his head was intact without any type of scar on them.

"Surprised, right?" Lukka asked with a fierce light shining from within his eyes.

He then mentioned further with a smile of intense pride appearing in his wrinkled old face, "As soon as that devastating blast surfaced and could really radiate the destructive power that it erupted with, I immediately switched places with one of the numerous corpses outside the cave with a quick-transposition magical spell. So, it was the body that got ruined by the power of the blast and was later killed off by you using that powerful bang-sounding weapon in your hand. While I remained outside to tend to the multiple injuries that I sustained from the blast that had unexpectedly surfaced before me."

"Kid, you have shown that you are both formidable and excellently skilled. However, you are still nothing before an Astra Spellcraft Commander. Now, is your time to die!!" Lukka said and aimed his hand at Maxmillan which immediately caused a tall, ravaging wave of highly destructive energy to surface and travel at an enormously great speed to where Maxmillan was.

While Maxmillan who was long ready for whatever magical attack Lukka was going to discharge at him out of excessive wrath, immediately produced the Kinetic Supercharging Sword from his Inventory which he wielded with his left hand and immediately activated the 'Kinetic Devastator Bursts Projection' ability of the sword.

Whirrrr!...

A nigh-inaudible whirring sound began to ring out as the powerful mechanisms responsible for the kinetic burst discharge ability of the sword, began to operate at ultra low power.

As soon as it was ready, which only took one thousandth of a second to load for an ultra low-powered energy emission, Maxmillan instantly struck the tip of the sword at the ground which immediately caused the enormous destructive release of a tremendously powerful, devastating burst of kinetic energy that spread out in all directions at a great speed, and with a force capable of effortlessly reducing a mountain to dust.

The alarming obliterative wave of power unleashed by Lukka, and the massive violent burst of kinetic energy discharged from the Kinetic Supercharging Sword in Maxmillan's hand, clashed severely with one another and instantly gave rise to an earth-stripping radial shockwave before dispelling as both were equally powerful.

Maxmillan who was knocked into the far distance by the shockwave that ensued from the frightening destructive collision of their opposing powerful attacks, stood to his feet from where he was knocked to with an unwavering and relentless expression in his face.

Then he suddenly dashed out once again to where Lukka stood with also a shocked expression in his face, as he couldn't believe that the sword that Maxmillan wielded in his left hand was capable of such destructive capacity.

As soon as Maxmillan arrived ten feet before Lukka who simply sneered at him, Maxmillan jumped into the air, to a peak height of fifteen feet since he accelerated at full speed and then furiously swung the sword in his hand out at Lukka to discharge another terrifyingly destructive burst of kinetic energy.

While Lukka simply waved a hand at Maxmillan and caused the instant manifestation of a twelve-feet thick, golden barrier of magical energy to protect himself from the fearsomely powerful attack that Maxmillan was going to unleash at him.

Then with another wave of his hand, multiple pure-flame cyclones appeared and moved to aggressively pull Maxmillan to their centers where he would be swiftly incinerated to ashes, as they radiated tremendously-high searing heat capable of melting steel in a few seconds.

However, the colossal burst of kinetic energy that discharged from one of the numerous energy-projecting arrays in the sword, instantly cleared away the numerous pure-fire cyclones that had appeared in its path and moved with full destructive force to strike the twelve-feet thick golden barrier that Lukka had summoned to protect himself from Maxmillan's terrifying energy-attack.

Bang!!

A loud bang sound instantly rang out once the burst of kinetic energy struck the barrier, which then immediately resulted in the emergence of a devastating wave of energy that spread out in all directions and caused the solid bare ground beneath them to shatter into pieces in a ripple-like pattern.

But the impact of the burst of kinetic energy with the nigh-impenetrable magical barrier, was so powerful that it immediately caused numerous thin cracks to appear on the surface of the barrier, which then rapidly spread out to cover its whole surface.

Lukka at the moment was on a knee with a thin line of blood flowing from a corner of his lips. The physical attack unleashed at him by Maxmillan, had taken a great physical toll on him that he couldn't hold back the blood that entered his mouth from probably ruptured arteries or severed veins located in his mouth.

Immediately Maxmillan landed to the ground from his high jump into the air, with the sword ready to release another burst of kinetic energy since 1.5 seconds for ultra low-powered emission was already complete, Maxmillan speedily dashed to where Lukka was and struck the sword at the severely cracked, dome-shaped barrier around him.

Boom!!

A powerful burst of energy immediately discharged from one of the sword's energy-projecting arrays and heavily struck the barrier such that it shattered into countless pieces.

But the exceedingly violent burst of kinetic energy that emitted like an explosion from the sword, still traveled with great force like it didn't come across any obstacle in its path to heavily strike into Lukka, which then caused his body to swiftly shoot out of the cave like an arrow that was fired off from a powerful bow.

After crashing to the bare solid ground of the valley, at a distance of approximately seventy feet away from the cave's entrance, Lukka who was gravely injured and seemed to be lacking in strength to continue the battle with Maxmillan, weakly stood to his feet after a lot of intense struggle with a look of fierceness and unbreakable determination appearing in his face.

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The Sky Bridges Lord who watched as Maxmillan destroyed his operation base, produced a great maniacal laughter that made him seem like a demon. And this was because he was exceedingly glad that Maxmillan had so far managed to seriously impress him with his pure physical strength, excellent combativeness and astonishingly destructive, Spellcraft Commander-level non-magical weapon.

"Although Lukka is a low-tier Astra Spellcraft Commander and can't be compared in anyway to the actual, low-tier Astra Spellcraft Commanders nurtured and specially trained in magical institutes, since he severely lacks the materials and resources needed to reach their level of power that are numerous hundreds of times stronger than his, he should however still be able to handle a non-user of Astra Mystralis, a cripple for that matter who is only combatively-skilled and wields powerful, non-magical weapons."

"Well, this only goes to show how powerful the boy's physical body is, which I deeply wonder how that came to be. Mother and son are simply full of secrets that I am going to discover one after the other, by every baneful mean possible. Hahaha!" The Sky Bridges Lord mentioned with an amused, ponderous look in his face before sinisterly cackling.

He then spoke further, "Let me go rescue Lukka before this fang-baring dog annihilates my most important henchman. And then show him that he is only an ant before me, before snuffing out his useless consciousness and replace it with mine."