Chapter 128: Viscount Strongest Technique Wasn’t Enough!
Seeing this, from merchant to Adventure everyone exclaimed with the surprised expression and immediately backed away, to avoid getting in his attacks.
BOOM!
Aldaric’s large aether hammer, which shared the property of the stone element, collided with four lightning bolts, on which the first two it easily survived, but the third brought some cracks on it.
While the fourth did the most damage, as it destroyed the 10-foot-long part.
Upon this, Aldaric’s eyes became wary, ’four attacks? earlier two?’ and he calculated this in his mind.
On which he found out, that what was attacking his territory... ’an artifact.’ But this confused him even more, and he craned his neck high toward the sky, but still didn’t see the sign of any airship or the aura of a person who was carrying the artifact.
Luke, from 10,000m high, could see clear confusion on Aldaric’s face.
On which he shook his head, because first, the Arcane Sky Tower was very high in the sky, and second, it came with a Stealth feature, which no one below Saint tier could see.
So Aldaric’s confusion was very valid, though he didn’t give him an answer but instead gave him the next wave of lightning, which finally brought out some of his aether and stamina.
Another crackling sound came, which was followed by 8 thunderfalls, that freaked out the surrounding people and each ran away from Aldaric.
"Seems like I have to use some strength." Seeing this, Aldaric muttered with a little wary expression.
Even though he could easily dodge them with his speed, then the surrounding buildings would be destroyed and people would also die.
So he took a deep breath then exhaled, with a serious expression.
The crowd who had escaped far, shifted their attention back to Aldaric.
Who was preparing his next move, on this the citizens prayed, while adventurers and merchants looked at him with curiosity. ’will he use that?’ And soon they got their answer.
Aldaric brought his right hand back toward his waist and made a striking action toward the sky. Results his torso also tilted slightly along with his legs condensed to hold the force of the upcoming move.
’C-rank Stone Bear Ascension Series: Second Technique’ He thought the name as a huge amount of grayish aether discharged from his core and soon a huge 10-foot-tall stone bear hand with closed paw structure formed above him.
"This!!!"
Upon this, everyone exclaimed with wide mouths and recalled Viscount Aldaric’s famous Ascension Series, which brought many victories to his arsenal.
So the moment it formed, Aldaric swung his right hand upward with full strength.
"Stone Bear Paw!"
As the shout echoed, it suddenly became 20 feet long, because he supplied even more aether to this.
Following that, the massive stone hand also released upward with full strength.
The result, the stone ground beneath Aldaric shattered with the rebound force alone, moreover almost every nearby building wall also got cracked.
Above, the stone bear paw collided with the first few lightning bolts, which it easily dispersed each of them, until the last lightning hit its body, resulting the attack being completely nullified, but some parts of the large hand still got destroyed.
Seeing this, Aldaric smiled and didn’t think much about the last hit, and the same was everyone, as they also cheered.
Soon another wave came, which consisted of 16 lightning bolts. On this, even Aldaric got a little worried and thought, ’Should I use a defensive move or not?’ Because defensive moves used more aether, but their results were also the best when it came to defense.
Though after a moment, he shook his head and still decided to use the same attack, but with more aether.
"Stone Bear Paw."
This time a 30m-long stone hand formed, though its hand was opened this time and its claws could be fully seen.
"GO!"
He shouted and threw it toward the upcoming lightning attacks. In the start everything was fine as it resisted 10 lightning bolts easily, on which a small smile formed on Aldaric face.
But the next moment, his expression changed, because the 11th lightning destroyed a small part of the stone bear paw and chunks of stone dropped to the ground.
’this!’ He became a little worried, but the next attack didn’t wait and it also collided with the bear paw, resulting in one sharp stone nail getting destroyed and the whole body also bore some small cracks from this.
With each hit, more and more damage could be seen and Aldaric’s face also became more and more worried.
Even though the crowd couldn’t see above what’s going on like Aldaric, but some people did notice his facial expression and understood. ’Things are not good.’ So all those who observed this, immediately made more distance from Aldaric; from the crowd as well.
When the 15th lightning struck, it took out all the paw nails, even one finger was also missing and more cracks could be clearly seen on the stone hand.
Though, Aldaric still hoped, that it would also resist the last attack, which was on the same level as earlier lightning attacks were.
But Luke thought differently and a smile appeared on his face. Seeing Luke smiling, Elena and the other mages also nodded, because the data, mage tower had given.
They could already see, that the stone hand was already cracked to the point of destruction, it was just its outer appearance was holding back by the technique.
And the next moment it happened, as the last 16th lightning struck. The stone hand shattered immediately and Aldaric’s face also changed.
Because the next moment, the lightning bolt after piercing through struck directly him.
BOOOM!
The thunder strike sound echoed, and the place where Aldaric was standing, instantly got destroyed and a small crater also formed in that place.
Panic again erupted among the crowd, as they backed away from the impact zone, though no damage or shockwave followed near them.
Because its power was already reduced and everyone were also already standing at the far distance. So when they found this, each of them calmed down and observed the small crater location, where Aldaric was present.
In the crater, Aldaric’s body didn’t get harmed at all, only a scratch could be seen on his face, but that’s it. So he was looking toward the sky, with a little tired and annoyed expression.
’Who are these rats?’ because while he was getting attacked and defending, he was constantly locating them.