Second World Novel

Jack’s current weapons were not unique-grade as his other classes’ weapons. Even so, his super-rare grade claw weapons had been leveled up to level 70. Additionally, he used mana manipulation in that punch. A damage number of over 5,000 points appeared above Piza’s head.

The players on the waiting benches and the spectator seats almost stood up from the scene.

‘Did that beastmaster use a skill? It didn’t look like a skill. It looked like a simple punch,’ all of them thought. Yet, that one simple punch would have brought them to near critical if they were the ones receiving it.

Unfortunately, Jack’s opponent was a rare elite native, so 5,000 damage was not enough to make Piza feel threatened. He felt humiliated though, in addition to the pain in his stomach.

Piza roared and his fist glowed with energy. It was battle monk’s Ki-infused Fist. He made a side swing. However, Jack’s punch smashed the side of his face before he fully delivered his swing. When he was still reeling, he felt another punch on his side. Since Jack was punching using a claw weapon, the pain he experienced was the pain of being stabbed.

Piza tried to return the blows, but Jack was untouchable. One second, he saw Jack on the left. When his fist was about to hit that side, Jack was already on his right. All the while, he was tapped by Jack’s standard attacks.

Jack was using the footwork of Eight Diagram Illusory Steps to confuse his opponent while he punched using Arhat Fist style.

Arhat Fist was the basic fist style Domon taught in his past martial arts school, so Jack also learned it when he was young. He was not especially proficient in this style but he was good enough to use it in a real fight.

The punch was simple and fast. Combined with the Eight Diagram Illusory Steps, he delivered the punches from unexpected angles. Piza was like a moving punching bag that was constantly pummeled.

“RAARRGGHHH…!!” The frustration of not being able to hit his opponent even once and continuously getting punched at drove Piza mad. Black tattoos covered his body.

‘Berserk skill,’ Jack thought.

The berserk enhanced Piza’s attributes. He became faster. But even with the increased speed, Jack was still faster. Additionally, berserk skill reduced Piza’s defense, causing Jack’s every punch to score more damage.

Piza unleashed another Battle Monk’s skills, Infinite Lightning Punches. His fists became a blur. Yet, he still couldn’t touch Jack. Jack’s body created afterimages as he swayed using Eight Diagram Illusory Steps.

Jack never stopped practicing this movement art. His expertise now almost rivaled Domon when Domon used it to dodge his Myriad Ensnaring Chains.

Unlike outworlders, a native’s stamina normally didn’t regenerate during combat, but they had a large pool of it. So, Piza could maintain his infinite lightning punches for a long time. He continued to dog after Jack despite still being unable to hit Jack.

𝗇𝑜𝒱𝓔𝐋𝑵𝞮xt.𝔠𝑂𝔪

Jack used Flash Step. His Flash Step already had six stars. Each star caused his afterimage to become more prominent. Piza didn’t notice that he was looking at an afterimage when Jack was already shifted behind him.

Taking advantage when Piza was still focusing his attack to the front, Jack executed the burst attack of Formless Flowing Sword Style using his claws. He didn’t feel weird executing a sword art using claw weapons because he had the experience of doing it many times already when he was in his supreme dragon form.

Ninety-six slashes sunk into Piza’s back. By the time Piza realized it, countless damage numbers appeared above him. The damage was both boosted by mana manipulation and also the combo multiplier. Piza’s HP dropped at an unbelievable rate.

The crowd which had been silent since Jack stopped Piza’s first fist, had maintained their silence until now. Every one of them was having trouble processing the scene.

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On the other side, Four Winds also showed an easy fight against Kisasi. Due to differences in strength, Kisasi’s twin cleavers were always repelled every time they came into contact with Four Wind’s starlight field. At the same time, she was getting slashed whenever she came near.

Kisasi tried using a skill that created multiple copies of her weapon. The cleavers danced around following her as she attacked, but none of the cleavers could breach Four Winds’ tight net of starlight.

Kisasi finally admitted that she won’t be able to break through Four Winds’ defense using skills of mediocre power. She lifted both her cleavers high. Energy converged on those weapons and then created an image of a giant cleaver.

Violent Blizzard who watched from the spectator seat thought that the skill was similar to her Blue Wing Slash

Kisasi then swung the giant cleaver down.

But unlike Blizzard’s blue wing slash, Kisasi’s skill didn’t cause AOE damage. It was a concentrated attack that delivered high damage. Four Winds understood the nature of the attack using his mana sense. Hence, he didn’t retreat. Instead, he stopped his Starlight Field and rotated to the side, dodging Kisasi’s vertical attack.

Following his rotation, his leg came up with a spinning back kick. The kick struck Kisasi’s head who was still in the process of delivering her big attack. She reeled from the kick followed by a damage number.

Four Winds had also started touching mana manipulation, but he was not yet at the level where he could channel mana manipulation into his weapon as Jack did. His current expertise was mana manipulation on attacks using his direct limbs. In this case, his legs.

Four Winds then followed up using Punishing Cyclone, except it was a different version. His punishing cyclone caused flames to swirl around him following his high-speed rotation. He had used a fire seed to evolve his punishing cyclone into a Flaming Cyclone.

Kisasi received continuous fire damage as Four Winds’ flaming cyclone dogged after her, not letting her escape.

Although Kisasi was high-level, she was just a special elite, so her HP pool wasn’t that high. Four Winds’ incredible strength from Titan strength and Enhanced Berserk boosted the damage he inflicted.

Not long after, Kisasi fell.

Four Winds grunted after the victory. He turned around, attempting to aid Jack in his battle, only to see Jack sitting on the ground a distance away. Piza was not in the arena anymore. He had died and was revived outside the arena.

“Oh, you finally win. Congratulations!” Jack clapped.

“Motherf*cker,” Four Winds cursed. He thought he had been the first to defeat the opponent since Jack had not yet come to his aid. Turned out the f*cker just sat and watched while he fought.