Chapter 364: Katarina vs Alexander

As soon as the match began, both of them summoned their avatars and transformed. There was no need to hold back, knowing full well that their opponents were not people they could defeat while holding back.

Katarina’s adamantine golem flowed into her and transformed into small barriers that covered her body as if they were scales. However, her appearance remained the same.

On the other hand, Alexander’s avatar was a humanoid figure. It had curly hair but it didn’t have eyes or other facial features.

Everyone suddenly understood why Alexander was so confident in winning. In fact, this information had been widely spread, which was the reason he became one of the most talented youths in Lech-Aistia.

Maya said that her avatar took the shape of a mythical figure—the Primordial Goddess Nyx.

Hence, it wouldn’t be weird to find the same thing in others. In fact, even the sun familiar and the phoenix familiar existed. So, this figure could exist as well.

Everyone was thinking about the same mythical figure. There was one mythical figure that possessed this kind of power.

Since he claimed to be a descendant of the Vikings, it was clear that he was honoring Norse mythology. In other words, his avatar was the persona of that Thunder God, who was known to be the strongest, Thor.

Of course, it might not be the ’Thor’ they knew. It was just a persona or an imitation. No one knew the truth about the avatar yet.

Nevertheless, this avatar powerful lightning at a similar intensity to Maya’s avatar. Yes, it was actually an avatar with a rating of 4.9. It was the most powerful lightning element Auric had encountered.

The Phoenix Element had a rating of 4.8 while the Sun Element had a rating of 4.9 for comparison.

The moment he used the transformation, lightning burst around his body. He didn’t use a weapon. Rather, he turned his body into a weapon.

His hair was turning white as it was covered by lightning, and his pupils were completely shining.

To everyone’s surprise, Alexander suddenly grabbed the sunglasses hanging on his neckline and put them on.

"!!!" Katarina looked confused. "Are you trying to hold back?"

Looking at how his eyes were shining, she believed Alexander would have an ability related to his eyes. Covering it was the same as restricting his ability.

"Lady, people put on sunglasses to protect their eyes from the sun. Meanwhile, I wear sunglasses to protect the sun from my eyes." Alexander smirked. "It will be troublesome if the sun explodes after seeing how cool I am."

"..." Katarina looked confused. It felt like a few of her brain cells had disappeared after talking to him. "Whatever. We don’t seem to have an understanding, and I don’t intend to understand you either."

"What is he talking about?" Auric couldn’t help but ask Ellia. "You’ve met a lot of people, right? I heard rich people are weird, so..."

"No. I haven’t met his type, but... his existence seems to be something like a joke in Lech-Aistia. I mean, take a look at the comments on the livestream."

"Huh?" Auric was startled and took a look at the livestream.

[There it is. His sunglasses. The strongest sunglasses in the world.]

[When Alexander was born, he congratulated his parents and drove them home.]

[When Alexander was cheating, the teachers apologized.]

"What in the world..." Auric dropped his jaw in disbelief. He couldn’t even comprehend what was actually going on.

Ellia shrugged. "But hey, at least they have fun. I mean, isn’t it the same for you?"

Ellia was definitely talking about his cult. His cult was worshipping him. They might even do much worse if they knew his true identity.

That was why Auric couldn’t exactly say anything about Alexander. "My bad..."

Ellia chuckled and turned back to the arena.

The match had begun, so Katarina waved her hand down. "I don’t know what’s going on, but I intend to win."

Her bullets—the big ones and the small ones—flew toward Alexander. She intended to overwhelm him with the complexity of her bullets.

Normally, Alexander would use his power to create some barriers to protect himself. Yet, he actually remained standing.

When the bullets hit his body, none of them actually managed to pierce through.

The small bullets simply bounced off and disappeared. Meanwhile, the bigger bullets hit his body, only knocking him back slightly.

Alexander was simply walking toward Katarina as though he had been hit by rubber bullets without showing any sign of pain.

"What?" Katarina was confused. This was the first time she had seen someone with such a powerful defense, and he didn’t look like he was trying.

"Hahaha. As expected, my body is the best weapon. If you train your body, you will be able to get not only this beautiful muscle but also this powerful flesh." Alexander grinned.

Since even the big bullets weren’t effective, Katarina hurriedly formed the bullet one more time, but instead of splitting them into smaller pieces, she used the entire ball to create an explosion.

Seeing the incoming ball, Alexander grinned and took a step forward.

He leaned forward and put his arms in front, making a crab pose. "Muscle!"

As soon as he shouted the word, the lightning erupted so fiercely that he destroyed the ball. The ball exploded, but it couldn’t reach him.

"Huhahahaha!" Alexander laughed, proud of himself. "Build your muscles!"

"What the—" Katarina was completely confused. This was the first time she had faced an enemy like this.

"You don’t understand? This is the power of muscle."

"..." Katarina started to get annoyed since he kept repeating himself like a broken record.

Katarina also noticed that her usual fighting style wouldn’t be enough to handle Alexander.

"Here I come, Lady. Please surrender to avoid a world of pain." He smirked and leaped toward Katarina.

Katarina raised her hand, creating a barrier to block the punch.

When Alexander hit the barrier, the latter stopped his fist for a second before his fist shattered it.

"!!!" Katarina widened her eyes and immediately raised both arms, covering her arms with the adamantine element.

Alexander blasted her away, her body crashing into the wall.

"Hmpp!" Alexander raised both arms, flexing his muscles again.

"This is rather annoying..." Katarina breathed heavily. This was the first time her power was this ineffective against someone. Then again, the stronger she became, the more troublesome her opponent could be.

She wiped the blood leaking from the corner of her lips. Blood also flowed from the right side of her forehead, fortunately not flowing down her right eye. She had to pour everything she had into her arms earlier so that they didn’t break. As a result, she couldn’t protect the rest of her body.

Now that the situation had turned this way, it looked like she had to unleash everything she could.

Seeing Katarina still standing, Alexander rushed toward her with lightning covering his fist. If he could just deliver another punch, it might be more than enough to defeat Katarina.

To his surprise, the moment he was about to reach Katarina, his instinct kicked in, telling him that he was in danger. He hurriedly spread his energy from his fist to his entire body, but even that wasn’t enough.

All of a sudden, multiple slash wounds emerged on his body as blood spurted like a sprinkler.

"!!!" Alexander didn’t know what was going on. The next thing he realized, he felt a sharp pain in his stomach as his body was knocked away.

Bam!

The wall crumbled, and the ground shattered because of Katarina’s power. It was so sudden that the instructors couldn’t even protect it.

Everyone looked shocked because this was the first time they had seen anything like this. They didn’t have any data about Katarina possessing this kind of technique.

Alexander widened his eyes in shock. He actually saw five rings of different sizes rotating around her. More importantly, there were black blades and spheres in each ring. Now that they had begun rotating, it looked like a defense system that continuously orbited her, preventing anything from coming close.

"A domain? No, not that. She’s imitating a domain?" Lindwurm was impressed. He never thought Katarina was able to use a technique like this.

Auric furrowed his eyebrows. He might have underestimated Katarina all this time.

"I’m supposed to reveal this technique on the final, but I guess... I need to use it to defeat you." Katarina cracked her neck while walking back to the center of the stage.

This was a technique she created because of her circumstances.

The first factor was her fighting style. She was good at offense and defense, so she created this technique by combining both offense and defense into one. The rings would rotate to stop everything coming toward her, but each object in the rings was condensed with so much power that it could even pierce through Alexander’s defense.

The second factor was her current profession. She was Auric’s subordinate. Auric was good at offense, but not so much at defense. That was why even in the group, she was supposed to help the vanguards so that they would remain stable while ensuring that Auric remained protected all the time. Auric would then unleash a powerful attack that would decimate the enemy.

As such, creating this domain imitation allowed her to destroy everything that would come toward him. With this, she could just focus on the things around him.

The third factor came from what Mr. Green taught her. He taught her to split her power into many parts. As a result, she used that power to create all these blades and spheres and form a system to control them. That technique allowed her to concentrate so much power into these objects.

The fourth factor was the shaping training that Auric had focused on. By changing the shape of the object, she could get something unique from it. Her element was perfect for creating objects.

With all of them combined, she finally found her new fighting style.

No one knew it, but she was the so-called ’Saintess.’ It might be for fun, but it certainly suited the theme of this power.

Thus, she called this technique...

"Sanctuary."