Journey Of A Legend

*Swish!*

"!"

With a black flash, Russ's cheek was cut deeply, making the wound on it to bleed in an instant.

"That was unexpected.", said Russ as he looked at Albert.

Luckily he was able to tilt his head to the side just in time, because if not, his head would have been already rolling on the ground, without him knowing a single thing that just happened.

"T... That was insanely fast!", thought Greg with a stunned expression as he looked at Russ's bleeding scar.

Wiping the blood off from his face, Russ looked at the blood on his fingers and a second later he turned his gaze toward Albert's crazy look.

"You will regret what you have done!", said Albert angrily and suddenly the black smoke around his body started to swirl like crazy.

Just like the first time, Albert's body started to shrink while his muscles bulged like crazy, but this time there was a slight difference.

While his body was undergoing visible changes, the black smoke around his body started to move toward the daggers in his hand.

Covering both of the weapons and Albert's arms under a second, the black smoke solidified into a black mass, with an appearance similar to chains.

"Here I come!"

*Crack!*

*BOOOM!*

With an insanely huge momentum that formed huge craters under his feet, Albert's body vanished from sight and under a millisecond his figure appeared before Russ and Greg.

"DIE!"

*Swish!*

With a terrifyingly fast motion, Albert swung his left arm toward Russ's head while his right arm went for Greg's neck.

"!"

Surprised by Albert's speed, Russ's expression hardened, and without hesitation, he touched Greg's shoulder and teleported away.

"Don't think you can escape!", said Albert angrily and swung his arm toward a direction.

In an instant, the black chains on his arms loosened and like a whip with the dagger on its end, it flew into the air.

And just where he was aiming, suddenly Russ and Greg appeared out of thin air, turning both of their expression into shock after seeing the flying weapon toward them.

However, even like this, Russ's expression looked incredibly calm, and said, "It is still slow."

*Swish!*

Exactly a second later he said that he disappeared with Greg in his hand, making the dagger to pass through nothing but thin air.

Seeing as his attack missed the target again, Albert looked angrier, but the next second he turned his head toward the left and said, "So you will be there."

However just as he was about to throw his other dagger toward that direction, suddenly Wayne's arm appeared behind him, ready to touch his back.

"Don't even dream about it!"

*Swish!*

With a fast spin, Albert slashed toward Wayne, but suddenly out of nowhere Russ's figure appeared, and just as he did with Greg, he saved Wayne from the attack.

"This is starting to get on my nerves!", said Albert angrily and threw his dagger to the left side.

On that exact spot, Russ and Wayne appeared, but the weapon flew past nothing but air again, because Russ teleported away again.

But this time, instead of appearing in another spot, Russ and Wayne appeared on both of Albert's side and attacked him from two different angles.

Surprised by this sudden change of tactics, Albert didn't know what he should do, but even like this, his adapting ability and reaction speed was top notch.

Watching as the two hands, one from the left and one from the right, Albert pulled both of his daggers back with the chains and spun around, creating a blade tornado.

Russ and Wayne saw this happening stopped their attacks and jumped away in an instant and watched as the solid ground below and around Albert started to turn into debris and small pieces of stones.

*Crack!*

*Crack!*

*Crack!*

One spin after another, Albert's daggers cut everything into pieces, turning the beautiful temple into a destroyed building under seconds.

Russ looked at Wayne in the distance and asked, "Are you ready?"

Knowing that Russ had a plan, Wayne nodded and said, "Sure. Do it."

Without hesitation, Russ nodded, and while he raised his hand his skin slowly turned pixel like, while his whole body started to vibrate and pulse, just like a hacked television screen from the old times.

Even though he was spinning, Albert saw everything. The moment he saw the changes that took effect around Russ, he snorted and said, "Using your Soul Body only now won't help you, so just give up and die!"

With that said, Albert used the centrifugal power he created and threw one of his daggers toward Russ, while the other one went for Wayne.

Watching as the weapons approached him with rapid speed, Russ pointed forward and with a calm expression he said, "Space Lock!"

*Tremble!*

Suddenly, all around the weapon and the chains, space started to shake like crazy, freezing the daggers in one place in an instant.

As this happened, Albert tried to move his arms, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move even a single inch.

However even like this, he just smiled and raised his head to look at Russ, but the moment he saw him far away from him he frowned and asked, "Why aren't you attacking me? If you won't grab this chance I will break free and kill both of you."

"We won't. But he will.", said Russ as he pointed to the side with a slight smile.

Following Russ's finger, Albert turned his head to the left, but the moment he saw Greg there with a raised arms with a strange-looking black sword in hand, he laughed and said, "Haha! Don't make me laugh! He is just a Creator ranked brat, how could he kill me? Haha! How fun-."

*BOOM!*

*TREMBLE!!*

Even before Albert could have finished his sentence, a huge explosion sounded from his left, making him turn his head to the side, and when he did, his eyes widened extra wide, not believing what he was seeing.

In Greg's hand, the sword was set ablaze with golden flames, making the temperature of the whole temple's interior to grow rapidly without any sign of stopping.

"Im...impossible! He is only at the Creator rank, so how can he have such..."

But before he could finish his sentence again, suddenly the statue on the side started to shine, making the golden flames around Greg's sword to burn even crazier than ever before.

The heat was so great that the ground around Greg's feet and also the wall not far behind him started to melt, making not only Albert, but even Russ and Wayne look incredibly shocked too.

"I feel immense power right now.", thought Greg with pleasant surprise and looked at the statue on the side.

"Does it buffing me because I use fire here? Or is there another reason?"

Shaking his head, Greg turned his gaze back at Albert and thought, "Nevermind. The point here is that I can finish that guy off. So..."

With a determined expression, Greg exhaled, and after making his body relaxed he took in a deep breath.

In an instant all of his muscles tensed, while almost all of his veins all over his skin bulged out one after another, making his appearance quite frightening.

Albert seeing Greg's determined expression with the strange changes on his body, started to panic and tried to break free from Russ's seal, but somehow he was simply unable to do anything.

"P...Please! Can we talk this o-.", started to say Albert with a wry smile, but before he could finish his sentence, a huge explosion occurred.

*Swish!*

*BOOOM!!*

*Crack!*

The moment Greg slashed with his sword, the golden flames turned into a crazy wild dragon, which flew toward Albert with tremendous power.

The slash was so great that both the bottom and the top of the temple has been cut into two in an instant, while the surrounding started to melt because of the terrifying heat of the flames.

"Im... Impossible! You are just a weak brat, so how can you hold such power!? Impossib-."

Just before Albert could finish his sentence, the golden flames have arrived before him and without mercy they engulfed his body, turning his whole figure into nothing more but ash and dust.

However, the flames didn't stop there, but flew right through the walls of the temple, cutting the whole building into two.

*Tremble!!*

Seeing that he killed the man, but naturally only because of the technique that Kuragari gave him and the bonus buff he got from the statue, Greg turned happy. However, just as he wanted to walk, suddenly his whole body started to twitch and immense pain swept through his whole physique.

"ARGHH!!"

With clenched teeth and bleeding nose, Greg suddenly fell to the ground, while his muscles started to jerk visibly under his skin.

Russ and Wayne were totally shocked by what they have just witnessed a second ago, but the moment they saw Greg fall to the ground they didn't hesitate and ran to him.

"What should we do know?", asked Wayne a bit worriedly as he looked at Greg's painful expression.

Russ looked at Greg too and wanted to say something, but just before he could, Greg's body started to relax bit by bit, making him feel relieved in an instant.

*Tremble!*

"We should go now. It seems that the zone won't last any longer than a few minutes, so take him and let's get out of here.", said Russ, and after picking up Greg, he teleported away with Wayne on his side.