Journey Of A Legend

"Mi-Mila?!"

Joe was entirely shocked seeing as Mila was standing not far away from him casually, while her body was clad in an armor made out of boiling lava.

"Hi. You look just as determined as ever.", said Mila with a slight smile, however, the next second she noticed Greg behind Joe and frowned.

"What happened with him?"

"I don't quite understand either, but it seems after the breakthrough he won't be able to move for a while, so we need to protect him.", said Joe and turned his gaze at the humanoid tiger inside Mila's trap.

Watching as the ground was slowly melting into a boiling hot mass, while the air inside there was visibly vibrating because of the immense temperature Joe looked stunned.

"Core Territory. She successfully reached the Calamity rank only under a few months?", thought Joe with awe, however before he could think anything else, suddenly Netherclaw's crazy laugh sounded.

"Hahaha! How interesting! Woman! What is your name?"

Mila, hearing the creature talk frowned and with an expressionless face she said coldly, "You don't need to know it."

"Raise."

Instantly as she said that the already crazy temperature around the creature grew to another level, starting to make the ancient robe on Netherclaw to slowly turn to ashes.

However, even like this, the creature just smiled creepily and laughed, "Haha! I like that attitude!"

*BOOM!*

With a huge explosion, Netherclaw waved his muscular left arm powerfully, making Mila's power to be dispersed in an instant.

Immediately as the small lava spheres were no longer trapping him, Netherclaw roared toward the sky, shaking the proximity around him instantly, and jumped toward Mila with bloodlust.

With nails as sharp as razors, Netherclaw swung its terrifying claws toward Mila ready to slash her into several parts.

However, even though she felt death's presence on her neck, Mila's expression was insanely calm. But it wasn't because she was confident in her ability to dodge the assault, but because just as the claws were about to touch her skin, a silver sword appeared out of nowhere above the creature's head, ready to cut the head off.

"!"

Netherclaw feeling the surprise attack above his skull, jumped to the side without hesitation, letting the sword to hit nothing more but thin air.

Joe noticed that he missed his target looked a bit disappointed, but still, he turned to look at the creature and instantly his body burst forward.

*BAM!*

Like thunder, Joe's whole figure appeared before the creature under a single second and slashed toward it powerfully.

"Interesting!", said Netherclaw with a wide smile, but this time instead of avoiding Joe's attack, he raised his hand, ready to meet the silver sword with his bare hand.

Joe knew that he had no chance at all to injure a creature that was on the God rank, so just when the sword was about to get into contact with the palm, Joe tightened his grip on the hilt and changed the sword's trajectory without hesitation.

"Huh?"

Surprised by the sudden changes, Netherclaw saw as the sword, which was about to explode onto his palm, suddenly appeared before his neck, ready to cut his throat without a second thought.

However, Netherclaw wasn't fazed at all. Maybe he was surprised a little bit by Joe's speed, but he needed more to be totally shocked by something. And this was really far away from that.

With the reaction and speed that of a God ranked warrior, Netherclaw leaned backward, while he blasted his muscular leg toward Joe's waist.

"Not good!"

Joe was very clear about the gap between him and the humanoid tiger.

Maybe he was able to reach a velocity that was similar to those on the Ascender rank, but that was far away from the speed which was on the God rank. The two were totally in a different realm.

And because knowing all this, Joe was very clear about the fact that from a distance this close, no matter how fast reaction or speed was, he couldn't escape, no matter what.

"I won't be able to make it!", thought Joe with small drops of sweat forming on his forehead.

However, just as Netherclaw's leg was about to explode into his waist and tear his body apart with pure physical strength, suddenly boiling hot lava burst out from the ground below.

*BOOM!*

And it was just the beginning. From around Netherclaw, just like the last time lava started to burst forward from below right into the air and form several small spheres, ready to trap him again.

"The same trick won't succeed on me twice!", said Netherclaw with a smug, and waved his hand again, making Mila's attack to be useless again.

However, Mila didn't look surprised at all, but asked, "Who said I want to use the same trick twice?"

"Huh?"

The instant as Netherclaw heard Mila's voice looked confused, however, suddenly he noticed something really terrifying.

All around him, almost a thousand wind blades were floating in the air, making Netherclaw to feel a bit of pressure even though he was on the God rank.

"Why do they feel this powerful?", asked Netherclaw with a bit of shock, but he instantly understood what happened.

"Haha! To think that they distracted my attention while that mutated fairy created all of these... How smart.", said Netherclaw with a smile.

While the creature was laughing his head off like a lunatic, Joe jumped before Greg and looked at the fairy on his side.

"It seems I was right.", said Joe and thought back to the moment the humanoid tiger and Mila appeared.

The moment Mila helped him and trapped that creature for the first time, Joe noticed that the little fairy was working sneakily in the shadows.

At first, he didn't understand why she was waving her hand here and there like a dumbhead, but after a while, he started to understand her aim.

"That should be her Wind Area that Greg talked about."

Joe could clearly remember that a few days ago, Greg told him about his Soul Pet. He told him that she has finally broken into the Creator rank, but because she was a mutant, she was able to create power, similar to that of a normal Core Territory.

Naturally, it was not a real Core Territory, but still, as Joe could see currently, it was visibly on pair with a Core Territory.

"It was a great idea to distract his attention. And also..."

As Joe said this he looked at Mila on the side.l and thought, "She knew exactly what I wanted to do and worked along. She really has become stronger."

Joe could remember that only a few months ago, Mila was only a girl who was only able to control fire without doing anything flashy.

Thinking about all of this Joe smiled and turned his gaze toward Netherclaw and said, "I need to show what I'm capable of too."

Instantly as he said this, thunderbolts appeared around his body, forming a long ancient-looking robe, similar to that of a hanfu.

Netherclaw noticing the changes around Joe stopped laughing and looked interested.

"Oh? A human with a power similar to that of Transgression? He is only on the Calamity rank, yet he is able to break through into the Ascender rank for a limited time. Interesting..."

However, that was not everything. Just as Netherclaw said this, a circle appeared below Joe's feet, making his whole presence to grow instantly close to that of a God rank.

"Huh? It's not simple Transgression ability? He is able to use the above rank's power?"

While Netherclaw was surprised by Joe's shocking changes, Joe bent his body a bit forward and tightened his grip on the sword's hilt next to his body.

"Here I come!"

Instantly as he said this, Joe's whole being exploded forward, making the ground below his feet and around his body to crack and turn into debris.

Seeing as Joe attacked, the little fairy didn't hesitate and from the side, she fired the wind blades from the air at the creature too.

*BOOOM!*

*Swish!*

*CRACK!*

Joe's sword from the front, while the fairy's wind blades from the side and rear, Netherclaw was stunned instantly. He was surprised because he would have never thought that humans can fight in such a way as this. 

"What th-!!!"

Seeing as two types of attacks came at his way at the same time, Netherclaw wanted to stop Joe's sword that came at his way first, but because he hesitated too much it was too late.

*Squash!*

Instantly as Joe's sword pierced right through the left side of the creature's chest, several wind blades cut into the creature's flash for all sides, making Mila and Joe to turn happy instantly.

"Bleargh!"

Coughing up a huge amount of blood, Netherclaw smiled eerily and said, "Now you have done it!"

"!?"

The moment Joe heard this, he noticed as Netherclaw grabbed his hand with the sword and pushing it deeper into it's own chest to bring him closer, the creature swung it's huge claws at Joe.

Seeing the sudden changes, Mila's eyes widened with fear, she shouted, "Oh no... Watch out!"

*Swish!*

*BAM!*