Nobilis of War novel Chapter 58

The clamor grew louder upon hearing this. Everyone was well aware that Gavin was also at the ninth stage of the Spirit Realm before he died. While most of the people were exchanging opinions of doubt and suspicion about Toby's words, others showed conviction and believed him.

As a captain in the Governor's Office, Toby had always been known to be true to his reputation for honesty. He had never exaggerated anything, and his noble character also explained why he always spoke with authority among the people.

The Chu Clan elders who knew Toby's personality very well now began to show a sign of relief and started to hope that Darren could eliminate the Valiance Sect elder for them.

As more people started to root for Darren, the Valiance Sect elder began to regret his decision. From the beginning, he had an intuition that Darren was a competent opponent. It was his haunting curiosity that urged him to challenge Darren to find out exactly how strong he was.

Despite his hesitations, there was no turning back now. Since he had already put forward his proposition and Darren had already accepted his challenge, he had no choice but to wait for the fighting time to come. Although at the beginning, he had the ulterior motive of mocking and taunting Darren for his decision, from the bottom of his heart, he was actually in fear that he might be humiliated and consequently ruined the reputation of his own sect.

In order to fully gauge Darren's capability, he secretly shot out his spiritual power towards Darren. And this time, he released all of it without any reservation.

Darren sensed the coming of the spiritual power at once. However, he did not budge and merely waited for it to arrive. Within a second, the spiritual power shot into his head like a sharp, piercing needle.

Undeterred, Darren sneered contemptuously at the elder. The spiritual power the elder had sent him was no match for the one that the fiend had charged at him after it flew out of the bronze coffin. Even then, the mysterious power in Darren's head was still able to withstand such a high level of spiritual power and strike back at the beast. Now, facing the attack of the elder who was much inferior to the fiend, it went without saying that Darren would overcome it without exerting much effort.

As he had expected, the minute the spiritual power made its way into Darren's head, his mysterious power activated itself immediately and stopped the spiritual power from hurting his brain. It was as if a strong hurricane had suddenly blown up, wrapping the spiritual power in its wrath and then instantly flinging it towards the elder with an immense force.

Darren's spiritual power gave the elder a lethal blow. A fountain of blood spritzed out of his mouth as his face turned a deathly shade of white.

"I give up! I surrender! Please!" the elder cried out. He did not expect that Darren's strike would inflict so much pain on himself. If a mere clash of a spiritual power could cause him such pain, then he could not imagine what devastating terror would happen to him if he carried on with his challenge any further. At this rate, he would most likely be killed right away.

The fight seemed to be over before it could even begin. Those who were watching the confrontation between Darren and the Valiance Sect elder had no way of catching all the details and so they wondered what it was Darren could have done that would have that effect on the elder.

"Can those words take back the malicious act you have just tried on me?" Darren accused. Knowing that the elder's true intention was to harm him, there was no way Darren was going to let him off that easily. "If my spiritual power didn't win over yours, then what do you think would have happened to me? Would I have been turned into a fool or killed? You tell me! Now you want to cover up your sins with nothing but those words. What do you think I should do? Huh? What will you do if you are in my place?" he added.