The legendary warrior novel Chapter 222

"Bang!" Once again, both of them exerted their internal strength and launched attacks towards each other. They were both trying hard to defeat the other. Carrying their powerful energy, they collided so hard that they brought forth a tremendous sound. The noise was a bit weaker than the one when they first collided but it was still jarring.

Only those who were more powerful than Ricky and Rupert could detect the small difference. As for those on-lookers, all of them were unable to tell the slight difference because they were weaker than Ricky and Rupert. All they felt and thought to themselves was 'Wow, incredible! They are so strong! What a wonderful battle!'

Rupert, however, felt everything. When his claw met Ricky's fist, he sensed that there seemed to be an invisible mouth behind Ricky's fist. All the power belonging to his claw was absorbed by that mouth via Ricky's fist.

Theoretically, his attack was supposed to be far stronger than Ricky's fist. Nevertheless, the power of his attack was devoured by another mysterious power hiding within Ricky's body. As a result, he was unable beat Ricky with his claw.

'No! No! No way! How is this possible?!' Rupert thought to himself desperately feeling as if he was about to lose his mind.

He exerted more internal strength to make his claw stronger. However, it was too late. Once a punch or claw was sent out to attack the enemy, one could increase the power of the fist or claw before it hit the enemy. When it already reached the enemy and its energy already broke out, trying to increasing the power of the fist or claw would be completely in vain. That was exactly what happened between Rupert and Ricky.

The energy of Rupert's claw and Ricky's fist broke apart as they met. The fire on Ricky's fist crackled and was burning ferociously, trying to dry the water. The water on Rupert's claw was roaring as it likewise tried to put down the fire. It was literally a situation where fire and water were incompatible. The war truly broke out between them then!

The endless power of two different elements caused air blasts and rippled over the atmosphere. The waves were so powerful, that it seemed as if they could tear apart reality. Both Ricky and Rupert were knocked back a few steps again.

The crowed could not help squinting their eyes to resist the strong energy. They instinctively wanted to avoid getting injured. The fight was just too much for most of them.

At that time, neither Ricky nor Rupert held the upper hand.

They were forced to walk backwards for almost the same amount of steps. After that collision, both of them spat blood. Needless to say, both of them had internal injuries.

Ending in a draw that round was just a superficial state for them. Things were different on Ricky's side.

'My body! My body refined in the Devouring Zone! I'm so glad you didn't disappoint me!' Ricky thought to himself in excitement. Ending up tying with Rupert was actually a good sign. It indicated that Ricky was able to resist an attack from a warrior at the fourth grade of Bone Reinforcement, and that he was capable enough to challenge someone who was three levels higher than him!

At the very beginning, Ricky had thought that there was going to be a serious fight between him and Rupert before he was able to resist Rupert's attack. However, he made it through easily! Though he also spat blood, that was just a minor injury compared to the fatal injury he had thought he would suffer. No wonder Ricky was more than thrilled.

'I was probably already able to challenge someone three levels higher than me by the moment that my body was changed after the refinement process in the two zones. Maybe that was the moment when I was ready to become a unique genius!' Ricky thought to himself in delight.

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"He made it! He successfully resisted the attack from Rupert and survived! Oh, gosh! I thought he was doomed to die! There he is though! He's still standing there, breathing! Who is this guy? Is he is really only at the first grade of Bone Reinforcement? Did he hide his power?" At that moment, all the other warriors were stunned and dumbfounded. Their brains were even too shocked to function at that point.

"Am I dreaming?" Some warriors even started to question themselves on whether they were really seeing the fight or if it was an illusion.

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"The power! The power you just used to resist my claw! It's not your own power; I'm sure of it! What is that? Tell me! What is that?" Feeling the burning pain in his palm, Rupert roared out question after question in rage.

"Like I said before, you are only allowed to know who I am and what power I use when you beat me! It seems that you are not going to live that long though. I will defeat you soon! Ha-ha! You claim that you are a warrior at the fourth grade of Bone Reinforcement? There is no way I believe that!" Ricky teased and taunted him with every single insult he could come up with. Rupert's angry roar did not irritate him; it just made him laugh.

He was pretty sure that his happy face and delightful laugh would definitely piss Rupert off! He did that on purpose in order to irritate him. He was waiting for the real death match to come!

Things went exactly as Ricky expected. Ricky's arrogant laugh frenzied Rupert. He howled as he opened his eyes wide. "I'm going to kill you! No matter where you are from and who you are, today will be your last day alive!"

In the next second, he gathered all his strength without any hesitation and poured it into his claws. Then, he threw his claws continuously towards Ricky. A fierce claw shower was formed as he dashed at Ricky.