East Meet West

153- Showdown 1

Armelia got closer to Orochi and worryingly asked

“Orochi, I think aunt June should be nearby, should we call out for aunt June?”

“Don’t worry. I can handle this. But I think that guy called Ethan will fight me and he will instruct his junior Brother and Sister to fight against you. So, take care of yourself for few minutes, I will try to quickly solve that guy.”

“Yes, take care of yourself.”

Armelia’s tone was filled with worry.

.

Orochi was in no hurry to fight.

Finally, after few seconds of discussion, Ethan and his fellow sect disciples got ready for the fight but when they noticed Orochi’s expression, they instinctively felt that something was wrong, but Ethan gave the command,

“NOW!!!”

With that shout, Jashan and Pamila dashed towards Armelia. And Ethan drew his sword and dashed towards Orochi.

And immediately, Orochi equipped the ‘Red Lancer sword’ that he bought to kill the ‘bald guy’ [refer chapter- 71] and activated the ‘Sprint’ skill.

In the blink of an eye, the distance between them was reduced and they were only 1 meter apart.

“Scorching sword slash”

Ethan lifted his sword and used a sword technique. The whole sword blade was covered with spiritual qi and then,

‘swoosh’

Ethan slashed his sword and a scorching fire whizzed towards Orochi.

The fire slash traveled at an astonishing speed. It was almost equal to double the speed of Ethan. And Orochi, when he saw the speed at which the fire approached him, his scalp went numb but still, he tried to dodge.

Orochi’s Sense and Agility stats are high, so his vision and reaction speed are also high but the distance at which Ethan attacked was so close that Orochi could not avoid the fire slash.

Fortunately, Orochi had already added 1500 ‘Free stat points’ to both the Sense and Agility stat, which increased Orochi’s reaction speed.

Orochi quickly dodged to the side and the fire slash that was heading towards Orochi’s chest, brushed past Orochi’s left arm and a deep cut was made. And the clothes also got burned.

‘ding’

‘-221 HP’

The deep cut was cauterized due to the fire that acted almost immediately after the cut was made.

“Sii...”

Because of the cut, Orochi sucked in a cold breath and quickly moved away from Ethan.

But Ethan, would not give that chance to Orochi.

When Ethan saw that his slash missed the target, he was surprised by Orochi’s reaction speed but his slash still damaged the opponent’s arm. Which increased Ethan’s confidence.

This is also where the difference between a Mortal Realm cultivator and those above Mortal realm, is revealed.

Evolver stage cultivator is barely able to use elemental attribute attacks.

While in the Demi-Human stage, the power of elemental attribute attacks is increased by a huge amount due to the fact that a Demi-human stage cultivator is able to use [Spiritual qi] instead of [Qi] produced within the body.

But only when a cultivator steps into the Transformation realm and steps into the Human stage, can the cultivator show the true power of elemental attribute attack. As when a cultivator reaches the Human stage, then the [Spiritual Qi] can be manifested outside the body and the attacks can travel up to a certain distance. This means, that a Human stage cultivator is able to kill others who are a few meters or more away from them.

And Ethan’s attack is able to travel more than 4 meters which shows that his cultivation in the Human stage is very deep and profound.

Seeing, Orochi trying to put some distance between them, Ethan sneered and once again dashed towards Orochi and slashed his sword again,

“Scorching sword slash”

Another fire slash moved rapidly towards Orochi. Although, Orochi’s speed is good and he was able to create some distance of2-3 meters between himself and Ethan. But the distance was still not enough. And the fire slash rapidly approached Orochi.

Seeing, fire slash approaching, Orochi’s mood was calm & vigilant, he did not panic. Orochi’s mind was spinning quickly and then finally he decided to use another card- Physical Enhancement and Modification skill.

This was the skill that Orochi received in a random lottery after completing the mission related to the ‘Bald guy and gang’.

[Physical Enhancement and Modification] skill is divided into two parts.

1- Enhancing physical capabilities, which in turn increases stats by a certain % temporarily.

2- And Physical modification, that is to change the shape of the body.

Currently, Ethan has a slight upper hand due to the difference in cultivation levels.

So, Orochi activated the [Physical Enhancement] skill.

When the [Physical Enhancement and Modification skill] was at level 1, all the stats would temporarily increase by 5% at the cost of 25 MP per minute.

But now the [Physical Enhancement and Modification skill] is at level 5, and all the stats would now temporarily increase by 25% at the cost of 2000 MP per minute.

And Orochi has more than One Hundred thousand MP, which is more than enough for Orochi to use the [Physical Enhancement] for almost an hour.

And as Orochi is now using the ‘Red Lancer’ sword, the [Martial Artist] job has gotten deactivated but the [Swordsmanship] job has activated, but it has a similar ability to that of Martial Artist job, that is to increase stats. And the [Swordsmanship] job is now level 7, so all the stats will now increase by 7%.

So, when the [Physical Enhancement] skill and [Swordsmanship] job are working together, Orochi’s stats have almost increased by 30%.

With this increase, he has almost brought out his best combat power.

Orochi quickly dodged and the fire slash did not even touch Orochi. But it was so close that Orochi felt hot air passing by.

‘swoosh'

Ignoring this, Orochi dashed towards Ethan who was preparing for the next slash.

Ethan felt that his second slash, should do the trick but he suddenly found that his opponent was somehow able to dodge the fire slash.

He was surprised again but it did not put any pressure on him.

“If one slash doesn’t work, then I will slash 10 times and 100 times... I don’t believe that you will be able to dodge all of them.”

Ethan thought.

With that in mind, Ethan prepared to use the [Scorching Sword slash] and slash for the third time, and when he saw that Orochi was moving towards him, he sneered and shouted,

“Hmph... braindead.”

“Scorching sword slash”

“Swoosh”

The distance between Orochi and Ethan was less than 2 meters and in the blink of an eye, the fire slash was in front of Orochi.

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