BXBX NOVEL Chapter 20 Its time to Cook
Chapter 20 It“s time to Cook
"Ugh... Where did that light come from?" Alex knew that if it were not for that massive surge of light, then it might be his head that is rolling on the ground already.
"....." Alex tried to ignore the old kid’s headless body as he watched Alina’s fight with the lizard.
Except that there is no lizard in sight.
What Alex could see was a bleeding Alina squaring off against a human-looking lizard man?
"Huh. What the hell is happening here?" Alex then shook his head as he realized that it’s not the time to ask questions now.
Since he still had some time left before the time limit is up, Alex decided to assist Alina in in every way that he can.
"But what can I do?" Alex thought sourly to himself as he saw the intense battle between the two.
Because of his limited Mental Power, Alex can only rely on his vision to see everything that happened.
But even with that limited sensing, Alex could not help but feel that he was lucky to have Alina with him right now.
"Even if Alina became a temporary 1 Star Esper, she was still able to perform these powerful attacks... D**n, if she attacked me right now, even my danger sense would be unable to save me." Alex grimly thought as he realized the gravity of his main mission.
"If Alina and this Class SS Lizard was already this strong, then how strong would the other Star Espers would be?"
Alex then shook his head as he put this matter at the back of his head.
Alex had just been in this world for 2 days, and now he already had the power to protect himself.
Give Alex more days to train, and his progress will be greater!
Asteria seemed to have detected Alex’s melancholic thoughts as she said, "Traveler, you may not know it, but when you became a Traveler, your body had been remodeled by the Endless Monarch."
"Your body right now will accept all kinds of cultivation and strengthening techniques, provided that you can afford it with your lifespan." Asteria said these words that can make any cultivator faint in anger as if it they were just mere facts.
"Not only that, but your ability to grow stronger has been improved in your current body too." At this point, Alex can already understand what Asteria was saying now.
"Traveler, that just means that as long as you put in the effort to get stronger, then you will stronger quickly." Asteria concluded as she patted Alex’s cheek.
Did Asteria just became sympathetic to Alex?
"So make sure that you do not do anything stupid now. Because if you die, you can’t experience the quick growth that I am talking about."
Nope, Asteria is still the same.
"Hai, hai, I won’t die here." Alex said as he looked around him.
With the intensity of the fight between the lizard man and Alina, there is no way that Alex could get near right now.
In that case, Alex has no choice but to only use long-range moves to assist Alina.
"But there is no way that my attacks can damage that thing." Alex knew that if this lizard man can stand toe-to-toe with Alina, then that must mean that his power is around the Star Esper Level too,
Alex’s Mental Power of relatively measly 122.5 won’t do s**t on that lizard man.
"If direct attacks won’t do, then that just mean I can only assist Alina by somehow distracting or slowing the lizard man down." Alex muttered as his mind began to churn.
With his brain enhanced by the boost, Alex was able to think up of thousands of possible ways to slow down or distract the lizard man.
Alex discarded the ways that required a long time to use, and the ways that are too unrealistic to use with his current Mental Power.
Alex then quickly eliminated the remaining ways until there was only one way left.
Alex suddenly wore a fearless smile on his face as he digested the contents of the remaining way.
He shook his head as he glared at the lizard man balefully.
"Well then, here I come." Alex whispered as his face suddenly turned focused.
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"This is getting worse." Alina thought to herself as he continued exchanging attacks with the humanoid lizard.
With the lizard’s speed, most of Alina’s attacks missed and those that did were unable to hit the lizard’s vital spot,
Alina was also getting slightly overwhelmed by the lizard’s attacking speed, as she has to create numerous Space Barriers at a time to protect herself.
Add Alina’s stomach injury that is not getting any better, and Alina was being slowly pushed into the corner.
Right now, there are only 1 and a half minutes left before her boost gets used up.
Looking at her current situation, Alina knew that she is already f**ked up.
"It seems like I have no choice but to do that..."Alina thought as an extremely determined expression appeared on her face.
"My sister will not be happy once I did this, but this is the only way that I can win right now."
But right before Alina could start doing that, she suddenly remembered that she was not the only Esper in here.
There is still Alex with her!
"S**t! If I do that here, Alex will surely be implicated too!" Alina’s eyes narrowed as she decided to make Alex run away now.
With her busy attacking and defending , Alina can only use her sensing of space to see how Alex fared.
She could sense in her space that Alex was relatively uninjured, with a headless body and decapitated head near him.
Alina tried to identify who the unfortunate victim was, and to her surprise, it was someone that she knew!
"Mindbreaker is dead..." Alina thought grimly as she was perfectly sure that this guy was a loyal minion of Lord Ergo.
"From what I know, Mindbreaker was supposed to be doing something at the mansion now, so how come he just suddenly appeared here? And why did he and Alex even fight! And how was Alex able to win?"
There is no way that Alina’s questions can get answered right now, with her being extremely busy.
As such, she can only inquire Alex about his matter with Mindbreaker on their next meeting.
That is, if they can still stay alive here.
As Alina started to feel helpless, she suddenly heard Alex’s voice shouting out to her.
"Alina, I have a way to help you beat that lizard! However, we can just do it once. If it fails, we are dead."
Alina could not help but to feel suspicious with what Alex said to her.
Sure, Alex was a pretty great guy when he treated her to her favorite streetfood and when he joined her to visit the experimented children... but that greatness of his does not equate to his battle power.
Alina could sense that Alex’s Mental Power was around 122.5 right now. That kind of power would not be enough for any of his attacks to help Alina.
So how can Alex have the guts to claim that he can help Alina right now?
"I have a plan, but I need your help for it." Alex shouted as he glanced at the body of the humanoid lizard.
After he successfully killed the old kid, Alex suddenly had a bright idea regarding his use of his abilities.
"Maybe that can work, although it will only hurt the lizard... Well as long it is hurt and distracted, Alina will have time to kill it." This is what Alex thought to himself as he looked at Alina hopefully.
Fortunately for Alex, Alina chose to believe him.
"Boom!" Alina used a quarter of her Mental Power to create a Space Blast that catapulted the humanoid lizard towards Alex’s location.
With that move, the humanoid lizard was forced to be inside Alex’s Range.
"Well here goes nothing then." Alex muttered as he felt a head-splitting headache blossoming inside his head.
He decided to use the majority of his remaining Mental Power for his next move, just to make sure that it will work.
-1 minute left for boost-
Alex reached out with his ability, and all the light produced by Alina’s latest Space Blast all converged towards the humanoid lizard’s location.
Alex then forced all this light to go through the humanoid lizard’s eyes.
"Oh, so you want to use the light to damage the brain of the humanoid lizard? Sorry, but I think that will not work..." Alina muttered as she saw what Alex was doing. "The organs of this humanoid lizard are much tougher than what you could expect."
With the tough body that the humanoid lizard had, even its internal organs were all tough too.
This allowed the humanoid lizard to resist all the light waves that are inside its head now.
"Who told you that I will just use light wave to attack its brain?" Alex said smilingly as he raised his right hand upwards. He then closed it into a fist as he said,
"Compress!"
This time, Alex changed the wavelength of all the light waves inside the humanoid lizard’s brain.
He compressed them until all of them turned into Ultraviolet Waves.
"Grya!!!" Just like what Alex had expected, the humanoid lizard’s body started to jerk around as his brain was being slowly melted by all the UV Waves that Alex conjured inside its brain.
But to Alex’s dismay, he sensed with his EM Wave sensing that the humanoid lizard’s brain was slowly regenerating.
"D**n, this this lizard is tough as heck." Alex muttered as he slumped forward to the ground, extremely exhausted. "However, I have done my part already."
With the stunt that Alex did, the humanoid lizard was distracted greatly.
Of course Alina will not let go of this chance.
She used all of her remaining Mental Power to create 3 Space Slashes towards the defenseless body of the humanoid lizard.
With the humanoid lizard busy regenerating its brain, it was unable to dodge Alina’s final attack.
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
Alina’s charged attack managed to cut the humanoid lizard easily like tofu.
Its body was bisected vertically, then it was cut horizontally, and finally diagonally.
This resulted in 6 pieces of the humanoid lizard’s body falling to the ground.
Alina’s body hovered in the air for a second, before she started to fall towards the ground.
Because she used all of her Mental Power in that last attack, she was unable to sustain floating on her space. Naturally this led to her falling to the ground.
But before her body could crash to the ground, someone rushed in to catch her.
That person was of course Alex.
"....." With her body extremely spent right now, Alina was unable to open her mouth to talk.
But Alex could see gratitude in her eyes, as well as curiosity.
Alex scratched his head, realizing that Alina might have already seen the corpse of the old kid earlier.
"I know that you have some questions for me right now, but why don’t we just talk about that tomorrow?" Alex said as he suddenly crashed down to the ground.
With the time limit of their boost all used up, both of them experienced the severe paralysis that was warned to them at the start.
Just a second after they crashed, a figure suddenly appeared behind them.
This figure let out a low whistle as he looked at the devastation around him.
He then looked at Alina that was on the ground, and Alex who was lying on top of her.
Obviously, they were in stuck in that position since they were both paralyzed now.
But anyone who can see these two right now will have no context of what happened...
The figure, who turned out to be Clint, let out a smile as he said,
"Alex, you just had your date, and now you are already on top of her? That was quick!"
"...."