Chapter 227: The Project (4)

Perseus POV

The man used the rose petals to swirl around the arms that I cut off and lift them to him and reattach themselves, I didn't wait as I shot a quick and destructive lightning spell at him as he continuously dodge them.

Once I stopped, the man used his rose powers to create different kinds of animals and shot them at me, since he had little time to learn how to control them, these animals' movements were super stiff and slow.

I know that they want me to use mine too so that they can have a more accurate test of how strong their fake one is, though they can use their own generals for that purpose, I'm assuming the generals were told to be careful and fought these guys with precaution, so the test wasn't that accurate since they're scared to kill off the only successes.

I'll play by their game, but I'll also play my game, and it's that, I'll destroy them so thoroughly with the original that they'll get nothing out of this apart from revealing to the world that they may possess an unstoppable army.

I created a giant blue hammer and smashed all these animals with one hit, I fought with my full strength, and I destroyed them left and right. I transformed the hammer into hundreds of tiny sharp needles and send them at him at a high speed, just as he created a barrier made of the rose power, I dashed through quicker than his barrier can form and disrupt his movements, so no barrier was formed to protect him as the needle penetrated through different parts of his body.

I kneed him in the stomach and elbowed him to the right side of his head, he used magic to distance himself and tried to repeat what I just did and created hundreds of needles and clad them with magic, but it seems to be forming slowly.

It makes sense since he probably didn't have a long time training using the rose power, much less using that and mixing it with magic at the same time, controlling both at the same time requires a lot of mental strain, and he's probably not used to it.

He'll need a lot of mental training, but he doesn't get time for that, I'm gonna need to confront Lilith and that demon lord after this though, the lives lost for this is at least 10 times more, and that's not a pretty number, they've achieved their goal in scaring the world, even my village will try to make a counter, but...

If they got a mass-produced army of these guys, we're all done for, and that means I might need to kill lesser people on the human side because I'll need them to have numbers to oppose the demon forces.

He now charge at me and engaged in close combat, his fist flew at my face, but I just grabbed his arm and judo-flipped him. I slammed him hard onto the ground, and I then aim many fireballs at his body that was on the ground.

I shot at the same spot over and over, as I saw him about to escape, I stepped hard on him to hold him in place and continue to do so, wasn't long till he overpowered me and tried to distance himself.

He then charged up a super large fire spell within the palm of his hand and aimed it in my direction, he also amplified its power with the rose powers. The flames started to turn white in color and increased in size.

Despite the distance, I can feel the intense heat. his is a copy of the white rose as it can somehow merge itself completely with the fire spell and turn it white, and the rose petals were also white, it's the support specialty of the white rose, he then shot out a large white flamed phoenix at my direction, which I dodged entirely by turning my body into light particles and quickly running away from the spot.

The guy was smart though, as I ran, I leave these light trails, and though my body is faster than where they are located, he used his brain to best predict where I stop next, though I'm still faster than his spell no matter how good or bad his prediction is.

Once he was tired and stop shooting those destructive spells, I charged at him and deliver strong kicks to his legs, and with a quick slice, I cut off his legs from his body like butter, the acceleration plus my strength helped me cut them smoothly and cleanly.

I stabbed him in the stomach and kicked him away, he merged the rose petals with his magic again and create a small barrier around himself to protect against me, but with my sword, I cut through it, and just as my sword was about to hit him, the ref yelled 'stop!'.

I did and he announced my victory as I quickly left the arena to go see the people behind this, I got no time to be slow, this fake rose is amazing, but the price for it is a lot, almost as much as the hero summoning process.

I charged to the demon lord's private room where he was accompanied by his staff and guards, but even the guards at the door couldn't stop me as I quickly got past them and kick the door open to the room where he was already facing the door where I now was as if he was expecting me.

"Well, what do you think?" he asked with an amused smile

"Terrible, far inferior to the original, if your guy weren't so focus on testing his against mine, he might have put up a tougher fight, the mental strain slowed his movement and exhausted him faster than he thought, he responded slower as well, so with my superior gear, it wasn't hard to overpower and beat him."

"Well, how do you like it then?"

"How many lives were lost for that? I want a rough estimate." I demanded