Ch 12: Vs the Strongest Man of the City

After getting serious, Gran took an attacking posture with his sword and a silver aura appeared around his body. This aura was the result of his inherent skill called "Radiant Blaze".

The Radiant Blaze skill allowed him to increase his STR, VIT and AGI stats while giving him the ability of regeneration. He could not keep the skill active for too long and it has a long cooldown. But still this skill was extremely powerful as with this active, Gran would become several times stronger.

Feeling the aura of power Gran was radiating, Alexis immediately brought out his dragon wings and flew up in the sky. As Gran did not have any way to fly, he was unable to do anything even after boosting himself.

But obviously a holy paladin like Gran had many techniques taught by the temple and those techniques included ways to take care of flying opponents. So next Gran started to use those techniques.

First he started to create flying slashs and targeted Alexis with them. But with his super fast dragon wings and high AGI stat, Alexis had no problem dodging all of them.

But flying slashes were not the only attack that Gran used. He cast a spell that created spears made of ice. Then those ice spears locked onto Alexis and went to pierce him.

But Alexis easily blocked all the ice spears by creating shields made of fire. With his superior grade affinity, as soon as the ice came close to the fire, they melted completely.

Even though Alexis actually had an extreme grade affinity, with enough practice he had managed to master his affinity enough to restrict his powers to the superior grade.

So whatever Alexis was doing now, was something that anyone with a little training and superior grade ability could do.

As even with this much restriction and limited experience, Alexis was still dominating someone like Gran who was very experienced. It showed how much talent and potential mattered in this world.

While continuing dodging and blocking Gran's attacks, Alexis also started to use attack magic. More and more magic circle appeared behind him and all of them started throwing fireballs toward Gran.

After using his Radiant Blaze, Gran had also used defensive techniques to protect himself from fire. At the same time he was also trying to dodge and block as many of the fireballs as he could. A few that were still hitting him were not doing too much damage as his Radiant Blaze was able to heal those injuries immediately.

But as Alexis continued to add more and more magic circles throwing out fireballs, Gran started to get overwhelmed by the sheer number. When Alexis had almost twenty magic circles behind him, Gran was forced to focus on defense without having a chance to attack back.

This was a terrible situation and Gran understood that if he did not do something to get out of this, sooner or later he would be defeated. Having his back forced to the wall, Gran decided to make a risky move.

He suddenly used as many defensive skills as he could on himself and charged toward Alexis while completely disregarding his own defense. Fireballs finally started to score direct hits but Gran believed in his VIT and continued advancing.

After reaching the area below Alexis, Gran focused on his Radiant Blaze and concentrated all its boost to a single stats which was his AGI. This was a special technique that Gran had developed.

After using this technique, Radiant Blaze would only last for a few seconds. But within these few seconds, with his boosted AGI, Gran was planning to cut down Alexis before Radiant Blaze ran out.

With his mind made up, Gran used the technique and with his boosted AGI, he jumped up and almost immediately appeared beside Alexis. Then Gran slashed at him with all his momentum and power behind the slash and the scene of bisecting Alexis in half played before his eyes. He was so angry that the thought of capturing Alexis alive was not even in his mind anymore.

But what he was hoping for did not happen. His all powerful attack stopped before reaching Alexis and it was stopped by a multicoloured barrier surrounding Alexis.

As Alexis was blocking all his ice spears with fire magic and was also making sure to dodge all of his flying slash attacks, Gran had thought that Alexis had still not managed to properly activate his Adamantine Barrier skill. But that turned out to not be the case.

Gran started thinking why was Alexis not using this for the fight previously. Was he trying to insult him ? Soon he got his answer as Alexis clapped his hand and a tremendous amount of mana started to gather between his palms.

It turned out that the reason why Alexis had not used his Adamantine Barrier was to bait Gran into coming close to him. As now Gran had fallen into his trap, he activated a magic that was quite famous to be a spell that only Superior grade mages were able to use.

The name of this spell was "Scarlet Nova". It was a fire elemental spell that created extremely hot fire domain around the caster. The fire produced by this spell was said to be as hot as as the fire of the sun.

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When the red dome created by the Scarlet Nova disappeared, only Alexis was seen standing mid-air with a cold look on his handsome face. Gran was nowhere to be found.

All the people located in the temple ground including Bishop Connoe immediately realised what had happened. With the power of Scarlet Nova, Gran had completely vaporised along with his weapon and armour.

With this realisation, Bishop Connoe sat down on the ground, defeated. Gran was his biggest place of trust and without him, he felt powerless. All the other people present including the baron and the royal envoy looked at Alexis with respect and fear.

This boy had managed to defeat and kill the strongest man of the city. Gran's reputation was not unfounded. With his strength he had performed various magnificent feats. But today that man was easily defeated by a 10 year old boy who had just awakened.

As Alexis came down from the sky, all the people parted to not get in his way. He did not pay any attention to them and went to his mother.

While Alexis was busy fighting Gran, after noticing that Gran was not having an easy time with Alexis, Connoe had tried to capture Leyla to blackmail Alexis.

When they were leaving the house for the temple, Alexis had already created a super strong barrier around Leyla to protect her. So he was not worried about her safety.

Not only that but Leyla had grown quite a bit stronger after getting trained by Alexis. So even without the barrier, she was still quite safe.

As evident of that, the bisected dead bodies of three temple knight's were lying around her. They were the ones who had came to capture Leyla after Connoe ordered them and Leyla had cut them down.

Alexis completely disregarded the gory scene around his mother and checked her for injuries even though he was sure that his barrier was not harmed. After making sure that she was fine, Alexis held her hand and the mother and son duo started to walk toward their small house where they would probably not live for too long now.

That was how the Divine Awakening ceremony came to an end after making a lot of people to lose their mind during it.