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Chapter 97: Breaking Records
Alfred howled and jumped in an arc towards the wall as his tail enlared and transformed—Shattering Tail Smash.
The power of Darkness, Blood, and Frostfire was even more refined in the thick tail with hundreds of glassy spikes of black, blue, and crimson patterns, pulsing with power.
The executives immediately knew from that that Alfred had attained level 2 mastery of his attributes and were surprised.
But the real surprise appeared a moment later.
Alfred’s tail smashed into the wall with a blast before another blast, even louder, quickly followed as Alfred used the combo move—Doom Blast Impact, by gathering all the burst crystals and energies from Shattering Tail Smash into a single compressed point for high-intensity damage.
But in the same second, everyone heard three and four explosions as John used Tempest Streak of Pymon using Soul Synergy as he fired his figure moved five meters forward with lightning ranging around him, which all transferred into the kinetic boost of the bullet that he shot at a precise time.
The bullet breaking the sound barrier and then hitting the wall created those two explosions right as Alfred’s combo move activated.
"Damn!"
"What kind of bullet is that?! He has strange bullets."
"So powerful! In terms of sounds, he had the loudest for sure!"
"Loud doesn’t equal the score. Let’s see how much score he gets."
The audience became noisy while eagerly looking at the score above the wall.
John recalled Alfred while he also looked at the score.
Soon, it flickered and changed from [ 00000 ] to
[ 04149 ]
"And there it is, everyone!" the spiky-haired executive said as his voice echoed. "John Wicked puts up the new best Attack-score after not only beating Rakin’s score, but putting a new record for Silver-rank Attack-score!"
"Congratulations, John."
John grinned and showed a victory gesture as the camera focused on him. "Thanks."
"Next, let’s test your speed without further ado."
While John went behind the line and jumped a few times to jog his body, Azelis was sneering at Executive Jason and Tavros.
"You both saw that, right? You still think I made the wrong choice?"
"Well, what you think doesn’t matter, " She added with a carefree tone.
"We were just thinking about the sect more," Executive Jason calmly replied.
"But clearly, you don’t care about the sect."
"Idiots," Azelis muttered under her breath, but just enough to let them hear it.
Jason and Tavros’ eyes twitched as they heard that, but didn’t reply.
Azelis didn’t know the true nature of the deal they had with the Lockham family. The Lockhams and Rakin wanted to cultivate a relationship with Azelis. Having a powerful family, Rakin had enough resources and facilities to make him progress faster, and eventually propose a marriage five to eight years later.
These families always wanted better and talented Tamers to continue their family line so that the new generation is born with high levels of affinity and awakened innate talents.
And a gap of five to ten years between partners was normal.
"And three...two...one, go!"
John’s feet were dug into the ground as he bent with his one leg stretched back.
The moment the spiky-haired executive said go, John blasted off the ground by exerting all of his physical prowess before using the skill Tempest Streak by consuming 150 soul energy at once for a burst speed boost.
All that everyone saw was a golden-blue flash streaking like a lightning bolt with a blast, crossing the finishing line in a blink.
"Holy crap, that’s faster than Rakin, right?!"
"Was he faster than Rakin? Damn, it kinda felt same to me."
"He broke the sound barrier! That’s freaking faster than anyone so far!"
The executives were shocked this time, not just surprised! They knew the speed John displayed, and it was terrific!
Everyone saw the score box flickering before it showed the time it took John to cover 150 meters.
0.41 seconds!
"And he officially broke the sound barrier in movement speed! This is terrific!" the spiky-haired executive said, his eyes wide as he announced. He already knew that, but he had to suppress his surprise until the speed was revealed to all the people watching.
As expected, the audience went bonkers.
"What skill is that?!"
"Damn, so fast!?"
"Crazy..."
Rakin’s face was ugly as he watched one of the giant screens high in the stadium showing John.
The other Tamers nearby couldn’t help but talk about John, surprised and shocked that they had someone this powerful in Silver-rank.
Azelis couldn’t help but grin from ear to ear at the shock John brought to everyone.’ That’s the skill of Thunderblitz Tempest Falcon. No flying monster is faster than that bird.’
Well, she shall be corrected later when John makes Pymon reach Emperor-rank.
For now, John went to stand in the magic circle at the center of the battlering to defend against the meteor and measure his Defense-score.
John had spent a total of 300 soul energy so far. 150 when attacking with a combo of Tempest Streak and his bullet, and then 150 soul energy for a burst of Tempest Streak to travel 150 meters as fast as possible.
He had 200 soul energy left, and he was going to use all of it in the defense.
As the meteor arrived, John used Soul Synergy with Rexion to use his Seardawn Blood Armor by consuming 150 soul energy, covering both of his arms and the core of his body in the glistering crimson scales with dark gold glowing patterns.
It was unfortunate that to keep a skill active like this, Seardawn Blood Armor, he had to remain in the Soul Synergy state with Rexion. Otherwise, after using Seardawn Blood Armor, he wanted to use Pymon’s Abyss Cylone Veil, which was a barrier skill.
Still, John used the Totem of Vital Sol-Blood with the remaining 50 soul energy as a one-meter pole with a draconic head at the top that appeared above John, creating a small area bursting with vitality.
The executives and other Gold-rank and King-rank Tamers who measured John’s current parameters were shocked.
First, activating Soul Synergy meant superimposing the selected Pet Monster’s stats onto the Tamer.
If a Silver-rank Tamer with 100-100-100 used Soul Synergy on a peak Silver-rank Monster, the Tamer’s stats would become 200-200-200.
In John’s case, he used Soul Synergy with Rexion, and even used his Seardawn Blood Armor that could additionally boost stats by 50% on top of giving resistance to magical and physical attacks.
So when they saw John’s parameters fluctuating between 250 - 300 and his whole body red, they were dumbfounded because he was stronger than the peak Gold-rank Monster at the moment, since the Gold-rank Monster’s peak stats were 250-250-250!
As the meteor descended, John grinned as blood slightly tickled his nose and ears due to his body harboring more power than it could, while the totem constantly healed him.
He crouched down.
And opened his right palm.
Then, he sprang up with an upper cut, channeling all power into his palm slammed it on the slowly descending meteor.
BOOM!
Everyone’s jaw dropped as the meteor cracked all over its structure.
Though it didn’t shatter, and John felt its strong force pushing him, the audience went bonkers at what he did.
"No fucking way!"
"Holy shit!" 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
"How tough is he with those armored arms right now?!"
"He is bleeding!"
"That’s so freakign cool! I want to see him shatter the meteor!"
"Bro is giving his all, damn!"
"Shatter it, Shatter it!
"Shatter it!"
The audience began chanting for John to shatter the meteor.
’No way he can shatter it...’ Rakin thought, his fist clenched as he heard the audience cheering for John.
