NOVPUBHis hands drew a semi-circle in mid-air and the air vibrated with force. The semi circle seem to form a blurry color of white and black but it was impossible to witness clearly which is it.
The decayed leaves that were flying about seemed to be pulled towards the semicircle. It was like the eye of a tornado.
Likewise was Rex's powerful piercing attack, it was forcefully pulled in the middle of his hands. Just like a magnet.
All of a sudden, he seem to have grasped hold of Rex's leg.
Using your opponents momentum against them to gain more kinetic energy.
"Not good!" Rex's expression changed drastically.
The blur which seem to contain the color of black and blue seem to envelope his vision, making him unable to see where is attack was coming to hit.
His only option was to retreat without hesitation, because he knew if that pale technique was to get hold of, he would be done for.
"Where do you think you are going to?"
Lucian stomped his foot and the branch beneath his feet jet out a deafening cry.
His hands instantly latched onto Rex's leg and with a twist of his waist.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
He lifted Rex's body with pure strength as he smashed him down repeatedly on the tree branches.
The tree shook violently and Rex could only guide his head in fear.
The expressions of Rex's teammates changed as they yelled with anger.
"Release him!"
"You dare!"
Seeing as the two figures were rapidly approaching his location, he swung Rex's body in a circle as he built up potential energy and with full force, he swung Rex's body to their direction.
With a stomp, the tree shook and Lucian instantly flew towards the dense trees, vanishing from everyone's sight.
"Rex lost? , this is unimaginable... "
"This Lucian guy seems strong, at the very least, he could rank top 10 in the rankings."
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When he had gotten further away from the crowd into a secluded place, Lucian glanced around carefully as he stood still.
"Low grade Lifeform Detection Skill."
"Scan for any lifeforms within the perimeter of a 100 meter radius."
"Can only be utilized three times a day and it lasts for the duration of 30 seconds."
Lucian's side grin turned into an ugly expression, it was no different than being useless then.
Lasts for 30 seconds and can only be used three times a day? For only a radius of 100meters?
How is that any different from not having anything in the first place?
Lucian grumbled to himself in displeasure, he had already marked the ability useless.
He wanted to reroll it but he didn't see the need and just decided to test the ability.
Opening up his interface, he clicked on the ability menu and he saw the description of the ability in his interface, Lucian wasn't in a hurry to activate it as of yet.
"Okay, let's do this." tapping his imprint three times, it was as though reality flickered for a moments and then, a few red dots filled his vision, enveloping his eyes
If he looked away from the direction of the red dot, a small arrow head would indicate the presence of a Lifeform at the edge of his vision.
But if he were to stare directly at the dots on his vision, they seen to widen the closer he got and then get smaller the farthest he was from the lifeform.
"Fascinating." this piqued Lucian's interest. But there was something important he needed to do first.
A large red dot was blinking right in front of him.
A red arrow head was projected right at the top edge of his vision.
Astonished, Lucian raised his head upwards to inspect where the life signal was coming from, but he saw nothing apart from a heavy shade of trees, keeping the sun rays from pirecing through.
There was nothing on the trees but as Lucian tilted his head sideways, the red dot in his vision remained still at a particular branch of a large tree.
Lucian let out a smirk and he retracted his gaze from its upwards stare, casually moving forwards, as though he was about to leave his position.
His spine suddenly tingled and Lucian felt his hair stood on end as his body switched to its lazy but optimal posture.
"Whoosh!"
Instantaneously, his body swayed and his figure seemed to want to fade as a yellow blur of something flew past his ears with astonishing speed almost comparable to that of a bullet.
If Lucian hadn't performed the technique in that instant, it was unknown what would have happened.
Lucian's eyes glinted with a cold light and he simultaneously sent his arms soaring backwards, towards the yellow flying thing that had missed him.
"Got you." he caught the yellow blur in midair with his hands.
Lucian laughed coldly, looking at the tiny little thing squirming with fear, lying between his hands.
It was a little yellow snakelike beast with a flat and streamlined body which allowed it to glide in the air for short periods of time with astonishing speed.
In his lectures, Lucian had heard about the snake before, although nothing much but he still heard bits and pieces of the information.
The Soaring Threadserpent can be a very dangerous beast in the wilderness if one knew nothing about its features and its characteristics.
But, if one was informed about it in the first place, it would be quite easy to take care of.
One of its characteristics was its speed. Its speed was definitely very fast, to a terrifying level but it can only move in a straight line on the air.
And it uses its sharp horn like tail to pierce through its opponent just like a bullet would.
A Rank One Fighter would definitely die if it encountered something like this but a season Rank one fighter whose level had reached 120 and above could easy dispatch a beast of such caliber only if he or she was aware of its information.
But an unaware seasoned Rank 1 fighter, it was unknown what would happen.
Especially when bitten by it.
A Soaring Threadserpent rearly uses its mouth, releasing its toxins as it contains a very powerful toxin it had accumulated for a few decades or even centuries.
Even a Fighter with 200 stats of physique would die upon being bitten if not treated within a few days.
Its other characteristics was that, its flies. One might be thinking so what if its flies.
But that was truly ignorant thinking because it flies backwards!
As Lucian was about to get a closer look at the beast in his hands, he felt something was off as he recalled the information about the Treadsnake moreover, his instincts hasn't relaxed yet.
In that moment, he suddenly recalled the words and a single word came to Lucian's mind as he shouted in his head.
'F*ck!'
His heart skipped a beat and his legs muscles inflated by more than three times its previous size. It was as though his leg had been pumped full of air but the alarming twisting veins in his legs said otherwise.
And as he swiftly stomped his foot to the ground, he hastily made an explosive retreat and his right hand which had been holding on to the beast quickly released its hold, while activating Crimson blood shadowstep.
He was like a bullet shot out from a machine gun as his body shot backwards. If Rex saw this right now, he would definitely be frozen in shock.
The speed Lucian displayed was simply too astonishing.
But sadly that wasn't enough to save him from his current predicament.
Although his speed was amazing enough to stun anyone, he wasn't faster than the snake that he had been previously holding.
Two thing happened in that scenario.
Another characteristic of the Soaring Threadserpent was that, its thinnest part was its tail.
No, it was its head. Normally a snake would definitely have a slight circular shape at the end of one part and a eyes with a mouth born with it which indicated that it was the head part of its body.
But a Soaring Threadserpent was true at its deception.
Its head was cylindrical, the same as its body but only smaller which would definitely allow someone to mistake the head for the tail and its tail had the perfect contour on a snakes body with a sharp horn to boot.
With its speed, it was able to pierce its prey with ease but on the premises that it was unable to do so and its prey suddenly got a hold of it, it would definitely be surprised to realize that the head which it had caught was just it's tail.
But that simple second for it to take the prey to confirm it's conjecture was enough for the serpent to strike a deadly counter attack.
First was that,
He had cleanly and perfectly gotten hold of the little beast but as he recalled the information regarding the beast, he was fast to make an explosive retreat.
But that wasn't enough.
The Snake's head suddenly rose like an anaconda, its speed surpassing all limits as it immediately but at Lucian's retracting hands.
