The legendary warrior novel Chapter 222

"Bang!" Once again, both of them exerted their internal strength and launched attacks towards each other. They were both trying hard to defeat the other. Carrying their powerful energy, they collided so hard that they brought forth a tremendous sound. The noise was a bit weaker than the one when they first collided but it was still jarring.

Only those who were more powerful than Ricky and Rupert could detect the small difference. As for those on-lookers, all of them were unable to tell the slight difference because they were weaker than Ricky and Rupert. All they felt and thought to themselves was 'Wow, incredible! They are so strong! What a wonderful battle!'

Rupert, however, felt everything. When his claw met Ricky's fist, he sensed that there seemed to be an invisible mouth behind Ricky's fist. All the power belonging to his claw was absorbed by that mouth via Ricky's fist.

Theoretically, his attack was supposed to be far stronger than Ricky's fist. Nevertheless, the power of his attack was devoured by another mysterious power hiding within Ricky's body. As a result, he was unable beat Ricky with his claw.

'No! No! No way! How is this possible?!' Rupert thought to himself desperately feeling as if he was about to lose his mind.

He exerted more internal strength to make his claw stronger. However, it was too late. Once a punch or claw was sent out to attack the enemy, one could increase the power of the fist or claw before it hit the enemy. When it already reached the enemy and its energy already broke out, trying to increasing the power of the fist or claw would be completely in vain. That was exactly what happened between Rupert and Ricky.

The energy of Rupert's claw and Ricky's fist broke apart as they met. The fire on Ricky's fist crackled and was burning ferociously, trying to dry the water. The water on Rupert's claw was roaring as it likewise tried to put down the fire. It was literally a situation where fire and water were incompatible. The war truly broke out between them then!

The endless power of two different elements caused air blasts and rippled over the atmosphere. The waves were so powerful, that it seemed as if they could tear apart reality. Both Ricky and Rupert were knocked back a few steps again.

The crowed could not help squinting their eyes to resist the strong energy. They instinctively wanted to avoid getting injured. The fight was just too much for most of them.

At that time, neither Ricky nor Rupert held the upper hand.

They were forced to walk backwards for almost the same amount of steps. After that collision, both of them spat blood. Needless to say, both of them had internal injuries.

Ending in a draw that round was just a superficial state for them. Things were different on Ricky's side.

'My body! My body refined in the Devouring Zone! I'm so glad you didn't disappoint me!' Ricky thought to himself in excitement. Ending up tying with Rupert was actually a good sign. It indicated that Ricky was able to resist an attack from a warrior at the fourth grade of Bone Reinforcement, and that he was capable enough to challenge someone who was three levels higher than him!

At the very beginning, Ricky had thought that there was going to be a serious fight between him and Rupert before he was able to resist Rupert's attack. However, he made it through easily! Though he also spat blood, that was just a minor injury compared to the fatal injury he had thought he would suffer. No wonder Ricky was more than thrilled.

'I was probably already able to challenge someone three levels higher than me by the moment that my body was changed after the refinement process in the two zones. Maybe that was the moment when I was ready to become a unique genius!' Ricky thought to himself in delight.

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"He made it! He successfully resisted the attack from Rupert and survived! Oh, gosh! I thought he was doomed to die! There he is though! He's still standing there, breathing! Who is this guy? Is he is really only at the first grade of Bone Reinforcement? Did he hide his power?" At that moment, all the other warriors were stunned and dumbfounded. Their brains were even too shocked to function at that point.

"Am I dreaming?" Some warriors even started to question themselves on whether they were really seeing the fight or if it was an illusion.

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"The power! The power you just used to resist my claw! It's not your own power; I'm sure of it! What is that? Tell me! What is that?" Feeling the burning pain in his palm, Rupert roared out question after question in rage.

"Like I said before, you are only allowed to know who I am and what power I use when you beat me! It seems that you are not going to live that long though. I will defeat you soon! Ha-ha! You claim that you are a warrior at the fourth grade of Bone Reinforcement? There is no way I believe that!" Ricky teased and taunted him with every single insult he could come up with. Rupert's angry roar did not irritate him; it just made him laugh.

He was pretty sure that his happy face and delightful laugh would definitely piss Rupert off! He did that on purpose in order to irritate him. He was waiting for the real death match to come!

Things went exactly as Ricky expected. Ricky's arrogant laugh frenzied Rupert. He howled as he opened his eyes wide. "I'm going to kill you! No matter where you are from and who you are, today will be your last day alive!"

In the next second, he gathered all his strength without any hesitation and poured it into his claws. Then, he threw his claws continuously towards Ricky. A fierce claw shower was formed as he dashed at Ricky.

'Come on! Come on! Show me how capable you are! I'll know how strong I am to be able to defeat a warrior three levels stronger than me! I'm going to prove my ability!' Ricky screamed in his head before he ran into Rupert's claw shower.

"Boom! Boom!"

In the next moment, they collided with each other violently once again! Everyone was shocked as Ricky's fist hit Rupert's claws furiously. They were totally speechless as their jaws dropped. 'How can this man be so powerful to fight against Rupert, the master of the Zhen Clan?' everyone thought things like that, as disbelief was written on their faces.

As they kept flying in the air and fighting, all the buildings near the Gu house got blown up by their powers. They were completely in ruins with some deep and wide holes scattered on the ground!

As the explosions continued, the onlookers also jumped here and there to escape being hurt. Once they had found themselves a relatively safe place, they stood still there with their eyes focusing on Ricky and Rupert, dumbfounded. In their minds, Ricky was a real warrior at the fourth grade of Bone Refinement!

If you were sharp-eyed or sensible enough, you would definitely notice that Ricky's power was being improved as they kept attacking each other fiercely.

Yes, without any doubt, Ricky was adapted to his body which was changed and refined in his two powerful zones. He did not show his real strength until Rupert had attacked him with such powerful energy earlier on. Now, he was not refraining from using any of his energy anymore.

'Show me how strong you are. Try to challenge my refined body!' Ricky roared to himself.

"Bang!" One hour later, they were finally set apart after they had been battling for such a long time.

Rupert tried hard to breath calmly. Deep inside his heart, he already felt scared. In the last one hour of the fight, he gradually noticed that Ricky's power was increasing continuously. Though it only increased by a very small bit, Ricky would grow powerful enough to kill him thanks to the continuous increasing when the time came. Ricky was growing stronger, while he was growing weaker with every passing second. He would be exhausted at last even if he was not killed by his enemy. He played a little trick to try to suspend the battle.

Next, he was going to use his last card to slay Ricky once and for all.

'It seems like he's already realized that my strength was increasing in the battle. He knows that I only took advantage of him to practice my skill just now, so he must be ready to attack me with all his might, ' Ricky reasoned silently. He could feel that Rupert was preparing himself for the last strike.

'You know what, Rupert? It's too late for you anyway. All your efforts will be in vain. I've already adjusted to my new body and I'm able to resist any strong attack from you! Now, I'm the most unique genius in the world! You were doomed to die the moment when we became enemies!' thought Ricky as his eyes lit up, and a cruel smile appeared on his face.

Immediately, Ricky concentrated all his strength on his fist, ready himself to throw the last deadly strike. He had already reached his goal of generating his peak power. It would only be a waste of him time should he engaged in a protracted war against Rupert. So, it was time to end the battle.

Rupert, on the other hand, activated all his strength. His peak energy was pumping through his veins. Meanwhile, he produced an array with his hands facing each other. Immediately, ten drops of blood brimmed over each of his ten fingers respectively. Then they gathered in the array, forming a bigger drop of blood. Soon, it rushed to his forehead and seeped into his body!

"What is he doing? Did he intend to use his blood essence? That was not the right procedure for releasing the blood essence!" muttered Ricky in shock. Seeing Rupert busy performing the strange method, he became confused.

Though had no idea about what Rupert's was doing, Ricky was still confident. Meanwhile, he kept himself alert, knowing that Rupert was about to use his last card at that critical time. Deep inside, he was even quite expectant and curious about what kind of method Rupert was going to utilize.

"Russell, be careful, please! He is going to use the Miraculous Water Orb!" Charlie reminded him. Clearly, he knew about Rupert's last card, or perhaps he himself had such a card too.

"The Miraculous Water Orb?" Hearing Charlie's warning, Ricky grew puzzled. He had never heard of such a weapon or tool before. He took a closer look at Rupert and saw what it was like.

The moment the ten drop of blood sank into his forehead, a strong water energy poured out from Rupert's body. Immediately, it engulfed the space just like an abrupt tsunami was pouring over them.

Then, a round and transparent ball about the size of a fist popped out from Rupert's forehead.

Despite its relatively small size, Ricky felt that the transparent sphere contained extremely strong miraculous water power which was almost as powerful as the power of water in the vast sea.

That analogy was probably a bit exaggerated. It was still indeed quite strong.

"How can it be? This water orb... How can it be so powerful?" Ricky asked in great shock. Rupert had indeed surprised him with the strange water orb.