A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 97: Making a new friend

Bang!

Alex crashed into the earth at a distance of fifteen feet.

"Ugh" he grunted where he fell to. Then he stood up and dusted his trousers that had long turned brown. He also wiped off the sand on his upper body.

Then he began to walk towards Draco. As he walked towards him, he said in his mind.

"This guy is strong. Time to end this battle"

When he got to Draco's front, he gave a smile and said. "You win bro. There is no way I would be able to beat you. So I accept my defeat"

What?

The hell!

Everyone on the field became badly shocked.

Why would the popular genius of their academy concede defeat? From the look of things, it seemed he could match Draco in strength and he even had better fighting skills. But he just announced that he accepted his defeat.

They still couldn't believe it. It was like they didn't hear him right.

Draco wasn't left out of the shocking news Alex gave. His eyes were full of surprises. He looked at Alex for sometime before he finally said "No way man. It was a draw. It's only a win if I knocked you unconscious. Since you are here in front of me without any form of injury, it is a tie."

Then with a wide smile surfacing on his face, he continued "You were very awesome. Thanks for the battle. I never had such a fulfilling battle with other body cultivators. I always beat them like how an ape would overwhelm a baby monkey"

Alex laughed. Then he nodded his head, indicating that he accepted what Draco proposed as the conclusion to their match.

"Alright. It's a tie then. We would fight some other time in future to see who the real winner is." he said with an amiable smile.

"You can bet on it" Draco said with a laugh.

"Alright. We shall see! You seem like a nice guy man. And I like making friends with nice and strong people. Hehe. Although you already know my name but let me properly introduce myself. My name's Alex. What's yours?" He asked.

"Draco. It was great battling you man. You fulfilled my burning passion of fighting a worthy body cultivator even if you aren't truly one. It was a great and satisfying battle." Draco replied.

Alex nodded with a smile.

Then he asked when he thought of something "I don't think you have been in the academy? If not, you would have fought me a long time ago."

"Yes. I haven't been in the academy. I went home for something very important." Draco replied.

"Oh. Alright." Alex said.

Then he looked at Draco's muscular physique again and asked "You must come from a family that cultivates the body right?"

Draco smiled as he nodded as his head.

"My family is weird right? Just only into cultivating the body? Yea, we don't want to be like every expert that cultivates three to nine energies and above. It is a great waste of time. Besides, body cultivators are far stronger than energy cultivators. We can shatter energy attacks with part of our bodies such as our fingers, fists and legs and can withstand energy attacks with our body alone. While energy cultivators would just create protective screens of energy that we can shatter using our hard fist. Bwahaha. Also, it is the hardest. Who can withstand the agonizing pain we go through every time we want to cultivate the body?" he asked.

Alex became quiet. He didn't refute what Draco said as he was right.

"Well, you are right. But there are energy cultivators who are just as powerful as body cultivators. Only a pin-sized ray of some energy they cultivated, shot from a finger tip would punch a hole through a massive world purely of steel. You know that right?" Alex asked.

"Of course. There are so many of these fearsome experts. They live in the grand worlds. Like the ones my grandfather told me about such as the Twin Violet Sword Lord, Blue Shadow King, Blood Storm Emperor and so on can ruin small worlds with the dazzling aura of terrific power emanating from them. While the Stormchaser, Goldenfist Lord, Godripping Tyrant and many others who are body cultivators can easily execute that feat too in their own unique way. Just the flick of a finger at the air and targeted small worlds would be brought to their collapse" Draco said with pride in his tone.

Divine-class body cultivation experts could flick a finger at the air and they could transfer their power of world-ruining might to it through this action alone.

The air, since it has been infused with their cataclysmic might-power becomes the type that would manifest from the detonation of a planet-sized bomb. That is why they could punch the air and worlds would explode into smithereens.

Alex smiled. "You are right Draco. You also know much. You read too?" he asked with curiosity in his tone.

"No, I don't. I don't have time for reading. Most of my knowledge about these guys came from my parent and grandparents. They have left this world to worlds above ours. It is there they learnt about the terrifying abilities of these experts." Draco replied.

Then a fire of determination that gave one the feeling that it would never be snuffed out came to life in his eyes and burned dazzlingly.

"One day, I will reach their level and surpass them" He said with a strongly blazing determination in his eyes.

Alex looked on with awe in his eyes. What a great determination this guy has. He suddenly had a feeling this guy would become an expert that would rip worlds apart with a slight step.

"Alright. Let's get to work. I want to leave here." he said.

"Me too." Draco replied. Then he asked while looking at Alex "We are friends now right?"

"Sure man. I am glad to have a powerful body-training cultivation expert as a friend" Alex replied with a cute smile.

Draco nodded his head. He gave Alex a thumbs up and went back to the group he came out from.

Since there was no battle again, everyone on the field focused on clearing the field. They worked with excitements till sunset before they left. But they had cleared the field completely.

The pieces of trees which they took away from the field were stacked upon one another at a side of it. Then they set fire to it, burning it to ashes.

Evening...

Jennifer's residence...

"Alex, I was very pained today. You hurt my feelings. Why the hell would you concede defeat to Draco? You could have beaten him. I am certain of that" Jake said with an unhappy tone.

"Yea. You could, I think. I had a feeling that you were holding back." Elena said.

"Noooo, I wasn't. There is no way I would be able to beat him. He is stronger than me. It would only be me eating dusts everytime I exchanged fists with him. So, why can't I just call it quit than to continually embarrass myself." Alex asked.

"You are lying man. I had the same feeling Elena had. I just can't tell if the feeling was right. But all I know is that you were holding back from unleashing those dragons in your cage" Jake said.