Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 19 I doubt that you can blink them properly

"Of course he will have something like that." Alex thought to himself as he stared at the fully-healed torso of the kid.

Both Alex and the kid were standing apart from each other, as they both readied their abilities.

Alex and kid could heard booming sounds from the background. This was obviously produced by the fight between Alina and the lizard.

"..." Right now there are only 2 and a half minutes left until Alex’s boost will be used up.

It seems like Alina will be unable to help Alex within that time, with the lizard fighting against her.

That means its up to Alex to win against this kid in 2 and a half minutes. If Alex fails to defeat this kid within that time, then he will be toast meat.

"Should I have just gone for the head earlier?" Alex mumbled to himself.

With this control over EM Waves, Alex could have just blown the kid’s head off earlier, but Alex hesitated on doing it, opting to attack on the kid’s torso instead.

And now, that decision of his has backfired on him.

"Drats."

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Alina never have felt this exhilarated before,

She felt extremely free, as if she could just do anything that she wanted now.

Of course Alina knew that this was just an illusion, but she was sure that she was way stronger now compared to before.

Her attack, which could only barely graze the lizard’s skin earlier, now has successfully hacked off some pieces of the lizard’s flesh.

"Grya!" The three heads of the lizards shouted roared angrily as blood went out pouring out of its wounds.

It spit a set of fireballs towards Alina, which she just nonchalantly slashed back.

"Boom boom boom!" All the fireballs were forced to prematurely explode by Alina’s attack, saving her from the brunt of the damage.

These kinds of exchanges were all that happened for the 2 and a half minutes that Alina temporarily became a 1 Star Esper.

Alina felt slight panic as she knew that if this goes on, she will be unable to kill the lizard.

What made it worse was the thing that the lizard in front of Alina did.

Its body began to change its appearance and size, with the lizard quickly shrinking.

Its three head disappeared, as well as its limbs.

It took only the lizard a second to complete its transformation.

"..." Alina gritted her teeth as she realized what the lizard just did.

"This Intruder just changed its Type." Alina muttered darkly to herself. "Now this just makes everything worse."

Although the Intruders that appear to attack them all vary, they can be put together in two broad categories.

First one is the Tank Type and the second one is the Humanoid Type.

The Tank Type were the huge, hulking Intruders that wreak havoc with their large and powerful bodies. Just like a tank.

The lizard that Alina fought earlier was clearly a Tank Type.

Although the Tank Type Intruders can dish out massive amounts of damage, their immense sizes render them to be extremely slow.

Alina took advantage of this earlier, as she was able to dodge the lizard’s attacks with ease.

As for the Humanoid Type, these are the Intruders that have taken human shape.

The damage that they can deal is obviously less than the Tank Type, but their small size and mobility allows them to deal better with agile opponents.

Not only that, but some Humanoid Types have their own special skills that make them sometimes more dangerous than that Tank Types.

Alina was sure that the Class S intruder that she met 2 days ago was a Humanoid Type. Maybe its special ability is to teleport away.

Alina shook her head as she ignored the matter of that Class S Intruder, as right now, another Humanoid Type has appeared in front of Alina!

"How come I did not expect this?" Alina muttered darkly to herself as she stared at the hew form of the lizard.

Right now, the lizard was only about 3 meters tall, still taller than most people.

It had humanoid features, with two legs, two arms, a torso and a human-sized head.

Its skin was pale gray in color, and there are some scales that covered the humanoid lizard’s joints.

Its eyes were red in color, and its long tongue was flickering out of its mouth.

"Now I am in trouble." Alina muttered to herself as she increased her vigilance.

The lizard has no way to hurt Alina earlier, as its body was too large, making it slow.

But right now, the lizard transformed to be a Humanoid Type Intruder. Its speed has most obviously increased!

As if to prove this point, Alina suddenly saw the humanoid lizard’s body flickering.

Before Alina could process it, she suddenly ’felt’ the lizard coming at her at insane speeds.

"!!!" With her Weak Space Manipulation, Alina could sense everything within 1 kilometer around her. Naturally that includes the lizard.

Alina earlier thought that with her spatial sensing, even if the lizard has become faster right now, she can still dodge its attacks.

Well, that thought of hers was right but also not right.

The humanoid lizard had moved so fast that by the time Alina could realize it, the lizard was already in front of her.

Alina was left with no choice but to hastily set up a Space Barrier in front of her.

If Space Slashes were Alina’s offensive ability, then Space Barriers were her best defensive ability.

Alina creates a Space Barrier by compressing the space around her. The explanation is just as simple as that.

Objects will need to have more kinetic energy if they want to move through the compressed space.

The more compressed the space is, the more energy is needed by objects to move through it.

Alina was using this exact principle to protect herself from attacks aimed at her.

As long as an attack was not insanely powerful, they would be stopped by the space barrier from ever reaching Alina.

This is the classic sword-and-shield build.

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With the sudden appearance of the humanoid lizard, the space barrier that Alina created was hastily made.

Still, with Alina’s current Mental Power, it was way stronger than the Space Barrier that she can create when she was a Tier 999 Esper.

The space barrier was able to slow down the lizard’s kick, but before Alina could feel relieved, the humanoid lizard let out a roar as it applied more force on its legs.

"Puchi!" Alina was barely able to dodge as she humanoid lizard’s kick went right past her torso.

With Alina dodging out of the way, she was able to prevent her torso from being cut into two.

However, the kick still managed to gouge a deep wound from Alina’s stomach.

"Gh!"

Alina gritted her teeth as she activated her third move, which she called the Space Blast.

This move requires the presence of the Space Barrier first.

Once the Space Barrier was present, Alina will then remove the compression of the space in the Space Barrier.

When she does this, the reaction of the compressed space will be quite similar to the reaction of a compressed spring that was released.

Both of them will expand outwards, bringing large amounts of energy with them.

That was exactly what the Space Blast was.

It was a blast that was produced by the recoil of decompressing a Space Barrier.

This move of hers had taken down many tricky opponents before already.

"Boom!" the resulting space explosion generated large amounts of energy that it looked like the whole place around Alina and the humanoid lizard was covered in light.

Both Alina and the humanoid lizard was pushed back by the Space Blast.

Alina, with her Esper Ability, was able to reduce the damage of the blast on her body.

As for the humanoid lizard, its body was caved in on many places. One of its arms were also gone while its body looked extremely bloody.

It might look extremely miserable, but Alina could feel that this humanoid lizard could still move.

Alina wiped the blood that dribbled from her mouth as she muttered,

"Let’s finish this."

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Alex and the kid were both staring at each other intently, making sure that one of them will make the move before their opponent could.

"Say, are you a kid or an old man?" Alex said as his face suddenly became relaxed.

"Huh? Don’t call me a kid! I am much older than you!" The ’old kid’ declared as he lowered his body further.

"Oh, in that case, I will not feel guilty anymore once I kill you. After all, I hesitated on killing you earlier..." Alex said with a relieved expression on his face.

"Huh? Are you telling me that you could have killed me earlier, but I just survived because you thought I am a kid? Now that is just making me more pissed!" The ’old kid’ snarled in reply.

The ’old kid’ then pointed his sword at Alex as he said,

"As a thanks for your ’kindness’ earlier, I shall kill you by decapitation. Maybe you can count how many blinks you can do when your head is cut off."

"....."

"....."

"Now!"

Both of them let out a shout as they started to make their move.

But before they could even activate their Esper Ability, they were suddenly covered by large amounts of light.

This light was the light produced by Alina’s Space Blast!

Alex was unaffected by the sudden increase of light, as he subconsciously filtered the light so that only the right amount of light reaches his eyes.

But as for the ’old kid’, he let out a shout of pain as he covered his eyes in agony.

"!!!!"

Even though Alex only allowed the right amount of light to reach his eyes, he could still sense that there’s a sudden increase of light around him.

He also noticed what happened with the ’old kid’.

"Now is my chance!" Alex knew that he can now make his attack, as the ’old kid’ was distracted by the sudden increase in brightness.

And the best medium for Alex’s attack right now was all the new light around him.

"Gather!" Alex shouted as he forced all of the new light around him to be compressed on his palm.

This compression was different from changing an EM Wave’s wavelength.

What Alex did right now was pure, physical compression of the light wave.

This resulted in an increase of temperature of the physically compressed light.

He then shot it towards the old kid’s eyes, which started to slowly open.

Alex made sure that the compressed light that he shot was around the size of the old kid’s eyes.

"......"

Alex’s attack perfectly penetrated the old kid’s eyes when he fully opened it.

"Sizzle..." Alex started to smell cooked flesh as his attack proceeded to burn both of the old kid’s eyes.

"Argh!!" While the old kid was in pain because of his burnt eyes, Alex rushed towards him as he waved his Star-Crusted Dagger.

With Alex and Alina under the effect of the Star-Crusted Dagger, Alex knew that stabbing the old kid with the Star-Crusted Dagger would not help increase his Mental Power at all.

But Alex was not planning on stabbing the ’old kid’ anyway.

"Sprut!" With a scary precision, Alex deftly decapitated the defenseless ’old kid’.

The old kid’s head flew into the air, before landing on the ground with a thud.

Anyone who saw what Alex did can say that this is not the first time that Alex decapitated someone.

Alex then let out as sigh as he looked at the head of ’old kid’.

Alex proceeded to wipe the blood from the Star-Crusted Dagger as he said,

"Well, you can try counting your blinks now. But with your eyes burnt that badly, I doubt you can blink them properly."

"......"