Stronghold In The Apocalypse

Chapter 45: Strike! Sword Quake!

Both man and beast collided.

"Arghh~!" Leo shouted as each of his hands clamped hard on both the tusk of the mutated boar while sliding backwards as the strength behind the monster's charge was too powerful for him to stop.

"Holy shit! That freaking monster is so powerful!" Joe exclaimed in shocked seeing Leo being pushed back like a little kid.

Then they noticed that Alex had already killed all of the rest of the mutated beast except for the leader and the other boar minion being suppressed by Alex as he held the boar's tusk and easily forced it to slumped down on the ground with its belly on lying on the ground while watching Leo fight the boar leader.

"Doesn't it seem like Alex is stronger than Leo?" asked Joe.

"Yeah but you still can't ignore the fact that someone as strong as Alex listens to him. It just shows he's something else" Austin replied while watching the fight below with Isaac nodding as he agreed with what Austin said.

"If any of us three were facing even one of those, we would have been dead by now" Joe said to them.

Austin nodded as he replied "It just shows how powerful these two are. Did they also mutate like those boars? Well, you know that a normal person doesn't have that kind of strength even for a world champion"

"Maybe, we don't really know. Hey, why do you think that Alex still didn't kill that other boar?" Isaac said as he pointed at the boar being suppressed on the ground while squealing in anger.

"Maybe, they...want us to fight it?" Joe said with a guessing look.

Hearing what Joe said made the hearts of Austin and Isaac pumped hard, as they imagined themselves fighting a massive monster like that which probably could kill them in seconds.

"Neahhh...I don't think so?" Isaac said trying to deny it with a nervous laugh.

"Yeah...we'd die if they let us fight that" Austin said with a nervous tone.

"You guys think so?"

"Yeah, yeah"

"But why does it look like it is? Look, Alex even heavily injured it earlier so it's probably feeling weak right now"

"Nah, you're just imagining things"

"I don't think so"

"Shut it Joe, let's just watch"

"You two were soldiers before why does it seem like you two are afraid?"

"Me? Afraid? Nahhh." both Austin and Isaac almost said at the same time, trying to deny it hard.

"Didn't we tag along so that we can get an action like these?"

"Yeah...but not that.. you know"

"I agree, we should start for like beginner level like fighting a mutated rabbit or something"

"Cowards"

"Yeah and you're the brave one" said Austin with a bit of sarcasm.

"Say what??" Joe had a confused look on his face as he felt like an idiot among the three of them.

While the three spectators up on the trees had a world of their own.

Leo was finally able to stop the boar's charged with a red face as veins appeared under his skin as he pushed his strength to the limit.

"Roar!" Leo roared as he suddenly let go of its tusk and punched towards the boar's head hard with so much power that it created a small shockwave around five meters from them.

Bang~!

Leo suddenly flew through across the air with his arms crossed in front of him when the mutated boar immediately retaliated with a headbutt sideways as his back broke through two trees before he stopped at the third tree as he slid down on the ground and with a bit difficulty, he stood up with legs shaking as he felt a burning pain from both of his arms and his back as he frowned with gritted teeth while his arms and back was covered on his own blood.

Leo immediately took out a bottle filled with green fluid from his Inventory and immediately drank it.

The gash on both of his arms and back immediately started healing themselves within the naked eyes, it lasted for only a few a seconds before the wounds all closed and it was like the wound didn't even existed in the first place as it didn't even leave a scar behind and if it wasn't for the blood that got left behind, then people would have mistaken it as a fake blood for halloween.

Of course, all of these things happened in the span of only ten seconds from when Leo flew across the air to the time he landed and healed himself.

"Damn, I thought I was gonna die back there" Leo said complaining as he patted the dust off from his body.

Leo then slowly walked up towards the clearing where he already saw Alex holding back while fighting the "big guy".

"Alright, let me try this new skill that I got then" Leo said as he sprinted towards the mutated boar that sent him flying earlier.

Halfway through, Leo suddenly jumped onto the air towards the monster with a posture like he was holding a weapon above him.

"Sword" Leo said with a serious look and then suddenly a three meter huge sword made of fire appeared on his hands as it emitted a scorching heat on its surroundings.

"Quake!" as he said that word, Leo suddenly somersaulted sideways as the ray of flaming sword trailed behind his path and then,

BANG~!

The sword struck from above as it cleanly cleaved through the mutated boss's head and the flaming sword only stopped when it collided against the ground as it generated a massive shockwave of heat around a hundred meters from Leo's location as dust and massive ground debris flew everywhere while the trees around them continuously swayed hard along with the wind like it would suddenly snap any second and with their leaves dancing along in the air like a hurricane suddenly struck out of nowhere then just disappeared after that.

"Ohhhly shit! We're gonna die!" someone was yelling hysterically.

"Just f*cking hold on! Gahh! It's so f*cking hot! What the heck was that!?"

"It's that sword that looks like it was covered in fire that boss was holding earlier! Damn, damn, damn, my skin's in pain like a thousand ants are freaking having a feast at me!"

The effect only lasted for a few seconds before everything returned back to normal.

As the dust was slowly getting cleared off and on ground just a few meters away from where Leo killed the mutated boar is, he can be seen lying on the wrecked ground on his armor with his arms and legs spread open.

Suddenly, the armor slowly disappeared from his body and his face covered in dust was plastered with look of bewilderment and shocked mixed with a bit of fear.

"I almost freaking died! Haa..good thing I was able to equipped my armor in time" Leo suddenly sat straight up and cursed with anger as he held his face, still remembering what happened the moment the flaming sword struck the ground.

"I won't ever use that skill again unless necessary" Leo was shaking his head.

At that moment the sword struck the ground Leo saw the ground in front of him suddenly cracked into square pieces measuring almost one meter that flew everywhere around him bringing with it pieces of red and white flesh and if wasn't for him equipping he's armor in time then he would have been heavily injured or maybe even dead by now, even with his improved constitution.

Suddenly, just a few meters away from him was a shadow slowly walking towards him as that shadow was dragging a massive thing and when the dust around that person cleared. It was actually Alex who was covered in dust with his clothes tattered into pieces, dragging the still alive and struggling boar behind him.

And even this Android had a surprised look on his face while looking at Leo as "it" probably never expected that Leo's attack would generate a massive shockwave that it even sent him flying through the air for a good meters away.

Sadly, the trees nearest to them was uprooted with some even slanted sideways along with the destroyed trees cause by the fight earlier before Leo's attack.

Then suddenly Leo started laughing loudly, full of happiness "Hahahahaha~!"

It was because the long awaited level finally appeared in front of him.

[You have slain a Level 15 Mutated Beast! Level up +2!]

[Your summon, Alex has killed six mutated beast granting you another level up!]

[You're now Level 10!]

[You're now Level 11!]

[You're now Level 12!]

[Congratulations to host for achieving the threshold Level 10! Sending Level 10 Reward!]

[Calculating Reward..]

[The host was able to kill a monster beyond him his strength. Recalculating an appropriate reward for host]

[Sending Reward.]

[Host has successfully received...]