Chapter 38: The Alphabet Power
The boy in the white robe was flying in the air among people. His eyes were gleaming with power; his body had the ability to suppress people. The soldiers were nervous when their eyes met those blue eyes.
Lord Exel was filled with a lot of feelings; one of them was an embarrassment. Since he became a baron, nobody had ever slapped his face this hard. This boy was very daring to disrespect him like this; those arrogant words upset him.
With his infuriating mind, he started moving immediately.
Too bad, that boy in the white robe was not only good at flying; right at that moment, the fearful magical cloak was summoned.
“Reveal yourself, magical cloak,” Merlin said in a chilling, faint voice.
Suddenly, the mass of the magical power in his body formed up as an object; a red cloak, the symbol of a magic practitioner appeared.
Lord Exel burst out laughing and gave the boy a contemptuous look when he saw his red cloak.
That kid was just a magic practitioner. His words a moment ago were arrogant and the aura from his body made Lord Exel scared for a while.
This child’s identity was not an archwizard; he was just a wind-element expert. That was why he could fly.
“I, a high-ranking wizard, will take care of your arrogance, my child.” Lord Exel smiled internally.
He was relieved seeing the boy’s cloak. Certainly, nobody would be willing to fight a strong archwizard. But if it was a just magic-practitioner boy, he would be more than willing to teach him a lesson.
“Hahaha you brash child, it seems like you are unaware of how high the sky is. You merely have the magical power of the magic-practitioner level, but you dared to brag it and threaten people. Soldiers! Get rid of this vulgar swine.”
After Lord Exel ordered, hundreds of magic-practitioner soldiers started attacking instantly; hundreds of red cloaks were summoned synchronically.
They worked fast; many of them were casting supporting spells while others were working on long-range attacking spells. Their target was Merlin’s body flying above their heads.
Magic balls and beams of all colors dashed out of their weapons.
Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!
Merlin was still indifferent; he did not care about these attacks even a little bit.
He did not even move when those attacks were coming. Mysterious Xian vital essence appeared around his body.
It was condensed in the blink of an eye; shortly, it formed up as dozens of swords.
The sword vital essence cut through the air clashing countless beams and magical balls.
It swept the enemy’s attacks all over the sky.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The explosion sound and light appeared in the sky like fireworks.
The magic-practitioner-level beams and magical balls were not enough to bother Merlin.
Merlin’s stem-building-stage power could, at the least, handle an archwizard. Thus, these trivial attacks were nothing in his eyes. He could easily trample these flies underfoot
“They have the confidence to attack me. Are they prepared?” Merlin said chillingly.
His words could really frighten people.
Just hearing Merlin’s voice, those soldiers’ bodies started shaking.
“Do not listen to him; he’s just a magic practitioner at the end of the day. I do not think that all hundreds of you will not be enough to handle him. Get him!”
Seeing his subordinates beginning to get dispirited, Lord Exel shouted to warn and encourage them.
“That is right; that kid is just a magic practitioner. I refuse to believe that all of us won’t be able to do him any harm.” A soldier said and the others started to agree with this opinion.
When their spirit was revived, the fear of the boy’s power decreased.
Those soldiers started casting spells onto their weapons again; then innumerable attacks came dashing in Merlin’s direction.
Hundreds of soldiers were all dealing with one kid. This might seem like a funny story but for the soldiers, the commander’s order was the most important thing.
Their swords, spears, and arrows were all over the sky; their attacks were full of combating magical power.
Merlin was softly smiling and acting at ease. His aura was still calm and cold.
From the villagers’ point of view, this scene was horrible: hundreds of soldiers were attacking a child. They also thought that with the boy’s hubris, he might be defeated by these soldiers. It was hard to believe that a child could handle the whole troop.
Lots of beams were passing Merlin’s body; they all thought that this was such an awful scene.
However, finally, Merlin began his response again. As soon as he drew his hands in the air, Xian vital essence created a great pressure destroying those attacks in a flash.
ZOOM!
All the weapons and attacks were knocked out and broken off.
Hundreds of soldiers were defeated in one move. It was clear that these magic practitioners were not his peers. His present power could win even sorcerers.
Seeing his subordinates’ attacks get completely swept, Lord Exel, who was the most skilled, was pressured to take part.
“Reveal yourself, magical cloak,” he summoned his cloak and got himself ready to fight.
There suddenly appeared on Lord Exel’s almost two-meter-tall frame a gray cloak, which was the symbol of the sorcerer power zone.
Dense gray magical pressure gushed out of Lord Exel.
Right at that moment, he secretly started casting a middle-level spell to delay time; he leaped up in the air.
This small magic practitioner was his target.
*The Rocky Mountain Punch*
Lord Exel concentrated his magical power on his fist; suddenly, it turned into a firm rock. That rocky punch started expanding bigger and bigger. Pieces of rock floating in the air were uniting with his fist.
That giant-mountain-like punch was heavily thrown.
ZOOM!
It aimed at Merlin’s body.
But Merlin was unconcerned. His eyes watched and observed the fight of this sorcerer at the fifth section of power. He was studying it.
In a short while, his eyes shone.
This attack was not too hard for him to handle.
Merlin took a step back and pushed his palm out. Xian vital essence was condensed; it appeared in the shape of a palm. The air mass was twisted into a false shape.
The enormous rocky punch heavily collided with Merlin’s palm.
BANG!
The enormous rocky punch and the palm power hitting each other caused a thunderously loud noise.
The magical power and Xian vital essence together created a storm that expanded far and wide.
Merlin who could fly had to recede more than ten steps.
Lord Exel, who could not fly like Merlin, severely fell onto the ground and slid for several meters.
“Hm…I underestimated this guy. The highest point of sorcerer has a similar amount of power to the stem-building stage. He could make me recede ten steps; it means that I am still slightly better than him. If he is a wizard warrior, it would be hard for me to handle,” Merlin thought.
This attack made Merlin know about the gap between the power of a magic practitioner and a sorcerer.
In this realm, Xian vital essence was not as lofty as he thought. It was possible that Rar, whom Jǫrmungandr talked about, cultivated past the withering stage for he could defeat both Solomon and Jǫrmungandr and force respect out of them.
Merlin was not the only one who was surprised, Lord Exel felt the same way; he spitted blood from the inside. Never once had he thought that this child, who was only a magic practitioner, would be able to keep up with him. And even worse, the child got him at a disadvantage.
It was unbelievable that someone in the magic-practitioner zone could hurt the highest point of the sorcerer level.
Lord Exel was enraged and upset with the outcome.
Without a chance to rest and breathe, Lord Exel charged at Merlin again; this time, he compressed more magical power inside his fist than the last time. His movement also changed; the leap was tremendously faster. He started to get serious with this fight.
But that was a shame, Merlin would not be careless this time,
*Levitation art, Moon Spring—Flashing Moon Technique*
Suddenly, Merlin’s body which Lord Exel intended to push at, unbelievably disappeared out of thin air. His punch could touch only the air. The child’s body that used to be there vanished like a reflection on a water surface.
It was the persistence of vision.
Merlin was moving at a speed that human eyes could not perceive; his body only left the image behind for a brief second.
Suddenly the boy appeared at Lord Exel’s side.
The punch wrapped in Xian vital essence was roughly thrown.
BANG!
Lord Exel’s body fell quickly and heavily down to the ground again. This attack created a two-meter-wide hole; dust was smoking up the place.
Unbelievable! The bystanders’ mouths were wide open.
“How could Lord Exel lose to that kid…” said a soldier.
Suddenly, chaos emerged among the soldiers; their eyes were in disbelief. Their leader lost to a boy, a magic practitioner.
Someone in the sorcerer zone could defeat people in the magic-practitioner zone like it was just crushing an ant. But now, it was just unbelievable because Lord Exel was not a typical sorcerer; he was at the top-most section of all the sorcerers. There were only a few steps left and he would get into the wizard-warrior zone.
Who was this kid? He could vanquish someone at the highest point of the sorcerer level in one try. This was too hard to believe; it was beyond common sense.
The soldiers when seeing Lord Exel lose to the boy, even though they were scared, they were braver. As their leader was defeated, they fearlessly charged at Merlin.
Merlin saw that these soldiers were loyal; they were also people of the Aragon Kingdom, so he had no intention to kill them.
A death sentence was avoidable but there was still a life sentence; he would teach them some lessons that they deserved.
Those soldiers grabbed their weapons and charged at Merlin; however, before reaching the boy’s body, they got swept into different directions by a strange energy. This was the evidence showing how high-skilled this kid was.
One or two attacks would be alright, but dozens or hundreds got him irritated.
When they saw that Merlin was not going all in, they were overbold.
Having been knocked down, they got up to resume the fight.
And it went on like this until it made Merlin really annoyed.
His countenance turned cold, and he shouted loudly,
“ENOUGH!”
His voice echoed all over the area; it was like the air was split into pieces. This noise created huge rolls of magical-pressure waves.
Incompetent soldiers collapsed on their knees; all the weak ones became powerless and got down on the ground.
It was not typical magical power in sound waves; it was the power of an alphabet user.
As soon as the magical alphabet power was activated, the bottom-end of his cloak started changing. The rim of the red cloak was painted with the blue-alphabet patterns.
It was the symbol of an alphabet user.
People in the audience could not believe their eyes.
“H…How could it be, this child is an alphabet user,” said an alchemist who had lost all his senses.