Child of Destiny

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Bang! Bang! Bang!

With FlDrake taking the lead, the other Titled Rankers or Maverick Rankers found their courage and joined the battle. But even with their combined strength and relentless effort, they were still unable to force Uno to draw his weapons, much less force him to take them seriously.

Moreover, they could also tell that Uno was just using them as training dummies to test a few of his skills and techniques.

They needed to be more to be a warmup for Uno for the main event later.

What upset them the most was despite them doing their best to try to take him down, they were unable to pose any threat to him. He was not even using a single in-gskill or an advanced technique to deal with them.

Aside from basic combat techniques and unbelievable maneuvers, he was not displaying any techniques under his arsenal.

He did not even unsheathe his shortswords in battle, giving them a huge handicap.

After his initial experiment at the battle's start, Uno knew that his techniques were too powerful for these people, so he stopped using them and focused on mastering his 'Inferior Domain' instead.

Swoosh!

Bang! Bang!

The intense battle continued as the leaders of each unit started to build better coordination with one another. On top of this, they were also commanding their people to launch a series of coordinated attacks while working with the other squads and units.

Of course, they were only able to achieve this as Uno did not kill them purposely. He avoided killing the leaders to let them grow a little so that he could hone his current style.

Aside from killing those useless soldiers and demonic monsters, he spared the lives of these leaders until he was able to gain a full understanding and deep mastery over his 'Inferior Domain'.

Even if he had created this advanced technique, he knew that he would still take stto fully master it.

After dozens of minutes of fighting, the people fighting Uno started to feel scared and disheartened.

They were getting stared after seeing Uno fighting all of them and killing most of their members for a long tyet still carrying the smomentum. Moreover, he was even starting to get stronger the more he fought them, which made the morale of everyone drop sharply.

Even those peerless NPCs constantly charging at him earlier were now showing ssigns of fear in their eyes.

The Demonic Monsters were the sas even them, who were driven by their instincts and started to feel how fearsthis supposed prey was in front of them.

No matter how many of their army charged at him, they would always end up with two outcomes – either they died under Uno's hands or got killed by their comrades after Uno 'borrowed' them.

Even after the Demonic General sent stronger people under his command, Uno remained stable and even fought more aggressively.

After realizing that there was no point to continue sending his army to their death, the Demonic General finally decided to make his move.

They had been delayed by a single person for quite a long talready, and even lost a lot of his people in the process, making their fighting force greatly decline.

If he did not take care of this person sooner, then they would lose more people, and they would not be able to offer any help to the sieging force of the Dark Cloud Kingdom waiting for them at the Stormy Mountain Range.

By slightly hitting his mount with his foot, he urged it to move forward, heading toward where the battle was taking place.

Despite paying attention to his surroundings while fighting everyone around him, Uno noticed the actions of the Demonic General from his peripheral vision.

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This signaled him to finally get rid of these training dummies surrounding him.

Shudder!

Everyone who was charging at Uno suddenly felt an intense shiver running down their spine. This sudden feeling gave them an idea that something ominous was about to befall them.

That was when they saw Uno reach inside his cloak, particularly behind his waist. It was at this moment when everyone realized that they were screwed.

Those who were fast enough to respond did not even hesitate to use their respective escape tools or movement skills to get away from that place as soon as possible.

Sof the players used their instantaneous teleportation scrolls to send themselves to the nearest safe point, leaving the battlefield.

This could lead them to be deserters of the army, but they did not have a choice as it would be a little better than getting killed. They were not like those Titled Rankers or Maverick Rankers who could still catch up to others even if they missed a day or two of progress.

Moreover, they were now on the side of the Evil Faction, where treachery, schemes, and betrayal were a common thing, so they felt that it would not matter much.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

As those fast enough to respond were retreating one after another, the rest found themselves unable to move as if their bodies were frozen by something.

Most of them were NPC soldiers and Demonic Monsters, who found their blood running cold by an immense bloodlust that was filling the entire surroundings.

'Yin-Yang Cultivation Arts: Yin Form – A Thousand Years of Snow'

Click! Click!

A subtle sound of the two swords leaving their sheaths reverberated in the entire battlefield before a strong gust of wind suddenly swept through everyone within dozens of meters away from Uno.

There was also an imaginary scene of a blizzard sweeping through the bodies of everyone flashing in their eyes before their cracks appeared on the surface of their skins. Not long after, their bodies started crumbling like shattered sculptures, killing them in the process.

Tak! Taka-tak! Taka-tak! Taka-tak!

Then a series of galloping sounds could be heard as the Demonic General rushed toward Uno while riding his mount.

Swoosh!

Leaping into the air along with his mount, the Demonic General flew straight to Uno, flying over the heads of everyone.

Midair, the Demonic General raised his glaive as a violent demonic power enveloped it. He then swung it down along with the unstoppable momentum of his earlier charge.

Swoosh!

"Going straight for a powerful strike from the very beginning, huh? But I don't dislike it either!" Uno did not underestimate this Demonic General despite him being confident in his abilities.

He did not believe that he would use it, but that did not mean that he would be letting his guard down just like that. The difference in stats was still overwhelming despite Uno absorbing a lot of souls of those he had killed.

He could recognize the difference in the respective strength with a glance, particularly with that powerful demonic energy circulating within the body of the NPC General.

But at the stime, Uno also felt a little excited as he could not go all-out with his techniques. With his newly improved fighting style, he wanted to test how strong he was within the gwithout relying much on his innate peak-class talent and the assistance of the Elemental Spirits of Shin.

Flipping the shortswords, Uno took a stance where he put his left foot forward and slightly squatted down while positioning his swords over his right shoulder and parallel with one another.

Swoosh!

Silverly White flames enveloped those swords as he accumulated the Power of the Brilliant Sun and channeled it into them.

If the 'Yin Form' of his martial arts focused on swiftness, sharpness, penetration, and cold energy, then the 'Yang Form' was meant for explosiveness, destruction, power, and blazing force.

Bang!

As the flames turned more violent and burned intensely, the ground underneath his feet sank before cracks spread in every direction along with small rock fragments flying in the air.

'Yin-Yang Cultivation Arts: Yang Form – The Setting of the Twin Suns'

Swoosh!

He suddenly disappeared from his current position before reappearing right in front of the Demonic General while simultaneously swinging his blazing shortswords.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

BOOM!

The collision between the twin shortswords and the demonic glaive produced a powerful explosion upon impact, sending violent ripples in every direction.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Those around them were either blown away from the powerful gust of wind or got crushed by the strong shockwave and turned into a meat paste after not being able to withstand its powers.

After a couple of seconds of maintaining their respective positions, the Demonic General was forcefully pushed backward along with his mount while Uno was sent flying in the air.

There was a deep trail left on the ground as the hooves of the demonic mount of the general skidded back, trying to stop themselves from going further away.

On the other hand, Uno flipped multiple times in the air to offset the force that he had suffered upon impact before continuing to step back repeatedly after landing on the ground.

This showed how large the gap between their stats. But despite being discouraged, Uno started grinning underneath his mask as he looked at the Demonic General.

"Just about right," Uno got excited as he welcomed this challenge. This kind of pressure and adrenaline was what he had been looking for since he took over Shin's body!

He felt that his decision to play this gwas the right choice. This would at least relieve sof his boredom and entertain him until Shin woke up.

He twirled his swords for a moment before activating his version of 'Eclipse Wielding', summoning a blazing white fland a chilling black light on his right and left swords respectively.

Even if this version greatly resembled Shin's signature mana manipulation technique, the people who had seen it would still see the clear difference between the two, especially when Shin had already upgraded his version into the 'Primordial Lightning' just recently.

On the other hand, Uno's version carried distinct features unique to it. His white flames had a subtle black smoke coming out from it while the black light had a constant flow of cold vapor that was dissipating in the air.

There were also black particles resembling ashes and powdered coal falling from the white flwhile the black light was releasing white specks of light that looked like snowflakes of winter.

A unique sense of beauty could be seen from this mana manipulation technique, giving the people who had seen it a strange feeling of chaos and tranquility inside their heads.

The Demonic General squinted his eyes as he saw those energies circulating on the swords of the other party, especially when he noticed how skilled Uno was at controlling them by squeezing the opposing energies and suppressing them to the point where there was only a thin layer enveloping his swords.

There were still the unique features of the two elements as the energies flowed through the swords, making a stunning scene.

Uno's control over these energies surpassed almost all his peers with a limited number only matching him.

This level of control was almost at the level of a Swordmaster who mastered his Sword Force, a Martial Artist at Void Manifestation Stage with their Natural Force, or a Rulers Realm Mentalist with their Spiritual Force.

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Of course, he was still inferior when compared to those experts in that level of strength, but he was not that far behind either.

The Demonic General started to take Uno seriously as he understood that this was no ordinary person.

At the stime, a certain event suddenly flashed through his mind before the expression on his face turned solemn.

"You! You must be that person who has slaughtered those armies before disappearing without a trance," he said with a glare.

Uno raised his brows behind the mask before shrugging his shoulders. "Maybe."

Bang!

The Demonic General had taken that response as a confirmation, especially when he heard the tone that Uno had.

Releasing his overwhelming aura, he tried to crush Uno with the strong pressure that enveloped the entire battlefield.

Those with a weaker mind and mental strength started collapsing as they could not withstand the pressure. Sof the players were also forced to kneel on the ground with others even lying on it with bubbles in their mouths.

Even the Demonic Monsters started wimping as if they recognized the general as a greater being than them.

But all of this was nothing in front of Uno. Instead of backing down, he was more than happy to welcthe challenge and released his killing intent to the fullest!

Bang!

With his bloodlust spreading in every direction, the Mark of the Evil God had also responded and further enhanced its effects.

This bloodlust was so dense that it even becvisible to everyone's eyes and formed a pair of huge wings made of aura behind him.

Urgh!

Argh!

With the two opposing pressures clashing against each other, those people who were barely holding up earlier started to collapse as well, leaving only the most capable ones standing.

FlDrake and the other leaders who retreated further away could not help but look at Uno with full astonishment.

They had seen multiple Godlike Players in their careers as professional gamers. They even clashed with sof them and escaped with their lives after fighting those standing at the very peak of the virtual world.

But despite all their experience and all of what they had seen from the battle videos online, this was their very first tseeing someone this strong.

It was not strange to witness someone fighting a powerful NPC within the game, but it was rare to find someone who could contend against the strongest NPCs at the current stage of the game.

This Demonic General should be at least as strong as a raid boss that would require even those at top guilds and organizations to send their most elite experts just to take him down, especially with that kind of absurd demonic powers.

Yet, here they were, witnessing a single person standing toe-to-toe against such a monster.

"Is this the gap between us and those who have reached the top?" if earlier, FlDrake was still confident that he would be able to grab a spot to beca Godlike Player in the upcoming United Cup, then he was now greatly discouraged.

His confidence collapsed in front of Uno, who had shown him how high the sky he was trying to reach.

The others also felt the sas they found that they had bectoo conceited after just climbing a mountain.

They had found that they had already climbed high enough to stand beside those legends yet were immediately awakened from their dreams after seeing an even colossal mountain in front of them.

FlDrake stared intently at Uno and could not help but mumble subconsciously. "He is so cool!"

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