Cultivation Through Artifacts

'...'

Khal watched as Alde's sword appeared at the side of his neck almost the very next instant he swung his arm, yet, he still stood in one place almost like he couldn't keep up with the assault.

"Go to hell!" Alde roared loudly and watched with an almost evil grin as his sword appeared and hit the armor part round Khal's neck.

'Hmph! You should have stayed home and never come here. Now you can only blame your own foolishness for dying!' laughed Alde inwardly, but the very next second his grin froze atop his face, while his eyes bulged out from their sockets in sheer shock.

CLANG!

A metallic sound akin to smashing a steel rod into a metal wall resounded in the surroundings, while the sword together with Alde's hand began to tremble slightly without leaving even a small white scar on Khal's armor.

'Impossible! My Dark Blade is capable of piercing anything below the Flawless Tier and also powerful enough to leave marks on Legendary Tier items! This should be impossible!' Alde yelled inwardly, his heart filled with shock as he watched his weapon was unable to leave even a tiny scratch on Khal's armor.

Meanwhile, Khal just simply stared at Alde and his sword with a nonchalant look, while he watched as his Body Essence decreased only by ten units. Compared to Logan's, which was superior in every aspect, these ten units were rather... insignificant.

"You really think you can hurt me with such a frail toy? How laughable..." Khal began to speak in his lowered voice to avoid him being recognized, while his gaze never left Alde's face.

When Alde heard what Khal said, he felt as his back started to be soaked with cold sweat, while his arm couldn't help but start trembling from uncontrollable fear. Only now did he realize, the person before him was someone way out of his league and his life this time was indeed in danger!

"Fuck!"

Alde suddenly let out a loud curse and was about to distance himself, but even before he had the chance, Khal moved.

"Where do you think you are going?" Khal's voice sounded in Alde's ear, and the very next thing he saw was a black flash before the scenery around him began to spin, only to blacken into complete darkness once he noticed his still standing, but now headless body before him in the distance.

Paff!

Khal, however, didn't even wait for the body to completely fall onto the ground as he knew exactly that the one he just killed was only a copy and the real one was on the run inside Moon City.

'You can run, but you can't hide!' grinned Khal like a maniac, while he watched Alde's panicked silhouette in his mind as he ran like some scared little kid toward the exit of Moon City.

BOOM!

Turning on his Secret Art's first form without a second thought after throwing several pills into his mouth, causing his Body Essence to get replenished in an instant, Khal pushed his feet against the ground below his feet and burst forward like thunder, leaving behind a huge and deep pit where he just stood a millisecond ago!

With his insane amount of Body Essence and his unique Secret Art, Khal literally flew through the miles-long underground passage before reaching the surface in less than 10 seconds, which was considered insanely fast!

He burst through the interior of the Shadow Forest in another and reached its outer section in 5 seconds, while his speed didn't decrease but did the complete opposite, accelerated!

"Woah! W-what happened just now? What was it?"

"Ay! D-did you see it?"

"Y-yeah... I mean... No? It was too fast to see what it was!"

Cultivators one after another turned perplexed and startled by the speed with which Khal ran, some even falling onto their butts from either shock or the strong after wind he carried!

Meanwhile, inside Moon City, Alde was running toward the exit with a pale face while his eyes held burning anger.

'Those useless pieces of shits! They had only one task! One! And they fucking failed to do it!' Alde cursed in his heart in irritation, his strides becoming faster and longer with each step.

'And that man... I swear if I find out your identity, you are as good as dead! Not even your ancestors will be able to save your life and the consequences you will have to bear because of what you did today!'

After a few seconds later, Alde reached the main gates and activated one of his Secret Arts that instantly accelerated his speed, and in the very next second, he already appeared several hundreds of meters away.

'Just wait until I get back! I will make sure to turn your life into real he-, huh?'

Alde suddenly stopped whatever he wanted to say as he felt his back got covered with cold sweat, while his neck turned slightly numb, this turned around to see why he felt like that.

But when he did, his already pale face abruptly turned even whiter, almost as white as snow, and his body began to tremble unconsciously.

"N-no... This is impossible... How did he..." Alde stuttered with fear, his saucer-like eyes staring at the figure behind him that approached him with the speed that could be hardly called human!

"Got you!" Khal's voice that now felt like the voice of death appeared next to his ear, freezing every cell and muscle of his body to rock solid.

"!?"

A second later, Alde felt a strong grip at the back of his neck before watching as his head was slammed powerfully into the ground, creating a huge crater with his body as its center!

"Did I overdo it?" mumbled Khal, and grabbed Alde's head by his hair, before raising its head from the debris that now had a broken and bleeding nose together with a few missed teeth instead of the previous handsome face he had.

"Bleargh!"

However, the moment he did, Alde immediately coughed up a mouthful of blood before turning his bloodshot eyes at him, who still had his silver armor on, and asked, "W-What do you want from me?"