Chapter 473: Puncture Stream
Erix and Reddo's battle began as their figures blurred and fists clashed. The moment they clashed, Reddo's body was covered in micro red crystal from his bloodline that increased his stats.
*Boom!*
Both of their punch smashed against each other, creating a massive shockwave all around.
But half a second later, Erix was shot back like a bullet before hitting the wall.
"Oi, oi, is that all?" Reddo bumped his fists as he created another loud boom, causing the audience to cheer.
'Damn, that was sneakily good,' Erix thought as he stood up and dusted off before increasing his stats to match this big monkey.
His body was instantly covered in a sleek dark gold robe with sharp and eccentric dark gray and black glowing embroidery designs while an aesthetic quill with a black feather appeared in his hand.
Erix's stats shot up as he activated his Regalon Drive transformation.
Both of their stats were roughly the same, with Erix having a bit more than Reddo.
Reddo could feel that, but he only grinned, "That's not going to help much. Your Punch Concept is weaker."
Erix chuckled and gestured at Reddo, "Come and die."
He stood straight with one hand gesturing to Reddo and his other hand that held the Vorterend Voidferrum Quill.
Reddo's eyes showed anger since Erix seemed to be looking down on him.
The monkey's aura grew ferocious. Reddo's fists shone before he clashed them against each other again.
*Boom!*
A powerful shockwave released that pushed Erix slightly back, making him raise an eyebrow, "Interesting Punch concept effect."
Reddo pounded his fists again.
*Boom!*
'His fists are getting more powerful?' Erix narrowed his eyes as he inspected Reddo's energy flow and power with his Spiritual Aethir Gaze.
'Good. I can take my time as well,' Erix grinned while the Quill in hand was absorbing his energies as he was establishing the skill he envisioned.
'A fixed hole stretching five hundred meters long in an instant by execution with Liberty attribute shaping it and forming 100 micro-punch shaped projection at the forefront when the hole stretches.'
'This will activate my Punch concept's effects.'
[Punch Concept]
_Realm: Zeno — Absolution Impact.
—> Punch Ordinance: All of your punch-related skills can be completely turned from melee into projectiles at your will upon execution whilst holding full power.
—> Hollow Puncture: Punch is making a hole. Your punch-related skills have 100% extra penetration power and projection speed.
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—> Absolution Impact: Your Punch-affiliated attacks will shave away ownership of energy it strikes, releasing them from their owner's control, hence weakening any energy structure it strikes depending on the resulting impact between your attack and target.
_Effect:
—> All punch-attacks deal 50% more damage.
—> All punch projectiles have a dominance mark. If the Punch successfully strikes the intended target, you gain a Dominance Mark, increasing your next Punch power and their effects by 1% per stack, up to 100%. Once at 100%, Your punch attacks ignore 30% magic and physical defense of anything or anyone until you are out of combat or haven't thrown any punch for three seconds.
—> As long as your Punch-related skills make holes into the targets, the holes will explode with the same amount of power used when puncturing the target.
—> As long as Absolution Impact releases energy from the target's ownership, it will be converted to enhance your attack.
'Alright, it's ready,' Erix finished structuring the skill, including adding two solid Soul Vices to empower it further.
One was that he would be able to move from his position once he executed the skill. This would last until his current enemy is dead.
In exchange for this restriction, Erix only asked for pure power.
The second Soul Vice was that if he failed to kill his target with this skill, he would lose 99% of his life.
By establishing this restriction, Erix desired empowerment of his Punch concept's Hollow Puncture effect to as extreme as possible.
'I am betting it all on this,' Erix's eyes glinted. 'Let's do it.'
Meanwhile, the audience was cheering and excited to Reddo pounding his fists and creating shockwaves with strange red sparks that were gathering around him.
"The previous four who fought Reddo always hurried to attack him when Reddo started pounding his fists and did this, but why is this guy just standing?"
"Meh, that's Reddo's killer move. That cocky bastard is dead."
Meanwhile, Reddo narrowed his eyes and pounded his fist 5th time after five seconds, "It seems that you are also cooking something."
"I'm already done, but you seem slow so I am just waiting," Erix smiled, provoking a vein pop from Reddo's big forehead as he seemed pissed.
"You're dead!" Reddo pounded his fists 7th time before throwing both fists forward.
Erix was ready as he swiped his Quill before a perfect black circle appeared right before him.
It looked simple and plain with just eccentric faint dark silver sparks in the circle, but it released a vertical pillar straight forward, tearing off Reddo's attack in an instant along with putting a huge hole in him in an instant.
*Silence*
Everything from the upper part of his torso to his knees was gone. Erased.
The light in Reddo's eyes only lasted for a second before they dimmed as well.
Erix looked at the result and grinned. "Wonderful."
*Uproar!*
"Holy shit, Reddo is dead!"
"This guy killed him!"
"What race is he anyway?"
The monkey in a floral outfit arrived while music loudly banged in the stadium.
"Thaaaaaat waaas fantastiiic!"
*Cheers!*
The Anchor monkey laughed and said, his voice echoing loudly, "It appears that we have someone with a versatile Punch concept! Cooool, eh!"
"But now is the exciting part for you all, folks. That was Erix's first match, so you all have the honor of deciding his title name!"
The audience cheered crazily, roaring and shouting.
"What?" Erix wryly smiled.
People started shouting various, some even causing Erix's face to turn dark.
And the echo that spread in the stadium soon overshadowed all other titles as the audience started shouting it.
"Hole Man Erix!"
"Hole Man Erix!"
"Hole Man Erix!"
"Goddamn it," Erix cursed.