Universal Power System

Chapter 355: Mako Vs Alexi (Part 4)



Mako's eyes widened as he realized his katana was missing. His mind raced, and he felt the weight of the situation pressing down on him. Alexi, his eyes blazing with fury, closed the distance between them in an instant, his twin swords sparking with a lethal Purple Lightning.

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{Moments Earlier}

As soon as Alexi withstood the last of the Energy Stream, he felt completely exhausted from exerting so much force to counter the incredible attack; however, he knew that he couldn't afford to rest even for a second and risk losing such a great opportunity.

The Energy Stream had kicked up a lot of dust and smoke as it blasted through the walls and got countered by Alexi. This provided him with the perfect opportunity to make his move without alerting Mako.

Thanks to Mako sheathing his katana in order to free his hands and release the Energy Stream, the katana was no longer enveloped in flames as Mako had stopped transferring his Fire aura into it.

This made it so that Alexi's Magnetism ability was now able to affect the cooled katana blade. Using the cover of the smoke to hide his movements, he carefully used his Magnetism ability to pull Mako's katana from his sheath without him noticing.

After he was successful in unarming Mako without his knowledge a wide smile appeared on his face as he was ready to claim the upper hand in this fight now.

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Mako quickly dug his hands into the ground.

[Stone Sword has been activated]

[Stone Sword has been activated]

He quickly formed two swords and pulled them out, raising them just in the nick of time to clash with Alexi's shortswords and try to block the incoming strike.

The moment the two swords clashed together, Mako's weak stone swords crumbled instantly under the power and strength of the superior blades.

However, they were able to barely divert the blades from their original path, allowing Mako to dodge the strike.

The strike still blasted Mako back several feet as they struck the ground, releasing a massive pulse of Purple Lightning once again.

[User has been Parlayzed]

[User's Lightning ability is resisting the paralysis]

[User's Lightning ability failed to resist the superior lightning aura]

[User is paralyzed for 10 seconds]

As Mako landed on the ground after being blasted away several feet, he felt every muscle fiber in his body contract at once, restricting any and all movement.

'So this what it feels like... being the one getting paralyzed...' Mako said to himself as he felt completely helpless.

Alexi didn't stop for a single second as he made use of the precious time he had earned from inflicting Mako with paralysis.

He charged forward at the helpless Mako lying limp on the ground and delivered a massive kick straight to his abdomen with all of his might.

"GAHHH!" Mako screamed as he vomited out blood while he was launched tens of feet back into the air.

[-45 HP)

[User has received several rib fractures and internal organ damage]

[Warning: User is bleeding internally!]

[Every attack received on the abdomen from now on will deal double damage and increase internal bleeding]

[Emegrnecy Healing has been activated]

[Time until recovery: 2 hours]

Several messages flashed in front of Mako's eyes as he flew threw the air, the paralysis slowly wearing off his body.

[Lightning Sword Style: Recursive Paralyzing Thrusts]

Alexi didn't relent as he shot several more lightning strikes at Mako by repeatedly thrusting his swords in the air.

Mako's body landed with a violent thud on the ground as it dealt even more damage to his body but the worst was yet to come as the lightning strikes were already close to striking and paralyzing him again.

However, just before the lightning strikes could reach him, Mako's paralysis wore off and he instantly made his move.

Even though Mako's body was paralyzed, his mind was still free to think and adapt and by the time he was launched up in the air, Mako had devised a strategy to break free from Alexi's barrage of assaults and try to find his footing in this fight again.

Mako quickly pulled out a pen-like object from his body that instantly enlarged to six feet

tall.

It was the Storm Caller Staff!

Mako twisted the body of the staff and retracted his height, setting the staff to a different mode.

[Concentrated Lightning Mode]

The crystal at the tip of the staff glowed a fantastic yellow as it absorbed Mako's Lightning aura and shot out a massive arc of lightning to counter the multiple incoming purple lightning strikes.

The Concentrated Lightning Mode doubled Mako's attack power and was strong enough to stand up to Alexi's superior Purple Lightning, canceling out the attack completely.

Alexi grunted with anger as he couldn't believe Mako had more tricks up his sleeve.

The fight paused for a couple of moments again as this time both Mako and Alexi were catching their breath and trying to recover as quickly as possible.

The fatigue from over-exerting himself after tanking Mako's Energy Stream was catching up and weighing down Alexi's body while Mako was trying to dissipate the pain from his fractured ribs and internal bleeding.

Mako could have quickly used the shop and bought some more healing pills to speed up the emergency healing but he opted against that decision as he wanted to honor Alexi by only fighting with his own strength and not using the system to cheat his way to victory.

Magnus, who was watching the epic battle from a distance was beyond impressed after seeing the level of fighting spirit both of his students displayed and the complexity in their fighting style and movement made him genuinely smile.

The two breathed heavily as they stared at each other once again, knowing that the time to finish this duel was near.

After dealing a successful blow and injuring Mako, some of the anger inside Alexi began to disappear as pride took its place once again; however, alongside his pride, his respect for Mako had also returned inside his heart, this time greater than he had ever before.

After a couple of moments which were the calm before the storm, Mako and Alexi both assumed a stance once again.

Alexi charged forward with his blades. Mako quickly twisted the staff's body once more and

extended to its greatest height.

[Chain Lightning Mode]

[Lightning Claw has been activated]

Mako used the staff to shoot several arcs of lightning at Alexi which he quickly dodged; however, Mako wasn't done as he kicked his feet on the ground to raise several small pillars of earth all around the hall.

The four vertical arcs of lightning that Alexi easily dodged struck the earth pillar and thanks to the active skill of the chain lightning mode, reflected back towards Alexi. Alexi wasn't expecting the attack that he had already dodged to bounce back at him but nonetheless, he was still able to dodge them easily as their speed had slowed down slightly.

Mako raised several more pillars and shot out two more lightning claws and soon enough, the whole battlefield was covered with random arcs of lightning being bounced from one pillar to

the next.

Even though there was no safe path remaining, Alexi was still able to close the distance between him and Mako to Mako's absolute surprise by zigzagging through the multiple arcs of lightning that were slowed down quite a bit as they continued to bounce making it easy for Alexi to anticipate and dodge each and every last one of them.

The Storm Caller Staff wasn't really meant for close combat with swords nor was it insulated which meant that the Alexi's Purple Lightning could flow through his blades and into his

staff, electrocuting him.

Because of this Mako quickly retracted the staff back into its pen form before attempting to make more distance between them but it was then that Alexi revealed his own trump card.

[Lightning Sword Style: Lightning Surge]

In addition to transferring his Lightning aura to his blades, Alexi also began storing aura inside his legs and holding it there as the charge increased.

After he had reached the absolute limit of the charge that his legs could withstand, heNôv(el)B\\jnn

released it all at once, giving him a massive boost in speed.

Alexi's Body transformed into lightning itself as he instantly closed the gap between him and

Mako before he could make his escape.

Mako now with no weapon to defend himself was faced with a massive attack that he knew he

had no hope to counter or block.

With no more tricks or surprises up his sleeves, it looked like Mako's time was up. However, Mako wasn't going to just give up and take the hit. He summoned every last ounce

of willpower in his body and called upon his Earth ability to encase him in as thick of an earth

dome as he could possibly create.

*BOOM!*

Alexi's swords made contact with Mako's dome and created an epic explosion kicking up a ton of smoke and dust into the air with the outcome of the duel still unclear.