Book 6: Chapter 42 – Aiden Vs. Fain

  “You wish to challenge me?” Aiden asked, almost as though he was surprised by Fain’s choice.

  “How shameful. A prime saint challenging a mortal!” Jordon said mogly before Fain could respond, his tone particurly frigid. “If you want to challenge someone, you need not look any further. Let us tinue where we left off.”

  Like everyone else, Jordon was also shocked by the ability his older brother just dispyed. Still, although he sensed Byrius’ breakthrough before death, he couldn’t sit bad watch as his beloved older brother went on to fight a genuine, uninjured prime saint on his own.

  “Jordon, you need not get involved,” Aiden said casually, uanding the thoughts going through his little brother’s head. “Since he challenged me off his own back, I’d be more than happy to stretch my legs for a bit.”

  “But brother…”

  “That’s enough,” Aiden said, cutting his brother off mid-sentence. “I’ve made my decision.”

  Jordon opened his mouth to tinue arguing, but when he saw the look in Aiden’s eyes, he khat all he could do was step back. As carefree as Aiden came aost of the time, as his little brother, he knew better than ahat when he made up his mind, there was no ging it. “I uand.”

  “Haha, good!” Fain sneered. “If nothing else, I respect your bravery.”

  Like Jordon, Fain didn’t believe that Aiden’s strength had made such a leap that he could stand shoulder to shoulder with prime saints. As far as he was ed, there was a simple expnation for Aiden being able to take advantage of Byrius’ crazed and iate and make killing him look so simple.

  He and all the powers at be already uood that a big part of Aiden’s strength inated from his ability to use [Impose] at such a monstrous level. From that, they were all able to decipher that his ability stemmed from the power of his soul.

  As shog a fact as it was, they uood that his soul had to have surpassed the prime saint level and approach that of a deity.

  Still, the only way he could use [Impose] to increase the power of his body to that of a prime saint would be if his soul genuinely reached the deity level, but whether it was the War God or the High Priest, both categorically stated that although his soul was nearing that of a deity, it was literally impossible for his soul to increase any higher.

  When going from a mortal to a saint, the individual’s spiritual sea would see a drasticrease, but it was only a matter of quantity. But upon being a deity, the natural ws would desd, transf said individual’s energy and soul.

  The difference wasn’t just a matter of quantity but also quality. This qualitative ge was what allowed them to use abilities such as Godrealms.

  In their eyes, there was simply no way for a mortal to achieve such a breakthrough. As far as they were ed, it was literally going against heaven’s will. It was this that gave Fain his fidence.

  Unfortunately, his allies didn’t share his fidence. Whether it was Ace or Arianna, the ability they dispyed had already gone against heaven’s will. So, although sceptical, subsciously, they didn’t dare push too far.

  Still, Aiden didn’t care what they believed. He casually unstrapped the give on his back, sliding both halves together as he turo his disciple.

  “I came here today to fulfil my troublesome job as your master and tieag you,” Aiden sighed in an almost zy manner, pletely disregarding Fain’s presence. “inally, I had po teach you by beating my teags into you, but since a guinea pig has delivered himself to me, I’ll spare you this time.”

  Both Ad Fain’s eyebrows twitched at Aiden’s words, but before either could respond, Aiden tinued. “Watch carefully, brat.”

  As he said that, everyoiced a sudden ge in Aiden’s aura. Whereas before, it was virtually ent, now it had bee exceedingly sharp, like the bde of Aiden’s give, or at least that was how it seemed to most of those watg.

  “Stop ag all mysterious,” Fain snorted coldly as his body shot forward at a speed that virtually no one present, Acluded, could follow. “JUST DIE ALREADY!”

  Ace’s eyes widened in shoot because of Fain’s ridiculous speed but because of his master. His [Observation] allowed him to see things that others couldn’t. He also felt Aiden’s aura was shogly sharp, but it also seemed fleetiempestuous at the same time.

  Still, that wasn’t the reason behind Ace’s sudden shoo, the real reason was because his master’s voice was being transmitted directly to his mind.

  Those whose souls had reached the saint realm were capable of using their spirit to send their voice directly to the ears of another, but ultimately, they were still talking.

  But Aiden, who was standing directly in front of him, had his lips firmly closed, a…

  “As you know, due to my crippled dantian, I’m incapable of sensing the ws of nature. As a result, I’m also incapable of utilising the profound mysteries of said ws,” Aiden transmitted as his body moved with the grace of the wind, allowing him to dodge Fain’s sword by a hair’s breadth. “But, I never gave up believing that there was another way of incorporating the ws of nature into my givesmanship.

  That was the main reason I spent so much time honing my givesmanship, taking it to its current level.”

  Everyoched in awe as Aiden seemed to toy with Fain. Each of them eak talent in their ht with a wealth of experiehere should be very little that could cause them to be shocked at their current level, but Aiden’s givesmanship was damn near godly. The way it dahrough the air, steadily suppressing its target was simply mesmerising.

  What was strange was that Aiden’s give seemed to move at a speed so slow, it almost seemed as though he was beile, as though he was trying his best not to hurt his oppo ahe speed Fain was moving prevehem from seeing him as anything more than a blur.

  If they didn’t know aer, they’d believe that this was simply a wonderous use of utilising the profound mysteries, but no matter who it was, wheilised a profound mystery, as long as you had prehended a trace of a profound mystery, you too would be able to se – though uanding it was a different matter altogether.

  Still, it was this that allowed them to know with absolute certainty that Aiden wasn’t utilising any of the ws. But that simply gave birth to all new questions – for everyo Ace!

  “I was beginning to think it was impossible, but everything ged when my soul broke through to the Demi-God realm.” Aiden transmitted. “I still ’t sehe ws or utilise their mysteries directly, but I imitate them!”

  Ace watched in awe as his master’s body and give moved like a leaf being carried like the wind, gently avoiding and parrying each of Fain’s ferocious aructive strikes.

  Not once had Aiden taken the initiative to go on the offensive, a, it was clear Fain was being pletely suppressed. He had pletely falleo Aiden’s flow and found it impossible to extricate himself.

  “I call this style of utilisation, [cepts]!” Aiden transmitted his voice, still casual as ever. “Instead of fog on prehending the wind’s power directly, I focused to uand the ‘cept’ of its more esoteriature and i into my givesmanship.

  Although I didn’t see a sudden increase in my physical strength or the power of my battle-qi like one would when infusing the profound mysteries into their attacks, the increase in skill still increased the power of my givesmanship several times over.

  It’s why, even when only using my former level of physical ability, I still fortably suppress those at the prime saint level.

  I believe that whether it’s cepts or Profound Mysteries, they’re actually two sides of the same . Only by using both in jun with each other you truly reach the apex of uanding of the ws.”

  This was the first time siheir meeting that Ace had ever heard his master speak so mu one go. He could literally hear the excitement bubbling over in his voice.

  Still, he couldn’t bme him. This discovery of his was truly mind-blowing, and for it to have e from Aiden. Aew full well how much it meant to him.

  It only took one look at the genuine and pure-hearted smile on Aiden’s face to uand how much this discovery meant to him.

  Though he had never said anything, how could a talent on the level of Aiden not be distraught by his future being stripped away from him?

  Still, that only went to show how strong Aiden’s inner heart and resolve were.

  After being ‘crippled’, Aiden didn’t pin once; he merely kept his head down and created oeique after the , eaore heaven-defying tha, and now, though still very mu its embryonic stages, it seemed as though Aiden had created a brand-new path.

  Everyone refers to him as the son of heaven, g he’s the most talented person their Yun Pne has ever seen, but in Ace’s eyes, that title belongs to his master.

  If he hadn’t been crippled back then, Ace was under no delusions; Aiden Rohault would’ve gone on to be the most dazzling genius the ti had ever seen.

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