Chapter 1005 Mental Warfare
Max charged towards the perfect warrior not daring to underestimate his strength.
[ Dimensional Walk ]
Suddenly disappearing from the front, Max began his assault using his signature dimensional barrage, however, the very first time as he closed in on his opponent to land a hit, the perfect warrior seemed to already notice his movement and was ready to counter as his eyes never left Max despite him travelling through the fourth dimension.
" The heck…?" Max cursed as he abandoned the attack and moved far away from the perfect warrior as he tried to understand as to how his opponent was tracking his movements despite him moving through a different dimension?
" Oh… you have nice battle instincts, much better than your brother's I must admit" the perfect warrior said as he appreciated Max's instincts to change his plan of attack to one of self preservation, as if he had followed through with the attack, then the perfect warrior would have blasted a hole through his abdomen.
One of the main reasons why dimensional walk was so effective was that while using the move, an individual traversed distance through the fourth dimension which was impossible to detect by normal techniques.
Unless you were in the void dimension yourself, as per Max's knowledge it was impossible to detect the move in advance, yet the perfect warrior's eyes tracked Max perfectly as he moved through the fourth dimension as if he could see right through it.
Somehow, it gave Max an eerie, ominous feeling that made him abandon his plan of attack as he strongly felt like things would not end well for him if he stubbornly followed through.
" Come on now…. Don't be shy, I've heard such great things about you, don't disappoint me now.
You're already copying the path I took, you're practically my clone. You should atleast have enough strength to beat this body which holds merely 40% of my true strength" The perfect warrior said as he revealed as to how this body held 40% of his true strength.
Actually, the body that the perfect warrior had sent to the controlled universe was the body of his perfect clone, which held about 40% of his true power after karmic restrictions.
Even sending a clone with 40% of his true strength cost him a severe karmic backlash as the universe's laws would not allow such a powerful entity to descend.
However, the only reason the perfect warrior went to such lengths to send his clone to the universe was because he understood that he needed to obtain the seed of creation as a bargain chip for Rudra to give up the seed of chaos.
The laws of the celestial realm were clear!
While the challengers could challenge the perfect warrior, the perfect warrior could not force the challengers to fight them and hence the perfect warrior could never descend upon Rudra's peak and start a fight of his own volition.
The karmic laws were enforced in a much stronger fashion in the celestial realm than they were in the controlled universe as if the perfect warrior tried to break them there then the resulting backlash could outright kill him.
He went to such lengths to obtain the seed and use it as a bargain chip versus Rudra and also to test Max's potential as a warrior.
The perfect warrior already knew that Rudra was only probing and strategising for his brother and that one day he expected Max to challenge his real body and win, however, he wanted to hinder that growth as much as possible.
By descending, he wanted to disrupt Max's training and take away the one component that could potentially make him strong enough to handle karmic essence for long durations in the form of the seed of creation.
If Max mastered both the seed of creation and destruction, he could strengthen his body beyond that of even the perfect warrior himself, achieving a defence that was stronger than his own.
Max had already maximised his stats and had an infinite repository of scrolls to learn from.
If he strengthened his body and formed a dual core, he could become a real threat to the perfect warrior's dominance as the best in the universe and to stop that from happening, the perfect warrior decided to actively meddle in his affairs.
The yin seed, a.k.a the seed of destruction was useless without its pair the yang seed, a.k.a the seed of creation and since Max had not yet mastered the seed of creation, the perfect warrior descended to snatch it from his control.
" Come, Max! How long will you sit back and think for? I thought that between you two brothers, the elder was the brain and you were the brawn.
Come show me your power" The perfect warrior instigated, however, his provocations fell on deaf ears as Max knew better than being instigated by such empty words.
He instead activated [ Mind Reader ] and used [ Call Of Sanguis ] to transform the terrain around him into a river of blood, a space that he was most comfortable with.
He tried to read the perfect warrior's thoughts, however, not a single text bubble popped over his head as seconds passed yet his opponent stood unmoving and unassuming.
Finally, many breaths later, a text bubble popped up over his head that said 'I have literally invented this move boy, don't use it on me' which thrashed all of Max's hopes of trying to predict his opponents attacks by reading his thoughts.
The mind reader attack, the move that he was so proud of for being unique, was a move created and mastered by the perfect warrior and was ineffective against him.
The fight between the two had not even properly started, yet Max already felt an indescribable pressure in trying to face him as before he even made a move, his opponent seemed to have a counter ready for it.
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