In Alex's first move, he wanted to see how much damage he could deal with a full power throw and the results were as expected.
'Of course, A-tier void creatures don't die that easily.'
Instantly arriving before the growling creature, Alex attempted to execute a flurry of fast-paced sword cuts all over the creature's body, starting from the head to the tail.
'Hm?'
Out of nowhere, the void creature's tail appeared before Alex. It was incredibly fast and if Alex had not had incredible reflexes, he would have been swatted away like the ant he looked like.
Alex acted fast, broke his momentum and positioned his sword vertically over his hand. There was no room for dodging the tail sweep as it was as large as a small continent.
*BANG!*
Even with a weapon forged from the light element, the hit resounded like two metallic materials clashing.
The shockwaves from the impact cracked space as Alex was sent flying through space almost at light speeds.
*BOOOOM!*
He collided with one of the planet's debris as it shattered on impact. But the momentum was too powerful; Alex continued to fly through the void until he managed to regain himself.
From one attack, he had travelled hundreds of millions of kilometres in an instant.
His armour shattered under the power of the attack as it returned to its liquidated state and tried to repair itself.
'Damn! My arms are trembling!'
He felt an attractive force towards the creature's energies but ignored it for now. He didn't have the time to ponder on whys.
Alex gazed at the void creature that looked at him with vengeance, and its maws continued to spew extremely high-temperature flames.
Surprisingly, his conjured weapons managed to hold with just a few cracks. Then the creature moved against and Alex followed suit.
The void creature rushed in with a claw swipe. Due to the size difference, it appeared as though Alex was at a disadvantage.
However, as he was being pushed to go all out in his base form, his mana vortexes were spinning faster and faster, generating more physical power.
Slowly, his speed, reaction time and strength increased.
Alex met the claw attack with a powerful sword swipe that conjured a gigantic arc blade shuttling through the void, splitting through the energy and colliding with the giant claws.
*BOOOOOOOOM!*
The collision of the void creature and the arc blade slowed down the void creature for a fraction of a fraction of a second. But to Alex's new reflexes, it was more than enough time.
He bellowed and exploded with even greater speeds, arriving before the creature's chest and delivered a straight plunge that conjured a powerful killing beam of light.
The beam, although thin compared to the void creature, targeted the area where its core lay.
Alex's eyes had taken a dark hue that increased his vision prowess, allowing him to spot the location in the creature's body.
*…GROWL…!!!*
The draconic void creature screamed in agony for the second time as the beam tore through its body, wreaking havoc and coming out on the other side with Alex bathed in bluish-purple blood.
In his hand was the gigantic core of the void creature. It gleamed with brilliant blueish-purple light hues and the energy it gave off was maddening and also what gave him that attractive feeling.
Alex gave the dying creature a side glance as its blood oozed out of the hole it created through the creature. Eventually, the creature remained still as it floated in the void.
The battle may have been short, but it was very explosive, especially in the second round where he sent that arc blade against the claw.
That impact generated shockwaves that pushed back the surrounding energies and vaporized all the planet and other debris in a radius the size of the Sol's system.
He may have not realized how fast he moved due to the heat of the moment, but in his second burst of speed to meet the creature's momentum, Alex inched infinitely closer to the speed of light, covering nearly 300,000 km in a second.
Sensing the void energy in the core, his void core reacted as it began to spin faster, desiring to absorb the energy, adding to the already strange calling sensation.
'Come down, buddy. You'll get the core soon enough.'
Right now, he wanted to introspect on what went on and the things he noticed during the fight. He looked around for any surrounding debris but found nothing for millions of miles.
Finding nothing, he turned to the void creature and flew over to it. The creature was as large as a moon, it was more than perfect to serve as his base since it destroyed the planet.
The void aura would have normally deterred hunters from doing such a thing, but to Alex, it was just another dead creature.
He placed the core beside him as his mind went through the short but intense fight.
What he had done was something Class A hunters would have to put in a lot of effort to do or what a single S-tier hunter could.
'Though I was forced to push myself in the fight, I felt my strength increase as I pushed myself. It seems the mana vortexes aren't just for passive absorption of energy.
'Then there was the fact that the creature fell too quickly. If my guess is right, it had something to do with void energy instead of mana.'
Alex was not entirely sure, but he believed void energy was better suited to dealing with the void creatures.
That may have been the reason behind the creature falling so fast.
Of course, he could be wrong, but he doubted it. Gazing at the core, Alex felt the swirling energies within it call to him.
'This is different from just wanting to absorb the lingering void energy…' He narrowed his eyes at the roundish object before placing it before him.
He looked around to see if there were any void creatures that may have been drawn to the commotion but found nothing in sight.
When he first arrived here, he spotted some void creatures in the far-off distance, but it seemed they moved away or died from the impact of the fight.
"Let's see what this feeling is telling me…"
He closed his eyes and then directed his void core to absorb the core's energy. However, to be on the safer side, he still spread his divine sense around him.