Chapter 1059

CRASH!

Thud—! Thud—! Thud—! Screech—!

Gustav cut through the earth with a metal dagger that finally stopped his bounce across the terrain.

The blow from the arrow had been enough to send him blasting several meters away, and now they had transitioned into another part of the planet.

This was an area where the race he had obliterated had built their colony and cities.

Crude, wooden-like buildings littered the place.

Some had crumbled from the Otherworlders’ invasion, while others still stood perfectly intact.

But one thing was clear: smoke could be seen rising into the air with the whole earth scorched from the flame attacks.

In short, the place was partly in ruins and partly okay.

Not like Gustav could care less as his head quickly snapped upward to see Grey descending in a storm of lightning strikes.

The moment he landed, the warrior-mage paused for a second as he scanned the area to see the wooden buildings, smoke, and the aftermath of the previous conflict.

He couldn’t make out their features to know exactly what kind of race had lived here, hence he just turned away to glare at Gustav, who was twirling his wrists around after absorbing the impact from the arrow.

After the metal coating had crumbled away, the leader had been lucky enough to deflect the arrow to the side before it fully shattered, lessening the blow effectively.

Yet, he still got blasted away. Not like it mattered now.

Kaiser and Salamander swiftly appeared beside the Supreme Magus.

Looking at the magical creations, Gustav sighed.

"Metal creation magic."

Grey shifted a bit, wondering what was about to come out.

"... Gaja."

The world stilled for a second and then, a little glow appeared behind Gustav.

Slowly, the light turned brighter and brighter until a huge dragon burst out of the illumination.

Its whole body was made of dense metal. No single flesh nor element could be seen—just raw, polished metal.

Its wings looked razor-sharp, like blades of their own, and its horns looked as sharp as spears that could rip through any defense whatsoever.

It hovered behind Gustav with its wings spreading wide, covering all of the man’s sides and spanning several meters.

"Take them out," the man ordered.

The metal dragon wasted no time in darting forward with blinding speed, regardless of its heavy weight.

It was as fast as lightning.

Grey vanished from view immediately, leaving Kaiser and Salamander to handle Gaja.

He reappeared before Gustav the moment a devastating clash—which shook some of the remaining buildings off their structures—resounded behind him with intense volume.

"Mountain Breaker."

The ground resounded as a giant pillar burst upward and curled backward like a hammer toward Gustav’s head.

The man remained unfazed as a corresponding metal barrier rose, colliding with the earthen pillar in a resounding thud that shook the air.

Grey wasted no time in blurring forward as a wind sword lashed out from his hand, rocketing toward the man’s neck.

Teleporting away in time, Gustav reappeared beside the warrior-mage with a spinning metal spear in hand, which he jabbed toward the mage’s side.

Grey spun around in a gust of wind and slammed into the spear with a ki sword, forcing the weapon into the ground almost immediately.

Kicking backward, Gustav watched as hundreds of lightning arrows howled his way.

An ashen portal opened up in front of Grey, swallowing the arrows whole.

Then another portal appeared right beneath the leader’s feet, and from the depths burst out the exact same arrows he had just sent away.

He was about to leap away.

Which he did.

"Folding."

The space of ten meters he had given to the arrows suddenly decreased and now, he was smashed with his own lightning arrows that aimed to pierce through his flesh.

The ones to his front were intercepted by a solid metal encasement.

Unfortunately, one arrow diverted and crashed into his shoulder, ripping a hole through it and then crashing through the air.

Blood splattered through the atmosphere immediately as Gustav was sent blasting backward from the force of his own projectiles.

His body collided with the wall of a building that broke his fall, but not without cracks deepening across the structure.

BOOOM!

Gaja sliced toward Kaiser with one of its razor-sharp wings.

However, the wind bird avoided it by the skin of its teeth while a huge fireball was hurled forward by Salamander, causing a massive explosion the moment it crashed into Gaja’s curled wings.

Gustav swiftly teleported out of the way as a fireball hurtled toward his position.

It slammed into the wall he was pinned to, and the whole wooden structure was consumed in flames almost instantly.

Grey couldn’t really track his father whenever he teleported, but over the years, he had learned to do one thing whenever he was in a death match—or any match at that.

It was to trust his instincts because they never lied.

Time and time again, they proved themselves as he always trusted his intuition to guess where the man would appear from.

That was how he had been able to send attacks rushing that way.

He was about to do the same thing when the man appeared directly above him with a huge metal hammer hurtling toward his son’s head.

Feeling the rush of wind, Grey darted to the side in time as the hammer obliterated the entire space where he stood with massive force.

He was about to take a step forward when Gustav spun around while swinging the weapon in his hand, sending it rocketing toward the warrior-mage with breakneck speed.

An ashen portal appeared in front of the hammer, willing to swallow it whole.

But what happened next had never occurred since the time Grey awakened his special fifth affinity.

The hammer tore through the ashen portal as if it were merely water, dispelling the entire construct before clobbering into Grey’s face with mountainous force, blasting his body through countless buildings.

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A/N: Thank you for reading!