This wasn’t some thin little sapling, but a thick, sturdy tree!
Even if you took an axe or logging tools, it would still take you some time to chop it down! How could it just snap from something being kicked into it?
How much force would that take?!
Not to mention mages who’ve awakened elemental abilities—even those who’ve awakened beast-type abilities, not many of them could pull that off, right?
Don’t tell me, besides gold element and space, you also have a physique-related ability?!
So you’re not a dual-ability user but a triple-ability user?
This has got to be cheating, right?!
Bai Xuan was also a bit surprised. He hadn’t expected that a single roundhouse kick from him would burst that mutated creature apart.
Was his strength just that great?
Or was this mutated creature’s defense just that weak?
Just now, he’d sensed an astonishing surge of malice rushing toward him from nearby. Without thinking much, he’d kicked out instinctively. He never thought it would burst apart like that.
He sighed slightly. Originally, his plan had been to avoid damaging the body as much as possible, cutting off a few parts to take back and cook into dishes.
Oh well, plans just can’t keep up with changes.
Walking over, Bai Xuan looked at the corpse now wrapped in blood, its body nearly exploded. He frowned a bit. It was indeed somewhat disgusting, but still within what he could tolerate.
Although the body had burst open, he could vaguely make out that it was a bird.
Which species exactly, though, was hard to tell.
But birds usually don’t appear alone… As if sensing something, Bai Xuan turned his head toward another direction and murmured:
“They’re here.”
“Chirp chirp…”
“Chirp chirp…”
“Chirp chirp chirp chirp…”
A flurry of bird calls filled the air. In Bai Xuan’s line of sight, countless birds flickering with faint silver light were approaching from afar.
Some hovered in the air, others perched on tree branches. Within moments, dozens had gathered.
They were similar in size to crows, with mostly brownish bodies. But the edges of their wings shimmered with a silvery glow under the sunlight, giving off an incredibly sharp feeling.
“An entire flock has mutated?”
“Well, I suppose it makes sense. Almost over seventy percent of humans have awakened abilities by now, so it’s perfectly normal for mutated groups to appear.”
Bai Xuan nodded thoughtfully, then looked with interest at the mutated birds’ wings. They resembled steel somewhat, yet their sharpness was undiminished, and their flying speed was extremely fast.
Of course, none of that was the most important thing.
Perhaps because Bai Xuan had killed one of their kind, their emotions toward him were clearly hostile—like they really wanted to kill him.
And over time, that killing intent only grew stronger.
“I really hope it’s just because I killed your companion that you’re so hostile toward me. If it’s for some other reason…”
He didn’t finish that sentence.
If their hostility toward Bai Xuan was completely without reason, that would be somewhat terrifying.
“At this speed, training some close combat might be pretty good.”
Bai Xuan’s eyes held a hint of anticipation. Relying on [Natural Authority], he could kill these mutated birds effortlessly. But for some reason, he really seemed to enjoy close-quarters fighting.
The feeling of condensing gold element to kill the crimson giant tiger was completely different from kicking a mutated bird until it burst.
The former had no fun at all, while the latter gave him a sense of enjoyment.
Did every mage secretly have a heart for close combat?
“Chirp chirp!!!”
The mutated birds had no idea what Bai Xuan was thinking. With a piercing screech, the birds in the air shot toward him first. Their movement was like a fuse, and the other mutated birds followed suit, as if crazed.
Countless flashes of silver light streaked through the air, with terrifyingly sharp silver wings cutting through the air, carrying the intent to split Bai Xuan in two.
The piercing cries were irritating.
“This is when I should really use this kind of power.”
Bai Xuan’s eyes sparkled with anticipation. He clenched his fists tightly, and a faint white glow appeared around his hands, enveloping his fists securely.
Boom!!!
With a violent roar, the air itself seemed to tremble. The birds shooting through the sky appeared to hit a pause button. After a momentary halt, their bodies fell from the air one after another.
Apart from that, though some birds still flew toward Bai Xuan, their speed and explosive power were far less than before.
Boom!
Crack!
The moment Bai Xuan’s fist made contact with a mutated bird, a sound like bones breaking echoed through the air. Terrifying force acted directly within its body, and unable to withstand it, the fragile body shot away in an instant, then turned into a cloud of blood mist in the air.
“Yeah, trying to recreate the effects of Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit from the anime is still pretty unlikely.”
“Just relying on the power of vibration isn’t enough.”
That kind of power—where space itself cracks like a spiderweb—can’t be achieved with simple vibrations.
Bai Xuan shook his head, and the white glow in his hands faded.
Crackle!
He extended his right hand. Blue electric arcs condensed in his palm. In an instant, a blue lotus formed from lightning and imbued with terrifying power appeared in his hand.
“Close combat… maybe next time.”
“I’ll bring something like a mace or a baseball bat then. I feel like that kind of blunt weapon would work better with the vibration power.”
“For now, I’ll use this to say goodbye to you.”
Bai Xuan murmured as the blue lotus, flickering with electric light, flew from his hand and drifted slowly toward the mutated birds that had fallen to the ground.
Rumble!
Chirp chirp!
Chirp chirp chirp!
Chirp chirp chirp!!!
With a thunderous roar, a sky full of lightning bloomed around Bai Xuan. Countless electric arcs, like silver snakes, wildly crisscrossed through the air. The air was filled with the agonized cries of those mutated birds—but within moments, those cries stopped abruptly.
When the lightning faded, the mutated birds on the ground had already turned into pieces of pitch-black charcoal.
“Let’s go.”
Bai Xuan looked at the scene calmly without any reaction. After he spoke, Su Yue snapped out of it and quickly followed.
She had lost count of how many times she’d been stunned today.
This was way too extreme—seriously way too extreme!
After gold element, spatial abilities, and an incredibly strong physique, Bai Xuan had just displayed such terrifying lightning!
That’s already four abilities! And each one of them was so powerful.
How was she, a simple ice-element ability user, supposed to feel about this?
Wasn’t this mission supposed to be the two of them working together? Why did it feel like she was just some extra running around in the background?
But thinking about the crimson giant tiger earlier and then the flock of mutated birds just now… well, maybe it was better for her to just stay an extra.
