"SKY SPLITTING STRIKE!"
Aldred used his ultimate attack, coupled with his the speed of his armor, his attack went so fast that the sailors only saw a flash of light before they were completely erased out of existence.
After destroying four squadrons of warships, Aldred let out a satisfied sigh and laughed as he looked at his armor. He was very satisfied with the performance. What Dobbs said was true. The more mana he injected into the armor, the more speed he got.
Unfortunately, only he could use this armor because it consumed too much mana. Anyone that dare to use it would get drained very quickly.
Aldred looked around and collected the scrap parts of the warships before quickly sending them to his secret lab.
He wanted to have enough materials to create a new warships. Who knew he might needed it when exploring new continents.
Suddenly, Stella's voice came inside his head. "Aldred, more warships is coming your way. Be careful."
Aldred smiled. "Do not worry about me, Stella."
"ALDRED!" Mary's voice came which shocked him slightly.
"Be careful, okay! We are watching you."
Aldred giggled. "Then I have to show you how awesome your husband is!"
Aldred's body turned ethereal for a moment. His body seemed like splitting for a fraction of a second and then his clones appeared.
The three of them vanished, each going towards different direction. Aldred smiled and vanished from his original spot.
All over the place, a black object flying at ultra-speed were moving around faster than the eye could see. The sailors on the warships only saw a blurry black object and before they could even figure out what it was, their whole body were cut off in pieces along with their ships.
Four motherships suddenly engulfed by a massive flame. The barrier activated, but it shattered and the flame moved inside like a snake before devouring everyone it encountered.
The sailors screamed and ran for their life but no one manage to escape.
In another place, every sailors on the mothership were wriggling on the ground, screaming in pain as they clawed their own eyes and pulled their own tongue. Their eyes were hollow as if their mind were in a place of torture.
Every minute, a squadron of warships would be destroyed.
Stella and the others watched on the map as the red dots disappearing one after another.
With his new armor Aldred was confident in dodging all the beams and weapon that came towards him. Each of those beam could delete half a mountain, and razed an entire city down.
Even Aldred would be significantly wounded if he received one of those.
…
Brago growled and slammed his fist into a wooden table. It shattered like glass which made his subordinates shook in fear. They were afraid that Brago would kill them to calm his anger.
"Aldred…" Brago's eyes sheen with great killing intent. He grabbed a locket and crushed it. A green mist moved into the air and formed a projection that showed a black object moving around all over the place while destroying his warships.
"So this is the so called Emperor of the Ceraisian Empire?"
Brago frowned. "All he do is dodging the beams. Cowards! If he was a man he would have received every single one."
His subordinates looked at each other. They knew that no one could take those beams directly. Even Diamond Ranks stood no chance.
"I will fight him." Zikaok stepped forward. His expression was cold as always, but he said that statement with extreme confidence. As if his victory was assured before the battle even began.
Brago's face turned from anger into a smile immediately. "Sure."
Zikaok vanished from the spot and appeared in front of a massive crater with flames dancing everywhere.
A black object streaked in the sky and then slammed down onto a mothership. The impact created a hole on the mothership, and then it exploded from the inside.
The black object streaked out of the flame and stopped in the air.
"Aldred, the Emperor of Ceraisian Empire. I challenged you to a duel."
"Who are you?"
Zikaok frowned. "You do not know my name?"
"Have we met before?"
Zikaok clicked his tongue. "I am Zikaok Jalruhk. The most talented Shardmin—"
"Ah, right! I have heard of your name before. So you want to duel me?"
"You have just turned into a Diamond Rank. You are not worthy of the title Emperor."
"For that reason you want to duel me?"
"I don't need reason to kill anyone."
"But you will need strength. You think you have enough of it to take me down?"
"Don't be arrogant."
Aldred smiled. "Alright, let me end this quickly."
"Big words!" Zikaok vanished and appeared right beside Aldred. The crystal on his forehead shone and the space and time nearby froze.
Suddenly, Aldred could not move, but the temporal drive in his armor activated automatically, and reverted back time to 4 seconds ago.
"What!?" Zikaok widened his eyes in shock, but he could not fully process the information as Aldred was already rushing at him with such a high speed that all he saw was a blur.
Aldred slammed his body onto his which made Zikaok spat out a mouthful of blood.
'Such speed!' Zikaok gritted his teeth and a powerful beam came out of the crystal on his forehead.
Aldred flew to the side, but suddenly, the laser beam bent, following Aldred's direction and struck his shoulder.
Smoke came out of Aldred's shoulder. The wound sizzling with heat, but it healed a second later. The armor also fixed itself.
"Powerful regeneration ability… you are not human are you?"
"Take a guess," the voice came from the side as if he was whispering.
Zikaok widened his eyes in shock once again as another Aldred appeared right beside him and punched him right in the face.
The impact thrown him hundreds of meters away. Aldred chased him down and struck him again. Then again, then again, then again. He kept repeating this for a dozen times before Zikaok roared in anger and froze time once again.
But the same thing happened, time reverted back to 4 seconds ago, and Aldred pummeled him left and right.
Four Aldred laughed at the same time and said: "This is too easy! I cannot believe the strongest Shardmind is this weak!!!"
"YOU DARE!" Zikaok's crystal shone bright and hundreds of beams shot out from it to every direction.
Aldred and his clones moved nimbly in the air, dodging all the beams with ease.
Aldred continued to laugh. He even sent his laugher with telepathy. Making it loud and clear for Zikaok.
This angered him so much. He wanted to kill Aldred more than anything in the world.
"This is useless. You are too weak. Aldred suddenly exploded with speed and appeared in front of Zikaok.
His eyes turned golden and suddenly, a great pressure bore down on Zikaok. His mind froze, and he could not move a muscle.
Then a long blade penetrated his chest from the back. He spat out blood and his eyes widened in disbelief.
"How is this possible… how can you be so strong?"
Zikaok was the strongest Shardmind in Selia. So the fact that Aldred could toy with him meant that he was stronger than anybody in Selia.
'How could an individual have such power?' Zikaok thought to himself before he closed his eyes, never to open again.
