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480 Champion Deathmatch 2

A second?!

Daneel couldn't believe his ears, but he realized that it made sense.

Even Warrior level fights rarely stretched on for very long, but for some reason, he had a.s.sumed that the stronger one was, the more time would be required to breach their defenses and land a fatal attack.

Wherever did he get that idea?

As he asked himself this, he realized that he had been using the animated fights he had seen back on Earth to compare, which was obviously, not very wise.

But what was so special about the Champion level?

From the system, he knew that the key lay in Magerootless spell casting, but he didn't know anything further.

He already knew that there wasn't much information in the system about it: most of the journals and data that had been recorded pertained to the Warrior level, with Champions not even having residences in the Central Tower. Even if they did, he didn't know where they might be storing their most secret information.

All in all, Daneel was due to get his first clear view of what the Champion level was right now, and he was ready for it.

As soon as the trinket dissolved into s.p.a.ce, the Mad Doctor got a ferocious look on his face.

"So you knew why I called you. How did you have the audacity to-"

"Oh, just die."

As Ashah.e.l.l cut him off in this way, the elementary particles around the Mad Doctor started fluctuating wildly.

Random flashes of lightning, fire, ice, and earth started to appear around him.

The lightning was in the form of snakes which would pierce through any Warrior easily, and the fire appeared in the form of clumps of such high temperature that any Warrior would be roasted alive if they came into contact with them.

Along with ice p.r.i.c.ks which threatened to destroy everything they attacked, and ma.s.sive boulders of earth which were ready to crush anything to oblivion, it was as if nature itself was showing its wrath.

These were only the visible elements: through his elementary vision, Daneel could tell that so many more elemental attacks were also appearing at random, such as drops in gravity, s.p.a.ce rips, and ultrsharp wind blades.

In a way, it was as if nature had gone…mad.

Yes! That was it…nature had gone mad!

Each attack varied in intensity too, but at minimum, they could kill a Warrior.

As Daneel focused his eyes on Ashah.e.l.l, he was surprised to see no change take place near him.

He had been expecting some kind of impressive change in the area around Ashah.e.l.l, but the Sect Leader of the Sect of Hedon was just standing there idly.

Compared to the maelstrom of furious destruction that had sprung up around the Mad Doctor, he seemed weak. Powerless.

[Champion level display of powers being a.n.a.lyzed. Consolidating hints from thousands of sources using a.n.a.lyzed metrics.

Champion Paths identified.

'Mad' Champion Path a.n.a.lyzed.

'Mad' Champion Path: Those who choose this path come into touch with their inner madness, projecting it outwards through their Mageroot/body to make the world transform into a deathtrap where random elemental attacks with high frequency and power attack trespa.s.sers.

Current Form of Champion Path On Display: Domain/Projection

Note: It has been written that this Domain must not be confused with a Hero's Domain, which is something that all Heroes possess. This Domain is a projection of one's path into the world, which is a Form of attack as opposed to attacking in different Forms.]

Huh. So the system did know quite a bit about Champions.

As Daneel asked the system to repeat the information, he realized that a few journals that the system had recorded from the Central Tower might be from Peak Exalted Warriors who must have been doing their own research into the Champion level.

Discarding these idle thoughts, Daneel was about to completely focus on what he had just learned, but he stopped when he saw Ashah.e.l.l move.

"Come! My Madness Domain has made many Champions flee with terror! Show me that 'Sense Distortion' Path that was touted as that which can only be trained in by one in a million!"

As the Mad Doctor shouted this, a small smile appeared on Ashah.e.l.l's face, which made Daneel's skin crawl.

This man had been creepy enough with his intense expressions, but this smile took that to a whole other level.

It wasn't the meaning of the smile which made Daneel feel this; no, the meaning was clear: Ashah.e.l.l was scoffing at the Mad Doctor.

Most of all, it was how unnatural that smile looked, as if it was something that had never graced that serious face for years.

Even the Mad Doctor felt a chill creep into his spine when he saw the Sect Leader's smile, but he just focused on his rage.

He knew for a fact that the Sect Leader was notorious for being able to kill someone without them even realizing anything. He was capable of taking away their sense of pain, touch, sight, and hearing, and then returning it to them after he was done.

No one knew exactly how it worked, but the Mad Doctor had long prepared himself for this battle using an obscure phrase he had read somewhere about this Champion Path.

"Cut off a few senses and focus on the ones remaining, and no Sense Distorter can affect you."

Slowly, Ashah.e.l.l began to walk toward the Mad Doctor idly.

At the same instant, the Mad Doctor felt a vague fog encroaching on his mind.

However, he held firm because of his preparations, and when he did, Ashah.e.l.l frowned.

This made the Mad Doctor rejoice.

"Hahaha, your Sense Distortion is useless! I've cut off my own feeling of pain to take full control of the others, so you cannot do anything! Come, Sect Leader! Die to my Madness! HahNo…what?!"

Toward the end of his speech, just when he had been about to laugh again, the Mad Doctor was interrupted by something rus.h.i.+ng up his throat.

Making gurgling and coughing noises, he spit it out, before seeing that it was blood.

With an expression of extreme alarm and shock, the Mad Doctor looked up to see that the Sect Leader wasn't in front of him while walking toward him, as he had thought.

Instead, as he looked down to see the ma.s.sive hole in his upper body where his organs used to be, he heard a calm voice from behind him.

"Hmph. You were mistaken, Mad Doctor. It is not just your 5 basic senses that I can distort. You forgot about your sense of time, and your sense of s.p.a.ce. Goodbye."

Meanwhile, Daneel was gaping at the scene, with his jaw hanging open.

He had been able to witness what had truly happened.

When Ashah.e.l.l started to walk toward the Mad Doctor, everything had looked normal, up until that frown on his face after which the Mad Doctor had begun his gloating.

After the first word had left the Mad Doctor's mouth, it was as if time had…completely slowed down for him.

His body movements were very, very slow, and each word that he said was stretched out, almost as if…time was pa.s.sing differently for his own body.

After seeing that whatever he had done had taken effect, Ashah.e.l.l simply strolled forward again, before being attacked by the wild elemental attacks.

Here, he faced a little difficulty: hundreds of attacks bombarded him, reducing his trinkets to dust, making him resort to defending himself actively, and he was also slightly injured in the process.

However, the Mad Doctor was still staring at some distant spot where Ashah.e.l.l had been a minute ago, and his speech was still coming out slo-o-o-o-wly.

After reaching the Mad Doctor, with one punch, Ashah.e.l.l caused a large b.l.o.o.d.y hole the size of a man's waist to appear in his chest, before quickly leaving that domain under the attacks and standing behind him with his back turned.

After he replied in this way, the Mad Doctor finally seemed to come back to his normal senses, looking down and wondering what the heck had happened.

Seeing this whole thing, Daneel's back drenched with sweat, and he could only think of one word to describe both of these Champions.

Terrifying.

Utterly, insanely, terrifying.