The Messenger of Death

Chapter 195: mischievous couples ii

Drake took a glance at Katherine and saw that she was still smiling like she didn't just tell a big fat lie.

'This evil woman. Although we got a lot of energy crystals from the Tomb of Memories, after sharing it amongst ourselves, what we got was enough for each person but not capable of supporting her wild claim. Unless she wants to extort the energy crystals from Alex.' Drake thought.

"Here is a little proof for you guys to see." Katherine removed 100 HD-ECs from her storage pouch. As soon as the energy crystals came to sight, every ounce of doubt that they had been harboring vanished.

100 HD-ECs is equivalent to 200 LD-ECs. Just this alone put Katherine in the top 700 richest students in the academy, and that is saying a lot because there were thousands of people in the academy.

"Wow!!" Some of them exclaimed.

"And she called that a little proof!?" Another person felt belittled staring at her wealth.

'Ha even if I'm possessed, I will never consider this amount a little. If these were converted into gold currency, I will be freaking rich. Just to deceive you goats I had to remove almost a quarter of the energy crystals that I have.' She thought with a smile on her face. Katherine waved her hand and returned the crystals into her storage pouch.

Drake went closer to her and whispered; "Isn't this a bit dangerous? You are painting a target on our backs, everyone one of us in the Seraphim team. After seeing this, we might have people that will attempt to rob us." Drake reasoned with her.

"Hmph, what do you know. To earn something, you have to sacrifice another. Let them come after us, we only need to get stronger and they will think twice before doing that." Katherine replied with a smile on her face.

Intending to make it look like she and Drake weren't speaking about anything important. 

"Is this one of the perks of being in the same team with the treasure seeker?!" A girl thought out loud as she looked at Xander with want in her eyes.

"I want to place a bet." A plump guy ran out of the crowd and made his way to where Drake and Katherine were standing. "Here, 10 LD-ECs. I'm betting on Naomi." The plump guy licked his lips.

"Win or lose?" Katherine asked the guy.

"Win of course." He replied like it was the most obvious and logical thing to do.

"Great choice, I can see that you are a man of wisdom."

Katherine mocked with an innocent smile on her face, however, the guy didn't know that he was being mocked as Katherine said it with enthusiasm. 

"Thank you," Katherine gladly collected the energy crystals from the guy.

She brought out a pen and paper and wrote a receipt for the plump guy.

"Whoever that wants to bet on Naomi should come to me, if you are going to bet on Alexander go to that vamp I mean that guy over there." She pointed at Drake.

"Let me make this clear, once the match starts, you cannot change your bet nor can you request for a refund!!" Katherine announced. "Every bet lost will be given to us, the orchestrators. Is that fine with you guys!?" She added.

"Yess!!" They answered excitedly.

Camron chuckled as he heard their reply. "These people are really generous, giving their energy crystals to Katherine like that." He muttered.

"Really generous indeed," Adrian concurred as he watched people going to place their bets on Naomi.

Emma only shook her head at them, pitying the ignorant majority

"Come quickly people! Once the fight starts, the chance to bet will be gone!!" Katherine announced.

Naomi felt euphoric seeing people going to place their bets in her favor, she glanced over to where Camron and the rest of Alex's teammates were standing.

"Even your teammates don't have confidence in you, they rather not embarrass themselves." She eyed Xander.

"Are you going to come at me or you don't wish to fight anymore?" Xander spoke calmly.

The way he spoke put Naomi back in her enraged state.

"Ahhh." She cried out in anger and charged at Xander, faster than she did the first time.

"The fight is starting, the fight is starting!!" Someone exclaimed.

"What!?" Katherine was sad to hear that, she wanted to take the bets of more people.

"Okay, those that haven't placed their bets can't do so anymore. Better luck next time." Drake started to disperse the crowd of people that still haven't placed their bets

In a second Naomi arrived in front of Xander and pitched a heavy punch at him. Aiming for his face.

As her hand tore through the air, Xander watched her attack approach him slowly.

'If this punch was to hit me squarely in the face without any protection from the lightning, it's bound to shake a few molars.' He thought.

To the majority that was spectating the fight, Naomi was very fast and hard for them to keep up with, with their eyes. This was expected of her, after all, she is a close combat fighter.

To Xander, her speed was nothing to write home about. If anything, it moved at normal speed in his eyes. To a speedster like him, this was just child's play.

-Woom!

Xander dodged her first attack easily and without much effort behind his movement. He dodged the blow by moving his head to the side slightly, and at the last second. Making it look like he narrowly escaped her blow.

Naomi thought that Xander luckily dodged her attack. She scoffed at proceeded to attack again.

Naomi quickly pushed her elbow out, wanting to attack Xander with the same hand that she used to pitch her first attack.

Xander stepped back a bit and narrowly dodged her elbow.

Seeing this, Naomi frowned and deemed Xander a very lucky guy to be able to narrowly dodge her attack for the second time. She proceeded to throw another punch at him.

Xander narrowly dodged her attack again. She could deem the first two successful dodgings of her attacks on luck, but after seeing him do it for the third time Naomi was sure that Xander had some skill.

'At least you have some skill. Still doesn't mean that you can defeat me.' She thought.

"Ahh!" Naomi cried out as she forcefully increased the speed of her attacks.

She began throwing fast and heavy punches. Her hands were so fast, to the extent that she created a few mirages in her wake. Making it seem like she had more than two hands and also making it hard for the audience to trace her movement.

Every blow that she hurled at Xander was dodged narrowly and with ease.

He wasn't fazed by her mirage.

'He's messing with her. Only moving when he needs to and not making any unnecessary action. For someone at his level, it is really rare to see someone at the same level as Alexander achieve such feat in the lower plain realm.' Tsukishima thought.

The part of the crowd that felt that Xander was doomed since the beginning of the match were stupefied after 30 seconds of watching the fast hands of Naomi hurl at Xander, and still haven't made contact with him.

Now they weren't so sure that Xander was going to lose, he could keep on dodging till she was out of energy.

"What's this!!? C'mon hit him, I placed my energy crystals on you." The plump guy that was the first to place his bet started getting agitated.

Hearing what the plump guy said, Naomi also got agitated and frustrated. She decided to use her legs to attack.

However, as she was about to raise her leg, Xander used the sheath to hit her leg back to the ground. Her leg had barely moved 6 inches above the ground but he could tell what she wanted to do by reading her body language.

Naomi was surprised to see that he stopped her attack even before she had the chance to execute it. She jumped back and put a bit of distance between her and Xander, then stared at him for a while.

She looked at him as someone that should be approached with caution.

Xander closed his eyes and used his hand to indicate that she should come at him.

Naomi saw that after he had done this, he didn't open his eyes nor did he look like he any intentions to do so. This made her mad, she released her killing intent and charged at Xander once again but this time with the intent to kill.

"Ahh!!" She threw a mirage of blows and kicks at him.

With his eyes closed, Xander dodged and used the sheath block and parry her attacks. He did it with so much ease and effortlessly. Just one little tap with the sheath could redirect the attack away from him.

"Ahh!!" Naomi shouted. 

She gathered her QI on one point on her leg and decided to use that kick to hit Xander. Now, if Xander was just a normal rank-1 disaster realm cultivator, that kick will definitely claim his life if it was to hit him.

Still, with his eyes closed, Xander could feel the fluctuation of QI and the point at which they gathered. It was like he was foreshadowing her next moves, so he could already tell what she wanted to do.

He quickly used the sheath to strike the ankle of the leg that was meant to keep Naomi steady as she hurled the kick at him.

"Ahh,"

Suddenly Naomi saw herself on the ground