The Story Never Ends

A masked man was standing there and looking at him coldly. Indeed, this was Davion.

"I.." He panicked and had sweats all over his forehead. Before he could say something, tremendous pressure befell on him.

"Too strong.." He muttered and fell on his knees. The other disciples also had similar thoughts.

"Humph" Davion didn't spare him another glance and went past him.

But suddenly an imposing voice rang in everyone's ears.

"Stop."

Everyone turned in that direction and saw three young men entering the hall. Among them, the one in the middle looked the most eye-catching. He had yellow hair and a long sword strapped to his back.

"Senior Brother Liam" The surrounding disciples exclaimed and bowed towards him respectfully.

"Is this the number one disciple in the inner court peak?" Davion thought while observing him. He knew about it after listening to these disciples gossiping with each other a while ago. 

Liam nodded in appreciation and then set his sights on the masked man. The two calmly looked at each other and the others didn't dare to speak a word in fear of angering them. Thus, the atmosphere became tense and quiet.

However, one of his lackeys couldn't take this silence and was the first one to speak, "Why don't you greet our Senior Brother? Don't you know him? He.." 

Before he could finish speaking, the other lackey smacked him on his head and whispered, "Shut up. He is the mysterious masked man everyone was talking about since a month ago."

"My God! I thought that it was someone else as we have never got a chance to see him. But why is he here today?" he became speechless.

"Stay quiet you two. Don't make a fool of me here," Liam sternly said.

"Sorry, Senior Brother," They apologized.

Liam didn't bother about them but took a few steps forward and said, "So, you are the most popular disciple nowadays, aren't you?"

"Maybe if they say so," Davion thought for a while and spoke.

"Hehe, it's a pleasure to meet you," Liam smiled.

"Me too," Davion replied. 

"I'm Liam, one of the inner court disciples. You should have heard about me." Liam introduced himself.

"Of course, I heard it just a few minutes ago." When Davion answered this everyone had their mouths wide open. They thought that he was being very arrogant as everyone in the sect knew who Senior Brother Liam was. Even the disciples from the other middle-grade sects knew about him.

This was due to the fact that he was at the peak of the Golden Core Stage and had a high potential to reach the Nascent Soul Stage. Thus, he was quite favoured by the elders and had good fame. 

Liam's expression changed a bit when he heard this. But he still didn't loose his temper this easily. 

"Since you know about me, it would be fair to know more about you. Why don't you give me your introduction as well? I believe everyone is curious like me."

"No." Davion denied it.

"You.." Liam had anger written all over his face. He couldn't believe that this person was so self-centred that he even refused without any hesitation.

"Hehe, are you scared of something? From the looks of it, you seem to be a big fraud that accidentally chanced upon a devil core. Not only that, you shamelessly spread fake news that you managed to kill a devil king," Liam mocked him.

The disciples swallowed their saliva and immediately backed away. Liam's lackeys also followed them. They knew that their Senior Brother must have definitely angered the masked man. Who knew they would clash right here right now?

"Even if I did this, why are you so butt-hurt by it?" Davion scoffed.

"Pfft-"

The disciples covered their mouths and laughed. Although they tried their best to control it, it still escaped.

"Damn." Liam cursed. He couldn't believe that he would be made fun of infront of everyone.

"Humph, it seems like you only know how to talk and have no strength to back it up," Liam angrily said.

"Is that all you've got to say? I'm leaving." Davion didn't want to waste any time with him.

"Wait," Liam yelled and continued, "I challenge you to a duel right now. If you can beat me then only, we will believe you. Don't hide like the last time." This was the actual reason why he stopped the masked man in the first place. He wanted to beat him and prove to the elders that he was qualified enough to become a core disciple immediately.

"Are you sure?" Davion asked. He felt that he should accept this challenge as it might prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. 

"Of course," Liam smiled and glanced at those disciples. Seeing their admiring gaze, he felt that he had retained some of his face.

"Ok! I will accept it but..," Davion paused there.

"But what?" Liam asked.

"We will bait all of our contribution points. What do you think?" How could Davion fight without any benefits?

When Liam heard this, he hesitated. Seeing how confidently the masked man suggested, he had a bad premonition. But thinking about how he would become a big joke, later on, he had to accept it.

He gritted his teeth and said, "I accept it. Let's fight in the arena."

He was about to leave when he heard Davion calling him out.

"Stop."

"Is there anything more?" He felt a bit scared thinking about this.

"I don't want to waste my time going there. Let's fight here," Davion suggested.

"No. Our battle will surely damage this hall and we might get punished by the elders," Liam shook his head.

"Haha, do you think that you are strong enough to do that?" Davion laughed.

"F**k you" Lian couldn't take it anymore. He pulled out his sword and channelled his Qi inside it. 

"Let me see if you can handle this."

"Blinding Lights"

The sword shined and released a white coloured light. The light was so bright that the whole hall got illuminated by its radiance and all the disciples had to cover their eyes. 

"Interesting. A light-based spell. It's my first time experiencing this." Davion muttered.

Although he couldn't see anything here like those disciples, he didn't worry about it as he had already sensed Liam with his Mind-Eye.

So, he just stood there with his hands behind his back and waited patiently for him to strike.

"Humm, why is he just staying there with his eyes closed? Does he think that he would be able to react after I come near him?" Liam thought.

"Hehe, but you are too naïve." He smiled and disappeared from that place. In an instant, he was already above him. 

"Divine Doppelgangers"

Three specks of light came out from his body and they turned into himself in the blink of an eye. They were carrying swords like him and one would never be able to spot the difference unless they were far stronger than him. 

"Go"

The four of them surrounded Davion and began attacking him frequently. However, Davion easily dodged every move thrown at him. 

"Damn, how could he be faster than me? Not only that, he is even closing his eyes." Liam was shocked.

Suddenly, he saw him pointing his finger at one of his doppelgangers. A bolt of lightning came out of it which easily destroyed it. Yet, a strange thing happened. After getting destroyed, it reformed again.

"Good Spell." Davion praised him.

"You.." Liam nearly coughed out blood from anger. He couldn't believe that this person was complimenting him while fighting.

"He is too strong. I'm already feeling pressure when he hasn't shown any of his tricks." He had a solemn look on his face.

"I should simply use that skill now or else I'm done." He made up his mind. But his plan got disrupted as he suddenly heard him saying, "It's time to end this. I didn't attack you earlier because I was just curious about your spells."

"What?" He didn't even have time to react as he saw him appearing ahead of him in the blink of an eye.

"How did you find out?' He couldn't believe how his main body simply got caught. 

"Because you are too weak," Davion replied and smashed his stomach with his right knee.

"Bang"

Liam was thrown like a cannonball out of the hall and the illuminating light slowly disappeared with him.

"What happened?" The disciples immediately exclaimed as they could finally see.

"Look, Senior Brother Liam is missing."

"Indeed, did he get beaten up?"

"But it happened too fast and I couldn't even see it."

"The masked man deserves his reputation."

"Yeah, I'm sad that we couldn't see any of his abilities." 

The disciples started discussing as this battle was an eye-opener for them.

"Senior Brother..." Liam's lackeys finally came back to their senses and rushed outside of the hall. Who knows how serious his injuries might be?