After Alex collected the Desert worm's corpse, he decided to check his status; now that he became Rank 8, he used his newly gained SP alongside his BP.
『[Alexander Kael Touch]
Class: Magic Gunslinger
Experience Value (XP): 20000/39100
Magic Power: 5140 (+ 30 (+30 BP) ➤ 5200/5200
Attack: 1580 (+30 (+50 BP) ➤ 1660
Defense: 1480 (+30) ➤ 1510
Agility: 1630 (+30 BP) ➤ 1650 (+200)
Intelligence: 1480 (+30) ➤1510
Luck: 1260 (+30) ➤1290
Gift: Two Guns * Semi-sealed*
Skills: [Advanced Appraisal Level 1] [Item box Level 2] [Swift Fingers Max] [Divine Sense Level 4] [Throwing knife Level 5] [Dark Vision Level 2] [Dual Wielding Level 2] [Accel Level 3] [Knife Art Level 4] [Link Level 3] [Gun Art Level Level 10] [Normal Regeneration Level 5 (+2 SP) ➤ Level 6] [Mana Recovery Level 5 (+2 SP) ➤ Level 6] [Synthesize Level 3 (+4 SP) ➤ Level 6] [Shadow Shift Level 1 (+2 SP) ➤ Level 3]
Special Abilities: [Language Comprehension][Danger Sense] [Overdrive] [Death's Eye] [Envisage] {Erase} {Magic Bullet} {Snatch} [Hellsing] [Xerox]
Titles: [Otherworlder] [The one who can't use Magic] [The one whose fingers are faster than Flash] [Goblin Slayer] [The Reborn] [Shadow Nemesis] [The Slaughterer]』
'I can now recover my MP faster and heal faster as well. As for Shadow Shift skill, its range increased to one kilometer; I can switch place with anything within my sight, the previous restrictions the skill has decreased. The thing that makes me most happier is my Synthesize is now Level 6, meaning six combined bullets; I wonder how stronger this bullet going to be?'
〖Let's live Erase aside, this skill will be your strongest attack, even surpassing Phantom bullet.〗As if she could read Alex's mind, Silveria declared.
'I know; I want to test how strong this attack gonna be before moving to the next floor.' Alex said as he stood up and started walking toward the girls.
〖Hehehe! I know what you want to do, Master.〗
'Yeah, I know you know. How can you not when you see walking toward her?'
Alex replied to Silveria before stopping in front of Artemia; the latter turned to face him.
''It seems that you need something, Alex. What is it?"
''Fight me. I meant, let's spare.''
This sudden declaration dumbfounded Isabella, and before she could open her mouth, Artemia had already responded.
''Sure, why not. I was itching to test out my new strength anyway. Let's go.''
Under the still dumbfounded Isabella, Alex and Artemia put a good distance between them and stared at each other for a moment; neither of them moved, just staring at each other; however, only the two knew that in that moment of silence, their auras clashed numerous time, Artemia's Aura was beautiful golden black, while Alex's Aura a mix of silver, white and black. The final clash resulted in,
The sand around them was blown away, the result of this final auras showdown. Isabella, who was watching, couldn't help gulp.
''These two are monsters! Can't hope to compete with them, but, at least I can be strong enough to stand beside them and provide some assistance.''
While Isabella was making this decision, Alex and Artemia moved simultaneously.
The sand under their feet cracked, leaving a small crater as they moved.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Clangs! Clangs!
Alex perfectly blocked Artemia's glaives; the latter wasn't surprised; on the contrary, she had hoped for this.
Grinning evilly, Artemia said,
Two dark blue lightning snakes were shot out from Artemia's glaives and tried touching Alex's knives, and both knew what would happen if he let these lightning snakes touch his weapons.
When the dark blue lightning snakes almost touched his knives, Alex let go of them and instantly summoned two silver guns; Silveria aside, it was pretty astonishing that Alex was able to insta-summon another gun through Xerox.
Two bullets obliterated the lightning snakes.
In a split second, Artemia took a decision when she saw how faster he switched his knives to two guns. She joined her two glaives together through their butts; it became a short spear; spinning it, she deflects the following bullets fired by Alex.
Artemia grunted in pain because a bullet grazed her shoulder when she was busy dealing with Alex's bullets. Alex had sneakily fired a Homing bullet at her.
Artemia jumped back, quickly putting some distance between her and Alex. Once again, the two stared at each other.
''You have gotten stronger; even your bullets became faster. I never thought that I would get hurt, even though I paid attention. Time for payback, don't you think?"
Facing Artemia's words, Alex readied his two guns.
''Great. Because my Gift is incomplete and I'm not Rank 10, it's hard to use this move; even so, I think you will like it.'' Artemia declared before suddenly let go of glaives.
〖No good, Master jump back asap〗
As if she understood something, Silveria shouted; however, it was already too late.
By the time Alex could jump, the tip of Artemia's glaives touched the ground and,
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Countless small blue lightning chains shot out from the ground and tried piercing Alex's body.
Alex hastily twisted his body left and right, before firing bullets at the chains; he couldn't dodge; astonishingly, the chains his bullet broke would soon regenerate once touching the ground, transforming into a new chain that would shot toward him.
Looking from afar, Alex seemed to be trapped in the middle of a huge lightning chains formation with nowhere to escape.
Alex started to have a hard time keeping up with numerous lightning chains attacking from all directions.
Artemia choose that move to declare,
[Nine Layered Chains]
The ground under Alex's feet rumbled, the lightning chains combined to form Nine Layered Chains that shot at Alex simultaneously.
For the first time since their battle, Alex received an injury, one of Nine chains pierced his left wrist, forcing him to drop the gun created using Xerox.
Isabella shouted; she almost rushed toward him when she saw him getting injured; however, Alex's voice stopped her.