Throughout all this, his hand kept moving, creating more and more runes.
"Still writing that weird formation? You think I'll allow it?"
"You don't have a choice. Even though this place is put in formation, if you go all out, I'm sure it will be destroyed. Otherwise, you would have already burned me to cinders."
"I hate smart-ass kids like you."
"Thanks for the compliment," Alex replied while blood wings came out from his back, turning into something that resembled a scorpion tail.
But instead of having a stinger, at the end of it was a spear with a point formed like a drill head.
It began spinning at high speed, then shot toward Edward's head.
His body then dodged in a weird way; instead of moving, it created a hole, allowing it to pass through without reaching him.
Alex's feet kicked on the ground, his body flickering in white flames, then reappeared right behind Edward. Another blood wing came out; this one turned into something like a hand.
The left one was the spear, while the right was now grasping a hammer.
The hammer was not his signature weapon; instead, this one was made with solidified blood. Alex's weapon was now too useless to be used in battle on this scale.
Flame ignited from both weapons as he utilized his secret technique, launching a barrage of hammer strikes.
When his flame hit Edward, it started fighting for supremacy. The white and black danced like warring titans, each clash lighting up the room like fireworks.
The air crackled each time as the temperature in the room kept rising.
But in the clash, it was clear the Dragari king was winning. His energy almost felt like it was infinite, while Alex had almost depleted all his stockpile.
His hammer tried to smash his head, but it only stopped in a clash of energy. The same thing happened with the spear, while the Dragari king could attack with ease.
Despite his humanoid form, his body was so fluid that he could transform it into anything he wanted. Four hands appeared, each hitting Alex in the face and body.
Each punch that hit caused devastating damage to Alex, but he only healed what he felt was needed. Blood still came out from the stumps, as he didn't even bother to close the wounds.
Alex dodged one more of his attacks as he finished the final rune. With a flick of his finger, he shot all the runes while still fighting against the Dragari king.
If any cultivator had watched this now, they would know it was something impossible. Alex was outmatched in everything but still kept holding his ground.
When he fought with Clara, they could at least explain it with his unnatural regeneration capability. But now it was different; he barely used his regeneration.
He even fought with a crippled body and still succeeded in keeping up.
The runes were shot, putting them in all corners; this time, they concentrated in a square formation. The room's atmosphere started to change. Green particles began floating in the air like fireflies in the night sky.
Some moved toward Alex, while others went to Edward.
Outside the room, Clara and Stel turned alert as they saw some weird phenomena happening.
"That boy is doing something," Clara said as she recognized this energy. Alex had used it multiple times against her.
Right now, in the atmosphere surrounding the area, green particles were floating, all gathering toward the room.
She could see some of the plants beginning to wither as more and more energy was taken away.
"Should we enter?" Stel asked in worry.
"Let's wait a bit more. Maybe it's another of his weird experiments."
"No, I'm sure it's not. Firstly, I know most of what he researches, and this thing is not part of it, and secondly, this is on a scale that could hurt our clan.
Don't you see it absorbing this weird energy from all over our territory? If this keeps going on, all plants will die, including your precious alchemy garden."
Clara shrugged her shoulders, "
I don't mind it; I'm more curious about what this energy is."
She started observing and learning about it and began ignoring Stel.
'This old hag is at it again,' Stel thought to himself while he sent some orders to make sure of the situation.
Based on what he knew, it only absorbed energy from air and plants, but who knows if the lower realm cultivators and animals also got absorbed.
Inside, Alex's body quickly recovered; with the life force he absorbed, he could now fight more efficiently.
What he did now was not as simple as activating the formation. While he was deep in thought and moving inside the Zephyr clan, Alex was slowly spreading his own qi and life force.
This was to create a foundation for this formation. He already knew his lifeforce was almost depleted. That is why he prepared this just in case.
Even with this, Alex was running on limited time; the life force from plants wouldn't be enough for him to fight against an immortal at Edward's level, not to mention one that was going for the kill.
"Is this it? Your trump card?" the Dragari king asked.
"Yes, but you haven't seen all its capabilities."
After Alex said this, his blood wings turned back into liquid, then dropped to the ground and started mingling, creating a circle surrounding them.
The circle then began to resonate with the runes; part of it then turned into chains that shot out toward the Dragari king and, strangely, Alex.
This move prevented the Dragari king from actively dodging it. He just raised his flame, creating a clash of energy the moment the chain hit him.
Alex's whole body then began glowing in a green hue. He took a step forward as the green hue started moving toward his fist.
Bam! The punch connected.
But the Dragari king didn't feel anything. He kept grinning while wondering what Alex was planning.