When Persily and Black Attendant hurriedly arrived outside the Random Name Magic Association, they saw Krian, who had achieved the Holy Archmage realm, transformed into a bolt of lightning relentlessly pursuing Ye Chui. The battle scene stunned countless onlookers. Black Attendant’s knowledge far surpassed ordinary people. He stared blankly at Krian, now incarnated as lightning, and said with a voice full of admiration, “Holy Archmage. So Krian has actually become a Holy Archmage… He is only twenty this year! And he is not even a Phase King Archmage. This, this is nothing short of a miracle…”
“Grandfather Black, you are wrong,” Persily said with a frown. “That idiot. His current Holy Archmage realm was forcibly raised. He must have used some forbidden magic array. Forcibly elevating his realm will make it impossible for him ever to reach Holy Archmage again!”
Black Attendant paused, only then noticing that something was off about Krian’s Holy Archmage state; it was not complete. Yet his expression showed only a moment of surprise before he continued, “Even among the most gifted in the Magic Association, the vast majority never reach the Holy Archmage realm in their lifetime. Krian has merely lost a hope that was already extremely slim. That is nothing… What matters is that Ye Chui is about to be killed by Krian. That is an undeniable fact!”
Persily turned her head and glanced at Black Attendant, seemingly helpless at the depth of his hatred for Ye Chui. Her gaze returned to the battlefield.
“Grandfather Black, you are wrong again.”
“I am wrong? Ye Chui is being completely suppressed by Krian right now. No matter how strong he is, what can he do? He will be dead soon!” Black Attendant retorted.
“How could that be…” Persily sighed. She said no more. Among everyone close to Ye Chui, even including his intimate companions like Debbie and Resha, she understood Ye Chui’s abilities the best.
Krian was indeed very powerful at this moment, but… Persily was at least ninety percent confident she could defeat the current Krian. Yet she did not have even ten percent confidence she could handle the current Ye Chui!
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Debbie and the others watched anxiously as Ye Chui tangled with Krian. They could see Ye Chui’s disadvantage. Fire, lightning, water, wind, explosion, ice, gravity, magnetism… Ye Chui had used almost every type of magic he possessed, yet his attacks were nearly ineffective against lightning-form Krian.
Mental spells had no effect on Krian at all. Ye Chui’s grimoire could not even read his memory world. Several background music tracks Ye Chui played also did nothing.
He had not yet used his trump card, the One-Punch Hero Ye Chui.
But the One-Punch Hero’s power was purely overwhelming physical force. Although its physical attacks were strong enough to ignore magic effects to a certain degree, it was hard to say whether it could harm the current Krian.
Watching Ye Chui dodge Krian’s assaults again and again, anxious expressions appeared on Debbie and the others’ faces.
They could not offer much help in a battle like this and could only pray for Ye Chui in their hearts.
A huge crowd had already gathered outside the Random Name Magic Association. Even Jacob and Daini from the palace had rushed over with Prince Gayle. Along the way, Prince Gayle had grumbled angrily the entire time, “Can’t these youngsters give me a moment’s peace? They only returned from the secret realm yesterday. Less than twenty-four hours have passed, and they’ve already caused so much trouble…”
All his complaints instantly turned to deep worry the moment he arrived outside the association.
“A Holy Archmage. It is actually a Holy Archmage…” Prince Gayle naturally knew what a Holy Archmage represented.
“Seventh Uncle, what is a Holy Archmage?” Jacob could not help asking.
“A Holy Archmage is a great realm that surpasses the ordinary archmage realm… In the thousand-plus years of Star Empire history, fewer than ten such figures have ever appeared… Five hundred years ago, the Rock Empire in the south was merely a small tribe barely surviving in the rocky regions. Yet because a single Holy Archmage emerged from that tribe, the small tribe grew continuously, swallowing other nations, and eventually became one of the seven great empires of today! A Holy Archmage is a figure capable of determining the fate of an entire nation!”
Prince Gayle’s voice trembled slightly as he explained.
“Ye Chui is finished this time!” Before Jacob and Daini could fully process his words, a shrill voice suddenly rang out beside them. They turned and saw the speaker was a bearded old man, the patriarch of the magical beast Jores family.
When it came to hatred for Ye Chui, the Jores family ranked near the very top. Seeing Ye Chui in trouble now filled the patriarch with indescribable glee.
Prince Gayle, Jacob, and Daini were standing on a carriage. The Jores patriarch rudely leapt aboard and stood beside Prince Gayle. He stared at Ye Chui being chased inside the association, his bearded face openly displaying hatred. “That Holy Archmage comes from the Magic Association. I don’t know why Lady Persily stopped harbouring hostility towards Ye Chui, but this Mr Krian will absolutely never forgive that boy!”
Persily and Black Attendant were currently staying in a villa provided by the Jores family, so the family naturally knew about Krian’s visit.
Prince Gayle gave the Jores patriarch a cold, angry glare. “The battle is not over yet. Ye Chui may not necessarily lose to that Krian.”
“Prince Gayle, you know better than anyone what a Holy Archmage is. Do I even need to say the outcome?” the patriarch sneered. He looked towards the association and continued in a voice dripping with mockery and triumph, “Random Name Magic Association, All-Around Archmage… Hmph. Today is their doomsday!”
“The guild master will not lose,” Jacob declared anxiously, a little defiantly.
The patriarch turned to Jacob. “Your esteemed Highness, the facts are plain to see. Facing the thunderous fury of a Holy Archmage, what can Ye Chui possibly do?”
Jacob’s lips trembled, but he could not find a reply.
Fortunately, Ye Chui showed him exactly what to do next.
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The swarm of bats Ye Chui had turned into reformed into his body once more. He looked somewhat weary, and his magical robe was tattered in places. Krian landed in front of him as a bolt of lightning, laughing maniacally, as if savouring Ye Chui’s miserable expression in this hopeless situation.
Yet to his disappointment, Ye Chui’s face remained calm.
He even casually removed his damaged robe, took out a fresh one from his grimoire, put it on, and tidied his hair.
The noisy crowd fell deathly silent in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, Ye Chui seemed like a completely different person. He smiled faintly at Krian.
(Subtext: Now it’s my turn to show off.)
Ye Chui spoke. “So this is the power of the Holy Archmage realm. Truly eye-opening.”
He had used every means currently available to him against Krian, yet almost none had any effect. When he was still a novice archmage, he could leap realms to beat high-level archmages, but faced with the gap of an entire great realm, his methods became useless. Although he had appeared rather flustered while dodging, in truth he had been far calmer than he let on.
This was his first encounter with a Holy Archmage opponent, so he wanted to probe as much as possible to understand the mysteries of this realm.
Thank the heavens his first Holy Archmage opponent was a knock-off like Krian.
Ye Chui straightened his collar and said to Krian, “You are indeed in the Holy Archmage realm right now, but because it was forcibly raised, your realm is unstable. I already confirmed that just now. Although most of your body has fused with lightning, a portion remains physical. You have not been completely fearless against my attacks; you have been carefully concealing the only physical part you still possess.”
“So what?” Krian did not deny Ye Chui’s words. His current realm was indeed unstable; part of his body remained physical. But so what?
Even so, Ye Chui’s attacks were neutralised by the lightning surrounding him long before they could touch that physical part.
Lightning itself was a force that only needed contact to strike.
The lightning around Krian flared even more violently. Ye Chui’s current calm irritated him. He decided to end this game. He turned back into lightning and charged at Ye Chui once more.
This time, facing the attack, Ye Chui neither turned into bats nor cast any spell. He simply raised one hand.
In that instant, countless thoughts flashed through many minds.
The Jores patriarch felt wild joy. Debbie, Prince Gayle, and the others felt worry. Pride filled Black Attendant’s heart. Persily’s feelings were complicated.
The lightning reached Ye Chui in a flash.
Ye Chui slapped down with his palm.
His hand instantly enlarged countless times, as if it had suddenly gained bizarre elasticity. It almost completely enveloped the lightning before it. Lightning was intangible? Then just slap it into shape. With a crisp “smack”, not especially loud but crystal clear,
Krian’s lightning body was sent flying. He spun several times in mid-air before crashing to the ground.
A collective gasp rose from the silent crowd.
Ye Chui’s attack had worked?
He had actually slapped Krian away!?
“This… how is this possible!” the Jores patriarch shouted in shock and horror.
“You have not fully transformed into lightning. You still retain a physical portion; you just hid it very well. Ordinary magical attacks are dissipated by the lightning before they can touch your physical body. And if I attacked directly with a fist, I would be electrocuted before contact. Fortunately, there exists a substance that is not afraid of electricity.”
Ye Chui explained calmly while swinging his arm.
As he swung, his arm became thin and elongated, a material that did not yet exist (or had yet to be discovered) in this magical world: rubber.
It possessed extreme elasticity and, most importantly… did not conduct electricity.
“Sigh, another five thousand points wasted…” Ye Chui silently lamented, swinging his rubberised arm as he walked towards Krian.
