Primordial Soul's Rebirth

CHAPTER 40 – Training 2 and Frank’s situation.

"If you are not going to attack, then I will," Alex spoke and before the girls could realise, he was already just 2m away from them.

It had been an hour since Alex started their training, and the girls already knew that their tactics were not going to work on him.

They tried many times, in many ways and with many strategies, but they couldn't even put a scratch on him. That too when they were giving their fullest in the battle.

Some might think, how is it possible for Alice to lose to an A-rank with her max efforts? She could win against anyone of A-rank, true, but Alex was not just anyone.

Alex was someone who could defeat not one, but even 10 S-rank Raiders if he was attacked by them.

There are many things in his arsenal that he has yet to use, one of them being his space magic. Even the elemental magic of fire, water, earth, and wind was just being used at a basic level.

If he wanted to, he could simply create a blazing storm that could level cities, he could bring tsunamis that would submerge a city or two and many more, but he didn't feel any need for it till now.

Alex, however, didn't want Alice to feel that she was weak when she lost to him who had his stats suppressed to A-rank.

Alice had seen Alex fighting in the dungeon and she felt he was very strong, maybe stronger than her even in the suppressed form, but it was just how she felt.

There would always be a thought in her mind saying, 'I could still win against him if I did this or maybe like this…'.

She would still feel like she could win somehow, but if Alex were to defeat her and turn her feelings into truth, then the result would not be good.

So, Alex bought an item from the system that could help him in this situation, and even though it cost him 10,000, it was nothing he could not recover.

The item he bought was called 'Suppression Braces,' and their function was just what its name suggested. It was used for suppression, though it would not work on people higher than EX rank.

When Alex took this item out, it prompted Alice and Ann to look at him questioningly.

'If you want to ask me, where I got this from, then the answer is the same as before. But if you want to know what it does, then it is something that can be used to suppress the stats of a living being.'

Alice and Ann thought about his answer for a while and then nodded. They knew they couldn't force him to answer their questions, and just knowing that he considered their opinion was good enough for them.

Then Alice was given one of the braces to put on while the other was being used by Alex. He could just suppress his strength on his own or ask the system, still, why not use an item when he already has it?

When the braces are equipped, it would directly limit the stats of any living being to the level it is set for. So, both Alice and Alex were now A-rankers just like Ann, which meant Alex was defeating them fair and squire.

Alice and Ann had been fighting for a long time and they realised that defending might be better than attacking. They were hoping to tire Alex out and then attack him when he left an opening, however, they didn't know all of this was just wishful thinking from their side.

When Alex reached right in front of them, Ann rushed forward and slashed down the Etheredje at him, only for it to be blocked by the simple sword.

But things didn't end there as Alex felt heat rushing towards his face just as he stopped to take Ann's attack.

Alice had sent a beam of fire right at Alex's face when she saw Ann move, it was as if she knew where Alex was going to be.

In reality, it was just the degree of coordination both Alice and Ann had, though they knew that it was useless against Alex or they would not be losing till now.

As to prove their thoughts right, Alex just tilted his head a little, swiftly avoiding the flames even though it would not have harmed him. He didn't stop there as he then kicked Ann right in her gut, sending her flying to a tree in the garden.

They were fighting in the garden as they did not have any training hall there. But still, Alex had used his disguise to cover the area, making people who passed by feel that everything was normal.

Everyone, except a pair of blue eyes that kept looking towards the villa with suspicion, before vanishing without a trace as if they were never there.

Alice grimaced as she saw Ann who had her ass embedded into the tree and upturned eyes which meant she was completely unconscious. However, it was good that she was unconscious or else she would have wanted to dig a hole to bury herself if she had seen her posture right now.

She then turned towards Alex and only saw a blur before he was right in front of her. She shot a fire bomb on the ground that propelled her backwards, just missing the sword that was moving towards her neck.

She then looked towards Alex, but he was not there. The next instant she felt something behind her, but before she could even do something...

*crack*

The sound of something breaking was heard as she felt that she was punched in her back, her eyes widened in horror, but then her view darkened and she lost conscience.

"Well…." Alex just shrugged as he dusted his hands. He then proceeded and picked Alice up on his shoulder like a bag of potatoes then moved towards Ann, doing the same thing.

During the training, he never showed mercy as that would not yield the result he wanted, but when the training has ended then it's a different case altogether.

As Alex picked them up and moved inside the villa to heal them, he deactivated the disguise covering the villa, while also using water healing to heal the hole in the tree.

By the time the disguise was down, the garden or ground was back to its normal form, making it hard for anyone to sense any changes.

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"ARGHHHHH," Frank screamed for the umpteenth time as the thought of revenge appeared in his mind. The guild members who crossed his office heard it clearly but they just exchanged tiered looks and ignored the shout.

When this happened for the first time, many guild members came running in case something had happened only to have themselves cursed by frustrated Frank. So, even though they were worried and curious about what was happening they decided to ignore it as they would only get insulted if they tried helping him.

The days he recently had been the worst days Frank had to go through.

First, he lost a duel that he initiated and if that was not enough, it was the shortest duel anyone had ever seen. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Then he had to go ahead and add more to his own humiliation by shitting himself.

Now, he was somehow forced into listening to the order of his nemesis.

He now felt that the shitting thing was not something Alex had a hand in as his mind could not come up with a way as to how Alex would have done it. But his other problems were Alex's contribution and he had already set Alex as his archenemy.

 But he was helpless now, because whenever he thought of revenge, he had an unbearable pain in his whole body, and he shivered thinking what would happen if he really did something instead of thinking.

If someone proficient in healing were to look at him when he felt pain, they would be able to tell the anomaly in his body. His blood would start moving erratically, completely out of his control, whenever he thought of revenge.

When the pain subsided, he just blankly stared at the ceiling, accepting his fate.

What he didn't know was that there was someone sitting alone in a dark room, thinking of plans with him included, all of them with one goal and that was to kill Alex.

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