Cultivator in a World of Angels, Demons, and Super Heroes - Chapter 133

“EVEN IF YOU HAVEN’T GONE ALL OUT, WILL YOUR BEST BE ENOUGH TO EVEN HURT ME?” Dominic is still confident in his defense as he increases the speed of the water current in it.

“DON’T YOU FIND THIS SCENE FAMILIAR? YOUR FRIEND DARCY SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR.” Red smirks.

Despite his words, he is impressed with power of Dominic’s defense. He then pulls out ten anti-material (anti-tank) rifles he stole from the Japanese military and points them at Dominic.

“…” Dominic is mystified at the scene.

Not because of the anti-material rifles, but because of how Red seemingly pulled out the big guns out of nowhere.

He cannot ask what trick Red used to do it as the next moment, *BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BANG*! the anti-material rifles fire in quick succession.

*zip**zip**zip* He then sees the big bullets enter his turtle but he is indifferent to them.

The bullets only managed to enter twenty or so meters in the turtle before their momentum are stopped and are carried away by the water current.

*BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BANG*!

The rifles fire once again and just like the first volley, the bullets did not enter any deeper.

“IT’S USELESS.” Dominic dissuades.

“NOT EVEN ARTILLERY SHELLS CAN REACH ME. EVEN MISSILES ARE NEUTRALIZED IN MY DEFENSE.” He proudly professes.

“I CAN SEE THAT.” Red gets excited at the potential of Dominic’s powers.

Dominic who was expecting Red to be discouraged, is confused at Red’s excited smile.

Then, he sees the big guns suddenly disappear, replaced by a huge katana on Red’s hand.

He notices something odd with the weapon. Not only does he find the katana oversized, he also notices that unlike the curved blade of an average katana, Red’s sword has a straight blade. Despite his interest at the beautiful looking weapon, he drops his interest in it for now and waits for Red’s next actions.

After all, he feels the danger from Red increase as soon as the man’s sword appeared.

“What the…”  Fumio who is watching from above, is stunned, feeling the atmospheric spiritual energy move. He has never seen such huge movement of spiritual energy before not even when he is using the spiritual gathering seals when cultivating.

He then returns his focus on Red, seeing that the spiritual energy is condensing with Red at the center. Then he feels goosebumps seeing Red assume what looks like a basic kendo stance. He does not know why but his gut is telling him that he should observe Red’s next movements.

Then he sees Red’s figure blur in place.

Despite the speed of Red’s movements, he sees glimpses of Red doing downward and upward sword slashes.

Dominic meanwhile, also sees the what Fumio sees. He is confused at first but soon, he sees a phantom of what looks like a huge sword tip form in front of Red. Then, he sees Red stop doing alternating downward and upward slashes and assumes what looks like a thrusting stance.

His gut is tell him to run, but before he can, Red does a thrusting movement.

The phantom of the sword tip then zooms towards his direction at a much faster speed than the anti-material rifle bullets that Red fired to him earlier.

Then, a large cut appears suddenly in his turtle, reaching him, making him feel gentle a breeze for a moment, before the parted water fixes itself.

“…” He is confused, but seeing that his turtle is back to its original form, and the water current running just strongly as before, he feels relieved.

He smirks. What looked like an impressive attack from Red still failed to hurt him.

“I DON-” Before he can gloat however, he feels sharp pain travel from his left shoulder down to his right thigh.

He looks down and, “WHA-“, he sees a huge deep cut across his body, running right along where he feels the intense pain.

The next moment, “*ACK*”, he coughs up blood.

The water running around him also starts getting dyed red and he can taste a slight metallic flavor from it. Then, he feels the strength in his entire body slowly drain away, followed by his vision starting to tremble.

Fumio from above, who was disappointed after not seeing Red’s attack take effect on Dominic, is surprised seeing the huge imposing water turtle start losing its form in its shell and head. The turtle looked to be struggling for a while before finally exploding into a shapeless wave of water collapsing back down to the sea.

*ROAR*

The force of the sudden movement of water causes huge waves upon waves and starts eating the deserted island.

He is suddenly reminded of Darcy who is still buried unconscious among the titanium sand. But knowing that Darcy is around a high-tier A-Class, he is not worried of the superiori’s safety.

He instead looks at the huge ship where Samuel currently is, and sees it get carried by the water before getting flipped over shortly after. Seeing Samuel’s figure fly out from under the water, he drops his worry, seeing that the man is safe.

“… D-Dominic…” Samuel meanwhile, has seen everything.

While he is unsure of what happened to his great grandfather, he knows that the man he respects the most to the point of worship, just lost the fight, seeing Red’s figure still standing in the air arrogantly, unharmed.

The next moment, he sees another water turtle take form on the surface of the sea, only much smaller, having the size of a two-story building. He takes a sigh of momentary relief seeing Dominic alive.

“Ha… Ha…” Dominic is breathing heavily while trying his best to slow down the bleeding from the large cut on his body.

He does not want to look at his wound again because just basing on what he is feeling and what he is smelling, he already knows that his left lung and his digestive organs are affected by the cut.

While he still has the strength to access a small part of his powers, he knows that he will not last long without medical attention especially at a place where the nearest facility that can tend to him is at least two thousand kilometers away.

He can only look in disbelief at the man who caused all of his injuries.

He sees that Red is still standing in the air, looking down on him lazily, as if the lethal attack he received was delivered casually, which makes him feel even more powerless than how he is already feeling.

He then sees Red start descending towards him, as if walking down on invisible stairs. Instead of feeling apprehensive, he is just confused. The feeling of danger he felt from Red earlier has disappeared, with only a tinge of it remaining.

This gives him hope that he will be spared.

“Are you that afraid of death?” Red asks him as soon as the man arrives in front of him.

“…” He frowns at Red’s slight but, “I wouldn’t have lived as long as I have if I am not.”, he can only be honest.

“That’s true.” Red nods.

“So. What now?” Dominic asks.

“Either I end you right here, right now, or I leave you here. I don’t think it makes much difference.” Red addresses Dominic’s wound.

“It won’t.” Dominic bitterly admits.

He regrets not being more careful during the fight, but as soon as the thought comes to his mind, he realizes that it would not have made any difference. One of Red’s sword attacks managed to lethally wound him. He cannot even imagine suffering two of those sword attacks.

He proceeds to regret not asking his friend Argus to come with him, or setting up a back-up plan. But thinking about how easy Red took him down, he fears that if Argus came with him, then it is not only him that would be in this state, leaving the whole of Australia without a single S-Class superioris.

He then proceeds to regret initiating the fight, or even coming to the place in the first place. But thinking about the secret of the Little family’s demon ensl*ving activities being exposed by Red, he feels that being in this situation where he alone is in danger, is much better than his entire family being in danger under other superiori families or groups.

Thinking about all of this, he realizes that he has been at Red’s mercy the moment Samuel ended up in Red’s hands. He did not have the chance or a choice in the first place.

“Are you acting alone?” He asks Red.

“I am.” Red nods.

“You are already about to take my life. I hope you spare my family. They’re nothing to you anyway.” Dominic can only spend his last moments to negotiate.

“I would not touch your family even if you didn’t ask. I already took what I need.” Red shrugs.

“Ah…” Dominic realizes that Red is talking about the wood chip.

Weirdly, he also feels that Red will really spare his family. He does not know if his mind is playing tricks on him as an effect of his fleeting life, or if Red is really honest, but he prefers to believe the latter.

The only consolation Dominic has now, is his son who has the potential to become an S-Class superiori in the near future, replacing him as the guardian of Little Family.

“Alright. May I know who you really are? I think you owe me that much as my executor.” He then asks of Red.

“What makes you think that you don’t have the choice to live?” Red asks back, surprising him.

“Wha…t?” He can only express an honest confusion.

.”I can save you.” Red tells him.

He feels yet again, that Red is telling the truth, but he feels that he will not be saved out of the kindness of someone’s heart, especially if that someone is the one who delivered him to his death door.

“Dying here like this? Isn’t that unfair?” Red’s question pulls him out of his thoughts.

“What do you want?” He asks.

He agrees with Red. He does not want to die like this in the middle of nowhere, under the hands of a nobody. A very powerful nobody, but still a nobody.