Born Almighty Warrior
Chapter 178 Keep Challenging

"How could he..." Elder Evan was at a loss for words as confusion engulfed him. Jaws dropped foreveryone in the arena because none of them had expected the result of the combat.

As a warrior at the seventh grade of Blood Purification, Ricky defeated Hector with a landslidevictory. His win validated his strength and power to the eyes of the disciples. And this only provedthat The Misty South Faction was a force to be reckoned with and that his goals were achieved.Given his current victory, he did not need to complete one more challenge. He was already done.But, Ricky, being himself, being one of the legends in the history of martial arts, decided to take onmore challenges. Not only did he choose to accept more fights, but he also chose to battle the topone and top two of the inner disciples at the same time. As the battle went on to two against one,Ricky could prove his strength and his worth not only to the audience in the arena, but also to theentire marital arts community.

Generally speaking, if one, being at the seventh grade of Blood Purification, could defeat someoneat the ninth grade of Blood Purification, then surely he would be renowned as a genius in themartial arts. And now, Ricky did not stop at merely defeating Hector. The insatiable thirst for morevictories truly made him try to defeat two at once and those new opponents were both seniorwarriors at the ninth grade of Blood Purification, two grades above him. In those eyes of spectators,he must have been either wildly arrogant or completely insane.

This was the way Ricky's brain was wired. He was vengeful. He would take down anyone whooppressed and look down on the Misty South Faction. To him, it was not enough that he got tokeep his faction. To him, it was a must to knock all the enemies down.

But after Ricky made his announcement of who he was about to challenge, the audience gaspedand stared at Gennadi and Wyn, the top one and top two respectively. All eyes were on them as thedisciples awaited the warriors’ response to the invitation.

The top two inner disciples were shocked at the challenge. They never knew that Ricky could be soarrogant. They never expected Ricky to have that much greed and anger towards them for onceopposing the Misty South Faction. To them, Ricky was crazy for revenge and dominance.

Both Gennadi and Wyn were irritated by Ricky's condescending action. It made them envious onRicky's journey to power and improvement that he could already match theirs. How could he reachthat strength in such a short period of time? It also made them feel that they were underestimatedby such an obnoxious warrior. How could a seventh grade of Blood Purification warrior beat twowarriors both two grades above him at the same time? He must be dreaming!

"So? Do you accept the challenge or not? Give me an answer!" Ricky asked once again, impatiently."Ricky, you are too arrogant! We are certainly going to accept your challenge to make you knowyourself better. But today, we don't need to have a fight against you as you have consumed toomuch energy with your previous fights. At this time tomorrow, it is I, Gennadi, who will fight till youknow why I am regarded as the best among others,”

Gennadi replied coldly with a killing intent.

"Ha-ha! Sure, since you are offering me an one-day break, I won't reject it. See you at this timetomorrow!" Ricky said while he let out a laugh.

Ricky was sure of Gennadi's intention to move the fight for one more day. He was aware thatGennadi would take advantage of this break to talk to Hector in private so that he would know whatkind of power Ricky was capable of.

After all, it was quite bizarre that it was unclear what had defeated Hector. Even if Ricky's power wasover the top, surely, Hector possessed that as well. If they were at the same level, clearly Hectorcould have fought longer. He could not possibly be defeated in just one blow.

This only meant one thing-- whatever Ricky did to attack Hector was so powerful and soinstantaneous that Hector did not have any time to counter or even react. It was a quick andpowerful blow, a clear-cut win.

"Tomorrow, I assure you, would be the final fight!" Gennadi said fiercely.

"Oh yes, I am going to challenge your mixed dual strengths. Don't forget to bring Wyn along. I wantboth of you to come, not just you. See you at this time tomorrow," Ricky added as he walked off thearena.

"Wildly arrogant! Conceited!" shouted the members of the Casting Faction and the RefinementFaction as they watched Ricky's figure fading into the background.

Ricky and the other members of the Misty South Faction all left with smug faces. Others followedsuit while discussing what could happen in tomorrow's big fight.

Meanwhile, in a small room in the Refinement Factions courtyard, Hector had just woken up fromhis coma. The truth was, he never passed out during the his battle with Ricky. The whole faintingthing was just a sham because he was too ashamed of himself for being defeated by someoneinferior to him.

He opened his eyes and saw that Gennadi and Wyn were inside his room. They sat with him andwaited for him to wake up. They have a lot of questions prepared for him as they tried to scoop outall the information they need for tomorrow's battle with Ricky. There was no other person to ask butHector, since he was the one who got the beating.

"Oh, my dear seniors, I'm sorry that I lost the battle and brought shame to Casting Faction andRefinement Faction today. I feel so humiliated,” Hector said heavily, with eyes full of remorse andanger. He felt more than just embarrassment from his defeat. He wanted to tear Ricky to the groundfor what had happened. His eyes filled with tears as he said his apologies to his masters.

"Hector, failure means nothing. We were just wondering why you suffered such a swift defeatwithout any stiff resistance,” Gennadi asked warmly.

"Oh yes. Tell us about that! So... what happened?" Wyn asked anxiously, too.

"I can only tell you so much. Ricky's power is quite strange as it actually encompasses two differentstrengths. As soon as my power collided with his, most of my power was devoured by his firststrength in a snap,” Hector stated, still with a chill shock and fear.

"While his first strength devoured my power, his second strength suddenly blew out and directlyswarmed into my right arm, ready to bombard my inside spiritual meridian. I have never seenanything like his second strength! It was the most ferocious and aggressive power that I have everencountered in all of my battles!"

"I never had the chance to counter his attack toward my spiritual meridian. It all happened tooquickly. He had already aimed for my body before I was able to do anything. Were it not for mytimely reaction, my right arm would have been fractured and disabled by now..."

"So during that time, I didn't have extra energy to pay him back at all! I had no choice but to acceptdefeat.”

"He can control two strengths at the same time. One can devour, and the other is quite ferociousand aggressive!" Gennadi and Wyn's faces were full of fear after they heard Hector's statement."Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I could have made efforts to avoid the second attack. But, hisodd devouring strength can hardly be resisted. He can only be defeated if there was a contendermuch more powerful than him," Hector said sadly, while he calmed himself down.

"It seems that he is clinging on to this ace card of his. That's why he has the gall to challenge twoseniors of the ninth grade of Blood Purification at the same time! He is just so full of himself,” Wynsaid and almost did a flip upon realizing what kind of power Ricky had.

"Gennadi, I think it was a good thing that you rejected his challenge today. And if you didn't, youmight have probably ended with another failure today.”

"Yup, I agree with you. So, according to Hector, Ricky's one-of-a-kind strength is very tricky tocounter if you are not prepared for it. I guess we should thank you, Hector. We don't have anythingto worry about now since we know about how he is in the battlefield,” Gennadi said, feelingultimately relieved.

"Gennadi, what is your ace card? I'm sure you're going to devise a plan to defeat Ricky tomorrow.There must be some tricks up your sleeve, right?" Wyn asked curiously after replaceing that Gennadi'sface showed a glimmer of hope, relief, and confidence.

"If Ricky is inclined to devour his rival's power with his strange strength, I will make sure that hedevours as much as he can until he can't contain the power anymore. When he's done devouring,that will be my queue to take advantage and attack his weak spots,” Gennadi said slightly, with asinister smile emerging on his lips.

Meanwhile, Ricky and his allies were in a circle in a small room in the Misty South Factionscourtyard

"Ricky, you didn't need to make such a brag today. It will be much more dangerous for you to dealwith both Gennadi and Wyn at the same time. Think about it. By now, they must have figured out away to beat you during the one-day break,” Autelan said.

"And another point should be taken into consideration -- Gennadi is most likely to have almostmade himself to Bone Reinforcement!"

Autelan warned Ricky. With their assumption of Gennadi's power, Edgar and the others becameanxious about tomorrow's battle.

The almost complete access to Bone Reinforcement meant that Gennadi's power had been utterlyupgraded and even preceded the power of Blood Purification.

"Autelan, take it easy. I am well aware of his intent of rejecting today's battle. And, he must fightagainst me for over one hundred rounds before he'll know about my ace,” Ricky replied with a kindof fearless confidence written on his face.

"Wyn, he will not stand out to fight against me, because he needs to retain his pride and his title asa genius."

"As for Gennadi, he is indeed a tricky figure to deal with. I didn't know that he's almost about toreach Bone Reinforcement. But, needless to say, I have no fear of any warriors of Blood Purification.He still belongs in this level anyway and hasn't surpassed it. Why should I be bothered?”

Ricky said with a fearless tone. His courage blinded and shocked the people who were listening tohim. All just hoped that nothing went wrong in the battle tomorrow.

"You are one incredible guy..always so confident, and even arrogant!" Autelan laughed and said,shaking his head slightly at the sound of Ricky's firm belief in tomorrow's victory.

Autelan felt more relieved when he knew that his warnings were not in vain. Somehow he didbelieve in Ricky because the other day, some power inside of him was resonating with the red fireinside of Ricky. And that definitely wasn't anything simple to deal with.