Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 32 A fitting name and title

Chapter 32 A fitting name and title

"...." Even if he was actually curious on how Asteria was here, he decided to shut his mouth as he realized where he is right now.

If he continued talking to Asteria as he is right now, people watching him from outside the virtual reality will see what he was doing.

That will not be good for Alex, as he is the only one that can see Asteria.

"Tsk."

Alex just shook his head, thinking that Asteria being here could be one of the results of those absurd boons that a Guide can have.

"Are you ready to fight now?" Alex heard a voice behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a body materializing from motes of light.

Alex watched with great interest as he saw Lord Gallius’ body, no, ’Virtual Body’ forming in front of him.

It was quite an unnerving but also exciting scene to watch.

"Maybe after I ask you some more questions..." Alex said as he looked around him curiously.

"So, we just fight here in any way that we want? No injuries here will affect our real bodies?"

"We can do anything that we want here." Lord Gallius confirmed as she swung his virtual arms around him. "As long as our current Mental Power permits it."

"So, both of us have around Mental Power of Tier 100 then?" Alex mused as he observed the inherent Mental Power inside his virtual body.

"Just like what you know earlier, both of us will have the same Mental Power, so yes, both of us have Mental Power of Tier 100." Lord Gallius replied, with his face contorting in irritation. "Can you stop asking questions now? Its quite pissing me off already."

"Ok, chill Vibrator." Alex replied as he raised his hands. "Just asking questions here."

The roar of rage that came out form Lord Gallius was overlapped with Asteria’s raucous laughter.

"You dare call me that!!!" Lord Gallius shouted in anger as his face flushed. "You better know the consequence of saying things like that!"

The way that Lord Gallius trembled and the way his face looked showed how offended he was by the name that Alex just dropped.

"Hahaha! That is the best one that I have heard from you, Alex!" Asteria said as she wiped away a tear form her eye. "Out of all the names you can call him, you really chose Vibrator?"

"Well, that is literally his power." Alex thought to himself as he prepared himself. "Its only his misfortune that vibrators are used on an entirely... different way."

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Alex knew that with his current Mental Power, the things that he and Lord Gallius can do were pretty limited.

But that did not make him feel confident, as he knew that Lord Gallius was originally a Star Esper.

The things that he can do, even in his current state, is not something that Alex cannot just ignore.

And that thinking of Alex was confirmed when he saw Lord Gallius muttering something.

[Authority Invocation: Summon Longsword]

Few motes of light appeared Lord Gallius, which all proceeded to converge at this right hand.

Alex only had to watch for a few more seconds to see a longsword hanging on Lord Gallius’ right hand.

Alex then remembered what Lord Gallius said seconds earlier, and he immediately realized what happened.

"You are one hell of a cheater." Alex said as he glared at the longsword held by Lord Gallius. "How come you can summon things like that?"

"Well, its because of my [Authority], duh." Lord Gallius replied offhandedly. "I am a high-ranking official in here, so I can have some access on some of the workings here in the virtual reality."

"Oh." Hearing what Lord Gallius said, Alex realized what he was talking about.

If Alex can understand it right, [Authority] is something that only high-ranking officials can use.

And it seems like this [Authority] allows Lord Gallius to tweak some of the things in the virtual reality.

Seeing that Alex was in contemplative mood, Lord Gallius smiled, despite his apparent anger.

"Of course I cannot just use my [Authority] here to make drastic changes. At most, I can only summon a small weapon with me at every virtual match... And right now, the best thing that I can do is to summon this longsword, which I will definitely use to chop you to pieces!"

"He’s not lying." Asteria muttered after hearing what Lord Gallius said. "He can only summon at best a longsword right now, and oh, just a heads up, he will definitely chop you to pieces."

"I do not know if I should be relieved by that or not." Alex muttered as he heard humming sound coming out from the longsword. "Oh great, here we go..."

Judging from the humming sounds that he could hear from the longsword, Alex was 100% sure that Lord Gallius is vibrating his longsword at an extremely high frequency.

With his knowledge of physics, Alex knew that a longsword vibrating at an extremely high frequency will definitely cut through Alex easily.

Of course Alex would not allow himself to be skewered that easily.

"~~~~"

The first thing that Alex needed to do right now was to render himself undetectable, which he decisively did.

By using all the training that he had with reflection and refraction of light, Alex was now able to emulate a perfect optical invisibility.

Alex’s whole body seemed to have disappeared on the spot, as if he was not there at all.

"Impressive, I know that your Esper Ability is manipulation of EM Waves." Lord Gallius said as his eyes narrowed. "But I did not expect that you can render yourself perfectly invisible right now. Well, that is your best resort if you want to avoid my attacks..."

Alex grinned, knowing that his trick has worked.

Now that Lord Gallius could not see him, Alex decided to move away from his spot to find a perfect position for him to attack.

"Well, I need to move carefully, or else I might make a sound that could alert him." Alex thought as he carefully walked towards his left side.

But after moving ’carefully’ for about 10 seconds, Lord Gallius did something that rattled Alex.

"Boom!" Lord Gallius tore through the air like a knife as he swung his longsword in a diagonal slash.

The vibrating longsword cut through the air gracefully, and along its way was Alex!

"How the hell could he have known that I am here?" Alex thought with panic as he jumped back to avoid the slash.

"Whizz..." There was only a hairbreadth of distance between Alex’s torso and the vibrating longsword, which had basically saved his life.

"Hah!" Alex started to act out of instinct as he sent a concentrated beam of UV Rays towards Lord Gallius’ eyes.

Lord Gallius was definitely surprised by this attack, as he was not able to dodge in time.

But before the UV Beam could sear Lord Gallius’ eyes, Alex saw his UV Beam visibly weakening as it approached Lord Gallius.

By the time the UV Beam hit Lord Gallius’ eyes, its power was not at the fatal level anymore.

"Argh!" But its current power was still enough to hurt Lord Gallius, as he visibly flinched, with his face contorting in agony.

Alex knew that right now, Lord Gallius would feel as if his eyes were burning from inside out.

"F**k you Alex! I will make sure to gouge out your eyes later!" Lord Gallius screamed in rage as he rubbed his eyes hard. "F**k, it hurts!!!"

What happened to Lord Gallius gave Alex the time to jump back as he observed his current situation.

Even though Alex managed to draw the first blood, he did not look happy as he saw Lord Gallius attacking him once again, even with Lord Gallius’ eyes closed.

As he tried his best to dodge Lord Gallius’ seamless attacks, Alex tried to understand what the hell just happened.

"First, even if I am invisible, this Lord Gallius was able to determine where I exactly am." Alex thought as he sent another UV Beam towards Lord Gallius, which was weakened again.

"Not only that, but Lord Gallius can still attack me even when his eyes are damaged now." Alex thought as he looked at his opponent’s eyes, which were closed shut. "And his attacks were not the ones made out of desperation, but something that he made normally."

If Lord Gallius cannot see Alex in any way now, then how was he able to see Alex?

"Oh of course, its vibration." Alex spat as he jumped 5 meters away from Lord Gallius. "He is detecting me by sensing the vibrations inside my body."

Much just like how Alex could sense all types of EM Waves 100 Meters around him right now, Lord Gallius most probably could sense all types of vibrations 100 Meters around him too.

If that was really the case, then Lord Gallius will just have to sense things like Alex’s heartbeat or the rhythmical twitch of his muscles, and Alex’s invisibility will be useless.

That can also explain why Lord Gallius can attack Alex right now even when his eyes are compromised.

"Well that just means there is no way that I can hide from Lord Gallius right now." Alex muttered as he knows that he cannot use his EM Manipulation to hide his bodily vibrations.

"But that is not the only problem here." Alex thought as he remembered his UV Beam attacks weakening before they can even hit Lord Gallius.

"It was as if there was something around Lord Gallius that can weaken my attacks..." Alex’s mind went silent for a second before he got his answer.

"He’s vibrating the air around him too..."

Alex does not even need to use his EM Sensing.

Even with his bare eyes, Alex could see that every time he attacked Lord Gallius with a UV Beam, the whole appearance of Lord Gallius seems to be blurred, as if there was something obstructing the light bouncing out of Lord Gallius’ body.

Alex knew with his EM Sensing that the only things near Lord Gallius was his clothes, his longsword, and the air around him.

Couple that with every ridiculous thing that Alex just saw right now, and the assumption of Lord Gallius vibrating the air around him was a valid assumption.

"Really, you have the vibrating air for your defense and vibrating longsword for your offense? You really want to win here huh." Alex said as he blasted himself 10 meters away from Lord Gallius.

"With my limited Mental Power, there are lots of things that I cannot do." Lord Gallius replied with his eyes still closed.

Even though Lord Gallius still looks pissed, Alex swore that he could hear that Lord Gallius seemed to sound... calm right now.

Alex tensed, as he knew that something dangerous is bound to happen right now. Even his danger sense is warning him to make a move right now.

"You know, you have an impressive set of martial movements." Lord Gallius commented as his longsword hung by his side idly. "Those sword slashes of mine came from a set of sword arts which allows me to cut down any of my opponent quickly. You are one of the few people that was able to dodge my attacks."

"I just have a bit of training in the past." Alex replied as he watched intently for Lord Gallius’ next attack. "You know, you can attack me now instead of just blabbing out."

"Oh, don’t tell me you still have a way to fight against me, even with my current defense?" Lord Gallius smirked as he raised his longsword. "With your Mental Power at Tier 100, I doubt you can whip out something that damage me."

"Oh please, can’t you see that I am holding back?" Alex replied while rolling his eyes. "I am just testing you out earlier. And now that I determined your current stats, I guess its time for me to get serious."

This time, Alex was not bluffing, as he really did hold back earlier. But now that he knew how Lord Gallius used his power at Tier 100, Alex decided to use all that he can to win.

"Oh, so those scorching beams earlier are just your warm-up attacks huh." Lord Gallius seems to be not worried with what Alex said. "Well, it was a good thing that you said that, since you will not be able to move that much right now."

"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Alex realized that his question was a stupid one, as he saw what was happening around him.

Alex could see white mists forming around him, and he could also see ice creeping on the floor and walls nearby.

Alex’s skin prickled as he felt the obvious drop in temperature.

Alex winced, realizing that Lord Gallius just did.

"So, you reduced the vibrations of everything nearby. By doing that, you reduced the temperature here quickly." Alex’s body tensed, knowing that next few minutes will be hella difficult.

The only thing that Alex can do was to smile and hope for the best. "Hehehe, let’s see if your ’unvibration’ can vanquish me before I make my next move...."

"Unvibration. What an original term." Asteria snorted, as she seemed to be not worried with Alex’s dilemma. "I take it back, you really are not good with creative terms."

"...."