Rise of the Cosmic_Emperor

Sensual Guild Headquarters...

Honestly, Melinda had it a bit better in regards to her opponent's arrival.

She got a slow clap and a calm conversation and in contrast...

"Hey, You there!"

*Whoosh*

*Bam!*

... Hal got a yell that was followed by an Ax slamming into him at high speed and sending him flying back.

"Ngh" Hal groaned as he came to a stop and then looked upon the face of his attacker.

He had Silver hair and pale eyes of a Silva and he had a silver ax stitched into the chest of his robes so there was no way Hal could not tell that he was a member of the Silver Ax Guild.

"I challenge you," said the silver-haired young man as he stretched his hand and recalled his ax.

"What?" Hal asked with a confused expression before he looked at those who had come with Ax-man and while he did not recognize a bunch of them, he did recognize Adeline who had a neutral expression as though she had only come along to see something interesting.

If that something interesting was Hal winning or Hal getting beaten up was not clear.

"I said I challenge you. Of course, that is a mere formality. The moment I attacked you, the challenge had begun. I even came with officials to make it all more... Official." said the young man.

His presence and his challenge quickly called the attention of many to him and a groaning Hal who was returning to his feet.

Suri looked between the two and wondered if Hal would try to reject the challenge but she should have asked Nicole who would have told her that there was no chance that that was happening.

"Name?" Hal asked and the young-looking man who furrowed his brow as he said,

"You don't know my name?"

Hal shrugged,

"Why? Are you somehow important?" he asked and looked him up from head to toe.

The young man gritted his teeth but he decided that he would not play Hal's game.

Hal surely knew his name but was just trying to humiliate him and he would not give him the satisfaction.

"This is Akon Silva..." one of the young men with the young man began but Hao looked over at him and asked with a cold smile,

"Did I ask you?"

The young man who had tried to speak on Akon Silva's behalf instantly felt covered in sweat. Hal's eyes on him absolutely terrified him and he did not know why.

There was just something about Hal's presence that had his entire brain yelling 'Run!'.

All Silver Ax Guild members noticed the young man shivering but Hal ignored it all and spoke to Akon again,

"I didn't ask him, I asked you. Also, you don't have to tell me and we can start fighting right now, but you should know though, that I will consider you nameless.

I will consider you nameless until you have the manners to introduce yourself to one who is above you"

The last part of his words, Hal had backed with his Sovereign Dao and Akon found himself introducing himself and did not know why and also could not stop.

"My name is Akon Silva and I am the leader of the Silva Ax Guild"

Hal nodded and then sighed,

"Now was that so hard?" he asked and his eyes got dark for a second before he vanished from where he was and when next he appeared barely a second later, he was delivering a clothesline to Akon.

The attack had Akon flying back and Hal quickly followed up without worry when Akon showed good control of himself to stop his backward flight.

Before he could deliver another hit to the Silva man though, Akon let out his immense cultivation pressure that was so thick, that it formed a shield around him.

...

The Jade Foxes Guild Headquarters...

*Clang*

*Clang*

*Clang*

The battle between Melinda and Eder had begun and they were both still feeling each other out while Eder marveled at Melinda's impressive sword fighting skills that coupled with her heavy hits were formidable.

However, while. he did marvel, he did not worry.

He was better than her as there was clear evidence of his experience with the sword and so far, he had the upper hand.

They both held each other at a sword stalemate where their weapons were crossed and holding each other at bay and Melinda took one hand off her sword handle to ignite it with white flames that she struck at Eder.

Her quickness did not catch Eder by surprise as he surmised that Melinda was only trying to take advantage of her superior flames being the Ordinance flames that they were.

But he was prepared.

The gauntlets on his arms charged up with the flames of his bloodline and he prepared to intercept to flames on Melinda's fist.

*Boom!*

The explosion was impressive and sent Melinda sliding back and away from Eder while the Dane man stood solidly.

It was a massive ego stroke for Eder that his enhanced flames had actually stood against the force of the Ordinance of flames.

When Melinda mixed her white and gold frames for a stronger attack, Eder readily met the attack with his enhanced flames.

The results were more or less the same without Eder remaining in the same spot just like before had Melinda was once again sent sliding back.

Eder could not help himself and he grinned and stared at the gauntlets with pride.

He knew Melinda still had a couple of attacks left but she had used her major trump cards (her Ordinance flames and her Bloodline flames) and if he had been able to stand against those with no trouble, he would have no problem with any other thing she decided to use.

Melinda for her part was quite impressed with the force of Eder's enhanced flames as they proved to be just as she would expect of a Dane who wished to take her down.

Had there still been time for her to play around, she would have, but it had been a long day and she felt she had made Eder feel good enough and it was about time to end this.

When her golden eyes glowed and she became shrouded in golden light, Eder's eyes narrowed and he charged up his gauntlets in preparation but how could he have known that other than stroking his ego, her attack from the start, had been essential.

They had provided a cover for Melinda to let a bit of divine energy that she had mixed with her signature energy into Eder's body.

It had latched on to the heart of Eder's bloodline abilities and with a signifying snap of her fingers, Melinda shot it all down.

Tricking his body into believing it to be an order that had come from the progenitor of the Dane Bloodline.

Eder found Melinda's glowing form to be off-putting but it was nothing compared to how he felt when the flames of his bloodline dimmed to a point where he was incapable of harnessing them.

"What the...?" in confusion that was coupled with a big of fear, Eder tried to force out his flames and somehow push past this block he had.

Alas, he did not succeed fast enough to not get punched by Melinda,

*Bam!*

"Ack" Eder groaned and as Melinda followed up, he still tried to jolt his flames to work but nothing worked and the longer he was distracted with getting it to work, the more Melinda punched him and the more bruised he became.

"Enough!" he eventually yelled and released a massive Cosmic Aurora imbued with the strength of his Cultivation and while that did send Melinda away from him, the glowing lady was not actually harmed.

Melinda met the attack with her white flames which canceled it all out.

"What did you do?" Eder asked but Melinda only smiled and dashed towards him.

Eder gritted his teeth and abandoned any attempt of using his Bloodline flames and rather focus on his cultivation strength which was still stronger than Melinda's.

He dodged to the side and avoided Melinda's punch and Melinda ended up striking the air on the side of his face instead.

Eder then drew back his sword and made to thrust it through Melinda in a lethal strike that the Officials ignored and did not interfere with.

Melinda smiled and exerted her dominance that instantly caused Eder's knees to buckle.

Bang a resilient peak cosmic Pagoda realm cultivator that he was, Eder manager to not totally fall to his knees but he was still slowed and mostly incapable of blocking or retaliating when Melinda hit the side of his head with her fist.

*Bam!*

The hit slammed Eder's head to the side and Melinda followed up with the summoning of her sword cosmic Armament, which she had discarded before, and then stabbed it through Eder's thighs.

"Ahhhh" Eder yelled in pain before Melinda followed up with a hit of his head to slam him face-first into the ground.

The more she hit Eder, the more impact her Dominant Dao had on him and the more weakened and unable to retaliate he was.

Without access to his flames, Eder quickly found that he had to way of forcefully breaking out of the beat-down Melinda began to deliver.

Pulling him up from the ground by his robe, Melinda made sure he was a bit upright and then swiftly kicked him in the stomach with a leg coated in a compound mix of white and gold flames...