<h4>Chapter 140 - Chain Quest: Souta vs. Gregory 2</h4>


    The [Vajra Sword Saya] emitted a dark red energy. The energy spread on the ground beneath Souta’s feet.


    Boom!


    Souta’s aura skyrocketed and it reached the level of Gregory. He was using the [Vajra Sword Saya]’s ultimate skill. The [Possession] that he hadn’t tried before. This was the first time he was using this skill ever since he acquired the Vajra Sword.


    Souta’s pupils turned into red color and his body slowly absorbed the energy that the sword was emitting.


    "W-What’s this?" Gregory subconsciously took a step backward when he felt Souta’s energy reach his level.


    "Have you forgotten who am I?" Souta said and he slowly lifted up his hand.


    The sword trembled and it slowly changed form. The simple one edge de became a de that has an exquisite design. The handle didn’t change as it still looks the one that came from katana but it only has a ck orb on the pommel of the handle. There’s a white long cloth that was attached to the ck orb.


    Then, a huge upper body of a woman materialized behind Souta. The body was red in color and it has one pair of horns sticking out on the side of her head. The woman didn’t have eyes but she has a nose and mouth. Her mouth seemed to beughing at everyone and her whole body was semi-transparent.


    It was the corporeal body of the red woman inside the Vajra Sword.


    Everyone took a step backward when they saw this scene. This scene of the red woman behind Souta was giving them some creepy feelings. They couldn’t help but felt goosebumps from seeing this.


    Alice and Lynn looked at this in daze. They were the closest to Souta so they felt the rise of his aura and this strange phenomenon that was happening right now.


    Alice then regained herposure and she quickly took Lynn away. She knew that this ce was going to be the battlefield for Souta and Gregory.


    "Let’s get out of here," Alice said as she carried Lynn in her arms.


    "What’s that?" Lynn asked while looking at Souta.


    "I don’t know." Alice shook her head.


    Swoosh! Swoosh!


    After the next moment, the red woman shrunk down to normal body size. She opened her arms and hugged Souta from behind. Then, her figure fused with Souta’s body.


    "I thought ss rep said it to you." Souta grabbed the handle of the sword and slowly pulled it out.


    He lifted up his other hand and bit his thumb. Then, he ced his thumb on the red de of the sword and rubbed his blood on the de by drawing a line on it.


    ’Ufufu, contractplete.’ A yful voice sounded in Souta’s mind


    Shiing!


    "I’m going to show you what it means to take me, Souta Ieshi, with his dark grade weapon." Souta then raised the sword above his head and the sword exerted a powerful force.


    Ohm!


    It caused a dark red ripple in the air and the [Ice Dome] copsed. It broke like a fragile ss from the top and every tiny piece of it sprinkled down.


    The [Ice Dome] reached its limit after it contained the power of the two tier 3 spells. It copsed as soon as some powerful energy made contact with it.


    "Impossible! A mere student, wielding a national level weapon?" Gregory was rmed. He was now losing hisposure as he felt that Souta’s power really reached his level. No, Souta was even stronger than him right now.


    "I’ve never heard such a thing!" He tried to denied what Souta said just now. He was in a state where he would lose his sanity at any moment.


    "Of course, up until now, I didn’t meet a worthy opponent to use the full power of this sword," Souta said and he pointed his sword at Gregory.


    "The Vajra Sword, Saya..." Souta paused for a moment before he continued, "The sacred sword of the ancient Vajra race that annihted countless demons in the war twenty thousand years ago."


    ’Ufufu, your lying... Do you want me to tell you about my origin?’ Sayaughed in his mind.


    "You! Why must you get in my way?!" Gregory shouted as he charged towards Souta.


    "I don’t know, it’s just that you’re in the way of my quest," Souta said and he charged towards Gregory.


    Swoosh!!


    In an instant, he appeared in front of Gregory. He then swung his sword but Gregory saw this and managed to avoid getting sh.


    Gregory then took a distance away from Souta before picking up any random sword on the ground. He coated his sword using his mana to strengthen it so that he could exchange blows with Souta.


    Souta chased Gregory and he didn’t let him escape this ce. He thrust his sword forward.


    Swoosh!


    Gregory reacted quickly and blocked his thrust using his sword. His sword cracked from that collision.


    There’s no way that an ordinary blue grade sword wouldst long against the dark grade sword that released its power. At best, a normal blue grade sword wouldn’tst longer than five strikes. Since Gregory was strengthening it using his mana it wouldst longer than five strikes.


    ng! ng! ng!


    Souta continued to sh his sword at Gregory, while Gregory could only passively defend himself from Souta.


    Souta didn’t even give him a chance to attack as he would shatter Gregory’s sword. Once Souta shattered Gregory’s sword, Gregory would back down and picked another sword.


    Gregory jumped back and lifted up his hand above his head. He opened his palm and casted a powerful tier 3 spell.


    [Downfall ming Rocks]!


    A huge magic circle appeared in the sky. It emitted a dense magical aura and after a few seconds, hundreds of ming rocks emerged from the magic circle. The rocks fell down with powerful momentum.


    Souta ignored those ming rocks on the sky as he charged towards Gregory. He then used [Crimson Moon] skill.


    A dark red light flew out of his sword and it went directly towards Gregory.


    Swoosh!


    Gregory knew that he couldn’t avoid it in time, so he chose to block the skill with his sword.


    Bang!


    "Argh!" Gregory couldn’tpletely block the skill using a blue grade weapon. His sword broke and the red light shed on his right arm.


    He then felt something wrong with that skill. The red energy was seeping inside his body.


    "What the hell!"


    He realized that this energy was corrupting his mana pool. He quickly circted his mana and expelled the red energy out of his body. With the level of his control over his mana, he could expel the red energy, unlike Madan who didn’t notice it until thest minute.


    But he still lost a little bit of control over his mana even though he managed to expel the red energy out of his body.


    "Damn, that brat!" Gregory cursed angrily. He looked at Souta with intense rage.


    The ming rocks were just above the two.


    Swoosh!! Swoosh!! Swoosh!!


    Souta casted [Shadow Bind] and hundreds of towering tentacles-like shadows rose up from the ground.


    Although the [Shadow Bind] spell was powerful, it’s still a tier 1 spell so it wasn’t a match of a tier 3 spell of Gregory.


    ’If you want to make [Crimson Moon] and [Cross Moon] stronger, just used best feram and my energy along with it. Don’t just randomly use the skill as you fit. There’s a proper way to use every skill in the world.’ A feminine voice sounded in Souta’s mind.


    Souta nodded his head and he looked up above him. The tentacles-like shadows were getting destroyed by the falling ming rocks above him.


    He gripped his sword tightly and dashed towards Gregory.


    Swoosh!


    "You still want to fight?!" Gregory gritted his teeth when he saw Souta rushed at him. "If I only brought my armor and powerful knights here, you people wouldn’t have a chance to win."


    Souta swung his sword which was coated with dark red aura.


    Swoosh!


    Gregory jumped away quickly and managed to avoid getting sh by Souta but Souta chased after him without hesitation.


    Souta charged toward Gregory and thrust his sword forward. He used [Stab] skill along with it.


    Swoosh!!


    Gregory once again jumped backward to avoid Souta’s sword but he was wrong to do that. The [Stab]bat arts was already at level 4 so it has a range of five meters. Also, the piercing effect of this skill was quite high.


    Added with Souta’s boosted strength, it pierced Gregory’s shoulder. Blood spurted out of his wounds. Gregory could avoid getting hit if he moved his body sideways.


    "Argh!" Gregory groaned in pain as he looked at Souta with rage in his eyes.


    Souta took a deep breath and he continued to sh against Gregory. His body couldn’t handle the best feram and the [Vajra Sword Saya]’s power at the same time.


    Plus, he found that the percentage added of the [Possession] could be increased. A normal [Possession] skill could increase his overall abilities by fifty percent.


    He knew that the fifty percent increase of his abilities wasn’t enough to defeat Gregory, so Saya offered him a deal to greatly increased his powers more than the added fifty percent.