BUILDING MY OWN EMPIRE - My Journey from Nothing to Overwhelming Power Chapter 94 - 93 – The Negotiator

For the first ti, the Fourth Rank Master gave a direct warning.

My absolute confidence in Louis and her ability to win dropped significantly, suddenly...

How could it not? All the signs pointed toward sothing bad about to happen.

Joe’s battle with the Third Rank Master was intense, but the blond master suddenly decided to focus most of his attention on the girl’s transformation.

Then it didn’t take long before the girl transford.

It wasn’t the transformation itself that made uneasy... it was her energy at the mont of transformation. It was completely normal.

That could have been good news... but the master’s warning at the end threw everything aside and let fear and anxiety seep into heavily.

"Louis... be careful," I quickly communicated with her through telepathy.

Where did I get it?

It was one of the abilities one of us acquired during training.

"Don’t worry, my lord... it’s not sothing I can’t handle," Louis replied quickly.

A calm smile settled on her face.

"The girl has three transformations so far... the little girl was the permanent form... then the old woman...

That second transformation made my attack and defense accumulation useless...

If this third transformation, the mature woman, is her strongest... then that ans..." Louis whispered internally... analyzing carefully.

The girl allowed her to do that. She didn’t attack yet... she was still adjusting her body bit by bit, as if she hadn’t used this transformation for many years.

Louis narrowed her eyes after reaching a decisive conclusion in her analysis...

"This leads to one conclusion... her transformation has a strength that suppresses my abilities... but what is it?"

"Shall we begin?" a soft feminine voice cut through Louis’ thoughts.

Louis turned toward the girl... raised her fists... the red gloves appeared again.

"I’m ready," Louis replied.

The mont she said that... the girl dashed forward.

Her steps were fast... heavy and decisive.

Even from a distance...

My eyes caught a great smoothness in her movent.

After three years of continuous training, facing different powerful opponents and various monsters...

And reaching the Third Rank...

My eyes could now clearly distinguish between fast movent... and refined fast movent.

So monsters used to rush at with trendous speed...

But the effort in their movent was extrely high.

"This woman..." I whispered quietly...

"possesses great speed that consus only minimal effort."

Boom

The sound exploded.

The girl reached Louis...

Raised one of the pink rods... then brought it down toward Louis.

Louis reacted quickly... swung her fist...

She received the strike.

Stopped it.

Then...

She retreated quickly.

Before she could even think... the girl was already above her.

Louis raised her fist...

She received a second strike...

Her eyes narrowed.

Another strike ca quickly.

Louis tried to retreat...

Again the girl caught up to her... the movent repeated.

Louis tried to increase her speed further...

Every ti... the girl kept up.

Anxiety accumulated within her like a fla about to ignite a forest.

"Damn it," Louis snarled...

She received another strike.

"7!" the girl shouted... a wide smile never leaving her face as she continued chasing Louis tirelessly.

"An attack that harvests accumulation... damn you!" Louis shouted as she retreated further.

She had received seven strikes... all successfully blocked...

But that didn’t matter to the Third Rank Master.

"As long as I successfully hit you... my ability activates and your accumulation gets cut."

After several strikes...

Louis began losing her composure.

The Third Rank Master stood with a mocking smile.

"It seems you’ve figured it out... and it seems you have no solution, hahaha."

She raised her hands... holding both pink rods.

"20 strikes... that’s the limit to end your accumulation. It doesn’t matter if your accumulation is 100 or 30... once 20 hits are completed... it’s consud."

"20..." Louis whispered.

"I’ve taken 13."

"You have 7 left," the woman said.

Louis took a deep breath...

Then the red energy began gathering intensely again...

Her entire body was surrounded by red energy.

The woman dashed toward Louis... attacked...

Louis evaded the strike.

Her movent beca smoother than her opponent’s.

Again and again... the sa thing repeated.

The girl could no longer land a hit on Louis.

"It worked... but..." Louis whispered...

"Converting accumulation into energy surrounding my body gave enough speed to evade... but it also consus accumulation this way...

In truth... I’m between a hamr draining all my accumulation... and an anvil draining it more slowly... in both cases, she still has control."

The girl attacked again... she realized her recent attacks were no longer landing...

But she remained calm.

She wasn’t a Third Rank Master for nothing.

The mont Louis used energy enhancent... the woman knew it would consu accumulation.

"She chose to lose slowly... until she finds a solution. Let’s see if she can," the woman scoffed, continuing her advance.

She failed to land a hit... she smiled... her voice echoed in Louis’ ears.

"Running alone will end you eventually. Fight and die with honor."

Louis didn’t respond imdiately... she dodged another strike... then replied:

"You speak as if your current transformation is permanent... I’ll uncover the weakness of breaking it before I’m finished."

The girl laughed loudly.

"There’s no secret that will help your situation even if you knew it... believe hahaha... but I’ll tell you."

"We masters need long lifespans... reaching higher ranks takes effort and ti... the human body isn’t suited for that...

Everyone tries to extend their life... as for ...

Abandoning my current state allows to continuously gain ti...

Of course, using this state makes lose ti quickly too...

But the ti I possess before collapse... is far greater than yours...

As for my accumulation...

The perfect body state doesn’t consu accumulation... it consus lifespan."

"What?" Louis snarled... disbelief appeared... then she understood.

A master using life energy instead of accumulation... how was she supposed to face that...

Above... the Fourth Rank Master whispered:

"It seems your subordinate has finally realized the battle is lost... that girl, when she uses the perfect body state... cannot be defeated by a Third Rank Master... the only solution is...

A powerful strike from a higher-ranked master."

"And are powerful strikes exclusive to higher-ranked masters?" I whispered, a mocking smile appearing on my face.

Suddenly...

Louis abandoned her red gloves.

"Let tell you sothing as well," she whispered...

"I’ve been fighting you with an ancient weapon until now."

"What?" the Fourth Rank Master shouted before the Third Rank Master did the sa...

He had been listening to their conversation... when she said that, he turned toward in astonishnt.

"Don’t be surprised," I laughed.

"All of us here possess ancient weapons... otherwise how would we withstand masters like you?"

Suddenly...

The master pulled out a small cube from nowhere...

Placed his hand on it... heavy yellow energy seeped from his palm...

The cube absorbed it instantly.

Then... its shape began changing into sothing resembling goggles.

Blacksmith-like goggles.

The master held them... wore them... then looked at Louis... at ... at Joe... at Monali... and everyone.

"How the hell..." he shouted,

"did you manage to obtain all those weapons?"

I didn’t answer... I only smiled... but the master insisted.

"Tell ... and I’ll spare your lives."

"This bastard..." I whispered...

His expression, his tone... everything changed suddenly when he heard about the ancient weapon...

Even though he clearly possessed one... he understood its true value.

This made realize again... that what the Deception Beast said was true...

Ancient and mastered weapons are extrely valuable... far more than I understand until I leave this world.

"You can defeat us and take those weapons... isn’t that what the blue cube above you does?" I said.

"There’s no need for your death... just tell how you obtained all those weapons," he asked eagerly again.

The composed master suddenly turned into a diplomat trying to strike a deal...

It wasn’t about defeating us or not... he might be capable of defeating us and taking all the weapons we have...

But...

He was searching for the source... not the goods.

Suddenly...

In the middle of our discussion...

A different change began appearing on Louis...

Her body beca extrely exhausted...

Several drops of blood poured from her mouth violently...

Her accumulation...

Had suddenly reached zero.

The Third Rank Master watched in concern...

She had no part in what was happening... she was still trying to process the shock of her opponents possessing ancient weapons...

Suddenly...

Threads of white light...

began to erge from every part of Louis’ body... then spread and branched further and further...

until they ford sothing like a delicate white web...

Suddenly... the web began to transform as well... rging together, connecting, breaking apart, reconnecting... until it seed to move chaotically...

then... in the end... the chaotic movent stopped.

Louis’ eyes... turned silver.

And from her back... two wide silver wings erged.

The wings fluttered... lifting Louis lightly...

as if they were carrying a lifeless body.

Then... a strange aura began to seep down from above... from the silver wings.