Ch. 1221..1230
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“Kid, hand over the Power Method now and I can spare your life! Don’t worry! A man of my status would
never lie!” Sean said greedily, all the while deciding that he would destroy Leon’s power once he obtained the methods and break every single bone in Leon’s body. That way, he would have fulfilled his promise of sparing only Leon’s life.
“You want my Advanced Power Method? Dream on!” Leon scoffed.
“Very well! You asked for this!” Enraged, Sean was about to command his men to attack Leon, when Cynthia took a step forward.
“Hang on! Leon, if they want the method, just hand it over to them,” Cynthia said.
She knew that Leon owned Absolute Methods and an Advanced Power Method meant nothing to Leon, so it was a small price to pay if it meant that Leon could survive. On top of that, Leon might be able to bargain and get Cynthia out of the wedding so that she would not have to marry Theodore.
She stared at Leon with anticipation.
“Yeah! Leon, Cynthia’s right. The Lapwoods are far too strong. You can’t beat them!”
“Just hand the Advanced Power Method to them and strike a deal with them somehow.”
Below the stage, Iris and Ruth shouted as they both agreed with Cynthia and thought that it was more important for Leon to stay alive.
“It’s over!”
“Looks like the Lapwoods are going to get the Advanced Power Method.”
The people around them sighed and turned to look at Sean enviously.
Since Leon’s power was far from being comparable to the Lapwoods‘ guards, he would not stand a chance against them and even a fool would hand the method over to save his own life.
“Well? Are you handing the method over or not?” Sean questioned smugly as though he already had Leon wrapped around his fingers.
“Mister Lapwood, don’t you think you are too young to have dementia? I’ve told you that I’ll never hand the method over! Dream on!” Leon said in contempt.
He was not as naive as Cynthia and the others and knew that Sean would never let him go unscathed even if he handed the method over. Since a fight was inevitable, he should not bother bargaining.
“What?”
Jaws dropped all around him.
Everyone thought that he would hand the method over and was surprised that Leon refused Sean again.
Cynthia, Ruth, and Iris were all confused as to why Leon would be so reluctant to give up an Advanced Power
Method, when it was not that valuable to him, and insisting to face Sean off would be suicidal.
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“Leon, have you gone mad?” Cynthia asked in frustration.
She always thought that Leon was a smart man, only to find that he was foolish enough to die over an
Advanced Power Method.
“Don’t worry, Cynthia. These idiots can’t hurt me! I’ll get you and the Shears out of here safely. No one will hurt you!” Leon deadpanned.
“But-” Cynthia’s heart sank at his stubbornness.
“How arrogant! If it’s a fight you want, it’s what you’ll get!” Sean roared. Though he desperately wished to tear Leon apart, he could not kill Leon before he obtained the method, so he turned and commanded his guards in the Advanced Overlord State. “Solomon, Eric, teach him a lesson. Just be careful not to kill him!”
“Yes!” Solomon and Eric immediately pinched in front and behind Leon.
“Cynthia, stand aside or you might get hit,” Leon quietly swallowed a Dragon Pill, before pushing Cynthia gently down the stage to stand next to Ruth and Iris.
“Take this, kid!” Solomon darted forward toward Leon, while Eric fired up his true energy to guard the path behind Leon to prevent Leon from running. Should Solomon overpower Leon, Eric could attack Leon at any time when Leon attempted to escape.
“Come on!” Leon sneered when he realized what their intention was. Instead of backing away, he faced Solomon’s attack directly.
“Die!” Solomon narrowed his eyes ferociously.
He learned from the Fields ahead of time that Leon was only in the Intermediate Overlord State and thought that he was going to triumph over Leon if they were in a direct face–off.
He strengthened the power of his fist and intended to finish Leon with a single blow.
“It’s over. Leon’s so dead!”
“Yeah! Mister Lapwood already gave him a chance, but he just won’t take it!”
“Anyway, it’s too late for regrets now!”
The people in the crowd shook their heads and sighed sympathetically.
Though they all saw what Leon was capable of in the past, any one of the Lapwoods guards was powerful enough to destroy him with ease and Leon’s demise was inevitable unless there was a miracle.
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“Leon, you idiot! Even if you don’t care about yourself, what about me and Iris? If you die, what are we supposed to do?” Cynthia muttered.
Cynthia and Iris paled in despair.
All the people who befriended Leon, including Ruth, the Youngs, and the Pooles, were all devastated.
“Destroy him!”
On the opposite end, the Fields all stared at the stage viciously in excitement.
Leon was the Fields‘ biggest enemy and they were dying to get rid of him. Seeing how Leon was about to meet his demise, the Fields were overjoyed.
“Arrogant little brat! I shall teach you how powerful the Lapwoods are!” Sean sneered in contempt as he
looked at Leon.
Inside his mind, he was already planning how he would torture Leon into handing the method over; once the Lapwoods obtained the Advanced Power Methods, their influence and strength would escalate.
“Baam!”
Under the watchful eyes of the audience, Leon’s fist collided with Solomon’s attack. As the others predicted, Solomon’s overpowering energy tore through Leon’s spiritual energy and the aftermath of the attack darted
toward Leon’s chest.
Leon came prepared and took the attack in his chest.
If it was in the past, he would suffer severe injuries from such a blow, but he already put on the Mirror of Sovereign underneath his clothes.
The Mirror of Sovereign was a defensive tool that could fend off any attack from martial artists of one level. higher than Leon and since Leon was in the Intermediate Overlord State, any attack from martial artists in the Peak Overlord State or lower would have no impact on him at all.
Solomon was merely in the Advanced Overlord State, and he could not penetrate the protection of the Mirror of Sovereign.
“Baam!”
Just then, Leon took advantage of the second when Solomon ran out of energy from his initial attack and launched the Double Attack; his true energy in the Initial Innate State flooded out of his body and slammed itself against Solomon’s chest.
As though he was struck by lightning, Solomon spewed blood and was instantly sent flying.
Judging from the pain that radiated throughout his body, he realized Leon broke at least three or four of his ribs.
“Leon? Leon won?!”
“How’s that possible?!”
Cynthia, Ruth, and Iris gaped.
Sean, the Fields, and everyone else were stunned. Their jaws dropped as their eyes widened in disbelief.
Knowing which level Leon was in, they all thought that he would not rival Solomon in strength, only to witness the exact opposite of what they anticipated happening before their eyes.
If they did not see it with their own eyes, they would have never believed it to be true.
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“No! No way!”
“Has he reached the next level, the Advanced Overlord State?!”
“That has to be the case!”
The people below the stage stared at Leon as though they saw a ghost.
Though they had no clue as to how Leon defeated Solomon, they knew that Leon had to at least be on the same level as Solomon to be able to defeat Solomon with a single blow. Most importantly, Leon only reached the Intermediate Overlord State when he fought Harold in the Young Mansion.
Within a matter of days, he rose to the Advanced Overlord State and the others could not help but wonder if Leon was human at all.
“The Advanced Overlord State?! Seems like the method he owns doesn’t belong to the Advanced Power class, but could belong to the Ultimate Power class instead,” Sean recovered from the shock and stared at Leon. intently.
Based on what Walter informed him about Leon, Leon was far too young to be reaching his current strength and this could not have been accomplished if he was training with an Advanced Power Method, so he might have an Ultimate Power Method.
If the Absolute Methods were not lost, Sean would have suspected Leon of owning an Absolute Method as well.
“Kid, you’re not going anywhere today,” Sean sneered, before shooting Eric a knowing look.
Eric got the signal and immediately charged toward Leon behind his back before he had the time to react.
“Leon, watch out!!” Cynthia, Ruth, and Iris shouted in unison.
“How dare you sneak up behind me?! Die!” Enraged, Leon turned around and noticed that Eric was merely inches away from him, so he launched a punch hastily to counter the attack.
“Damn, it’s too rushed!”
“Yeah, he can only wield half of his full strength if he is in such a rush. It won’t help him!”
The people down the stage, including the Youngs and the Pooles, were all nervous for Leon.
Though they could tell that Leon seemed to have reached the Advanced Overlord State, he stood no chance of surviving an attack from another martial artist at the same level when he was caught off–guard.
However, the crowd was instantly stunned by what happened next.
“Baam!”
Eric’s attack tore through Leon’s spiritual energy and the aftermath of the attack darted toward Leon’s chest.
Leon simply repeated what he did earlier and took the attack with the Mirror of Sovereign on his chest, before using the Double Attack on Eric.
Eric spewed a mouthful of blood as he was sent flying, suffering even worse injuries compared to Solomon.
Meanwhile, Leon stood his ground proudly, unscathed.
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“How’s this possible?!”
Everyone was stunned and turned to stare at Leon in disbelief.
They thought that Leon would be in too much of a rush to fend off Eric’s attack. To their bewilderment, not only did Leon succeed in doing so, he managed to defeat Eric within a matter of seconds.
“Could it be that he isn’t in the Advanced Overlord State, but the Peak Overlord State?!”
The Fields, the Collins, and the Youngs came to a realization.
They were all witnesses to the fight between Leon and Harold and at the very beginning, they all thought that Leon was in the Initial Overlord State, only to discover later on that Leon surpassed the Semi–Overlord State and the Initial Overlord State, and reached the Intermediate Overlord State directly from the Peak Supreme State.
History repeated itself once again and since Leon managed to injure Eric even when he was caught off- guard, it was extremely likely that Leon reached the Peak Overlord State, which meant that he jumped two levels at a single time yet again.
Any martial artist would need three to five years to get to the next power level, yet Leon leveled up with ease and seemed to leap forward a few levels at a time, so everyone in the wedding was shaken to the core.
“Peak Overlord State?! Am I seeing things?” Sean paled.
Though he came from Solum County and saw plenty of wonders of the world in the past, he never saw a martial artist with a such horrifying speed of growth.
“Don’t worry, Mister Sean. It’s just a trick. He hasn’t reached the Peak Overlord State!” The old man in
gray next to Sean shook his head.
“Really? If he’s not in the Peak Overlord State, how did he manage to finish Eric and Solomon with one blow?!
“I don’t know about that either but I am certain that he’s in the Advanced Overlord State at best judging from his speed and explosive power. He’s far from reaching the Peak Overlord State!” The old man said confidently.
Since the old man was in the Peak Overlord State himself, he could tell right away that Leon did not reach the Peak Overlord State. However, Leon somehow concealed his true energy, so the old man could not tell which level Leon was truly in, but he assumed that Leon was in the Advanced Overlord State at best.
The old man theorized that Leon managed to defeat Solomon and Eric with certain tricks and the two were only defeated because they underestimated Leon.
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“So he won with some kind of tricks!” Sean was relieved to learn that Leon was not in the Peak Overlord
State and sneered.
“Who’s next?” Leon straightened his back and pointed at Sean, “Sean Lapwood, what other tricks do you Lapwoods have up your sleeves?”
“Enough with your arrogance! I shall be your doom!” The old man dressed in gray stepped forward.
“Chester, I’ll leave this to you! He might be training with an Ultimate Power Method. Make sure you disable him and make him hand it over!” Sean reminded.
“Don’t worry. I won’t disappoint you, Mister Sean!” Chester nodded and stopped at a distance away from
Leon.
“You? What a joke!” Leon scoffed and scanned Chester in contempt.
“Save it, Leon. Chester reached the Peak Overlord State seven years ago and he is the very best even among people on the same level! Even if you are indeed in the Peak Overlord State, you are going to die” Sean sneered.
“Is that so? Let’s see what he is made of, then!” Leon said mockingly.
With the Mirror of Sovereign, Chester would not be able to harm him so long as Chester did not surpass the Peak Overlord State.
“Brat, you asked for this! Take this!” Enraged by Leon’s contempt, Chester darted toward Leon at the speed of lightning.
“Come on!” Leon boldly launched the Double Attack at Chester.
“Trying to trick me? Dream on!” Chester sneered.
After watching the fight between Leon, Solomon, and Eric, Chester noticed that both Solomon and Eric were defeated once their attacks met with Leon’s punch. Though he did not know precisely how Leon managed to defeat the two, his experience and instinct told him that Leon might be hiding something in his hands and he might suffer the same fate as Solomon and Eric if he met Leon’s fists.
As a result, he moved swiftly and aimed his attack at Leon’s face instead.
“What?!” Leon was shocked and immediately backed away, before meeting Chester’s attack with his punch.
Chester dodged and simply directed his attack in another direction, to which Leon responded by switching direction along with him.
Neither of them managed to touch one another at all, but since Leon was only in the Intermediate Overlord State, he was far from comparable to Chester in terms of speed and as the fight progressed, he slowly began to fall behind and was left with backing away.
Fortunately, Chester did not dare to attack him directly, so Leon did not suffer any damage so far.
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“What a sly old man!” Leon’s expression darkened.
He thought that he would be able to defeat Chester with ease since he possessed the Mirror of Sovereign, only to realize that he underestimated his opponent.
Chester was on guard and refused to fall for the same trap, so Leon would eventually be defeated.
“It’s over. Leon’s going to lose!”
“Yeah! His opponent is one of the very best among martial artists in the Peak Overlord State and it’s already quite impressive that Leon managed to survive that long.”
The people below the stage shook their heads and sighed as they looked at Leon sympathetically.
Though they guessed that Leon might have reached the Peak Overlord State, since Chester was far too formidable, it was only normal for Leon to lose, so none of them thought that Leon stood a chance.
“Let’s see what you can do now!” Sean sneered and crossed his arms smugly.
“Destroy him!”
The Fields were all excited when they saw how close Chester was to defeating Leon.
On the contrary, Cynthia, Iris, Ruth, the Youngs, and the Pooles were all overwhelmed by despair.
“It’s all or nothing!” Leon gritted his teeth and darted away from Chester, before charging toward Sean.
“What?!” Terrified, the snide smirk on Sean’s face froze.
Though Chester informed him that Leon was not in the Peak Overlord State, Sean was merely in the Peak Supreme State and was hardly a match for Leon, so he would be rendered helpless if Leon targeted him instead.
“Chester, help me!” Sean called out in fear and backed away to keep his distance from Leon.
“How dare you?!” Enraged, Chester reacted swiftly and ran after Leon.
Leon only pretended to target Sean, and his true intention was to lure Chester into attacking him. Seeing how Chester fell for his trip, Leon turned around with a terrified look on his face as though he was caught, leaving his chest exposed to Chester.
“Die!” Chester narrowed his eyes viciously.
He only assumed that Leon was hiding some sort of weapon in his hands and did not know about the Mirror of Sovereign, so he struck Leon in the chest without hesitation.
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“No!”
Both Cynthia and Iris paled and screamed.
Ruth, the Youngs and the Pooles were all devastated at the sight before them.
“It’s over!”
“Leon is really going to be defeated this time!”
The others predicted this outcome and were not at all surprised; however, most of them felt sympathetic that a rare genius like Leon was about to be killed by the Lapwoods.
Naturally, others were happy about it; not only did Leon become Iris’s boyfriend, he failed Cynthia at their engagement party, which made Leon the known enemy to all eligible bachelors in the city and they were all pleased that Leon was going to meet the demise he deserved.
“Good!”
Sean and the Fields burst out laughing.
Sean, who assumed that Leon was training with an Ultimate Power Method, could obtain the method from
Leon at all costs.
Since Absolute Methods were extremely rare, the best methods that existed within Solum County belonged to the Ultimate Power class and if the Lapwoods could obtain such a method, they would grow into one of the
top families in Solum County.
It was the lifelong dream of all Lapwoods who ever lived.
However, before Sean and the Fields had the time to celebrate, what happened next shook them to the core.
“Baam!”
Chester’s fist landed on Leon’s chest. To everyone’s bewilderment, Leon was not sent flying, not suffering any injury. He stood unwavering and launched his punch against Chester swiftly.
“W- What?!” Chester gasped.
He did not expect Leon to survive his attack unscathed and by the time he managed to register what was happening, Leon’s attack slammed against him.
Chester was sent flying into the distance, all the while spewing a horrifying amount of blood from his mouth.
A piercing pain echoed throughout every single bone in his body and unlike Solomon and Eric, every one of his ribs were broken.
Solomon and Eric were only struck by Leon’s true energy, yet Chester was hit by Leon’s spiritual energy, which was far more powerful than his true energy.
If Leon did not hold back out of fear for the Dragon Corps, Chester would have been dead by now.
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“N- No way!”
The entire plaza fell into silence as the people gaped at Leon in disbelief.
They all saw Leon was struck in the chest and all thought that Leon was going to die, yet not only did Leon survive, he defeated Chester with a single blow.
It was so inconceivable that none of them would have believed that it actually happened if they did not see it with their own eyes.
“Leon’s fine!”
“Thank god!”
Cynthia and Iris recovered from the initial shock and broke down in joyful tears.
They finally realized that Leon challenged the Lapwoods because he had what it took to win and they all underestimated Leon.
“How’s this possible?”
On the opposite end, Sean and the Fields stood still as though they were struck by lightning.
The three Lapwoods guards were their best shot at defeating Leon, yet all three of them were severely injured by Leon. The martial artists left who could fight were hardly comparable to Leon in strength and they were all devastated.
“W- Woah!”
“Could it be that Leon surpassed the Peak Overlord State?!”
The crowd turned to look at Leon in fear and chaos erupted all around the wedding venue.
If their assumption was right, Leon accomplished the possible and it was hard to believe that it was physically possible for a person to become this powerful at such an age.
“No! That’s not right! He’s in the Advanced Overlord State at best. He only managed to fend off my attack because he has a defensive tool,” Chester laid sprawled on the ground as he continued to spew blood from his mouth. He struggled to get up but was unable to do so no matter how hard he tried.
“What?”
“Leon has a defensive tool?”
Shocked, the people around glanced at one another in disbelief.
“That’s right!” Chester said weakly.
He knew the depth of Leon’s power better than most after the fight earlier and he could tell that Leon only managed to survive his attack unscathed with the help of a defensive tool.
“That’s how!”
Everyone started to recall how Leon was completely unaffected by the strike to his chest.
Sean and the Fields finally realized how Leon managed to defeat all three of the Lapwoods guards, but it was
too late.
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“Tool?”
Iris and Ruth both came to a realization when they heard Chester.
The others might be clueless, but they both knew that Leon obtained the Mirror of Sovereign during the auction in Seacove City.
They connected the dots and concluded that the Mirror of Sovereign was a defensive tool that could fend off even the attack from martial artists in the Peak Overlord State.
“Just how lucky is Leon?”
“Not only does he have an Advanced Power Method, but now he has some kind of defensive tool as well? That lucky jerk!”
Once the others recovered from the initial shock, they all turned to look at Leon enviously.
If Leon was not powerful, they would have all charged at him in an attempt to steal his training methods and tools.
“Damn it! If I knew that Leon was a defensive tool, I would’ve never lost to him,” Chester gritted out in frustration.
“It’s all over.”
Sean and the Fields were devastated, as they all knew that with all the Lapwoods guards defeated, none of them had the power to defeat Leon.
“Sean, Walter, it’s time we settle some old scores!” Leon scoffed and strode toward Sean and the Fields; with each step he took, they felt their hearts sinking in response to it.
“Wh- What do you want? Don’t get any closer!” Terrified, Sean backed away timidly.
“You kept saying how you are going to destroy me, didn’t you? Using your words, I’m going to destroy your power and then break both your legs so that you pay for what you and the Fields have done!” Leon sneered and approached Sean.
The Fields were his enemies for the longest time; as a family from outside of Springfield City, the Lapwoods. meddled with another city’s matter and even went to the lengths of forcing Cynthia to marry Theodore by threatening the Shears. With no regard for morals and laws, the Lapwoods sent three extremely powerful. martial artists to fight him to rob him of his training methods.
All the crimes they committed were unforgivable and Leon was determined to put an end to his enemy once and for all.
“Y–You wouldn’t dare! I’m warning you! I’m the future heir of the Lapwoods and if you hurt me, the Lapwoods will come after you!” Sean threatened.
“That’s not what I have to worry about now. All I know right now is that you’re not going anywhere! Die!” Leon darted toward Sean without hesitation.
“Stop him!” Shocked, Walter and the other elders from the Fields leaped into action and stood before Sean.
“Sean, we’ll stall him for you. Run!” Walter blurted out, before charging at Leon with the others.