Chapter 16

As much as Xianth was angry that these human traffickers wanted to sell him as a slave, his morality is still mostly affected by the values he had back on earth. He still doesn't have enough experience to have the desire to kill people even though they did him bad

At most, he wants to make them pay for their actions but killing is still too far from him.

As such, instead of directly attacking the boss of these human traffickers, Xianth merely glared at him

"Take your people and get lost! If I see you again doing something like this, something worst than this would happen!" Xianth said with a cold tone

He was not a Saint but it wouldn't hurt to threaten this bastard and hope that he would stop doing this line of work

However, contrary to what he expected, the merchant was not the least bit afraid nor threatened. In fact, he was even aggressively glaring at Xianth

"Who the fuck are you to tell me what to do? Do you think I'm a pushover? You merely defeated three of my guards, you think that you can do everything that you want?" The merchant scoffed before his already huge body further expanded

He grew larger and larger until it looks like he would explode any moment from now. He was like a heavily inflated balloon that would pop from the slightest bit of force

"I have my guards because I don't like doing things on my own but it doesn't mean that I am weaker than them. I'm a merchant affiliated with the Teroza Merchant Group. Do you think a lowly savage could beat me?" The merchant said before suddenly opening his mouth in a way that you would think he wants to rip his lips

The opening of his mouth was terribly big and it was directed straight to Xianth that covered his body with an energy aura once more

He sensed the movement of energy but just because he sensed it doesn't mean that he has the capability to deal with it

The only thing that Xianth was able to do was to cross both of his arms in front of him to block as a torrent of wind hits him

At first, Xianth thought that the merchant's Gift is something that would turn him into a human cannonball but he couldn't be any more wrong

The merchant's Gift is related to wind and because of that attribute, his attack was extremely fast

"Aahhkk!!"

Cut wounds appeared all over Xianth's body as the torrent of wind threw him and causes him to crash into at least four trees in a row

An arrow of blood flew out of his mouth and his insides felt terrible. The wind torrent itself was already strong but he was even forced to crush trees using his bare body

Whether it be from the front or the back, Xianth was hurting badly

However, things don't end there. The merchant puckered his lips before sensing a bullet of wind that is even faster than his previous attack

Even though the distance between the two of them increased, Xianth was still only able to barely react

He ignored the pain on his body and he rolled to the side. It was the nearby tree that received the wind bullet and not him

Unfortunately, the merchant cannot only attack once or twice. The movement of its lips grew faster as it sent more wind bullets at Xianth

"Aarrrghhh!!"

For the second time, Xianth was struck with a wind bullet. His insides felt really terrible. It felt like a professional boxer punched him in the stomach

The only thing he could do was to increase the amount of energy he was releasing to improve his physical abilities. However, he cannot muster enough energy as the merchant's attack was relentless

It spewed one wind bullet after another without rest, almost causing deforestation due to the number of innocent trees that were harmed in the process

"Arghh!!"

For the nth time, Xianth was thrown in the air as the wind bullet struck his body. He readied himself to try to dodge another wind bullet but it didn't appear

Instead, he could hear the sounds of heavy footsteps. When he turned to look at the source, he saw the merchant approaching him

As of right now, the merchant is smaller than before but is still huge nonetheless. With how heavy his body is, he was moving kind of slow as if he was dragging his body

"Is there a range limit for his attacks?" That's what Xianth thought and deciding to test his theory, he increased the distance between himself and the merchant

"Bastard! Where do you think you are going?" The merchant said angrily as he tried to lessen the distance between him and Xianth without attacking

"I knew it! His attack range has a limit and because of his heavy body, he cannot move fast!" Xianth's eyes lit up after discovering an opening and he maintained his distance between himself and the merchant

However, just because he learned what he should do not to be defeated, this does not mean that he also found a way to win

Xianth does not know the maximum range of his attack when he threw condensed energy and he decided to test it now

The distance between him and the merchant is around 60 meters and he doesn't know if his own attack can hit him but he could at least try

Xianth gathered some of the mana leaking on his body at his palm before throwing it in hopes that it could reach the merchant

However, he has an even lower range than him. The merchant has at least 50 meters of attack range while Xianth at most has 40 meters. This is because while the raw power of his Gift is powerful, his mastery over it was completely lacking

The two entered a stalemate where neither of them could attack the other and both of them were trying to think of what they should do to win