03 THE INEVITABLE FIGHT

Thinking along those lines Alfred took his spear from his dimensional ring.

Although dimensional items are not common, they are not rare. Anyone with enough money can buy them.

Gripping tightly his spear in his right hand and bending his knees a little, Alfred took a attacking stance.

Normally with the rank difference present, he can wildly start the fight, but his instincts are saying other thing.

Seeing him ready to attack, Alex sneered and raised his long sword in the air and said "Dont blame me for not warning you ahead this fight will be your end."

And taking a deep breath he shouts "ATTACKKK..."

Hearing the command, all the soilders that came with Alex took out their weapons and rushed at their top speeds towards Alfred aiming their weapons against him.

Clearly they all had been instructed before to go allout since the beginning if they want to successfully kill him.

Watching various weapons coming in his directions at speeds that are invisible to normal humans to keepup, Alfred didnt even flinch, because he is not a normal human. He can see all the individual weapons coming towards him clearly, heck you might even say that all their allout movements are like watching a slow motion video for him.

Slowly looking around he found Alex at the same spot without moving and looking casually. Normally he wouldn't bother with whatever Alex was doing, since he cant do much, but he sensed something strong coming from the area around Alex for a split second, so he is being careful.

"Haa..."

Watching everyone coming closer, Alfred sighs and says "here goes nothing" and makes his move.

He coated his spear with fire and then it glows red increasing the shade of red by each second which resulting in the raise of temperature around him.

While charging his spear he calmy looks around one more time to look for weak points in the enemy formation to exploit and took notice of a few points to hit.

After taking note of few points he started to attack.

First he moved to his right side dodging a horizontal slash which produce a huge arc and move for a few meters before dissipating...

After dodging first attack Alfred thurst his spear with full force on the left side of the attacker and boom with a massive force coming from the spear, the upper portion of the attacker is just vanished and the force claim a couple of lives who are unlucky to be in the line of fire.

Normally even with 2 rank difference between it shouldn't be possible, but since our oldman Alfred is not any 'normal' rank9 he can deal with rank 7 or rank8 people like dealing with rank4 or rank5, thats how powerful he is.

After his first counterattack, he dodged few hits and starts running among the attackers and killing enemies left and right. Slowly but steadily the number of enemies are decreasing but also the number of wounds on his body is increasing, even though he is using mana to heal all shallow wounds, there are still some big ones.

All the while during this, Alex just stayed still calmly looking at Alfred like he doesn't care, but if one looks closely, he is waiting like a predator for a chance to strike...

And his chance soon came, after 30 mins into the fight, the soilders Alex brought reduced to 20, and 14 of them are rank 8 warriors.

Looking at the remaining soilders, Alfred muttered "the fun starts now"

And starts attacking more fiercely, but rank8's are not as easy to deal like rank7's he is having a hard time fighting against them and to his dismay all of them are attacking type ones, with 4 long range attackers.

Its a very close fight and if there a lapse in concentration even for one second, that might be the last second for Alfred, yet Alex isnt making any move to help his underlinings.

Alfred constantly dodging, blocking, parrying the attacks seemingly coming from all directions. Truth to be said it looks kinda over whelming for Alfred.

At one critical moment he made a small mistake and suddenly one rank8 soilder with a huge battle axe swung it with full force, the axe is moving at a frightening pace towards his chest region aiming his heart.

He quickly adjusted his stance and tried to block the axe, but it isnt enough, although he blocked the axe, he got blown away by the sheer force of the attack.

Before he tried to regain his footing, all the soilders, encircled him and started hacking at him with out giving him a moment to ready.

And soon Alfred is having hard time fighting, now suddenly out of nowhere Alex jumps into the action. And starts attacking with the remaining others.

"Did you just got enough courage to attack me just now?" Alfred said with a solemn expression.

"Or did you think i am gonna lose just because you joined? It doesn't matter how many the likes of you joined the fight, I will never lose to the likes of you" Alfred spoke again after a couple of seconds.

But if anyone looks at the fight, it is clear to everyone that Alfred is losing. He got cuts all over his body, some of them are shallow and are healing quickly, which is normal for someone with mana in their body.

But the other wounds are not healing, they are bleeding although slowly its still bleeding and Alfred's movements are becoming slow and stiff.

Slowly he is getting overwhelmed, then suddenly, Alex raises his long sword above his head with both hands and pours all of his mana in to the sword and the sword gets bigger than its size and kinda converting into a heavy sword.

There is a blood red aura surrounding the sword, which looks the same as his armour.

Looking at this Alfred's face grimaces and gritting his teeth focuses all of his mana into the spear.

At the same time Alex vanishes from his spot and appears right in front of Alfred who is charging his spear and slashes down his sword with full force onto Alfred saying "Heavy Slash".

Seeing the powerful force coming from the sword, gritting his teeth, Alfred raises his spear to block the attack but the force is too much to bare for him and his knee his the ground.

Alfred cant seem to move at all for a couple of seconds, then suddenly from the shadows near by Alfred something comes at high speed that even Alex cant keepup with and tries to attack Alfred.