Practice

Pearl was a little surprised. He had fully expected to pierce the woman's chest with his spear. He hadn't known that she would be saved in the end. Did she have a protective treasure?

"That counts as victory, right?" he asked, turning around toward the man who came down on him with an axe swing.

Pearl's body glowed golden suddenly and the axe merely clanged against his White Tiger's Dominating Body technique. He smiled as the axe did nothing to even his clothes and struck back with his spear.

The man managed to block the attack at the last second, but that still sent him flying into the trees at the back.

Alex watched as the man he attacked was sent away in a burst of teleportation. He too was surprised to see that there was a protective mechanism to the talismans.

'I'll have to be careful,' he thought. 'I can't let it accidentally get used up just because it doesn't know how much I can handle.'