Being a Saint Since the Age of Myth

The two answered and withdrew together.

As for the Crateris Cloth, Sasha took it herself and placed it in the stands.

After leaving the arena, Wuxin immediately sought out Ophiuchus Odysseus.

"May I ask how long it will take for my injuries to heal?" he asked Ophiuchus with some concern.

Earlier, Saint Candidate Number Two had run him through with a black spear. Although he had avoided his vital organs, he was still badly injured.

Only because he had mastered the power of Cosmo, tempering his body and greatly improving his constitution, could he endure it. Otherwise, injuries like these would have left him lying on the ground, unable to move.

But if he could not recover before the next match, the consequences would still be severe.

"I can't say for certain. Let me examine you first!" Odysseus smiled, then pulled open Wuxin's clothes to examine him.

After a careful examination lasting nearly five minutes, he nodded. "The wound missed your vital organs, which naturally makes it easier to heal."

"With my healing ability and some proper rest, you should be able to recover to eighty percent."

"Then let's hurry! Sorry for the trouble, Odysseus!" Wuxin hastily thanked him.

"You're welcome. This is my duty!" Odysseus smiled faintly and immediately used his special technique to treat him.

"Flesh Regeneration!"

An enormous staff appeared, then a large serpent climbed up it to the top and released a pale green radiance from its eyes.

Bathed in that radiance, Wuxin immediately felt an itching sensation in his wound, and even the pain subsided considerably.

After roughly twenty minutes of treatment, his wound had completely closed, leaving no visible trace.

Odysseus cautioned him earnestly, "Although the wound has closed, the flesh around it is still fragile and needs some time to adjust."

"So it has only recovered to roughly eighty percent."

"In the coming battle, be careful to protect the healed area. Don't let it get hurt again!"

"Thank you!"

Wuxin thanked him happily, then found a quiet corner to sit in meditation and rest.

Chapter 46: The Contest for Crateris (Part One)

An hour passed quickly, and Wuxin's combat strength returned to its peak.

In fact, his earlier battles had not consumed much stamina. The main problem had been his fight with Saint Candidate Number Two, whose spear had pierced straight through him and seriously injured him.

Now, after Ophiuchus's treatment, it was no longer a major concern.

All that remained was to defeat Baker, the Crateris Cloth's original owner, so he could rightfully claim it.

Thinking of Crateris's original owner, Wuxin could not help sighing inwardly. Although I do feel somewhat sorry for you, I still have no intention of going easy on you.

After all, of all the Silver Cloths, only Crateris acknowledged me.

If I give it up, I'll have almost no chance of finding another opportunity to obtain a Silver Cloth.

At that thought, he could not help clenching his fists.

Before long, he entered the arena again.

There was no telling just how much resentment Crateris Baker harbored toward him. He had never left the arena, waiting all along for Wuxin to return.

"Crateris belongs to me! Don't ever think you can take it away from me!" Baker snarled as soon as he saw him enter.

Wuxin shook his head and said calmly, "I didn't take it away from you. It chose me of its own accord!"

"No!"

Baker seemed to have fallen into some kind of obsession. He raged, "You must have used some evil spell to make it come apart on my body!"

"As long as I defeat you here, I'll be able to break your evil spell and bring the Crateris Cloth back to my side!"

"I alone am the Saint best suited to it, the one most qualified to wear it!"

As he spoke, he angrily burned his Cosmo, unleashing a powerful pressure that forced Wuxin back two steps.

Seeing this, Sasha in the stands could not help feeling a little worried. She said quietly, "Mr. Sage, something seems wrong with Baker's state of mind!"

"Yes, I noticed it too!"

Pope Sage nodded and said seriously, "Perhaps being abandoned by his Cloth was too heavy a blow for him to bear, leaving him lost."

"After this match, I'll send someone to have a proper talk with him and try to resolve what's troubling him!"

"Yes, that would be best!" Sasha agreed.

In the arena, after confirming both sides were ready, the Saint acting as referee once again announced loudly.

"Begin!"

Before his words had even faded, Baker charged out impatiently.

"Die! You despicable wretch who stole my Cloth!"

With an angry shout, he slammed a heavy punch into the ground.

"Frozen Earth!"

Immediately afterward, Wuxin saw a layer of white, solid ice spreading rapidly in every direction from his opponent's fist.

"So he's mastered ice powers?"

Wuxin understood at once and shook his head. "Unfortunately, this ice isn't spreading fast enough!"

With his Cloth on, Baker would certainly be somewhat stronger than him, but without it, Baker was actually about his equal. There was no obvious difference in their speed.

This meant Wuxin could retreat almost as quickly as the ice spread. Even with every ounce of his strength, Baker could not catch him with his ice.

But Wuxin soon realized he had underestimated his opponent.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed another stretch of ice spreading rapidly toward him from a short distance behind him.

"So that's it!"

He understood at once.

Baker might seem impulsive, but he was not stupid.

While using the ice in front to force him back, he had also sent his freezing power around the flanks, further expanding the frozen area and silently cutting off Wuxin's retreat.

Once the ice converged from every direction, Wuxin would have nowhere left to stand.

"Still, even if I underestimated you, that doesn't mean I have no way to deal with this!" Landing once more, Wuxin opened his right hand.

The power of Cosmo had finished gathering, taking the form of a pale flame in his palm.

"Sekishiki: Demonic Blue Flames!"

With a gentle toss, he dropped the flame in his hand onto the advancing ice in front of him.

Immediately, the Demonic Blue Flames, fueled by mental power, began burning on the ice and spreading rapidly across its surface. Before long, Wuxin was completely surrounded by a sea of fire.

However, as the sea of fire spread, the ice rapidly closing in on him stopped advancing entirely, averting the immediate crisis.

"It won't be that easy!"

Outside the sea of fire, Baker immediately cut off his flow of Cosmo, eliminating the possibility of the flames latching onto him.

He retreated two steps, then released his Cosmo toward the sky.

"Ice Spear White Lotus!"

In an instant, moisture in the air rapidly condensed into one ice-crystal spear after another, pouring down like a torrential rain toward Wuxin on the ground.

"So this is his real killing move?" Sensing the fluctuations overhead, Wuxin immediately furrowed his brow.

The ice just now had only been a feint. Freezing him would naturally have been ideal, but even if it failed, it could still force him to stop and even expend the power he had gathered in his hand, setting the stage for the next lethal attack.

"If you think this is enough to defeat me, you're far too full of yourself!"

With no time to gather power for another special technique, Wuxin simply covered his fists in Cosmo and punched rapidly at the ice spears raining down.

Bang, bang, bang!

Punch after punch, he swiftly and accurately shattered the ice spears above his head. As for those not falling directly toward him, he let them pass, allowing them to plunge into the ground.

Before long, a forest of ice-crystal spears stood within a radius of nearly a hundred meters around him.

But just then, a figure swooped down amid the rain of spears falling from the sky.

Crateris Baker had seized this opportunity to launch a surprise attack, concealed within the rain of spears.

Forced to devote most of his attention to defending against the spears, Wuxin reacted a beat too slowly to Baker's ambush.

At that moment, he suddenly understood that his opponent had already planned for the possibility that the ice spears would fail to defeat him, and had hidden among them to launch a surprise attack.

This was the third layer of his killing moves.

Fortunately, after unleashing powerful techniques twice in succession, his opponent was already somewhat exhausted and could no longer use another special technique, leaving him only a close-range ambush.

Otherwise, if another powerful technique had come as a surprise attack, he probably really could not have withstood it.

Even so, he still struggled to handle this punch descending from the sky.

With no time to dodge or block, Wuxin could only barely twist his body, trying his best to keep his vital organs out of its path.

Boom!

Baker's heavy punch landed squarely on the right side of Wuxin's chest.

With a crack, several of his ribs broke at once, and even his lung throbbed with severe pain from the impact.

"Damn it!"

If he hadn't been somewhat exhausted and unable to gather enough strength, that punch probably would have killed me! Severely wounded in an instant, Wuxin was terrified.

Chapter 47: The Contest for Crateris (Part Two)

"Die, you unwanted nuisance!"

"The Crateris Cloth belongs to me!"

Madness showed on Baker's face. Without concealing his killing intent in the slightest, he raised his fist to deliver a second blow.