1836 Battle of Attrition

"What is going on? Where is his Majesty?"

Yan Yating was confused about Alex's current situation, needless to speak of the many others that were around him. Watching the Dragon Emperor fight empty air made them feel curious as to what was going on.

Hannah and the Elders remained quiet, not saying anything. They could feel the strong spiritual sense that surrounded them and they understood that anything they said would end up being heard by the Dragon Emperor.

Still, Hannah worried about Alex. Not only had he lost whatever had given him strength earlier, but he had also lost a few of his blood beasts, rendering him a lot weaker than he was previously.

As the situation was, it was a miracle that Alex hadn't died to the Dragon Emperor at all. But, did he have any chance of winning at all now that he was weakened?

Neither Hannah nor the others around her could think of any way Alex could defeat the Dragon Emperor now that he had lost his advantage.

Could he possibly defeat him through a battle of attrition?

* * * * *

The Dragon Emperor felt himself tremble with rage, the fires within him burning hot with a pure will to kill Alex.

Attacks flew out of every other direction at him, causing him to only be able to react. He wanted to attack Alex, but finding his location was simply impossible.

He could only sense the location of where the attack appeared from. By the time he was done dealing with the attack, there would be nothing of note there at all.

The Dragon Emperor saw a sword slash fly toward him, a weaker one, and decided to not deal with it. Instead, he focused on where Alex saw, taking a clean hit to the right side of his body.

His defense was just enough that the sword slash only managed to cut no more than an inch into his body. The wound was painful, but it allowed him some time to see where Alex was.

He managed to locate an irregularity in the location. He sensed a sort of emptiness in his spiritual sense like there was a spot that he could not focus his attention into.

He had sensed this a few times before, but it disappeared just as quickly as he sensed it, and now he wondered if this was something.

The Dragon Emperor tried to follow it with his senses.

Another sword slash appeared toward him, and this one he couldn't afford to let hit. It was somewhat stronger, so the Dragon Emperor attacked back, destroying the attack before searching for the emptiness.

He sensed it just as another attack flew out.

4 golden spears flew out of nowhere, coming for him. The Dragon Emperor fought back with a stab of his spear, which created illusory wind spears form around him, all of which struck the other spears, destroying them easily.

The Dragon Emperor searched for the emptiness once more, finding it quite fast this time around.

Without waiting, he shot out a bolt of lightning in that direction.

Something flew out from that direction at the same time, striking the lightning bolt as the two destroyed one another. The force of the lightning bolt was still stronger as such the residual energy continued moving toward where the Dragon Emperor had targeted, but by that time, there was nothing there.

The Dragon Emperor quickly sensed more locations and found the emptiness.

He struck out once again.

* * * * *

Alex was currently invisible with his aura completely concealed and his his physical body concealed by the burning Yang Qi that surrounded his body.

With Godslayer no longer helping him, Alex could now use his Yang energy once again, and by using it, he was capable of doing more than just fighting straight forward.

He started attacking while hiding so that the Dragon Emperor could never openly fight and only be able to react.

Alex knew that the Dragon Emperor did not have much Qi to work with, so he had to force the fight to drag on while he chipped away at the Emperor.

He could see a single path to victory here, and that involved one of two things.

Either the Dragon Emperor had to be distracted somehow, or he had to be weakened to a point where he could not defend himself.

At either point, he was certain he could kill the Dragon Emperor. It was just that bringing him to that point was a difficult task at the moment.

Alex wanted to distract him, but that seemed impossible, so he resorted to weakening him.

Attacking from invisibility was working quite well. He was keeping the emperor on his toes in the fight, not letting him relax one moment.

He was also not getting attacked as a result of the Dragon Emperor not knowing where he was, and that was an advantage. He wished he could use stronger attacks, but he didn't have time for those right now.

The moment he stopped attacking, the Dragon Emperor could go attack his friends and families, and that could be trouble.

It was a surprise to him how difficult the Dragon Emperor was having with the battle at first. Had it been the Western Continent, where getting to the Saint realm was nearly impossible, he would have been found by their Qi long ago.

However, since the concept of Qi Sense itself was not something prevalent outside of the Western Continent, nobody really used it.

The Dragon Emperor, who had entered the Saint realm and opened his Spiritual sense 9000 years ago certainly didn't.

Things were going fine until the Dragon Emperor attacked him right where he was. Alex fought back and moved to a different location.

Was it a coincidence?

It wasn't. The Dragon Emperor attacked where he was once again.

'I've been found,' Alex thought, but he could continue this for much longer. Just because the Dragon Emperor had found a way to know where he was, didn't mean that he had absolutely won.

Alex teleported and struck at the Dragon Emperor from another side.

The Dragon Emperor sensed the fluctuations in space and turned around in time to counter Alex's attack.

Upon attacking, Alex sent out a Heaven's Impact as well, hitting the Emperor with a mental attack that he hoped was just enough to make him not see where he was disappearing.

Every split second he caused the emperor to lose, would be what he gained himself to attack him.

The Heaven's Impact did little to the Dragon Emperor with a spiritual sense of belonging to an Immortal, but Alex found it helpful enough.

He attacked a couple more times, forcing the Dragon Emperor to fight back as well.

And then, the Dragon Emperor did something that caught Alex off guard.

Suddenly, a tempestuous wind appeared around the Dragon Emperor, covering the entire area.

Alex wondered what was happening for a moment, only to realize it just as the Dragon Emperor's head turned toward him.

'Shit!'

The Dragon Emperor was using his Dao of Wood to fill the area around him, so he could more easily sense the place where it wasn't.

In a way, he was establishing his own method of Qi sense. And because of that, he could now easily locate where Alex was.