The Witch Hunter System

Boom! Boom!

In a short instance, the Celestial Dragon King arrived at the battleground, slamming straight into Valefor like a flash of golden light. A second impact resounded as Valefor smashed into the ground, heavily deforming the thick metal plate into a concave bowl.

At the same time, the Celestial Dragon King's furious expression changed to shock during the moment of impact. The sharp pain that traveled up his leg in an instant forced him to retreat right after delivering his powerful kick.

Afterward, he inspected his left leg which had been broken with multiple fractured dragon scales.

He had landed a solid surprise kick on his unguarded opponent, but the one who got injured was him. The unknown invader's body was so tough that he wasn't confident if his kick even dealt any damage.

"The Celestial Dragon King is here!"

"This is great! We are saved—"

When the Celestial Dragon King arrived, the Celestial Dragons were initially overjoyed. However, they quickly noticed something wrong when they saw the state of his left leg.

More frighteningly, Valefor casually got up from the dented ground and patted himself clean as if nothing had just happened.

Considering the streets of Celestial City were sparkling clean due to the laborious work of the Celestial servants and slaves, Valefor had nothing to dust off his clothes. His action was simply pure mockery.

"N-No damage?! How is that possible?!" the Celestial Dragons widened their eyes in horror.

Although no one knew exactly how much strength the Celestial Dragon King used, everyone understood that it wasn't a trivial amount. After all, the state of his left leg was proof of that.

If the Celestial Dragon King's strong attack couldn't even hurt Valefor, how were they supposed to defeat him?

Nevertheless, once the Celestial Dragon King realized his physical attack was ineffective, he immediately took out his prized weapon, a silver greatsword as long as his height and half his width, from his interspatial ring.

Meanwhile, Valefor looked back at the Celestial Dragon King with interest.

He had seen many Celestial Dragons withdrawing weapons from their interspatial rings. Thus, he became curious about their storage artifacts, which didn't seem easy to produce.

"Are you the strongest being around here?" Valefor asked.

However, he didn't get an answer. The Celestial Dragon King immediately attacked him with a wide downward cleave.

Such a big move was naturally easy to dodge for someone at Valefor's level. Still, he had to admit that the power behind it was impressive. If he didn't have the Primordial Avatar Body, such an attack might just kill him.

Boom!

The Celestial Dragon King's attack missed, cleaving apart the land. The slivery-grey light that wrapped around the greatsword extended beyond it, continuing to scar the ground for more than a hundred meters.

Evidently, it was the power of the Celestial Dragon King's Sword Intent. Its sharpness was no joke.

With a single glance, Valefor could tell the Celestial Dragon King was different from those other Celestial Dragons. Unlike those half-baked fighters with Half-step Divine Lord-level battle prowess, the Celestial Dragon King's battle prowess had truly reached the level of a Divine Lord.

The Celestial Dragon King was capable of challenging beings above his realm, just like Valefor.

Nevertheless, Valefor did not give the Celestial Dragon King time to retreat or follow up on his attack. He immediately backhanded toward the Celestial Dragon King's face the moment his sword strike missed.

Bam!

Unfortunately, the backhand did not reach its intended target as it was obstructed by the Celestial Dragon King's dragon tail.

Moreover, the latter used the counterforce to create distance from Valefor.

"Celestial Dragon King, we will assist you—!"

"All of you, leave! None of you are a match for this person and will only get in my way!"

Although the Celestial Dragons wanted to back up the Celestial Dragon King, they were firmly rejected and dismissed by the latter.

Indeed, the Celestial Dragons secretly acknowledged that they were simply not strong enough to participate in this level of battle. Their stubborn inference would only result in unnecessary casualties.

As such, they could only pray for the Celestial Dragon King's success.

"Who the hell are you? Why did you attack us?" the Celestial Dragon King shortly interrogated Valefor.

"Oh? Now, you are interested in some small talk?" Valefor smiled with ridicule before nonchalantly replying, "I just want to fight strong people. Is this answer good enough for you?"

"Hmph! It's good enough!"

The Celestial Dragon King coldly snorted before launching another sudden strike with his greatsword, clashing with Valefor's random battle-axe. Sparks emitted upon contact as the two scraped against each other.

The Celestial Dragon King didn't need to hear any other reason, for he felt the same way after realizing how strong Valefor was. They were both people who desired strong rivals—people who could help them push beyond their limits.

After all, sometimes, solitary cultivation was not enough to overcome their bottlenecks. Sometimes, external pressure was just the slight push they needed to advance.

"However, you still haven't told me who you are!" the Celestial Dragon Kick suddenly roared, exerting more strength to push Valefor several meters away.

He immediately followed up with a horizontal slash, aiming to bisect Valefor at the waist. However, the latter deflected his greatsword with a strong upper slash before whipping at his stomach with a sharp horse kick.

Boom!

Valefor's kick was also parried by one of the Celestial Dragon Kick's golden wings before some distance was created between them.

However, the one who got pushed back a few dozen meters was the Celestial Dragon King. His wings were strong but not as strong as his limbs. Forcefully challenging Valefor in a contest of strength would only hurt his wings.

Fortunately, his injured left leg had already healed during their short exchange.

"Since you want to know so badly, I suppose I can tell you who I am. I am the Heavenly Devil, Ruler of Gehenna—The one who will end Nightmare."

"Bullshit. Since when did Gehenna have a Heavenly Devil? Do you think I don't know that the ruler of Gehenna is Great Devil Thanatos? You must be treating me like a fool!"

"Heh!"

Valefor snickered with ridicule.

"They say that people who live under rocks are ignorant, but you? You live under an entire continent. What the hell would you know about Gehenna? Even turtles hiding in their shells would be more informed than you. Just admit that you are ignorant."

"You—!!"

After Valefor insulted the Celestial Dragon King for his ignorance, the latter was enraged and no longer interested in small talk. He would fight with his sword, not his mouth.

"Die!"

The Celestial Dragon King suddenly slashed at Valefor with an incomparably stronger Sword Intent. Given the superiority of his greatsword, Valefor immediately knew that the random battle-axe he picked up would not last even if he reinforced it with Weapon Intent.

As such, Valefor directly threw the battle-axe at the Celestial Dragon King's head and created distance before the empowered sword strike reached him.

Although the Celestial Dragon King's slash missed, several meters of air beyond his greatsword's reach was still sliced. As for the spinning battle-axe, it was lodged into the rear building after the Celestial Dragon King barely dodged it by tilting his head.

Just when the Celestial Dragon Kick prepared to close the distance and engage Valefor in combat again, he saw the latter draw out a burnt stick of sword length from his storage space.

"You want to fight me with that thing instead of a proper weapon?"

"Against you? It is enough."

Valefor grinned at the Celestial Dragon King's darkened expression.

The [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Branch] was a True Divinity-rank material. Although it wasn't a proper weapon, it was certainly sturdier than any weapon wielded by the Celestial Dragons. Even the Celestial Dragon King's silver greatsword wasn't an exception.

Nevertheless, the Celestial Dragon King didn't know this and took the tree branch as an insult.

Moments later, Valefor took the initiative to attack while the latter's heart was boiling with anger over his insulting choice of a weapon.

"Hmph!"

Watching Valefor foolishly closing the distance with such a lousy weapon, the Celestial Dragon King coldly snorted. Suddenly, his gaze glimmered with a ruthless glint as he intended to slice both the stick and Valefor in half with a single strong slash.

"Go to hell!" the Celestial Dragon King roared.

He met Valefor's stick with a powerful diagonal downward slash. In that instant, he could imagine the frail-looking stick snapping and Valefor getting bisected at the shoulder.

Boom!

Surprisingly, the burnt stick did not break like the Celestial Dragon King had imagined and faced the full force of his empowered greatsword head-on.

What!

Although the Celestial Dragon King was instantly shocked, he didn't freeze foolishly. He gritted his teeth and stubbornly pressed forward, launching a flurry of quick slashes. He refused to believe that a tree branch would last long under his barrage of attacks.

Valefor and the Celestial Dragon King were suddenly locked into an intense exchange of blows. No matter how many times the Celestial Dragon King swung his heavy greatsword, Valefor received it with his burnt stick without fail.

Each time Valefor did, the Celestial Dragon King would feel his confidence shattering. It only took three exchanges before the latter no longer looked down on his burnt stick.

After two hundred exchanges, he was completely dumbfounded.

The burnt stick remained virtually undamaged under the reinforcement of Valefor's Weapon Intent.

'That is no ordinary stick…' the Celestial Dragon King deeply frowned.