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Chapter 225: Beat Up Doni
🕑 Added 2025-05-21 09:47:23 +0000 UTCOn a larger deserted island in the Mediterranean, Blake and Doni stood facing each other.
After deciding to duel, Blake considered where to fight. In the end, after Diana’s persuasion, they took a private plane to this deserted island, which had a diameter of about ten kilometers.
As for some of the more daring individuals like Paolo and Diana, they chose to watch from a distance by helicopter. Other nobles could only watch through satellite imagery.
They never expected the seventh King’s birth banquet to turn into this. A duel between Campione was no trivial matter.
"I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time," Doni said slowly, pulling out his standard sword from its case, staring at Blake with a battle-filled gaze.
"I’ve wanted to punch you for a long time too. Let’s stop talking, let’s begin. By the way, I advise you to use your full strength right from the start, or this battle will end in an instant," Blake replied calmly, with a golden gleam flashing in his hand as he gripped the Excalibur.
"Really not holding back, huh?" Doni grinned without responding further.
In the next instant, a tremendous surge of magical power erupted from Doni’s body, instantly making the space around them feel heavy and oppressive.
Then, holy words began to echo from Doni’s mouth. At the same time, thousands of strange and twisted symbols appeared, floating around him.
"This is the power I gained not long ago. I stole it from old man Voban," Doni said with a mischievous smile as he looked at Blake.
[Steel Blessing]: Transforms the user’s body into steel, incomparable in both weight and hardness. Each additional rune increases the strength, and the user can still move normally. With a thousand such runes, the hardness can surpass diamonds by a wide margin. In addition, the steel body allows Doni to resist suffocation, endure extreme cold, and even enter a state of pseudo-death. The only weakness is high temperatures, which remain a nemesis, but it can still hold up in the sun’s fierce flames for several minutes.
"I see, so this is the source of your confidence," Blake said calmly after processing the information about the power in his mind. Although this ability seemed to counter his own, the result would still be the same.
Whoosh—!
Before Doni could respond, Blake unleashed a torrent of energy, breaking through the clouds above and causing a massive storm that enveloped the entire area.
Boom—!
Doni, however, didn’t dodge the incoming storm. He stood firm, enduring Blake’s winds. A deafening crash followed, and the ground beneath Doni began to collapse, creating a massive pit. Dirt and rocks were thrown into the air like bullets, shooting off in all directions.
If ordinary people were here, they would not only be blown away but also torn apart by the flying debris.
Even the helicopters in the distance, watching the battle, lost control and began shaking uncontrollably, plummeting into the ocean stirred up by the storm.
Of course, while affected, these individuals weren’t in the direct center or edge of the battlefield. With the lowest rank being a great knight, they would survive.
When the storm finally dissipated, the entire island was left in devastation. Trees were broken, scattered to unknown locations. Dirt and rocks were everywhere, leaving behind deep craters. The area where Doni had stood had collapsed into a deep pit, seemingly bottomless.
Only Blake remained mostly unharmed, with a small section of ground around him untouched.
This was to be expected, given Doni’s current weight. With the storm pressing down from above, this scene wasn’t surprising.
"Really, coming in with such heavy-handed attacks right away, you’re not holding back at all," Doni said, crawling out of the massive pit, his mouth twitching as he looked at the indifferent Blake. He had hoped to irritate Blake with his power. The enhanced weight and hardness, he thought, would prevent him from being blown away by Blake’s winds. Instead, Blake had used the storm to press him down, effectively nullifying his steel authorities.
"You're just full of yourself. The way authorities work is up to the user. And like I said, I’m going to knock you down," Blake said, glancing at Doni with a slight smirk.
Hearing this, Doni’s expression froze, unable to refute.
However, Doni wasn’t someone to dwell on such things, and the next moment, he charged straight at Blake. The standard longsword in his hand suddenly cut through the air with a cold gleam, also covered in the "Rune" text. The terrifying weight made the air resound with a terrifying tearing sound.
"Clang——!"
"Boom——!"
In the face of Doni's strike, Blake didn’t dodge but gripped his holy sword and also swung at Doni. In an instant, the two swords collided mid-air, producing a terrifying explosion, like thunder. At the same time, the ground beneath their feet began to collapse, as if it could no longer support them.
However, neither of them cared about these things. In an instant, the two swords with flashing cold gleams collided wildly, causing devastating destruction around them.
With the ground sinking and collapsing, Blake furrowed his brows. The increase in Doni’s weight and hardness had made the force behind his swing rise to a terrifying level, actually allowing him to match Blake in a direct clash.
It’s worth noting that because he had become a Campione, the energy within him had reached the high-level Satan Class. If converted into fighting energy, he could easily take on a high-level Dragon King in hand-to-hand combat without using any special abilities or weapons.
However, despite the increase in weight leading to more power, his speed remained as slow as before.
After fully testing Doni's limits, a glint of brilliance flashed across Blake’s crystal blue pupils. His speed suddenly increased by several times, causing Doni’s vision to blur.
"Boom—!"
Before Doni could react, he was kicked flying, like a shooting star across the sky, crashing heavily into a small mountain and being buried beneath the rocks.
