Chapter 188 He is Strong, But I Am Not Weak

The crowd followed the voice and saw a tall, burly male figure speaking. He had dark skin and a wild, untamed mane of grey hair like a lion's. He stood with his arms crossed, staring directly at Han Xiao with a cold expression.

"Oh? Is that what you think?"

Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, recalling the man's resume.

"Fist of the Extreme Path" Bagnita, an extremely powerful martial artist with an explosive, fierce style and astonishing destructive power. He was the founder of many powerful martial arts schools, especially skilled in the Extreme Path style. Although he wasn't the originator, he was historically recognized as the most proficient practitioner of the Extreme Path.

This guy wasn't from the Era of the Fallen Ark, but an earlier Beyond Grade A, from a neutral faction. His cause of death was unknown, but he left behind a clan, and he was also on this batch of resurrection candidates.

Bagnita wore a sleeveless military uniform vest, his arm muscles twitching, and said coldly, "The thing I hate most is when people give me multiple-choice questions. Whether I help you or not depends on my mood. If you want to force me, forget it!"

"People with personality often don't live long." Dirron scoffed.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but glance at him, nodding in deep agreement.

Bagnita was too lazy to pay attention to him, looking around at the people beside him and said in a deep voice, "We're all Beyond Grade As, who's afraid of who? Those with guts, stand by me!"

Han Xiao shook his head, finding his mood surprisingly calm, with a sense of habit. If the martial artists weren't stubborn one day, he might find it strange.

He turned to survey the many Resurrected, and spread his hands,

"Anyone else who thinks the same, feel free to step forward."

The crowd looked at each other, hesitated for a while, and no one responded. Instead, they retreated, isolating Bagnita.

Seeing this, Bagnita's brow furrowed, and he said coldly, "Humph, the Beyond Grade As of later generations are worse than the last!"

Dirron clicked his tongue and retorted, "Hey, inciting us to risk our lives with you? If a fight breaks out, with your strength, you can probably retreat unscathed. It's not you who's going to be sacrificed anyway. Just say you want people as cannon fodder. Everyone here is an expert, who are you trying to impress?"

"Fool." Bagnita glanced at Dirron, his tone disdainful.

Seeing this scene, Han Xiao turned his gaze back to Bagnita, raising an eyebrow.

"Looks like it's just you left. Do you want to continue?"

"Since no one dares to cooperate, what's there to say?"

Bagnita snorted coldly, and lowered his arms.

Han Xiao couldn't help but laugh, "You're quite aware of the situation, but don't you think you're thinking too nicely? You wanted to incite the other Resurrected into a riot with just a few words, and when you saw things were impossible, you gave up directly, wanting to pretend nothing happened. There's no such thing."

Bagnita frowned, tensing his arm muscles again, "What do you want?"

Han Xiao took a step, slowly walking into the crowd of Resurrected, approaching Bagnita, and said as he walked:

"We resurrected you to benefit the entire class, not for charity. I've already made the situation very clear. We're all in the same boat, partners on the same front... But even so, we didn't want to treat you as cannon fodder, and we didn't even force you to take risks, giving you the choice to stay in the Holy Covenant and watch us fight. If we win, you can enjoy it together. If we lose, you can continue to hide in the dark and protect yourselves.

"You don't have to be grateful that we gave you a second life, but for your personal needs, you don't hesitate to disrupt our overall plan... Of course, you have that freedom, but since you've done it, don't blame us for dealing with you."

As soon as he finished speaking, a sudden change occurred!

Violent energy surged out, Bagnita's fist burning with dazzling martial arts flames, drawing a meteor-like trajectory, suddenly striking Han Xiao's chest!

Bang!!

"Knowing I'm a martial artist, you still dared to approach me. You asked for it!"

Such a thought flashed through Bagnita's mind. He wouldn't sit still and wait for death. Seeing that Han Xiao's words were wrong, he directly struck first.

The next moment, the fist force suddenly exploded, and the condensed martial arts flame sprayed out from Han Xiao's back, turning into an inverted conical energy shock wave, blasting a huge gap in the entire room.

Rumble!

Looking from the universe, in a certain direction of the space station, a dazzling pillar of light suddenly shot out from the inside out, as if an explosion had occurred inside.

In the room, everyone was surprised that Bagnita had acted so decisively, and made their own actions. Some wanted to come up to help, and some wanted to step back and watch.

But before they could make any moves, they saw Han Xiao, who had taken a heavy punch, didn't even shake, as if nothing had happened. In a flash of lightning, he counterattacked, suddenly grabbing Bagnita's head with both hands, pressing it down, and raising his leg for a heavy knee strike!

Bang!

Bagnita couldn't withstand the force of this burst for a moment, his head was pressed down, making intimate contact with Han Xiao's knee. Blood spurted out of his nose, and his brain vibrated.

Before he could recover from the momentary dizziness, Han Xiao grabbed Bagnita's head with one hand, forming a lock, and struck Bagnita's arched back with a heavy elbow chop with the other.

Crack!

The sound of the spinal fracture clearly reached everyone's ears, and Bagnita's back showed a clear reverse bend.

"Hiss..."

Many people gasped, and their eyes changed again as they looked at Han Xiao.

Taking the first move, not hesitating to exchange injuries for a serious injury to the opponent... If you say he's not a martial artist, we wouldn't believe it!

At this moment, Bagnita broke free from the brief negative state, roared, and the flames around him exploded again. His muscles swelled, and a rich blood energy instantly spread out, and the attributes of the whole person soared by a large margin.

Immediately afterwards, Bagnita hugged Han Xiao's waist, kicked his legs, and exploded with force, hitting Han Xiao through the metal walls, flying out like a shooting star and falling into the universe.

"This is the Extreme Path Style!"

The crowd was well-informed and immediately understood Bagnita's changes.

Relying on the special explosive power of the Extreme Path style, the combat power of martial artists can generally cross a small tier, and Bagnita's name is very loud. As the historically recognized master of the Extreme Path style, the effect of the Extreme Path style is even more amazing, and under his exclusive improvement, the side effects have become limited.

Bagnita himself had not reached the level of a peak Beyond Grade A, but with his powerful cross-tier explosive ability, he was enough to compete with a peak Beyond Grade A opponent, earning the nickname "Fist of the Extreme Path". In everyone's eyes, his strength was very strong.

The eyes of many Resurrected changed. Although they had felt the energy fluctuations of Han Xiao not long ago were very amazing, they had not seen Black Star formally attack, so they had no direct feeling.

Now that there was an opportunity, many Resurrected did not help or stop, and wanted to take this opportunity to observe Black Star's combat level.

Most Beyond Grade As are arrogant people. The Resurrected present all wanted to see what the level of the so-called "Beyond Grade A leader" was, and what was his confidence.

Many Resurrected originally thought they would see a fierce battle of fists, but the change in the situation in the next second caught them completely unprepared.

They saw Han Xiao also locking Bagnita in a counterattack. At the same time, countless mechanical soldiers poured out from the space station, covering the sky and the sun, and without saying a word, they violently attacked the two people embracing each other!

Rumble——

The swelling energy ball was like a newborn star, instantly illuminating the starry sky!

The aftermath of the explosion spread, the protective shield of the space station was stimulated, swaying, and the entire base was pushed out, violently vibrating.

The sudden burst of bright light made everyone squint their eyes subconsciously, with surprised expressions.

"Are they going to perish together?"

"The fighting style is too fierce, aren't they afraid of messing up?"

"Speaking of which, Black Star is actually a Mechanic? With that physical fitness, he looks like a martial artist!"

The crowd couldn't help but worry, looking around, but found that every Holy Covenant member looked calm and composed, as if they were not worried at all.

"Aren't you worried about the safety of your partner?" Someone couldn't help but ask.

Beiger turned his head to look at these people, curled his lips, and smiled nonchalantly, "Heh, the thing that can kill Black Star probably doesn't exist!"

At this moment, the light gradually contracted and diminished, and two figures tightly attached to each other flew out from the center of the explosion, quickly approached the base, and flew back into the room from the gap.

Thump!

A sound of falling to the ground rang out. Bagnita was lying on the ground like a dead dog, with almost no good flesh on his body, seriously injured and dying, almost only a breath left.

Everyone's hearts shook, looking up, they saw that Han Xiao also had injuries on his body, but they were recovering at an incredible speed, almost returning to normal in the blink of an eye. It was he who brought the dying Bagnita back.

Han Xiao looked calm, and nodded towards the Oathkeeper.

"Treat his injuries, don't let him die."

The Holy Covenant members were not surprised. Several people came forward, turned Bagnita's body over and over, and sprayed him with healing spray, which looked inexplicably like brushing sauce on a barbecue.

Seeing this scene, the Resurrected only felt unable to believe their eyes.

That's it?

From the start of the fight to the end, it wasn't even three minutes?!

They thought it would be a fierce battle, but no one expected that Black Star would kill Bagnita in two or three strokes...

This is not some miscellaneous Beyond Grade A, but a well-known master in history!

At the beginning, everyone knew that Black Star might be very strong, but they did not expect that he was so powerful, which had completely exceeded their experience judgment!

'No wonder he dares to call himself the "Beyond Grade A leader", he really has this qualification...' Many people were secretly shocked, and this thought flashed through their minds.

Han Xiao twisted his neck, moved the muscles that were a little sore from the bombardment-style massage he had just received, and turned his head to see the more and more intense emotions of fear in the eyes of the crowd, secretly nodded, quite satisfied with the effect of this battle.

He was not angry, scolding Bagnita was just taking advantage of the topic to establish his authority.

Because he knew that there must be many people who held similar ideas, but were afraid to respond because the situation was stronger than others. To dispel these people's thoughts, it was not enough to rely on the number of Beyond Grade As to make the other party afraid of throwing stones at the rat. He had to let the other party feel the huge gap in individual strength... Seeing is believing, and only direct action can give people the most intuitive shock.

And the best way to establish authority is to kill Bagnita instantly.

Therefore, Han Xiao deliberately showed his intention to take action, while actively approaching the other party, in order to let Bagnita engage in close combat with him, so that he could use the skill "Die Together" – this move is the most efficient instant kill tactic!

His biggest advantage is the asymmetry of information. As long as people who know his details, basically no one dares to approach him. These Resurrected do not know this yet, so Bagnita followed the old experience and did not let go of the "opportunity", and started with close combat, completely falling into Han Xiao's trap.

When Bagnita chose to fight, the result of this battle was already doomed – facing an uninformed opponent, Die Together is almost the best tactic.

Killing Bagnita instantly achieved Han Xiao's expectations, causing a great shock to the young minds of this group of people, and only the last step remained.

Seeing Bagnita's body gradually recovering, Han Xiao turned his hand and took out the Time Amber, directly wrapping Bagnita up, and said lightly:

"I won't kill him, but in order to avoid unstable factors, let him be confined and calm down for a while."

The next moment, the Time Amber took shape, Bagnita's body froze, and was frozen in the amber.

"What is this thing?"

Everyone looked puzzled, and the Holy Covenant members next to them explained.

Soon, everyone present knew the function of the Time Amber, and their expressions changed, both surprised and fearful. This thing is almost a nemesis that all Beyond Grade As fear.

At this time, Han Xiao turned to look at everyone, with a kind smile on his face:

"The person who raised the question has been resolved, so everyone, have you made your choice?"

Everyone had different expressions, some with bitter smiles, and some secretly swallowing saliva.

Under the strong fear, their choice was no suspense.

"...I am willing to stay in the Holy Covenant."

"Me too."

Someone started, and others responded.

Of the two routes, almost everyone chose to stay in the Holy Covenant organization. At least until they figured out the situation, they didn't want to appear outside, so as to avoid taking risks.

Soon, only Dirron was left who had not expressed his position.

Han Xiao looked over, "What about you, are you staying in the Holy Covenant, or joining the Association?"

Dirron rubbed his smooth white chin with his fingers, and snorted coldly:

"I don't want to miss such an interesting thing... I'm joining the Association! If there's a fight with the three great civilizations, count me in, I still want to settle the score with them!"

Saying that, Dirron seemed to feel unfulfilled, and turned his head to glance at the other Resurrected present, saying in a strange tone:

"Sure enough, the books are right, mediocre people who are afraid of taking risks always occupy the majority."

Hearing this, Han Xiao couldn't help but take a closer look at Dirron.

No wonder you were turned to ashes, you deserved it. I even want to beat you to death...