I Aggressively Stack Steel of the Heart in the Knight Order

Chapter 209: Chapter 174: A Body Technique Powerhouse’s Spiritual Attack

BOOM—!

The walls of the Tomb Treasure Vault seemed to suffer a violent impact.

A ring-shaped shockwave of dust, like a falling meteorite, erupted against the wall.

The next second, Reinhardt’s Black War Axe, roaring with the Flame of Blood Fury, reached Nico!

Although Nico was shocked by Reinhardt’s explosive increase in strength, with the Extraordinary Power granted to him by the skeletal structure, an attack of this level was far from being able to touch him.

Domain Mimicry.

This was a power implanted within the structure by a powerful Wizard from ancient times.

It could drastically increase Nico’s nerve-reflex speed, overdrawing his life force to break the shackles of flesh and blood, thereby achieving a mimicry of a speed-type Domain.

Under the enhancement of Domain Mimicry, everything in Nico’s vision appeared in slow motion, with time flowing at an extremely slow pace.

At the same time, the immense strength granted by overdrawing his life force could perfectly support his nerve-reflex speed, allowing his body to execute all sorts of high-speed movements.

At this moment, Nico’s brows furrowed tightly, killing intent surging within him.

Though arrogant, he was no fool.

Even an idiot could see who Agate’s last words were meant for.

The secret and weakness of the skeletal structure must not be known by anyone else! He had already killed that Red-robed Cultivator; as long as he killed Reinhardt too, no one could take this secret out of here!

Reinhardt’s speed, breaking the sound barrier, was terrifying, but in Nico’s Domain Mimicry-enhanced vision, the trajectory of the powerful attack was still perfectly clear.

He parried the blade of the War Axe with his bare hand, preparing to repeat his previous tactic and kill Reinhardt with one decisive strike, eliminating any future threat.

He balled his left hand into a fist and, like a cannonball, shot it straight toward Reinhardt’s chest.

However, this time, unlike he had expected, his fist didn’t punch straight through the other man’s Extraordinary Armored Protection.

His Iron Fist first slammed into a pale blue, honeycomb-shaped Energy Protection Force Field. Immediately after, pulses of Frost Pulse shot through his body, attempting to freeze his Extraordinary Power and movements.

It was also at this moment that Nico discovered, to his horror, that even with him in Domain Mimicry, Reinhardt’s eyes and gaze had been tracking his movements from the very beginning.

It wasn’t the slow, unresponsive state he’d seen when he had sent him flying with a punch earlier.

The terror of being watched while in Domain Mimicry was like a colossal beast from the deep sea staring at a lone boat on the surface. In an instant, the hair on his body stood on end! He shot back in retreat!

Time began to flow again.

Reinhardt’s War Axe slammed heavily into the ground. The rising Flame of Blood Fury intertwined with the crimson blood-mist of his Second Great Power, enveloping his body and surging upward with astonishing power.

He turned his head to glance at Agate’s body on the ground, then fixed his gaze on Nico in the distance.

The ever-silent old soldier hadn’t managed to tell him the skeletal structure’s weakness in the end, but he had done his absolute best.

Domain Mimicry.

For Reinhardt, this one crucial piece of information was enough.

In the entire Ash Soil Star Zone, there were only six top-tier combatants at the level of Sky Knight or Tier Three Mage, including the outsider Sedon. They were the leaders of the five major factions.

An Earth Knight who had mastered Domain Power and possessed Heinrich Level strength could be said to be the strongest in the Ash Soil Star Zone, second only to those top-tier combatants!

Clearly, Warlord Nico was not among them.

Reinhardt had been gravely injured taking that punch from Nico head-on. Half the ribs in his chest were broken, and his internal organs had suffered a severe impact.

But that one punch had also caused the physique enhancement from his Bloodthirsty Madness to skyrocket to 100%!

Activating the Blood Fury Technology, his Physique’s strength doubled once more.

Right now, his Destructive Field·Bloodthirsty Madness had boosted his Physique’s strength by an absurd 200%!

His near-instantaneous nerve-reflex speed allowed him to completely track Nico’s movements within Domain Mimicry!

And in Nico’s vision, the Knightly Aura emanating from Reinhardt had climbed to the level of Four-Star Peak!

Perhaps even stronger!

It gave rise to a sense of unreality and absurdity within him: ’You have Domain Mimicry too?’

Seeing Reinhardt look at Agate’s corpse, Nico sneered and taunted, "Tsk, what a shame. He was so close to telling you my secret."

"He died trying to save you, Reinhardt."

"As a captain, you should have been stronger, not lying in the ruins like a piece of trash, waiting for your subordinate to save you."

Spiritual Attacks between Body Technique Stream Powerhouses were just that simple and crude.

If he could have executed a Thunderous Slash on Reinhardt, Nico certainly wouldn’t be wasting his breath here.

It was precisely because he couldn’t pull off a Thunderous Slash, and because he was deeply wary of Reinhardt’s power, that he resorted to such a cheap trick.

For him, provocation was a tool, not the goal.

As long as Reinhardt got angry over Agate’s death, grew impatient, and became eager for revenge, he would surely reveal an opening for Nico to seize.

Reinhardt remained expressionless, silently slinging the Black War Axe onto his back.

The next moment, a stream of high-temperature energy flared and vanished, and his figure disappeared from its spot.

The Black War Axe was extremely destructive, but its large size was a clear weakness against a speed-type powerhouse like Nico. Therefore, Reinhardt’s method of attack this time was a simple and direct Iron Fist.

’A Wizard dares to lecture an Imperial Knight about responsibility and courage?’

Facing Reinhardt’s straight punch, Nico didn’t dodge. Instead, he sneered inwardly. ’Sure enough, all Imperial Knights are the same. The moment I play a little mind game, these guys rush to their deaths.’

’So what if his Knight Power has suddenly surged to the level of a Four-star Military Rank?’

’How dare he try to fight me, someone with a skeletal structure, with his bare hands?’

’He’s overestimating himself.’

Even though Reinhardt’s speed was extremely fast, in Nico’s vision, it was no different from a Mortal throwing a punch.

He raised his left arm, mechanically deflecting Reinhardt’s incoming punch to the side. At the same time, he ducked, stepped back, and unleashed a violent, charged-up right fist aimed at the liver!

However, the instant he executed this counterattack...

...his skeletal structure lost control for a fleeting moment, and even his Wizard’s Power was severely suppressed.

’This again?’

Nico’s face fell, and he cursed inwardly. ’Reinhardt, you’re an Imperial Knight, a Body Technique Knight! How can you be even more cunning than a Wizard?’

He had experienced this kind of suppression before.

It was during their first exchange.

He had already been played by Reinhardt once back then.

Although he suspected it was a Special Ability of Reinhardt’s Earth Ring, and its suppression of his Wizard’s Power was very limited, for powerhouses of their level, a momentary loss of control over a Wizard’s Secret Treasure during a fierce attack was enough to decide victory or defeat!