A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Just as the crowd was going gaga over Alex's impressive performance, the people on the high table which were the principals from the thirteen academies that produced the geniuses who were going to fight Alex, and also Olivia's family members, couldn't help but be amazed.

Olivia's mom, Stacy, looked at her daughter and could see the seemingly, infinitely blazing love in her eyes. This fire would simply invoke the feeling in anyone that it was something that couldn't be quenched by anything in the realmverse, even if it was from the immortal or divine realm. Besides, this flame of affection that was seen in her eyes burned brightly with pride that couldn't be fathomed.

"Your lover is truly strong. He's an epic genius. I don't think I have heard or seen anyone like him, even from ancient history books that I have read" Stacy said to Olivia with sincerity in her tone.

It was true, as Alex was just unbelievably powerful. Besides, she had been observing him, just like the others, and what they noticed which caused them shock was that despite all the huge amounts of energies that Alex put out to create offensives, he hadn't taken a single pill to recover the energy he used for his battle. And this was the third battle. Yet, they hadn't seen him swallow any pill. It was like he had within him excessive amounts of the energies that he cultivated. Another thing was that he cultivated energies that weren't normal to cultivate. They were simply strange to the sights of almost everyone here. Well, except Olivia's family that came from a higher world and some of the principals that had traveled to higher worlds to get cultivation resources which they then brought back to this world. Still, they were amazed. So as an example, like the radiantforce energy which he utilized to create extremely dense, light-based energy-attacks, one could ninety-five percent say that he was the only one that should cultivate that kind of energy in this world, as they were  extremely difficult to comprehend. So, cultivators would go for the elemental energies which were earth-energy, fire-energy, ice-energy and wind-energy which very common and a bit easy to apprehend. Even wood-energy which was also plantforce energy was exceedingly rare as cultivators of this energy couldn't be found. And to top the amazing things mentioned about him, his body was amazingly durable to withstand the damaging power of a peak-phase, Earth Adept stage cultivator, as could be witnessed when he used his fist to shatter some of Ice Hawk's ice-bound attacks.

Hearing what her mom said with a praising tone in her voice, Olivia gladly smiled.

Finally, her mom had accepted to call Alex her lover, instead of friend like she did twice sometimes ago. So she thought. And what this meant to her was that her mom had been greatly impressed by Alex's amazing combat prowess during his battles.

* * *

- Battle Platform -

Just before another person could climb on stage to fight Alex, Alex said with a smile in his face "Actually, all of you that have gathered before the platform can't knock me down the stage. And this is because I am stronger than all of you. Even if all of you combine your strength to fight me, you wouldn't be able to knock me down the stage. Therefore, this brings me to my next statement which is, you folks should go back to your seat and so that I may be declared as the winner. But if you don't agree me with on that, you all should please climb on stage immediately so that we may get this over with." Alex said.

Immediately after Alex said that, everyone became speechless.

"What is he trying to do now?" One asked the people around him.

"He wants to fight all of them is what he's trying to do you blockhead" Another responded.

"Wow! I simply can't believe he actually wants to do that. This guy simply keeps on giving us surprises." A female exclaimed in shock and said delightfully.

She couldn't wait to see the ultimate match where it would involve the rest of the geniuses fighting against Alex with the aim of knocking him off the enormous stage.

"Why should we all join together to fight you? Is it because you have beaten a genius at the peak-phase, Earth Adept stage?" One of the geniuses from an academy asked Alex in a harsh tone.

"Nope. It's simply because I am bored fighting you all one by one. In case you don't know, which I am about to inform you all now, I have not been taxed at all by the battles that I fought previously. It only took a bit of effort from me to knock them off the stage. Therefore, so that I may enjoy the battle, you all should climb up the stage to fight me. Who knows, you could knock me down" Alex said with a smile in his face.

Then the boy that harshly spoke to Alex turned to face the others who were behind him.

"I know that we are all geniuses in our own right, but I want us to please climb up the stage and beat the hell out of that overly confident and proud bastard. I don't think the fool has experienced great defeat before in his life. So I want us to make him experience that today. We shall make him learn that there is a thing called defeat. Besides, for his infuriating arrogance and esteem that seem to know no bound, we are going to severely humiliate him after rounding him up like the meat for butchering that he is."

Sparked up by what this person said, they all nodded their heads and climbed on stage.

Surrounding Alex on all sides, they looked at him with a cold light in their eyes.

* * *

"Is he really going to fight all of them?" Olivia's mom asked Olivia with astonishment in her tone. She couldn't believe what Alex was about to do

Then before Olivia could reply to her question, she questioned again "I hope it isn't that he is now overconfident? That would certainly lead to him being kicked off the stage"

"No mom." Olivia said.

Then she continued with a smile in her face "I can see that you are way impressed by his abilities and don't want anything to happen to him. Anyways, he knows what he's doing. He isn't overconfident in his abilities. I won't tell you anything. Just look on and enjoy the upcoming crowded battle."

"Hmm. Okay." Olivia's mom, Stacy, replied with tremendous awe in her tone as she looked at Olivia who turned her face away from her to look at Alex with a light of deep affection and intense endearment in her eyes.

Since her daughter wasn't worried about the step that her lover unpredictably took, that meant he could actually do it. Her heart then reeled in astoundment from what she thought.

'This boy, I am extremely sure that Olivia is hiding things from me. When they are done with the competition, I shall demand from her what family he's from. He's too strong to be someone from this backwater mortal world, unless he met with great fortune in his path.' Stacy said inwardly.

After her train of thought ended, she gazed back at the battle platform to watch the last of the battle, one that would determine whether Alex would be Olivia's husband or not.

* * *

Not telling Alex anything, they all sent out attacks at him.

Alex smirked because of their predictable actions.

Then with great speed, but still standing on the same spot, he sent out his fists and legs at the attacks shooting towards him at high speeds.

One could see tens of after-images of Alex's fists and legs impacting into all the attacks that got to where he stood.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Loud bang sounds rang out as Alex's fists and feet which moved rapidly, smashed extremely hard into the attacks that raged and roared in the air towards him with unfathomable damaging power.

With visible ripples that possessed tyrannical power surfacing from the points at which Alex's fists and feet smashed into the attacks, they actually couldn't do anything to him; like knock or shove him away from where he stood.

With only his body which he used to withstand the devastating ripples of kinetic force, and possessing feet that was planted firmly and strongly on the platform, he couldn't be knocked away from where he stood, or off the platform.

Therefore, in this manner, and emitting an aura of indomitability, he was like a divine mountain that couldn't be moved away from where it was. That was the feeling that would be invoked in anyone that saw him.

Seeing how Alex speedily reduced their attacks to thousands of fragments, using his amazingly durable and tough fists and legs, they broke their encirclement of him as they all quickly gathered before him and abruptly launched full-powered attacks at him.

Alex looked at them with a smirk in his face, then his fists began to glow brilliantly.