Doomsday Pillars

PRANKKK!!!

Loud sounds echoed as Alex crashed the glass window and successfully made his way into the top floor of the 1,053 feet tall luxurious hotel. His sudden yet unpredictable entrance caused everyone inside the room to be in a daze.

After a slight bout of confusion, Alex was immediately surrounded by dozens of Sky realm fighters. Their gaits indicated they were ready to pounce on him, if he showed any suspicious gesture.

However, although Alex was being surrounded by a lot of hostiles, his expression did not change even a little bit. Instead, he calmly scanned his surroundings, as if he owned the room. Alex noticed most of the people here were wearing the Heavenly Gate signature red robes, with a few wearing black suits.

He also noticed, those who wore suits immediately put their hands on their ears. Probably reporting his appearance and requesting reinforcement through their earpieces. Despite the possibility of the situation turning worse, Alex merely ignored those people and focused his gaze somewhere.

Alex was currently staring at the man in front of him, who sat on a gorgeous-looking couch with a stunned expression on his face. Beside him, there was also a young man wearing luxury clothes with a keffiyeh on his head. These two people were Hafiz, the leader of Heavenly Gate, and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

"56th floor? This is a nice place indeed." Alex cheerfully said, as he looked around.

Hafiz woke up from his shocked state and pointed his finger at the smiling Alex, "Y-You must be crazy! No matter how strong you are, in less than five minutes, hundreds of fighters will barge in to kill you!"

Alex wiped the glass shards off his shoulder and calmly said, "I just need to finish you off before that then."

"Hahaha! You really are crazy." Hafiz said. "Kill him!"

In an instant, all the fighters, who had already readied their weapons, immediately dashed towards Alex. Meanwhile, Alex calmly drew the wooden sword and quickly began to [Draw] a formation on the room floor.

A formation pattern quickly formed on the floor beneath Alex’s feet, unbeknownst to others.

[Enchantment Successful!]

In the blink of an eye, the small formation on the floor enlarged and covered the whole floor. The floor was glowing brightly due to the activation of the formation, as the pattern in the formation swiftly turned into mysterious glyphs.

The peculiar yet magnificent sight shocked everyone inside the room except Alex. While the fighters stopped in their tracks due to the unforeseen change of situation, Alex slowly took his stances indicating that he was ready to run amok.

[Accelerate Array - Tier 4 Light Spell Formation]

Seeing the unknown spell, Hafiz exclaimed loudly, "What kind of spell is this?!" Hafiz and his protectors were puzzled to see the shining symbols all around them.

"It doesn’t do anything!" One of the fighters said, when he realized nothing really changed.

Upon hearing that, Alex couldn’t help but chuckle, "Well, it would take too long to explain in detail." Alex replied with a smile. And then, his eyes instantly turned sharp. "Let’s just say, no reinforcements are coming for you anytime soon."

"Huh?! What the f*ck are you talking about? Even if you are right, the fighters in this room are enough to kill one nuisance like you!" Hafiz snarled, when he heard Alex’s words.

"Oh yeah? We will see about that." Alex replied with a playful smile.

"Kill him!"

Hearing the order, the fighters, who had previously stopped, immediately continued their charge towards Alex.

Alex saw there were more than 10 people equipped with tier 2 or 3 artifacts, while the rest were armed with tier 1 artifacts or firearms. Barrage of bullets immediately rained down on him, as they fired their firearms, followed by close-range fighters charging at him.

Eyeing the approaching fighters, Alex immediately noticed two of them were using the [Stone Skin] spell, while three were enveloped by faint whirlwinds and sparks of lightning, the signs of the [Windwalk] and [Energize] spells.

Alex immediately stabbed Stroke into the floor and activated his main skill [Hexagram Technique - stage 4], making faint mysterious runes appear and orbit around his body. Feeling it was not enough, Alex quickly used two of his favorite magic scrolls: [Stone Skin] and [Windwalk].

In less than a second, Alex was prepared to wreak havoc, as his body was enhanced by multiple buffs that increased its strength and speed. Looking at the incoming bullets, Alex immediately casted [Shield Barrier] to deflect those coming from behind him, while he leisurely avoided those in front with side steps.

The three red-robed fighters were a few meters away from Alex with their weapon artifacts ready to strike him down. Seeing the imminent strikes, Alex could easily dodge the attacks launched by the three, who were enhanced by speed-buff spells, because he had calculated their actions.

However, when he was about to move, Alex felt his legs were bound by something. Glancing down, Alex saw spiky plant roots were entangling his feet, restricting him and making him unable to dodge the opponent’s attacks in time.

Realizing the situation, Alex immediately casted [Decelerate] onto the three incoming fighters, as their speed dropped drastically and was even overtaken by the two other fighters. When Alex saw the enemy’s five Sky realm Magus fighters were in close proximity with each other, he smiled and casted a spell towards them.

[Smite - Tier 3 Light Spell]

In an instant, the five fighters were knocked back by a shining hammer-like construct. Their bodies flung in the air and crashed into the others behind them before they fell to the ground.

"It’s my turn, now." Alex said, while smirking towards Hafiz.

Just like his usual tactic, Alex started his advance by using his versatile light spell, [Blind].

A light even more piercing than usual appeared, as the spell was greatly enhanced by Alex’s high stage understanding of light element. As a result, everyone except Alex instinctively closed their eyes. Seeing the spell never failing him yet again, Alex swiftly took actions. Taking out his revolvers, Alex aimed towards his intended targets.

Before he casted the [Blind] spell, Alex had thought which of these people he would attack and finish off first. Assuming the young man in luxury clothes with a keffiyeh was the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the fighters in suits were his bodyguards, Alex immediately crossed them from the must-die list. His number one target was, of course, Hafiz.

Therefore, Alex shot two bullets towards his primary target in a split second, one in the head and the other in the heart. Shifting his aim, he shot another two bullets at the Magus who casted [Entangle] on him, before firing the rest at the magus that were lying down.

Clank! Clank!

The [Magic Bullets] directed at Hafiz were deflected by a protective barrier. Alex assumed the barrier was the result of Hafiz’s spell or one of the fighters beside him. Despite being deflected, Alex saw the barrier was flickering violently proving his bullets did their job.

On the other hand, the other bullets hit the Sky realm Magus fighters with precision. However, Alex noticed all of these fighters were wearing protective vests. Thus, none of them were injured.

The first wave of attack and the counterattack from Alex had ended with not a single victim from either side still.

Looking at the deadlock situation, Alex couldn’t help but think, "I miss fighting the zombies... I should have guessed it wouldn’t be that easy."

Shaking his head, Alex swiftly accessed his storage ring and brought out his golems. In a moment, 20 stone golems appeared and stood in front of Alex, filling the room.

"Well, with this the fight will be fairer, right? Don’t you think so, Hafiz?" Alex remarked towards Hafiz, a wide smirk on his face.

"Don’t you dare think you already won with the appearance of those golems." Hafiz said, while raising his hand.

Looking at the signal, dozens of red-robed fighters around Hafiz, who weren’t Magus and only armed with firearms took off their robes and threw them to the ground. As their bodies were revealed, Alex was shocked seeing bulging veins all over their bodies.

The reason Alex was shocked was because those veins were black and moved like they were alive. He could even see that in some parts of their body the veins were popping out and dripping with black liquid. As if the shock wasn’t enough, they suddenly howled in pain until several of them knelt on the floor.

Unexpectedly, their bodies slowly flushed red, as if they were being boiled. Their stature and muscles rapidly grew until they doubled in size. Their current state hardly looked human anymore, more like a stage 3 black zombie.

One of them, who had finished the transformation swiftly leaped towards one of the stone golems. To his surprise, the fighter managed to pin it down, alone.

"They are my successful product." Hafiz casually said. "You won’t be able to defeat them, Alex."

"This is where you will die."