Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent! - Chapter 524

Chapter 524: A battle of life and death (4)
The Lux once again thrashed around fervently, trying its best to land an odd attack on Alex, as the vibrations and aftershocks of its fist slamming into the ground continued for a few more seconds.

Alex used these few seconds to give himself some room, and he had the perfect method of doing so.

‘Teleport!’

He used his mostly unused teleportation talent to put the distance between himself and the Lux from a few dozen metres, to a few kilometres.

Alex reappeared on the strange textured ground a few kilometres away, and immediately crouched his body down, controlling his breaths once more.

He pressed his palm to his chest, feeling his heart drum against his ribs and couldn’t help cursing himself internally.

‘Calm down dammit!’

If his heartbeat didn’t reduce to the bare minimum in the next few seconds, he had no doubt that the Lux could use it to find him again.

The only reason he had managed to stay hidden last time was because he’d slowed his heartbeat down to 0.1 bpm. Yes, as a C+ rank Variant class awakened, it wasn’t much effort to slow his heart rhythms down all the way to one beat every 10 minutes, as his internal energy itself could supply him enough energy to survive.

As only five minutes had passed before the Lux had gotten frustrated and started thrashing about in an attempt to find Alex, Alex had assumed he was safe and it was only his blunder of smiling that gave his position away.

However, slowing his heartbeat still took some effort!

Not to mention that while his teleportation was instant and silent, it still drained a significant amount of his energy.

Every drop of energy used meant smaller intervals between each heartbeat. At his current pace, even if he slowed his heartbeat down before the Lux and its surrounding environment recovered to silence, he would only have around 2.5 minutes between each heartbeat.

‘Inhale…’ Alex took a deep breath in, but didn’t exhale.

This helped calm his heart down much faster.

‘Good, I managed to slow it in time.’ Alex felt reassured and mentally breathed a sigh of relief.

He wasn’t going to make the same stupid mistake as last time and show his emotions externally on his face, no matter how small it seemed!

‘However that only solves one temporary problem. I still need to figure out a way to attack the Lux without being found out…’

Alex was hoping for the Lux to make the first move in a blind effort to try and find and kill him, but that would require it getting close enough to him that he could thrust his sword towards it in time, faster than it could react to his movements.

This quickly turned out to be a loose dream though, as the Lux was smart enough to realise this was a bad idea.

‘I have to find a way to attack first, while somehow maintaining my element of surprise…’

Alex wracked his brain, but no ideas came to mind.

However, with nothing but darkness and silence to accompany him in this lonely expanse, all he had were his thoughts.

It didn’t take long before an idea crossed his mind.

‘Wait! It senses through vibrations, so what if I make it so that there are many vibrations occurring simultaneously… so many that it is unable to focus on me and find my location?’

As soon as this idea came to Alex’s mind, he was unable to think of any counterpoints arguing why it might now work.

In fact, his confidence in the idea was quite high, as he had already somewhat witnessed an example of such a method working, and it ironically came from the Lux himself.

‘That’s right! It was unable to detect me when it caused that shockwave, so what’s stopping me from utilising this to my advantage?’

With this idea firmly taking its place in Alex’s mind, Alex steadied himself.

Quickly, balls of Phoenix Flames were summoned out of thin air, and began to swirl around him like a pod of fish circling an aquarium. They formed compact spheres of fire that gave off a very distinctive light.

Each ball flickered with the intensity of the sun in a place as dark as this, acting as a beacon once again for the Lux to take advantage of.

‘This has to work.’ Alex thought to himself, glancing in the direction of the Lux, who had just turned its glowing gaze to lock onto him, who had just revealed his own location voluntarily.

The flames multiplied quickly, one by one, until over a couple dozen fiery orbs hovered in the air around him. He couldn’t affort to hesitate any longer, as the moment his energy flared, the Lux narrowed its gaze and showed clear signs it was about to pounce.

“Shit!” Alex cursed under his breath, and he hurried his preparations.

He could feel the shifts in the air, and he watched the Lux clear as day through his spatial perception as it began to move.

But he wasn’t willing to let it get the first strike on him.

With a sweep of his arm, Alex sent the fireballs of Phoenix Flames flying in all directions. The Lux lunged toward him, but it was just a second to late.

The light that gave his position away had left him, and he was now once again enshrouded in darkness – the Lux only had the memory of his previous location to go off.

But even then, it was still too late.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Bo…

The first fireball made contact with the ground, triggering a deafening explosion that sent ripples of shockwaves cascading through the dark expanse, and the other fireballs soon followed suit.

The chain reaction was almost instantaneous.

One explosion after another, over a couple dozen in total, erupted across the desolate nothingness.

The ground quaked violently, and drowned the sound and sensitive vibrations out with its force.

The overlapping shockwaves created a chaotic storm of pressure, distorting both air and earth and rendering the Lux’s vibration based perception utterly useless.

‘Yes!’

Alex rejoiced, seeing that his plan had worked flawlessly.