“Leon!” Herman paled.
He quickly drew his sword to counter the Dark Lord’s attack. There was a loud bang as the two attacks clashed before the shadow palm disappeared.
Herman reached out to catch Leon when the Dark Lord suddenly fused with the shadows and slammed into him.
“You must have a death wish!” Furious, Herman brandished his sword.
Instantly, thousands of shadow swords appeared. They trapped the Dark Lord from all directions and then flew in the Dark Lord’s direction. However, they didn’t seem to affect the Dark Lord, who was able to phase through the shadows and counter with another strike.
“Oh no!” Herman’s eyes widened, and favonovel.com instinctively raised his sword to block the oncoming onslaught.
The blade shattered on impact, and the Dark Lord quickly followed up with another strike to Herman’s chest, crushing the man’s bones and causing favonovel.com to cough up blood.
Herman flew in the air before crashing into the ground, head-first.
It had only taken the Dark Lord two seconds to defeat Herman and Leon.
“What?” Everyone exclaimed, flabbergasted.
No one had expected the two semi-Grandmasters to lose so terribly to the Dark Lord.
“Master Herman!” Terrified, Caelus, Ivy, and Maria dashed toward their mentor.
Herman and Leon were severely injured, they bled profusely from their noses, and they couldn’t get back onto their feet
“How is this possible? The leader of the Invincible Guardians actually lost?”
The Harmon family couldn’t believe their eyes.
The two semi-Grandmasters had been their final trump card, and they’d thought they’d have a winning chance against the Dark Lord, yet the latter had eventually won, which begged the question, if the Dark Lord was stronger than Herman and Leon, which Harmon family member would stand a chance against him?
“If the two of you had come at me together, you could have won against me. Unfortunately, your confidence and pride blinded you…” The Dark Lord peered down at them.
“A-Aren’t you just a fully developed Divine-level martial artist?” Herman gasped, clutching his chest.
“How was I going to lure you out if I didn’t hide my true strength?” The Dark Lord chuckled.
Although favonovel.com had been confident that things would turn out in his favor, favonovel.com still didn’t want to take any risks.
“You treacherous and shameless bastard!” Jacob swore.
“Nothing matters as long as I can win.” The Dark Lord grinned. “Also, aren’t you curious as to why I finally decided to show myself after all this time hiding?”
“Why?” Hector asked uneasily.
“I’ve been biding my time and building my strength” The Dark Lord puffed out his chest. “Actually, I’ve already evolved into a Grandmaster martial artist!”
His words shocked everyone, causing them to break out in a cold sweat.
There were many skilled fighters in the martial world. However, it was rare to find anyone so strong. Countless geniuses spent all their lives trying to break that barrier and evolve.
Herman and Leon were the perfect examples. Although they were semi-Grandmasters who were halfway to becoming Grandmasters, the gap they had yet to fill was so profound that they’d been stuck at their current level for the past decade and still hadn’t seen any improvements. Therefore, it wasn’t an exaggeration to say that becoming a Grandmaster was near impossible.
Everyone finally understood why Herman and Leon had lost. Their opponent was a Grandmaster!
