MIGHT AS WELL BE OP
Chapter 53: Arnold

Arnold walked with confidence as he appeared in what seems to be an endless plane of rice field as what he saw looked like rice plants that reached all the way up to his knees.

Everywhere was glowing green as anything could be under those plants but Arnold walked unbothered and confident in his own strength.

The wind in the field blew all plants further creating sounds to mask any movement sound that may arise from anywhere.

"Aren't monsters these days too focused on sneak attacks, or have they become afraid" said Arnold as he walked across the field.

"Have they become lazy or what, they should attack already....should I just destroy everything here, I'm sure they would come out eventually when that happens" Arnold said with a smile.

Then he raised his spear about to send an attack across the field so these monsters would stop hiding or planning sneak attacks.

As he was about to attack, his posture abruptly shifted as he changed forms from attack to a defensive stance.

As soon he blocked with his spear, he heard a sound of two metals clashing.

The weight on his spear was suddenly lifted and disappeared without a trace like it wasn't there in the first place.

Arnold didn't know what happened or what monster attacked him.

He simply felt something coming from that direction and blocked simply by following his instinct and senses.

He waited for a while, his senses tingled about something coming from multiple directions.

He swirled his spear in those direction to block whatever was coming.

The same processes repeated for sometime before Arnold decided to simply destroy the field.

He slammed the butt of his spear on the ground and everything started shaking within a three kilometres radius and splitting apart.

The beasts that has been hiding started surfacing one by one.

Arnold saw what looked like a giant praying mantis.

He didn't know exactly what it was, but they looked like that with sharp scythe like blade as their hands while standing like they bipedal.

They were many of them, but they won't pose a challenge to him at all.

Well only their invisibility skill could at least do something at all, but Arnold was sure he can react to it like he already did twice.

The monsters immediately started attacking, they literally came in a wave for Arnold's life.

Arnold smiled, waved his spear, before the monsters could even blink as they moved, Arnold wasn't in his position anymore.

Arnold arrived at another side of the field and started waving his spear, wherever he moved to a head must be taken, if any head wasn't taken, that particular monster would be split in half.

As Arnold moved as he like was dancing and harvesting souls, he ducked as he felt something coming from behind, he slammed the body of the spear in the praying mantis head, which exploded splashing blood on Arnold's face who didn't even flinch and happily bathed in the blood.

As Arnold moved, the monster wave started dwindling at a fast rate.

The monsters changed tactics and immediately used their innate invincibility skill

Everywhere became quite again and only the sound of the wind and plant moving as they colliding against each other could be heard.

Arnold just stood still and didn't move, he knew this wasn't over and he didn't have to wait long for them to make a move again.

He didn't need to close his eyes or concentrate to heighten his other senses, his physique had already transcended such mortal things.

The first monster made a move by striking for his shoulder.

Arnold blocked, using the weight on his spear, he changed his motion, redirecting the monsters movement and slashing at the supposed place the monster was supposed to be.

Arnold felt his spear tears through meat with ridiculous ease.

As the praying mantis died, it immediately became visible.

As if on cue, the rest followed and struck without hesitation of any sort.

Arnold didn't stop his movements, he simply followed his senses and instinct as he moved and flowed effortlessly like he was one with his spear.

Arnold continued blocking, sending of streaks of light as the blade of the monsters and his spear met.

He entered a defensive state as he kept blocking and parrying and attacking once in a while, if any monster slipped up.

Arnold stopped parrying and reflecting the attacks as if he suddenly gave up.

He then smiled, then turned invisible just like the praying mantis monsters.

He literally disappeared from their sight, this was the monster's advantage over their enemies, many didn't see them coming at all.

But Arnold although couldn't see them, he could sense them.

After they used their invisibility on him a second time, he simply learned and copied the skill for himself, while also unlocking another passive skill that made concealment type skill non-existent in his presence, due to him dealing with the invincible monster, both skill worked hand in hand.

This was the real way to improve skills, technique and everything.

Through constant battle, fighting and putting your life on the line.

People couldn't just become strong by entering seclusion.

If people entered seclusion and came out when they became extremely strong, they would be nothing but empty husk as even people in lower realms would be able to win against them and kill them due to the difference in experience.

This was also the one of the reasons all these powerhouse sent their young ones out and into battles, because hiding and gaining power was nothing but fake in itself.

Fighting was and is and will remain the fastest way to improve your skill and technique.

But even if during battle you could improve, it wasn't at the level Arnold just displayed and improved like he was on a rocket.

People couldn't just copy and use skills or innate abilitie and techniques of people they were battling in real-time even if they put their life on the line.

Any improvement they had, was of their own skill and technique as they spent their whole lives on those skills and techniques, even if they are so talented and managed to learn other people's techniques and skills during their battles, they won't be able to make up for the difference in proficiency.

But Arnold learnt the concealment skill and even took it up a notch making his better than theirs while also gaining a skill that made any hiding infront of him useless.

This was how ridiculously talented he was, not only him, all ten subordinate of Anthony were this talented, but they just didn't know it yet, they were still comparing themselves to others of the golden generation.

They had spent the last decade in the divine realm improving and sparring together, so to them this was a normal improvement that matched other people their age.

But how could they know, they had always been at the bottom of everything be it society, ability, power.

They had always been at the bottom, the only person that could compare themself with was Anthony, but if they did, they would be in for despair as even their talent paled Infront of Anthony's.

The monsters that were attacking Arnold while invincible were stunned by the sudden turn of event.

They had literally abused this skill as they always used it to win whenever they couldn't in a head on attack.

When Arnold went invisible, his passive skill that made concealment of any form useless activated and he saw all of them.

They were just too many of them to count.

Arnold didn't know if they were more plants or more monsters here as this was simply too much, but he didn't care as this was free battle and Academy points for him.

He simply went berserk here and killed anything in sight.

The monsters didn't have any detection skills and didn't even know they died.

One minute they were the invisible one, the other minute, they were the one on a chopping board and being chopped.