Chapter 1017 The price of power

Chapter 1017 The price of power

There were many moves that Max learned from the universal warehouse, ranging from sword moves to movement techniques to even auxiliary techniques.

If a move was unique and could achieve something that no other move apart from it could, Max learnt that move just to cover all his bases.

In total he learnt 32 new techniques, however, the most important one's amongst them were :-

[ Dragon's Heartstrike ] : A martial arts technique that concentrated the user's entire body strength amplified by divine essence into a single, devastating punch.

This fist technique was perfect for close range hand to hand combat, and was capable of breaking through solid barriers or delivering a knockout blow to an opponent.

It was a technique that Max would rely on should he ever find himself in a fist-fight against the perfect warrior ever again.

Then there was also the sword move- [ Celestial Severance ]

A forbidden move that laced the users sword with close to 50% of their divine essence reserve at once, giving it incredible power for an extremely short duration.

The move practically burnt a hole through one's divine essence reserve to give a short boost to their strength during which time any sword attack inflicted upon the opponent would have five times the normal damage output. Follow current novels on novelb((in).(com)

What started as a desire to protect his family from the perfect warrior, to keep them safe and happy, turned into an obsession to defeat him and prove himself as the strongest while their safety became an afterthought.

While he was once a loving father and an even more loving husband, the Max of now did not even seem to care about his own newborn children and although he had not met his wives for years he was ready to not meet them for many more years if it meant that he could walk closer to becoming stronger.

It was a clear deviation from his true personality, yet with no-one left to challenge him, no-one left to correct him and no-one left to question him, there was sadly no one who could bring him back to the right path anymore.

He could have easily grown stronger without ignoring his family.

Yes it would have taken longer, perhaps many more years than he would have fancied, however, then he would have truly lived a fulfilling life rather than the crazed one he lived now.

In his mind, he hoped that the future generations of the Rajput family would always look up to him just like he looked up to Rudra, however, the truth of the matter was that except the elder kids Jake, Amy, Kartikeya and Kremeth, none of the others thought much about Max.

While they loved their mothers dearly, the other kids couldn't care less about who their father was since he was never around anyways.

Since they had not fought for nor witnessed life outside the Rajput Capital, they did not value it as much as Max hoped they would as to them such luxury and grandiose was normal.

The Rajput spirit that Max was so proud of was dying in the next generation because of his own negligence and yet his singular focus was on mastering a few moves and honing his reflexes.

Of Course the universe was always going to remember Max Rajput as a great man and an urban legend that would be remembered till the end of time, however, while Max Rajput was the strongest vampire god, his story after reaching that pinnacle was sadly not happily ever after.

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