Hero or Villain, Both Chapter 157: Much stronger than we thought

It took a while, but Faust was able to finish searching the soul of the Iron Fist Gang’s vice leader.

When he was done searching the soul, he reported everything to .

"With this information, it should be easier to target the Iron Fist Gang. With the other powers restraining them, then it’ll be easy for us to whittle away at their forces until they have no one left." I said after he finished telling everything.

Though it seed like a good plan, it didn’t seem like Faust agreed with this.

Seeing the way that he looked at , I simply asked, "If you don’t think that it’s a good plan, then why don’t you tell what you think is a good plan?"

"Why go through all those hoops just to reach them? Why not just take them out directly?" He said in a casual voice as if he didn’t seem to think much of them.

I couldn’t help knitting my brows when I heard this.

I had to look at Faust to see if he was being serious about this, but the look on his face showed that he was indeed serious when he said this.

Only I didn’t think that this was sothing that we could do...

"Why do you think that we can’t do this? Didn’t you see how you easily defeated their vice leader?" Faust asked back without a single trace of hesitation.

I shook my head before saying, "He clearly wasn’t that strong to begin with. Soone like him is normal for a large group like that, he just follows the leader and leeches off them. This doesn’t an that we’re strong."

Faust shook his head before saying with a sigh, "It seems like I can’t convince you without a demonstration."

Before I could react to what he said, he suddenly flicked his hand at .

The mont that he flicked his hand like this, there were flas that gathered.

It took no ti at all for this fla to form a large ball of flas, but that large ball of flas quickly condensed itself into a single arrow.

Then with another flick of his hand, that fla arrow was sent out at .

I was surprised since I didn’t expect to see this.

It was one thing if he gathered flas, but it was completely different if he ford them into a fla arrow like this.

That was because the fla arrow that he ford was a special fla arrow.

This fla arrow was a High Grade Spell that was known as Fla Lance.

At our current level, we shouldn’t have been able to cast sothing like this.

After he ford this Fla Lance, I couldn’t help feeling that there was sothing strange about the way that he just held it there in the air.

"Take it."

As I had expected, he actually waved his hand and threw the Fla Lance at . With the heat that ca from the Fla Lance, I could tell that he wasn’t holding back at all with this.

"Are you crazy?" I couldn’t help asking, but it was already too late for to say anything about this.

The only thing that I could do now was...

"Ha!" With a roar, I punched my fist at the Fla Lance.

This was the culmination of all my power, using both the full force of my Iron Skin and the shockwave technique that I learned. I didn’t hold anything back since I knew that Faust hadn’t held anything back.

To my surprise...I found that the Fla Lance was actually shattered by this punch in the end.

Though it didn’t an that I was completely unscathed.

There was a layer of skin that was charred on my fist because I punched this Fla Lance, but it was better than having my entire arm burned away by the Fla Lance.

"Seriously, what is wrong with you?" I couldn’t help asking Faust in the end.

I knew that he didn’t betray the rest of us because we had the sa mind, but I really couldn’t tell what he was thinking when he did this.

"You blocked it, didn’t you?" Faust said in a calm voice.

This really made angry since it didn’t seem like he was sorry at all about this.

Still, I waited to see what he had to say to explain this.

"You’re much stronger than we thought, aren’t you? If you weren’t, would you have been able to block this Fla Lance?"

I slowly nodded in agreent, but there was sothing that I had to ask still, "How did you know this?"

"The Spirit Elixir, it had an extra effect that none of us noticed."

"Huh?" I couldn’t help being caught off guard when I heard this.

I looked at our stats, but I found that there wasn’t anything that was off about it. It seed like the stat increase was the normal stat increase...or it would have been if I didn’t look at the extra stats from the Shared Stats skill.

"Isn’t this more than what it should be?"

"That’s right. It’s all because the Shared Stats skill leveled up."

"It can do that?" I asked in a shocked voice before looking at our status.

I found that it was indeed true.

The Shared Stats skill’s description now had an extra line to it that said that it was now level 2. At the sa ti, I could see that the percentage of stats shared by this skill had increased.

"When did it happen?"

This ti, Faust gave a shrug to show that he didn’t know before saying, "It’s the Spirit Elixir, but I don’t know what the specifics of it is. All I know is that it changed after we took the Spirit Elixir."

I looked at him with a strange look, but I could tell that he really didn’t know anything else.

"Then if we’re stronger..."

"We can just take them head on. There’s no need to hesitate." Faust finished my sentence for .