The alien never accepted Lucan's words. He simply kept on blabbering. Lucan ignored him and moved forward.
The mountain was huge and strong. It was in a dark reddish color. Sand was flowing down as if blood was oozing out.
Lucan touched it. He used cosmic energy and sensed its might. He said, ''This material! Amazing, it is present in the information I knew.
According to it, using this I can increase my cosmic energy for a short timespan, like a boost, and this also is a durable material for making spaceships, very good.''
He gathered cosmic energy in his fist and landed a mighty blow on the mountain. He expected at least a minute crack or opening.
Ironically, his hand started to bleed. Skin tore, bones were exposed. It had cracks on them.
Lucan felt great pain. He healed himself with the cosmic energy and saw the mountain.
The spot he punched had no changes. It was still the same. The only difference was it had his blood and skin.
Lucan sighed and said, ''Looks like this won't be easy enough, but I will never give up.''
He used cosmic energy and consecutively attacked at the same spot continuously, and consecutively he healed his hand.
After a few hours, he was fully drenched with sweat. It was dripping all over his body. He was like a wet cloth which drips water while hanging.
He wiped off his sweat. His cosmic energy was completely used up. He even lost both his physical and mental energy.
He sat down. He said, ''I thought if I hit the same spot continuously, I might gain some progress, but it is of no use either.
Looks like I have to develop a new strategy, hmm.'' He thought continuously. If he had cosmic energy, he could easily use it to gain some ideas.
But unfortunately, all were used up. He needed some time for their replenishment. He neither panicked nor feared.
He became dead calm, fully focusing on how to first make a crack on this mountain. He got an idea.
He decided to bring it to life. He tried to stand up, but was unable to. He said, ''Well if this is the case, let me rest until I regain my full strength.''
He slept. The alien was watching him from far away. It slowly crept to him. It saw the mountain. It was unmarked except for his blood and flesh.
He was stunned as he looked at his own hands and the other dead skeletons around him. All of them failed this challenge and died.
The shocking truth was none had deep marks on their hands, including himself. The spots they had all punched were completely unmarked.
Lacking the blood and flesh which were present in the spot Lucan punched, he said, ''This guy, there is no hope left, only despair, not me, not him, not even Lord or anyone else could break this mountain.
He may have perseverance, but so what? Fate is the ultimate truth, it controls all living and non-living beings.
All are bound by it, no one can escape, useless, why is he struggling knowing there is no change in the outcome?
He is simply foolish.'' He then walked away and sat near a skeleton. He accepted his fate (his own death).
He was surprised by one small thing. It was the grin on Lucan's face. Even while sleeping, he never stopped it.
He thought Lucan was a fool, but in reality, it was actually himself, which he wouldn't understand even if 100 persons like Lucan came.
Inside, Lord was walking in the corridor. A figure appeared before him. It did not kneel. Its aura was also superior, but it too couldn't match that of Lord.
He did not guess, he confirmed it. He said, ''Huh, daughter, come out, what do you want?, and how many times should I warn you! Never expose your existence to others.''
The figure and Lord suddenly disappeared and reached Lord's wife's room.
Outside, the blue guy said, ''Well now let us collect our reward and go back to the city. We can rest for a week, no at least a month.
Because this reward is from Lord directly.'' The pink girl nodded her head. She was still not able to recover from the trauma.
The red wrestler tried to pacify her, but no use. But suddenly many aliens ran fast and reached the place and kept running.
All were startled. The reward gaining place was just a few miles away. The blue guy stopped an alien. He asked about this commotion.
He said, ''008, it is your fault!, all of this is because of you.'' He replied, ''What! me? Elaborate.'' He said, ''The creature you brought, directly challenged Lord to a direct fight.
He must be dumb, courting death. Lord's aura was filling the entire place. He laughed as a maniac.
He mocked Lord. Much happened, but we were far away to listen to them. If we did not run now, that aura itself would have simply killed us. You too run, quick!''
He ran faster. The blue guy was speechless for a moment, but suddenly Lord's aura was coming. It was excited and full of vitality.
He suddenly came to his senses. He quickly held the hands of red wrestler and pink girl. He asked them to hold the rest of their members.
He activated a device. Instantly they flew at a rapid speed. It was as fast as lightning.
Red wrestler and pink girl both looked at each other.
But decided not to ask anything because they felt the situation was so. When all of the aliens reached very far away,
they all stopped. They were extremely tired. None could even take a step forward. They all lay flat on the ground.
The pink girl asked, ''Why? Why did we rush here, our reward!'' The blue guy explained everything.
She gasped and went silent. All the aliens saw the blue guy. He was the center of attraction, because he was also the reason for this commotion.
After a few hours on the mountain, Lucan stretched his hands. He woke up from his sleep and said, ''Heavenly, sleeping is so good, I must teach this method to aliens.
Hehe, now let's execute our idea.'' He used his complete cosmic energy once again, but no attacks, no healing.
He collected all the attacks that the mountain had faced and brought them to the spot where he was punching.
All the damage now focused through a single spot. This spot had deep cracks. Lucan also inspected, but was stunned.
The mountain was only 30% damaged now. He needed 70% more on this same spot for it to break.
But he was still happy to see his progress. He was using all of others' efforts. What shocked him was that from this 30%, 10% was from Lord himself.
His own contribution was very minute for even consideration. Of course, he just punched a few hours ago.
Lucan was very satisfied with this. He went back to the place given for him by Lord. On the way, he found the alien which was desperate earlier.
He dragged it. He was almost dead, swooning and curling up like a caterpillar. He thought, ''All is over, anyways I am going to die, at least with this guy I can die without pain.
Oh fate, here I come.'' He became unconscious. Later, when he opened his eyes, he was still alive. He was shocked.
He checked himself. He was no longer hungry and hurt. He was fully healed. He had a soft cloth stuffed with cotton below his head, a long woolen cloth over him. They gave him warmth and coziness.
They were pillow and blanket, but aliens never knew about them. There was also fire lit up as it was the night time with freezing cold.
Lucan was sleeping in an awkward position, because he was only wearing his clothes, and he was sleeping on a hard rock without pillow and blankets.