Austin and Scathach looked at each other as the air became suddenly thick and tense as if something was about to happen.
Her crimson eyes glowed dangerously before suddenly—
Swoosh!
She vanished as if she had teleported but it wasn't the case, her speed was just....abnormal.
Appearing in front of him with a punch already aimed at Austin's face, while our man looked calm and expressionless as if what had just unfolded didn't impress him at all.
As her fist was inches from destroying his handsome face, he stopped it with the palm of his hand completely absorbing the impact making the fist look like nothing.
This made her raise an eyebrow in a slight surprise before she delivered a powerful side kick which he also blocked like nothing.
He looked like a sponge absorbing all her attacks completely without any hint of effort.
Mind you, Scathach's punches were so powerful that they could destroy a skyscraper easily and do some irrecoverable damage to any person who would dare and try stopping it.
But her luck fell with Austin as he was just absurd, after all, she was fighting with a dragon, and not any dragon, it was the Golden Emperor, a being said to have reached the pinnacle of existence and defeated countless cosmic beings, and even dared to stand against the outer gods. But well, he wasn't strong enough to defeat any of them before being erased from existence by one of them.
Although that, no one could underestimate him, and Scathach was fighting against his successor or the person who inherited his essence and core.
Punch after punch, kick after kick but nothing was effective against him as he blocked all of her attacks completely and easily.
But the Scottish warrior didn't look frustrated or annoyed at all, she looked.....happy?
Her smile, that look so infectious, was dangerous with a hint of madness.
"You're strong and.... dangerous. You absorbed all of my attacks like nothing, no effort, no wasted movements. Hummm...quite the weird spices you are~" Her tone was laced with amusement and intrigue.
She studied Austin as if she was a scientist or something, dissecting him with those pair of crimson orbs.
Then suddenly, her aura flared, red and crimson filled with madness and bloodlust before she moved even faster than before then—
POOOOH!!
BAAAAAAAM!!!
Her fist met Austin's hand who blocked it easily again but didn't absorb it completely resulting in an earth shattering impact that made a crater beneath them, not so wide but enough to contain both of them.
She attacked again delivering powerful kicks and upper-cuts that he dodged and blocked. Her pose was flawless with no openings.
'Truly a master.' Austin commented inwardly before he saw her giving him a roundhouse kick and followed with a reverse on and ended with an elbow strike.
Austin blocked and dodged again before he saw her attack speed increased more, hitting from difficult and impossible angles aiming at his vitals like a sniper.
Absolute precision.
"What? Why are you only either dodging or blocking?" She asked with a tone filled with disdain but that only made Austin, who had an indifferent face all the time that showed no emotion or any hint of annoyance to her words, finally smile.
But this harmless smile gave a very dangerous feeling to her that made her shiver slightly.
'Huh? That's—" before she could think of anything, she found his fist connected with her stomach before being send flying back like a bullet hitting the trees and breaking them.
Austin looked at his hand contracted and relaxed it before he sighed.
'She is truly a monster. To be able to block at the last moment like that.' he said inwardly as what he did was impossible to block, this simple punch was delivered in a way that made it so fast and powerful at the same time for anyone to block even if they noticed.
With a body like him and an experience in Muay Thai, his punches and kicks were so powerful and fast.
On the other side, Scathach stood, looking fine but there was a line of blood falling at the corner of her lips.
She smiled widely showing her white sharp teeth before her aura flared again and the place felt so heavy and filled with the thick smell of blood that would make you want to vomit.
Austin tensed slightly at her the sudden change before he found her fingers mere millimeters from gouging out his eyes, it was so sudden and so fast that no one would be able to notice when she had moved, it didn't even look like mere teleportation.
However, Austin caught her wrist in a strong grip before hurling her to the left side where she adjusted her posture mid-air and landed gracefully on the ground.
The air was tense and both were on high alert for any sudden movement from the other part.
A brief silence before both moved with a speed invisible to the naked eyes.
Swossh!!
BOOOOOOMM!!!
Kicks and punches were exchanged between them with either blocking or countering.
They were violent and brutal destroying chunks of the earth and due to the barrier that Austin used to seal the place, the destruction would expand taking on the mansion and the whole area around leaving nothing behind.
Neither spoke words, their punches were the words they were speaking with.
And Austin didn't hesitate with his attacks as each attack directed at her was filled with the intent to kill and destroy which made Scathach even more pleased and pushed forward.
It had been so many years since she met someone like Austin, his attacks spoke of prior experience, no wasted movements and nearly perfect pose.
'But still, his experience is not vast enough.' as she thought so, she moved with a blinding speed and used the same style of Muay Thai of Austin and delivered a powerful hook that nearly made him fall then invaded his space and pushing his right hand aside with her left one and elbowed him then a gentle fist of Tai Chi to the chest, she sent him flying back him back before he landed.
This left Austin surprised and at awe at the different kinds of martial arts that she had mastered, and feeling how he was at a disadvantage, he was so excited.
Because, he saw, a new bath for improvement, more power.
He felt a slight headache from her elbow before focusing again and with a deep calming breath, he took a stance then, blue crystal eyes that seemed to hold an entire universe in them glowed dangerously, strict indifferent expression adorning his face, he attacked again.
Swoosh!
BAAAAAM!!
Scathach looked at the coming attack, killing intent clear, holding more power behind it making her narrow her eyes then with a swift Tai Chi movement, she redirected the attack away, leaving him open for the moment and she used it without any delay ducking her body slightly almost sitting, and extending her hand towards his stomach, fingers almost touching before with a deep breath.
One.Inch.Punch
BOOOOOM!!!
Austin flew back immediately like a bullet until he hit the barrier making it shake erratically.
"Ugh! Damn, that was cool!" He said as he stood up with blood at the corner of his lips.
He smiled showing his sharp teeth as his eyes glowed dangerously with a hint of madness in them reflecting her figure clearly in them.