Chapter 111: Intense Battle II
Boom!!!!!
Mythyr opened her eyes wide in surprise as the shockwave arrived, carrying dust and rocks, with a terrifying pressure that forced her to erect a thick stone wall behind her back and surround her body with more energy to resist the massive shockwave.
The entire stands roared at Kazuka's move; most of the men stood up and jumped in excitement, sharing the feeling that the move was cool and great.
Kazuka at this moment lunged with very high speed; he kicked a rock being floated up by the shockwave, flying along with him.
Mythyr immediately sensed it. A loud "buzzing" sound from the shockwave made her extremely uncomfortable. She immediately turned to the right, but Kazuka had closed in very near.
Mythyr slammed hard down onto the ground and created a series of large stone walls blocking Kazuka's path.
"Damn it."
She was very angry as the people were roaring after Kazuka unleashed his strength. Originally looking down on him and thinking she could win easily, she had shown caution, but it was only fleeting and she didn't care. Now she tried to brush it off, because deep inside she did not want to accept it.
Opening both hands to the sides, a series of stone spikes stabbed continuously upward and toward both flanks.
Kazuka swung his sword, slashing a vertical energy slash that shattered the series of stone walls.
Immediately jumping into the air, a series of sharp stone spikes grew out consecutively and pointed straight up at Kazuka. He swung his left hand hard and smashed directly into two sharp tips that were converging and continuing to grow. Having energy surrounding his hand, he did not fear mere sharpness. The smash made those sharp spikes fall like a rain of boulders.
Right at this moment, Mythyr below smirked; it seemed he had accidentally jumped to the other end of the arena, and she had arranged something.
Kazuka landed, but suddenly under his feet, a series of black shadows were growing larger. He raised his head. It was many giant stone blocks falling down. Kazuka opened his eyes wide in horror and panic.
Mythyr smirked triumphantly. She slammed her hand down on the ground and created a series of extremely high stone walls to prevent Kazuka from escaping the range of the falling giant stones.
The entire stands went silent; everyone opened their eyes wide in fear seeing the stone blocks; some even feared the stone blocks would destroy the barrier if they hit it.
She had brought these stone blocks outside the arena using her power to control the Earth element. Then she launched them into the sky; just doing that also consumed a lot of her energy.
Takeshi above trembled; he did not expect she could do such a thing.
"What the hell? How did she bring them that high?"
All five people stood frozen.
Mythyr realized this was the opportunity to reuse the previous move. She used her ability to control the Earth element and went deep into the ground to take metals and then synthesized them around her hand. Another double-headed sharp spike was created, extremely sharp and silver in color. Right in that moment, she surrounded her body with four sides of stone walls, even the top, and covered it up. She knew Kazuka had friends and they might warn Kazuka.
"Though I cannot use my sword to take his blood and become stronger, this guy fights very flexibly. But let's see if you can survive?"
She pointed one metal spike forward toward the wall in the dark and spun it at an extremely fast speed.
Outside, Kazuka was standing straight and concentrating more energy outward.
"Running out of range is too late."
Kazuka entered a stance.
"It's just many boulders; choosing the smallest boulder and destroying them with a piercing strike is enough."
He jumped powerfully and lunged up, confronting head-on the smallest boulder among them all, but even so, it was extremely large. Pointing the sword tip straight up, the sword was so thick with energy it was hard to see.
Rumble!!!!
Kazuka lunged through the large stone and destroyed it into many pieces; his hands trembled a bit after having to withstand this giant boulder. The large and small stone blocks fell like a rain that could crush anything.
Thud!!!!
As his jumping force gradually ran out, Kazuka prepared to land.
Right at this moment, Mythyr below launched her metal sharp spike, shattering her protective stone wall into pieces. Then she lunged like the shearing wind with extremely fast speed, making the wind shriek a long sound. That sharp spike was burning hot and red-hot.
Lin shouted loudly in Kazuka's head: "Avoid it quickly!!!!"
Mythyr had underestimated Kazuka too much. The previous strike was at close range, so he didn't react in time. But this strike was from a distance, one person on the ground and one person high in the sky. Actually, she was too overconfident.
The stone layer broke and Mythyr, with triumph and a smile wide to her ears in delight, as if she was certain of victory.
Kazuka, having been hit once, was unlikely to be hit again as he was very alert, and also had time to react. All the pores on the right side of Kazuka's neck immediately pushed a massive burst of energy outward like a giant nozzle with great pressure. Precisely because it only sprayed energy on the upper part, it caused the upper body to be pushed to the other side, while the lower part didn't need to do anything.
Kazuka's body tilted to the left and avoided the metal spike grazing past his face; he even clearly felt the heat and energy of Mythyr.
Selena above opened her eyes wide, unable to believe Kazuka could avoid that strike from her teacher.
Mythyr was the most shocked; she opened her eyes wide in shock, her pupils dilated in their sockets, her brain immediately unable to accept it, her mouth trembling. That was her strongest move and could be considered her certain-kill strike; she didn't expect it to be avoided by a brat of unknown origin.
Kazuka fell; he felt a bit happy and smiled lightly and then fell down. But he remained focused, not letting temporary joy lose his concentration. He swung his sword and slashed two energy slashes following each other, launching down toward Mythyr as a response after her continuous attack sequence.
Mythyr was furious; she swung her sword and slashed away the two incoming slashes in turn with anger. Bloodshot veins filled her eyes; these already strange eyes became even stranger with the bloodshot veins. Veins on her face and forehead bulged; blood still ran as if inside was some kind of creature.
Kazuka landed; the ground cracked apart.
Mythyr spread her palm and squeezed upward into the air. Suddenly under Kazuka's feet, a large, dark, gaping hole opened. That was the mouth of a giant Golem opening wide and preparing to take Kazuka into its belly.
Kazuka was panicked and immediately fell into the darkness inside the giant Golem's mouth. Outside, the entire stands were surprised at the half-body Golem standing over 5 tharns tall, looking up at the sky.
Kazuka, although swallowed inside, was falling in the dark space. But he knew, if he was inside, it was even easier to destroy its core.
Immediately, energy covered his body and shone brightly throughout the inside.
Boom!!!!
A massive explosion at the Golem's chest immediately destroyed its core. The Golem's body crashed heavily onto the arena floor.
Boom!!!
Mythyr gritted her teeth in anger seeing Kazuka jump out of the Golem's chest and stand in the distance.
Kazuka lunged, shearing the wind and closing in on Mythyr.
Mythyr also responded. Both sides continuously swung swords and clashed. Then bounced back and continued. Mythyr suddenly created a somewhat large stone arm and attacked along with herself. Kazuka dodged to the right and parried Mythyr's sword lunging forward, making him bounce back.
Mythyr continued attacking with large stone pillars with sharp tips. Kazuka continuously avoided them; the stone pillars stabbed into the ground and planted deep, showing their power was not small at all.
He hid right behind a large rock. Suddenly he thought of something in the difficult situation of closing in and being attacked continuously like that. No matter how one fought, closing in was necessary, but how to close in and attack most effectively was the hard part.
Kazuka created an energy sphere in his hand and immediately stuffed it into his mouth. Taking the opportunity to create more spheres.
Suddenly from afar, the large stone pillars lunged again. Kazuka jumped outside and avoided them. Then he swung both hands, throwing a series of energy spheres arriving extremely fast. Mythyr sensed there was no jamming energy; she tilted her body and avoided all of Kazuka's energy spheres; those spheres went behind her back and created a large hole, showing that those spheres were not weak at all.
Kazuka took the sword out of his mouth and lunged.
Still the old scenario, a series of large and sharp stone pillars lunged. Kazuka ran zigzag and avoided them, but Mythyr had seen through his movement and continuously blocked the next direction of movement. Kazuka had to struggle and dodge while closing in, having to focus on the stone pillars while being cautious if some trap would suddenly appear to break the current fighting stance.
"Too many."
Takeshi above was standing up, his hand clutching the stone chair in front; even he felt admiration, not expecting she had so much energy, using continuous moves that required much energy without showing signs of weakening.
Suddenly Mythyr stopped attacking with stone pillars; she gripped the sword tightly, wanting to confront Kazuka directly once more, partly because she knew herself she was wasting too much energy. She was determined to take Kazuka's blood to wash her sword.
Seeing Mythyr stop attacking and her lunging powerfully toward him, Kazuka also did not hesitate to confront her directly.
Both sides continuously unleashed slashes with great strength, sometimes slashing from bottom up, sometimes striking from top down. Both sides wrestled fiercely, neither side willing to lose or keep a large distance. Not rushing to attack first because both wanted to see what the other did and react, sometimes they could seize the opportunity and change the situation. One side blue energy, one side red energy continuously collided, making the audience above roar in excitement.
Once more both sides swung swords. But Kazuka always knew being proactive would be better. He suddenly retracted the slash and ducked, avoiding Mythyr's slash swinging over his head. Then he stabbed the sword forward, the sword tip pointing straight at her chest. But Mythyr arched her back very low, avoiding the stab that could have been the fatal blow to finish her. Immediately after, she flipped a few rounds backward and kept her distance.
Kazuka slashed out a large blue energy slash.
Mythyr also responded with one of her red energy slashes.
Both lunged up and continuously slashed at close range and energy slashes when kept at a distance; some energy slashes flew away, some confronted other slashes and vanished, some had jamming energy and exploded upon colliding with other slashes. The stands roared incessantly.
At one sword clash, Kazuka opened his mouth wide; a fairly large energy sphere appeared. Mythyr opened her eyes wide in shock; she knew she needed to avoid it quickly. But she also knew it was too late, immediately creating jamming energy.
Kazuka launched the energy sphere from his mouth; he had placed it in his mouth and continuously pumped energy in then tried to compress it small.
When he launched the energy sphere out of his mouth, it was also when Mythyr created jamming energy. Kazuka felt something was wrong and immediately jumped backward.
Boom!!!!
A terrifying explosion made black smoke cover the entire arena like a giant black curtain. As before, in tense scenes, not a single spectator said anything; all were silent along with fast heartbeats waiting for the next development.
Kazuka gasped for breath, leaning against the wall of the arena. His shirt was torn with large holes; he felt it was quite cumbersome so he decisively tore it off, revealing firm muscles in the dissipating black smoke; he also threw away both shoes. His body had many scratches but they had recovered. His two legs trembled slightly, because he had concentrated a lot of energy down and made a powerful jump to the distance quickly, making his legs a bit unable to withstand it.
He also didn't expect she would defend by using jamming energy instead of trying to make a powerful jump out. Originally that energy sphere if it hit would surely make a hole in Mythyr's body, but it exploded. This was no different from turning Kazuka from the proactive one into a suicide bomber.
When the smoke on the other side gradually cleared, Mythyr with half her body blown away was lying on the ground. One side of her face was blown away by the explosion, revealing the bone. The left half of her body was almost gone. Arm gone, leg gone and only a small bone fragment remained, broken ribs completely exposed. Her body was smeared with blood, one side of her face still had eyes wide open in fear.
The entire stands were silent before the scene of blood and flesh of a person; everyone was shocked, not expecting the explosion to be so big. But there were still many people who were excited and roared; they saw it as nothing scary but rather felt excited when it was Mythyr. Inside them, they knew every battle has blood; not being able to watch it was truly not being a man.
But suddenly from the ring, four streaks of smoke flew out then surrounded Mythyr's body. Her whole body lit up with a grey color of smoke. Her body recovered completely without a scratch. Mythyr picked up the sword on the ground and gritted her teeth in anger.
"Damn it, originally the five contracts were my second lives. Yet I wasted one for a battle like this."
The smoke had almost cleared.
She growled in anger that could not easily dissipate unless Kazuka died:
"Damn it, I will kill you."
She was aggressive like that for a reason. When she recovered, she had recovered all the energy consumed throughout the battle.
Kazuka was only wearing a pair of shorts and no shirt on top. Standing still looking at Mythyr with her anger.
"Is she crazy? Clearly she caused the trouble. Yet now it's as if I am the one who caused it."
Lin was still bewildered:
"In the end, how much energy did Ka use for that sphere? Lin didn't even expect that."
Kazuka kept his eyes fixed on Mythyr, answering quietly and carefully:
"About more than one part of the energy in my body."
Kazuka found it hard to understand.
"Strange. I used two parts of energy to create the shockwave. Yet that energy sphere was only a bit more than one part. Just like the wolf-brain said, the weaker one is, the more one needs to analyze and understand energy and oneself."
"That sword-planting strike was stabbing down to the ground, so the force concentrated on the ground was primary. While that energy sphere earlier was a direct hit."
Lin: "How large is Ka's energy gate?"
Kazuka said softly: "Six parts of one part."
Lin's voice was full of surprise in Kazuka's head:
"So large."
Kazuka having a large energy gate was a great advantage; it was easier to use a lot of energy. But this required the ability to control energy well. If calculated according to Kazuka's energy well, normally those slashes might only have a little energy, sometimes even smaller than one-hundredth of a part.
Kazuka radiated energy outward and was ready to continue fighting; he also felt Mythyr's energy was full again, making Kazuka frown.
"Did she recover her energy?"
Lin: "She probably recovered. Don't worry, it's just being vigorous. At the moment, it will take a long time to run out of energy."
Lin repeated as if to emphasize:
"Remember to do as Lin said. Currently, even radiating energy further to sense far away, you won't be able to avoid that move of 'hers'."
Kazuka nodded; he also understood which move "that" was.
Jumping powerfully, making the ground crack. Both sides lunged at each other.
Mythyr swung her sword first, sweeping across Kazuka's chest. Kazuka immediately slashed from top down and parried the sword. But the distance between both sides was quite far, but Kazuka wanted to try using the old move to see if the opponent made a mistake.
But Mythyr retracted her sword and retreated. Then she lunged once more; Kazuka also lunged to face her.
She was very vigorous, along with the ability to predict movement. She continuously unleashed sword strikes, sometimes slashing at the ribs, sometimes slashing at the neck, sometimes stabbing at the eyes... Kazuka struggled to defend and retreat. Energy slashes still flew out, some exploded, some did not.
It seemed like a distraction trap; she only lunged without using the Earth element as if wanting Kazuka to be preoccupied and forget its presence. Because she had just thought of something new and was just waiting for Kazuka to be off guard to use it.
The two swords collided, but there was no sound, only two energy sources neutralizing each other.
Kazuka ducked and swung his leg, wanting to sweep Mythyr's legs to make her lose balance. She immediately jumped up and avoided it, as if Kazuka had created an opportunity for Mythyr. She swung her sword from top down.
"I will grind you into pulp."
She remembered the times she swung her sword from top down and a creative thought for her occurred. That is, it already existed but she didn't know and hadn't discovered it.
She now only hoped Kazuka would parry her sword. But Kazuka did not parry and dodged to one side, the sword blade slashed vertically down to the ground…
Boom!!!
The sword slashed down to the ground and made the ground burst apart, giant and deep cracks. The loud sound made everyone squint because it was so loud.
Kazuka had just finished dodging; his panic was clear and he jumped back to keep his distance.
Lin spoke loudly in warning:
"Ka, from now on, do not parry or block anymore. She is using the massive weight of stone and transmitting it into that sword. Now her slashes are extremely powerful."
Kazuka gritted his teeth in tension. He knew there was more trouble when she used something else.
Mythyr, with discomfort clear on her face, clicked her tongue once.
She reached her hand forward. Kazuka spread his legs into a stance. Immediately from eight directions were large pillars with sharp tips emerging from underground and launching toward Kazuka.
Gritting his teeth hard, Kazuka concentrated more energy. Unleashing an energy slash in a circle. The lunging pillars were immediately destroyed.
Lin warned urgently: "Not good, don't slash like that."
Seizing the opportunity, Mythyr lunged immediately after Kazuka finished his rotation. An extremely powerful slash with weight like a giant stone block slashed straight into his chest. Kazuka opened his eyes wide in horror; in that moment, he knew he had made a mistake but could not fix it. Blood sprayed from his mouth, the slash crushed Kazuka's chest bones and created an extremely deep wound, but his consciousness remained and he stopped the bleeding right then. Kazuka also had a reaction, but it was just a normal reaction of jerking back. But being like that for a bit was lucky, as she was habitually cautious so she only slashed with the sword tip a little bit. This made the wound only a bit deep because of the large force; otherwise, it was not large at all.
Kazuka flew away and rolled many rounds on the ground. His bare body was covered in dust. Being injured did not mean he could do nothing else. While rolling, he immediately flipped over and stood up. His chest was sunken in a segment; luckily no internal organs were injured as the energy he used was very good when thickly covering around the organs like a cushion. Energy was trying to restore the chest bone and the wound was gradually closing.
But Mythyr lunged from the air, stabbing the sword from above down, as if she wanted to stab a blow from the head down the spine.
Kazuka still had strength; he looked up and opened his mouth wide. Launching a column of energy with chaotic energy, then immediately cut off the spray, avoiding the explosion reaching his mouth.
When her sword tip stabbed into Kazuka's jamming energy column…
Boom!!!
Mythyr angrily jumped out of the smoke with discomfort; this explosion only made her clothes a bit torn.
Kazuka lunged from behind the smoke; his chest had been restored. But Mythyr had already sensed it.
Kazuka unleashed a punch toward her face. She realized Kazuka was not holding a sword, but was forced to jump back and avoid the punch before calculating further.
Suddenly from the flank, Kazuka's sword lunged. Mythyr still sensed it and it was under control. She tilted her body to avoid it.
Kazuka pulled the energy string and retracted the sword to his hand. At the same time launching a large energy sphere toward Mythyr; the sphere was about the size of a small ball.
But Mythyr had swung her sword and cut the energy sphere in half, making it split and fall down then create a large hole.
Continuing to use the old trick, but it showed clear effectiveness. Mythyr created a series of large stone pillars with sharp tips; they emerged from the ground and launched toward Kazuka.
Kazuka once again had to struggle to fight back. He continuously swung energy slashes and destroyed the lunging stone pillars.
Kazuka was tense and not allowed to rest; his head was tight as a string. Having to observe while being alert for surprise attacks.