"Don't you dare ahhhh ahhh...DON'T YOU DARREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!"
*ZAPPPPPPPPPPP*
"THUNDER STRIKEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"
*ZZZZZZZZZZZPPPPPPPPPPP*
"A-ARIUS?!?!?!"
*HITTTTTTTTT*
*POWWWWWWW*
S-Shit! I left my guard down! I thought he had given up! Dammit!
"Ahhh ahhh Arius...You were clenching to your life? Ahhhh ahhh you…..why make it harder for yourself?"
Arius stands up, but he didn't answer to Crowell's question. He has lost his ability to think properly and his instincts have taken over him. The air bubble that was about to kill him was the catalyst for his instincts to activate and as of this moment the real fight begins!
What is he doing? He isn't speaking or anything….he is just staring at me, he is breathing quietly….his body looks so relaxed like he is about to...SHIT!
*FWOOSH!*
*HIT!*
KHOOOO!!!A-A punch to my stomach? When did he get-
*HIT*
M-My head! My brain is going to burst!!!!!!!!
"AAAAAARRRRRRIUUUUUSSSSSSS."
On an instant Crowell gathers air on his hand and creates multiple air bubbles!
"TAKE THIS!!!!"
*HIT!*
The air bubbles cushion Arius's punch!
"THERE IS MORE FOR YOU DONT YOU WORRY!"
*Fwosh*
The air bubbles that stopped Arius's punch had two functions, one was to push Crowell away from him and create a gap and the second was!
"Huh?!"
*plop…*
"HAH?!"
*BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!*
"AGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
The second function was to explode!
Arius was sent flying across the room creating even a bigger gap between him and Crowell!
"Good! HEY ARIUS!"
Arius looks at Crowell nervously and as he is about to rush head on he sees an air spear right in front of him!
"THE FUCK-WHEN DID HE THROW IT?!
SHIT! ITS COMING TOO FAST!!!!
I NEED TO DODGE!!!"
*FWOOSH*
"Look behind Arius."
"Huh?"
And as Arius turns his head back he sees 20 air spears on their way to hit him! He has no way to dodge them!
"LIGHTNING STRIKE!"
*HIT HIT HIT!*
The final lighting strike was used.
*drip* *drip* *drip*
As the air clears up Arius is barely standing up, although most of the spears were destroyed 3 of them were able to hit him, one in his left arm, one in his right leg and one in his stomach.
…..hit…..I was hit…..and I even used my last attack too…..great the chances of winning...went even lower…..he isn't going to give me the chance to recover from these wounds. Even now he is preparing his next attack. If I were to say from a scale from 1 to 10 of how fucked up I am going to get I would say it's at scale of 9 right now, it will take my body 5 minutes to heal itself but the problem is how do I use my ORIGIN more effectively. There are 2 ways, one is to gather it from outside sources and the other is to generate it. My ORIGIN core is garbage so I am left with only the one option and that option is to drain HIS ORIGIN.
Arius readies in a fighting stance, mentally preparing his muscles to be ready to strike!
During the northern war the nobles would capture people with great ORIGIN cores and drain it off of them, a shitty ability that I despise yet fate has put me on a position that I have to use it. The general I served was a Noble that would experiment on people I was able to pick up glimpses on how to use that technique but it isn't the real deal so the ORIGIN that I will drain off of him is going to be little to nothing. Even with the plan at hand I don't think he will just stay in a place and wait for me drain him so I am still on a bad spot.
*step*
"Let's give it a try…."
Crowell looks at Arius.
"Huh?"
*fwoosh*
Arius, his wounds haven't healed yet he is able to move this quickly.
"Fool, you will fai-"
*HIT*
*khof* H-His hand? But it didn't touch my stomach in fact he missed it. How?
"Huh? W-WHAT? Another Hand is in my stomach?"
Yes Crowell, the drain technique is not a physical one, it astral projects itself like my limbs and it hits your ORIGIN core in a conceptual level, effectively draining the power from the "root"!
*grab!*
Crowell grabs Arius's arm and takes it off his stomach.
*HIT*
Then he hits Arius with his leg and pushes him away, Arius is finally healed up and got a pretty good chunk out of Crowell's ORIGIN.
"Hmmmmm."
Arius is ready to attack!
"Hoooooooooo."
And so is Crowell!
Both of them are about to hit one another! Crowell creates a compressed air bullet while Arius creates a lightning arrowhead!
Staying in place only their fingers move as getting ready to attack one another just like in a duel! Sweat and stress surround their bodies. "Come on attack me…." they think. The seconds keep on passing and passing and just when you think they aren't going to attack one another
"ROOOOOOOOOOO."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA."
*POWWWWWWWWWWW*
THEY SHOOT AT ONE ANOTHER!
THE LIGHTING ARROWHEAD AND AIR BULLET APPROACH ONE ANOTHER AT HIGH SPEED!!!!!!!!
*HIT!*
THEY COLLIDE WITH ONE ANOTHER!
*POOF*
And it looks like they have negated one another…
"Arius you are very lucky, if you wer-"
*ZAP*
* H I T ! *
*KHOF*
"It…hit me? How? I saw the arrowhead being destroyed…..
….Is what you are thinking, right Crowell?"
Crowell looks at Arius intensely.
"Well the outer part of the arrowhead was meant to negate the air bullet, the real deal was inside it. It was a gamble of course since nothing assured me that it would work but thankfully it did, though different from you I don't want to kill you. It would be rude for a man to come at your house and kill you so I am just neutralizing you."
Crowell falls on his knees, his body won't move no matter how hard he tries, no word come out of his mouth, it's like-
It's like my entire body has shut down!
Arius looks down at Crowell and starts explaining.
"The lightning has shut down all of your movements. It was a technique I invented during the war to capture spies alive so don't worry you won't die, you just won't be able to move for the next 20 minutes and-"
Arius creates a lightning rod and points it towards the machine.
"It won't take me even 5 minutes to destroy this damned machine!"
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To be continued…