Askovow's ability, considered as one of the strongest. It was due to his special element itself, 'Blood'. He has the power to manipulate blood of others.
The condition is that he has to make a cut in the enemy's body with his weapon and the weapon must come in contact with that blood. After that, he just requires some time for activating his ability and then he can do anything to the enemy's blood, including instantly killing him.
Every ability has a weakness and a counter, but no one has ever found a counter to this ability.
This was one of his strongest abilities and can't be used again and again as it uses a huge amount of energy and also causes some toll on his body.
Apart from such deadly abilities, he has massive physical strength making him almost impossible to defeat.
"When…" Arthur murmured.
"Huh…"
"When did you hit him!!!"
"Just got a bit sneaky. It was that idiot's mistake for not keeping his guard up while rushing." He explained.
Arthur was in rage, "This will be your end!!!"
"Try to last longer than others, most just die out in seconds." Askovow taunted.
Without giving any reply, Arthur took out a sword from his back and rushed towards him at his highest speed.
"Flame dance!!!" Arthur unleashed one of his attacks. His blade unleashing fire, making a rapid succession of strikes leaving a forceful fiery impact on the front. An impact which could cut and burn through anything, it also
left a fiery trail behind.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
He swung his blade as fast as he could, holding it with both of his hands. His attacks were so fast that it was almost impossible to dodge.
Those rapid, really fast attacks and his sword skills created a really wonderful spectacle. It was like a dance of flame with powerful fiery trails. Anyone would be amazed by it.
But Alas…
Not even one of Arthur's attacks could even touch him. Aksovow just kept his hands in his pant's pockets and dodged every one of his attacks, feeling them as if they were too slow for him. His expression was calm, not an ounce of hesitation and stress were seen on his head, his eyes were closed and had a faint smile on his face. In fact, he wasn't even taking the fight seriously, seemingly just taking a test of Arthur's abilities.
Arthur continued attacking him for some time until he realised that it would do no good, thus immediately backing up, taking a defensive stance.
"Not exposing your full power huh?" The man taunted, looking directly in the eyes of enraged Arthur.
"Let's get started for real this time!!" The man shouted, laughing like a madman, as he threw his coat behind, revealing his upper body, which was filled with scars of cuts which he had gotten during his previous battles. His body was big with quite a lot of muscles. He stared at Arthur, with a wide and evil grin on his face.
In response to this, Arthur slowly lifted his weapon to point it towards the sky, his gaze cold, serious, eyes filled with murderous intent towards Askokow.
"RISING FLAME BARRAGE !!"
Slowly, a lot of orange balls of fire manifested right over his head. They kept forming in tens… within no time, there were at least hundred of them, hovering over him.
Almost immediately, many of those got projected towards the man at a really fast speed, they kept going one after the other and even more fire balls manifested replacing the position of the previous.
"Nullification…" the man murmured as he prepared himself to counter the upcoming attack, he had a wide smile on his face, enjoying the moment. Using his sword, he just cut through every fireball which was getting directed at him, no matter the speed, he just swirled his sword in different directions cutting each of them without even missing a single one.
As the fireball hit the sword, it dissipated into two smaller fragments which slowly disappeared, or more accurately, it felt as if it was extinguished.
"Huh!" Arthur was shocked as he saw how one of his really powerful attacks miserably failed to land even a single hit on the enemy upfront.
"Nice try kiddo…"
The man had a faint smile on his face, as he cut through the last fireball directed towards him. A faint smoke rose from the tip of his sword as he held it diagonally, looking at his sword with a faint smile on his face.
"But now it's my turn…"
For a few moments, there was just utter silence, no one neither moved, nor spoke anything, it was as if everything except the wind had stopped.
"Nobody will come forward!" Arthur shouted. "Let me deal with him, if you interfere, you die. It's an order!"
Hearing this, everyone stiffened up, seemingly unable to accept his decision. A woman came forward trying to cover Arthur, disobeying his order and started speaking as she slowly took her steps forward, "Sir Arthur, you have no reason to fight a person like him, You should bac…"
Before she could speak more, a blade came through and pierced through her stomach. The wound caused was not too deep, but still would pose a threat to life if not treated immediately.
It took a moment for everyone to realise that she had been hit. She looked at her wound and kept her hand on her cut stomach, she was shocked and confused… fear etched all over her face. Blood slowly flowed through her wound.
"She sure talks a lot… She should have listened to you." Askovow scoffed as he lifted up his sword which still had some part of her blood, to show it to everyone.
Before anyone could react, the woman's wound suddenly bursted, blood splattering at insanely high speed, all her blood spilling everywhere. Her lifeless body laid down, fully soaked in blood.
It was another blood related ability of Askovow, where, if the ability is activated and his sword pierces through a person's flesh, forcing blood to flow. The blood from the wound flows ten times faster than that of a normal wound. Making his attacks 10 times more fatal than normal attacks.
Arthur looked down and silently kept staring at her lifeless corpse. His face was emotionless, he did not utter a single word, his eyes showing coldness.
"You lost kid. It's time to act as a good boy and die here." As the red haired man taunted, all the people who were standing behind him started surrounding Arthur in a circle.
Blue flames emerged on Arthur's shoulders, it was as if his shoulders were burning, steam aroused around him. It looked like the ground below him was releasing it.
"Twelve people huh?" Arthur smirked, and then muttered slowly "Vor...tex Imprisonment" His face turned from expressionless to a cold, devilish one. One which would cause anyone to feel chills in their spine.