[Proto Earth 1]
The moment Lilia took her distance away from Kaido, the latter himself suddenly dashed towards her in synchronization to her movements, as he quickly pulled out a quick strike which blew her away. With that, Lilia then crashed through the iron bars behind her, as she got bodied down to the ground face first.
Jumping up into the air, Kaido raises up his iron rod above his head, as he imbued it with enhanced electric element, and smashed it down towards Lilia who surprisingly dodged it by rolling to the side at the last moment.
However despite that, the force of the attack caused the whole ground around Kaido to cave into the earth, as a huge crater formed and blasted all the stone away from it. Among these blown away, Lilia then got blown back as she tried her best to anchor herself to the ground, by pinning down her dagger unto the floor's surface.
But the moment she did such a thing, Kaido speed blitz above her and drop down a kick from above that is aimed towards her head. In that span of short few seconds, Lilia danger sense suddenly pricked her reaction time to a whole new level, as she quickly used a skill which made her do an instantaneous movement in that split second of activity.
"Eject!!!"
Just as its name suggest, Lilia pulled herself away from harms way, as she quickly recovered from her sudden movement and attacked Kaido from his blind spot. This time Lilia didn't plan to engage in combat against Kaido who is proficient in hi9s unorthodox way of fighting. Since she cant predict his movements from the random set of skill he has, she then decided to attack him from afar while also staying hidden from any danger.
Sheathing back her knife, Lilia then opened up her storage system as she took out multiple throw knives from her space and held it out in anticipation of Kaido's sudden attack. At the same time she quickly changed her dagger into a longer and sharper one , due to the fact that her previous dagger is slowly becoming dull after all this time of fighting.
All this sequence of movements and changing her weapon had happened in just a few second from the moment she disappeared from Kaido's sight. this only inclines, that Lilia's movement were so fast that she could enact something that only happens in fictional online.
On another hand she was quite worried on how will Kaido react from her sudden disappearance, After all he did imply and suggested that she should fight an enemy head on when caught in the open and not force itself from escaping a place when victory is assured. Since she felt else way in contrast to what was being taught to her, the worry she felt slowly took over her mind as she begun to hesitate in continuing her act of hiding from an enemy.
Taking a look down below, Lilia's eyes constricted into a shock as she completely lost track of Kaido, which cause her to poke her head out in the open in confusion.
But the moment she did such a thing, her danger sense then suddenly kicks in, as she felt a dangerous presence behind accompanied by a dangerous feeling energy gathering on another spot.
As she quickly turn around and decided to defend herself with her own weapons, while also preparing an movement skill, Kaido simply smiled evilly as he struck out a fist empowered by flames and lightning element and smacked it down towards Lilia's defenses.
At the force of the attack, Lilia came crushing down to the ground, as the flames engulfed everything and the lightning prevented her from moving temporarily. As she crashed down, the shockwave of the attack was reverberated around the area, causing a mini quake to occur.
Naturally this mini quake greatly alerted the majority of the city's population. causing panic to arise on the street and major police force to rush towards the area where the shockwave originated from.
While a huge commotion erupted in the city, Kaido then begun his relentless pursuit as he covered his right hand with flames, before charging forward. AT the same time, Lilia recovered from that devastating attack as she begun spreading out smoke in her surroundings using one of her skill and blended her presence with the environment.
The moment Lilia blended into the background, Kaido crashed down on an empty space as he was shock to realize that Lilia had disappeared from his sight once more. However such a situation wasn't something new to Kaido. After all the only reason why he found Lilia hiding in a place that is on his blind spot was because he had utilized his shockwave radar to see through every obstacles around him.
Without further ado, Kaido used his own radar once more , as he tried to see through everything and even Lilia's whereabouts. However the moment he tried to sense his surroundings, he was quite surprised to notice that he cant locate Lilia at all. It was as if Lilia herself never existed nor never went to this place. For once Kaido showed a smile of excitement from this sudden development.
In that moment as Kaido tried to feel his surroundings, he then finally felt a presence approaching him quite fast behind him, as he turned around and released a sea of flames behind him which completely engulfed Lilia whole was rushing over. But the next moment, Lilia then suddenly exploded in mid air upon contacting with Kaido's flames, indicating that the person that got caught up in flames was just a clone.
Just as Kaido took out one clone, two more clones suddenly appeared behind him and restrained his movement in place, as another clone jump into the air and thrusted down its sharp dagger.
Unfortunately Kaido was protected by a barrier surrounding his whole body, as he suddenly erupted an electrical explosion followed by streams of earthen shockwave which killed all the clones near him.
After that forceful release, more clone headed his way, reaching up to a hundreds, all brandishing their weapons towards him. Upon seeing such spectacle, Kaido realized that he would be done for if the clones manage to be able to restrain him and much less his abilities. SO in order to not reach such an outcome, Kaido quickly took a high jump into the air and begun climbing up the building in order to prevent himself from being surrounded.
Naturally all the clones raced up towards him as their numbers further grow even more, making it look like a bunch of ant climbing up the constructed building from afar.
As the race to the top goes on, Kaido seldom turn around as he shot multiple attacks from above and blow away the unsuspecting clones from below. However his attacks proved to be useless as more and more clones replace the ones who died from his bombardment.
What's more, since Lilia's class is proficient in climbing such height, far faster than any other class, some of Lilia's clones manage to catch up to Kaido and begun their aggressive attack towards him.
With that the battle grew fiercer as the clones tried their best to overwhelm Kaido with numbers. But with Kaido's quick maneuver of combat movements, he was able to deter any clones coming towards him, and somewhat make them either disappear from his sight or throw them off the building with brute force.
After throwing out a stack of clones, Kaido climbed even further as he got chased all over the constructed building and tried his best not to get surrounded by enemies on all sides. Soon after he then reached the 12th floor of the building, as he then suddenly got attacked by a clone who wield a short sword and forced his hand to drop the iron rod that he wields.
After the clones forced him to drop his weapon, they begun attacking him in both close quarter combat and long ranged combat, as Kaido was left with no choice but to defend himself using his hands. As he dodged the ranged attacks by a hairs breath, Kaido swiftly knock up into the air the short sword that the clone wielded using some type of disarmament hand technique and caught it in mid flight, as housed it to stab the clone on i9ts shoulder before throwing it off the building.
Using the short sword that he had stolen off Lilia's clone, he then threw it directly towards another clone approaching his back, as he forced it to defend itself which gave a huge opening for him to exploit. The moment the clone moved to parry the attack, Kaido quickly circled around the clone, as he took ahold of its stomach and flipped it over using a German suplex.
Not giving it a chance to recover, Kaido then strengthened his legs with psychic electricity, as he stomped on the clones head and squashed its brain out under one stomp.
Right after then, he then turned around and proceeded to climb up the building while keeping an eye out towards the real body of Lilia herself.
As Kaido kept climbing up, he then landed himself on the edge of the 36th floor as he tried his hardest to balance his whole body. After he balanced his body on that edges of the 36th floor, two clones then landed on front and back as they pulled out their respective weapons and slashed it towards him.
In response to that, Kaido dodged the attack from the back, as he blocked the attack form the front, and proceeded to counter back whenever there is an opportunity that presented itself. After continuous dodging and blocking, Kaido then begun his assault as he pushed back the clone on his front, as he kicked the clone on his back, before returning his attention to his front and dealing a triple blow combo.
Right after he dealt the triple blow combo to the clone on his front, he then swung his arm behind him, which parried the clones attack, as he kicked the tendons on its leg, and grabbed its head before smashing it top the ground.
From that position, he then ducked down in order to avoid the clone swing on his front, and proceeding for a straight counter on its face, which blew it away. Unfortunately that wasn't the end. Kaido quickly jumped into the air the moment the clone on his front got blown away, and proceeded to kick at its face, causing blood to spill out towards the surroundings.
After dealing considerable damage to the two clones, both of it then disappeared into particles, as Kaido turned towards the other clones, while revealing a sinister smile. Putting his hand together into a clasp, electricity then begun to course through his skin, as he pulled out a spear made out of lightning out of nowhere.
Without any hesitation on his eyes, he then slashed its power towards the clones approaching him and completely decimated a huge portion of the clones in the area.
After the number of clones dropped significantly, Kaido begun searching through the building towards Lilia's true body, as he noticed an abnormality among the crowd of clones on the ground. With a smile on his face, Kaido blitz through the army of clones from the 36th floor and instantly landing before Lilia in a blink of an eye.
Slashing up the lightning spear's power towards her, Lilia quickly let go of her creating more clones, as she tried to defend herself by crossing her arms in front of her with the plan that her suit would be able to negate some of the damage and strength of the attack. However little did she know, that the moment she got struck by such attack, she was then blown away from the force of the swing and come crashing towards the pile of dirt on the other side of the construction area.
After blown her away, Kaido breath out a mouthful of breath, as he calmed down himself before walking towards Lilia who came crashing hard after being struck down by his attack. At the same time since Lilia cloning skill had been forcefully shuts down, all the other clones disappeared without a trace, thus leaving Lilia to fend for herself.
Soon after Kaido sat beside Lilia and said.
"Well that was kind of an adrenaline rush, I cant believe you can actually spam your cloning skill"
"Well there is... a drawback"
Even though Lilia was able to maximize the use of her skills in this battle, she still somewhat lack the capacity to use her combat prowess against the strong. After observing as much, Kaido took a break with her as he stared at the sky above his head.
"So what are we gonna do after this?"
"Nothing much! But of you want to continue on, we could do that with ease"
Upon hearing Kaido's words, Lilia simply smiled as she shook her head and sprawled out on the ground from which she crashed unto.
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Time passed Kaido and Lilia left the place as they returned back to the safety of her home as they attended the dinner with Lilia's whole family.
On the next day Lilia attended her class in a daily routine as she listened to the words of the professor discussing his study right in front of them. This time however, Kaido joined in as he listened beside Lilia.
There was nothing special in the class, if one could describe it, it was like an ordinary extra course that was given to the student by the academy's own government. To be actual fact, the lesson that was being taught in class was something like peace studies and its correlation within it.
"The field of peace studies recognizes that conflict is inherent in human behavior and seeks to harness conflict through nonviolent means to reduce violence and transform societies. Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyzes violent and nonviolent behaviors as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts, with a view towards understanding those processes which lead to a more desirable human condition"
"It is also an interdisciplinary academic field that incorporates many different fascinating disciplines, including but not limited to cultural studies, criminal justice, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology"
"This social science is in contrast to military studies, which has as its aim the efficient attainment of victory in conflicts, primarily by violent means to the satisfaction of one or more, but not all, parties involved. Disciplines involved may include philosophy, political science, geography, economics, psychology, communication studies, sociology, international relations, history, anthropology, religious studies, and gender studies, as well as a variety of others. Relevant sub-disciplines of such fields, such as peace economics, may be regarded as belonging to peace and conflict studies also."
As the professor said this words, Kaido felt a hostility in the air, as it caught his attention, which caused him to turn his head around and look all over the class. However the moment he did such a thing, the hostility that once eroded the place, then suddenly disappeared as it was trying to escape his perception.
Since the hostile aura got retracted by its host, Kaido eyed the student for one last time, before he slouched back down to the table and calmed his nerves from over wariness. Surprisingly the moment he turned to look at Lilia, he saw her dripping with sweats on her face, as she held her ballpen tightly on one hand and slowly taking out another weapon stuck on her waist with another.
Upon seeing Lilia's state, Kaido conclude that Lilia might have also felt the hostile energy, causing her to react in order to defend herself.
Soon after she then calmed down as she swiped the beads of sweat off her face and returned to writing down notes on her notebook. What's more Kaido noticed that Lilia was slightly moving her lips, as he guessed that she was currently conversing with her system in regards to the sudden outburst of hostile aura.
After talking to her system for a short moment, she then turned her attention towards him, as Kaido simply smiled in response.
Did you also felt that?" asked by Lilia
"Yup! and some other few people among the crowd" answered by Kaido
"... What?"
"Apparently only the players with a system could feel the hostiles aura and since i am connected to your system to understand your native language, i was also able feel that hostile aura"
"....."
"But don't worry so much, there are also few players within the crowd here, all of them felt the aura... if my guess is right, then perhaps those players would storm out of the class in order to find the perpetrator of the aura"
Hearing Kaido's words, Lilia glanced all over the class, as Kaido suddenly pulled her head down while giving her an advice"
"Don't look around too much! they might mistake you for the perpetrator of that aura"
"Really? How many are there?"
"Hmm... around 8 players are present in this class"
"8!!!!"
Upon hearing that specific number, Lilia stayed low as she doesn't want anyone to mistake her for the perpetrator. As she stayed low, Kaido simply pats her on the back as he directed her attention towards the teachings in the class.
After all in this situation where one don't know the perpetrator and might be accused falsely due to having suspicious movement, It was better to stay naïve of the situation and pretend that everything that happened was not real. With that she listens attentively once more in the class which was discussing the history of peace studies.
"As an academic subject, Peace Studies began in the aftermath of Great War. The first program dates way back at the country on the other side of the planet. Unlike ever-narrowing specialization that has occurred in some fields, Peace Studies has expanded inexorably since then. From its international focus on understanding and preventing the roots of war and the spread of nuclear weapons, it now encompasses the promotion of human rights, justice, individual rights and well-being, and much more"
As the professor was talking in the class, Kaido glanced around the classroom secretly one last time as he tried his best to find the culprit of the sudden aura. Unknown to them, there were currently two pairs of eyes watching from the dark and the sole perpetrator of the hostiles aura.