Jude charged in, everything around him blurring due to his speed and when he reached Zenith in less then 1second he tried grabbing him by the shoulder but failed. The person before him was a fake and the real one was behind him getting ready for an attack.
There was no way of dodging it, so Jude brasses himself and thought that once he was hit Zenith will drop his guard.
Zenith saw the change in stance that Jude took and smiled while shaking his head.
"Who the hell said you'd be standing after this attack, boy." Zenith said grinning to himself.
It was then Jude realised his mistake, he knew he should have never underestimated his opponents strength. To late now the blow was a second away, but he could prepare his next attack before receiving Zenith's. In the split second he summoned his two allies on stand by.
POW. The blow connected on Jude's jaw line making him move to the end of the ring in a split second and only staying on the ring due to the strings at the end.
The two summoned humanoid, vapour cloud, assassins were standing by Jude's side making a shocking appearance to everyone watching and even Zenith himself.
People from the warehouse who were doing their own thing all came to see a match as it progressed on. They all looked at Jude and were impressed that he could summon at that speed.
"He's good alright. It's crazy to believe he already got this strong in two days. He is even better then you were Sammie." Said Alexa coming back from the archery range that she went to before the group come into the warehouse.
"Yeah, he is good and has talent, but he needs a lots of training and hopefully this is his first step," Sammie said trying to please Zetsuros.
However he received a different reaction then what he was hoping, because Zetsuros was staring at him coldly.
"We came all this way just so you can train the boy, even though you knew I was going to do the job anyway."
Sammie shocked at how things turned out tried to reason with Zetsuros and asked for the help of his comrades, who left him for dead.
"Umm you see Asphoras said before he left that if either of the dragon's companions are spotted then test there skills to see how useful and resourceful they ar-"
A body went flying past in between Zetsuros and Sammie with black clouds flowing close behind. It was one of the summoned assassins.
The fight was one sided, Zenith left copies of himself that Jude attacked boundlessly. One of his summons though was playing it smart and waited in the side lines to attack and once it found the true Zenith it throw three daggers at him. They flew gracefully in a straight line towards the neck of Zenith. His eyes turning sharp to the corner saw the blades of black coming for the kill and with using his finger he swiftly swatted them away as if it were child's play.
Jude noticed this as he was punching the fakes, he saw just how useful and amazing his summon 1 was. Punching the fakes out of the way he strived towards Zenith and the second he came up to him he throw a high kick.
Zenith dodged without looking, but was surprised to feel something restraining him. He looked back to see one of the summoned assassins wrapping its arms around him and squeezing him with all his might. A punch to the gut was felt by Zenith, who had just received a blow from Jude. Without any wastage of time two knifes were throw at him but he moved his head to the side dodging it.
Zenith annoyed with the restraint turned his body to black vapour then solidified himself breaking free of the grip. He grabbed hold of the assassin, who was holding him, and threw him in the direction of the other assassin, who stood at a snipers distance away.
Naturally the assassin dodged while grabbing his comrade and straightened him up. Jude saw their amazing team work and had more respect for them as they were far more useful in a fight then he imagined.
Zetsuros in the middle of the battle received a notification in his head. It looked like those gaming system notices, so he knew it had something to do with Jude. When he read it said.
[ You have now reached level 2 ]
Skill increase stat:
- SUMMON: level 2
- FAZE : level 1
-MANIPULATE : level 1 (New!)
Hp : 400 ( increased by 300 from level 1 to level 2 )
"Uhhh, it is annoying how my power is being used in such a boring and useless way." Zetsuros sighed irritatedly. He looked at Jude and how the fight was not going his way so he notified him of the new changes in his power.
Jude nodded his head, for he knew something dramatically changed, he could feel it in his body. He was twice as strong and his assassins both acquired new skills.
Jude knew all this, because he and Zetsuros were one, so he knew what the manipulate skill really did. It allowed him to create five objects or even extra summons of his choosing. However, he didn't choose any summons, because since reaching level two he is allowed to summon 6 more making it a total of 8.
"Jude, I advise you to only choose one object or maybe even two for now. We need to save the others for later." Zetsuros said.
Jude nodded his head agreeing, he knew it would be stupid to waste them all now without carefully thinking about it.
He thought about what would be the best weapon to have. Should he be a knife guy or a sword guy or even a badass spear guy, he didn't know which the pick because they all sounded great.
"Imagine if I picked something like a ball," Jude chuckled to himself. What Jude didn't realise was that he just wasted one of the slots and was now down to only four more spaces.
Zetsuros was looking at the boy with absolute anger residing on his face.
"You IDIOT! How could anyone be this stupid!" Yelled Zetsuros.
Jude looked dumbfounded at the ball and at first laughed because of how stupid he looked standing next to it then he started to grasp the situation and was not laughing but rather pouting. He begged for the ball to go back but it stayed, but what was coming back was Zenith who looked tired in the side lines.
His assassins came right in front of him to block Jude from the attack.
"Uhhh, shit I forgot to give you guys names, anyway, A and B move out of the way, if you guys get killed then you don't come back you know."
A, jumped in the air faster then it could move before and throw daggers that were stronger, at Zenith. Zenith dodged, looked up and throw his own knife that was attached to a string that wrapped around his finger. It zoomed into the gut of A as it was in the air.
A tumbled down hard onto the ground but with in the same second Jude and B were already at the attack. Jude, with his ball hovering over his right shoulder, and B, with a short black sword on him pointing it at Zenith's heart.
Zenith went after B first, but before he could do that he swiftly manoeuvred past Jude first. B instantly plunged its sword forward, for he only knew some simple attacks and since reaching level 2 acquired on combo move. Zenith turned his body into vapour then shifted to the side materialising himself one more.
"Zenith take the match seriously, don't toy with him any longer," stated Sammie, looking at the match displeased with his comrades disrespect to his opponent.
Zetsuros, after hearing this was furious for two reasons, one being that Zenith disobeyed his order of going all out on Jude and two for not sensing that he was not at full strength. Had he really gotten that weak to the point that he couldn't even sense a high rankers power.
Zenith nodded then created some distance between him and Jude and the other two. B took this opportunity to aid A and heal him up while Jude was self recovering from exhaustion. Zenith concentrated and channeled all his power out making him have a denser aura around him. It then burst out and vanished and what was left was a far stronger foe then he had before.
"Faze 2 activate!"
Zenith's black vapour coming out of his body rapidly increased its speed sending rivers of black smoke to the sky endlessly at a tremendous speed. In his hand he held 15 small finger sized sharp blades.
He threw them in the air and they stayed there as if on pause, then with a single hang movement made by Zenith, they hunted down their prey.
There was no way of dodging this and taking it head on was suicide, so Jude had but one action to do . He lifted his arm up to cover his face shielding it, however he had received no attack or damage. There was a black wall in front of him, it was in between both Zenith and Jude and B. Jude was perplexed to see the ball have a use, so he tested it out, he brought it to its original state and then made it wrap around his body transforming it into black armour. He felt a lot heavier but could still move around quickly and he felt a lot stronger.
B then changed and transformed into a knight, with armour only at useful places for it didn't won't to make it slower. It now hand a much longer sword and a long cape that first wrapped around the bottom of his face then dragged down to his back, all the way to the floor.
*holy shit these guys look like more of a badass then I do. These cape looks sooooooo cool, wonder if I can use 'ball' to get one*
Jude changed his appearance till he looked identical to B and felt ashamed of his lack of originality.
*doesn't matter I'll change my look later and be way cooler and out shine B and A*
It was time, both sides knew that this last blow will end it, Jude and B charged and so did Zenith till they all reached the end.
"Faze 3!"
Zenith vanished then reappeared in the same second placing a high back kick to Jude, then a rotating giving a kick to the stomach to B.
Everything in Jude's vision went dark.
The match ended with Jude and B on the floor completely knocked out and A with a wound to his stomach.
Zetsuros should have been angry at Jude, he would have scolded Jude that he lost but he didn't. He knew the kid give it his all and he tried even after there was a clear difference in power, how could Zetsuros do anything but be proud of him. Though saying this he did think that once the boy had his test training was going to start straight away, because Zetsuros didn't won't to lose to anyone again.
Sammie started walking towards the ring and so did the five generals plus Alexa. Zetsuros stood where he was and Madonna close behind him worried about the condition of Jude.
"Wow he did way better then I expected. It thought he wouldn't even be a challenge at base level, who knew he was still standing on his feet at Faze 2. But naturally Faze 3 is too strong for him he was out with in a second," Festia chuckled to her self amused at how the event turned out.
"His summons are weird, their like nothing that the dragon wizards can do. They seemed to have their own personality and own fighting style. They were indeed strong." Mihox said while jumping onto the ring looking at the injured summon.
The man named Andrew stood next to her smiling at Zenith.
"You looked like you were struggling a bit there big boy. As if you really did need to use Faze 3 to beat him, Hmmmmmm."
"Oh yeah like I need to use Faze 3 for you, you blonde ass weirdo."
Zenith and Andrew stared at each other with disgust in their eyes.
"Uhhhh, what you say to me, wanna test that out old man."
"I'm 37 years old, I'm not old you high school drop out brat. Respect your damn elders you good for nothing piece of shit."
"That's enough you two, no need to start a commotion." Infislow said appearing out of thin air.
"That's right, this is about Zetsuros and the boy not you two bickering. With a being as mighty as Zetsuros do you really think that your behaviour is good or respectful?" Alex questioned as she arrived at the ring.
The two just snorted and turned their heads away from each other. Zenith then deactivated his power. He looked at the boy for a good minute then walked away from the scene.
"And where are you going?" Sammie asked as Zenith was asked past him.
He didn't answer until he was a the exit of the ware house, where the group came in from.
"To take a smoke."
Andrew got annoyed with this and started cussing under his breath and Alexa smacking him on the head telling him to mind his tongue. However Sammie finally turned his head towards the direction of the exit, where Zenith just left from.
Turning his head back and looking at Festia he said,
"Heal him quickly we need to get the meeting started."
She reluctantly nodded her head and began the process, placing her palm out in her palm out in his direction then healing him but by bit. It only took 30 seconds for it to finish and Jude slowly opened his eyes then lifted his body up while groaning.
When he was up on his feet he stretched out his joint and noticed the condition of his summons and grew nervous.
"It's alright as long as you place them back to their resting state, which is within you, they can heal."
Zetsuros came on the ring holding the hand of Madonna as he hovered slightly above the ground. She looked scared but relived a to see Jude. She was far from being stable but she looked much better then before.
Jude called his comrade summons to him and then the disappeared, probably somewhere in his body.
Sammie came closer to Jude extending his hand out for a handshake.
"Congratulations, you past the test. I knew you could do it."