Xol quickly scanned his surroundings and located Ena around 25 meters from where he was was preparing some arrows to shoot at him. Xol rolled to the side dodging the arrows but as he prepared to dash, he felt discomfort in his right foot. Glancing at his status he could see he was afflicted with bleeding for 7 seconds more and had 783 HP remaining.
Xol started dashing toward Ena in a diagonal direction to her left side. He endured the pain as best as he could while he did this, seeing Ena prepare an arrow he switched his direction and ran to the right dodging the arrow. Seeing this Ena prepared three arrows and shot them to limit Xol advance.
Xol deflected the center arrow and continued forward soon he was in range to use Mana Chains but instead of using it he decided to shorten more the distance. Ena shot another arrow toward him and he barely dodge it.
Xol created an invisible chain near her feet and created a visible one that circled her and sent it to restrain her. Once he saw Ena focus switching to the chain, he used the invisible chain to catch her leg and pulled her before she had the chance to ran dragging her toward his direction.
Switching the grip of the spear he intended to stab her shoulder as soon as she entered melee range, but before he could Ena broke the chain in her leg. Xol saw a similar behavior to what he experienced with the senior of the second trial, Ena had shrouded her leg in shadows and spikes blade came forth breaking the chain.
Xol didn't manage to drag her enough for close combat but still was enough for Mana Bomb. Before she had the chance to stood up, he shot Mana bomb directly at her, hitting the mark. Xol quickly dashed not wanting for the tide to switch in her favor again.
Ena sat completely with her hands behind her back by the time Xol arrived, she sent all her weight toward her left shoulder and pivoted on it to impulse herself up, sending a kick toward Xol face in the process.
[Xol Apprentice LVL 10
HP: 698/1030
MP: 1323/1750]
Shaking his head Xol opened his eyes and saw Ena cast a skill and more arrows appeared in her quiver while making some distance as she prepared to shoot him. Xol quickly created chains to stop her, once he bound her, he advanced and slashed at her stomach. He took a chunk of her HP but the armor she had deflected some of the damage.
Xol went for a vertical slash as he rotated the spear. Seeing this Ena sidesteped to dodge but Xol pulled the chains to stop her managing to slash her left shoulder. Switching the grip Xol send a stab at her stomach, Ena jumped slightly and used the momentum to make some distance thanks to her armor.
[Ena Dark Elven Bow Initiated LVL 10
HP: 1,320/2,840
MP: 2,560/3,380]
As she landed on her feet, Ena created a light arrow between her and the chains. Turning her hand, the arrow cut the chains releasing herself, switching to a shooting stance she shot the light arrow and hit Xol in his left leg. Xol had tried to dodge as he was getting used to the arrows speed, but this arrow traveled almost instantly not giving any chance to dodge.
[Xol Apprentice LVL 10
HP: 370/1030
MP: 1323/1750]
Xol exhaled a breath of air and dashed toward her, he created as many chains as he could and controlled them to circle around her, not leaving giving her a chance to make more distance. Ena sight went from chain to chain staying on her guard for when Xol tried to bound her again with one of the five chains she identified, but soon saw it was a distraction and shot an arrow. Xol deflected it and entered melee range. Instead of trying to slash her, he pointed his spear to the bow string.
Ena was surprised Xol went for her bow first, calming herself she jumped to her back, she sent her left arm back as she stored the bow in her inventory and send her right arm behind her back. Xol saw the quiver move and soon after he heard a clicking sound. As Ena pulled her hand in front of her, she had a knife and started advancing toward Xol.
Xol didn't give her the chance to get close and feinted a stab, Ena dodged but this was what Xol expected. Judging by her body movement he calculated which side she intended to dodge and send an actual stab to her. Ena tried to close again but as she did this Xol send a stab with part of his strength.
Ena quickly dodged the spear head, but as she did this Xol used more strength to hit her with the shaft of the spear. Ena captured the shaft with her left arm and began sliding toward Xol. Xol was surprised but soon an idea popped.
Xol released his grip and switch his weight on to his left leg to jump backward pulling both his hand in front. He shot two mana bullets at Ena with both hitting the mark. Landing Xol felt immediately the pain of his wound. Ena panicked and quickly let go of the spear and advanced intending to stab Xol.
Tightening his teeth Xol concentrated himself and took a step on his left leg, lifting slightly his right leg, he used his left leg as pivot he dodged. Ss he did this, he shot a Mana bullet toward Ena which managed to graze her. Ena quickly tried to slash him from the position she ended, but Xol caught her forearm with his right hand stopping her. Sliding slightly due Ena strength, Xol created a chain on her blind spot as she sent more strength intending on slashing. Bounding her left arm to her body, Xol pulled her away from him
Taking some step back, he saw Ena intended to use the knife to cut herself free. Xol quickly shot two mana bullets as she slashed and managed to hit her.
[Ena Dark Elven Bow Initiated LVL 10
HP: 790/2,840
MP: 2,481/3,380]
Seeing the posture, she was adopting Xol jumped to the right to dodge the knife. Xol got surprised once he saw the knife flying, she would have missed him even if didn't dodged, the knife diverted too much to the left from her throwing technique.
Fixing his sight onto Ena,Xol quickly started shooting Mana bullets at her. Ena dodged some of the bullet and but got grazed by the last one as she got close to Xol. She sent a side kick with his right leg toward Xol as soon a ahe entered melee range.
[Xol Apprentice LVL 10
HP: 334/1030
MP: 1323/1750]
Recovering from the hit Xol took a step back and shot a Mana bullet as Ena tried to punch him, Xol felt the brunt and taste of blood in his mouth as Ena punch landed first but Ena was sent out of the arena once the bullet hit her.
Xol spit the blood he felt in his mouth and after retrieving his spear he was forced to spit blood again. He took a HP potion he still got from dungeon dive session and waited for the formations to completely stop. As he walked, he tried to exert as less force as he could on his right foot. Soon the staff member came to see him and treat him. He asked Xol to take off the boot so he could make sure the wound closed correctly.
Kenia and Ena were perplexed seeing Xol was somewhat hesitant to take off the boot but once the staff member cleaned and healed the wound, they figure why. Xol had various nasty scars in his foot, apart from the new he just got. The staff gave some cloth to Xol so he could clean the inside of the boot.
'I'll need to ask a tailor to fix the hole later.' Xol sighed as he felt the hole in his boot.
Equipping the boot, he thanked the staff member, the staff member told him to walk a little and if he still felt some discomfort it would be better for him to go to the nursery. Walking a little Xol sent some of his weight to his leg and informed he was all right.
"Okay seeing you're feeling better, as an apology, how about you accompanied us to the dining hall for the bad experience Ena put you through." Kenia said as she clapped lightly.
After giving some thought Xol nodded, as they walked, he could see Ena was a little sad at her lose so he tried to cheer her up with some jokes. Seeing her cheer up, they exchanged pointers on how to improve.
As this happened, inside Xol´s dormitory room.
'I see so as teacher said I can feel that there Ki in the air apart from mana, seems like due not having meridians before, I couldn't really feel it. So, what she said about there been friction between Mana cultivation sects and the original sects that still practice Ki cultivation must also be true.' Richter thought as he stood up as he finished his extensive cultivation session.