As soon as the trader heard the words of the cloaked man, his countenance changed as he thought to himself
Damn my luck. I thought I was going to make tonnes of profit this time, who knew that it trouble instead.
Although he was old, and also a merchant. He had had his fair share of combat so he wasn't flustered in the least.
Changing his stance into a more stable one, with his center of gravity in place. His feet planted firmly to the ground as he lifted his left hand, forming a palm.
Brown countless tendril emerged from within him, wrapping and merging on his palms like a glove.
His palm turned a faint bronze colour as both fist and palm collided.
BOOM!
A thunderous sound immediately resounded throughout the entire shop almost comparably to a thunderclap.
Time seemed to have stopped for a second as both forces collided. Blazing shockwave faintly exploded forth in between both men collided showing a faint colour of both dark and brown albeit not clearly visible, threatening to devour each other also lowering the temperature of in the room by several degrees.
The cloaked man and the old man's clothes both rapidly fluttered in the midair.
Producing an uncomfortable pa pa pa sound.
After a few seconds, the cloaked man took three steps backwards leaving behind shallow foot prints. At the same time, the old trader let out a muffled groan, although he attempted concealing that fact, yet his opponent caught on to it.
Chuckling audibly, he said. "Let's see how long your old bones could persist for before collapsing."
He didn't wait for the old man to reply before launching fists after fists wrapped in his black tendrils thingy surrounding him towards the old man.
Although, the force wasn't as explosive and powerful as the first strike since the explosiveness of the first strike was an accumulated force which he gathered by running first then Punching afterwards, displacing the entire force of his body and his acceleration to his punch, achieving the explosive effect.
The only reason he was forced backwards was due to the old man's sturdy defensive capabilities. Which has an extra knock back effect. Efficiently knocking the cloaked man three steps backwards.
If the old man was a little bit younger, he might just have to give up. The reason is, the old man took his punch head on without moving back in the slightest which shows how high his attainment in the art of defense is. Only let out a slight groan due to his major weakness as an old man.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Loud explosive sounds continued reverberating from the shop, as both traders and customers continued fighting.
Suddenly, the cloaked man realised it might take some time into beating the old man, since he is very adept in defence. He might have the chance to beat the old trader If he sweeps his solid foundation.
Instantly, as the thought emerged from his head, he changed his fighting posture, willing his dark blaze tendrils thingy over to his legs, he twisted his hips sideways as he lashed out with his feet coated in black tendrils thingy.
Their targets were soon revealed. He was targeting the kneel joint of the old trader!!.
By the time the old man realised what was happening, it was almost too late.
He couldn't believe someone saw young could ruthlessly try to cripple his leg. Even though the cloaked man wasn't aiming to kill, he was still a bit too ruthless.
The old man hurriedly willed his bronze tendrils thingy towards his leg. And as the time left could only allow for a tiny portion of the tendrils to immerse in his leg when suddenly_
Pa
A muffled boom sounded out. The old man staggered backwards breaking his stance, but what followed him were the black coated fists of the man in cloak.
Blocking them with the remaining bronze coloured tendrils he could immerse in his hands at that moment. But the cloaked man followed suite with more punching and kicking increasingly raising his momentum and pressure.
Not waiting for a second for the old man to regain his stance since he specialises in defence, because if the old man was given the chance to regain his footing, he would have to change his tactics back to his original and more ideal choice which is punching the Old man repeatedly till he breaks starting all over again from base one.
Hits after hits, the old man kept moving backwards to offset the forces received from him.
He suddenly had a bout of revelation.
Wishing desperately to bash his head against the wall. From the beginning the cloaked man never wanted to fight a battle of attrition with the old man.
No, he just intends to let the old man's guard down a little making him think he just wanted to break him through brute force alone and nothing else. Never had he expected that it was just a skim to let him leave his waist unguarded maximizing his energy toward his upper body.
Sigh, what a cunning man he is. I'm just an ordinary trader. The old man sigh in his heart.
He spoke out suddenly,
"Youngster, alright I take it back. You can have the catalyst at 200 Geno points. It's what u wanted right."
The cloaked man laughed out loud "I would take the catalyst from you my self without paying a single dim but not without educating you about honesty first by breaking one of your limbs."
The old man was livid. Tilting his head sideways, he avoided a punch to his temple. "Young man, don't go too far! Do not push me past my breaking point."
As the meaning of those word were made clear to the cloaked man, his expression turned sour as he visibly slowed down allowing a breather for the old man.
But the cloaked man still continued his assault as he didn't quite believe the old man.
"Don't worry old man, I will be out of here as soon as I break one of your limb."
The cloaked man said indifferently as if he didn't quite care about the threats made by the old man.
"Do not cross the line boy! What hide I'm I as a trader if lost one of my limbs and I wish to continue selling stuff at the black market? I'd be pretty useless don't you think. It would be better to die together, I think that would make it quite faster at least I'm taking you along with me."
Staring at the old man's determined expression.
He clearly understood what the man meant, if he was pushed too far and then the old man decided to risk it all, even though he wasn't clear what method the man possessed that could threaten him since there are quite a lot of method that can be used to perishing together with the enemy, he didn't want to take any risks.
For such a cunning and shrewd trader, he obviously has something up his sleeve considering the fact that he could live this long.
He stopped his assault, stepping far away from the Old man.
The Old man hurriedly took in a big gulp of air. He wasn't sure if his usually care phrase was going to work this time as this cloaked man was hellbent on teaching him a lesson but thankfully, it worked perfectly.