Frankly, Ralph doesn't believe he has a chance against Touka. The reason is the difference in knowledge and time in this world. Ralph recently started practicing and knows little compared to a veteran.
"But I have a request. I want you to use your space skills." Ralph spoke.
"I think I understand your goal, you want to analyze this for yourself first, huh." Touka spoke and then put his hand on his chin.
"This is not a good place, come with me." Touka said and left the apartment.
Ralph followed Touka after locking the door and after several minutes of walking, they arrived at an empty sports court.
"Usually Aura Masters practice and fight in specific places, but with you it shouldn't be a problem, right?" Touka stopped and looked at Ralph.
Ralph took a deep breath and activated his ability, covering the entire area with an illusion, so that no normal person can see them fighting.
"I know it prevents you from fighting with everything you have, since you have to share your concentration, so-" Touka started talking about taking it easy but was interrupted by Ralph.
"No. It doesn't bother me. Not anymore." Ralph spoke with a smile.
Honestly, Ralph made no effort to maintain the illusion in the area, and he felt it was natural to breathe.
Touka narrowed his eyes and said:
"Okay then, you must have seen that first blow in the manual, right?"
Touka clenched his fist and started a fight.
Ralph then expanded his tranced sense, he felt that now he could see and feel everything within a radius of 32 meters!
He also felt the powerful Aura emanating from Touka's right hand.
An Aura, when embedded with the Aura Master's desire, emanates a color. The color of Touka's Aura is purple.
-If it's that scam, I can do it too ... in my own way.
Ralph imitated Touka's instance and clenched his right fist. A green aura began to emanate from the fist.
Touka looked at Ralph in surprise. His Aura seems to have doubled in intensity compared to before!
-That's just a mystical fruit! That's weird...
Touka frowned.
"In a direct confrontation, I'm sure I'm not your opponent, but that does not mean that I will be easy to defeat." Ralph spoke out loud.
"I hope you don't disappoint me." Touka smiled and punched Ralph.
Ralph concentrated as hard as possible and suddenly slightly extended his right leg, and stomped on the floor hard.
He can then feel with the tranced sense, the destructive space wave coming out of Touka's fist towards him.
With his left hand, Ralph emanated an Aura to try to 'solidify' the space.
But that only slightly diminished the destructive power of Touka's blow, which was already two meters away from Ralph.
Ralph then delivered his blow.
Ralph's right fist crashed directly into the space wave, the floor under Ralph's feet shattered, and Ralph felt the blood rising up his throat.
He managed to defend himself against Touka's attack, but almost collapsed.
"Again." Touka spoke and prepared to deliver another blow.
Ralph decided not to confront her blow as before and started creating a sea of flames across the court.
-Before, my illusion was able to copy an ordinary flame. Now ... The temperature is just even higher.
Touka frowned and summoned a protective Aura around herself, to avoid being burned.
-As I thought, she is much stronger than that old woman.
Ralph smiled.
"Interesting, but is that all?" Touka asked, but noticed something at once.
Several weapons began to emerge around Ralph. A rifle, a machine gun, a revolver, a knife ...
- Before, I didn't have enough concentration and control to create complex mechanisms like firearms, but now ... I can do it.
Ralph thought and wielded the machine gun.
Without hesitation, Ralph fired at Touka.
"Tsk." Touka clicked her tongue and increased her defense.
The bullets were unable to pierce Touka's Aura, but Ralph did not stop firing.
Touka seemed to run out of patience and ran towards Ralph.
Ralph smiled slightly when he saw this and pointed to the floor in front of Touka.
~ Boom
Right where Touka had stepped, a land mine exploded, taking Touka by surprise.
Of course, that didn't hurt Touka, who kept going.
"Tsk, you are really a monster." Ralph muttered disgruntled and made the weapons and sea of flame disappear.
"WHAT WAS IT? IS THAT EVERYTHING?" Touka shouted with a smile.
Ralph smiled slightly and held out his right hand in Touka's direction.
"The magician is relentless!" Ralph spoke up.
At the same time, lightning struck between Ralph and Touka's hand.
~ Boom.
This caused Touka, who was shocked, to be thrown back several meters.
"That was really incredible, even though it was not at the level of real lightning." Touka spoke with a surprised look.
"Have you ever been hit by real lightning?" Ralph asked.
"No. But even an Aura Master would have problems against a real one. It just tickled me." Touka spoke at the same time that she prepared to deliver a punch, the same as before.
"That was just the beginning. Even if I can't reproduce real lightning right now, I certainly will in the future." Ralph murmured and concentrated.
-I already consumed a lot of my energy, it is better to strike a single blow with the rest of it and see what I am capable of.
An idea suddenly popped into Ralph's mind and he couldn't contain his excitement.
"Here you go, this one has twice the power." Touka warned her with a light expression, as if that were just a fraction of her power.
Ralph closed his eyes and applied the rest of his energy ... to the area in front of him.
Without form, the energy spread at Ralph's will. At the same time, Ralph's Aura emanated from his body as much as possible, creating a slight pressure on the surrounding air.
Ralph extended both hands forward, making a strange sign with them.
-I don't have enough power to beat it, I don't have enough knowledge about space law ... But it opened a door for my creativity.
Touka threw the punch, and the space was extremely distorted as the space wave went towards Ralph.
Ralph realized this, the power was twice as great, the speed was also greater. But he was not afraid.
Ralph turned his hands in reverse.
At that moment, the space wave stopped ... That in Touka's view. In fact, the space wave didn't stop, it's just that ... the space around it was distorted to the point that the wave had nowhere to go, and the space wave became a sphere, contained by an invisible barrier.
At the same time, Ralph approached the sphere slowly.
When he was in front of the space wave, Ralph closed both hands together. The sphere started to contract, and after a few seconds, it disappeared completely.
Ralph knelt on the floor and began to breathe heavily.
"That was interesting, I never saw anyone interfere with the space in that way, how did you get that idea?" Touka approached Ralph and asked.
"... That was not my real goal." Ralph smiled bitterly.
Touka was confused to hear that.
Ralph was not interested in explaining this to her, and stood up.
"I'm exhausted, let's go." Ralph said as he looked at both hands.
"Yes, it was an interesting match. I believe you are at the top of Rank 5." Touka nodded and started walking beside Ralph.
"Not bad for anyone who discovered what Aura is just some time ago." Ralph spoke while looking at the sky.
"Yes ..." Touka agreed.
After walking back to the apartment, Ralph asked Touka:
"You don't plan on spending the whole day here, do you?"
"Are you gay or something? Are you having trouble being around girls?" Touka responded with a malicious question.
Ralph noticed Touka's attempt to tease him, but he just rolled his eyes and said:
"Do you want to try?"
Touka shivered for a brief moment and looked at Ralph angrily.
"Don't call me a pervert or anything, fuck this is cringe." Ralph spoke and then took his cell phone.
After looking at the message he received, he smiled and said:
"Sorry, but I have something to do, can you come at another time?"
Touka was surprised and said:
"Don't try to deceive me, I'm sure you just want me to go."
"And what's wrong with wanting privacy? I mean ... I really have something to do, it's my squad's joint mission." Ralph spoke.
Touka looked at Ralph in disbelief.
"What's wrong with you? You were kicked out of the house or something and you have nowhere to stay? I thought I made it clear that we're not close enough for you to stay in my apartment for so long." Ralph spoke in a tired tone.
Touka suddenly shivered slightly and looked away.
"Is it possible? Did you really get kicked out of your house !?" Ralph looked shocked at Touka.
"I wasn't expelled, it's just ..." Touka spoke in a low voice.
"Wait, I don't really care. Just go somewhere else when the night comes, I'm sure you know other people, right? I'm going, lock the door without the key, I bet you can do a trick like that." Ralph said and went to his room to change clothes.
He put on his white kimono and put on a mask. He then equipped some blades and a revolver.
Of course, he did this while maintaining an illusion so that Touka doesn't see his appearance.
"I'm going." Ralph spoke to Touka and left the apartment. Regardless of Touka's opinion.
"Sigh ... But what a complicated guy, he could have just heard my part of the story." Touka sighed and murmured a little irritated.
After a moment, she went to the apartment's small yard. She then saw a small plant growing in a pot.
"It seems that he likes to take care of plants, even though he is careless." Touka murmured as he saw other pots with dead plants.
Meanwhile, Ralph was on his way to his second mission as 'BatSnake'.
This time, the reward is two thousand dollars, and it involves the Bloody Roses organization as well.
-I have to find out who is behind the new policy adopted by Bloody Roses, they have started to arm themselves again and want to compete with the other two great forces.
-It seems that the client has realized that destroying an arms depot will not prevent Bloody Roses from arming itself.
Ralph thought.
Fortunately, Ralph already knows where the organization's HQ is. The problem is the enemies present in that place.
-I have more or less twice the combat power compared to before, and my control over the Aura has improved a lot, I can restrict my Aura better. I think I can take a chance.
Ralph thought and decided to do everything to complete the mission, in addition to killing some Aura Masters.
If he manages to apply two more points to Vitality, he will advance one more level and earn another ten points. This is simply insane from Ralph's point of view.
Unfortunately, it seems that reaching twenty points does not guarantee a bonus.
Ralph was very careful when he arrived around the Bloody Roses HQ. He expanded his tranced sense to the fullest and felt several powerful existences in the place, apart from others that he could not even feel the Aura, which must be even more powerful.
Ralph also felt the tranceful sense of several Aura Masters going towards him, but that was all. It seems that the building's Aura Masters treated this type of espionage as normal, and did not mind hunting Ralph.
The Bloody Roses HQ is a twenty-story residential building with only one entrance and exit. For Ralph, breaking into the place is suicide.
But Ralph doesn't have to invade the place, he just needs to kidnap and interrogate some people who leave the building and look important.
-I need to be careful, if I kidnap many of them they will quickly understand my intentions.
Ralph thought.
Ralph waited and waited, the night came without warning, but no one important left the building.
Ralph started to get impatient. If it went on like this, he would spend the night waiting, and he doesn't want that.
But then, a tall man dressed in a golden suit came out of the building. He was being escorted by four armed men and an Aura Master.
But Ralph did not act. The reason is simple, this is probably a trap or distraction.
Ralph's client probably has several Aura Masters at his disposal, otherwise he would not have destroyed the weapons depot.
Someone so powerful is having a hard time getting simple information, that means that few know about it.
Someone who is only escorted by an Aura Master probably doesn't know anything or is a distraction.
-At the very least, a really important person would be escorted by many Aura Masters and armed men.
After several hours of waiting, Ralph noticed something strange, the man in the golden suit returned, but he was not being escorted by anyone and emanated a powerful and strong intention to kill.
-As I thought, a trap.
Ralph narrowed his eyes.
-If I could at least restrict my Aura to the point of being undetectable by these masters, I would not have so many problems.
Ralph thought and sighed. Unfortunately, he cannot use his special ability in the Aura itself to make it invisible, at least not yet.
Over time, Ralph's patience was undermined, and he felt it must have been past midnight.
Feeling irritated, Ralph suddenly had an idea when he saw some pillars supporting the building.
-Maybe ... I can make them leave on their own accord.
Ralph thought and smirked.
He took out his cell phone and texted the customer.
After a few minutes, the customer returned:
[If you think you are capable, I am willing to double the payment.]
Ralph smiled slightly and decided to do as he thought.
He is currently about thirty meters away from the building. And he is sure that he can create an illusion at that distance.
-If I manage to destroy half of the supporting pillars, I'm sure the building will collapse. The building's structure is old, and I can repair some critical cracks.
Ralph did an analysis.
Frankly, it is difficult to make such a large building collapse, but the lack of maintenance and damage to the building's structure will facilitate Ralph's work.
Ralph made a mental image of the building's structure and calculated which pillars are the most important.
-The most important ones are inside the building, mainly the elevator shaft. But with my trancent sense I will have no problem reaching them.
-I'm going to have to be extremely fast, and I shouldn't make anything too obvious, or else the masters will react quickly. I must use an unstable explosive that is not very noticeable ... Aziroazide azide will be my choice.
Ralph positioned himself at the side of the building while maintaining invisibility. He was careful to only expand the trancing sense at a certain altitude, so as not to disturb the masters on the upper floors.
After identifying the targets, Ralph noticed that two figures were moving quickly towards him. It looks like he got too close.
"Who are you? Stop right there!" A deep voice entered Ralph's ears.
From the darkness, a strong man and a thin man appeared. The two wore suits and were bald.
"You are where you shouldn't be." The thin man spoke with a cold look.
Ralph clicked his tongue angrily. With these two he could not take his plan forward. The reason is simple, he will be tired after detonating the explosive. His skill requires a certain amount of energy for everything he does, and collapsing a building is sure to deplete him.
"I am a Blue Sky envoy." Ralph spoke simply.
"You wretches, do you dare-" Before the thin man could speak, he was dead. The reason? Ralph simply solidified the blood in his veins directly. Ralph only managed to do this because the thin man didn't have a strong Aura to protect himself.
Ralph looked indifferently at the strong man, who was his real opponent.
"Interesting, you killed him without even moving." The man smiled and began to emanate a powerful Aura.
-Shit, that attention is unnecessary.
Ralph cursed and prepared to flee.
Slowly, Ralph started to float, a whirlwind formed at his feet.
"Don't think about running away!" The strong man jumped at Ralph at high speed, breaking the ground where he was.
Ralph held out a hand and concentrated. The man suddenly stopped in midair, surprised.
Ralph did the same thing he had done with the space wave of Touka's blow.
It did not solidify the space, on the contrary. He extended the space almost infinitely around the man. That way, no matter how fast the man was, it would appear that he was in the same place.
In fact, Ralph got that inspiration thinking about time, not space.
Ralph then fired at the strong man and put his right hand on the man's head.
-Die.
Ralph simply destroyed the man's head inside, boiling his brain.
Ralph then undid the ability and started to breathe heavily. He had to consume a lot of energy to kill the man quickly, except that to overcome the defense of the man's Aura he had to touch his body.
Ralph could feel other masters approaching quickly, and he didn't hesitate.
The whirlwind at Ralph's feet intensified and Ralph shot into the sky.
"Stop right there!" The men behind Ralph shouted, but failed to reach Ralph, who was already far in the sky.
After landing on the roof of the building a good distance away, Ralph was perspiring heavily and perspiring. Flying consumed the rest of his energy.
"Damn it!" Ralph screamed and punched the floor.
[You failed, but this is not unexpected. Their defenses are strong, but my proposal is still standing.] The client sent another message to Ralph.
Ralph sighed deeply and then looked at the four points he had won. One should have come from the thin man, the others from the strong man.
"That strong man should have been almost on the same level as the old woman I killed ... But I killed him so quickly. At least I know that I'm getting stronger." Ralph murmured and then applied the four points to Vitality.
Ralph's level increased by 1, and he won another ten points.
Ralph felt a comfortable flame running through his body, and a great sense of comfort.
Ralph even felt his energy return quickly. His recovery rate increased along with the increase in Vitality.
With the ten points, Ralph started laughing maliciously.
First he applied all ten in Resistance, and thus gained another ten points. He then repeated the process with dexterity, and then with strength and agility. And in the end ten points remained.
"My status." Ralph murmured.
[Ralph Karman
Age: 20 (Soul) 15 (Body)
Level: 9
Talents: Infinite; Aura; ...
Situation: Healthy; Psychologically influenced by Imamoto Ralph;
Skills: Indomitable spirit (Passive); Aura sensitivity, lv6; Inner Vision, lv5; Aura Fusion, lv6; Space illusion, lv1;
Beast Skills: Illusion, lv5 (Mastered);
Stats:
Strenght: 10
Agility: 10
Intelligence: 20
Dexterity: 10
Vitality: 12
Resistance: 10
Will Power: 20
Latent Energy: 20
Available stats points: 10]
Ralph did not feel an interest in increasing all stats, as in the future he can increase his physical capacity with Aura. So...
"Right now, I need more vitality. So I will be like a cockroach, easy to crush, difficult to kill."
Ralph murmured and applied eight points to Vitality.
Ralph felt his own vitality build and he couldn't help but groan comfortably. He decided to put the remaining two points aside for now.
As it was late and Ralph was satisfied with his progress, he decided to return to the apartment.