"Yug, help me to hold him down"
a man covered in red plate armour shouted.
"Wait!, try your best to hold it down until my relic completes to observe the air".
Yug replied while holding a blue coloured staff,
the upper part of the staff is spherical with few holes on it,
It was currently sucking air from the surroundings.
"Roaarrr"
A winged white tiger with black patterns on it threw itself at the man wearing the red armour.
"Damn Avatar, do you think I will lose to you"
"Ultimate Defence"
The red armoured man shouted.
The armour began to glow,
it looked as if the armour is a source of light itself,
the light formed into a spherical shield.
It had some unknown words carved on to it, these words were floating on the surface of the shield from left to right.
"Roar"
"Roar"
with a roar, the winged tiger struck at the spherical light shield created by red armoured man.
"Zzzzzz"
"Zzzzzz"
It lifted palms and pounced at the man again and again,
the shield and the tiger collided many times, every time they did, sparks generated.
Finally, the red armoured man felt exhausted as he said
"Yug, are you done? I can't stop it any longer....."
Yug pointed his staff towards the winged tiger and shouted
"Swift Tornado".
shh.....hhhh...
shh...hhhhh...
wind around the tiger became dense,
"oooooooh"
the wind began to rotate around the tiger.
"Roar"
the tiger pushed up by the air surrounding it,
it struggled to escape, but the efforts rendered useless.
In the blink of an eye, the tiger got enveloped in a huge tornado
"Brother we trapped it, let's begin the offence"
Yug wore an expression of calmness as he described the situation.
Yug opened his spatial pocket, took out two rods.
"catch it, Zumen"
Yug yelled while throwing one of the rods towards the red armoured man.
catching the rod, they began to pierce the tornado. Actually, they were not piercing the tornado but the white tiger inside it.
"Roarrr....."
The tiger shouted in pain but still, these two guys continued to pierce it.
"Guys if you don't mind I would like to join the fun"
A foreign voice appeared out of nowhere, the voice caught the duo off-guard,
they didn't have the time to deal with another person while fighting a beast.
In cautiousness they questioned
"Who is there??".
"Not someone important"
a silhouette replied as he showed himself.
Henry actually did not want to disturb them,
but actually, he had to, as he found the clothes that made him run,
hide and even almost made him lose the life hanging near to a rock placed next to the tornado.
The tornado may suck the clothes which made Henry run this far.
Henry could not afford that outcome,
so he barged in, as Henry does not own any weapons he picked up nearby rocks and began to throw them at the tornado.
The two guys currently battling the beast but they did not forget to pay attention to this newcomer.
seeing him throwing rocks and pebbles towards them
"Fuck..Are you out of your mind?"
both of them yelled.
"Sorry, it was a mistake"
Henry's reply filled with an apologetic tone.
"Damn you"
they cursed out at the same time in synchronization.
"Aaaaaaaa"
Yug got hit on his head as the rocks began to scatter from the tornado, their momentum disrupted.
"Roar"
The winged tiger retaliated and jumped towards Zumen.
Without a second thought, Zumen yelled
"Ultimate Defence"
Zumen formed a shield of light.
At the same time, Yug recovered his calmness,
and both of them turned defensive.
"Oops, sorry I did not expect that"
Henry's voice sounded and it somehow seemed to be very hateful to both of theirears.
, Henry did not stand IDLE, he grabbed the clothes and finally had a sense of accomplishment.
After seeing the two people fighting with the winged tiger by putting more effort.
"Oh! you guys were holding back"
Henry mocked.
Anger, Rage no word could describe the peak anger of the duo
not towards the tiger, but at Henry.
They started fighting the winged tiger not only with full strength but also in a reckless manner.
Henry accomplished his task,
so he got no reason to involve himself in others business, he tried to slip away but fate was not on his side.
The duo in their anger killed the winged tiger in no time,
The dead tiger turned into a lotus petal before dissappearing.
This phenomenon caught Henry's interest, in turn, he forgot about running away.
"You are still here"
After finishing of winged tiger, the duo approached Henry, Henry nodded his head
"What's with the beast?"
Is this guy in nuts? He is asking us questions as nothing happened.
the duo thought.
the duo did also forget about the previous incident as they noticed something weird,
the guy standing before their eyes was wearing a mini skirt and a jacket.
What the heck? Why this guy dressed like women? don't tell me...
similar thoughts ran through in both of their minds
Henry took steps towards them while the duo began to take steps in the backward direction.
But Henry was faster, Henry thought to touch Yug's weapon and lifted his hand to do so.
"Don't touch me "
Yug backed off.
"Who are you?"
Zumen asked him again,
this was straight forward questioned asking him about his identity.
"Me? I am Henry and I live in a nearby village"
the man wearing a woman's dress replied.
"Are all the villagers are weirdos like you?"
Zumen wanted to ask something Yug interrupted.
"Do I like weirdo? In what angle so?"
Hearing 'weirdo', Henry asked them with a face full of doubts.
"Look at your dress"
Zumen said while he pointed his rod towards Henry.
"Oh, this is"
Henry scratched his head then replied
"Actually when I entered the forest from the village, I saw an old and helpless grandma cooking alone while sitting under the tree, I offered her help and gathered all the required materials but one was missing, I suggested the old woman to start cooking while I bring back the last ingredient and when I returned I saw that grandma was on fire, I immediately ran towards grandma, and undressed...."
Henry halted narrating the story.
The duo was so attentive,
and waiting for the next part felt disappointed as Henry paused.
"Bro...what happened next?"
Yug taking his pride down asked politely.
"Do you guys want me to continue?"
"Yes, we do"
Henry questioned while Zumen replied.
"You know so much about me, but I don't know anything about you guys"
Henry asked for their identity,
he knew that the first step to socialize is about knowing the other person on edge.
Getting the meaning behind the question, Zumen opened his mouth
"We are Battle Masters from the nearby city Palamuru"
"Battle Masters? What the heck are they?
and why are you here?"
Henry back to back threw the questions at Zumen.
Fu..this guy does not know about Battle masters, Does he take me to a fool?
these are inner voices of Zumen but he did not dare to show it on his face
"Bro, I see you don't have any idea about Battle Masters,
let me tell you how they originated.
"wait"
Henry asked him to stop and closed his eyes
"What happened?"
"Bro, Are you alright?"
despite being able to listen to Zumen,
Henry did not open his eyes for five minutes and when Henry opened his eyes he said
"Nothing, I was praying, you continue"
Praying!! my ass, Zumen cursed.
but continued to depict the history
"Long long ago, there were some humans with supernatural strength and power,
they flew in the air like birds,
they could cut the mountains like cutting grass ,
and there were even some who got the power to destroy the world.
it assumed that their source of power was something called cultivation,
but something happened likely to be a big crisis in which they perished,
Some of them refused to perish without leaving behind their legacy.
It is not clear how they did it, but they put all their powers into their beloved weapons or precious objects.
we call these objects as relics.
"Relics? Do you got em?"
Henry raised his doubt.
Damn you, you have seen them already? look at your eyes you are still staring at Yug's relic like you want to swallow it.
with the thought Zumen gritted his teeth,
he pointed his fingers at the armour and the staff as he said
"Brother, these are relics".
"Oh.....so these toys are relics"
Henry nodded his head in approval with the above words.
Toys? these are toys? Zumen wanted to cry but could not.
"Are these the same as the one empowered by powerful and deity-like figures?"
Henry raised his doubt again.
"Nooo"
Zumen replied.
He finally understood that Henry was ignorant about these things, was not pretending.
"I thought so, these toys are just useless like you two"
Henry's words filled with his approval, but to the duo this sounded like an insult.
You bumpkin, what do you know about us?
What basis do you dare to judge us without any knowledge about the history and battle masters?
Zumen want to say these words out,
but he wanted to hear the rest of the story.
"Brother, let me continue I am not done yet"
Zumen requested Henry.
"ok, you can continue"
Henry sat down after saying it as Henry felt his legs were paining a little.
"The relics created by powerful beings are cultivation relics,
the relics which we got are artificial relics
Scholar Academy built them after years of research on the cultivation & natural relics.
Natural relics as the name implies formed within nature itself,
there is no proper proof of their formation,
but there is a strong belief that after the crisis,
the land absorbed energy from residual dead bodies giving birth to
natural relics"
Zumen took a break,
"Any guy who uses a battle relic called as Battle Master "
Zumen finally concluded the long boring history.