"Steel? Why are you in this town?"
Merlin answered his friend instead of Steel,
"Excalibur, Steel being here is evidence of a White Clan base in the town. But the only thing I don't understand is why this town is helping and hiding a member of a terrorist group like White Clan from the public. Isn't it because none of you guys have ranks?"
He replied to Merlin, "Hahahaha, do you think we are terrorists because we kill people... We put those people out of their lives because we are trying to save people from slavery and torture" from "THEM."
Merlin replied, "Whatever the case, you have no right to kill innocent people!"
Steel replied, "Yes, we have the right to kill these people, you S-rank pig. Would you like everyone in Empire of Man to get killed by us, the White Clan, or what you called 'innocent' should be enslaved and tortured for the rest of their pathetic existence by THEM!"
The elite member saw Merlin wouldn't change his mind by looking at his eyes, so he said, "Ha, I see. If you two want that, fight and stop us."
"Choose which one you two want to fight me."
In a minute, Excalibur said, "No need to choose. I want to fight you again." Marlin nodded.
"This time, I wouldn't escape as I did last time we met," Steel said.
He went forward to the cell, and by his strength, he pulled the bars, making entering easier and releasing the Excalibur from jail.
After his release, Excalibur said, "Can I get my bow and arrows first?"
"After you enter the arena, you will get your weapon," Steel answered.
Before they went, Merlin yelled at Excalibur, "Hey, Excalibur, don't die on me!" The bowman didn't answer, but he gave his teacher a nod and smile, meaning he would not die in the battle.
Five guards with guns accompany the bowman to watch him not do anything funny before they reach their destination. They entered a big arena inside the village chef's backyard a few minutes later.
Its ring occupied 50% of the backyard, and the backyard was so massive that it could keep all 175 people in the yard without being crowded.
The barriers around the arena are made of a special anti-flow metal. The metal stops any abilities from going outside the coliseum.
People outside the arena watched the fight in a circle, and seats surrounded the ring. There were TV screens for the people in the back to see the match easily.
The people in the front, closer to the stadium, were important to the town's leader, the old lady's husband, and her daughter and son.
'Wow, this backyard looks big for a small village like this.' Excalibur thought while entering the arena.
Before the match starts, the townspeople bid on who will win the fight, and everyone except the chief's daughter bids on Steel to win. The daughter explains to her family why she bid on Excalibur: she wants him to be her husband after he wins, whether he likes it or not!
"Hello, everyone from my town, and welcome back to our contest. That's greater than Rankers Tournament." Everyone cheered when the speaker was atop the roof of the town's leader's house.
A guard gives Excalibur his bow and arrows back in the middle of the speech.
After the cheers, he continued, "I am your friendly neighborhood neighbor... And we are here for the fight between our beloved friend, Steel!"
"And... Fight!" So, the battle begins.
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"Huh, wait?" Excalibur got off guard, and Steel used his advantage to punch the archer's face with gorilla fists. The impact made Excalibur fly.
Steel, used, "Kangaroo style, Jump!" He jumped up and said, "Spider style, Spider Webs." He threw webs from his wrist at Excalibur, making the archer stuck on the fence and making him weaker.
He went close to the archer, making his strength as a gorilla. Excalibur was complaining about how unfair the speaker was to him.
Steel couldn't care less what the archer was saying. He punched Excalibur many times in the stomach until he vanished.
His disappearance made Steel realize, "Shit, that was-" An arrow passed through his shoulder, wounding it slightly.
In the distance, Excalibur said, "You still fall from the same trick." As he said, he fired another one.
This time, Steel turned around, grabbed it, and said, "Hahaha, the same trick-?!" The arrow he held was beeping slowly.
"Wha-" After reaching a fast beep state, the arrow exploded on Steel, killing him.
"Unlike you, I don't fall and do the same trick twice."
The people who bid for Steel to win were not happy about it. Everyone in the town besides the daughter was very happy.
"Booo!!!"
Chains of booing started. The village began booing and throwing drinks and food at Excalibur. They were salty that a ranker was about to win the match and lose so much money.
Excalibur said, "You people are sad that you are cheering a terrorist to win!"
This comment by the archer made everyone very angry, and they started booing even more, and some people wanted to kill him. If they could get inside the ring, they would.
A mysterious person in the background walks out from the backyard of all the chaos. Excalibur was about to leave the ring, blood dripping from his side.
'Wait, how this happened?'
"Didn't your momma tell you don't turn your back on your enemy? You're lucky I missed your heart." Steel was alive and was in front of Excalibur.
The crowd got happy when they saw their friend was alive and wounded the bowman. However, a girl was not pleased. So, she yelled, "Come on, you handsome archer, kill him already!" Her parents and her brother sided-eyed her after saying that.
The S-rank bowman was surprised at how Steel was still alive, "How are you alive?" Elite didn't say and went straight into his heart, stabbing him with his hands, but he wasn't the real one.
'This asshole with his clones.'
Steel sensed an arrow coming toward him, turned around, grabbed it, and snapped it in half, not letting the explosion set off from the projectile.
"Come on. I'm bored with these same attacks you threw at me. As you said, don't do the same trick twice. Could you show me your ultimate or something?" Steel said.
"Oh, if you want more, I will give you more. Get ready for my ultimate move."
Steel replied, "If you are using your ultimate, why shouldn't I?"
The archer smirked and shouted, "The one who holds the legendary bow, King Arthur, the one who can destroy heavens, I summon you, Kloonien Puolue!"
As he said, one hundred clones of himself appeared in the arena, and they were pointing their bows at Steel. The bow's arrows become normal, with no special projectiles made by King Aruther in this state, even for the real Excalibur. The wound of the archer was on the fake ones as well.
At the same time, Steel called "Dozen Animal Instincts!"
When he said that, he got 12 things from different or the same animals' abilities, which he can now do. They are. The bat's echolocation and the cheetah's speed; he can jump high like a kangaroo. The strength of a gorilla is his now, the bite force of a crocodile. The techniques of praying manties, the smell of blood from sharks. The incredible eyesight of an owl, the wings of an eagle, the spiders, eight eyes, and finally, the spider web he shoots out from his wrists. If you add his human intelligence, then this adds up to 12 instincts. More than 12, his body would not function properly.
Excalibur and his clones simultaneously fired the arrows at Steel in every direction. The elite member jumped six feet up and used the echolocation, knowing the other projectiles in his back location.
With his eight eyes and incredible eyesight, he snapped the arrows before him and sweetly dodged some of them. Steel shoots webs out of his wrists, so the ones coming were coming his back. They got in the ceiling.
When Excaliburs needed to reload, Steel flew toward one of them, destroying the clone with strength.
"Give up, archer... You're weak!"
The clones and the real one replied, "Never. If I don't kill you, you will kill everyone!"
"If you want to play like that, so be it," Steel answered.
He went to the ground, ran toward most of the archers, and destroyed them by firing webs, using his jaw and the martial arts of the praying mantis.
'Shit, down 50 of my clones. I need to do something before he kills all my clones.'
'Oh, I got an idea.'
The remaining clones and the real Excalibur pointed their bows in the air and fired simultaneously. Hundreds and hundreds of arrows went up into the air and dropped toward Steel.
He destroyed the arrows as he could, but it was too much for him to snap all of them, so nonbroken projectiles penetrated him. Plus, on top of that, Steel was exhausted from using too much Flow.
"No, no, no. I'm not dying here. I have yet to have my revenge."
After all his clones were gone, the real Excalibur replied, "ROT IN HELL!!! If you think I let you, a terrorist who wants to kill innocent people, complete his dream."
When Steel heard that, he dropped to his knee and whispered, "I'm sorry. I am sorry for not achieving my goal of killing that woman for you." After saying that to himself, he fell to the ground and died for real.
To be continued:
In the jail cell, the mysterious person walking in the background was where Merlin was held. This person freed Marlin.
"I never thought you be here."
The mysterious figure replied, "Are you not glad I'm here, Merlin? Without me, how would you escape from here?"
"I'm very glad you are here to make my escape easier. Now, let's stop talking and save Excalibur."
To be Continued.