"Are you attacking?"
I said arrogantly for him to be provoked but unfortunately, he is a full-fledged assassin. A patient one...
"Well, then, let me-" As he is talking, he started to sprint towards me with the same technique he used to first defeat Cera, the [Doppleganger]
[Eye of Light]
As I stared at him closely, he has 5 clones and he is in the second one.
[Assassination Technique: Illusionary Clone]
As I used the skill that Falcon taught me indirectly, I cloned myself into 5 clones that made Bryan surprised.
"This is the same-- no, it is almost the same but also different..." Bryan said as he continued dashing towards me with his daggers prepared on his hands.
He slashed towards my first clone in the middle and he continued slashing the other four but unfortunately for him, I am not there.
I used [Assassination Technique: Stealth], the basic skills that must be learned by any assassins alongside the moving technique I used for Anselmo not to notice me jump behind him, the [Assassin Step].
Then, I am behind him, using another attack...
"Where is he?!" Bryan said as he started to become uncomfortable.
"[Bursting Beam]" I muttered as I used my aura to control heat and air using nature-type aura as I used normal aura to become the fuel, creating flames.
Then I used, my aura to change into nitroglycerin, a liquid compound that ignites the flames and eventually explodes if it reached near Bryan.
"What?!" Bryan noticed the presence of my attack and tried to avoid it as soon as it gets near but unfortunately, it is explosive. It exploded next to Bryan's face, making his left cheeks burn.
Everyone is surprised at what I did.
This technique is the same as the [Bursting Beam] of Olympus. Where you use the mana to produce that kind of effect.
I basically used the most useless type of aura to make it a beam-like attack. The aura that detaches from one's body, the emission-type aura.
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"E-emission?!" Reed said as he continued watching his son fighting against Bryan.
"Is that really an emission? It is so powerful!" The father of Ain, Drake Fronda exclaimed as he stared at the screen monitor that produces the event inside the forest.
Since the forest can't be seen on the angle of the bleachers, they created a monitor that monitors every battle inside the forest.
"Just what did your son do to make the emission-type aura powerful?!" Wellston family's Argus, Viole's father exclaimed as he asked Reed.
Xeros and Wellston's families are allies and friends, that is why Argus Wellston asked Reed shamelessly because of their relationship.
"Even if you ask me, I don't know either! I didn't know that he awakened an emission-type aura too. Earlier in the battle of Anselmo and Theo, Theo only used space, nature, and fortifying-type aura that already surprised me because before we go here, we are sure that he still hasn't awakened his aura! It seems like he just awakened earlier... It also seems like he has a high aptitude for space, nature, fortifying, and emission! Unfortunately, we didn't see how he did it because earlier, the monitor is focused on Yuno's battle..." Reed explained to everyone which made them speechless.
'He just awakened earlier but his control has already surpassed the amateurs?!' Everyone thought to themselves as they stared at Theo who is exchanging techniques against Byan.
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Theo swung his blade after getting clashed by Bryan's dagger.
Bryan is very impressed and at the same time, jealous of Theo's talent. "You are more fitted to become an assassin, you're dagger attacks are not the same as your techniques on the sword!" Bryan said as he continued clashing his blade against Theo.
"Thank you for the compliment!" Theo replied as he continued attacking him.
'This guy! He is a monster!' Bryan thought to himself as he retreated and used his technique, [Assassination Technique: Blank Zero]
Bryan almost seems to have teleported towards Theo but it is just his speed, [Blank Zero] is a technique where you will run using the force, fortifying-aura, and strength of your body to dash towards your enemy and stab them.
But in this case, Theo seems like noticed this move and then blocked it using Hatter Watson's technique, [Four Guardian Style: Shell of the Black Tortoise]
And once again, everyone didn't say anything because of Theo. Bryan did too.
Hatter Watson is a half-Chinese that instead of using aura, he uses qi of china's cultivation because of his mediocre talent in aura manipulation.
But just now, Theo used the aura version of those techniques.
Earlier, Hatter is sure that he can't use his techniques because he uses qi instead of aura but now, everything changed.
Theo gathered fortifying, emission, and nature element on his body as his substitution for qi and then continued, [Claw of the White Tiger]
[Claw of the White Tiger] is a skill where you can use on any weapon with blades except for long-range weapons such as bow and whip. Therefore, he used his dagger to perform this technique. He also uses a fortifying-type aura to reinforce his daggers for more sharpness.
A fast claw attack from the daggers hits Bryan directly. As he vomits blood, he started retreating, and then he heard Theo mumbling, "[Wings of the Vermillion Bird]"
Theo gathered his nature and emission-type aura as he stomps to the ground forming vermillion wings behind Theo and making Bryan lose his balance.
Then Theo continued, "[Roar of the Azure Dragon]"
A roar and a dragon formed from Theo's aura emitted from his body and hitting Bryan directly. A heavy hit.
The smoke rose and then Theo used his [Eye of Light] to see his enemy's whereabouts.
But Theo didn't saw anyone in the smoke, he immediately looked in another direction but he can't see the whereabouts of Bryan.
'Where is he?!' Theo thought angrily as he noticed the ground below him showing some kind of activity and then, the ground cracked, showing Bryan alongside his daggers pointed at him.
'A surprise attack?!' Theo said to himself as he immediately activated [Wellston Blazing Technique: Embryonic Shell] and [Thompson Light Technique, Holy Shield]
Everyone is speechless about what is happening.
Meanwhile, in another battle, Ain versus Lucy, they started fighting with simple moves they've shown earlier. Ain is very angry at what Lucy said earlier that she and Theo know his secret.
'Only my family knows how to detect 'this' thing, how the hell did they notice it?! If it is Theo, it's okay because I understand his monstrous insight and skill but Lucy?' Ain said to himself as they continued clashing each other's swords.
"[Scott Myriad Technique: Slash of the Wind]"
"[1] [Fronda Style: Will of the Dragons]"
As Lucy attacked, Ain is on his spot, didn't move and it is like, he is very calm with no expression.
When the slashes of wind that came out from Lucy's sword reached him, the slashes dispersed without anything left for their existence, as if they didn't exist in the first place.
Lucy noticed something is wrong with Ain and said to herself, 'Wait, he will-- use it?!'
The 'thing' inside of Ain is continuously resonating with the air and then eventually, it erupted...
***
Ain Fronda is the second son of the Fronda family, one of the twelve big families, and a prodigy of sword arts.
But one day, everything changed when his body collapsed and he got another entity inside of him, a mysterious orb that he didn't know because there is nothing on their records about this type of entity.
His family looked for the legendary medical aura manipulator to look after Ain and examined him.
After series of examinations, he said that it is a special type of power that is powerful but at the same time, corrupted. If they didn't look for the medical aura manipulator, then Ain will get corrupted anytime sooner.
The medical aura manipulator said to never expose this secret to anyone because anyone who would know this secret might get Ain killed.
Then he told them what to do.
They collected all medical herbs and materials to create a seal for its corruption. But once you use it, the corruption might get leak if he isn't ready to use it. The only requirement for Ain is three: 1. Drink the medicine that seals the corruption every week, 2. Use only several offensive martial arts and always use defensive martial arts because the power might get leak if he uses offensive martial arts and finally, he must never use it before he reaches the manipulation stage.
Ain is relieved on the news but at the same time, disappointed, he always wanted to become powerful with several offensive techniques but now, he will only use defensive ones.
That is why, every week, he drinks the medicine and then trains offensive skills. Once the day is over, he must continue the week training defensive martial arts.
Ain always thought to himself, 'Why is this thing inside me? What is this in the first place?'
After a whole 5 years, when Ain reached the 5th stage, body reinforcement, the medical aura manipulator visited him again and continued prescribing the medicine for the corruption to get sealed completely,
And during that time, Ain asked what is this mysterious orb inside him... The old man hesitated to tell him. The old man refused and keep saying that at those time, he is still not ready to know.
But Ain is stubborn and eventually, he succeeded pursuing the old man, leaking the information about the orb...