Time skip ~10 Years later~
On a heavy stormy day
RUMBLE**!**
Among the mountains, if you look closely can see one with a flat top, and on it, two people can be seen standing with about a hundred meters between them.
one of them is a man who appears to be about twenty-five years old with jet black hair sharp eyes black pupils and wearing a loosely fitting
Pants that seem to be made of dragon skin and his upper body laid completely bare with muscles not too much not too little but just right, On the other side, is an old man with a pretty weak-looking body with white hair down to his shoulders and a small beard, wearing a plain ragged shirt and pants he is looking at the man with a carefree smile on his face and said
"Let us begin your final test, shall we"
Kuro pov:
I tensed, getting my guard up ready for whatever comes my way, and kept my eyes on him never leaving him out of my sight, until he suddenly disappeared and the floor he was standing on cracked like a spider web.
BOOM!!
Instantly reaching me And his fist headed straight for my face with such force that I instinctively used both my hand to block but the attack I was expecting did not come, but another one connected with my wide-open stomach sending me flying back before I stabilized myself in the air.
"lucky shot, my turn," I say
I Rush towards him which produced a mini sonic boom, within seconds I was on him and I send a strong punch which he caught with little effort and commenced bombarding him with blow after blow while increasing the power behind every attack, our fight took us to the skies flying around and making small shockwaves as our fight progressed.
After almost a minute we had come to a stalemate, me matching him blow for blow then I conjured a ki blast and shot it at him whereas he conjured a much smaller ki blast to counter it and tens of tiny ki balls and send it at me. The blast counter-mine just enough to send it off course while the other small ones rushed towards me, I know an attack that small a size would barely be enough to tickle me I took it as his way of distracting me so I ignored it and put some distance to figure out my next move, the dozens of small ki balls altho small was pretty fast, caught up to me and started circling me, confused as to why they are not attacking me I stretched my hand out to one and touched it gave me small zap harmless but still a shock
'now why would he send these, if they served no attack purpose?'I thought
RUMBLEE!!
the rumbling of the skies gave me all the answers I needed to their purpose, when all of those balls closed in on me in an instant.
"fu-"
CRACK!!BOOM!
"Never underestimate your enemy, and also pay attention to your surroundings next time," said the old man.
"...That was nothing, barely even felt it," I said while simultaneously using ki to heal the injuries caused by the lightning blast.
"warm-up is over," I said as I flooded my body with enough ki to cause the surroundings to tremble and sent a shockwave that cleared the sky of the storm clouds to make sure that what happened does not happen again.
"Now that's more like it,"
master said as his ki exploded out of his body and into the surroundings when
DUDUM
A beat of a heart was heard and the world completely lost its color for a second before it retreated into his body, now looking robust and ready to explode with power and no longer looking weak. although I have long surpassed him in ki quantity, his near-perfect control over his fascinates me still.
while I look like I'm on some invisible fire that boosts my power substantially it also quite draining on my ki whereas master's is like near perfect boost with only a couple of leaks here and there like he used to say during training
'no one's perfect not even me, so even though we may never reach it we shouldn't stop striving for it, its the only way to keep moving forward'
I shot towards him with him doing the same with both our fists they collided in the middle creating a big shock wave. we started exchanging blows one after the other as we flew through the sky.
I knew right away that I was lagging in the exchange, no matter how hard I tried to defend it some of them can still slip through, even though the damage is not much once they start to accumulate it could be dangerous, besides the healing ki used to reduce the damage is also draining on my reserve although it's not a concern any time soon but in the long run could cause problems.
'need to switch tactics'
I slowly retreat trying to look for openings to create distance between us, But to no one's surprise, he was still on me like glue, refusing to give me an opening.
'guess I need to make my own'
I let one of his stronger attacks through and used the momentum to get a little opening in which, I condensed two strong ki balls in my hands and when his fist was almost upon me I clashed them against each other causing a massive explosion that threw both of us in the opposite directions.
BOOM!
With me being prepared I suffered minimal injuries, keeping the distance I looked at master, who was quite a distance from me, and seemed like the attack did cause some damage as he can be seen trying to heal. if I wanted to win I couldn't let that happen, so I started blasting him while moving around him dodging his attacks as well which while not as many as mine but are deadly accurate and I have to keep the utmost concentration to barely avoid them.
on the other hand, he makes it seem like my attacks are evading him on purpose, so I made my attacks a bit unstable so that when they reach his near vicinity they'll explode.
Which worked cause he seems visibly hurt and struggling, that's when I noticed that his usual carefree smile slowly turned into an eerie almost creepy grin stretched on his old face and his eyed which contained a hint of madness staring deep into my eyes and at my soul causing me to involuntarily shudder when suddenly he just disappeared.
"Wha-!?"
I didn't get to finish before a powerful blow hit my back sending me crashing to the ground and sending dust and debris flying into the air.
I climbed out of the crater vomiting a mouthful of blood, wiping the blood off I looked around and said.
"That hurt"
'how did he get behind me so fast? It was almost like teleportation, and that feeling... Just what did he do?!'
As I was thinking while checking the surroundings I couldn't find him when suddenly the ground broke, I immediately jumped trying to get away but a black scaly hand caught my ankle and pulled me back down and simultaneously he let go of my leg and all I saw was a dark red blur before a punch landed on my chest so hard I shot towards the sky, 'WTF?!!'
and before I could even collect myself and still disoriented and another even stronger kick from behind sent me right back down to the previous crash site making an even bigger one.
BOOOM!