For the time being, frustration and confusion were only mere understatement to describe the way Rodney felt. He as an entity only liked to play games and would pay some attention to the mix martial arts fights that would be aired Saturday evenings back when he hadn't been sucked into this different world he now found himself all together. But then to start learning a bunch of things and adapting mid race to the different things that would be tossed at him just made his already not so thrilling adventure worse.
"Wait, what do you mean by " Make them stop". You aren't saying I should fight them now are you?" Rodney asked within his mind.
"Well, while that would be quite a thrilling show to watch, we would put it at the back of our minds as a fall back if things don't go as planned" Gypson replied.
"As planned?. We don't even have a plan!" Rodney said in a frustrated tone.
"The plan is quite straight forward although the problem lies on if you are willing and able to go through with it" Gypson then replied again.
"Willing?.. why do you waste my time. Come on just tell me what the plan is already" Rodney replied with the sound of urgency conveyed in his thoughts as he wasn't exactly opening his mouth to talk.
"Well, look who's being all..." Gypson was going to say when before a bang sound was heard.
*Bang!!!*
And when they turned, all they saw was a tree lit up in flames. Now looking not too far from the burning tree was a long yellow flowing flame hair floating slightly. This was Blaze and she was responsible for the burning tree. Now just as quickly as she turned after watching as the tree caught fire, another bang was heard and this time Blaze was seen flying and clashing into a tree at one end. And just then, the place she was seen a moment ago, there was some sort of distortion in the air and before long, ashes began to appear and yet again the demon from before had appeared.
But his appearance would only be momentarily as the next second, a blue object could be seen piercing through its chest and its head. And just like that, the body of the demon began to disintegrate into ashes yet again. But this was becoming an all too familiar sight to those that witnessed this same thing happen countless times. And if there was anything they had learnt was that, it was looking almost impossible to kill the demon.
"What powers has that demon?. And if I stop the others fighting it now, don't you think I'd be faced with it alone?. And even as I can do some pretty awesome things in this state, I don't think I can do much against him. And how long will I last in this state to begin with?" Rodney thought to himself..
"It look's to me like a duplicating power. But how he's able to do the other things I have no idea . I can only see what you can see, your eye sights are still bad. So this is the best I can do for you. Now in a way, you would probably last longer in this state compared to the rest of them because you haven't been doing much. But as you can see now, the skill that is currently active has a very short list of moves that you can use which comes at a great cost, your energy point. So if you ask me, I'd say you resolve both issues at once. And that's why my plan should most likely get you out of this" Gypson said.
Now Rodney paying close attention to what the other was saying could now see the list of skills that was displayed.
*Knight's rage*
*Status: Active*
Level :3 (Nether storm)
*skills*
[Shadow drive: When shadow is casted on any item, such item can be momentarily controlled by user. Skill can work on casted skills as well. Depending on strength of such skill, the shadow drive might fail*]
[Shadow hands: A helping hand wouldn't hurt. Skill allows user to grow extra shadow hands that can be used voluntarily by user].
[Shadow forge: User can form an item made of shadow. Strength of item depends solely on user's current stats].
[Shadow trance(advanced): Skill will only work on the chosen ones that bear the mantle. When this skill is activated, it forces the chosen to do the master's bidding. *Eye contact with chosen has to be maintained]
"I have tried out the shadow trance Now just how do these other ones help me?" Rodney thought.
*sigh*... (From Gypson)
"All you have to do is make them do your bidding. I mean it's written there !!!" Gypson answered. Now he seemed to be the one that was rather frustrated about the whole situation.
"Well, I know that already. But it seems you are forgetting one thing. How do I know if they are chosen. Or do I choose them when the skill is activated?" Rodney asked yet again.
"All these knowledge you seek lies within you kid. But since you asked, they are chosen. They are your ..." Gypson was caught off by yet again another sound.
*Bang*
And from the forest came tumbling Mia on the floor. And following behind her were Johan and Erwin. And just were Mia laid, an earth platform rose from the ground knocking into the air. But then mid flight, a punch met her stomach sending her back to the ground hard. But there was no relief as Johan landed on top of her and with his black rock encased fist, he came hammering down on Mia repeatedly with out let up.
"No...Noo...!!!" Rodney yelled out with his one of his hands outstretched. And immediately a shadow escaped that hand and flew over to where Johan was with Mia planted beneath him. Then the shadow hit Johan straight on the chest and began to spread covering up the black rock substance on his chest that had some part of it broken off.
And with a gesture from Rodney, Johan was flung of Mia and tossed aside to the ground. Then rushing over from the spot he stood, Rodney closed the distance between the two and grabbed onto Johan with his two hands meeting with Johan's. And the battle of strength began as he attempted to push Johan but found out quickly how strong Johan really was as he found himself on the losing end.
"Really, you are going to make me use all my skills on you?. Way to conserve energy. When you wake up, you owe me a big one" Rodney said but hearing his voice out loud now, it sounded different from his regular voice as it was a bit deeper.
"Shadow hands" Rodney said and out came from both side of his body two hands completely made of shadows. And without wasting time, they grabbed on to Johan and by the neck and squeezed hard on it. But Johan wasn't just going to stand there and do nothing as he broke one of his hands free and swung it out.
Seeing his hand coming, Rodney thought the other had quite a sloppy movement to that punch as he had no trouble moving his head to the side a bit making the punch completely miss and just go past him. But then the hand was never withdrawn back and Rodney could guess why as just at the last minute, he could feel the slight change in the air thanks to his consistent training on CHI with Yang.
Now ducking down, a ball of rock went past his head and smashed right into Johan's face knocking his head back a little. But that slight distractions was all Rodney needed as he immediately shifted the shadow hands to Johan's face forcing Johan to look at him in the eye.
"Shadow trance". Rodney said.
" Arhhhhh" Johan let out a cry and immediately gave up his grip on Rodney's real hands and instead fell on his knees grabbing his head and yelling out strange things with a thick unnatural voice as well. And soon after, he fell flat to the ground and his rock fiat broke away. Same with the black rock boots. Then his wings slowly started to retract inside which was followed by his skin slowly going back to normal as the cracks were disappearing.
"It actually worked?". Rodney said as he watched the changes that unfolded before him.
"Don't you ever doubt me" Gypson said.
"Now to the next one" Rodney said as he had his eyes fixed on Erwin who still hadn't given up on fighting Mia. But just before Rodney could move, the two identical beasts from before jumped out of the trees. And now he wasn't sure what he had on his hand.
"Why...just why now?" Rodney thought to himself.