I stood across the group of men with Chaewon-ssi. I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous, but I actually was. If only I knew how to level up my skill...
While I was exploring earlier around the city with Jiyoon-ssi, I saw that I can deploy two shields at the same time at level two. The durability and duration is increased as well.
But what I'm most curious of is that there can be three talent with starter skills each. They were grouped as trees, but they started separate.
Although they were separate, they connected to one circle on the top.
I also started wondering if the one of these are my attack talent trees or just my sensory talent trees. But Jiyoon-ssi's sensory skill kind of sounds like a passive talent.
Anyways, back to the fight, I glanced at Chaewon-ssi who also glanced at me with a questioned look on his face.
"Hey, where's that strong punch of yours at?" I asked, now with a questioned expression and tone.
"What strong punch? The one that destroyed a part of the train? Oh, I needed some time to charge that up."
'This fucker, really wasted his strongest on the weakest. Is he trying to show off?' I cursed Chaewon-ssi inside my mind while I grew an irk mark on my forehead.
"Behind you, Minhyuk-ssi!"
Chaewon-ssi ducked and I swung the metal pole above his head, just in time to hit Namyoung on the face with a broken metal pole.
The force of the hit was strong enough to make him fall and sit on the floor, but he didn't stop there.
Namyoung kicked my leg to make me fall to the floor and once I had fallen to the floor, Namyoung's fast fist almost connected to my face when Chaewon-ssi grabbed his wrist and threw Namyoung out of the train.
Even though Namyoung was thrown out of the train, his speed was able to bring him back in the train cart.
"Jisung, make use of your skill, damn it." Namyoung glared at the man named "Jisung" beside him who immediately froze stiff before charging at us.
Jisung ran at us and tried to hit me first, but I blocked his hand with the same pole I got.
But, once I had hit him, he multiplied into two people that looked exactly like him. One had gone for Chaewon-ssi and one had gone for me. Both of us had to fight each of them on our own.
While I was trying to figure whether this is a cloning skill or an illusion skill, the last two men charged at each of us to join the fight.
"Take this!"
A man suddenly sent a faster than normal punch towards my face which I was unable to block nor dodge and it was followed by a kick on the back of the knee from Jisung.
Before I fell down, I noticed Namyoung sitting on the corner while holding his chest and breathing for more air which made me curious, does his skill somehow takes a toll from him?
Returning to my senses, I fell to the floor and above me was a fist from the fast guy about to connect with my face again.
He took the chance to punch my face, but I tilted my head, causing his attempt to miss and pierce the train floor.
Seeing how his fist is stuck, I swipe kicked his leg, making his face kiss the floor before I kicked his arm from above so that his hand from underneath the train could go deeper.
He screamed in pain and a smile appears on my face which was soon interrupted by Jisung.
Jisung tried to kick my knee, but to no avail, I jumped and made him kick the other guy by accident.
The other guy's hand was no deeper than earlier before I impaled his shoulder with the pole.
"It's just you and me now."
Jisung tried to punch me, but I grabbed his arm and head to slam his face on the window of the train.
I also noticed a book on the chair, so I put Jisung's mouth on the window frame and started hitting the back of his head with the book until he was knocked out.
Glancing at Chaewon-ssi, I noticed he hadn't finished his fight with Jisung yet, so I walked towards them and slammed a book to Jisung's face.
Jisung fell to the floor and I tried to stomp on his face, and found out it was a clone of the real Jisung who I just knocked out.
I genuinely thought I was under an illusion for a while because even though I've knocked out Jisung, the clone was still fighting which was kind of surprising to me.
"These useless men..." Namyoung finally stood up and he seemed to be finished from recovering from earlier.
"I noticed you were desperately breathing in air. Your skill puts a toll on your body, does it?"
"Heh, I never thought you'd be the observant type of person." Chaewon-ssi looked at me with a surprised smile on his face.
"I've always been like that ever since I was born."
Remembering, what they said about the coins earlier, I looked at the top right and saw the count of my coins were still the same. I was glad I haven't killed them yet, however it might be great if I would.
"Turn around, Minhyuk-ssi!" Jiyoon-ssi's loud shout from behind the shield was heard.
I accidentally let my guard down for a few seconds, but before the faster than a blink fist could hit the back of my head, Chaewon-ssi blocked Namyoung's fist for me.
"Thanks!"
Before Namyoung could disappear again, I went under Chaewon-ssi's arm to send a punch towards Namyoung's stomach.
Namyoung disappeared the moment I sent a punch to his stomach and appeared behind him, however, it was predictable enough and I kicked him in the face.
Chaewon-ssi followed my kick with a powerful punch to Namyoung's chest, sending him flying to the back of the cart behind us.
"Minhyuk-ssi! Chaewon-ssi! I'm sensing five Namyoungs surrounding you!"
We looked Namyoung from the back of his cart and he was gone just as usual. It wouldn't surprise us if he did disappear, but Jiyoon-ssi saying, she's sensing five of Namyoung surrounding us was surprising and confusing.
"What's this?! Is his attack skill something about cloning and invisibility?!"
"I'm pretty sure it's something about flickering. He's doing it much faster this time, but he'll get tired quickly."
Both me and Chaewon-ssi watched each other's back while being cautious of Namyoung. We didn't know what his skill is and neither did we know where he is.