"So you trained hard huh. how about you show me." He said tossing Damon another bottle of the same elixer he gave him before.
Damon looked at maru for a moment because he was hesitant. Not once, but twice he felt how powerful Maru was.
Thinking about old man butcher,sir hughes,monsoon and a couple other very powerful people Damon felt like he was at the bottom of the barrel.
Especially the way Maru extinguished his demonic form and his clouds.
Maru destroying his clouds so easily gave him his answer about if his clouds could be destroyed. Monsoon had done it once before in the subconscious space,but Damon thought he was able to because it was his own power as well.
Facing Maru, Damon now understood that although his abilities were unique. He still had a ton of growth to do.
"Its only one way to grow." He thought chugging the elixir down. In seconds he was completely rejuvenated.
Ding!
[You have been challenged by a superior opponent. Connect one clean physical hit or attack for a superior reward.]
Damon looked at the message in awe. He had never received a notification task that would give him a superior reward.
A smile was plastered on his face but soon disappeared as he realized if the reward was so high then the difficulty level of landing a single hit must be next to impossible at his current level.
Damon just shrugged off the challenge and decided he would just do his best.
Getting into a fighting stance, Damon fists became electricfied.
"Kass, aren't you going to help your brother. This is a lesson for you as well. "
Getting into a fighting stance as well, kass and Damon looked at eachother for a moment and nodded their heads.
They didn't really talk aside from kass asking about his demonic form. They both seemed a little nervous to talk and Maru knew this.
He knew they were fighters and felt like this would break the ice between them much faster than a regular conversation.
"Don't hold back, not one bit. It'll take everything we have to even make him get serious." Kass said to Damon.
A swirling rainbow colored energy rised from her feet covering her entire body. It moved very smooth and looked to be very light. She stretched out her hand as a double bladed dagger sword generated.
It was completely silver with deep finger tip grips on the hilt which was in the middle of the weapon.
There was a straight blade on the left side while the one on the right side was wavy. It was the length of a short sword and looked to be well made.
She twisted the sword dagger blade around her fingers a few times like one would do with a staff or a pole weapon.
Damon activated his demonic form and afterwards, dark clouds covered the area above them as it began to rain.
Maru looked at them once more and this time actually letting the rain hit him seeing it was not in any form yet to cause him harm like last time.
He was thinking how crazy Damons power was. He still couldn't wrap his mind around it even though it wasn't a big threat to him.
He had only seen Damons power once when he was a baby crying and emotionally unstable. It had been over fourteen years since he had saw it and it was truly incredible to him.
" At one point when he was younger his aura felt like extraterrestrial energy, but not anymore. Could he have an item that shadows the feel of his energy or were me and Leon mistaken back then.. .. no, we must have been mistaken.
There's no way he could obtain such a thing. Those types of artifacts are extremely rare, so rare that they are practically non-existent." He thought looking at Damons demonic form.
The rain began to turn into pure purple static rain and the second Maru felt it's shift in intent he covered himself in his aura like before.
Kass flinched a little as the static rain touched her but felt nothing. Seeing this, Damon quickly explained to her that he can will his power to affect her or not in which she clearly saw what he meant.
Kass was the first to advance. She moved in with speed as the lime green aura surrounded her feet like before.
Damon didn't wait until she reached him to attack as he was on her side bolting forward with a static jump.
She raised her weapon slicing at Maru while Damon threw a punch full of electricity spiraling around his fist.
Maru side stepped and pushed kass weapon to the side with one finger as a pillar of white stone shot from the ground pushing her up and out the way. At the same time, that same pillar stalled Damon as it was pretty wide blocking his view.
He had to twist and turn to get around it delaying him by seconds. Once fully around the pillar he could see Maru had disappeared.
Following his gut feeling, Damon came to a complete stop and performed a spinning back fist thinking Maru was behind him.
His fist hit nothing and once he turned around fully while performing the back fist, a swift pressure was felt against his side.
The hit slid him back over twenty meters and there was now a small bruise on his side that appeared almost instantly.
Kass had been knocked into the air by the pillar and was coming back down twisting her body sideways holding her blade out in front as she spinned.
Red and orange aura surrounded her arms and with every spin she performed on the way down. Slashing energy was released.
Maru stood in one spot placing his hand out in front backhanding ever energy attack. Damon was rushing back in, and as he got close, he spinned on his knees sliding low slinging a whip of electricity out.
Seeing Damon from the corner of his eyes. Another pillar shot between them. His whip smacked the pillar instead of maru which did nothing. The pillar was sucked back into the ground and Maru had disappeared from his original spot.
Six more pillars shot from the ground in a circle that surrounded kass and Damon. Kass informed Damon that Maru was inside the pillars themselves.
Kass would spar with Maru every blue moon while growing up in the bijou village so she knew of a few of his tricks.
Damon looked around using oculus searching for a difference in the pillars as he thought that it could potentially reveal which one Maru was using. It was incredibly difficult to tell. Maru showed himself walking from behind one of them.
They both shifted their feet towards him and was about to rush at him again when he disappeared into another pillar.
The next thing they felt was a palm on both of their backs as another pillar shot from the ground directly in front of them.
They both were knocked forward. It was a light hit that only made them stumble forward. Once they turned around Maru was gone.
"You two are searching for my presence and energy." Hmph, you must see beyond my regular energy."
They couldn't see Maru,but could hear him as his voice vibrated out all the pillars themselves like a speaker.
One, two,three, ten. In a matter of a few seconds they both were hit over ten times each with light palm strikes to their backs.
Within a short period of time kass and Damon could feel the hits stacking up on their bodies as Maru only hit them in the same spot over and over again.
They tried destroying the pillars by combining their attacks but nothing they did put a scatch on it until Damon once again thought about the canyon walls in the space he was in.
"My static water swords has a very unique property, it surprised monsoon with the canyon walls. Its sharpness is incredible, maybe it can slice these damn things in half or something."
Damon raised his hand in the air merging rain drops and forming a sword. A ball of lightning shot from the clouds entering inside the sword. He had made it five times bigger than he normally would as it was now the size of a great sword.
"To manipulate the rain in such a way. Hmph. Not bad kid." Maru thought watching it from within a pillar.
From his view, the pillars were like a see through glass while he was inside one. On the outside in others view, it was a solid white marble like stone and nothing could be seen within it as it looked completely solid.
Maru watched them like a zoo animal that would be behind the thick glass watching people, but they couldn't see him.
With his speed he could zip straight into another with no problem without them noticing. He could also make another pillar and transfer himself into the newly one before it completely raised.
Damon waved his hand. The static sword flew down stabbing into the top of a pillar.