"Oh, would you look at that? Do you perhaps have telekinesis abilities?"
He proudly said this as he saw me use my new weapons. Well, that's what you'll definitely think if you see them at first, but their function is far from that.
Right beside me are two rotating blades that function the same way as the top. I remembered when using the top as a reference in creating the rotation for my cores. and thought of floating objects.
At first, I gave up on the idea of making such weapons and using them for my core manipulation to rotate the cores in certain ways that could help in ranking up.
But after knowing of Star Impacts' second stage, the gravity impact, I thought of ways to take advantage of such use.
So right now, they are floating around me. Although it is an entry-level of mastery, I can use them in many ways, and by using the mana domain, it is like being able to use a higher degree of mastery of the gravity impact.
So now I can freely manipulate it around me, not to mention use its heat impact through its blades.
"Well, whatever it is, care to show me its uses?"
"That's what I was planning to do from the beginning."
Then I moved and ran towards him.
"What? They just float around you. That's it? How useless."
Seeing as I did not use it to attack him directly, he seems disappointed. Then he barraged me with multiple attacks all at once.
'Well, I can do that, but that's just a one-way ticket. I haven't gone that far with its functions yet.'
And as his spells rain down on me. I just smirked in my helmet as I used Titan to protect me and the blades to deflect the attacks to prevent the girls from getting hit.
"What the? After all, it has some uses. But I wonder how long it will last."
He continued to attack as he dodged mine.
But slowly but surely, he ran out of space as the blades rotated around him. And right now, he is in my domain.
"Do you think you've got me? Well, then think again!"
He yelled as flames burst through him.
And not wanting to get hit, I backed out along with my blades as Titan extended his shell.
BOOM!
A strong explosion, and what showed out after is burning flames covering his body as he floats in the sky like a demon.
"To think I would be pushed back into this state. I admit you have some great trinkets with you, but that's just because trinkets are nothing to absolute power!"
He exclaimed as the fire came bursting forth around him.
Now that's going to be too much. But still, that doesn't mean he has the upper hand. I guess it's time to show off its teeth.
Since earlier, I haven't used the teeth of my chainsaw sword, although I did plan not to use it due to the sound it will make, which will attract monsters. With this explosion, then, that's just making an opening for me to use it. Plus, there was a certain substance used in these teeth after receiving Titan's new haul of materials.
Now is the best time to use it.
Click.
"Oh, what's that? Did you do something with your sword? Well, what difference does it make if I am using my full strength? Then I can just turn it into dust."
Expressing his curiosity, he told me how useless my next moves are. But here's the thing: You said something about an anti-magic weapon, so let me give you a taste of it.
Broom broom.
Activating my chainsaw sword, the noise echoed throughout the place. And along with its activation, I used Heat Impact to support the impact the blades will face when contacting spells.
"Here I go!"
Jumping on the buildings, I reached high and was now in front of him.
Hah! Swoosh.
I swung my sword towards him, and as expected, he dodged it. but that doesn't mean it's done. Using the blades as my foothold, I dodged as he continued to bombard me with spells that are now useless.
"Huh?! How come my attacks aren't working? Why are you able to move faster than me? Why!"
Well, as much as I would like to explain it to him, it would be stupid, but let's just give him a hint.
"You said it yourself earlier. I have an anti-magic weapon."
"What?"
And without pause, I slashed him until he couldn't move anymore and slammed him down.
Bam!
"….."
Landing I looked at him and saw his flames withering.
"How come?"
"Because you're weak?" 'I also got stronger weapons. Well, let's not tell him that, though.'
"That's not what I meant! How did I get slower?"
"Why the heck would I tell you?" I said it to him sarcastically.
Well, the reason is because of the blade, which is more or less an anti-magic weapon, but instead of dispersing, it absorbs the mana on the other end.
Unlike the old ones that strengthen and bend with the mana. This new shell absorbs mana upon contact and releases it on the other end. Just like how Titan does it.
And since earlier, I kept absorbing mana from him and the surroundings, making it hard for him to generate spells.
And what better battery to charge it with than an empty husk of mana stone.
Yes, it recharges a mana stone.
Normally, you will need big magic circles and runes to create a mana-absorbing effect for the mana stone to recharge with specific elements.
But this skips the process of the mana stone and just absorbs the mana. But there are also side effects because the mana is not pure.
It's not like I'll explain that to him, though.
I dealt the finishing blow, which knocked that bastard out.
And as that happened, the girls from earlier came to me.
"Thank you for the help."
"Yeah, we couldn't do anything to that guy."
"No worries I guess I was just a bad matchup for him."
"I guess defeating a guy two ranks above you is to be expected when there is a bad matchup."
"Eh, this guy is ranked five? I didn't notice."
"Not just that, his strength could even match up against rank six."
"Then this guy is really no joke."
"Yeah, so thank you."
"Everyone is healed."
"Oh, Alicia, thank you. Even though I am second in command, I wasn't able to protect you all. Sorry."
"No trouble, really; we also didn't expect that kind of strong enemy to show up."
I didn't notice it earlier, but Alicia has been here all the time. It was unexpected to think she would be an adventurer. And I didn't even notice her here since I was busy fighting this guy.
Tak tak tak
"Oh, the soldiers finally arrived."
"Well, then I better get going; I've got the help to beat the monster in the city."
"Yeah, sure, let's see each other next time."
"Okay."
I then left the place, as I was looking for monsters to kill and people to save.
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"That guy is amazing; even though he is a rank three, he can defeat that guy who is two ranks higher than him."
"What do you mean? Is he a rank-three individual?"
"Oh, you didn't know, Alicia? Recently, he was just two ranks lower than me. but I hear that he fought against someone who is already near the strength of a rank-six."
"Really?"
"Yeah, that time it was a tragedy for him and his group during the test for his rank. But now look at him; just a few months ago, he had ranked up to three."
"That's amazing."
"Right now, there is much speculation about his age, but him getting stronger and beating those with higher ranks than him speaks volumes of his strength."
"I see". 'Still, him having a high rank only proves he is not him. But why am I feeling this way?'
All of a sudden, Alicia's thoughts were jumbled, and she was not thinking straight. She was so absentminded that she didn't notice everyone gathered around her as they looked at her face.
"A maiden in love, huh?"
"No, I won't allow it."
"But your sister has the hots for a certain strong person. What's so bad about that?"
"No means no. Although he might be strong, we don't know what he looks like inside the helmet."
"Well, you do have a point."
"Stop it with this love talk and stuff. Also, pull Alicia out of her fantasies, and get ready to leave."
"Okay, ma'am."
"Yeah, I got it."
"Alicia, Alica"
"Huh?" Out of nowhere, Alicia was then pulled out of her thoughts.
"What is it, Sis?"
"We're going to leave now, so please stop daydreaming and let's go help more people."
"Okay, got it."
Although she was still confused about her feelings, she still needed to get her priorities straight and had to help those in need.
"Do you like him?"
"Sis!"
"Oh?"
"My, oh my"
"Spring is here."
"That's not it."
"Yes, we understand"
Hearing her denial, the others were making a face that was warmly supporting her, except for one.
"No, you can't, sis."
"As I said, that is not it!"
Denying with all her might, she yelled so hard. Not knowing that it only strengthens their thoughts about her feelings.