"Grr!"
With the hissing batte cry, Ice cutter charged toward Noah with tremendous speed.
Clank.
Noah managed to repel the attack with the water blade. Because of all the trainings and martial arts Damini taught him, he is very flexible and experienced in battles.
"Frost ball"
This time the mist were in ball forms coming out of the right hand of Ice cutter and aiming toward Noah.
Whoosh.Whoosh.
Noah jumped to dodge the first ball.
Boom.
The frost ball hit the wall behind Noah and the ice started to spread and freeze the whole wall.
What the.
"Ah!"
There was a frost ball aiming at Noah who was distracted by the scene the first forst ball created.
I am still in the air. I can't dodge this.
"Water blade"
Whoosh.
With the sound of the slash, the frost ball aiming at him was cut into half by the water blade.
Thud.
"What happened? Did he just cut my frost ball?"
Ice cutter got a little panicked.
The water blade in Noah's hand turned into scarlet red from sky blue and smokes were coming out of it.
"That is water blade?" Ice cutter thought.
"Well playtime's over." Noah said in a clamed voice.
"What?" Ice cutter was getting nervous even though he seemed like he was acting tough.
"Unfortunately, it is a bad match"
"What the hell are you spouting?" Ice cutter raised his voice.
"For you I mean"
"What?" Ice cutter responded in a voice fulled of nervousness and doubts.
"He is just bluffing. He is obviously water attribute magician. There is no way he can use fire magic stronger than my frost. He turned this into psychological battle to gain advantage because he realized he could not win against me in pure strength" He organized his thoughts desperately.
"Hahahaha. You are just spouting nonsense because you are scared. Don't take me for a fool" He said in a loud voice.
"Gr!!" He then screamed and charged.
"Fool"
"Forst mist"
The amount of the mist he produced before could not even compare to the amount this time. This time, the mist gushing out like it is trying to freeze the whole city to death.
The whole dark alley was filled with white mist and could not even see anything past them.
The environment started to get cold and the rats and bugs living in the filthy dark alley ran outside desperately to get away from the chilling mist.
"Hahahahahaha, useless. Whatever you do, it is useless. You are going to die" Ice cutter screamed crazily.
He seems to be doing fine in this. Well, it is his spell.
"Ackk!!!!"
The woman who was chased by Ice cutter screamed piercingly while hugging herself for warmth. Her whole body was shivering because of the cold.
Noah extended his right hand with open palm forward.
"Temperature magic: higher"
Whoosh.
The whole envoirnment filled with show white ice and coldness started to get warm like the summer had come.
"What the.." Ice cutter thought.
"What is happening? Temperature magic? I have never heard of such thing. I am going to lose at this rate" Ice cutter thought in panic.
"Grr!!!!"
However he did not give up and produced more mist.
"It is useless"
All the mist disppeared as they came out because of the heat.
After a while, the battle calmed down and the temperature returned to normal.
Thud.
Ice cutter was on his kneels because of exhaustion and facing down to the ground.
"Huff-huff"
Well, he did use a lot of soul energy.
"Temperature magic? Just who are you?"
He shouted without raising his head.
"Why should I answer the likes of you?"
Noah said in a calmed voice.
Noah thought about his childhood when he was training with Damini. About how he is alive even though he was burnt to charcoal. Maybe, he had the talent in fire magic? But his primary attribute is water so it would be extremely difficult to use fire magic. No matter how many times he tried, he could not use fire magic. Fortunately he found out that if he could use ice magic which has lower temperature than water magic. Why not raise the temperature instead of plainly producing fire. By doing this, fire magic could be used in a different form which is not derived from fire attribute but rather temperature.
Noah walked toward Ice cutter who was crouching on the ground.
Guess I will kill him.
With the scarlet smoke forming the scythe form in the right plam, he summoned
Then he prepared to swing the scythe.
Boom.
The ground suddenly exploded and white smoke which was too thick to see through came out.
"Hahahaha"
The creepy laughter of Ice cutter went furthur and lower as the time went by and disppeared after a few second.
After the smoke lift up, Ice cutter was no longer at the place he was before.
Fuck. I let my guard down.
At the place of the explosion, there was a teared bag contained white powder.
He was crouching so hard to hide this thing. Fuck.
He got me with the most obvious ploy.
Noah thought while withdrawing his item.
"Sniff sniff"
Noah irritatedly looked at the corner the woman was sitting at. The woman was crying her heart out on the ground because of relief. She then felt the glance of Noah and looked at him. Fear then again returned to her face.
At least she was not kidnapped.
"Where were you doing outside at a time like this?"
Noah asked.
"I...I was working" the woman answered in a shaking voice.
"Working? At a time like this?"
The woman nodded and covered her face in embarrassment.
"?"
"How did you meet that guy?"
The woman looked at Noah's face and looked away nervously.
"Eh-mmmm"
She seemed like it was something difficult to talk about.
What is wrong with her.
She then sighed and seemed like she resolved herself to talk.
"I-I am a prostitute"
She said and lower her head and face.
"..."
No wonder it is difficult for her to talk about that. I should've got that when she said she was working at night.
"So he was your client?"
She nodded.
She most likely met that guy and they went to some place for business. On the way, the guy revealed himself and threatened her so that he could enjoy more. Then she ran away and all this happened.
Noah thought of a reasoning himself without asking her more.
"You can go"
Noah said in a normal talking tone.
The woman stood up and bowed her head again and again to thank. She seemed like she wanted to thank Noah more but all the emotions and traumas drew all the strength from her that she barely had enough strength to stay on her feet.
Well, no wonder she became like that after all what she had to experient tonight.
She was still standing there without going home and looking at Noah's face.
Noah noticed that and
"What? Do you want me to escort you?"
She shook her head.
It was like she was looking at Noah's face and memorizing it so that she won't forget it for the rest of her life.
Then she went home.
I better go back to the inn also. There is the phase 3 of hunter exam in the morning.
The lights of the inn were still off when he got back to the inn.
Noah then leaped into the window which he left opened.
I will take a bath and go back to sleep until the sun rise.
Chatters.Chatters.
Outside became noisy and lively with people again as the sun rised.
The bright golden sunlight was waking up Noah by shining with everything it got.
Yawn.
Is it morning already?
Noah then went to the bathroom to wash his face and prepared for the day.
Knock.Knock.
It must be Malik.
Noah thought as he came closer to the door to open.
"Yooo. Good morning. Did you rest well?"
Malik was as lively as ever.
"..Yes"
"Let's go down and have our breakfast"
They both went downstair.
Contrary to yesterday, the inn in the morning was full of life. There were a lot of customers in the dining room. They were all talking loudly and laughing like they did not care for the world.
"Ohh. Noah and Malik Thant, good morning"
The owner, Miss.Seraphine noticed Noah and Malik and greeted with a square plate in the hand. She just put the dishes which were on the plate before onto the table where the customers were sitting.
"Would you like to have your breakfast" she asked gently with a smile face.
"Yes please" Noah replied.
She then led them to a free table.
"Please, wait a moment. I will bring them right now"
Noah nodded.
"Hey. Miss.Seraphine. A cup of goat milk for my son here"
A loud voice calling for her.
"Yess. I will be there in a moment"
She also replied loud enough to pierce through the noisy chatterings of the customers.
"She is very busy huh?" Malik said.
"..."
"I did not see a single customer last night"
"Well, she opens the dining room as a restaurant at day to compensate for the usual income she could not make because of
So it hasn't been long since she opened the restaurant like this. No wonder there are no waiter or waitress to help her out.
Miss.Seraphine brought a small basket of bread and plates of eggs and vegetables along with coffee.
"Please, enjoy your breakfast"
"Miss.Seraphine, we will be going out and be back in the evening"
After having a delicious and nutritious breakfast, Malik said good bye to the owner.
"Yess. See you later. Good luck" she replied with a sweet smile.
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