Bang!
Zenon skidds against the ground after receiving a blow to his side.
After stopping,without hesitation he launches himself at the brown drake that is almost thrice his size.
It glares at Zenon with an attempt to intimidate him, but only response he got was a maniacal laughter and scratch in front legs which causes it lose of balance.
Zenon takes advantage of the situation and expertly slithers across its torso and long neck, trying to strangle him. But while Zenon is at intermediate rank ,his opponent is at advanced rank.
The fact that zenon can stand against his opponent for long itself can be considered a miracle by many.
The brown drake forcefully remove him from the chokehold with superior strength ,but just then it recieves a strong bite on its neck.
The bite was very powerful.
It almost pierced all the way through the scales.
But that's it. Almost.
The defense of advanced rank opponent is not something that can be easily broken. Especially by someone of lower rank.
"Hmm..rank suppression is no joke."
"Rooaar."
The brown drake let's out an angry sound and pulls it's opponent off of its body and launches him against the ground.
But zenon uses his long tail to maneuver to the side and and quickly dashes away.
Before the surprised brown drake could even react he was already quite a distance away from him.
But the brown drake didn't give up ran after him.
"Now that I have all the data I need it's time to say goodbye."
Zenon expertly dashes as if he had a rocket on his feet. His speed was surprisingly fast.
He deftly maneuvers through obstacles and quickly loses his tail.
The brown drake, all though very much stronger than him,it didn't have huge advantage in speed.
That is also why he choosed this particular drake.
It's build leans towards tank type and is not nimble on the feet.
It is a very good punching bag- I mean, training partner.
While his opponent is slow, it didn't mean it was helpless. It could still lauch breath attacks.
But, Zenon already thought of this and choose this terrain where there is numerous obstacles that hinder vision and reduce effectiveness of breath.
After loosing his pursuier, zenon finds his way back to his home cave.
He could hear unwilling angry roars of a particular drake from distance.
Zenon didn't mind this. He was determined to squeeze out everything from his favourite punching has in the coming days.
On his way back, he observed a group of wyverns making their way into the mountain top.
This rocky mountain, which almost taller then mount Everest, houses numerous draconic subspecies.
It's top is pierced into the clouds, so visibility is very poor.
From what he observed so far there are mainly numerous types of drakes and wyvrens are inhabitants of this place.
He also saw some lizardman and numerous other species. But they were all scaled, indicating they are distant relative of dragon.
He reaches the cave and finds it empty.
He lays down on a comfortable place and thinks back to the fight.
This was not his first fight and definitely not going to be the last one.
But he is satisfied with data he collected for now. After experiencing numerous fights, his status also shown big leap in numbers. It seems that fighting with stronger enemies, especially of those of higher rank is the best way to improve skills.
But not everyone can follow this path as Zenon.
For majority, fighting against an opponent of higher rank is a life and death crises and doing skill training is nothing but death wish.
After the fight, Zenon now has a preliminary idea about the ideal path to follow from now on.
In his previous world, he had mastered numerous martial arts and skills.
The realm of martial mastery was different from the power system of this world.
Although there where super humans in that world who has mastered martial arts, their differences in physique compared to a normal human is not that perversly different.
Atmost it would the double of all parameters.
But they can effectively apply more than ten times the power compared to ordinary people.
How can that be possible?
Then answer lies in the principle of body functioning.
An organism's muscle strength, thinking ability and sensitivity are not used to body's limit capacity on an ordinary day.
But when an unexpected crisis shows up, due to the adrenaline surge, some people can exert superhuman strength.
There were some cases like, an old woman lifting a car to rescue her grandchild, jumping to almost 6 feat from stand still when unexpectedly a snake show up.
But this is not without side effects.
Due to exerting more force than their physique can withstand, these people usually either ends up dead or suffer from series muscle damage.
This type of superpower normally cannot be displayed because, subconscious mind is averse of damaging the body needlessly and locks it down.
The path of martial art is about training the body methodically and relentlessly so that it can unlock the subconscious lock of mind and cultivate a body that can embody this power without breaking.
This is called limitbreak, and the first criteria to be called martial master is to perfect this method.
So,it can be said that the path of martial art is to maximize the capability of body and efficiently unleash all its hidden potentials.
But after coming to this world, Zenon realised that the previous definition of martial path is incomplete.
Here exists magic,bloodlines,energy that exists in the body that is different from 'ki' and there is also aura.
For the path of martial arts to be valid in this world, he must master uses of all these and maximize the force and efficiency of each one of this.
Or who knows, there may be a species which has an innate skill which can aid exerting full potential of body without even trying.
It is going to be very hard and long road.
But, if he can actually realise this, then he will become the strongest or atleast one of the strongest existence in this world.
May be one day he can fight against gods and immortals in battle.
And if he controls his body well enough, he can have 'fun' with weak foes too. Though that happens only when when he extremely bored and is at the limits of patience.
If that day comes he can face anyone and battle against all the existence in this world.
That will be dream come true.
Thinking about this, zenon's monstous face had drool leaking out of his mouth, wearing a perverse expression.