*Sigh* "Barbarians will stay barbaric," Chromitrix mutters under her breath.
"Well if you guys are gonna do this let me set up a barrier so none of us get affected by debris and their abilities," She says as she sets up a large barrier the size of a massive city around the two.
"What do you mean debris, we're out where nothing resides," Ronin exclaims.
"Didn't I say that only I can regulate what can reside out here."
She waves her hand up and the abyssal ground underneath Cerik and Yosai begins to shake as large stone pillars begin to form from nothing and smash together to create a terrain underneath them.
"This is definitely something you don't get to see everyday," Cerik says as he takes in the environment that is forming around him.
After about a minute of tera forming, the barrier is now filled with a large valley with grassy life and a rushing river.
Also present with a few living creatures such as insects and small mammals.
"~Asombroso~, it looks so beautiful in there I kinda want to paint it, it's probably the most stunning thing I've ever seen," Antonio says as he stares at the eye-catching scenery.
Chromitrix teleports herself to Cerik and Yosai and gives them both a small talk.
"Quick little excerpt, don't worry about killing each other as I can just bring you back, and no need to hold back at all, my barrier will keep everything inside, so go all out until someone surrenders or dies."
After she talks to them she teleports back to the others and gives them the confirmation to initiate.
They both stand on either side of the river and stare at one another intensely.
"Hey Yosai, quick question," Cerik says as he stands there across from him with his hands in his pockets.
"What is it?"
'Are you afraid of death?" He says as he focuses his gaze at him and flashes a sinister smirk.
"No actually, because, even death freezes in my wake," He says as he stares him down with a look of pure contempt and aggressiveness.
After he says that he conjures ice from his hands and slams them on the ground, and ice begins to scatter across the floor almost tracking Cerik, and when it reaches him it erupts from the floor as a huge spike of ice.
Cerik jumps back narrowly avoiding the ice and lands on one knee.
"I just barely avoided that, so it seems he is as serious about this as I am," He says to him self.
He gets back up and dashes towards Yosai at full speed.
"Long range will be my downfall, so time to go in for some close range." He whispers to himself.
He draws his swords and readies an upward slash directly to Yosai's left side.
Yosai stands there and scoffs at his attempt of an attack.
"You're an open book."
Cerik swings his sword with devastating force, yet Yosai quickly ducks under the swings and connects a punch to the side of his torso.
The force of the punch forces him a few yards back.
"Damn, I never thought Yosai would be this formidable in battle, maybe Miles or Antonio, but not Yosai." His thoughts race through his mind trying to find a way around his strength.
He suddenly feels a sharp pain in the spot where the punch connected, and ice is stuck spreading across the area of the punch.
"That isn't good." He says as he places his hand on the ice and it begins to turn to water instantly.
He looks back up to see where Yosai is and as he does Yosai is right in front of him with a punch already incoming.
He barely has enough time to block the attack with his sword, but this time the punch sends him flying and he hits the side of the valley.
The force of hitting the valley knocks the wind out of his lungs and he struggles to get back to his feet.
"Come on Cerik, you can't let me toss you around like this, are you gonna start getting in this fight!" Yosai yells from the bottom of the valley.
"Why, can't I get an attack off, I for sure thought the sword would've hit him." He thinks to himself as he finds his footing.
"You're probably wondering why none of your attacks aren't working aren't you!"
"Stop reading my mind!" Cerik yells, irritated.
"Well, it might be due to the fact you keep thinking too much, and that is your weakness, but that is only natural since you do fighting sports," He exclaims as he begins to walk up to Cerik's location.
"What are you talking about." He yells back crawling out of the small crater.
"I'm just saying that your fighting style is you thinking about ways to exploit your opponents weakness, but then you don't notice that in doing so you develop a weakness of your own." He says as he arrives, face to face with Cerik.
(Back with chromitrix and the others)
"I'm lost, can someone explain?" Chromitrix asks.
"Well, as someone who has fought with Cerik a lot I can answer that," Miles says as he stands next to her still keeping his eyes on the fight.
"You see, Cerik isn't the strongest of the group but he is the smartest fighter, only a little bit above me, so he knows how to find an opponents weak spot, focuses in on it and capitalizes on it, that is his fighting style."
"And while that's good on another strategic fighter, because others like him only focus on their opponent, that is a weakness of its own."
"How is that?"
"Because it can easily be countered by someone who has seen that type of fighting style many times and someone who is familiar with all their weaknesses, and Yosai fits that description perfectly."
"So he is just someone that realizes they're weak?"
"You could look at it like that, but he pairs it with his fighting style and it makes him a pretty formidable foe."
"What's his fighting style?"
"He likes to fight without strategy and only attacks with what is most effective in that moment, so no striking to only weaken an opponent to then later completely overpower them, he only strikes to finish."
"And not to mention his adaptability is amazing, there was one time he fought against me after watching me beat Cerik with a submission, and he got out of the same submission the second I got it locked in, and it was an escape I never thought about."
"Oh, so all Cerik has to do is change up his fighting style and he should do better, I mean he can just cancel everything Yosai does."
"No, that won't happen because his second biggest weakness is that he is stupidly stubborn, and even with his abilities, Yosai is the complete counter to his style of fighting so trying land a hit to win will be a challenge."
(Back to Cerik and Yosai)
Yosai quickly moves backwards and continuously placing walls of ice, as Cerik is now on the offense.
"I don't care about what you say, I'm confident, since I'm the trained fighter," As he says that he effortlessly slices through the ice and the ice instantly gets vacuumed into his sword blade.
"You know that is a neat sword, but it is annoying," Yosai says.
He stops pacing backwards and instead charges at Cerik and places another wall in between the two of them.
Cerik with no effort slices through the ice, and as it begins to get absorbed he blocks his front with his sword, expecting an attack.
However, Yosai doesn't attack from the front instead he attacks from above, and as Cerik sees this, he changes his stance and blocks high with a hand on the flat of his blade.
Yosai flashes a sinister smile as he doesn't attack, and instead he lands in front of him and grabs his hand on the hilt of the sword and it instantly freezes.
"Checkmate!"
He then rips off his hand with the sword still being tightly gripped inside of it.