The demon subduer couldn’t endure it anymore as he tore open his last trump card. He quickly started executing his ultimate, his self-created technique, the wild strikes of death.
Normally, he used his self-created technique as his final finishing blow. This is because self-created techniques are very energy and concentration draining, even more so than battle arts.
This immediately caused his offensive to rise a level, as his opponent started struggling to keep up.
Henry included this in his plans, as this was not the first time that he saw his opponent using this self-created technique. Despite his preparation, things don’t always go according to plan as the increased offensive was fiercer than he predicted.
He repeatedly parried with his 2 swords, while letting out grunts and retreating from the force of the blows.
Ptui!! Ptui!! He finally slipped up which his opponent promptly took advantage of, inflicting him with 2 deep cuts across the c
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The most anticipated day finally came, for the decisive battle of the pinnacles to begin. Clark stood still rigidly at the section of the ship where gladiator weapons were stored. He was deeply conflicted. Despite already training for so long on mastering the art of the spear, he was still more proficient at using a sword. He didn’t spend too much time on this, he broke out of his dilemma as he quickly made a decision. He picked his normal weapon set of a sword and a shield, like usual. But he still picked a spear as a precaution, strapping it to his back. … “Ladies and gentlemen, grab your popcorns and strap on your seat belts as the most anticipated battle of the year are about to begin”. The commentator was sure not to dull, as he started hyping the battle with his carefully prepared words. “Prepare yourselves as we welcome 2 of the deadliest gladiators of the fleet to the arena, The Emperor and The Stranded Dragon, the 2 behemoths”. <
Clang!! Clang!! Clang!! Nobody answered the spectator’s doubts, as metallic sounds kept ringing like bells across the arena. The commentator was gravely silent, he also didn’t understand the situation. As the tense atmosphere of suspense grew among the spectators like a plague, the arena finally cleared up a bit. The 2 gladiator’s unnaturally swift-moving silhouettes gradually became clear. Their figures moved rapidly like phantoms, as they were both already entangled in a bloody melee. This time around, there was no shield to control the tempo as their hand speed completely erupted. Most of the spectators only saw a blur, but this could not calm their rapidly beating hearts as realization finally dawned on them. They forgot that The Stranded dragon entered the battle with a spear strapped to his back. Clark fought fiercely like a bloody maniac, as his hand speed continuously increased without restraint. Blood blossomed like drizzling rain, as
After a week of treatment, like predicted, Clark was finally discharged as Emily escorted him back to his room. For the whole week, he didn’t taste any food, he was only placed on drips. So, on getting back, Emily decided to start preparing food for him as he laid lazily on his bed. During his time recovering in the medical bay, he already re-watched his battle with the Emperor. The strength of his self-created technique still left him astonished. He could not simply make heads nor tail of it at the moment. “I guess I was missing a lot”. He muttered in resignation. He felt like he was really a country bumpkin before, not knowing about self-created techniques. How could he have been living without such an op knowledge? “Ignorance is really a curse”. After Emily finished preparing the food, she served and they both ate to their fill. After spending some time idle talking, she finally went to her room as he also decided to rest. He slept
After Clark and his group were informed that they arrived, they all came out to see the mind-blowing sight. This section of the sea was like a world on its own. Ships and structures that looked like buildings spanned across the surface of the sea, making it seem like a world in a fairytale to them. The environment around here was exaggeratedly boisterous as ships of different brands, sizes, and qualities sailed away, while others sailed in. As their fleet slowly moved forward, their emotions gradually changed from being awestruck to being completely dumbfounded as they arrived at a certain part of the world in the sea. A huge metal platform was erected in the middle of the sea with other smaller platforms erected around it, spanning across miles, looking like the pyramids of ancient Egypt. They finally saw the huge recognition flag. The unique flag of the Seafarers alliance waved, following the direction of the wind as it stood firmly in front
Clark and the others waited for about 30 minutes, which was ridiculously long for someone who said he would soon be here. No one complained though, they all waited patiently. This was power on display. Click!! A few minutes later, the door finally opened with a soft sound as a stern-faced man dressed in a suit entered the house. Closely following him were 5 other suited men, they clung to him like a shadow. Clark was silent as he observed the newcomer, while his thoughts ran unrestrainedly. He quickly cleared his thoughts as he stood up with the other gladiators, the Captain was already standing. “Good day General”. The Captain greeted while accompanying it with a military salute. “Good day General”. The gladiators quickly followed and greeted in unison, as the General finally arrived at their front. He kept silent as he sternly scrutinized them with his dark blue eagle sharp eyes for about 20 seconds before he finally broke the silence.
In another virtual training session of the Roman Empire team, the gladiators were engaged in a fierce battle. Boom!! Arthur rushed forward to trade blows with the opposing team’s main attacker, while the rest members of the team followed him to crack their opponent’s battle formation. It was remaining only 2 days before the virtual team tournament starts, and today was their scheduled last practice day, so they tried their last attempt to improve. Their current battlefield was the elite team simulated battleground, for team vs team training. Sabertooth simulated five 2nd rank high-grade soldiers to fight them, using the format of the real tournament. The battle became very heated, as Arthur’s spear quickly became a blur. He struck with his spear, like lightning, while his opponent counter-attacked with his broad sword, like thunder. As this continued, dust started flying everywhere as Clark suddenly advanced forward with immense speed.
Despite the Seafarers alliance not lacking high-grade soldiers, the gladiator tournament for high-grade soldiers was still extremely popular. At this age, practically everyone loved watching exciting battles. Clark’s team left in the morning, as their first virtual battle was scheduled today to start at 9:00 am. The alliance built a huge battle arena uniquely for the tournament. The Roman Captain drove them quietly to the arena as Mark did his work for the first time as a team captain, giving them a few words of advice and motivation. Though they all sat up to listen attentively, to them, all he was saying was just a load of crap. He was also inexperienced in the gladiator tournament. They just didn’t criticize him to give him face. On arriving at the large battle arena, they were led directly to their preparation room. On entering the preparation room, they were all shocked as they stared at the projection at the side of the room. They knew t
As soon as Clark returned with his teammates, they organized and did a small team celebration before deciding to rest and watch the other battles of the day. The Captain also took out time to congratulate them on their first victory. Their opponents today were not their match, so there was not much exciting stuff to discuss. The Lagoons team was among the freeloader teams, that were enlisted just to complete the quota for the tournament. In the end, they just teased Arthur for being a stingy teammate before going to spectate other matches. When analyzed logically, he was indeed stingy as he monopolized 2 of the easy opponents for himself. Half of the battles to be fought in the week were fought today. The battles were fierce as expected, as all the teams chosen had a certain degr
6 months ago, the sky turned red which according to world leaders signified the start of the war that would decide the fate of humanity.2 months prior, the news was finally publicized, spreading worldwide panic but with all the most powerful world leaders working together, the panic was easily curbed and order was restored.According to the government, humanity was not hopeless, they had heroes in the form of their soldiers and elite soldiers.Not only that, humanity had a superhero, the great Elite Commander Clark Pendragon. After the special training started, a fuse seemed to have been switched on as the Spartan soldier experienced a period of rapid growth.With veteran Elite Commanders around to guide him and with every resource he needed available, he encountered no bottlenecks, he improved at a superhuman speed never recorded since the human race was born.In just 4 months, he broke through 2 times, going all the way to the Elite-grade rank.
A month later, in the Gen. Clark Pendragon Mansion.At the big balcony attached to the mansion, Clark stood, looking out into the distance as a lot of things went through his mind. The past one month has been the best in his life, and he was grateful for it.Despite it being the best in his life, as a 4th rank high-grade soldier now, his intuition told him that something was happening.As a high-grade soldier and mercenary, things happened everyday around him but he knew that this was not the normal happenings, his intuition told him that this was far higher than anything that he has encountered before.And after making connections from the recent happenings, from his famous marriage ceremony, to the big 5 jointly broadcasting it, a lot of other things and now the Spartan President personally calling for him, he confirmed his guess.Something big was happening, it was just that no one deemed it right to inform him about it yet. As a man
Vatican City Central Church, General Clark Street. This was the church where the big things were happening for today. Not only people from all over the Spartan republic, even esteemed guests from foreign high-grade countries came to grace this occasion. Today was the day of Vatican City hero’s marriage ceremony. After 22 years as a single, General Clark Pendragon was finally ready to tie the nut with his fiancée. The name of the street where the ceremony was commencing was given and commissioned a few days after Clark became a General. Some of the most esteemed guests attending the marriage ceremony were the legendary President of the Spartan republic, Leonidas, and the armor tycoon, the billionaire Mr. Calibri of the Dakran republic. These 2 people were such powerful and well-known personalities in their own rights that their attendance alone shot the attention being given to the marriage ceremony to the highest point. Not only that,
“Leonidas, you wish to attend?”Hearing that, the Spartan President sighed, exasperated. “If you were not my mentor, I would have probably fired you already. Cough…, sorry for that but I’m really going, what’s the big deal?”“You’re really asking me that right now? Of course, there’s a big deal. Apart from military burials, do you know the last time you have for social gatherings?”“I dunno, probably a decade or 2”.“No…, 4 decades! 4 whole decades! You get that?” The old man emphasized by waving his hands vigorously, showing 4 fingers at the powerful soldier.“Suddenly going to a social event after such a long time staying at home, what do you think will be people’s reaction. They may feel that something is happening, they may even panic”.“And just because he’s a 4th rank high-grade soldier does not change anythin
A day after the reunion with her family, Sonia took permission with her parents before going on the first official date with her boyfriend. It was a date, but they just wanted to spend more time together and close to each other. The few years apart was torment to them, now that they had the opportunity, they wanted to make up for it by all means. At first, staying together left them feeling awkward but they soon got over it and started reliving the feelings of a few years ago. For the destination for their first date, none of them planned for it as they were both individuals who have never interacted with the opposite sex in such fashions before now. As the only daughter of a famous billionaire, other billionaire sons already tried courting her in the past but she simply didn’t find them appealing enough, so she always ignored and avoided them. After just a day of staying with Clark, her brother, and her parents in her childhood home, she now
Among the 3 Pirate Gods in the Sahara, though none of them never publicly claimed the spot as the strongest, the Black Pirate God was the one most recognized by pirates as the strongest. After him was the powerful Red Goddess Pirate, then the Lilac Pirate God. Compared to the first 2, the Lilac Pirate God was on the more glaringly weaker side but he still had the strength to back his title. At this moment, in the Black God Pirate City, a surprising piece of news was being circulated. Pirate Queen Anamel was dead, and Pirate Queen Cobra was secretly a student of the Red Goddess. Not only that, the most shocking piece of news that took the city by storm was that of Pirate Queen Cobra’s intention to leave the Sahara and settle in normal human settlements outside. … “Is this news verified?” A deep voice asked with suppressed anger in an underground room with far better living conditions than most of the others out there in the desert. “Yes
Though they both wanted to just remain in each other’s embrace forever, Clark and Sonia knew that they were still in a pirate city and what it meant. With reluctance, they quickly left the city with Arthur.Even if they tried to cover it up, it was impossible so they didn’t bother. In minutes, the news of Pirate Queen Anamel’s death spread through the pirate city and beyond.For long, Clark has always been worried about his reaction when he finally saw Sonia again but he was surprised when he did. It was like they never separated; it was like they’ve lived through all these years together.15 minutes later, they got sufficiently far away into the desert from the pirate city so they finally had the time to speak things out.Sonia brought out the stolen pistol first, which Clark handed over to Arthur. After this, she finally started detailing her encounters after Clark asked.According to her, after the fierce battle on her fa
While Arthur asked the pirate, Clark already went to work as he closed his eyes to focus. As experienced soldiers, they already put a lot of contingencies in place during their tour around the pirate city.Even if they wanted to catch some fun, it was too unrealistic for them to just keep touring without setting anything in place.With his implant, Clark immediately accessed the hidden cameras that they placed around the city, most especially this bar. It didn’t take him long; he saw a hooded female going out through the bar’s back door.“Found our target”.While muttering to Arthur, Clark already turned to storm out of the bar. Arthur simply knocked the 2 pirates out before storming out also.In seconds, they were out of the bar’s main structure.…A few meters away from the bar, a hooded lady walked through the streets at a leisure pace as she kept a close but alert eye on her surroundings.<
The next day, Clark and Arthur woke up with the intention to remain patient while waiting for their informant to contact them. They didn’t even go into the pirate city, it was too disgusting for them to stay in it. The more Clark felt this way, the more he feared what his girlfriend may have become now. If just a day staying in it could make him this irritated, he just couldn’t imagine what staying here for 4 years could have done. Thinking of this, he felt guilty again. “Why didn’t I come earlier?” Souring his mood with such thoughts, the day moved extremely slowly to him. Perhaps, having noticed his current mood, Arthur didn’t disturb him and opted to go out hunting alone. When he came back, he had a desert antelope with him. Seeing the catch, Clark was left speechless. “Can we finish that?” Arthur wasn’t fazed by his question. “If we can’t finish it today, we’ll just finish it tomorrow or the next. Don’t worry, I have preservation gadgets with me, and besides, your girlfriend