Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 3 months old)
Ken found himself at the canyon he made, or near the entrance of the canyon as evident of the slope hill behind him, leading up.
‘I’m near everyone, doesn’t this give me some type of advantage? Master did say that we would be teleported at any random place, I wonder how they are doing-‘
“Will you stop talking to yourself?”
‘Oh Saber, he’s going to be my opponent? fair enough.’ the other just smirked at him.
“Can’t help it.” said Ken and smirked back. “Let’s train?” he asked, the other nodded, as he took out his two half an arm’s length daggers, Ken took out his scythe.
“You do know that you’re in a disadvantage, right?”
“Yeah, I’ll manage, Wind Magic: Surgical Sweep!” with a swing coming from the back to the front, a burst of wind flew directly towards Saber, creating smoke along the way.
‘Now to cover myself, Illusion Magic: Mirage.’
With Saber’s vision obstructed, he sidestepped to the left and planted himself to the wall as he suspects that Ken will throw a random spell at his past location, and true to his prediction, Ken did throw a spell at the location he was at seconds ago.
The spell dispersed the dust scattered in the air indicating that it was a wind spell, with the smoke clearing, he deliberately casted a spell to conceal his presence so as not to spoil the element of surprise, with the spell ‘shadow meld’ made him invisible to the naked eye even at daytime, but he was shocked for as the smoke disappeared, so did Ken.
He stood still with his back plastered at the wall to avoid any surprise attacks from behind leaving his front exposed for a quick counter attack or escape, but with Ken using an invisibility spell, he had to be careful, or he would lose without even doing much of a counter-attack. He adjusted his blades so that they would be facing down, perfect for quick attacks.
Suddenly a patch of dirt dipped in front of him indicating that someone was there, with a push from the wall propelled him forward as he activated another spell, named ‘Shadow Prance’ that allows him to leap forward while enchanting his weapon with shadow magic,
He aimed the skill at the clearing where the movement he last saw and upon thrusting, he got contact on a solid material as Ken was hit.
Turns out Ken parried the attack while his concealment disappeared along with Saber’s, his right dagger aimed at the body of Ken’s scythe as the two struggle to push the other, the two backed off by jumping back and armed themselves, with a quick twirl of Ken’s scythe to his back, he launched his wind magic ‘Scythe cut’ towards Saber.
Saber leaped unto the air, performing one summersault avoiding the spell before landing and rushed towards Ken with his still active spell on his blade, Ken dashed to the left and Saber followed,
The two then proceeded deep into the canyon with Ken at the front, and Saber gaining in on him, with the corner close by, Ken pushed himself with a burst of wind propelling him forward and with his Scythe stabbed the wall to let him swing right to the direction leaving Saber still chasing, he was so close in hitting Ken.
Upon arriving at the turn, Saber was welcomed with Ken’s blade almost hitting his face luckily he sidestepped to the left using the momentum as leverage to add more chance in evading the sudden attack, he twirled and got his footing while Ken retracted the outstretched blade just in time to parry again Saber’s attack.
The two continued fighting on the corner, with blades clashing against blades, with twirls of the scythe to carry out a momentum against the fast pace attacks of the daggers by either parrying the daggers with its curved blade or the tip of the iron rod.
Ken is playing with his scythe like a stick, almost with no difficulty in swinging it and parrying the attacks, but if the weapon he was parrying was a blunt one, then he would definitely be having a hard time defending.
“Earth Magic: Earth spike.” Earth spikes the length of one meter and the size of half a meter burst out from the ground aiming at Saber with the swing of Ken’s scythe upward, half-caught and half-expecting the attack, Saber jumped back in time just as the blade and spike protruded at him.
“Shadow Magic: Smokescreen.” chanted saber as black smoke formed from where he was standing and spread around, obstructing Ken’s vision, smiling to himself, Ken just casted ‘glow’ to pinpoint Saber’s location, a cheat skill, he thought, so he just stood still pretending as if he’s anxious of what Saber’s going to do next.
Saber sidestepped from left to right, and sometimes adding a dash while flinging small shadow daggers towards Ken, which was avoided easily by him, then Saber remembered that despite Ken being a human, he was extremely sensitive to mana thus rendering his tactic useless, he switched to another approach which literally meant, fighting Ken again, head on.
He leaped from a blind spot where Ken wasn’t facing at the right with ‘Shadow Prance’ facing his two daggers downward aiming at Ken to finish the fight, but contrary to his belief, Ken easily parried his attack with a quick twirl of his scythe hits Saber’s daggers halting their advance,
With a quick push of his left hand together with surgical sweep, pushed Saber back distancing themselves three meters from each other.
The two had almost been drenched with sweat due to the battle coupled with the intense heat of the high noon, and slightly labored breathing, Ken thought to himself how much they have improved from before and felt proud with himself and his friends.
“Still want to continue?” asked Ken.
“Of course, how about we kick it up a notch?” replied Saber, his demeanor slightly changing, this time he decided to give his best for this exercise.
“Let’s remember not to push ourselves too hard since this is just an exercise.” said Ken in a singsong yet serious voice. Saber nodded and dashed towards Ken in a blink.
And so the fight continued with parrying one another’s attacks, but this time with a more speed and precision to their strikes, Saber appreciated the fact that Ken adjusted to his fighting style occasionally using spells here and there so as not to give too much of a disadvantage to him.
But he can’t help feel that he needs to fight against those who would use all of their tools up their sleeve in order for him to improve his fighting than before, for the next time that him and Ken would fight, he’ll request the other to not hold back anymore, he wants to see the fruits of his labor.
Ken’s POV (12 yrs. and 3 months old)
-after two hours of combat class-
“You’ve improved Saber since the last we battled.” I have noticed that he has increased his times of engaging in and out of combat, I’ve even sustained more injuries this time, looks like I need to catch up more in terms of speed.
“*nod*, but are your wounds alright?” he said, I look at them and, hmmm….
“I’ll be fine, but let me heal that burn on your shoulder first.” I walked towards him and hovered my hand on his right shoulder were I accidentally burned during the fight, an occasion where I predicted where he would pop out, I expected that he would be able to dodge, but sad to say, my blade grazed his skin along with it getting burned.
After patching up his burns and wound, along with scratches here and there with regeneration, I healed myself up with the same spell.
“There, all better, now we just have to wait for the others to finish theirs.” I said and turned towards the field looking at the colorful spells flying everywhere where the others are training.
Saber and I decided to end our fight earlier than the others since we’ve sustained enough damage for the class along with the fact that we still have to use our magic for later, coupled with the fact that the space we were fighting is on the brink of collapsing.
I’m saying the word ‘fact’ for quite a while now.
“Okay.” said Saber, “I’ll recover some strength while waiting.” I nodded at him and he proceeded to squat under a tree and replenish his energies, of course we went out of the barrier so as not to get caught in the crossfire of everyone.
I’m still up and ready to train but with us having even numbers, who will I fight when everyone are busy fighting one another, I’ll just recuperate and-
*BANG*
Huh? A huge fire spell, who could have done it? Good thing the barrier neutralized the impact before it could cause more damage, and why would they direct it at the barrier anyway.
Oh, someone’s fighting on the air, hmmmm… is that, master Klein? Aaand…Princess Lang? Makes sense if the fire spell came from either of them, but then again I didn’t see where that spell came from so maybe it wasn’t them.
Oh well, let’s just relax and recover some energies, I placed my scythe at the ground beside me as I squatted down under the shade of another tree parallel to the tree where Saber is resting.
I looked back at the fight again, and casted my ‘sound alteration’ spell to nullify any sound coming from outside in a two meter radius, with my increase of magic power the radius has reached over one kilometer but with my crafty mind, I’m able to adjust the radius that I want.
Only the closer the barrier is, the denser and clearer it is to see. I look at my scythe at the ground and think to myself, what I should tell my friends later. (smiles)
-after thirty minutes of rest-
‘Ken, everyone’s finished fighting.’ -White-
‘Okay, I’ll get ready now, but first I’ll wait for them to ask for the barrier to be put down before withdrawing it.’ I said, and stood up from squatting, grabbed my scythe, strapped it on my back, and walked towards the edge of the field.
Right on time, everyone gathered at the center of the field one by one, hmm, is there some sort of debris gathered at corners of the field, or at the edges of the field? Let’s find out.
Wow, they’ve made a mess, should I say that it was to be expected or- (ground shakes, Ken looks at the direction of the canyon)
…
Great, now they’ve done it, *sigh* let me check first if anyone got caught on the landslide, ‘Detection Magic: Landscape survey’ an area of effect skill that allows me to carve out the terrain in my head giving me a distinct image, letting me see through objects obstructing my sight.
Good no one got caught on the landslide, but who triggered it?
I walked towards where everyone gathered, and noticed that Saber was walking beside me. I looked at him briefly and turned my attention at everyone who looked haggard and unkempt, haha, funny.
“Good work everyone, now proceed to the town to get yourselves patched up by our healers.” said Master Klein, so far, the masters are the only ones who look decent, with little scratches here and there, still, no one has ever damaged Master Lana? Well, it’s to be expected since we’re still not at their level of power.
“That won’t be necessary master, Healing Magic: Revitalized Ground.” with a slam to the ground using the palm of my hand, grass and flowers grew and spread around giving with it a soothing feeling to everyone over the patch of grass and flowers.
A wide area of effect spell that heals allies in a slow process, the green colored magic circle below the patch of grass is its only indication on how wide the patch of grass covers, and right now it covers just everyone and a good amount of space.
“Well that works.” commented Wilbert.
“Okay, let’s all proceed to the next class.” said Master Klein, we all nodded as the masters walked away.
“Let’s deactivate this barrier and reshape the field shall we.” I said as everyone complied by nodding and saying yes.
-That afternoon-
“We’ll be going home now guys, see you again tomorrow.” I said cheerfully as we finish for the day, our friends waved and nodded at us, us three then started walking out of the village - or maybe town, I’m still wondering how I should call it-.
“Do we teleport or walk?” asked Celine.
“Let’s walk, I have something to tell you guys.” I said catching their attention as their eyes widen.
“Oh, what is it?” asked Wilbert.
“Let’s start walking first.” I said as they complied and we walk side by side. “Remember what I told you at the cliff the other day Celine?”
“Yeah I remember. Why?” she asked looking slightly anxious, if that is what she’s feeling.
“Well, I think the day has come to tell you guys a secret.” Celine’s eyes widen in realization and then confusion as to what I’m referring to, she shot me a questioning look and I approved of the sign as depicting to that topic she had always been curious about when she caught me singing a sad song, well the melody sounded sad, she didn’t recognize the song entirely.
Wilbert just Looked confused, I smiled at them and continued.
“Have you guys ever wondered why I have a scythe as a weapon, coupled with what happened earlier?” I asked, and they nodded. “It’s because this scythe is a magical weapon, and with it carried a destiny.”
The two looked at me with their wide eyes, disbelief written on their face, I smiled again. This is going to be a very long talk.
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