Chapter#9
"Up for a last spar?"
The Ancient One asked as she conjured her eldritch fan constructs.
"What are you just standing there for then, teach?" I asked her while cracking my neck as I continued,
"I'm twitchy here, let's go already!" I said as I ran towards her.
As soon as I said that, I covered my hands with fire and created a wall that blocked her view of me.
A bunch of tendrils of eldritch energy appeared below the ground, causing me to jump mid-air about 6ft. I looked to my left and right side and saw 2 eldritch fans flying towards me.
With a flick of both of my wrists, I created a spinning circular flame construct and threw it toward the two fans, cutting both in half.
I burst my flame in my palms and moved in a fast circular motion, and in the process, I created a large fire tornado.
The structure of the battlefield suddenly moved, and the gravity was shifted upside down, thereby breaking the fire cyclone that I created.
By doing a hero's landing, I was able to stabilize myself, and I came face to face with the Ancient One, who has a serious expression on her face.
She created a circular eldritch energy with a bunch of symbols written on it, which turned into a fan and rushed toward me.
Within a second, I took out my 'Bulldog' in the subspace and shot her while moving sideways.
[Code Named: Bulldog] {Non-lethal ON}
[Description: A rifle with two firing modes, a standard automatic single-bullet primary fire, and a semi-automatic burst-mode alternate fire]
{Special Skills]
[Wall Penetration- Medium]
[Disorient- .3 sec]
[Infinite Ammo]
She blocked the bullets easily with her constructs while rushing toward me, intending to fight me in close quarters.
I returned my gun to the subspace and inhaled deeply.
BOOOSHHH!*
A wave of purple flame was exerted from my mouth as it went to the Ancient One, blocking most of her view. I threw a small ball of condensed fire energy over her, and the ball of energy exploded in a bright flash, blinding her for a few seconds.
I used my ult discreetly and took out my gun from my subspace again and using my Pure Radianite Energy, I imbued my gun with it and fired it to where I could sense her. The bullets that were coming out of my gun had a little tinge of dark purple in them, signifying that they had been augmented.
The Ancient One stumbled for a few seconds in the middle of the flames, signifying that she'd been hit.
My body burst into flames as it disappeared from where the Ancient One knew that I was shooting. To fool the Ancient One of my location, I came back to my saved ult as a way to teleport behind her, and attack her in surprise.
Our distance is only about 3-4 meters after I teleported. I aimed my gun at her and imbued it with my Pure Radianite Energy with only 1/4 of my energy reserves, causing the gun to shine menacingly.
I was only able to imbue it with 1/4 of my reserves because the gun will cease to work if it was imbued more than that. If it's a better gun then maybe I'll be able to imbue it with more of my energy.
The moment that she saw the origin of the dark-purple hue, she turned her head around. As she saw me aiming the gun at her, she muttered something inaudible even to me.
I fired the full-powered gun at her, but just before the bullet hit her, a circular and much bigger eldritch shield covered her, protecting her body from the full-powered bullets. Some of the reflected bullets bounced off the surfaces of her shield, destroying the mirror structures in her proximity into pieces.
The destruction that it gave out is 2 times the destruction of a heavy machine gun, signifying its superb attack potency.
She deconstructed the eldritch shield spell that she used and rushed forward to me.
Due to our close proximity, I wasn't able to make a ranged attack and just stored the gun in my subspace.
We traded blows for blows, demonstrating the different martial arts that each of us knew.
I used Jeet Kune Do, Karate, Krav maga, Jiu-Jitsu, and Muay Thai in my fighting style, however, all of them seemed always dealt with by the Ancient One using her fan.
Using her Tessenjutsu skills, she was able to defend me by moving in a fluid manner, redirecting the force of my move back to me, resulting in my body being pushed back for about 5 meters.
I rushed to her again, trading blows, kicking, and twisting my body to deal damage to her blind spots. Once our arms collided with a powerful thump, we looked into each other's eyes and simultaneously moved in a fluid-like motion.
After redirecting each other's forces for a few seconds, I grew annoyed by it and covered my arms with fire. The Ancient One, not expecting it, managed to create a little error move in her movement, enabling me to have an advantage. As I pushed her, with all the accumulated force, I was able to push her back more than 8 meters.
She stabilized herself by doing a backward flip. She stood up straight and raised both of her arms. She encloses both of her hands, and in the middle of it, a small, condensed orange flame forms.
'What the...kamekame-'
My thought was cut down as an extreme laser-like beam of condensed flame collided with my body, pushing me little by little.
"Using fire against me?" I asked as I pushed through the beams with a chuckle, taking the flame head-on. Closing my eyes intensely, I gathered all the fire energy that I could muster. Once I have gathered more than enough, I let it all out. A colossal beam of purple-fire energy came out of my eyes.
Our forces collided against each other, creating a beautiful purple-black, and orange-light contrast.
A few seconds later, a powerful volatile energy was formed in the middle of our attacks, her orange-light laser beam engulfed my dark-purple beam, causing it to crash with me, which made a shockwave that prompted me to stop my attack and was tossed away like a ragdoll.
I was thrown away for more than 40 meters until I felt a sudden force behind the back of my head. The force was from the hand of the Ancient One, she slammed my face into the cold, hard ground, destroying some of its debris in the process.
'How th-' I thought to myself, but the answer came to me immediately once I heard the sound originating behind me—the sound the sling ring makes when it makes a circular eldritch portal.
Shing!*
A sharp eldritch construct appeared beside my neck, piercing me a little and causing my neck to bleed out a drop of blood that healed immediately after a few seconds.
"Do you surrender?" The Ancient One asked me with an amused smile.
"I give up!" I said with a helpless smile, I doubt I managed to bring out all her strength. I can feel she's holding back a lot. Nonetheless, that had been a great fight.
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After our fight, we came out of the Mirror Dimension, exactly after that, Wong came in and said,
"Noah, it's time to go,"
He was holding a small bag on his shoulder.
"What's that, you coming with me?" I asked in a joking tone.
"No, this is the suit that you asked for."
"Holy moly, it's already done?" I asked him as I received the bag.
"Yah, now give meh." Wong said as he raised his arms, asking me to hand him something.
"Tsk, fine, fine, you look like a debt collector doing that," I said as I grumbled while taking something from my pocket, even though I'm only taking it in my subspace(Collection), and handed the money to him.
"Good, now let's go, you'll be late for the bus." He said as he bowed to the Ancient One and took his leave.
I turned around and faced the Ancient One, the one who guided me on the right path...that sounds cringe, but it'd be facts though, if it weren't for her, then I'm sure by now I would have become a vigilante who kills people indiscriminately. Her teachings and guidance have given me more wisdom and knowledge about what I'll want to be in the future. If before I was walking in murky water, then now, I'm walking in crystal water...with some small rocks under it.
"Good luck on your journey, Noah." The Ancient One said while looking at me with a knowing smile.
I bowed 90 degrees,
"Thank you for everything...Master Yao," I said as I turned around, not looking as I bid my farewell, not missing the Ancient One's look of relief and contentment.
Ding!*
[Fourth Mission]
[Very Hard] {Completed}
[Description: It's training time! It's time to up your game user! That's why you'll get a free training course from the one and infinite variant in the multiverse, Ancient One! The twist is...you'll have to train for over 5 months, why? You don't need to know why, just check your reward and you will know.]
[Objectives]
>V.A.P{Valorant Agent Profile} Lvl 50
>R.F.M{Radianite Fire Manipulation} Lvl 50
>P.R.M{Pure Radianite Manipulation} Lvl 10
[Reward: New Agent Template]
The sound of the system prompt resounded in my head, signifying a mission well done.
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