70 NGJ Chapter 70: Kokusen!
Before Riser's mind caught up with his body, Akira dashed forward at inhuman speeds, his eyes shone green while he held a manic smile. The chain in his hands cracked like a whip before the shortsword at the tip ripped through his body like paper. A large gash appeared.
Riser's expression fell as he felt the sharp pain radiate through his body but immediately after the chain cracked again and ripped across his chest, leaving a huge gash.
Again the chains whipped and tore apart his shoulder this time. They were incredibly fast. Riser could barely see the chains move toward him before they slashed across him.
Gritting his teeth Riser flew seemingly out of the chain's range but.
*Slash!*
It slashed across his legs this time. The drastic change in Temperature making him grimace from the pain.
All the while Riser was getting torn apart strike by strike Akira was casually walking forward toward him. His chains were a blur with how fast they spun around him, causing a storming blizzard around himself. Tearing the very ground around him as he took steady steps like an unshakable mountain toward Riser, nothing was spared from his path of destruction apart from the ground he himself walked on like the eye of a storm.
*Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!*
As if they were alive, no matter what the chains found their way to Riser, slashing away at him relentlessly, Akira's eyes burned with ice-cold precision as he expertly swung the chain like he was playing an instrument.
*Slash!* *Slash!* *Slash!*
No matter what Riser did, how he tried to dodge, Akira with a single flick of his wrist changed the angle. It was almost like the chains were homing in on him.
Again, he got slashed, again. He kept getting slashed over and over, increasing the distance did not matter.
Even if he was immortal he would die of a thousand paper cuts at this rate. Even he could not regenerate indefinitely while getting relentlessly slashed like this.
So as he kept getting slashes he flared up his flames as much as he could, surrounding himself in a curtain of blazing hot flames to break the chains but.
"Icy Burst." With simple words, the blade at the end of the chain erupted with freezing cold that resisted Riser's attempt the burn it down and hurt him heavily.
But toughing it through the cold he dashed toward Akira like a meteor as his flames returned to their intensity once more as the explosion he made knocked the blade away.
He flew like a comet toward Akira but Akira simply looked unimpressed. Not even budging an inch.
"{ { Fall. } }"
*Bang!* Weighed down by the words Riser's tackle met the ground instead of crashing into Akira, while Akira hid his discomfort behind a smirk, activating his RCT he quickly healed his ruined throat. Riser pried himself off of the ground and lunged toward Akira once more with his flames creating an armour around him but Akira teleported a few meters behind him.
"Icy Burst." A slash of glacial wind impacted Riser and momentarily put out his flames. And the moment they did Akira swung his chain once more. Cursed energy ran through the chains like electricity through a wire and allowed him to control it like a limb.
The chains snapped like thunder and wrapped tightly like an anaconda snaring its prey around Riser's leg. Even though his strength was higher, due to being stunned he couldn't provide appropriate resistance.
*Crack!*
Akira's foot dug deep into the ground and cracked it as he yanked on the chains with all his might. Pulling Riser to himself like he was nothing. As he was dragged against his will Riser's eyes landed on Akira's face. Sending a shiver up his spine.
What he saw was not a simple face belonging to a human mage. It was the wrathful visage of a vengeful god. As he was swung back he heard these words being spoken.
"Deaths that occur during a Rating Game are considered accidents aren't they?" Before he could even properly process it Akira swung mightly, with Riser at the end of the chain he swung it toward the Gymnasium.
*CRASH!*
That hit knocked the wind out of the Riser, he tried to resist but with both the wind knocked out of him and Akira silent casting [Weakness], digging his feet into the ground Akira yanked the chain once more, sending Riser into the air before engaging all of his muscles again and sending Riser crashing into the ground.
*CRASH!*
Riser did not even have the chance to sit in the Riser-shaped Crater that was just created before Akira swung him like a flail once more, sending him crashing into the side of the school building.
*CRASH!*
He wasn't slowing down.
*CRASH!*
With every swing of his chains, Riser was sent crashing. Unused to such a severe overkill beating he couldn't respond. Concussion after concussion, his body being slammed to wall after wall floor after floor. Akira kept getting faster and faster with every swing.
*CRASH!* *CRASH!* *CRASH!* *CRASH!* *CRASH!* *CRASH!* *CRASH!*
It didn't even look like a weapon was being used against Riser.
*CRASH!* *CRASH!* *CRASH!*
It looked like Riser was being used as a weapon against the world. He was swung around like a ragdoll, completely demolishing the school around them with how many times his durable body had smashed against it.
His did not matter in a position like this. His strength did not matter if he couldn't use it. And unlike Akira, he couldn't endure and build up a counter. Because he did not have the resilience. He was overconfident in his own powers.
He did not have what it took to get himself out of a pinch.
While Akira was calmly walking forward, his hands were blurry due to how fast he was swinging the chains around himself. Around himself was an area of destruction as Riser was slammed into everything in the surroundings.
Akira's face was cold as ice, however.
'This is boring.'
*CRASH!* "Kuuak!"
Crashing Riser onto the ground in front of him one last time, Akira retracted his chains. Seeing this Riser was on his hands and knees coughing until he regenerated. After he was done he glared at Akira with the rage of a thousand suns.
"You! I'm going to fucking kill. I am going to put you beyond recovery!" The anger hid the fear beneath as he charged at Akira with his fist raised now that his weapon was gone. But instead of what he expected his fist met Akira's face, making him snap his head back from the blow and arch his back.
But his feet did not move from the spot. He did not budge, his eyes did not close as they still glared at Riser. But unlike what Riser saw his eyes did not even see Riser right now.
Riser punched his stomach. Making a large shockwave, but with his currently intensified CE output from his sheer focus and his mastery over reinforcement, Akira still did not keel or move his feet.
Enraged and almost desperate he punched Akira again and again, but with himself exhausted and weakened and Akira's dead focus even if his fists did heavy damage, Akira was not moving. His body was bloodied but those weren't his thoughts.
'I'm close.'
He remembered his training from Toji. Training to keep his emotions in check even in a fight. Not suppressing them or ignoring them. But instead, as Toji told him, he took those emotions that were raw slabs of metal and sharpened them into blades.
At that moment he was fully comprehending those words. With how angry he was at Riser, the indignation, fury, and anger he was realizing those teachings. The root of his negative emotions. He sharpened those emotions into a blade. Narrowing them down to a needle-like point.
That was why he couldn't achieve it. He wasn't able to wield those emotions properly. But now.
In this focus, everything else was blurred out. There was nothing else in the world. It felt like he was in the zone. There was just one goal in his mind.
He dodged Riser's fist without even thinking about it. His foot dug into the ground and twisted, generating explosive power as Akira threw his fist toward his Riser's face.
At the moment when Cursed Energy collides within 0.000001 seconds of the blow...
Space distorts.
And Cursed energy flashes black.
"Black Flash."
*BANG!* *Boom!*
At that moment. It was like the entire world went still as Akira's punch connected. A shockwave erupted as space itself was distorted by the punch itself, cursed energy rolling off of his punch had taken the form of red-black lightning. Just the shockwave of his fist destroyed the world around them, splitting the ground and sending rubble flying.
*CRASH!* *CRASH!* *CRASH!*
Akira's fist exploded Riser's head like a rotten grape, sending his headless body through the school building, going through 8 reinforced concrete walls before going out the other side of the building.
But before he flew anymore Akira teleported behind Riser, with barely any effort, it felt like Cursed Energy and him were one right now. Not letting this rush simply fade he kicked Riser's body once more. Space distorting and his cursed energy flashed black as his kick met Riser's body.
"Black Flash."
*BANG!* *Boom!*
Riser's body was mangled further as it was sent flying once more but Akira teleported behind once more. Kicking Riser's body upward as his legs met Riser's met stomach space distorted once more and the rating game space shook as his cursed energy flashed black once more.
"Black Flash."
*BANG!* *Boom!*
What looked to be something vaguely resembling Riser's body flew up into the sky. Before Akira teleported above him at the peak of his flight with his fist clenched and eyes focused. And one last time, he threw a punch that landed squarely on Riser's body. Distorting Space and flashing the world black like thunder struck once more as his fist connected.
"Black Flash."
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!*
What remained of Riser's body plummeted like a meteor into the ground. Creating a crater several meters deep and a dozen or so meters wide. Akira teleported in front of his body staring down coldly at his body as it regenerated ever so slowly.
By the time he had regenerated Riser was face down on the ground wheezing. His Mana was almost gone and every cell in his body hurt. He was utterly exhausted. He couldn't even properly speak.
He was utterly beaten. Just as he was about to forfeit to get as far away from Akira as possible.
"Get up."
Akira's voice rang out, it was almost thunderous among the silence. But then...
*Clink*
Riser saw something roll toward himself after Akira dropped it on the ground.
A Phoenix tear.
"Get up, we aren't done yet. I'm not done with you yet."
Light returned to Riser's eyes, it was a fluke, he couldn't have been beaten like this, he must have cheated. In his haze of delusion likely made from the relentless beating he had received he grabbed the Pheonix tear and gulped it down immediately feeling his reverses and stamina recover back to full.
But the moment Riser got back up.
*BANG!*
He got punched in the face once more and flung across what remained of the Courtyard.
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A/N: What did you guys think about the "fight" between Akira and Riser? Finally, Akira lands a black flash and that will come with its own boons that will be explained later. But what did you guys think about this chapter? Did you like it? What did you like about it? I would love to know, you comments really help motivate me!
Also, for a change. The next chapter will be the Audience reactions.
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