Chapter 1028 Sparring
A few minutes later, Emery and Klea had gone further from the cave and arrived at a wide open plain, with some rotting wood and dry leaves that made a rustling sound every time they walked. Not long after their arrival, the Dragon bloodline magus appeared in front of them.
“What do you need, acolytes?” She casually asked.
Emery turned to look at the magus and said.
“Senior, please spar against us,” he said politely.
“Certainly,” the female magus answered without hesitation.
Receiving the positive answer, Emery reached for his Spatial Space and took out his Tier 5 [Savage Sword], while Klea took out a Tier 4 blade with gold hilt and a handle made of beautiful leather. The blade was given to her from Lord Izta’s armory.
Immediately after, the two took their stance and prepared themselves.
“We’re done preparing, magus. We can start now.”
“Alright, I will try to restrain my strenght to match yours”
Shena’s hands started to glow, and she took out a long white trident glowing in a brilliant light. She prepared her stance soon after, and the dull sound of metal colliding on the ground pierced the quiet plain.
The sparring started as the figures of the three of them disappeared from where they stood..
Emery and Klea’s main objective was to practice their [Hexagram Technique]. It was a complicated formation created to not only help their respective combat techniques but also to help them understand the secret to achieve the state of equilibrium between multiple different elements.
Clank clank
Clank! Clank!
Emery and Klea attacked together, cooperating with one another to create an opportunity for themselves. The two put on a good fight. Unfortunately, their opponent was a Peak Full Moon magus possessing a Dragon bloodline.
The first fact alone was enough to show how strong she was generally compared to her peers, while the second fact allowed her to consider herself one of the strongest magus out there, whose power level lies just below a Grand Magus figure.
Hence even though the two tried their hardest, they were unable to reach the magus, let alone leave a scratch on her. The two of them started gasping for breath, but the other party still had a relaxed smile on her face. It was as if they did not do anything at all.
Instead of feeling discouraged, however, Emery took the sky-high difficulty as a challenge he wanted to conquer. In some way, he currently could be said to be facing one of the strongest magus, and thus, she could be a good benchmark for his strength.
Her strength was also a standard that he had to achieve because theoretically, if he really could defeat Magus Shena in a fight, then his victory against the Kronos fighters was a given.
Clankk!!
“Second Sets.” Klea shouted, as she began to get into a certain stance.
With her words, the variations of attacks Emery and Klea launched at the female magus just became harder to deal with.
If previously one of them attacked from the left while the other from the right, this time Klea’s attacks came from a direction that caused the magus to lose sight of Emery’s and vice versa. Instead of a simple pincer or combination attacks, the two of them began to move and attack while creating opportunities for their partner.
Swissshhh—
[Heroic Strike]
A gleam flashed in Emery’s sword as he swung it downwards, almost taking a cut on the female magus’ back. Alas, the tip of the sword was still an inch away from doing so, and Shena seemed to know that as well as she calmly dodged the attack.
“Weird steps…” She commented. “Almost got me there. But no no.. Not that easy.”
“Third Sets.” Emery, this time, added.
The two suddenly seemed to change position, this time not only was the variations multiplied by six, the techniques Emery and Klea exhibited started to manifest the essence of Dao itself. Faint yet discernible dao rhymes appeared around their bodies.
[Hexagram Technique] had 6 sets of sixty-four variations. Hence the third sets already employed one-hundred ninety-two variations.
Not only were their movements confusing to the eye, there also significant changes within their styles. Both the two moved at different tempos, one slow and one fast, yet when they struck, they turned to the opposite.
Clank! Clankk!!
Even though she was caught off guard in the beginning, Shena’s spear still managed to block and parry the attacks the two relentlessly threw at her.
But then, soon enough the female magus became puzzled. At the moment, the only reason she was winning was thanks to her overwhelming battle power, while in terms of fighting skill, the two combination techniques were able to exceed hers.
The fight went on for more than an hour. Even though Emery and Klea were still unable to land a scratch on the magus, they weren’t dispirited because they both felt that they were finally able to master the third stage together.
It wasn’t easy at all to remember all the steps and to keep in the formation together.
If this continued and their [Hexagram Technique] advanced, they might even be able to corner and defeat the magus.
Unfortunately, reality proceeded to shatter their delusions, as the magus’ movements suddenly changed. Much to the two’s complete shock, Shena suddenly was able to follow the steps and finally broke the formations.
CLAAANNNKKK!!!
Emery fell to the ground on his knee, as Shena’s spear struck his shoulder hard. With Emery taken down, Klea lost her support and thus she was quickly suppressed by the female magus moments later.
Not willing to end things in this note, Emery quickly got to his feet again and said resolutely.
“Again!”
The three had a dozen more matches, but the result was still the same. Shena stood there with her spear in hand. She looked normal as if nothing had happened, while the two people she had just fought with were gasping for air.
The female magus approached the two and smiled. “you two have an interesting technique indeed,” said the magus before continuing.”Unfortunately, you two are not compatible.”
Hearing that was enough for Klea to react. She shouted, “What do you mean not compatible?”
Shena glanced at Klea with a smirk and said, “Well, your sword skill is at a novice level at best, while Emery’s is almost at master level. As a result, your sword strikes don’t rhyme together… I don’t need to understand your steps, but knowing the weaker link made me easily break it”
The magus’ comment was playful, but it sounded sharp enough and straight to the point.
The magus looked toward Emery and said, “It’s either you lower your skill to her level or she catches up to your, you know which is the way to get stronger” She then added “The girl needs to increase her proficiency in sword fighting first. That is if she wants to continue practicing this technique.”