149 Sylphy VS Zack —–
Zack’s presence suddenly changed. It was as if he had become a mountain before me.
I noticed that Aquarina was looking at him with surprise by the side.
His presence definitely felt different than fighting against Aquarina. His presence was… way too different. It was his own thing.
It was like a mountain, but at the same time, it was filled with turbulent and wild winds flowing everywhere. It was something that I couldn’t help but admire.
But wasn’t he just a kid that just started training? Why was he so special compared to all the other Amazons in the tribe? There wasn’t anything that made him unique compared to them, right? ƒrēewebnovel.com
Nothing aside from his past and what he went through since a young age… but there might had been something within him all this time that really just made him unique.
“I will make you take me seriously, Sylphy!” he shouted.
His conviction was blazing like a flame. His entire body was encompassed in winds as he moved towards me at an increasing speed, surprising me.
…..
FLAAASH!
Like a flash of winds, he appeared in front of me in an instant and clashed against me with all his might. His enormous axe was heavy and strong, suddenly becoming different. It was because he imbued it with the power of his mana, most likely.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Zack’s movements were rough, but they were filled with strength. The spirit of wind behind him used the winds to make his movements more precise and faster, as if he was combining the best of both worlds.
I see. So that’s how he can go at it. By fusing his physical strength and brutish fighting style with the finesse of Wind Magic, he can create a perfect combination and balance between overwhelming strength and speed. He’s certainly not a normal kid at all. In fact, he might be stronger than normal adults in the village.
I kept defending, trying to parry from time to time, but his attacks were very intense. The weight he put in each swing made it extremely hard for me to parry his attacks with my blade correctly.
I didn’t have comparable strength to him when he went all out like this. Our frames were different, after all. Although my Physique had been increasing in rank, Zack must have an innately higher physique. After all, my father said that all people have different starting points. Perhaps Zack’s Physique was innately strong, which was why he could wield such a big axe at his young of age.
Because of that, in pure physical strength, I cannot win over him. At most, I can resist and parry some attacks, but he would ultimately overwhelm me!
Of course, that’s in the case where I don’t use magic. With magic, I can even enhance my own physical strength. With that in mind…
Guess who has a lot of mana?
I quickly conjured several body enhancing spells over my body, reinforcing my muscles, bones, and skin, while at the same time boosting my metabolism, making my blood pump through my body at a faster rate.
“Here I come again!” I said as I pushed forward and surprised Zack.
“Ah…!”
Zack almost tripped over his own weight. The winds he was trying to control sometimes would not completely obey him, showing his experience in the usage of Wind Magic. I abused that to charge forward as I put my palm in front of him and unleashed a fireball!
“Hey, that’s cheating!” he cried, before shielding himself with his axe.
BOOOM!
The fireball was made out of many little Embers merged together. Zack realized that’s what I was going to do as he saw the many little flames converge into a fireball, something that often happened when I create Fire spells using the Ember Skill.
Then again, the fireball wasn’t that strong at all. With that, he quickly realized that it was something to just distract him, while I intercepted him from his left side!
CLASH!
“Y-You….!” he cried, clashing against my blade in time, only to receive a strong kick in the ribs, the same ones I had hit before, making him grit his teeth and twist his face in pain.
“We’re going all out, right? This isn’t a battle about techniques. You’re clearly using magic and an axe. Anything goes, Zack. You should also use everything you got!” I told him.
“If that’s the case… don’t go crying if I hurt you too badly!” he roared as he suddenly clashed against my blade while his fist reached my chest, punching me with a lot of force. Normally, that wouldn’t have been enough to damage me properly. However, he had packed that punch with a lot of Wind Magic. So, the moment the fist hit me, an explosion of winds was unleashed, pushing me back several meters, almost blowing me away!
BOOOMMM!!!
“W-Wow…!”
I gritted my teeth as I used Ember to conjure several flares around my feet, quickly managing to maneuver in midair as I managed to land on my two feet.
“A punch to the chest didn’t even faze you?!” he cried in surprise.
“Hehe, you can punch this girl all you want, I’m not going to fall that easily! Hey, how about you take my fist now?!” I laughed, reaching up to him again and quickly enhancing my speed several times once more through the conjuration of body enhancing spells.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
My blows began to overwhelm him as his lack of true techniques began to turn his axe attacks predictable to me. Unlike Aquarina and I, he lacked technique aside from the most basic ones.
“Hahh… RAAH!”
However, Zack suddenly unleashed an explosion of wind magic, unleashing it as a shockwave of invisible winds reaching up to me and clashing against me. I shielded myself with my arms and sword as he used this opportunity to attack me.
“HAAAHHH!”
Spark… spark!
And then I saw it… Zack showed something more than just wind.
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