Chapter 93: Testing the limit of Anna’s ability
Both of them were ready to attack each other and took their stance.
*Rumble*
A bolt of lightning struck in the sky, which became the symbol for both of them to start their battle.
Both of them launched towards each other and clashed their wooden sword which were covered with their mana.
If they hadn’t done that, the wooden sword would have shattered in the impact. But it was completely fine right now.
Evan was adjusting his stats, making it the same as Anna’s, to make it a fair battle. But he does realize that it won’t be a fair battle with Anna’s ability, one who is similar in strength to her won’t be able to win against her unless her opponent defeats her in a single move, the more her battle lengthens, Anna’s chances of winning will only be increasing.
But that’s what he wants right now, not her winning, but to lengthen the battle, to check her full potential.
“You aren’t so bad, I have been practicing all by myself all this time and learned everything on my own or by seeing some clips of hunters fighting against monsters. It’s my first time battling against someone else and I can say for sure, it’s truly helpful.” Anna complimented after their short exchange just now.
Listening to her, Evan couldn’t help but snicker and said, “You call this good? You have never learned from some veteran before. If I try, I can defeat you in a couple of moves.”
Anna frowned listening to him, he was clearly calling her a newbie and even though it was true, it still hurt her.
But Evan didn’t let her speak and continued,
“First of all, you are completely open, I can attack you from any place and you won’t be able to defend me…”
Evan then disappeared from his place. Using his ability to wind god’s fury, his speed was increased by many folds, and Anna’s eyes simply weren’t able to track him.
He reappeared behind Anna and slapped her butt hard.
*Paah*
And said, “See, you are completely open.”
Anna let out a groan from the pain of her ass getting spanked. Her face became red with embarrassment and she swung her sword at Evan while gritting her teeth.
“You scoundrel.”
But Evan didn’t care about that, there was no way for her to win against him yet, so Evan continued again,
“Secondly, your mana. It’s impressive that you have so much for someone who isn’t a hunter yet. But it’s all a waste if you cannot weild it properly.”
Evan also swung his sword at her and sliced through her sword that was covered with her mana.
Anna’s eyes widened and she couldn’t believe it, both of them had been the same just a moment ago and she was certain that Evan had almost the same strength as her, so how?
Evan smirked at her and said, “You must be wondering how, right? How can I cut your sword so easily when we have almost the same stats?”
“It’s simple actually, it’s not the amount of mana you have that’s important but how you use it. You can see the difference in our way of using mana.”
Evan lifted her sword and brought it near her face for her to see clearly. In the first glance, the difference couldn’t be seen clearly and it would have taken a while for anyone to see the difference, but Anna was different from others, her ability provided her a keen vision that helped her to observe even the tiniest details, very much similar to Evan’s eyes, but his eyes doesn’t help him to copy others abilities, though he can do it if he focuses.
The only difference between them is that Anna doesn’t need to know everything essential to perform a skill or imitate an ability, she can do it just after observation. While on Evan’s side, he needs to understand how the ability or the skill works and what’s needed to perform it.
When Anna saw Evan’s sword, she found a major difference in both of their way of using mana. Anna used her mana to cover her entire sword and tried to make her sword look bigger so that it could cut more easily. But Evan’s way of using mana was different.
He also covered his sword in his mana, but it was covered perfectly in it, his sword didn’t seem bigger than its original size and the mana around it seemed to blend within the sword as if creating a barrier around the sword that protects it, while also making its edges sharp for easier slashes.
Anna finally realized what she was doing wrong. She immediately stepped back a few steps.
She then focused on shifting her mana’s show around her sword, and she achieved it rather easily. Even Evan was surprised and amused to see that, his curiosity increased even more and he desperately wanted to see the limit of her ability.
“You learned it so fast. It took me so much time to achieve that.”
He complimented her, clearly a lie by his side as it was the first time he was using mana in such a way, he could use it like that because of the knowledge he got from the system.
He can be considered a veteran right now, without having a experience of his own.
“I guess I am just more talented than you. Now you will pay for what you did just now.” Anna said, she was angry after Evan spanked her on the butt, it was still hurting her, it might have even left his hand imprint on her ass.
“Oh really…” Evan snickered once again and took a step forward, but disappeared the next moment and appeared beside her once again.
Anna still wasn’t able to react to his speed and her ass wasn’t spared this time as well, her other butt cheek was also spanked hard by Evan.
*Paah*
Anna gritted her teeth, a groan escaped her mouth.
This time as well, she swung her sword at Evan and Evan did the same, but their sword didn’t break this time instead a few sparks ignited after their swords clashed against each other.
“Third, you don’t learn from your past mistakes. You are still wide open.”
Evan said and stepped a few steps back.
‘At my current speed, she can’t track me down at all. Guess, I will have to lower it a bit.’
He adjusted all his stats at 10.
‘This should be enough.’
Saying so in his mind, he lunged himself forward and clashed against Anna, who now was able to see his movements and countered him back with her attacks.
They exchanged countless strikes with each other and Evan reached another conclusion that he already knew but didn’t care much about before.
‘She doesn’t have any technique at all.’
Evan pulled himself back and asked directly to Anna, “You don’t have a technique that you use?”
Techniques in this world weren’t originally made, many people found them inside the dungeon or in the tower, and they are sold at a hefty sum of money, so it’s understandable why Anna doesn’t have a technique yet.
Anna got a bit embarrassed when she heard that, she has been relying on her ability to learn many things till now, but whenever she saw some clips about the technique used by the hunters, many didn’t suit her or she wasn’t interested in it. Some that were genuinely good weren’t fully uploaded on social media as the camera right now wasn’t enough to see through the blinding lights that come from the powerful techniques.
‘If only I could see one in person, I would have copied as many as I want to.’
But she wasn’t too worried about it, she knew that she would encounter many techniques once she entered the Hunter’s academy.
But then she said to Evan, “You also don’t have a technique.” Blaming him for only calling out to her when he doesn’t have a technique.
Evan chuckled at her and said, “Yeah, it’s true that I also don’t have a technique, but… techniques are the things that can be made easily if you have a proper grasp of what you want to create.”
He then began to take his steps forward slowly towards a tall tree in their backyard, it was the tree that Anna’s father planted after he got married. It wasn’t huge if compared to other trees that have existed for decades or centuries, but was big indeed.
“To create a technique, you first should become a master at aura control or mana control. After becoming a master in that, you should have a proper grasp of what you want to make. Let’s imagine a slash of the palm of a mighty dragon that has been enraged by the puny species. Just feel the fury that it must be feeling after getting annoyed by those species and launching its olam to silence them all.”
As he began to say these words, the golden light appeared around Evan’s wooden sword and swirled around it like flames.
Evan removed the mana that he was covering his sword with, and only left a small amount of mana that would be enough to not let the sword break before he created a technique.
Soon it was ready, his sword lit up with radiance and the mighty presence of a dragon. Anna shuddered feeling that pressure.
“It would have been more powerful if the will of a real dragon was used but for now just the emotion will be enough. Let’s call it ‘Dragon’s fury slash’.”
He said and stroked his sword against the tree.
A small silhouette of a golden dragon appeared in his sword and struck at the tree.
The dragon dug a big hole in the tree and it fell after its entire lower trunk was destroyed.
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Thanks for reading everyone.
Ah, shit. I realized it late, fuck. I missed my mgs, I was so lost in writing that I didn’t realize the time, I wrote more than 1700 words, fuck man. There goes my bonuses, sigh.
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