“Heh, are we playing hide and seek now?” Drishti remarked with a smirk, already understanding that something was amiss here.
“….” Not receiving any response as expected, Drishti’s eyes turned towards the young man standing at a distance from her, looking at her with a blank expression. Narrowing her gaze, she stated, “Did you have more cards on you?”
SWISH
BOOOM!
“You think very highly of me, Lady Drishti,” the young man stated, his figure blurring and closing the distance between them directly, seeing the aura density around Drishti fallen enough for his sword to cut through it.
“You want to play,” Drishti’s eyes reflected the young man mid-air, just a meter distance from her, even though he instantly closed so much distance within such a short amount of time, but he seemed to be moving in slow motion to her.
His reckless action seemed to cause her even more confusion.
Unlike the previous time, during their first meeting, without giving time for the young man to process anything, she had made sure to overwhelm his thinking with a barrage of attacks while telling him her analysis about his abilities to make his brain stop understanding things faster.
But even in that situation, he at the last moment gave her a fatal blow enough to make her level fall, which wasn’t a big deal since it was not the first time her rank had fallen.
SLICE
The young man swung the sword, only to be avoided by Drishti’s sidestep, showcasing a huge difference in their speed.
SWISH
An enormous sharp shockwave in form of thin line produced from that missed sword strike formed an arc, cutting sharply through the ground and flying into the sky.
Seeing him now, acting amateur by not even hiding his aura, attacking recklessly, swinging the sword like a cornered cat, doing something completely opposite of what her mind expected from him.
SWISH
Easily deflecting the sword strikes, her eyes were fixed on the young man’s face, which didn’t have any expression while he kept swinging the sword mindlessly, hoping to at least land a sword strike, making Drishti narrow her gaze, ‘Did I really expect more from him?’
Looking at the young man, she felt disappointed.
Understanding that her expectations from him were far more than his capabilities, his inexperienced barrages proved his present situation.
From Drishti’s point of view, it was clear that after dealing a one-sided defeat, this young man’s pride dealt a huge blow, making his rationality overtaken by anger towards her.
SLICE
Another arc was formed with a sword strike directly aimed at her body, which finally snapped her patience, which was waiting to see something interesting instead of dealing with a kid’s tantrum.
CLANK
The sword before could land on her body was stopped in mid-way by something hard enough to prevent the movement of the Legendary Rank body.
SCRCCCHHH~
Being pressed between two delicate fingers, the sharp sound sourced from the sword’s cry filled the area, the sheer force falling on the metal sword already making it hard to even move a single inch.
“…Why aren’t you using that woman’s sword?” Drishti’s eyes looked down on the young man who was struggling to move his body, gripping the sword tightly which due to infused mana stood against woman for some time.
CRACK
“…..” Not getting an answer, her strength on the Sword increased causing its metal to instantly form a thin line crack, force centered from the pressed tip of the finger creating web-like cracks on the Sword.
“Sigh, My bad to assume somethi— SCHLKT!”
‘Huh?’
It seemed for that moment, due to her disappointment in the young man, Drishti’s mind had focused solely on her interests and expectations getting wasted, making her not notice the sharp intent surging from her back with now her shoulder being pierced by a glimmering sword.
A smile formed on the young man’s face which was devoid of any expression some moment before, looking at the woman whose gaze was fixed on that Sword, added, “Lady Drishti, I still have to show you all my cards, I hope you will enjoy this.”
WHOOOOOOSH!
“Kughh!—Thud” Thrown by a surge of pressure emitted from the woman, the young man’s body landed at the distance with his balance maintaining hardly with his foot digging on the ground.
SCREEECHH
Landing causing him to slide several meters while marking the way where his foot tried to hold the grip yet seemed to only break the land beneath them, finally lifting his gaze to meet with the woman, he tried to speak, “You seem angr—?!”
SWISH
A shadow of five fingers forming a claw fallen on his face before a force like Hundreds of mountains smashed his whole body on the ground.
BAANNNNGG!
CRUMBLE
The sheer force generated from that collision of the young man’s body with the ground, sent a force enough to destroy an area of 3 miles, adding with the architecture which fell in its way.
“Ughh….” Struggling while the young man’s body was slowly lifted in the air, legs flailing with hands holding the delicate wrist which gripped his face, with a force that seemed to smash those mana enhanced bones anytime.
“Y-you seem angry, Lady Drishti,” the young man’s eyes peeking through a gap from those delicate fingers fallen on the blank face of the woman, eyes filled with a glint, looking blankly at him.
drip drip
The previous sword wound made way for blood to trickle down her shoulder. Unlike previously, it seems the healing was delayed due to some reasons, making the force on her palm keep increasing due to anger.
CRACKLE
A dense energy field was created surrounding ten meters of the woman’s body, with the young man now at her mercy, his body slowly turning green with veins becoming visible.
CRUNCH!
‘!?’
Finally, the struggle of the young man’s body halted with his limbs loosening, lifted in the air with nothing but a body devoid of any life essence, completely dead.
The face bone was crushed, with the skull having fractures big enough to instantly kill the young man with just sheer force.
thud
Finally, the lifeless body fell on the ground, gazing down at him with woman’s lips parted, evident of her patience wearing thin, “Enough of your games, kid, come out now.”
“….”
“You are wasting both of our time. I could keep myself in this barrier and you will have to wait until your strength exhausts.” Slowly lifting her gaze while looking towards a direction, eyes filled with killing intent due to rage boiling from within, the intensity of the field was increasing with each moment even though her energy core was depleted with that wound, at the cost of her level fallen to Early Ascendancy.
Those mere levels of Middle, Early, may seem like words, but the energy that was erased was enough to create One Thousand EPIC Ranked Powerhouses.
SWOOSH
Slowly, a figure started to materialize from thin air, wearing a black onyx helmet with a blood-trickling sword on his arm, making Drishti’s eyes narrow.
SWISH
The helmet started to disappear, revealing a face which was the same as the individual killed a moment ago but held different charisma, eyes much deeper and vivid.
Turning his gaze downward towards the figure lying on the ground, looking identical to him yet completely mutilated, Ryuk’s face slightly twitched as he stated,
“Well, that’s awkward.”
Credit for this Dialogue, ” Well that’s awkward” goes to One of my Readers ^_^
