Zoey watched in slow motion as a long glowing staff headed straight for her stomach. She didn’t look at the person attacking her, she didn’t think about why soone was attacking her, and she certainly didn’t care about their reason for doing so. What Zoey did understand was that soone in the magji world was attacking her, and they were aiming for her life. Focus only activated when she was in life-threatening danger or felt her body was being pushed to its limits. It’s been a while since she faced off against a magjistar bounty hunter or assassin.
Zoey’s Fighting Aura was at max power as she responded to the attacker’s ambush. Her bare fist was coated in mahna as it clashed with the attacker’s glowing staff. Zoey fought with less than half of her strength. It was restricted by 90%! She was sent sliding back with a nasty burn on her fist.
“Ow. Ow. Ow.” She blew on her burning but not burning fist. “You’re not so bad if you can take 10% of my full strength and knock
back.” Zoey activated her Heart Oath.
By imposing a self-restricted vow on herself with her magji, the Balance of the World would respond to equal out the risks with a reward. If the fight lasted long enough, Zoey had the potential to increase her strength past her normal limit of 100%. She didn’t know how far the Balance of the World could increase it, too, since she never had a fight last long enough to find out.
“Underestimating
will be your greatest and final mistake, vile creature.” They looked at the wound on Zoey’s fist with a strange look.
They rushed toward Zoey. Zoey focused solely on her opponent and blocked out all unnecessary things in the background. She didn’t think about the fact that she was in public right now. Anyone could recognize her, and if she was caught by the Council, causing another situation where the magji world could be revealed, no more magji. The only thing she thought about was kicking this person’s ass.
Zoey’s fists t with the staff skills of the attacker. It burned so damn badly each ti she made contact with that glowing staff but training Overdraft was far more painful than sothing like this. Overdraft taxed her entire body! This only made her fists go owie. Zoey smiled as she realized that getting past the range difference wouldn’t be easy.
“My magji technique is called Combo Magji.” Zoey’s body was engulfed in a thin layer of mahna inside and out. “Combo Volu I: Combo Ti!” Zoey’s fists continued to match the strikes of the long-ranged staff.
Gradually, Zoey’s punches began to throw off the staff user’s balance as they were forced to use more strength to keep up with Zoey. “It’s not that you’re getting weaker. It’s just that I'm getting stronger. The more hits I land within a certain amount of ti, the stronger I beco. My power, my speed, and my mahna all increase together. No part of
isn’t strengthened! But if I don’t land a hit within that certain amount of ti, all my built-up strength disappears into the wind.” Zoey explained, activating her second Heart Oath.
By revealing how her magji technique works, the Balance of the World will reward her for the risk she’s taken with her magji. Now she could feel her strength rising faster, and the ti fra in which she needed to land an attack increased by a single second. It didn’t take long for Zoey’s attacker to suddenly break off from their repeated clashes and gain so distance. She repeatedly jumped away until Zoey’s built-up strength disappeared.
“That would’ve been the right choice if you faced
a couple of months ago,” Zoey smirked. “Combo Volu I: Supre Trackstar!” Zoey ran at the staff-wielding girl.
By continuing her combo on the ground beneath her feet, Zoey kept her growing strength and could chase after her opponent. Nothing in the manual for combo volu said the only way she could continue her combo was by hitting soone. They could outrun her for a ti, but eventually, Zoey would catch up as her body slowly grew in strength! Just like this girl was doing now by running away to ruin her combo.
Zoey caught up to the fleeing magjistar and struck with a sliding, twisting fist. The girl gnashed her teeth as she had to use most of her power just to defend now. It was more damaging blocking this Thing’s attacks! She had to change tactics and fast.
“I don’t know why you were stupid enough to reveal your techniques and continue to hold back against , but I will tell you that you will regret it! I’m not going to hold back against you anymore, daemon. I don’t know how you possessed that human’s body, but for the sake of a better world, I shall exterminate you to purify their soul of your sins.”
Zoey looked at her as if she was stupid. She didn’t know what the fuck this bitch was going on about.
“A creature as strong and as wicked as you cannot be saved by the light of righteousness. Humanity would be dood if you were allowed to grow any further. It is my job as the sole disciple of the Four Monks to purify you for the sake of humanity!” She continued to spew nonsense.
Just as Zoey’s fist drilled toward the crazy bitch to shut her up, the girl held up her left hand. Her index finger and middle finger glowed just like her staff was earlier. Zoey felt sothing inside of her start heating up. An instinctive demand for her to get angry. Was this so type of mind control technique or sothing?
“You started this.” Zoey smashed her fist in the grinning girl’s face.
She had twenty-two levels in Abnormal Conditions! Wait, it was twenty-three now. It would take a lot more than that to affect her in a fight! A small thought flashed in Zoey’s mind about dragging this fight out longer to grind more experience for that skill. She didn’t know exactly what was that glowing magji that burned like hell but knew it wasn’t any fire magji she’s felt.
An unintelligible noise escaped the girl's mouth from the punch. Zoey grabbed her staff and used her built-up strength to yank the surprised girl closer to her. Another punch found itself at ho in her guts as Zoey grabbed her hair. With a tight grip, Zoey began to puml the girl’s face in with a mad grin on her face. Each punch grew in strength, and Zoey’s inner restraints slowly loosened as she felt herself on the verge of victory.
“H-Heaven’s Purifying Light!” The bloodied, bruised, and swollen lips of the girl shouted sothing.
It happened in an instant. A blinding light engulfed both magjistars and if Zoey thought, the burning from before felt bad. This ti she felt like her entire soul was burning! Zoey dropped to her knees from unimaginable pain as sothing inside her was being erased.
Unknown to Zoey at the ti, sothing was indeed being erased. Symbiosis was erased from Zoey’s skills. Caroline's ultimate technique purified the daemonic parasite that found itself at ho within her body during the joint case. At the cost of her lifespan, she was willing to do everything to exterminate all of the daemonic presence within Zoey. Unfortunately, the poor girl believed that Zoey’s entire body and soul were possessed by a demon. Not that a daemon was hatching a ride onto Zoey’s human body and, eventually, soul. Zoey's tamorphosis into a half-human half-daemon was nipped in the bud entirely.
The two girls lay next to each other, completely exhausted. Zoey was forced to her knees while Caroline was completely unconscious. She panted like a dog as all of her built-up power was gone to the wind. Her eyes glanced over to the familiar face with confusion and anger.
“The girl I beat in my first boxing match...” Zoey slowly looked around and noticed that there wasn’t a single soul on the streets beside them. “Did I really beat you that badly? You had to do sothing like this?” She ca at her with the intent to kill, and now that Zoey had won, she was a little pissed off.
“Wake up.” Zoey slapped her.
It didn’t work, so she slapped again but a bit harder. This ti, she jolted awake and stared into her face. Then she tried to slap Zoey back, but Zoey caught her weakened wrist. “Mind explaining why you tried to kill ?” Zoey asked.
“You’re not dead...?” Caroline channeled her barely remaining internal energy into her eyes. “Your soul is human, after all?”
“What are you talking about? Please explain clearly, or I'll punch you again.” Zoey was losing patience.
“I thought you were a daemon possessing the body of a magjistar.”
“They can do that?” Zoey had to rember to write that in her journal later.
“It isn’t common, but it’s possible. I have the rare ability to see into the soul of living beings. With that ability, I use it to purify the earth of those filthy daemonic creatures and help the sinful souls of mankind beco pure.” Caroline explained.
“So, you’re like a nun on a religious retreat?” Zoey thought of the closest comparison that ca to her mind.
“I’m not a nun! I’m a monk. A holy monk, the only disciple of the Four Monks.” She clarified.
"You're not bald either?"
"I'm not a Buddhist monk."
“Right, right. So, what does my soul look like now?” So, there were religious magjistars, too, huh?
“Still sinful but more human sin than inhuman evil.”
“Sounds about right.” Zoey nodded.
“I apologize for attacking you and mistaking you for a daemon. I will make up for this one day. For now, farewell.” Caroline got up and pulled down the air. The space around them started cracking. Just as Caroline was about to limp away severely injured, she felt a tug on her arm.
“You have to teach
that if you want to make it up to ,” Zoey told her.
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