307 Chapter 307 Desmond Vs i (2)
“Just now... you just disappeared, how did you do it?” Unable to contain her curiosity i ended up expressing the doubt that filled her mind at this mont because she still could not understand how Desmond had escaped her senses.
But what she received as an answer was only Desmond shrugging his shoulders and just at that mont Desmond simply faded away a second ti, only this ti i was at least able to hear a low whisper coming out of Desmond’s lips indicating the na of the skill he was using;
That’s how i realized that what Desmond was using right now was a movent technique unfortunately she wasn’t able to think beyond that when she felt a disturbance in the air behind her before hearing the sound of the wind splitting.
Barely being able to react, i blocked with so difficulty the downward kick of Desmond who seed to have co out of nowhere once again, still in the air with one of his legs in the process of transmitting the impact force of his first kick, Desmond anchored his body in the air using wind mana to have an artificial foothold just before launching an upward kick with his free leg thus breaking i’s defensive posture.
However when Desmond tried to lash out with a third kick i’s response was much faster and more intense now that Desmond didn’t have the elent of surprise on his side so he ended up being repelled by i.
As soon as Desmond finished backing up, i tried to use her superior speed to lash out at Desmond but her efforts were thwarted when Desmond used his to disappear for the third ti.
It was a sha that i didn′t fall a third ti in the sa trick, as soon as Desmond tried to approach i he was quickly repelled by i’s strong defense who did not seem so surprised on this occasion by Desmond’s ambush.
Seeing i’s proud smile, Desmond couldn’t help but comnt with exasperation: “I should have known that a trick like this wouldn’t work more than a couple of tis against soone with senses as bestial as yours.”
“I guess you chose the wrong opponent to use that technique,” i replied.
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Desmond on his side decided to keep silent, it was just as i had said, she was the wrong opponent to use the and the reason was very simple.
Desmond’s was a technique that combined a couple of rather complex variables, first exploiting an innate weakness of the human senses where one went from stillness to high-speed movent in an instant causing a montary lapse where the opponent’s senses adjusted.
In that split second when his opponent’s senses went through that small adjustnt, Desmond combined all the stealth skills he knew to reduce his presence to a minimum making it harder to perceive unless you looked directly at him.
Finally, Desmond always tried to stay in the blind spot or the peripheral vision of his opponent by further increasing the difficulty of being perceived.
Since all this took place while Desmond was moving at high speed, to his opponents it seed as if Desmond disappeared completely only to appear a mont later while attacking them.
With all the above, the had very precise technical requirents and an extrely high synchronization, being much less effective the more it was used against the sa individual and being ineffective against individuals with very keen senses.
It just so happened that i had one of the most monstrous senses and instincts Desmond had ever t so it wasn’t entirely surprising that the will cease to be effective so soon, though, of course, the fact that it was reasonable didn’t make Desmond feel better about seeing a technique that had taken him so long to develop to be overco so easily by his opponent.
Still, Desmond was not discouraged, the fact that the technique was less effective did not make it completely ineffective so Desmond continued to use his again and again trying to get over i’s defenses.
The strange thing was that even though i was getting used to Desmond’s strange movent technique, she was still having a hard ti keeping him at bay and this wasn’t due to the elent of surprise in his attacks or the speed with which Desmond attacked; it was actually more like she was slowing down.
“You focused only on developing insidious techniques.” Having blocked another of Desmond’s attacks, i couldn’t help but comnt when she saw a strange blue glow around Desmond’s hands.
i never expected Desmond to use a technique similar to Xiauyue’s where he took advantage of the soft and calming nature of the energy used to paralyze or in this case numb the opponent’s nerves.
However, the technique displayed by Desmond was considerably weaker than Xiauyue’s , a fact for which i was grateful or things might have beco extrely difficult for her.
What i didn’t know was that Desmond had developed this ability that combined martial aspects with aquatic mana based only on the understanding he gained about the soft and flexible properties of water when he consud the and that it had only taken Desmond a month to develop a technique like this in conjunction with other skills that he had not yet used.
God only knows what i would think if she knew, one has to know that Xiauyue’s was part of her family’s martial art and that these martial arts were extrely powerful and highly valued in the martial sovereign world so a martial art like the one Desmond developed on his own that imitated Xiauyue’s skill to such a great extent was already considered a high-level martial art; so it was pretty ridiculous that it would take Desmond so little ti to create such a technique.
Of course, even with all the above, there were still two facts that did not change, the first was that this technique was just as i had described it; quite insidious.
The second problem was that even with the combination of with the technique that Desmond called , Desmond was still unable to get the upper hand on i.
It couldn’t be helped, i was simply too strong being in the two-star class while Desmond was still in the one-star class, the power gap wasn’t easy to bridge, even less so when fighting soone as talented as i.
That was not even ntioning the disadvantage a mana user faced when he was fighting a Ki user in close combat, to put it succinctly; Desmond was asking for a beating.
The only reason he hadn’t been hit until he was unable to recognize north from the south was that i hadn’t been using all of her strength, of course, that didn’t detract from Desmond’s efforts thus far. It was amazing enough that he managed to put up such a good fight with i with the use of his new abilities.
One has to know that under normal circumstances when a mana user faced a ki user they would never engage in close combat as it was no different than asking for death, so Desmond being able to pressure i was worthy of being praised.
Of course, Desmond didn’t feel that way and that was why he decided to change his approach, since close combat doesn’t work, Desmond would try to use his most powerful abilities as an Elentalist.
Taking a gigantic amount of core mana from him, Desmond didn’t hesitate to pour it all into one of the few abilities he knew would be effective against i.
“Feel the weight of the world on your shoulders ”
By the ti i realized what Desmond was doing it was already too late, small puddles of water ford on the ground around i from which dozens of chains made of water shot out.
These chains seed to be alive and quickly wrapped around i’s body before these began to restrain her as they crawled up her body like snakes.
The sudden turn of events left the audience surprised but also quite frustrated because even though the chains seed to be made of water, these didn′t wet i’s clothes, which prevented the scenario in the minds of many n.
As for the sexy scene of seeing i chained uptight? This never happened as the chains barely managed to restrain i’s tyrannical physical power as she constantly burst and deford the chains that bound her before new chains erged from the ground to further restrain i.
Holding on with all his ntal strength to control over the chains, Desmond began to burn through the rest of his mana reserves preparing to deliver his most powerful blow yet.
i tried with all her might to free herself when she noticed the maelstrom of wind that ford around Desmond but as she had experienced in the past, the chains that now bound her were too difficult to break; after all, restraining people like her with inordinate physical strength was the specialty of these chains.
Therefore, i could only continue fighting the chains as she watched as the maelstrom of wind around Desmond only intensified as multiple rings of ultra-condensed wind ford on Desmond’s four limbs who had used to push his control over mana beyond his limits to execute this ability.
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