(Raven’s POV)
"My na is Ervin Donovan. I request a duel with you."
Ervin said to with a clear and unwavering voice.
His voice doesn’t contain any ill intention.
"Raven Obadiah, I accept the duel."
So, I casually accepted his challenge.
And imdiately after I did so, I placed my left foot forward and crouched down.
Then I placed [Emranne] beside my left waist as if I’m in a unsheathing position.
"Aren’t you gonna use that?"
Ervin suddenly asked while pointing at [Nyx] in my holster, he seems displeased.
I shook my head and opened my mouth.
"Don’t need to."
I replied casually.
"Don’t regret your decision later."
"I hope so too."
After our short exchange of words, Ervin took his fighting stance as well, and he beca much more intimidating.
’Ervin... In terms of fighting experience, he has more than .’
’So I need to finish him as fast as possible.’
I concluded in my head.
"Hmm, I want to try sothing. I hope this works."
I mumbled to myself as an excited smile crept up to my face.
[You’re slowly becoming a battle freak, you know.]
Sariel told .
’I don’t care... It’s exciting.’
Which I replied telepathically.
"I’ll count to three, and on three, the duel starts."
Ervin stated and I nodded my head as an agreent.
"One..."
When Ervin started counting.
SWOOSH—!
I started gathering mana all over my body.
’[Insight]’
Then I activated one of my skills.
"Two..."
BZZZT-
SWAAAH—
At this ti, black electric particles and strong winds started appearing around , especially around my sword and my lower body.
It’s because of my wind and electric attributes.
’[Strengthen]’
’[Accelerate]’
I casted buffs on myself, then I focused on Ervin.
Raging mana is overflowing from him and he seems ready to attack any ti now.
It was then... I saw him open his mouth.
’[Thought Acceleration—!]’
I imdiately activated another skill and tensed every muscle I can in my body.
My body, and my head—both of them hurt.
But I ignored the pain and clenched my teeth together.
TAP-
I pressed my feet on the ground.
Then...
"Th...ree—"
BAM-!
S W O O O S H—
BOOM!
As soon as Ervin literally finished his last count, I kicked my feet on the ground and propelled myself toward Ervin at a terrifying speed!
Winds rippled as I moved forward, then when I arrived in front of Ervin...
FWISH—
I raised my sword above my head and swung it diagonally down from my top left with all of my strength!
At that mont, I saw Ervin’s shocked face, but I also saw him raising his sword, attempting to block my attack.
’What a monster...’
I thought. Ervin’s response was incredible, he was too fast.
’Too bad I have this sword.’
’[Shadow]’
In response to Ervin’s attempt to block my sword, I used [Emranne]’s skill, , in its blade.
SWISH~
And when [Emranne] passed through Ervin’s sword like a ghost, I imdiately deactivated the skill.
S L A S H—!
And cut Ervin’s body into two parts.
Looks like I used too much strength as I wasn’t able to stop my sword in its place.
BOOM!
Resulting in it continuing and hitting the ground violently.
The contact of my sword on the ground created a fairly strong force.
But I ignored that and quickly deactivated my skill, .
Then, looking down—
I saw Ervin was looking at with surprised eyes.
’His consciousness is still intact.’
I thought, so opening my mouth...
’I’ll talk to you later.’
I mouthed that to him before taking out a stamina and a mana potion and drinking them consecutively.
"Ugh... Fuck, my body aches..."
I grumbled as I massaged my right hand.
Then at after that—
"..."
I noticed the silence around .
"...?"
I looked around and saw everyone looking at with shocked faces.
’Is that all the expression they can make? I’ve been seeing that since earlier.’
I thought.
[You’re the reason they’re like that. You keep on dropping surprises, after all.]
Sariel told .
I shrugged my shoulders in response. Instead, I looked at Barry and Sean.
"So? Who’s next?"
I asked them, a casual smile on my face.
*****
-So? Who’s next?
"He’s such a dickhead."
"Yeah, I agree."
Adelle said and Aoi muttered . They’re watching Raven’s live stream where he’s clearly provoking Sean and the others.
"Well, it’s Raven."
Alec added.
"Yeah, he’s a jerk."
Curtis then joined in.
"Not like you can talk."
Which Blake unconsciously replied to him.
"Fuck you, Blake."
Curtis got angry at him, but because there’s a lot of people (Eve is) around, he didn’t do anything.
"I’ll get back at you next ti."
Curtis weakly said instead, and that’s just when Blake noticed he did sothing wrong.
"Anyway, what’s with Raven’s attack...?"
Then, Eve shifted the topic to where everyone is really interested.
They all got silent and serious hearing her words.
Then they looked at Alec, as he might know sothing about it.
Too bad, Alec shook his head.
"I don’t have any idea nor clue about it. Everything happened so fast and I didn’t expect it too."
He said.
"But I do know he used his elental attributes."
Alec added.
"Raven apparently used two attributes—one is wind, and the other one is..."
""Electric.""
Everyone said in unison as they looked at Raven again on their phone screens or V.Ds.
Then they saw sothing interesting again.
’Barry versus Raven.’
And in the background, they saw a massacre ongoing. The others frowned because they didn’t know when that happened, they only looked away for a couple of seconds.
"It just happened, Raven’s order."
But Blake shortly explained it to them, so they imdiately got what happened.
*****
(Going back a bit earlier...)
"So? Who’s next?"
Raven arrogantly asked Sean and Barry with a wolfish smile.
He received no answer.
Raven looked around and saw everyone’s face—no one wants to fight him.
"Well, this is boring..."
He mumbled to himself before raising his hand.
Then with a casual face—
"Eliminate everyone except Barry and Sean."
Raven ordered that.
SWOOSH—
SWOOSH—
BAM—!
Not even a second after his order, countless arrows were already launched at Sean’s teammates!
And so of Raven’s team mbers ca out from hiding to fight in close combat while being led by Jeanna!
"ARGH...!"
"WE’RE UNDER ATTACK!"
"KEUKK!"
"ENEMIES ARE STILL COMING!"
Sean’s team mbers imdiately fell into chaos. Their fear toward Raven made them panic.
And because Jeanna and the others improved their team coordination earlier, even against strong enemies, in this ss—then it’s easy for them.
And so, Raven’s group started massacring Sean’s group.
SLASH!
"GAH—?!"
PHUCK—
"GUGH...!!"
"S-STOP!"
SLASH!
And while all of that was happening—
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Raven walked forward, toward Sean and Barry who remained in their place as their teammates were dying.
’This bitch...!’
Sean thought as he saw Raven’s bright smile as he got near them.
’What should I do...?!’
He’s panicking. It’s Sean’s first ti being in this kind of situation.
He’s scared, he’s nervous.
’THAT BITCH ERVIN, HE SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST PUT UP A FIGHT!!!’
So Sean blad others—to be precise, Ervin.
’Because he died easily, I wasn’t able to gain any information about Raven’s skills!’
Sean angrily thought as he clenched his hands into fists.
Tap.
Then he heard Raven’s audible footstep again.
Out of nervousness, Sean looked around desperately.
Then he saw soone who could ease his problem even for a bit.
And with a devilish smile—
Push—
"Huh...?!"
He pushed Barry toward Raven!
THUD-
Because Barry didn’t expect Sean to do such a thing, he fell on the ground easily and stopped a few ters away from Raven.
As soon as he realized what happened—
"What are you doing?!"
He got angry at Sean.
"You dog-like bitch... i’m telling you to fight."
"Do this and I’ll reward you later. I don’t care if you lose, just fight."
Sean replied to Barry casually as he regained his calm.
’There’s no way Raven is in his top form right now. Barry might have a chance.’
He thought.
"But—"
"Shut the fuck up, Barry, and JUST FIGHT!"
Barry was about to refute, but Sean didn’t let him.
"Fuck..."
In the end, Barry cursed out of annoyance and finally stood up from the ground and faced Raven.
He doesn’t have a choice but to fight.
"...!"
A few ters away from him, Barry saw Raven looking at him with cold eyes.
Making him flinch as cold sweats covered his back.
’I... I really don’t want to fight him...’
Barry thought. He just knows he wouldn’t win.
So he started thinking of a way to escape this situation.
"Ah...!"
Then his eyes suddenly lit up when he thought of one!
"Wait, Raven, let join your side!"
Barry imdiately exclaid as he bowed his head!
"I don’t want to be with Sean anymore! He treats like a dog and he doesn’t care for ! Look, I was forced to fight you, I don’t want to be like this anymore!"
He said as he acted pitifully.
"You son of a bitch!"
He could hear Sean from behind, but Barry just ignored him.
’I’ll backstab you too, bitch.’
He thought as he smiled inwardly.
Barry then peeked at Raven...
And he saw him stop a few steps away.
Shhh—
Click—
Raven sheathed his sword.
’Oh... That’s a good sign! He’s gonna accept my offer! What a pushover!’
’Maybe with my money, I can even make Raven obedient—he doesn’t have much of that after all.’
Barry thought as a smile crept up to his face.
But then...
SWOOSH—
He felt a sudden chill all over his body and a feeling of being crushed by pressure followed afterwards!
"KEUK...?!!"
Barry couldn’t lift his head up and beads of sweat started forming on his forehead.
’What’s happening...?!’
He can’t even talk.
"Barry Leigh."
Then Raven called his na.
Raven’s cold voice made Barry flinch again as chills washed all over his body.
"You use your family’s power to harass anyone you don’t like—for simple reasons like because they’re better looking than you."
"GURHG!!"
Raven stated, and Barry groaned.
Each ti Raven said a word, the pressure pressing on Barry got stronger!
"In short... You’re a piece of fucking crap."
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Raven continued as he continued walking toward Barry again.
"And what else..."
This ti, anger could be felt in Raven’s voice, and Barry couldn’t breathe properly anymore.
"You use your power to sexually assault won who have lower status than you..."
S W A A A H~!!!
BAM—!
"GRAAAG!!!"
When Raven’s words finished, the pressure Barry was under beca overwhelming.
Forcing his knees and hands to slam on the ground.
"I hate people like you."
Raven declared, his fists clenched tightly.
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