My saving grace, I believe, was that I didn't cross it for long.
I brought my white cha concentration up to ten percent for exactly two seconds, just enough to allow my arm to deflect one vicious kick from her.
BANG!
She kicked so viciously that her right foot was smashed to smithereens!
At the sa ti, I was finally able to push myself up!
"Ahh! I am finally standing up!" I shouted with great relief.
Sherry Lin didn't let up and smashed her hamr on my cha with all of her strength!
WHAMM!
I barely managed to block it with my right arm. At the sa ti, my left hand shot out to grab her cha.
If I could just get one good hit in, the fight would be over.
However, Sherry Lin was far too skilled to allow to do that. She knew that the mont I caught her or landed one good hit on her, the fight would be over.
So she pulled out all of her tricks and considerable skills out of her bag to evade my every attempt to grab her.
She slapped my hands away, sidestepped to avoid my kicks and used her hamr so skillfully and in so many ingenious ways that the whole country was completely enthralled by her display.
And all that, with a smashed up right foot!
After a few minutes of fruitlessly attacking her, I stopped.
"We're wasting ti. Let's make a temporary truce and we can resu our fight once we clear out the rest of the chas." I said.
"Accepted!" Sheera Lin imdiately shouted from sowhere behind Sherry Lin.
"Rejected." Sherry Lin said flatly. "You're going down, Whitefrost punk."
I guess part of the reason she made such a powerful impression that day was also because of the combination of my ferociousness in battle and my utter lack of fighting skills.
My ferociousness and the massacre I had just carried out made seem much more formidable than I actually was.
People didn't see as just any strong fighter. They saw as THE student to beat. Plus the red light around totally made look extrely badass.
"The number one student in the entrance test! He is so powerful! Look at how many chas have fallen to his fists!"
"Strong! Very strong!"
"And not just strong. He seems completely filled with bloodlust! Look at how fast he's mowing down all the other students!"
The crowd was completely enraptured by my kill count, and they didn't realize that I had no fighting skills whatsoever.
And a few minutes later, when Sherry Lin so skillfully locked down, she actually managed to place herself above in the mind of the crowd!
And so the crowd took all of my accomplishnts that day, pegged to a very high standard, and then they conveniently placed Sherry on top of all that.
"She's so skillful but so modest! She could have unleashed a massacre herself, but she didn't! What a perfect warrior!"
"I agree! She is actually so strong, yet she avoided showing off! It was only when this stupid brute made a ss of the Grand lee that she appeared to put a stop to his antics! What a wonderful person she is!"
"Strong AND also humble. She deserves to be the number one student this year."
Fools.
If Sherry Lin could have massacred the kids like I did, she would have done it already.
Sherry Lin was no saint.
She is the strongest fighter I know, and one of the reasons she is so strong is partly because of her complete lack of emotions when she fights
I suspect she was born that way.
At any rate, she was already that way at ten years old.
The only reason she didn't unleash her own massacre wasn't that she was humble, it was that she couldn't.
Why couldn't she?
Because Sheera Lin said so, of course.
The Great Undying General, at ten years of age in the Grand lee of the National cha Pilot Academy.
She was like a fish in water.
Sheera Lin had imdiately understood the words that the Grand Elder Shella had said AND didn't say.
The winner of the Grand lee was the last cha standing. Every action would be recorded.
However, if the winner of the Grand lee was the last cha standing, then at tis, wouldn't INACTION be as valuable as action? After all, if by holding back we could have a higher chance of reaching our destination, wouldn't that be as valuable as knocking down an enemy?
Possibly, even more valuable?
So she had imdiately implented the strategy of killing the chicken to scare the monkey.
They quickly took down several tens of chas, and then arranged them ssily around them.
The got into formation with spears pointing out and remained still.
With so many dead chas around them and with so many chas in their group, the crowd avoided them like the plague and fought among themselves.
So even copied her strategy, to varying degrees of success.
None, however, managed to quite get the sa feeling of ferociousness that Sheera Lin had so perfectly displayed.
That way, for the initial minutes of the Grand lee, Sherry Lin's brilliance was effectively hidden.
Until I appeared near them.
I could totally visualize how their argunts took place at that mont.
"THIS IS REALLY BAD!" Sherry scowled at Sheera. "Look! He is getting all the spotlight! And it's all your fault! I should have just left your good for nothing ass behind and do as he did! That way, more people will praise , and I will probably get my pocket money raised!"
"Hey! Don't use the "ass" word!" Sheera said.
"I'll use any bloody word I bloody like!" Sherry yelled.
"HEY! Don't use "bloody" as well!" Sheera scolded.
"Gahhh." Sherry almost pulled at her hair in frustration. But she kept quiet after that and stopped using bad words. "So what do we do now?"
"What else can we do? Wait for him to tire and then wait for the other fools to finish him up. Then we wait for more fools to finish the fools, and then for even more fools to finish the fools who finished the fools who finished him." Sheera shrugged and said easily. "And maybe after that, we can make our move."
"No can do. That's too long. I am attacking him now." Sherry Lin shook her head and said resolutely.
"No! Stick to the plan!" Sheera Lin said sternly.
"I AM sticking to the plan." Sherry Lin said as she drew her twin swords.
"You're NOT sticking to the plan. The plan states that you wait here with us!" Sheera Lin said with a frown.
"Yeah, YOUR plan states that. However, MY plan states that I take down that bullying little Whitefrost kid and show him who's the real leader of our generation!" Sherry Lin said as she began to move out of their formation.
"Gahh. Sherry Lin! You will pay for this! I am telling gramps!" Sheera Lin shouted.
"Yeah? Go on ahead and tell him! Tell him how I magnificently made the Lin Family Na rise to the heavens with my spectacular performance! Thanks!" Sherry Lin laughed.
Sheera Lin sighed.
But she was the Undying General, and she had many plans and scenarios in her head.
So she imdiately put into play the scenario that had Sherry Lin take the spotlight.
"Horseshoe formation!" She barked. "Escort Sherry Lin to that bulldozer over there!"
Hmmm? Yes. I am recounting what Sherry and Sheera told about what happened in their camp at that ti. Not perfectly, of course, but that was the gist of what transpired.
And for once, I think Sherry Lin made the right call.
The Lin Family rose to prominence because of her performance against that day.
Because even until this very mont, my battle with her is the closest I have co to a defeat by a cha pilot.
Well, that was how it probably started.
Back to our story.
Sherry Lin, the Eternal Warrior, ignored my call for a truce, and charged at once more!
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