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One year later after the Gentle Cradle Tribe's arrival at the kingdom.
We see Raven standing in front of a devastated place. His body was illusory at first but as ti went on, he was slowly manifesting into reality.
There is an unprecedented concentration in his face as he stared at the person in front of him. His breathing was slow but steady, he firmly gripped the handle of his hamr as he erased every distractions in his mind. Raven already learned his lesson to not underestimate this person in front of him.
The person he's facing with was a male with a head full of blue hair and is gathered by a rubber band. He had this captivating eyes, sharp brows that pointed towards his temples. He had a strong jawline, thin lips, pearl white skin and muscular body. He wore a black standard training robes that hugged the muscles of his body. On his right hand, an enormous black hamr with hand like carvings.
The first ti that Raven saw him, he was stunned. But he imdiately understood what was going on here.
This pocket dinsion that he entered inside the Crown Space was the tenth one, which ans that it's a checkpoint. Inos did warn him that it will only get harder from each checkpoint but he wasn't expecting to fight himself.
Yes, the challenger in the 10th pocket dinsion was himself. Well, a better version of him to say the least.
Raven got his ass handed over to him multiple tis by his own doppelganger. His death under the doppelganger's hands were like tasting his own dicine. Now he could totally understand the feeling of being crushed by the rciless weight of his hamr.
This doppelganger was better than him in all aspects. Speed, reaction ti, strength and even finesse. Not even after resorting to re tricks was he able to last under its onslaught, and he had been fighting this doppelganger for at least a month straight now and he never won.
Nevertheless, Raven was learning, a feat that the doppelganger couldn't do. Along with constant training, he was able to adjust and last longer and longer under the fearso onslaught of his doppelganger.
His skills reached yet another level, so much to the point that he felt absolutely confident on taking this doppelganger down this ti.
Once Raven's body completely materialized inside the pocket dinsion, no words were said between him and his doppelganger. They imdiately raised their hamrs and proceed to kill each other.
*Boom!*
Explosions occurred around them. Both of them moved so fast that their bodies into nothing but blurs. Fist-shaped pillars descended and shattered the ground where they were standing. Chunks of rocks and debris flew everywhere, adding to the things that they have to evade. None of these two were holding back, each blows they threw at each other was ant to kill and if soone beca even slightly distracted, that would an the end.
"Ten Smiting Arms." The doppelganger called out.
Instantly, ten fist-shaped pillars manifested from the sky and crashed down like a teor towards Raven.
Raven tightened his grip on his hamr and swung his hamr up, he then softly called out: "Ten Overturning Sea Palms."
Beneath him, ten pillars presenting an open palm, rose up and t the crashing fist-shaped pillars. Each palms accurately neutralized the attack, causing him to be unhard.
Seeing that its attack failed, the doppelganger slamd the hamr on the ground and called out: "Land Shifting Two Arms."
Behind the doppelganger, two ethereal hands materialized and punched the ground in front of him so hard that it shattered. Chunks of rocks flew forward and attempted to blow Raven away.
But before they could do so, Raven gripped the handle of his hamr using both of his hands and rose them up, yelling: "Two Arms: Defense."
The fist shaped pillars rose in front of him forming a cross that protected him from the flying chunks of rocks. Raven wasn't done, as he lifted the hamr and pointed it towards the doppelganger's direction, saying: "Ten Smiting Arms."
This was the sa attack that the doppelganger did before. As the doppelganger saw the attack, it imdiately perford evasive maneuvers to save itself from the falling fists. But Raven decided to pick up the pace so he perford another attack.
"Ten Arms: Twisting Decimation!" Raven swung his hamr forward as another set of ten arms manifested behind him and twisted amongst each other while flying forward. This attack almost resembled a genuine hurricane that flew forward while kicking up dust and debris along the way.
The doppelganger's eyes contracted and imdiately perford a defensive move: "Ten Arms: Defense!"
As ten arms covered his entire body to defend against Raven's onslaught, it wasn't aware that Raven was already gathering up montum for another attack.
Using a large chunk of his Chaos Force, he raised his hamr and imdiately ten arms materialized once more. This ti however, they rged into one and beco a single arm with an open palm and glowed with bronze finish. Raven's eyes shone as he called out: "Bronze Palm: Level the Hills!"
The palm imdiately flew down and pressed the doppelganger who's still curled up in a defensive stance. The arms protecting it imdiately shattered as the palm continuously pressed on the doppelganger, crushing it down like a bug.
Raven felt that the doppelganger was resisting so he placed more force on his hamr and gnashed his teeth. He pushed down the hamr with an enormous force which caused the doppelganger's joints to give way and bear the full weight of the bronze palm.
With one more push, Raven roared on top of his lungs and placed all of his pent up frustrations along with the finishing blow to end the battle.
The ground shattered and the bronze palm made a ten ter dent on it. Raven was spent after delivering the last blow so he heaved huge gulps of air and kneeled on the ground while panting. He kept his eyes peeled since he still didn't have a clue whether the doppelganger truly died or not.
It turns out that he only needed to wait for a bit before knowing the answer.
From the dent where the doppelganger's body was, a few specks of light erged and made way towards him. Upon seeing this, Raven imdiately sighed in relief and collapsed on the ground while heaving gulps of air. He didn't need to go in there to check anymore since this specks of light is the proof that he succeeded on taking down the doppelganger.
"Raven: 1." He said, "Doppelganger: 99. Fuck."
Raven laughed mirthlessly as he lied down. "Seriously, that fucker killed 99 tis! I kinda want a rematch honestly."
It was a hard earned victory but Raven was satisfied, he was just partially joking when he said that. As the specks of light arrived, it fused with his body and imdiately Raven received a new set of knowledge.
What he received was just the things that he learned from observing the techniques of the doppelganger. But since he just learned them from observation, Raven's version was flawed so to compensate for his 99 defeats against the doppelganger, he received the complete version of each moves plus so more that the doppelganger didn't have the chance to display.
Raven sat up and took out so recovering dicines out of his spatial ring. While his body recovers, he studied the techniques he received and opened his eyes after a while.
"I thought that I have to rge Ten Arms to condense the Bronze Level attacks, it turns out that all I need to do control my Chaos Force and condense them. This ans that I could create 10 Bronze Fists or Palms. If I rge two Bronze Fists, I could condense a Silver Fist. And if I condense five Silver Fist, I could produce a Golden Fist, that's aweso!"
"But practicing this would be a pain in the ass." Raven wryly smiled as his thoughts arrived at this point. "The Archaic Thousand Arms Hamr is already 100 tons in weight. When I condensed the Silver Palm earlier, the hamr weighed at least 500 tons which is sothing that I couldn't properly handle yet." He said as he touched his still aching arms.
"I'm not even sure is I should try condensing the Golden Fist or Palm. If I would venture a guess, I feel that it will weigh at least 1,000 tons or more. Even I would be crushed under that weight so no thank you, I guess."
It also had to be ntioned that Raven's hamr increases in size as it's weight increases. Anyone who said that Raven was wielding a hunk of huge tal attached to stick wasn't lying. Paul, who's only second to Raven when it cos to raw strength, couldn't even lift his hamr properly.
While Raven was in the middle of a his stupor, a ghost materialized in front of him. Raven felt his presence and smiled: "Long ti no see, Partner."
"Long ti no see. Congratulations on clearing the second checkpoint partner.." Inos said as his form sat down in front of him.
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