Chapter 285: Too Young
Kahn made another proclamation against his opponent but this time.. There was something fundamentally different about his tone at this point. Even Veronica felt a sense of dread as she looked into his eyes.
"What.. What"s happening?" she spoke softly as her body felt a bit slow compared to before.
Till this point, Kahn was only on the defensive mode as he wanted to increase his proficiency in his evasion, parrying and defensive skills and abilities. But now that they had reached 100% after constantly challenging his limits and defending against Veronica"s unparalleled skills and attacks.. Kahn had completed his first objective for the match.
And now… he had no reason to play along with the girl anymore.
Kahn took a deep sigh as his menacing black and red aura burst out of the body that quickly suppressed the brown aura released by the female swordswoman.
His eyes turned that of a tyrant looking down upon a weakling.
"If this is the extent of your skills.. Then your blade shall never reach me." he said.
BOOM!!
A burst of mana erupted out of Lucifer as the blade lit on fire.
Kahn activated the draconian bloodline effect and the next second, he activated all of his speed-enhancing and attack buff skills that made him twice stronger in terms of physical strength, attributes and skills damage output.
Till now.. He was only using Veronica as a sparring partner and not as an opponent. Although he admired her skills and talent.. There was nothing he cared about the opponent herself.
"Come.. Let me show you what a real battle looks like." said Kahn as he created 30 blades out of his aura and mana fused together.
Unlike before.. These swords shone brightly and released an oppressive aura themselves. No longer just simple aura blades.
Kahn walked menacingly towards the fear-stricken Veronica who was currently under the effect of his Bloodl.u.s.t skill that any enemy weaker than him in a fearful state.
Kahn"s body suddenly appeared right in front of Veronica and he made a swift vertical slash with both hands holding lucifer.
Clang!
Veronica was pushed 10 meters away after barely defending against that strike at the last moment.
"How… how did he become so fast?" she asked herself in disbelief but quickly recovered her composure.
She used her clone skills and 4 more of her identical copies appeared around her. And in front of all the onlookers, 5 Veronica disappeared from the spot.
Swoosh!
Veronica appeared right behind Kahn and made a thrusting attack towards his back but the next second, instead of acting alarmed or evading, Kahn simply moved his upper body slightly and the blade pa.s.sed by his chest.
But before she could retract the sword, Kahn"s left hand quickly grabbed her neck.
Bang!
He quickly swung lucifer horizontally on his right side and another Veronica appeared.
Crack!
His left palm cracked the opponent"s neck and soon, the Veronica he had choked burst into thin air.
"I guess that"s the downside of this skill. The copies don"t even possess the 20% of her original strength." he spoke and ducked down as another slash was evaded on his back.
Kahn"s aura blades were still fighting against the ones from the opponent but this time.. They too had an upper hand since Kahn wasn"t hiding his attack buff skills.
Stab!
Kahn quickly stabbed Veronica in the back and Lucifer released a burst of fire that burned down this imitation as well.
Then he quickly lunged towards the one on the right and with a heavy vertical slash attack, he cut the opponent in half.
Another burst of mana appeared and then faded as Kahn took down three of her copies in just 20 seconds.
"So they"re just for intimidation and distracting the enemy. A good skill to confuse and surprise an enemy.
But the attack power is greatly reduced." spoke Kahn as he publicly announced the biggest demerit of this signature skill used by his opponent.
Now, only two copies remained including the real Veronica.
And right after him disclosing the biggest flaw of her skill, Veronica who had hidden herself using some kind of skill leaked her killing intent on Kahn"s south-eastern direction.
Boom!!
Boom!!
Crack!!
Just then, multiple aura blades clashed in the air above and Kahn"s aura blades started breaking and destroying the ones made by the opposition.
However, Kahn quickly sidestepped and evaded a stabbing attack as another Veronica appeared out of thin air.
While her body was still afloat in the air, Kahn"s eyes moved and even scared her because the him now could easily see and sense her attacks coming.
[Impossible! How can he see me so suddenly? He could barely sense my strikes before.] she thought.
Kick!
Kahn kicked her in the stomach and with a swift horizontal slash… he beheaded Veronica.
Boom!
A shockwave filled the battlefield as another copy of the swordswoman exploded after getting killed.
Kahn simply smirked and then, he turned to his back and spoke in a mischievous tone.
"Hey, your Shadow Clone Jutsu needs some work."
The next moment.. Veronica"s figure appeared 20 meters away out of thin air as she had a bewildered expression on her face.
"You… you could sense where my real body was?" she asked in disbelief.
"Of course.. After all, the bond between us transcends beyond human understanding." taunted Kahn instead of answering straightly.
With Survival Instict divine ability and Hunter"s Intent skill being active all the time, he knew her location since the beginning. Just that he was only putting up an act of being clueless.
SHRILL!!
The next second however.. Kahn used Executioner"s Gaze and paralyzed her on the spot.
Kahn lifted lucifer upwards and soon, all the aura swords made of different destructive elements hovered towards Veronica.
BANG!!
BOOM!!
BOOM!!
Let it be fire or lightning, all his 5 metered long aura blades made from different elements attacked the paralyzed opponent and the opposite side of the battlefield was filled with explosions and the floor itself cracked open.
After 2 minutes… the cloud of dust finally faded and the figure of a girl with multiple bruises, charred body parts, deep and b.l.o.o.d.y wounds was revealed.
At this moment.. the real Veronica was covered in blood as half of her body was riddled with deep wounds and apart from her chest and waist.. All her clothes were tattered to pieces.
Veronica was bleeding profusely and barely gasping for breath.
Billions of people watching throughout the Rakos Empire gasped in surprise and some even feared for the fate of this young woman.
Tap! Tap!
Kahn walked towards her with indifferent eyes as he looked at the bloodied figure of the opponent as she barely managed to stay conscious at this moment.
His remorseless eyes landed on the once elegant and beautiful woman as he spoke in a tyrannical and grim tone.
"You"re hundred years too young to fight me as equals."