"Alright." After staring at her for a bit, I decided to go ahead and give her what she wanted. It"s not like it would affect anything between us and neither can she beat me, even if I hold back like I always do and not go all out. But, I will be displaying a much more overbearing amount of strength from now on no matter who I fight against. I do have a reputation to live up to after all."I know you always held back against me when you trained me, so today I want to make sure I make you give it your all." I just gave a smile to her words as she gave a nod before taking her place in the middle of the training ground and stood in her cutting form stance ready for the match to begin.
While we were talking, the rest of the all-female guild came to join Beth in watching the spectacle and were placing their bets. The younger ones and the ones who just joined placed their bets on Kagura as they had seen her in action but the older and wiser veterans who should be staying away from this betting were surprisingly betting on me. Maybe they already realized who I was. Not the whole "Mage of Time" thing but the guy who went around challenging all the strong guys a couple years ago.
"Alright then. Both sides are ready and the bets are placed. Begin!" Beth who was officiating the match called out as she swung her hand down.
Kagura flew at me straight away as she swung her still sheathed Archenemy a meter away from me right at my neck. Deciding to be flamboyant in my fights from now on I leaned my head back slightly with a smile on my face. The sword flew past my neck just by a few inches but Kagura didn"t miss a beat as she stopped her nodachi mid swing and then right back at me.
Her sword came towards my left shoulder this time and I who was still leaning back shifted my left foot back and once again dodged the cut. The sword stopped mid slash once again and this time went for my waist. This was harder to dodge after completing two back to back moves mainly from the waist in quick succession, so I decided to up my speed and moved behind her before her slash connected. When I appeared behind her, she had only cut my after image and when she realized my presence behind her, Kagura"s eyes widened slightly before making a dash forward while turning around.
The action stopped there for a while as Kagura stood there looking at me while I just stood there with my hands down at my side since I didn"t take the opportunity of getting behind her to get in an attack. The spectators also quieted down as the ones who bet on Kagura had their mouths wide open and the ones who bet on me looked serious. They were probably wondering if they were in Kagura"s place whether they could hit me or whether they could turn in time to meet me at their back. The answer was a one big no.
While Kagura at the moment isn"t the strongest in the guild, she is still in the top five. And the strength between each of them isn"t too far apart. And I had just dismantled Kagura"s attack like it was nothing without much effort. Kagura was on the brink of being an S-cla.s.s mage and if you add the unsheathed Archenemy, then she is a solid mid-tier S-cla.s.s mage.
While she didn"t unsheathe her sword in the last exchange, she had still used it to its maximum potential while sheathed. So they knew that they wouldn"t stand a chance.
"Is that it? If you want to make me serious…" I looked at Kagura with an amused expression before I stopped and then said something I wanted to say for a long time. My expression turned bloodthirsty as I gave smirk while letting out my miniscule amount of killing intent but I had also mixed in my s.p.a.ce powers so it was enhanced. To others it was a huge amount of killing intent. Now for the moment I have been waiting for.
"Come at me with the intent to kill!"
Kagura"s breath hitched for a moment before she straightened her back and took a deep breath. Then, she started to unsheathe Archenemy which elicited a joint gasp from the watching females as they started calling out to Kagura to stop. Maybe they were worried the town may get affected from the ensuing fight or they were worried for their life but they didn"t need to be worried since I had already put a barrier around the ground that we were fighting in. The spectators were also outside of this barrier so they weren"t in any kind of danger and so were the rest of the town.
But Kagura had cut off everything around her and was focused on only me. After her sword was three inches unsheathed, she made a jump towards me swung the rest of the sword out of the sword sheath. This was not all, she had also applied her Gravity Change magic on the sword, so its effect became even more monstrous.
When the sword reached me a silver colored blast was sent off from the blade which covered my entire body, hiding it from the onlookers and Kagura. The blast was stopped when it reached the barrier, stopping it from causing more damage but Kagura and her guild mates were not looking at that.
When the smoke from the sword blast cleared everyone watching got the shock of their lives as still standing in front of Kagura was me holding onto the sword with only one finger which was covered in my s.p.a.ce powers. Nothing had changed about me. My hair and clothes remained the same and only a bit of dust was gathered around my shoulders that wasn"t that visible.
"Hm, not bad." Not bad my a.s.s. If I weren"t using my time powers to the maximum, I would have lost my finger. It"s still hurting like a b.i.t.c.h. Aagh, why did I have to act like sn.o.bbish little smug villain. But, their reactions are so worth it.
"Well, let"s stop for now and go catch up somewhere else, Kagura?" I asked her as I removed my finger from her sword. Thank G.o.d for that. She gradually recovered and I had to repeat what I just said to her and she could only nod at me.
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And so, me Kagura left the ruined training ground and the gob smacked Mermaid Heel members behind to catch up with one another. But before I left their sight, with a snap of a finger I used my time powers to restore the training ground.