Chapter 11 - Two Men VS Beast

Watching from afar, Reid saw a black muscular man rushed towards the lightning clad Wrathful Thunder Lion with large strides. Every step he took left a deep footprint on the ground.

"Black Steel Fist - Cannon!"

The black muscular man roared as his dark brown body turned entirely black with a metallic sheen and threw a punch. At the contact between the black fist and lightning clad claw, a large explosion occurred.

BOOM!!!

The violent wind blew things away from the epicenter, with scattered electric arcs and flame, scarring the ground into charcoal.

"That`s Captain Black Steel!" A hunter cheered in excitement.

Rovanold Steel known as Captain Black Steel. A man whose body was no different from steel, tempered in burning coals. A Diamond-level Rank 3 Hunter.

His ability earned him the name Black Steel as he could turn any part of his body into steel. From skin, hair, bone, muscle to heart, and intestine, no matter which part. And the stronger his body, the stronger his ability.

Hence, he started strengthening his body at a young age. Until he forged his body into an invincible weapon and impenetrable shield!

And due to Rovanold's strong defense, it overwhelmed the destructive attack of Wrathful Thunder Lion, even if it has a slight advantage in physical prowess.

Successfully intercepting the Wrathful Thunder Lion`s advance, the black man did not waste the opportunity while the beast was still uncoordinated and closed to the beasts and thew another strong attack.

"Rocket Step!" Rovanold stomped his feet on the ground, propelling himself forward, at speed faster than sound. The time the ground was destroyed due to his stomp, he has arrived above the Wrathful Thunder Lion.

Clenching his right hand into a fist, his entire right arm changed color into black with a shinier sheen than before and brought it down on the beasts head.

Rovanold roared. "Black Steel Fist - Fissure!"

Bang!!! Booom!!!

"Damn!" Rovanold cursed as his attacked fell on the ground and created a crater several hundred meters wide and deep. He shouted at the man standing near the crater. "Alkent! This beast is very fast! Limit its movement!"

"Leave it to me!" Raising his head, Lookent saw the Wrathful Thunder Lion at the sky. Seeing lightning converged onto the beasts, Alkent immediately escaped and shouted. "It's going to use a big move! Rovanold escape quickly!"

RROAARR!!! Boom!!! Clap!!!

Knowing that it was being surrounded, it used a big move that could obliterate everything around it. Though, not smart as a human, it has a mind of a predator. Know what is good and bad for itself.

Lightning and thunder roared as the Wrathful Thunder Lion bathed in lightning, turning into huge spherical lightning and diving down towards Rovanold, unleashing its fury.

There is no doubt that Rovanold will be injured if he took the attack head-on. It was a concentration of hundreds of millions of volts of lightning that have affected the magnetic field and caused things to float around while bringing pressure at the same time.

But it was already too late for Rovanold to escape, and so he could only face it head-on.

'Motherfucker! This will hurt.' Rovanold thought as he used his ability to the limit, turning his entire being into steel. "Hope that guy evacuated everyone."

Looking at the descending ball of lightning, Reid glanced at the man that could bravely face the danger. Reid appreciated people like him, thus he decided to at least save his life.

'This... This force!..' Feeling some kind of power binding him, Rovanold tried to break free from it but found that his struggle was useless and watched himself being pulled far away from the descending lightning ball.

After crossing more than a hundred meters away in a blink of an eye, the attack arrived and caused a devastating explosion.

BOOOMM!!!

Dark smoke formed and slowly rose into the sky, turning into a mushroom cloud of tens of meters. The shockwave it caused has uprooted everything several hundred meters near the epicenter. Everything happened within a handful of seconds.

Even with a wide distance between, Rovanold still felt that shock from the explosion. He has to protect his eyes due to the flying burning stones.

However, it was not in his concern as it caused him no damage. The one that made him cautious was the mysterious force that saved him from being severely injured.

Feeling the mysterious force releasing him, the momentum of his movement did not disappear. Rovanold lowered his center of gravity and anchored his feet on the ground to stop himself from moving further away.

Rovanold opened his senses and looked around to see where the mysterious force came from, but to no vail, he found nothing, no one. He frowned and thought 'Where the f!@# that force came from? But hopefully, it is no malicious yet.'

At the distance, Alkent was engaging with the Wrathful Thunder Lion, exchanging blows with it. His greatsword was wrapped in colorful light.

Alkent`s ability was called 'Aspect Enhancement'. He could release a colorful light from his body that could be used to enhance the aspect of things within his reach such as Strength, Speed, Reflex, Durability, Sharpness and etc. This maximum limit of the enhancement and time limit was proportional to his bodily prowess.

The big move the Wrathful Thunder Lion used took out some of its energy. It felt no danger from Alkent and thus engaged in melee with him. But Rovanold was different as it lost to him from the previous confrontation and it felt danger from him.

As a predator that had lived for so long, it knew how to retreat when in danger of life. And it knew that it could defeat Alkent, even so, it still tried to retreat as it knew that it did not kill the Rovanold.

But how could Alkent let it leave easily? Hence, Alkent attacked it relentlessly, not giving it time to leave. Alkent enhanced his speed and sharpness of his greatsword even though he knew that it could not defeat it alone, but keeping it in place was enough.

His eyes could see from a mile away and knew that Rovanold had escaped from the destructive attack. He only needed to wait until Rovanold came back. After all, their mission was to hunt the Wrathful Thunder Lion and take it back, dead or alive.

The mission was commissioned by a large corporation, and due to the danger and difficulty of the mission, the credit they would get after completing it was enough equivalent to completing three Diamond-level Missions.

Greatly angered after being blocked from fleeing several times, the Wrathful Thunder Lion howled and clad itself with lightning, increasing its speed ten times.

"F!@#!" Alkent cursed as he pushed his ability to the limit of ten times just to matched the speed of Wrathful Thunder Lion. He roared. "Rovanold, bastard! Come and help me immediately!"

They both become lights cruising around, leaving after images.