Chapter 42: Flawless Victory

BANG!

BANG!

Damian launched forward like a rocket but before he could reach Kira, a cluster of darkness appeared in between them, propelling him backward.

Bang!

The next second, Damian was already above Kira, bouncing around him while throwing feint attacks from time to time to keep Kira on the edge. Damian was no fool, unlike Tristian who had close to zero melee combat capabilities, Kira was something else. A monster amongst his peers.

Achieving the yellow belt martial art practitioner at a young age showed just how capable he is. Coupled with his recorded battle against the green belt assassin and the battle against the one-eyed spider monkey. No one dared to look down on Kira since everyone knew he probably would have been in a higher realm if he still had a tutor.

Damian knew attacking Kira head-on was as good as suicide, the battle will definitely be over just as fast as it began or even faster. To tackle this, Damian chose to keep Kira on the edge by throwing numerous feint attacks. This was not a battle of true strength and skill, instead, it was a fight that is bound to test the patience of the two combatants. Anyone able to wait for an opening patiently and take advantage of the foe's anxiety will emerge as the victor!

At least that's what Damian thought…

"An anxious fighter is bound to make mistakes" the edges of Damian's lips curled to form a vicious smile as he whispered those words to himself.

"I agree but who said anything about been anxious?"

Kira suddenly shot a glance at the moving round, Damian, with the same calm and confident smile on his face. For normal people, Damian's movement could be considered pretty fast but to someone like Kira who practiced the serpent martial art technique which focused on increasing the speed and agility of the user, Damian's movement speed was nothing special in his eyes.

"Damn…" Damian panicked and created a black circle right in front of him. With a slight flip, Damian stomped his feet on the black circle, propelling himself as far as he could get from Kira.

"Cute… But who said you can leave!" Kira laughed, shooting towards Damian at an astonishing speed.

To everyone's surprise, Kira could keep up to Damian's inhuman speed, if they looked closely, they would have noticed he was slightly faster. While others were excited as they watched Kira chase after Damian with renewed awe and admiration, silently cursing those days they looked down on martial art practitioners. Damian on the other hand was terrified and scared shit by his current situation. He was already pushing his abilities to the limit to reach such inhuman speed yet Kira was able to keep up with him and even surpass him.

"Monster!" Damian cried out as he pushed aside the thoughts of escaping and created a dark circle behind him, launching himself towards Kira while gripping his black dagger tightly.

"You made a mistake" A devilish grin popped up on Kira's face.

He may be slightly faster than Damian but that was all there is to it. as long as Damian continued changing his trajectory at the right moments, Kira would never have been able to catch him since the speed gap wasn't much. Also, spirit energy and stamina were two different things entirely, with the latter holding a huge advantage against the first. Martial art practitioners are still human no matter how buff they look they still need stamina like every other normal human out there. While spirit energy is more abundant and only on rare occasions will an awakened possess a very small spirit energy reserve. For someone with great potential comparable to Kira and the other three, there is no way his spirit energy reserves are small.

Kira knew that if Damian kept bouncing around like a human-sized meatball with the aid of his combat technique, Kira would have no choice but to chase after him until he runs out of stamina first, giving Damian a perfect opportunity to defeat him.

Unfortunately, he was too scared to think things through!

Kira watched Damian slash at him violently with his dagger as he closed the gap between them in just a few seconds. In response, Kira executed the fastest takedown in the school's history!

He took a fighting stance while he watched the dagger slash at him with a vicious smile on his face. To the other students, Damian's moves were extremely fast but to someone like Kira, it was nothing special. Using his right hand to push the hand wielding the dagger away, his left hand as coated with a thin layer of red flames as it stuck Damian's exposed chest, allowing his fingers to dig deep into his skin. Meanwhile, his body tilted to the left, dodging Damian's large circular body easily.

Bang!

Damian crashed on the ground and rolled around in pain. His eyes were yanked open revealing nothing but darkness but this didn't help him alleviate his pain in any way. His cloth had five finger-shaped holes, leaving scorched wounds and a thick odor of burning flesh.

Puti!

Damian was struggling to get on his feet but then he felt a sharp pain all over his joints. He realized numerous black veins popped up all over his hands and his face. He wanted to speak but he ended up spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"What did you do to me?" Damian felt like his throat was on fire. No matter how much he tried to move, his joints only felt numb.

"I call it scorching venom…" Kira revealed his black fingernails as he walked towards Damian casually.

"You lost, even before the battle began!" His voice was cold and detached as he spoke those last words and his hands were set ablaze again.