Fight

Rocky slammed his shield into the ground but leaned it slightly back at an angle. Jason ran over and vaulted over to land neatly in the middle of the shield.

Rocky let out a grin threw his shoulder into the shield putting as much strength as he could into the push.

Jason also pushed off with his legs and with the combined force Jason hurtled straight towards them his sword outstretched and pulled back. The red aura around Jason's sword coated his sword as he activated the 2nd form.

Jason reached the trio in no time and swung a wide crescent slash at them.

It was met by a large spiky bat with blood still dripping off them. Jason looked at the ripper gang executive who was currently locked with Jason. The executive brought his face closer to Jason he opened his mouth to reveal his tongue piercing as he said to Jason tauntingly.

"not so strong now eh, ill tear you into shreds"

And saying that the ripper executive pushed harder with his mace putting Jason in a disadvantageous position.

Boops shouted a warning 'on your left!'

Jason quickly glanced over to see one of the lackey enforcers punching at his torso. The second one was following up with a swing at his head.

Knowing what he had to do, Jason pushed off against the executive's mace with a burst of strength and leaped back while simultaneously activating the 5th form of the rose knight swordsmanship and raising his sword hilt up in a sudden burst of speed to let his sharp sword hilt collide with the enforcers punch as Jason reached into his inventory and pulled out the saber that he had gotten from the final trial.

The enforcer who's fist hit the sharp hilt of Jason's sword gave a grimace as his own punch cut himself but he quickly regained his expression and faced Jason.

Usually, it would be too hard to use your inventory in a fight as it required time to chose and pull out the weapon of choice. But Jason had Boops on his side and all that he needed to do was to reach into his inventory and the weapon would be waiting for him ready to be pulled out.

Jason pulled out the saber and swung out in wide swings to regain some space.

The two enforcers backed up at Jason's wide and dangerous swings while the reaper enforcer stood in the back with his spiky bat.

"not so tough anymore eh?" he said with a loud sneer. Jason didn't reply. The reaper executive gripped his fist in anger and snarled to the two enforcers

"get him"

The enforcers nodded and rushed towards Jason with just their fists. Before Jason would have laughed if a person went against an armed person with just fists, But after facing against Welf in the final trial he started to rethink that.

Jason looked at both of the approaching enforcers with caution. A heavy mace fell upon one of them just as they were about to pull back for a punch.

The mace glanced off of the head of the enforcer causing him to stagger slightly. Rocky stood behind the enforcer his mace raised high up again. Somehow Rocky had sneaked up behind one of the enforcers and gave a blow sadly the level difference caused Rocky's hit to only cause a minor wound.

But Jason didn't let the opportunity go, he dodged the second enforcer's attack and leaped towards the staggered enforcer's head with both of his swords.

In a ferocious flurry of swings, the enforcer fell to the ground bloody but somehow still alive. Jason didn't have time to finish him off and instead jumped off of the falling enforcer towards the second one.

But a bat came swinging at him from his side and Jason could only reflexively raise his sword defensively as the bat drilled into it, the metal spikes going past his sword and piercing him.

Jason flew a few feet away hitting the ground hard bouncing against it like a lump of meat.

Jason rose from the cracked ground grimacing at the pain. He held his side as his entire body tensed up as blood seeped out of his side.

[you have suffered a critical hit -300 hp]

[you have been inflicted with the bleeding status]

Jason let go of the extra saber he had taken and let it fall cluttering to the ground. He held onto his side as he looked over at the reaper executive a little pissed.

Rocky ran over to Jason yelling out concerned

"Arch!"

Jason saw the last enforcer right behind Rocky raising his fist up to punch right at Rocky's back.

"idiot!" Jason shouted out as he reached out to Rocky with his blood-soaked hand.

He needed to reach them somehow. There was no way he would lose Rocky just like that. But it felt like he watched in slow motion as the enforcer's fist closed and fell down.

It felt like it happened in a single moment. But out of nowhere with the help of Boops screaming the name. Jason remembered something. It was the name of a skill. One used by a chaotic knight and his friends. It had served them well and had even saved their lives multiple times.

(shunpo)

Almost in a flash of light Jason bet down with his sword out and pushed, the ground beneath Jason broke into pieces as a small flash of light momentarily blinded every person in the vicinity.

When the white light faded, Jason stood a few feet behind Rocky who still had his hand reached out towards where Jason was.

The enforcer who was about to throw his fist into Rocky's back. Froze and kneeled to the ground.

With blood seeping out of Jason's side he turned to face the reaper executive Jason looked at the reaper executive with a bloodthirsty expression on his face.

The reaper executive looked at Jason with a bewildered expression on his face.

"wha w-wha what was that?"

Jason slowly walked towards the reaper executive his sword glowed blue and ghastly green as he activated (piercing strike) and (poison blade).

Jason didn't answer as he got closer and closer to the executive who backed up in confusion and terror.

The reaper executive swung his bat out of desperation as he yelled

"Who are you?"

Jason didn't answer, he ducked underneath one of the wild swings and thrust his sword with both of his hands deep and fast into the torso of the executive.

The executive gasped as the sword easily pierced the hidden amour he had on. The poison spread as Jason pulled out his sword leaving a gasping reaper executive.

The reaper executive looked back up at the hooded figure, he couldn't see his face, but he could see two cold eyes staring back at him.

"y-you" he said weakly "y-your not a lackey"

Jason didn't respond and watched as the bandit executive fell to the floor lifelessly.

[you have defeated the level 67 reapers executive (Ingram)]

[+20000 EXP]

[you have defeated the reaper executive in the name of the (NPC Jack), his reputation has risen drasticly]

[Jack's reputation (reapers gang) 65/100 (I know you and I'm scared of you]

[your reputation in the reapers gang has risen (they now fear the mysterious hooded man) ]

[your reputation with the gang members in Ingram's territory has fallen (some may try and take revenge)]

[the seat of a reaper executive has become empty!]

Jason continued to look at the reaper member until his body turned into blue flakes and floated up into the sky.

Jason quickly gathered the drops a bloody necklace and a token that had a skull on it and turned around to face Rocky who was standing there frozen in shock.

Boops remarked to Jason that there were no people in his surroundings besides the unconscious enforcers on the ground and after Jason made sure one more time he took off his black cloak and held his side in pain.

Rocky was still in a stunned state but ran over to Jason.

"A-Arch!" he cried out as he ran towards him.

Jason turned to him weakly and said in a pained but cheery voice

"ya got any potions?"

Rocky let out a breath of relief, he was back to normal. "y-yes" Rocky said as he pulled out a red vial from his inventory. It was slow-acting but it was better than anything else.

Jason gave a small sigh of relief as he felt the pain in his side slightly fade away. He tried to engage his core and stand up, but the feeling of a person jabbing picks of ice into his side promptly made him sit back down.

Jason gave a light laugh as he said to Rocky who was pulling out bandages to staunch the bleeding.

"you shouldn't have jumped towards me, that dude almost got you in the back"

Rocky shook his head

"I already expected to die, I mean it's a game and their levels were twice as much as mine I should have been crushed, you on the other hand..."

Jason let out a tired laugh and interrupted Rocky

"Yeah, I know I'm a bit "special""