Chapter 46

The titan then clenched his fist as hard as he could, killing Reid…or so he thought.

Instead of blood and bones that he expected to pop out as he squished the boy, he felt his world explode as his body flared up in pain.

Reid exploded in a powerful surge of lightning, flowing through the titan stunning him greatly. Burns and patches formed on his body from the effects of the shock.

Fortunately for him, due to his size and aura protecting him, he survived the shock. Though the price was that he couldn't move for a while as his nerves and nervous system had been shocked.

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On the other side of the village, Reid stood in front of Haze who struggled to stand to his feet.

"You'll pay for this. Mammoth will be back any moment to finish you off." Haze said arrogantly as he managed to stand to his feet.

"That thing you call mammoth is otherwise preoccupied at the moment." Reid said coldly as Haze's face paled as he realized that he couldn't hear mammoth charging or moving to their location.

Instead, his earthquake-causing footsteps were moving further away. He looked back to Reid who was back in his normal form.

"You're all alone." He spoke coldly, his tone sending a chill down the older boy's back.

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Lightning Clone[Active][Level 5]

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'Thank god I had the idea to try and create clones with lightning. Though they don't aren't very durable, they can do what they are needed to do.' He thought, appreciating his foresight.

The 'Haze' that was with the titan was also another lightning clone made to stall him in case the first one failed.

"Now, where were we?" Reid asked, his voice still cold as he unsheathed his sword. He didn't plan on having any meaningless talks with the boy who was a part of the destruction at hand.

He thrust his sword at the boy's neck only for the top of the blade to stop as it made contact with Haze's skin.

The frightened boy let out a scream in shock only to pause for a moment seeing himself unharmed. He seemed to regain a bit of confidence as he tried a punch at Reid only for the younger boy to send him flying with a kick.

"To think I didn't see it earlier." Reid said with his sword still out and his sharingan glowing.

"Notice what?" Haze managed to breathe out despite the pain it caused.

"I always wondered how you took those hits that time." Reid spoke, not taking his eyes off the now standing boy.

"What are you babbling about?" Haze asked wearily as his confidence and arrogance was being shaken up.

"During the tournament in the academy…No child's aura should be capable of surviving the full brunt of any attack. I was sure I put my all into those blows and yet it took so long for it to break. Now I see the answer!" Reid said, staring into the boy.

He was staring at Haze's aura. More specifically, he was staring at the other auras that resided in him but were clearly not his. Despite that, they were feeding into his own aura.

"You somehow managed to take the aura of others and turn it into your own. Or is that really what happened?" Reid spoke rhetorically as the tomoe in his eyes spun.

'Genjutsu!'

Suddenly he was in a dark room with the only source of light being the lamp on the desk. Haze sat on the chair beside the desk as his mother stood behind him.

"Don't worry my child. This will all be over soon enough." She said softly.

Only then did Reid notice that in front of the mother and son duo was an unconscious who was tied up. He was tied to a chair to keep him straight.

Vivian put her hand on the unconscious man's head before putting her hand on her son's. A few seconds after she did so, a red energy began to flow out of the man's head and into Vivian but it didn't stop there.

The energy continued flowing until it got to Haze and began flowing into him.

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" The boy let out a blood-curdling scream of terror as he yelled in pain.

Reid watched as the energy which he now determined to be aura was sucked out of the man and into Haze.

The whole process took a few minutes. Minutes that went by with Haze's scream blessing the room.

When it was done, the man looked like a shriveled corpse.

'There's no way he survived that.' Reid thought as he watched the corpse hang in it's tied up position.

"So that's how it's done. It's his mother's semblance…" He said trailing off.

Suddenly he was back to where he stood with Haze in front of him looking absolutely exhausted.

"How is that possible!? How dare you!?" Haze screamed as felt himself begin to feel dizzy.

"It's possible because my sharingan far outclasses yours. I've wasted too much time already." Reid said as he watched Haze wobble on his feet.

He brought his sword up as it lit up with lightning. The lightning then increased in intensity as it became louder and more condensed.

The pressure could be felt by even Haze who stood some distance away from him.

"You may have survived the last one but this one is sure to end it!" Reid said over the sound of the lightning.

Without any hesitation, he lurched forwards with his blade, cutting through Haze's neck. He watched closely as Haze's head flew off like the cap of a bottle before landing in the floor.

The body fell unceremoniously to the ground with a dull thud. Reid stood in front of the body with his guard up as he looked into Haze's dead eyes.

[*Ding!*]

[You have leveled up!]

He was only satisfied when he felt the increase in experience and level.

'Now that this is done, I need to find mom.' He thought as he spread out his perception.

He easily found her but frowned as he felt multiple people getting close to her location. He immediately blurred away towards where he sensed her to be.

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It didn't take long for him to reach there. He looked into the somewhat far distance as his lightning clone thrust his lightning coated hand through the surprised Vivian's chest.

The titan was surprisingly the first person to get out of shock. He smashed Haze into the ground with his fist only for him to once again burst into lightning, paralyzing him once again.

Miko widened her eyes as she turned her the direction Reid was coming from. Without hesitating, she turned and rushed towards him.

Her speed was greatly reduced as her fight with Vivian had taken a toll on her. The deep cut on her heels were proof of that.

Reid's face twisted into shock and fear as he screamed to her.

She was so focused on rushing to him that she was late to realize her mistake.

She let her guard down.

Only then did the words from Reid's mouth reach her ears.

"Mom! Behind you!!!"

By then it was too late. The arm of the gigantic man slammed unto her from above, squashing her ruthlessly as blood splashed around.