Chapter 6: Learning A New Fighting Style

After the battle in Sventiany, Koba is training again with General Ariandel, not knowing what is the training all about, The Ravens are meditating for their next level, ready for the mission the Tsar has given for them. Azarath The Vengeful Demon, is in the area searching for the host, as they see multiple celestial beings training, Azarath choose the soft heart one, Koba, but it not the right time for him yet to possess. At lunch, Azarath tries to enter Koba's body, but he misses because Koba finds a lucky coin below him, it angers the demon more, aggressively not thinking straight, before bedtime, Koba brushes his teeth, then begins to write a letter for Ellie. The demon now is about to make a move, the curiosity got his attention of what he is doing. Azarath doesn't understand what this so called nonsense love means but he enters the body, not charging the negative energy that surrounds the room, but Koba did transform into one, the demon is confused and he cannot seem to get out of his body, charging the demonic energy again but the celestial energy overpowers the negative effects of the demon, Azarath is furious that he learn his mistake that it will be his forever partner, without knowing his knowledge. Koba wakes up peacefully in the morning for training, but Azarath still cannot possess him, unless he gets angry, he has the chance to possess him, Koba feels a weird energy coming from his body, but he does not care so he proceeds, the demon will wait for his moment with big amount of patience.

As Koba sneaks outside the barracks to buy food in the public market, minutes later he saw a chinese man with a training dummy, as he approaches him, the Chinese man claims to be the Grandmaster of Wing Chun, Koba wants to learn the fighting style, the grand master accepts to teach him the basics. Koba keeps on hitting the dummy, but the wood parts keeps on falling apart as Koba uses his own Wing Chun technique. He asks the Grandmaster on why is he on Minsk, the Grandmaster replied "I'm only taking a vacation, but i need to keep my mind aware of my surrounds since this country is at war with Germany you know, so i have to keep my guard up", Koba understands his reasons, learning how to disarm any kind of weapon the enemy dummy uses. Then the Grandmaster says he wants to duel with him, the two spars as koba is about to hit him with a kick, the chinese Grandmaster effortlessly deflects it with his palm, letting Koba fall to the ground, gets back up and launch multiple fist, the Grandmaster keeps on deflecting until he finds a opening by using his palm against his Koba's face, slipping his knees and Koba gets rolled over, loses against the Grandmaster. Koba wants to know his real name, he says "Grandmaster Zephyr". Four months later, Koba learns how to use his new fighting style to defend himself, thanking Grandmaster Zephyr as he is about to return home to China. The grandmaster tells Koba to feel free to come to Foshan, China, where he will learn more about Wing Chun. Koba accepts and will try his best to survive, they both wave goodbye in hopes to see each other again.

The Ravens wonder why Koba is always sneaking out of the barracks everyday, but now he is not doing it anymore, so the team will watch Luther spar against his little brother, as they wrap in each others hands, Koba then lifts his big brother up, surprising Luther about his new level of superhuman strength, but he felt something off about him, Luther manages to recover by letting his hand go, Koba then aggressively appears at his back with so much speed, Luther does not sense it at all, Koba kicks his neck right side, pushing Luther to the wall, then Luther transform into Celestial Progress, Koba too transforms, Luther says his power level is about 190,000, shocking the team, Luther thinks that his little brother kept training overnight, then Luther uses multiple fist on Koba, but he keeps on deflecting using his arms and elbow, Luther confused on how his defense effectively works against the superhuman punches of Luther. Now Koba uses a new ultimate skill, Super Air Palm Strike, almost hitting Luther in the head. Now he is screaming at Koba that the skill might kill him, Koba says he is sorry, but Luther says that move is meant to kill the enemy with one blow, out of curiosity, he asked his little brother on how he learn it, Koba replied "while I was sneaking outside the barracks to find some delicious food, i saw a Chinese man who is a Grandmaster of Wing Chun, i learn so much about his style, then I keep on controling my energy until the it is in the right limit to strike, that's how I learn about the skill.", Luther is surprised about another person teaching him to improve his fighting style.

In the next hour, A person enters the training hall, a young athletic build of a man, at a height of 6'10 inches name Belldrick "Savage" Rovosovsky, says that he is assign to the Ravens by the Tsar, then proceeds to spar with the strongest member, Nikita stands up but Koba wants to fight, so Nikita sits down for his turn, Belldrick throws heavy punches at Koba, but Koba keeps on reflecting the punches, the prideful Belldrick doesn't want to lose, he jumps to pounce on him, Koba the uses the Super Air Palm Strike, knocking him to the ground, now Luther says his power level now is 250,000, Belldrick says "NO WAY HE COULD REACH THAT KIND OF LEVEL!", Dmitri says "whoa a 6'2 vs 6'10, we got giants over here guys, the Russians immediately enters the training hall, So excited to see another one of their fighting style.

As the Russians are preparing their snacks, Koba and Belldrick are ready for round 2. All Russians are focused, as Belldrick use his Muay Thay fighting style while Koba use his fighting style known as Wing Chun. Belldrick taunts him that the style is for women only, but Koba did not reply, angers Belldrick to kick him low, Koba use his know to hit his kick, Savage falls down hard and confused, then hit him with more heavy punches, koba keeps on deflecting his strikes, then he hits Belldrick's biceps to weaken his blows, he again tries to strike Koba, but he parries to dodge his fist, kicking his knees, the using a Air Palm Strike to knock him out again. Declaring Koba the winner by his big brother, The Russians roar with a chant "URAAAAAA" 7x. Belldrick admit that he stronger, Koba help him up, happy and thankful for the match, its a no problem for Koba.

During Christmas, Koba admits to General Ariandel that he is sneaking out the barracks to find food, but a Grandmaster taught him the basic ways of Wing Chun. Ariandel tells Koba that he and Zephyr are long time friends, they both use to be students in Foshan, where Ariandel learns to defend himself, surprising Koba, the conversation continues until the next deployment. On Christmas Day in 1915, The Russians decorate their barracks filled with christmas decors with more trees , later on everyone becomes a happy drunk soldiers confessing their embarrassing moments, dancing recklessly in a dance floor, Koba keeps drinking because he is used to it as a celebration, Luther passes out after drinking 3 glasses of vodka, sleeping on the floor, Oleg and Dmitri carries him to their rooms, still drunk, sleeps peacefully. Koba arm wrestles everyone, he is on a winning streak, angry drunk Russians tries to knock him, but instead their fist have bruise, like Koba is made of steel or something, they continue drinking then. Belldrick is next, using his full power against Koba's arm, still drunk also responds with his power as well, sending Belldrick to the wall, one of the Russian soldiers gives him a glass of vodka, then he turn drunk afterwards. This moment is one of the best for Koba to remember.

After celebrating new year, The Tsar assigns the Ravens to the Russian Caucasian army for deployment, they are all heading to Ottoman Empire to complete the mission there. Captain Lionheart leads the Ravens to battle, Belldrick likes him because of his leadership, telling the team that victory will lead them to greatness, as Luther sees his little brother a confident, brave man to look up to now.