Chapter 125: Knight (3)

Perseus POV

Man, why am I doing a hero's job and not get fucking paid for it?! And where the hell is my grandfather?! Shit.

The knight then condensed itself further to about 2 m tall for agility and further strength.

The heroes would be real great right about now.

Those guys need to get strong quickly, I hate fighting with my life on the line, I need to somehow do my plan before I pass out. Alright, motivational speech for myself, talk no jutsu and power of friendship...use the force...

I clad my arms and legs with Lucifer's powers mixed with the power of the roses to prevent my limbs from breaking after every hit and charged in.

Right, gotta give them some distance, remember the dance and incorporate it into the way I fight. Gotta thank my grandma for this later.

It sensed an incoming attack and turned to my direction.

My mind is then filled with my grandmother's instructions.

'The mid air spin in the 20th step, use that. Spin at high speed like a praying mantis, making it harder for a predator to predict your movements, and use that speed to deliver a strong blow.'

I think I spun a full 360 about 10 times, the speed enhanced my attack and the back of my heel to its chin caused it to get blown back several meters which it then recovered quickly and dashed back.

'Land quickly and gracefully with your head down low.'

I landed just in time as I heard 4 swish in the air.

The dance of what my village learn incorporate a lot of inspiration from martial arts, so the dance isn't really even a dance, mostly capoeira mixed with a couple others creating a new unique form.

'Falls backward onto one arm while bending your back and allow your hips to go over your head, think of it as a mix of a cartwheel and a back walkover, but do it quick and strong with a slight hop.'

Basically, mix of a cartwheel and a valdez.

It had to lower itself a bit to reach my much smaller height and gave me the perfect chance. I did it and my kicks went straight to its chin.

'If they don't get knocked out, they'll at least cause them to stagger backwards due to the surprise, no matter how strong they are.'

Alright, got some distance, next move. I gathered the sand and solidified the ground for this so I can have more friction and and a better foothold to deliver a better strike. I charge forward and got low on the ground, it then tried to block itself from down below expecting the same attack.

'Go low to the ground on your side, with the leg closest to the ground close to the chest and extended a bit with the other tucked. Now support body weight with the arm closer to the ground palm flat on the floor, with the other up to protect the face.

'Kick forward with the tucked leg extended further than the first, now the transition, use the arm that was protecting your face to hold the ground and support your weight.

'Swing outward in a circular path to the front with the first extended leg, as it crosses to the front of your body, jump and use the arm and leg on the floor to support your weight. The more you master this, the higher you can get your kick, first do the stomach and eventually you move to the head.'

My kick went straight hard to the side of its head. This is definitely based off of the Martelo De Negativa. Paradis is either a summoned guy or he learned it from a summoned hero himself, gotta learn more later.

"Reiner! Shield!" he then throw me Rowan who is in the form of a scutum shield

"Slightly smaller and lighter please." he then obliged as I'm not as big as Reiner

It now isn't planning to give me any more openings. I created a sword in my right hand as I hold the shield in my left I can't go full speed anymore, it'll exhaust me too quickly, but I'm still fast enough to defend against all 4 arms. With the occasional long range attack help from the others, it's backing away.

Its hacking and slashing isn't work against Rowan's durability and my my speed to pinpoint its attack every time. My left arm in in terrible pain as it broke after every attack. Ruka healed my from afar, so I can keep going for a bit.

We then exchange blows, my left arm taking the blowing while the sword my right try to cut him down. The sound of clashing magic is heard throughout as it evaporated the air.

I create clone projections of myself and mixed amongst them to attack it from every direction, it can't tell which one I am and cut down most of my clone and gave me a huge opening, I intensify my blade the best I can and swung upwards as I got close.

It went from the groin to the head, I cut several inches and melted the part my sword made contact, and even though I didn't expose the core in the chest, I saw this green cube in the head that is slowly moving downwards and is now located at the neck.

I tried to swing at it which it then cracked opened from a much larger black arrow that dug itself right in the head as it slowly regained its form. Lilith saw the opening and used it well.

"Shit, you're hot!" Rowan shouted "You're fucking smoking."

"I know, thanks, but not the time."

"No, I mean you're literally hot and literally smoking."

I looked at my hand and can see some steam, not actual smoke, but yeah, I'm practically boiling. I'm fighting in a desert, sweating a lot, having no water to drink while overexerting myself, my will as a protagonist is barely keeping me up right now.

He should be weaker now with one core left, and even though he seem to be able to move the core all around the body...I've made a lot of progress.

"One to go."