A DEATH DUEL

***In the Upper sector of the Outskirts of 'Eclipse of the Ocean'..

***Chingford Academy's Martial Grounds..

 Navi's entire body hurts. His eyes feels strained and his muscles are completely numb yet still, he feels relieve.

 Presently, relief is a very weird contrasting feeling as Navi's body is finally a bit rested from stress by sleeping while at the same time, it has accumulated a build up of strain from his intense 'dreams'.

 Getting up from bed is torture an so is walking all the way down to the bathroom. For Navi today.. the only good part about his morning has been the cold water that washed over his skin as he takes his bath.

 His cold showers always feels good but the one from this morning had felt divine. Knowing he can only stay in the bathroom for as long as seven minutes feels cruel as Navi washes blood off the corners of his eyes as well as the sweat off his pale skin.

 Soon, his time's up and with slow steps, he drags his numb body out of the bathroom then into a new pair of robes.

As usual, Navi's morning routine is followed up by a lack-lustre cafeteria breakfast though today, he treats himself a little better. With a few bald pence, Navi buys himself a nutrition pack alongside a pack of healing remedy.

 Totally uncaring about the order of eating, Navi sucks on the contents of both liquid packs before dragging himself off the training grounds.

He knows his own body limits so he is making no attempt to train this morning so instead, he moves to a specific training ground.

Getting to his destination, Navi sits down and makes himself comfortable as he just watches the people in training.

Weapon training.. Swordmanship training to be specific.

This is a martial course he is only allowed to take after two more months of beginner martial trainings and lectures about different weapons as well as their pros and cons.

Today, Navi is watching the archery martial disciples practice their shootings and reflexes under the supervision of their archery masters.

These disciples in training are all about twenty years old in average with some of them being a little olderthan the mark and some a little younger.

Archery is a difficult martial discipline so only those who have enough bodily strenght to shoot arrows and hold up powerful bows pursue this path else one would not go far.

Out of the majority of disciples in the Academy, Navi can be considered an extreme odd one out because of his young age.

Many believes that Navi signed in too early and will not be able to learn much cause his body would hold back his ability to train despite the Academy's high bill which would last one year regardless of weather he learns any martial discipline or not.

In some sense they are right though they are also wrong.

When Navi has seen himself do.. no rather, what he has seen the alternate version of himself who looks younger than him do in his dreams with the Claymore sword has convinced Naci that size does not matter much. All that's needed in battle is skill and power.

With the scenes of that dark room flashing through his head, Navi suddenly finds himself itching to hold a sword.

Although he has not admit it to himself, he also finds himself also itching to spill blood that is not his own!.

He is still more than a little affected by the dream-like memories he fully experienced last night.

Navi is being careful because a little push from life would be more than enough to bring out how much he is internally affected be it for good or bad.

 Still in thought, Navi fails to hear a set of angry footsteps stomping it's way from behind him.

Another persons body's hits into Navi's own by the side while rudely making him stumble off balance yet without caring, the perpetrator of the shove keeps on stomping his way to the Archery practice.

Almost face into the floor, Navi calm orange eyes looks towards at the perpetrators back and feeling his palms against the floor, Navi's calm expression perfectly hides snowballing fury.

Normally he would but today, Navi does not stop himself from feeling fury though instead, he controls himself not to get controlled by fury as he watches on.

Calmly, Navi rises to his feet and pats on his blue robes as he keeps observing silently.

With his pave and face, the angry man who is stomping forward gathers a lot of attention as he maves through the Archery grounds but his eyes seen to burn with brighter rage as he looks towards to a particular direction.

Stomping forward, Navi stops his steps in front of a female martial disciple who is still holding a bow in her hands.

The woman looks at him with a bit of confusion and yet calmness while the obviously enraged man seems to be struggling to containing his rage.

Through extremely gritted teeth, the man speaks while spitt each word slowly and powerfully with venom in his foaming saliva, "I.. WANT.. A.. DEATH.. MATCH.".

 *SILENCE†!†*.

The woman's who these words are being spoken to has her eyes bulged from shock as the entire archery practice grounds desends into an extreme silence and confusion.

 A death match!..

That Man wants a death match!.

A death match is not something that can be casually demanded nor is it something the Academy can a casually approve as its connected to a law for cultivators and martial artists.

Cultivators commit a lot of crimes without remorse or guilt and this is an undeniable fact.

Their crimes range from murder to fraud to backstabbing than to breaking of oaths and laws yet as far as the Outskirts is concerned,.. cultivators do not get arrested and very rarely are they subjected to punishments.

The lack of punishment to cultivators comes with a simple explanation, they are the ones determining the law and justice is based in your level of power.

The weak mortals(Non-Cultivators) would of course scream unfair at this reality as they can do nothing about it but what happens when a cultivators commits an offense in relation to another Cultivator?.

Violence happens.

Lives gets lost and compensation is either given or forcefully taken. Entire households are wiped out and valuable powerhouses gets killed off.

This sorts of retailiation is completely unacceptable in a small community like the Outskirts where they do not even have enough powerhouses to completely protect and feed the masses.

Because of this, new laws gets applied to avoid uncontrollable vengeance.

..

¡†¡*If someone taints the honours of you family or someone close to you, it becomes your right to challenge this person to a duel.

Winning is bringing back your family's honour and losing is putting it deeper into the mud.

Though in these sorts of duel, no murder is allowed.

!†!*If you are a victim of fraud and breakage of oaths, you can ask the other party for a compensation 1.5 times more than what you've lost. If the other party refuses you are allowed to forcefully take it and more?.

¡†¡*If someone kills ot rapes someone you know or completely brings down your family name or breaks an irreversible oath then you are allowed A Death Duel!.

A duel to the death. A fight till the end and if truly guilty, the other party is not allowed a chance to refuse this duel.

..

Navi has read about these rules and alhough this is the first time he has ever seen someone issuing a duel, it turns out that not being just any duel but instead it's a death duel.

What could she have done to him?!.

This question cannot help but pop up in everyone's mind as they look towards the fiery fury in the man's gaze.

Navi has never been much interested in other people's problems but this time, its different because this time.. it's a death duel!.

A bit of excitement creeps up Navi's heart as he watches the duo with the anger of being pushed to the ground being replaced by curiosity.