Chapter 64: A fair win

My-Ty and Demo are next to each other. They both look at Sachem. Ugly Face is on the sidelines mesmerized by what he is seeing. My-Ty is the first to break the silence.

"Why is this ground special?"

Sachem doesn't reply instead he takes his fighting stance and lowers his center of gravity as he prepares to attack. My-Ty looks at Demo who has also taken up a fighting stance.

"Demo, that last attack felt good but it was cheating."

"What?"

"The only reason the attack landed was because he panicked. And that's only because he was worried about the ground, not us."

"So? What's the problem?"

"It feels like we are using a hostage to weaken him. There is no point in beating him that way."

"Huh? My goal is to defeat him, and if the ground is his weakness then we should use that."

"Beating the weak or weakened isn't honorable. It shows that you have to use underhanded techniques to win to defeat the strong. And that's a slippery slope. We have to beat him using what we have, not what we can exploit."

"I don't think we can beat him in a straight-up fight. I can tell he is still holding back. If he gets serious, we will be in serious trouble."

My-Ty smiles as the thought of Sachem getting serious excites him.

"And beating him when he is serious is the only way to win."

Demo looks at My-Ty with disbelief. How can someone be this simple-minded when their life is possibly on the line? He doesn't just want to win, he wants to win on his terms. Why would he make things more difficult than they need to be?

"So what's your plan?"

"It's simple."

After My-Ty said that he fell silent as if he was still forming the plan in his head. After 2 seconds Demo with a confused look on his face replies.

"Ok."

"We kill the hostage."

"What?"

My-Ty takes a deep breath and clenches his fist. Energy starts gathering around his fist, as he focuses his strength. Sachem immediately jumps into action because he has an ominous feeling that My-Ty intends to destroy the ground with his next attack.

Demo looks at My-Ty gathering strength reading for an attack and also smiles.

"Ok."

Demo turns his head to the approaching Sachem and dashes to clash with him to prevent Sachem from stopping My-Ty. Having gathered enough strength My-Ty lifts his arm and cocks back his fist.

"Sachem, let me help you focus."

Sachem sees Demo rushing towards him, and with a very quick sidestep dodges Demo. He sees My-Ty throwing the punch towards the ground and can tell he is going to be too late to stop him. So he tries to warn him.

"STOP!"

My-Ty doesn't heed the warning and punches the ground with his full power. The ground breaks and crumbles. And then a loud crack is heard as an underlying layer is cracked as well. The sudden force exerted on the roof of this underground space makes the hole expand. Demo, My-Ty, Ugly Face, and Sachem all fall down the hole. They all hit the ground, but due to the dust and smoke of the ground and ceiling collapsing, they can't see their surroundings.

Eventually, the smoke clears and they can see where they are. Demo's, My-Ty's and Ugly Face's eyes are wide open in shock. Then suddenly Demo's shadow starts bubbling. While this is happening Cyte reaches their sanctuary, quickly rushes through the shield and door, and runs to the passageway leading to Cleus' training room.

She runs down the stairs and remembers the time she brought Cleus down there the first time to recover from his fight. It was a small room with just a table in it. Enough to store maybe a closet and a few boxes. Cleus told her to not come down while he was practicing and or recovering. So she hadn't seen the room in a very long time. She expected the room to be a mess, but when she opened the door she was stunned.

Her surprise left her so shocked she couldn't move or talk for a few moments. The small room turned into a huge underground space that felt like the size of a soccer field. The walls were covered in blood and had scratches of techniques and moves that Cleus practiced. He used his own blood to practice the techniques he took from Endo and used them on the walls. He chipped away at the walls until it became this huge size.

In the middle of the room, there was the table Cyte was looking for. On the table was a glass case, with a gold crown with blood like diamonds in it. Cyte removed the glass case, took the crown, and started running to go back to Cleus. As she left the room she thought to herself that her king will definitely reclaim his throne.

Cyte is making her way back, and Ten has finally decided on the plan. He was hiding behind the boulder while thinking of the best way to stop Strils from leaving. Ten takes a deep breath in preparation as he is about to execute his plan.

"Mai, you ready?"

"Yes."

Ten places his hand on the ground and starts chanting. He uses his scanning ability to locate several places in the room but makes sure to keep his scan light enough to not be noticed. Then after having scanned the room Mai for a fraction of a second uses some of her computing power to help Ten do the math.

From several places in the room, golems are being summoned. The golems are simple, but they are big and strong. Upon completing their summons the golems immediately start destroying their surroundings.

Strils confused at what's going on knows that someone must be behind this.

"WHO IS THERE!?"

The golems of course don't answer and keep destroying the room. Ten can tell that Strils is confused and distracted and uses that chance to run hunched over trying to hide himself towards the spaceship that Strils was docking things on. One of the zombie's eyes lights up as they can see Ten move.

Chapter 64 fin