"Between An Endless Wave Of Fire And An Unbreakable Piece Of Metal, Who Would Win?!?"

Between below and above, both are determined to see where the fight would pick off.

With the grinning man's fingers began to flicker; it's spark produced a fire once more by the tip of his hand, lighting weakly before it spreads in a diameter of an arm, concentrated in a second before launched into Ruthben from above in such speeds. He grinned as he do so.

But Ruthben immediately dodges it by manoeuvering to the side, the fire created an explosion blow around it, poof! But thankfully died down instantly, leaving down a scorching mark below as the road got the fire's blow.

With his steps reaching extraordinarily towards the base of the tent, he had cutted the base of the tents support with a thang! Which makes it fall. Of course the hooded man falls down too because of it, but he recovered on the way to below, only to found in mid-air that the hooded man's face suddenly being aimed by the sword! In which he tilt! Just in time! Before he is still in the air in which Ruthben chased him!

Not even a second waste! And Ruthben paced his steps fastly towards his opponent, his moves are quick witted and tempered, but his face remained with an unrestrained calm, with a concentration that contrast the face of an amusement the grinning man had always used to do...

"Haha...", he laughed in mid-air before sending Ruthben a barraged of fireballs towards him, each projected in speeds and each turning every single item turned into dust! It gave consecutives explosion sounds, boom-boom-boom! And Ruthben just managed to dodge all of them! Responding it with a kick towards the hooded man's chest! Thuk! All done in a really fast pace! And that man got a devastating blow because of it!

"Garghh!" The hooded man grunted, his body flying towards one of the markets tent, getting a good taste of the table which is destroyed by the back of him!

He tried to recover, and when he do so; the blood from his mouth has been removed by his hand and still grinned on the current situation he's in no matter how bad it is for him.

"Hah...I'm amazed you had made such a move...", complimented him, with Ruthben still being aware to not getting near with that man for reasons it could disadvantage him in the battlefield.

One that could waste his life if he hadn't think about it, The tents will be his fuel to burn me, that is his initial psychology.

The man had realized about it too, his calm demeanor with his quick thinking makes him quiet the foe to have at all; considering that he is all alone, and there isn't any sort of magic that were used to counter him at all. But just with a sword of his, he is able to fend off a person with magic abilities, Incredible.

"..Now I can see why you wanted to get rid of the knights... you're afraid that they will be a burden towards you...Turning into ashes considering that their skill is not a match for me..", he sentenced.

"You could say it like that...But I am a man who wanted everyone not to be injured except the people who are like you..." Ruthben answered.

"Hah! Good thing you're a one in a million! Or not your pathetic words should've been burned into ashes!", he taunted, his maniacal laugh came to him, his eyes widened with pleasures by the arrival of the adrenaline.

"And my words are part of my will, my will meanwhile will be as strong as the metal sword I am bringing. Never letting down or even break however hard the challenge might be.", Ruthben replied.

"Heah...You really have a good way to convey words, and I can tell you for that as well...And because of it I will metaphore myself as a fire that will burn everything alive. A devourer that cannot be stop by it's never ending fuel. Melting and then deteriorating the iron and metals that are unpure along the way the fire spreads..."

"... Then came the purest one. One that cannot be destroyed whatsoever no matter how hard the impact is...and came to the fire to stop it's force within.", his eyes widened and his grin were the same as well by the reaction of excitement.

"And both of them...I tell you, have atleast one thing in common. One of which is that both of them are an unstoppable force that will clear out of the way that will block them..."

"But! When two sides will collide to face each other...On which will end to see the day of the light and on which will end to see the darkness of the night? In which then again, it could be simplified for words like this...", he continued again in which he grasped for the words that he yearns for it, pausing his another grandiose speech; dramatically, before he gave the question that really gets the inside of him, a curiousity that he is willing to crave.

"Between an endless wave of fire and an unbreakable piece of metal, who would win?!?"

His hand gestures two separate sides for it. His amusement towards the chaos gets the best of him. And for Ruthben meanwhile, he always waited for the perfect moment to strike, and by waiting, he just needs to prepare for the worst and reply for the word each time the grinning man gave him if he had to.

"The fate of it is concluded by the context. And to know the context, you'll have to face the process...", he replied

" If the fire manages to make the steel to melt out, then it wouldn't be surprising for the fire to win. But fire will always need fuel, and no matter how hard they can try to be alive, they will always die out of fuel..."

"...Metals meanwhile can be bended out and formed into something new. And even though you could see this as a weakness you'll have to know that metals aren't the things that are known to be breakable. Even with immense amounts of brute force will try to crush it there will be none who can teared it up as pity as the ashes...Because they will find a way to be solidified itself after it got melt, and still remained hard on whatever the fire could done to it."

"In which I have conclude that the metal will win if the fire ran out it's energy. And sadly, in this scene where there isn't that much of a fuel tips the odds that are for me.", he finished his words satisfyingly towards his for, in which the hooded man went smiling again. This time, he had to change his pace of his direction...

"If the fire will die when trying to heat the metal because of the end of it's energy. Then to make the iron melt, it should've been using it's full power immediately towards the metal without a second waste. In which in this case..."

"I have to immediately make you the same as well!!!"

Zoom! He dashed by the tent, and by a second he leaves from it the tent instantly had been set to ablaze! Phoomed! With each flicker the hooded man used he turned them into flames!

Ruthben didn't managed to stop him, it's too late, he is surrounded! The action of constantly flickering then projecting a small concentrated fire makes Ruthben now cannot escape!

"Huahahahaahaha!!!", he laughed because of it, a sack has been pulled out by him, filled with black residue and debris in which he dipped his right hand in it, making his palm covered with something black, Ruthben of course doesn't remember.

"I guess I have to waste all of my precious for you. You will discover a new scene from me, one that will make it harder for you to live..heh...And not just that! I will also give you a fight of steel...", his left hand retrieved a small knife that oddly bends like a talon of a beast. It's handle having a hole in the end of it which the man had filled it with his pinky finger.

Now just what is this?, Ruthben mumbled, a new type of weapon has yet again been introduced to him outside of the musket earlier. And now with a prediction that the hooded man had enchanced his spell of fire creation, he knew it is at this time thaf he needs to go all out with his force. His sword, covered with steel and gold, now been wield by both of his hands as he focused to be on the offense as well, and now he couldn't risk of letting the sword go before the man's soul becoming null.

And thus the hooded man begins, with his right hand illuminating light out of his palm, and fire came out as it burns the debris. Setting it ablazed at first before collecting it's energy to become a concentrated beam, in which Ruthben saw the beam came immediately right after him!