A remarkable battle

At Reinborg family mansion, a soldier was giving reports to Askelar about the Elderis dungeon.

"So you mean the dungeon collapsed and everything inside of dead is crushed to death?"

"Y-yes family head... That's what we believe", the soldier replied with a fearful expression.

"You believe? Hm.. and what about that sphere?" Askelar asked with a direct eye contact.

"We believe that also..."

"I don't want to know what you believe. Tell me what happened to that sphere." Askelar spoke up cutting the soldier's sentence in mid way, releasing a dark red aura.

Seeing that the soldier was on the verge of being unconscious. But suddenly a voice echoed cutting through the tensed air.

"My head, it's confirmed that the sphere is destroyed. Nothing can survive in that explosion, even our knights died in there." The man replied.

"Very well then, I shall forget about this thing for now" Askelar said making a direct eye contact.

"Thank you my lor-" before he could finish his sentence he stopped sensing a densed aura.

"But..." Askelar said while standing. "But if I get to know that the sphere is not destroyed and it's fine... You can say goodbye to your head."

Hearing this, the man and the soldiers frozed in fear.

"Now go" Askelar ordered them and left the hall.

"Wh-what shall we do now, sir ?" One of the soldiera asked.

"We can do nothing now. You should go to your designed work places for now. I need to investigate this matter more." The man replied with a worried expression.

"But didn't lord said we should forget about this now." The soldier asked.

"You didn't get it... He said that he would forget for now but never said we should also forget about it. We need to investigate the whole dungeon incident. If something happens then family head will surely kill us..."

Meanwhile at the Marks family training hall, the whole place was crowded. 2 man stood in the middle of the training ground and the others were eager to see the fight.

"Even if the new recruit is strong, there is no way that he can defeat the general" a soldier spoke up.

"Yes I thought that too but there's something off with that new recruit " A voice came from behind.

The soldier turned to see who's that and was shocked to see Loris there. "Sir Loris... um wait what do you mean by that comment?"

"When I was sparing with Rolf, I felt a strange and dominant power inside of him. It was for a moment but I definitely felt that. It gave me chills to my spines. Even it seems like young master Arwin also favors Rolf as he personally came to watch the fight", Loris told the soldier. The atmosphere suddenly got tensed.

"So Rolf can defeat gene-" The soldier was about to tell but Loris cut his sentence and said, "Don't take general lightly. He is a Sword Master, so it will be difficult to decide the outcome this fast. This fight... It's gonna be interesting"

"Oi Rolf, I will let you make the first move, so go for it" General Karl said.

"If that's what general want then I shall start" Leon told while holding his sword. He released his aura and launched a aura slash towards general.

General blocked the slash easily and said "this type of attacks are useless" but when he looked at Leon, there was no one. Suddenly general Karl felt something and turned around. Leon was already behind him about to launch another slash. General saw it in time and prepared to block the attack. When the slash landed, it was so powerful that it pushed back general Karl. Although general Karl blocked the attack, the impact was so powerful that it shook him for some seconds.

"Rolf... I didn't realise you were that strong. Now I'm going to take you seriously" saying that he jumped in the air and released his aura. His aura was so densed that the soldiers who were spectating needed to cover themselves with their auras but still could feel the pressure.

General Karl launched towards Leon and swings his sword. Leon dodged the attack but genral Karl again launched towards him and covered the gap in no time. He used a technique called destructive sword and attacked Leon with that. Leon saw it but couldn't dodge so he decided to parry the attack. He tried to block it but the force behind the attack was so powerful that it threw him several steps back.

"Is that all you can do Rolf?" General Karl spoke up. Even the spectators were shocked.

A soldier beside of Arwin said, "I guess it's the end. There's no way he can win again general."

"It's too early to come to a conclusion you know?" Arwin replied to the soldier. "What do you mean, young master?" The soldier asked. Arwin smiled and replied, "Just watch"

"I admit you are a strong warrior general Karl. But this was just the start of the fight so don't need to rush, let's have fun." Leon spoke up and used a technique called judgement of the heavens. Suddenly his attack powers and speed increased and he launched himself towards general Karl. General was stunned to see his increase speed. He tried to parry the attack but the force behind it pushed him back. When he tried to attack, Leon was already infront of him with his sword ready to give a devastating slash. But general Karl was able to see it and countered the attack with his own slash. Both the attacks clashed and pushed both of them back.

"It's fun but let's finish the match with a single attack now. You use your strongest, and i will use my strongest." General Karl said.

"If that's what general wants then let's do it. The last attack will decide who's the winner." Leon agreed to general's condition.

"General is smart, he knew if the fight keeps going on, then it will be difficult for general to win. But for now, both of them are exhausted. And it doesn't look like Leon's technique which he used to increase his power will last for long so it's also good for Leon. Now all they need is to pour every single energy they have in their last attack", Arwin spoke up. The soldiers around him looked at the battlefield with a serious look.

"Can't believe it all came to this point. Rolf actually managed to push general this much. Now it all came to a last attack. This battle really is remarkable", Loris said. His eyes were also fixed at them.

General released his aura and used destructive sword but this time the power behind the attack was much more terrifying than the previous one. Leon took a deep breath and started gathering mana. When he gathered sufficient mana, he released his aura and his body glowed golden. He used a technique called sword of light and a big sword aura summoned on top of him aiming at the general.

Everyone was shocked to see the sight before them. Leon was using something they never saw before.

They both screamed and launched their attacks at each other. Both of the attacks clashed to each other and a devastating wave of energy surrounded the whole battlefield. Suddenly, due to the clash, a blast occurred and the whole area was covered in smoke.

Everyone wanted to see who won the match but couldn't because of the smoke. When the smoke disappeared everyone was shocked. They couldn't believe what they were seeing infront of their eyes.

Loris spoke up with shock, "w-what, Rolf actually....?"

What actually happened on the battlefield that left everyone stunned? Did Leon managed to win? Or he lost the battle?

To be continued