Chapter 9 Akiyoshi VS Nino

The battle began with Akiyoshi giving it his all. He moved at a fast pace and armed his body with his flames.

He punched Nino into the walls, and he crashed.

Nino got up and looked at Akiyoshi, Akiyoshi smiled, then cracked his knuckles.

"Which rank are you." Akiyoshi asked.

"I'm an elite rank, and I know that you're just a high rank." Nino answered.

"It doesn't matter what rank I am. I'll still kick your ass." Akiyoshi said. 'Who am I kidding? His rank totally matters. Ah, now I'm in some deep shit alright.'

Akiyoshi attacked, and Nino activated his magical ability light beams and shot 7 of them at Akiyoshi.

Akiyoshi swiftly dodged the first 5 and punched the other two away, then he punched Nino with his right and sent him flying.

Nino maintained his balance, but before he could react, he received an uppercut from Akiyoshi, and he flied up.

Akiyoshi followed him and gave him a kick in the guts,

BANG! BOOM! Nino crashed in the ground.

Akiyoshi landed near him, then thought to himself, 'This is it, this is what an elite ranker can do, pathetic. He must be a mage.'

Nino got up without a single scratch on him, then he said, "What a drag, why did I get matched up with a combat knight, a fast combat knight is a mage knight's nightmare."

Akiyoshi smiled more after Nino confirmed that he was a mage. Akiyoshi attacked and gave Nino a ferocious beat down, his fists all landing at Nino's body with their full force. Akiyoshi grabbed Nino by his clothing and gave him a big head butt.

Nino fell down into the floor, holding his head in pain, "What is this a street fight?" He asked.

"It might as well be one. You know you're awfully weak and pathetic. Stop holding back your powers from me. Otherwise, I'll finish you really fast." Akiyoshi stated.

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WOOSH! WOOOSH! Shio and his crew moved with tremendous speed, "So guys, when will we get there with this pace?" James asked.

"Don't worry,we'll get there really soon, okay." Iguro said.

'Hang in there, Annie. I'm coming for you, and I'll beat whoever this mystery enemy is. Why do I feel like this is just the beginning of a grand battle, makes me all cited up doesn't it, but alas I will not allow my hunger for battle to increase my already large amount of lives.' Shio thought.

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Nino stood up then laughed, laughed and laughed and laughed, "You idiot, I don't understand you type of people, why waste your advantage on a battle just so you can get to fight your enemy at their best? I'll just never understand."

Akiyoshi looked at Nino and said,"It's called honor, pride, and dignity, which is probably something you do not know."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, there's no honor amongst us thieves, you guys can continue playing your superhero lives, with your honor, pride, and dignity, whatever, we don't care. Why have those things when they'll lead you to your death? Honestly, you modern day knights are just stupid." Nino said.

"Say whatever you like, but even when we lose a battle, even when we die, we never lose, but instead, we are the ones who won because we never gave up our principles just to win a fight." Akiyoshi replied.

"Is that really the case? Well, then let's find out." Nino said as he unleashed several of his beam, about 30+ of them.

Akiyoshi ran towards Nino, barely dodging the beams, but two of them shot him and dealt an injury on his back. He got up, and all the other beams continued shooting at him.

He blasted them with his flames from all directions, left, right, up, left, down, up, right. The blasts overwhelmed him, and KABOOOOM! He was shot by all the remaining light beams.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, Nino laughed, but as the smoke cleared, he saw Akiyoshi standing still with both of his legs, and he was looking down.

Akiyoshi looked at Nino and said, "That's the stuff. Keep it coming."

For a moment, for a slight moment, in Nino's perspective, time froze, and he thought, 'The hell, What in the f***, this guy is insane, who in their right mind, would enjoy getting a beatdown.'

His whole past flashed before his eyes, and he began questioning his whole reality, Nino was a stray, a really poor kid who had no house,no money, and no food, and because of this he was very thin.

But then he learned that he had talent in magic, and so he began to climb his way to the top. He was then taken by a strange man, a man who had his eyes covered but yet could still see everything. That man was his current master.

He taught Nino to always defeat his enemy when they're still vulnerable, and once he noticed a power gap, he should run. But after witnessing Akiyoshi, who was still standing after receiving those attacks and noticing the differences in strength, Nino was speechless.

Everything that he had been told by his master, he abandoned all of it so that he could enjoy his battle with Akiyoshi.

Akiyoshi and Nino both unleashed their powers, Nino shot a lot more beams, and Akiyoshi increased his speed. He dodged them all, moving at a high pace he punched Nino.

Nino dodged the punch and shot more beam at Akiyoshi, which Akiyoshi managed to just barely evade them all, and when he turned to face Nino...

He saw a giant beam, which was headed to his way. He quickly reacted, shooting his own beam of flames, and a clash began.

Both Nino and Akiyoshi pushed each other back, all of them pouring every ounce of power they had into their blasts, but alas Akiyoshi was outmatched and overpowered.

KABOOOOM!

Akiyoshi received the full force of the blasts.

He lied on the ground with blood covering his whole body, then he said, "I didn't want to resort to this, but it seems like you leave me no choice."

Nino looked at Akiyoshi, filled with confusion about what he said, but then Akiyoshi stood up and said, "I don't know how I even obtained this power, but I know one thing, it's something dangerous from a being obviously greater than I could imagine, and I.. can't control it for a long time."

Akiyoshi released it, he released his magical power and, the whole castle trembled, the Frozen dragon team, the creators of the castle, the forest outside the, Nino, Annie, Akane and even, even Shio's team which was far away from the castle felt it.

Everybody trembled all of them sweating, sweating with fear, Nino could no longer maintain his cool composure, and he started breathing heavily.

Huff, huff, huff, Nino breathed but then as he raised his eyes, there he was, Akiyoshi was infront of Nino and BOOOOOOM! Nino was punched.

He confirmed it, that massive power it could and was from the one and only the Dragon God of the flames, the amount of power Akiyoshi had was only a mere piece of his power.

'I can't believe it, I never thought that a fragment of the Dragon God of flames would appear in front of me.' Nino thought.

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'This power is awfully familiar, I can't believe it, there can be no denying it, this power is from no other than, Drago known as the Dragon God of Flame, Creator of the Sun.'

Shio thought, then said, "Let's hurry."

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Nino got up, but as soon as he did, he received a punch to the guts, and he was kicked into the walls, then Akiyoshi punched him to the other side of the room.

Nino stood, but just barely, Akiyoshi sought to end the fight as quickly as he could and jumped forward to Nino, unleashing his mightiest punch.

Nino held nothing back, and he also shot his strongest beam. The clash restarted, and Akiyoshi pushed Nino back until Akiyoshi reached the timelimit for his control over these powers, and they got canceled.

Nino's beam shot Akiyoshi with its full power and rendered him immobilized.

"I shall admit it, I mat have won the fight but in truth, it was you who won the battle."