Kapitel 42: Chapter 42: The Black Knight
Chapter 37 / 38
A mixture of confusion and laughter filled the stands of the prisoners and guards.
"Slave? What is he talking about?" A prisoner asked.
"Heh. Who cares? This is gettin interesting! What is it? Five times she's killed, then the big black armored guy wins?"
"Sounds like it," Another prisoner chuckled. "I don't know about you but I'm putting my money on the big guy! KILL HER GOOD!"
"Yeah!!" other prisoners cheered.
Laughter and amused indistinct chatter continue to echo throughout the entire arena talking about the supposed penalty awaiting Kalika. All the while, she glared back up at Rakon from the caged Arena, pissed.
"T-that bastard." Kalika turned back to the opponent before her. "He's trying to get under my skin again isn't he. I won't let him have his way!"
Without another thought Kalika charged in, dagger ready to strike the opponent before her. The Black Knight, seeing this, readied his huge blade also, with his one arm,
Kalika Jumped in for an attack that was easily blocked by the Knight. The clashing of steel reverberated through the entire arena. He repelled her attack, pushing Kalika back half way back, keeping his monolithic composure.
Kalika examined the man with more scrutiny. "His armor is very similar to my father's when he went into battle… There's even a crest of our family on his shoulder..."
She narrowed her eyes, and without a second thought she rushed over to the Knight. "I wonder if they have the same gaps!"
The Black Knight fixed his stance and gripped his blade. He swung his huge sword hard at Kalika's side and she blocked it!
but his sheer strength proved too much as he sent Kalika spiraling to the caged walls!
Kalika winced in pain. "S-so strong!"
Opening her eyes the Knight slashed at her with all his strength. "Huh?" Kalika dodged, in time to witness him cutting through the caged wall with ease.
She could only look on in shock at the absolute absurdity of this man's strength. "I he wanted to, he could actually snap me like a twig!"
Kalika was quickly taken out of her stupor as the Black Knight turned to look at her. The sounds of the crowd of prisoners and guards' excitement became more palpable.
The man postured himself again, this time with both hands on his blade. A faint glow started to emanate from his huge butcher sword.
"Wait, I've seen this before."
Memories of Jarred Fight against Jala resurfaced.
The Knight raised his sword, bringing it down with tremendous force. And despite the far distance, Kalika opted to dodge to the side.
Her hunch turned to be correct as a brown magic slash projected from the blade, yet again cutting through the arena cage!
This shocked just about everyone else aside from Rakon who simply became annoyed.
"<Fix the cage!>" one of the guards yelled.
The Knight's blade started to glow once more and a glint sparked from within the helm of the Knight; it was obvious that he was ready to go all out.
Kalika simply growled, readying to go on the attack again. This time however the Black Knight approached, once again on the attack.
Kalika blocks but is surprised as her entire body goes numb.
"That's one." Rakon announced solemnly.
"H-how- Wait…" Kalika remembered for a brief second seeing a light come towards her. She quickly came to the consensus that attacks from his glowing blade simply couldn't be blocked.
As her mind drifted off, the thoughts of pushing the Knights defenses started to surface. She then awoke finding herself clashing steel with the Knight. His blade glowed once more as he swung it forth, forcing her to dodge.
He follows up with another magic strike, then another. each strike projecting and colorful magic energy from the natural elements of the world.
Kalika attempted to avoid these devastating attacks. She encircled the man, only to be easily countered.
He stood face to face with Kalika again and swung his blade with expert precision, switching back and forth from using one hand to two hands.
He spun the blade in his hand, cratering it to the ground beneath Kalika. The attack cut her leg deeply. The Knight readied another attack, posturing much more differently.
He slammed the huge blade to the ground with an oblique slash! penetrating the stone ground!
Without relaxing he swerved his blade through the ground, carrying its momentum into another diagonal slash! and another! And another! Then another!
This creating a non-stop flurry of attacks that tore the ground and forced Kalika back as she avoided each attack! The ground was decimated and rubble flew in its wake, all the while Kalika was now cornered.
Suddenly a blue magic slash came at her!
She dodged out the way, only to find the Knight in the air!
"A feint!?"
The spectator watched in anticipation then…
A solid blow cutting through Kalika's shoulder. She could only bite her tongue, holding back any semblance of screaming from the pain she felt.
"He…He almost killed me!"
Kalika gritted herself using the opening to actually land a counterattack, penetrating through the gaps in the armor. She attempted to cut as deep as possible but was quickly grabbed around her neck with the man's arm.
SNAP
"That makes two." Rakon announced once more.
Kalika awoke once more in the man's arm. She attempted to wiggle as her blade was still wedged in the man's torso. The same pressure came forth. She could recognize that he was trying to snap her neck again.
Kalika panicked. She then grabbed her blade again and with all her remaining strength, pulled her blade from his body, and stabbed it into another open gap!
The Knight bellowed in pain but kept his grasp on her.
Not wanting to give in, she pulled her dagger out once more, this time penetrating the gap closer to his chest.
This time he's forced to let go of her.
Kalika quickly distanced herself from the man, trying to catch her breath. She called back her blade, finding it much easier to call forth.
The Knight looked back at Kalika. It's like the man had no emotions. Instead, he readied himself again, sword glowing.
Kalika glanced at her hand, finding blood on it. Seeing it made her a little hazy at first but quickly recomposed herself. She found herself breathing heavily, readying her dagger.
"I never knew you were this strong…" she took a gulp, with nerves now ready she sprung back into actions.
She made a dodge, followed by the clashes of blades. She felt the heft of his strength as she parried his attack, but just barely.
She had no hope of beating him in a contest of strength, and she knew this. And trying to outpace him was going nowhere fast.
She tried to encircle him once more only ending in failure.
"Tch! It's like he knows what I plan to do right before I do it!! Is there a way I can confuse him?"
Kalika shortly after found herself on the run from the Black Knights' attack, Dodging magic slash after magic slash. It was practically a miracle that everyone outside the cage was unharmed.
Once more the Knight cuts through the steel bars, completely missing Kalika and leaving a gap in the cage. They then started to run alongside the walls of the cage with Kalika in the lead. Not long after however she was easily caught up by the Knight, shocking her.
He attacked with another horizontal slash forcing Kalika to slide her body on the ground. She quickly jerked her body and pushed herself from the ground and into a sprint, running past the Knight.
She looked back to find his back was completely exposed, but at this point she was too far.
A devilish Idea came forth, and without a second thought she threw her knife at his back.
It easily bounced off his armor at an angle. Her throwing would need a lot of work.
The crowd seeing this started to laugh at Kalika's poor attempt. She didn't pay attention to them; however, she instead kept her eyes fixed on the Black Knight.
She conjured her blade again as she stared straight at the brown buckled hidden by a separate piece of armor.
"There's a buckle hiding just under that piece of armor … If it's anything like what my father's armor was, just cutting two of them should loosen his chest armor."
The black Knight once again faces Kalika, readying his sword once more. Without much thought he starts his pursuit of Kalika once more.
They both clashed and dodged each other's attacks. Attack after attack, followed by the secession of dodging and parrying hefty attack coming her way.
She continued searching for that one opening and opportunity to strike him from behind and rip that armor off.
The opportunity finally arrived. He leapt from the air ready to strike hard with his huge blade from above!
Not missing a beat, Kalika ran past him as he proceeded to destroy the ground below, completely missing Kalika to his annoyance.
She quickly drove her dagger into his back, cutting half of the strap. The Knight counter's swerving with his huge blade in one hand, grazing Kalika's cheek.
Inmates from the crowd started to get a closer look, almost confused by her actions.
"What the hell is she doin.'' one of the prisoners laughed.
Kalika started getting chased again, this time however, using her dagger, she threw it straight at his head. He blocked the attack, but this helped provide Kalika an artificial opening as she circled around him once again.
She conjured her dagger, throwing and missing her target again.
"Tch!"
Another magic slash came hurtling her way, connecting to her right arm.
"C... Crap!"
Before she could react, The Black Knight attacked from the air once more! This time his connected as he sliced through her and the entire ground, killing her for a third time.
"Death number three." Rakon announced.
Cheers from the crowd start to erupt.
"Hahaha! Just two more times!!"
Kalika awoke her blade burning hot in her hand. But strangely enough, her heart beated with a calmness and as she opened her eyes an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia hit her.
A familiar tall man offered a hand to her. "You don't have to push yourself this hard Kalika…:
Her vision faded back to the Black Knight, about to strike her once again.
"That's right… You were always there for me… Weren't you…"
She dodged out of the way quickly getting to her feet followed by a riposte, stabbing the Knight in another gap of his armor.
A subtle chuckle sounded from the armor.
The Knight grabbed Kalika with his other hand, lifting her up. She immediately used her legs, kicking him at his helmet and throwing him off.
He raised his huge sword, swiping at Kalika relentlessly. She dodged and weaved through the attacks sent her way.
She then focused on conjuring her dagger and blocking the last attack that slammed down hard at her.
Her leg became weak, almost giving way. she grimaced from the sheer pressure being placed upon her.
It felt as though she was being crushed. slowly the ground beneath her started to feel like gravel as even more pressure began to be exerted.
Everyone watched in anticipation, waiting for Kalika's fourth death to arrive.
Unexpectedly, despite the sheer pressure, Kalika repelled this sword into the ground.
Unexpectedly she jumped on his sword then using his head, jumped into the air!
She turned herself in the air facing the Knight's back. She threw her Dagger striking one of the straps. cutting it half way.
She conjured it back as she landed on the ground, throwing it again. This time much more straight.
The Knight swerved his body, blocking the attack with his sword. He followed up, charging in like a bull with another attack. He became much slower than she expected.
Memories of their past she long forgotten, resurfaced.
He thrusted is sword forth but was barely avoided by Kalika, who dashed past him like a mad man with a newly made cut on her face.
She conjured her Dagger once more, throwing it to the second straps at his back again. This time succeeding!
The strap was completely cut as the blade bounced off the armor behind it.
Filled with newly gained confidence she manifested her dagger to try again, only for it to be blown away from the Knight's magic slash. He felt for his back discovering the buckle close from completely tearing up.
Kalika smiled, amused. "Looks like he found me out. Now I have to-"
To the shock of everyone in the crowd the Knight suddenly stabbed his sword into the ground and in one move, ripped off his own chest armor revealing a well chiseled structure.
He proceeds to crush and rip off the armor from his arms, hands and shoulders too leaving his helmet.
"I was never a fan of this Armor." A familiar muffled voice came from beneath the helmet.
The prisoners closest to the arena were in shock leaving the rest of the audience curious.
"N…No way. t-that voice..." a prisoner began muttering
"What is it?"
"That man in that armor. I thought he was supposed to be dead."
"Who?? Who do you mean???"
The man proceeds to pull off his helmet.
Kalika turned away, discontentedly. "Are you sure you want to do this… Tilus." She looked back at him, much more serious. "You still had the upper hand in this..."
Before everyone in the arena the gruff gray-haired man stood before them. The very man that mentored Kalika, Tilus Kyrier. His gaze was serious as he threw aside his helmet.
"The Imperial Wall!??" The prisoner yelped. Many of the other prisoners became shocked upon seeing him.
"And after we went through all the trouble for that armor…" Rakon said to himself, frowning disappointedly.
"There's no point keeping it on if it'll just rip off during our fight." Tilus grabbed the huge butcher blade in with his one hand, once again slamming it to his shoulder with an audible thud. "You've done exceptionally well, but that isn't good enough.
Tilus narrowed his eyed at Kalika. "Are you holding back on me?"
Kalika simply readied her dagger once more. "O-of course not..."
Tilus gave a doubtful glare, looking at her as if he could see through her.
Once more the handle became scorching hot and the memory of her facing against a bloodied Tilus resurfaced.
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"Our next contender for this Knight of honor is Kalika! Or who some are calling, the Immortal Maiden." A demon announcer shouted.
Kalika finds herself face to face against a bloodied and scarred well toned older man. He was breathing heavily, likely from all the other men and beasts he had to just fight. Kalika looked upon the man with pity.
"How many did you have to kill?" she asked.
Hearing the sudden question put Tilus on edge. He brought his guards back up, ready to fight. He shifted his eyes, readying his much more regular sword.
"Which do you mean? Humans, beast or demons?"
"It can be any which one you want, or everything." using both hands Kalika held her blood blade dagger like a novice.
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Kalika blinked to find herself in the present once more.
"You have a promise you must uphold, Kalika. I hope you didn't forget it."
Kalika stayed silent, instead gripping her dagger much more tightly in both hands.
"Why did you have to remove your Helmet...???" She gritted her teeth, giving a false look of determination.
Using both hands, Tilus whipped out his huge sword ready for battle once more.
"Oh. And Kalika. there's something I forgot to tell you that I want you to know."
Kalika's curiosity piqued slightly. "W...What is it?'
"It's about your father…Julius..."
A sense of anxiety washed over Kalika as she felt the color leave her skin. "M…M-my father…?"
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