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It was a cold Tuesday morning on August 7th. Just shy of 17 degrees indoors while outside it was easily down to 10 degrees.
And that was in Cherwood Borough which could be considered 'warm'.
In East Borough, the temperature easily dropped to 5 degrees. Today was one of the rare days of the year when the temperature could drop to 1 degree when night fell.
Due to the low temperatures, the streets were not as crowded as they used to be, with only the occasional carriage passing by with a driver shivering in the cold and you could hear his teeth chattering if you passed by.
On the sidewalks passed the occasional person who had bundled up as best they could but it could still be considered insufficient, but they had to endure it and still go to their jobs in the factories where at least the heat of the furnaces gave them a little comfort.
But for people who didn't have jobs and weren't very warm... Tomorrow would be another day of collecting bodies.
In these kinds of situations, the only thing these people could do was to seek shelter from the cold snow and huddle with each other for warmth if they wanted to survive.
Of course, those were the homeless who had not yet fallen deeply into drugs... and those were few and far between.
Already if you looked in the alleys it was normal to see a lot of homeless people inhaling the pink powder and getting lost in the pleasure or the pain that this drug could give them.
Some of the people who took this drug did it to escape from the reality in which they lived while the great majority could not even live a day without it.
The most addicted would kill each other to get another puff.
This was now commonplace and people, as with any act that became commonplace, became numb to it ignored it, and went on with their day.
The streets of Sunflower Street didn't have much activity today due to the cold weather, so the only people passing by were workers trying to get to the factories or drunks coming from a night of drinking until they passed out.
Darkholme staggered in his step and collided with a person and he fell to the ground.
"Watch where you're going asshole!" the person he collided with grunted but only looked at him for a few seconds before turning around and continuing on his way with grunts.
Sigh...
Watching as his breath came out white, a stupid grin formed on the man's face who as best he could got back up.
"Hip* Imbecile your sister!" the man replied to the air as he continued his staggering walk.
He was only wearing a faded green shirt along with an old brown jacket covered in patches. The alcohol in his blood keeps him warm, a myth said among drunkards.
"Boss today was fun!" thenman said with a chuckle almost colliding with another person he could barely dodge.
"H-hey watch where you're going!" Darkholme growled with narrowed eyes but was ignored, as all drunks were.
"Ughh killjoy...." The man growled and continued on his way home bitter.
Finally arriving at the doors of his old house, and after much effort of trying to get the keys in the lock, Darkholme entered with a chuckle.
" Honeyrrrr! I'm home!!!!"
There was no response, and the man looked around in confusion before coughing and laughing.
"Hahahahha...I forgot! You're dead! Hip*"
Laughing, the man staggered until he fell on top of an old couch with several springs sticking out of it. But this drunk didn't care and almost instantly fell asleep.
On the old coffee table in front of the couch was a framed photo with broken glass. In it, he was smiling like an idiot while holding in his arms a woman with curly brown hair and a big bulge in her belly, a clear sign of an advanced pregnancy...
...
Outside the house and watching him from an alleyway. A plain-looking bald-haired man with black gloves on his hands watched the whole process as the man bumped into the stranger and staggered home.
'That idiot forgot to lock the door' the man thought with a dark smile on his face as he began his walk towards the house.
It had been 5 days since he had fed Creeping Hunger with that brat's father and the glove hadn't eaten anything in all that time.
Strangely it seemed as if it had been satisfied with the man even though it hadn't eaten it all, something that had never happened before.
But satiety vanished and the glove wanted to eat again. And this drunken scamp would be the meal of the day.
'I wonder if the brat will work out as well as her father? According to the newspapers, she's now in a church on Rose Street... Maybe I'll visit her later...' The man thought with a dark smile as he walked down the street.
Supposedly this fellow had been investigating him for a few weeks now and had made a bit of a fuss about it.
'Will you scream as much as the last meal? Or are you so drunk you won't know what happened? What is it? What will it be?' the man thought with dark curiosity as he slowly approached the house.
He preferred it to be the former~
That made it more fun, the screams of pain were his favorite part after all.
Reaching the door, he grabbed the handle with his right hand and opened it. As he had seen the genie forgot to lock the door.
Before entering he looked both ways, the street was almost empty. Only a few people in the distance were walking away.
The man smiled sharply and entered calmly. There was no better time than this to feed his pet~.
The moment he entered, he closed the door behind him. His face began to change, under his skin something like worms moved.
In a few seconds, his appearance returned to normal. Gone was the face of a simple man, now he had a wide broad chin and his eyes had turned green with a hint of laughter but with an enormous cruelty behind it.
He calmly put his hair in a bun as he always did. That done, he calmly walked to the room where he had seen the man fall asleep.
He slightly extended his left hand. In the palm of that gloved hand, a mouth full of sharp teeth opened.
Entering the room, the smile on the man's face froze as he saw that the drunk was nowhere to be seen!
He had disappeared!
Before he could think about what had happened, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up and he instinctively generated a powerful rush of wind around him that sent everything around his body flying.
Turning around to see his attacker, the only thing he could see was the very moment he disappeared into the shadows.
Despite not being able to see his attacker, the man's pupils shrank and he instinctively turned around with his arms crossed.
Just in time to block a powerful fire-covered kick that sent him a few feet backward.
"You're tougher than I thought." A provoking voice rang out and Qilangos looked at the masked man in front of him.
A light layer of water enveloped his arms and began to slowly heal the burns generated by the man's kick.
"I can't say it's an honor to meet you, Mr. Holmes." The Pirate Admiral growled and veins formed on his neck.
"Same here, deformed chin." Adryan said provocatively. Having sent spirituality to Tauk Millennium, a small holy humming sounded and he could feel his body growing stronger.
Hearing the man's insult, Qilangos growled and waved his hand aggressively at him.
Moving his body to the opposite side, Adryan observed that the place where he was standing showed deep cuts that split in half whatever furniture was there.
'Invisible wind blades...'
Clicking his tongue, Adryan wasted no time and multiple Fire Ravens appeared and lashed out at the pirate.
"Let's have a little dance princess!" Adryan shouted with a sharp grin behind his mask as a Fire Spear formed in his hand.
The fight between the Fire Mage of East Borough and Rear Admiral Hurricane has begun.
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A little teaser hehe.
Ain't I bad?
I'll post the next two chapters in a bit.
The Fire Crows flew quickly with a clear objective, Qilangos looked at them and smiled arrogantly.
With a wave of his hand, a strong wind hit the Crows causing them to crash against the wall or the floor.
Not caring that his attack had missed, Adryan threw his spear hard and it flew with speed towards the pirate.
Qilangos kept his smile and skillfully used the wind to move still sideways letting the spear pass by him without doing anything to him.
Adryan smiled sharply at this and snapped his fingers.
At the same time as it was passing by his side, the flaming spear glowed for a second. That was all the warning the pirate had who formed air cushion around him as water covered his body.
BOOM!
A powerful explosion engulfed him and sent him flying backward and crashing hard into the back wall. The Air Cushioner had protected him quite well but not completely.
"Urghhh" Qilangos grunted seeing how his arms had turned pink from the burns. But he didn't have time to watch any longer as Adryan didn't stop attacking.
Looking up, Qilangos saw how a huge torrent of raging fire was coming towards him.
"Shit!"
Stretching his hands out in front, a powerful stream of air was summoned and slammed into the torrent stopping it before it reached him and even pushing it back. Suddenly the torrent of fire disappeared, but not the torrent of wind, which continued to blow till it blew the wall to pieces, causing the cold of the street to enter the room.
Before the pirate could react, one of the small flames burning on the floor suddenly rose high, and out of it came Adryan and with a powerful fist covered in fire, he connected it to the man's face.
The sound of a nose breaking sounded in the room but Adryan did not stop but taking advantage of the fact that Qilangos was still dazed, he formed a dagger of fire in his flaming hand and stabbed it aiming at the man's head.
In that instant, Creeping Hunger changed to a majestic golden color, and from Qilangos' green eyes, a flash of green lightning came out.
Psychic Piercing!
Adryan froze in his movement and blood spurted from his nose. Severely stunned, he barely had time to cross his arms to block the Wind-blessed's powerful fist!
Veins pulsed in the neck of the man who attacked with a powerful fist full of rage!
Thump!
As the fist connected, Adryan was sent flying into the street and crashed into the wall of the opposing building.
Cough!
The air left his lungs when his back hit the wall but Adryan's body didn't even touch the ground when it was cut into several pieces by invisible blades of wind that left deep gashes in the wall...
But no blood came out of the pieces of the body but it thinned and dwarfed to just a cut paper figurine!
At the last second Adryan had managed to use Paper Figurine Substited!
Reappearing a few meters away from where he had originally been, Adryan let out a grunt feeling his arms shaking and his head burning.
'If I hadn't reinforced my body with Tauk Millennium that blow would have broken my arms!'
"haha... They don't say sailors are the physically strongest pathway for nothing." Adryan said with a sharp grin as he watched Qilangos walk out of the shattered house.
Blood was dripping from his broken nose and his arms had severe second-degree burns but otherwise, he was fine, water was enveloping his arms cleaning and healing the wounds.
'His skin is too tough... that should be because of the scales right? Close combat is useless... a hit from me is no match for one of his... So this is sequence 6 eh?' The redhead thought, his smile sharpening even more.
The feeling in his arms was returning quickly.
Qilangos looked at him seriously before giving a dark smile.
"I was worried for a second there. I thought with my slip up I killed you and ruined my job. You have more tricks than I thought."
Adryan frowned, doubt on his mind.
'Job? What the fuck is he talking about? Didn't you come to Backlund to kill Backerland?'
"I'm sorry but I don't talk little bitch so you'll have to explain yourself better." Adryan teased as he clenched his fists. The feeling had returned to his arms.
Veins swelled in the neck of the man who growled and then laughed with barely contained fury swimming in his tone.
"And ruin the surprise? Nah, I don't think so. They need you alive but I don't think they'll mind if I cut off your legs and arms!" The man said with a smile waving his hand.
'What?' the information the pirate had said surprised the redhead but not being stunned by it. He raised his hand and pointed it towards Qilangos. He clenched his fist and moved his hand violently to the right.
Seeing that the man was not going to dodge his attack, Qilangos' eyes widened in surprise but a sound to his side made him raise his arm and leg to cover himself.
"Urghhh son of a bitch!"
Knives of fire sank into his flesh and glowed for a second before exploding and sending Qilangos flying.
As he flew he watched in shock as his attack hit the buildings to the redhead's sides leaving deep gashes but none touched the redhead.
Falling hard to the ground the hurricane pirate allowed himself a second to look at his wounds.
The pink flesh turned black and blood dripped from several holes in his left leg and arm.
'He used the fire that was left in the house and attacked me with that!' the man thought painfully as water engulfed his arm and leg.
With a quick movement, he stood up and jumped to the side avoiding the barrage of fire blades that landed there and exploded with force.
'Despite having those wounds he can still move so well? That skin of his is ridiculous!' Adryan thought in annoyance as the fire bow was formed and taking aim, he fired three arrows at the same time.
These arrows were deflected by a wall of wind and Qilangos growled at him.
The color of the glove on his left hand changed to a red one with black spots.
Adryan's vision remained the same but thanks to his specialty he noticed it instantly.
'He put me in a dream!' without wasting a single second, Adryan forced himself to wake up and just opened his eyes to see how Qilangos was already in front of him.
Instead of panicking, he smiled sharply and his fist burst into flames.
'He woke up that fast?!' The pirate thought groggily but shook off that thought and veins pulsed in his arm.
A mighty fist of fury aimed at the masked man's side. If this landed and the man didn't make an exchange in time all his ribs were going to break.
'What?!'
But Qilangos watched in complete shock as his fist moved and missed!
His fist went harmlessly past the man's side leaving his head exposed!
THUMP!
On the other hand, Adryan's fist of fire connected with power in the middle of the pirate's face!
But Adryan was not happy with that but growled in frustration and formed a flaming sword with which he tried to stab the man in the chest but a push of wind blew it away from him.
'Where is it?' Adryan thought angrily as his eyes stared almost unblinkingly at the pirate.
Ever since he tried to sneak attack the man, his spiritual vision had been activated.
In his eyes, the navy blue aura was moving so violently that it looked more like a barely contained gale and it was moving with power ready to crush him.
But that wasn't what he was looking for!
He was looking for the red zone!
'I already attacked all the common weak spots but nothing worked, I need to see the red zone and hit it!' This was his instinct and from every exchange he had with the man, he knew it was the only way.
Watching as the man stood up, and shot him a furious glare with his face completely burned. Adryan sighed calming himself and raised his arms, both arms were covered in flames that burned with power.
'Stay calm Adryan. The red zone only appears every so often. In sequence 7 beyond it appears every 20 seconds... In higher sequence Beyonders it should take longer to appear... When it appears I can't miss the chance! I have to attack with everything!' the red-haired man thought resolutely as he hit the ground with both arms.
Flames spread and cut the street in half.
Water covered more than half of Qilangos' body as he moved his hand and the fire was blown away by a strong current of wind.
But not all the fire disappeared, and large fireballs were moving rapidly on the ground and Adryan was running after them with a fire sword in his right hand.
From the time the battle started until now. 1 minute and 10 seconds have passed.
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