บท 47: First Marked One : Revario

After solving his inventory problem Reima gets up and starts heading towards the First Marked one, Revario. Why does Reima know his name? Because this Marked one almost single handedly made him quit playing Absolver. This guy blocks almost every attack, has huge health and as a noob with almost no useful techniques he bends you over and makes you regret life. But now, Finally... It's different, He's gonna beat him to death with his own mask!

He follows the path around until he spots the large tree, under it resting in the shadow is Revario... He sits against it like some protagonist in an anime, his sword pointing out of the ground next to him.

Reima approaches the smug prick with his golden upside down face mask and calls out to him.

"Revario! Come fight me like a man!"... The masked man just apathetically looks at Reima and doesn't say anything.

Reima "Take your weapons and get up!" He says as he draws his steel long sword.

Revario seems to huff as he slowly pulls himself off the tree and pulls his sword from the ground. He takes a relaxed stance and stands opposite Reima.

A silence consumes them as they weight for the other to act, Reima loses his patience at the staring contest and delivers a fast slash to Revario's neck. In response he performs a Forsaken style parry that causes Reima's body to seize up and freeze for a moment, using this opportunity, Revario follows up with a stab to his heart.

Reima's slit eyes dilate as they observe the approaching blade, DODGE! Reima screams in his mind as he barely avoids a fatal wound with a Windfall dodge. As Revario is slowed due to the after-image Reima tries to feint's a cut towards his neck but at the last second changes direction and slices at Revario's vulnerable ankle. Not expecting this Revario is nicked on the ankle but manages to avoid a crippling blow.

Reima watches as Revario spins around and sends a deadly slash at him, he channels as much Armament Haki into his left fist as possible and punches towards the incoming blade.

SHATTER!

The sword in Revario's hand has it's blade completely shattered at the impact sending shard-like bullets at him, he receives some cuts and scratches but his mask protects his eyes from the steel fragments.

Ignoring the fact that his weapon was just destroyed he continues his momentum and straight kicks Reima in the stomach, causing him to be knocked backwards a couple meters away.

After both combatants get a few breaths they start to engage each-other again. Reima with his sword and Revario with his fists. As they fight Reima discovers how powerful the Forsaken style parries are, being able to completely negate damage and freeze the attacker for a second could potentially end any conflict with someone not prepared for it.

Reima spends most of the fight using Windfall and dodging the heavy strikes of Revario but is unable to get any lethal strikes in.

Revario tries to finish the fight by channelling Fold energy and casting earthquake, causing the ground a few meters around them to rumble and become unstable under Reima's feet. He stumbles as one of his footholds give way, Revario takes advantage of this and performs a flying knee strike that nearly hits Reima in the face. Reima has to utilise his Elder Blood to evade the potentially neck breaking blow and blinks behind Revario while performing an dropping axe kick. The kick lands on Revario's clavicle and breaks it causing him to stumble backwards, Reima continues by sweeping his legs out from under him and using his sword to pin Revario to the ground. The stab is successful and results in Revario slowly fading away outward from the sword wound.

Reima "I'm not good enough to fight these guys yet..." He sheathes his sword and takes Revario's place by sitting beside the willow-like tree.

Looking up he spots the orange sky and realises he must have been fighting Revario for a while... He pulls his camping materials out of his Folded space and casts the Detection trap spell around the campsite to stop him being murdered in his sleep. He sets up a basic rabbit snare in the nearby bushes and starts meditating and reflecting on his recent fight. With some practise Reima thinks that he can potentially use the Forsaken style parries while fighting... He would need to observe more uses of the technique to understand the energy flow though. After a couple hours of meditation he hears his snare trap trigger and finds a struggling rabbit... He snaps it's neck, skins it and removes it's internal organs before cutting it's head off and cooking it over the fire.

He looks over at the loose dirt from his recent fight and spots a glowing yellow orb almost hidden under it.

He stands while letting the rabbit cook and sees what it is, he picks the orb up and a Golden mask materialises in his hand. "Nice, I'll hang this up on the wall when I finally build a house... Maybe somewhere around Kaer Morhen would be a nice spot?"