บท 31: Training in Hell with the Devil [9\9]

The heavy strike launched him back a few metres despite him holding his ground.

Junya looked up to see the goblin stumbling over itself. He was shocked by the sudden strength but never lost his cool. He assessed his situation and his past action and realized his blunder.

It was hard to press on his wounds since his only free hand was blood.

"Rahhh!" The goblin released a blood-curdling speed. He never rushed toward Junya, Instead stomped continuously in sheer anger. It was like a child throwing a tantrum.

Junya saw a faint aura around him and his eyes began rolling into the back of his head. It continued to freak out in its position. Junya could feel one thing looking at its erratic behaviour, fright.

'This is not normal, I can't freeze up' Junya knocked himself out of his trance by squeezing his injured hand.

He looked at Alice and saw she no longer kept her usual poker face, she was observed seriously.

'Wait is it becoming craz-'

"Reeeeeeeee" The Goblin squealed and shot toward Junya with speeds no slower than Asura Step.

Junya felt like a truck hit him, sending his body rocketing to the wall. He remained mobile and pushed himself from the hole quickly.

The first thing he saw was the goblin charging toward him, in the form of a green blur.

Boom!

The Globin ran blindly into the metal was where Junya dodged from. Junya followed with his naginata and attacked the goblin before he could get out.

The attack crashed into the metal wall, denting it. The Goldin stood on the weapon and dodged it. His eyes looked at Junya before screaming and attacking again.

Both of them broke out into a frenzied fight with Junya using Asura's step to stay one step ahead. His blade and the goblin's nails clashed together dozens of times, while sometimes Junya lost the upper hand at times.

Allowing the Goblin to slash over his body, filling his suit with tears and his skin with a laceration.

'These wounds won't hold. Not giving this a hundred and one per cent will get me seriously hurt or even worse...'

Junya never finished the sentence and let out a war cry of his own. He used Asura's step to its maximum while exploiting the momentum buff from jumping off walls.

The Goblin tried to keep up, but the naginata came with a strong force, creating nicks in its nail. Without waiting for another second, he sent a volley of slashes toward the goblin.

His strike reached toward the Goblin's vitals, not caring to make any superficial wounds. His chest gained a long laceration that oozed blood.

Fearing the threat, its one-tracked mind began to go crazier and attacked in a frenzy. All his attacks were parried, but all of Junya's parries turned into a near-fatal wound.

The Goblin's speed began to get slower and resorted to shady tactics like spitting and throwing blood, anything to stop Junya's upper hand.

Soon Junya released a roar of his own carrying his glaive over the fleeing goblin after using a skilful Asura step from the ceiling. Soon a loud clang rang out, and the impact from the glaive hitting its body shattered the goblin's spine, which left it to twitch and writhe its head before coughing up blood.

Soon a bright cobalt blue wisp floated toward him and entered his body. Simultaneously a voice rang in his head.

New Mob Slain, Ordinary Goblin. No Mob Drop. 130 Elo gained.

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[Name: Junya Wotanbe]

Level: 5

Elo: 0/150

Blessing: Fallen Slaughter (Angel)

Ability: Asura Step(Beginner) | Demon Crash (Beginner)

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Junya could feel himself getting enticed by the sight of blood, but squeezed his palm, making the pain take his mind from it. He ignored his levels in the process, his mind was not able to admire anything at the moment.

"Phew" Junya heaved a sigh of relief realizing his fight was over. He plopped on the ground and his legs began to feel like butter.

'Alice will kill me, I could have ended that fight a lot sooner. Even worse than that, being crazed is such a scary thing. It's a lucky thing I finished it before it could transform.'

As Junya thought he heard some footsteps walking over to him. He used his hands to cross his spaghetti legs and looked at Alice. He hoped for praise, even a small one, but his performance was crude at best.

"Why did you underestimate it?" Alice spat, her tone obviously meant she was disappointed.

"You think you should be taking its life for granted? Mob or not, his will to survive was greater than yours. All you did was waste chances and soak damage like a sponge. You should be ashamed to think your life was worth that pitiful display"

The painful accuracy in her words added to the physical pain he was feeling.

"Next time you go through something like that. Honour your life and theirs by doing your best from the start. If you can kill them do it. I'm not telling you to fight with honour.

As great as that sounds, frankly it's bullshit. Death itself has no honour because it's nothing.

I'm telling you to fight as you mean it. When you struck his chest if you had a better grip on your weapon you could have cleaved him in half."

Alice spoke in a scolding tone, using her finger to knock his head.

Junya accepted her words, and never got angry over them. He could understand what she meant to say.

"Honoring your life means honouring them. The greatest honour you can give them is killing them dead"

After, she went silent.

"Now for the good part. You maintain good control of the fight, you lacked the ferocity you had in the beginning, which would have done great for you. Your control over your ability is good and you can use it very creatively and exploit it's nature.

You did well to not freeze up when it became unstable. Your instincts are sharp and can save you, remember to trust them, but never blindly. You know how to fight, your really just an unpolished gem"

Junya was silent for a moment, not expecting this kind of praise from Alice. She had a smile on her face, which transferred to Junya's.

"Thank you Alice," Junya said with sincerity.

She chuckled but became straight-faced. "Now tell me, what's your rating now"