Chương 79: Chapter 78

[Third Person's PoV]

As soon as Cid exited Eta's lab he saw Claire running towards him in a very fast manner. When she tried to stop she slid slightly before adjusting herself and walking toward him

"Fight me!" She demanded.

Cid looked at her with a raised brow and asked "And why would I do that? You're just going to lose."

Claire puffed up her cheeks as she said "Well isn't it obvious I want to see how much I improved. It's been a few years since we last sparred. I think the last time we sparred was when we were still home and I was about to enter school.

"Shouldn't you be in the field trip or something your grade was taking"

Claire just shrugged her shoulders "I ditched it, it was boring then I heard you were here and came looking for you and here we are so come on"

Claire grabbed Cid's hand and tried to drag him with her but no matter how hard she tried Cid wouldn't budge.

Claire then gave Cid the puppy dog eyes "pretty please" and pouted her lips.

Cid rolled his eyes at her then shrugged his shoulders "Fine It's been a while since I had a good fight let's go"

"Yes!" Claire said while pumping her fist and started following Cid.

They both then arrived at the training field were everyone stopped what they were doing and made way for them.

They both stood by an arena where everyone started distancing themselves from them to not get caught up in the aftermath of their battle.

More and more girls started appearing and paying attention, it was a rare opportunity to see their master fight and they weren't going to miss it for the world.

"So how are we going to do this?" Cid asked while tilting his head slightly in confusion

Claire thought about it for a while before saying "Mostly swordsmanship with a bit of magic from our mana core."

Cid nodded his head and made an ebony sword out of slime and spun it on his hand before arrogantly pointing it at Claire.

Claire did the same and spun her ebony and spun it on her hand before putting her sword at eye level.

Claire's eyes then transformed into dragonoid ones turning into slits, one thing she has noticed before was that whenever her eyes change into that of a dragon her control of her magic becomes easier and more fluid.

Cid seeing this smirked and changed his eyes as well turning them into that of a dragon as well.

They stood looking at each other studying each other's stans looking for any opening. It should have been easier for Claire with her eyes but Cid wasn't one to have any openings making her sweat slightly at all the moves she tried in her mind only for it to get countered.

Seeing no other choice Claire surrounded herself with electricity, the ground cracked and broke as she propelled herself towards Cid at a speed unseeable to the human eyes.

She swung her sword in a wide downward arc at an unimaginable speed but Cid intercepted it. The ground he was standing on caved in and a blast of large wind was greater due to the force Claire used.

Claire then Jumped back just as quickly as she arrived not wanting to suffer from Cid's retaliation, but distance wasn't an issue for Cid.

He simply used his physical strength and sent a sword slash her direction which she easily dodged due to quick speed. She shot herself towards Cid once again and used a move she had been practicing, she swung her sword so quickly three times it appeared as just one.

Cid just swung his sword blocking all three of her attempts. When he blocked it he tried to kick her in the stomach but Claire simply moved out of the way.

Cid also surrounded himself in lightning and went on the offensive, he was so fast that it was difficult for Claire to follow even with her dragon eyes.

Due to how well Cid's control of his strength was he didn't break the ground when he made his way towards Claire,

Cid started running around Claire and started slashing his sword all over her body creating cuts and slashes over her beautiful skin.

Claire tucked her sword towards her and started charging an attack, she gathered the element of wind to start compacting itself in the sword while she used Tekkai.

Once her black sword gained a green hue she spinning around with her sword out creating a tornado, but there was something different about this tornado compared to the normal ones.

It was made from her sword. Which made it extremely sharp, even the slightest touch from it could completely sever someone into pieces.

Cid seeing this smirk, he was impressed. If it was anybody else they would have most likely been dead. This move was a way to stop Cid from continuing attacking her and running in a circle around her.

Although it wouldn't have really done anything to him Cid stopped and moved back, he made a large swinging gesture causing a large gust of wind to go and crash against the tornado destroying it.

As the tornado of slashes was disrupted Claire was seen all healed and in a drawing position, she shot towards Cid and drew her sword sending a large fiery arc.

As the arc made its way towards Cid the ground started melting due to the intensity of the heat, Cid seeing this smirked once again and coated his sword with Armament Haki, he used the sword to change the direction of the flaming slash sending it towards the sky.

And as he did that, Claire appeared in front of him with a vibrating sword, she used the element of sound making her sword vibrate at an extremely high frequency and slashed Cid right across his chest.

Cid's armor-like clothing was completely cut through and his chest had a single red thin line across it at a slight angle.

Cid feeling his chest get scratched started laughing with a hand on his face.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Everything on him started fixing itself, he looked at Claire when he stop laughing and softly smiled at her "I'm proud of you"

Dread…

That was the only feeling everyone was feeling no matter how far they were from the training field they felt dread. They felt like any sudden movement would be met with death.

It was to the point that it was suffocating, Claire was seen almost dropping to floor due to the entensity and how close she was to the source. Sweat was dripping down her face. She could feel herself start shaking, so much so that she could barely hold her sword and maintain its form.

When she looked towards Cid she was his cold emotionless dragon eyes glowing slightly looking at her. He very softly and slowly raised his sword, Claire wanted to move when she saw that but she couldn't. Something within her was stopping her.

Nobody moved a muscle as Cid started lifting his sword higher and higher, he then started to lower his sword in Claire's direction without changing his speed until it got to the very top of her head.

Then they all saw it, they don't know how but everyone present saw it, the entire continent being split into two evenly symmetrical pieces. They don't know how but for some reason they also know no magic was used, it was all his physical strength, something within them told them that not an ounce of magic was used.

Everything then started coming back together and when it did everyone collapse on the floor breathing heavily.

Cid smirked while looking down on Claire "I just hope you don't get too over confident after just leaving a tiny scratch on me."