章節 7: Chapter 6 : Bladewood Village I

The swordsmanship village always had accepted travelers and visitors but unlike the outsiders, the one's inside of it were taught the elemental sword techniques.

Of course, it wasn't the only one that had elemental sword technique practitioners.

"Damn.. I can't believe Satoru wanted to split up..." with a taint of saddened tone in his voice.

He walked to the right side of the village and climbed onto a rock that barely allowed him to view inside.

Not seeing anyone roaming those side of the streets, he easily vaulted over the fence and jumped up onto a house to remain out of sight and in the shadows whilst searching for the boy.

Satoru went up to the guards once more and went to walk by, resulting in them immediately and with no words, unsheathing their katanas and going to cut his head off.

Expecting that, he was able to duck under and roll frontwards, quickly getting up and turning around.

Grabbing the axe from his back, he threw it at the guard with the blonde hair, but he weaved it and rushed at the boy in front of him, going to slice him once more.

With water beginning to surround his blade, like an aura from the elemental sword technique, he moved like water himself, evading Satoru's lightning beam.

From the commotion, backup was on their way.

Imbuing his feet with thunder, the white haired boy vanished from his position and with sparks of thunder being left with each step into the floor, he rushed at the fence, jumping up on it and kicking himself from it like performing an explosive squat, right at the brown haired one.

"Such speed!" yelled out the brown haired guard while raising his katana to block.

Satoru mid-air, from both of his palms launched a fireball, which was instantly blocked by the katana of the guard, leaving steam go up in his face, blocking his sight.

With the advantage he had given himself, Satoru fired 'Thunder Circus' at him with the 4 swerving beams ultimately colliding and landing right on his chest and exploding.

His body was very injured but wasn't destroyed just yet.. The output is still garbage.

But he did suffer quite the injuries to say the least, undergoing 3rd degree burns on his entire torso as well as bleeding, his nose bleeding with one of his eyes completely gone too.

The blonde guard reacted and went to cut the boy mid air, but Satoru twisted his body mid-air and performed a more subtle uppercut motion, raising an earth wall tall 2meters in front of himself, hitting it and landing on it with his feet, kicking himself off and backflipping from where he came from.

While in the air, he placed his hand out and the axe inevitably and quickly flew to his grip, with him landing and sliding.

The blonde guard, performed a sword technique with the name of 'Tidal Blade Slash'.

[Tidal Blade Slash]

[Type : Water elemental sword technique]

[Requirements : Training]

[Strength and speed : Varies on the user, in this case, the blonde guard]

[Rarity : Rare]

[Obtainability : Training, Transfer...]

[Description : The user performs a downward slash from head to toe with the water surrounding the blade, which forms the same shape as the sword with the water going way past and continuing on without the blade.]

Satoru was barely able to perceive the slash and he didn't have enough time to move despite still having the thunder feet imbuement.

[Satoru's current energy : 77%]

He quickly performed the subtle uppercut motion as another 2ft tall stone wall was risen in front of himself and he attempted to move out of the way with it slowing down the attack, yet slightly nicking him on the shoulder.

Being successful, the Tidal Blade Slash went right through the stone wall, the wooden fence behind, multiple trees and into a rock before finally stopping.

Circling around the stone wall, the blonde guard went right at Satoru and caught him off-guard, cutting his head clean off. The moment he did, the body of his vanished into smoke and from behind, Satoru jumped onto him to choke him, but for a moment his eyes changed direction as he saw dozens of swordsmen coming.

He rolled his eyes and had the expression of disgust as he snapped the head of the guard and kicked off from him, firing a lightning beam from his palm right at the brown haired one's heart, killing him as well.

[Energy 68%:]

He stood up after landing and jumped up into the air with his axe, quickly supercharging it by applying his own lightning to it and throwing it right at the incoming wave of swordsmen.

One of them, in an attempt to block it, placed their swords up and took a high guard position, but it immediately shattered through his blade and him like nothing, hitting the floor right through him after leaving him basically decapitated, with 3 thunderbolts striking the area and destroying a large majority of the village, leaving cracks in the floor and houses getting annihilated into nothing but rubble.

But specifically, stunning every single one of the swordsmen and electrocuting them, even killing most of them.

[Energy : 68% >>> 81%]

Satoru understood that there was a difference in the lightning that he reproduces and the one that the axe let's out, but he never expected it to be this significantly different.

After dropping down, he landed with his knees tucked and stood up.

A vast majority of the village was destroyed, with the fire catching up onto the remaining fence and the other buildings, setting it off to burn.

Satoru went to the bodies and noticed that some of them were still alive. Slowly, he approached them as he walked through the bloodied grass and the corpses of the others.

Standing above them, he heard a demonic like voice in his head : "Kill them. Kill them all, Satoru." Obviously he heard the voice, as stated, but he didn't know what it was... To kill or not to kill them. They weren't guilty after all.. They were just placed under an illusion.

Deciding to leave them, with the eyes at the back of his head while going through to find Zankoku, they got up and all of them used every last bit of strength they had to get behind him, with 2 aiming for his heart and 1 for his head.

"Fools..." he said underneath his breath, jumping up to avoid the blades and landing on them for what was just a moment.

He kicked the one that aimed for his head in the head as hard as he could, knocking him to the floor.

Satoru jumped off their blades, landing an axe kick to the one on the floor's head, crushing it entirely now with brains and blood splattering on the floor.

The two swordsmen that were barely standing went to attempt to cut him down again, but were met by their fate as the boy in front of them perception blitzed one and stabbed him through the neck, with his tanto, as blood poured from it.

Resulting in the other one, going to slice him for the millisecond he appeared, but vanishing once more, appearing behind the remaining one, piercing him through his kneecap, automatically forcing his body to bend backwards.

Satoru grabbed him by his greasy hair, pulled him down and with the tanto slit his throat, not thinking much of it, with no change to his expression.

He let go off his body, allowing it to fall to the floor and making a thud.

"Idiots." thought the boy to himself.

Continuing on, he went on into the village, quickly checking the remaining houses for Zankoku but was unable to find him in any of them and saw that the female and children residents have escaped.

Despite calling out for his name, nothing could be heard except the quietness of the night.

Being intrigued by where he could have gone, Satoru checked the floor and below the rubble of an already destroyed building he found a wooden trapdoor.

He pulled the trapdoor open and saw a wooden ladder leading down into darkness which had slight illumination of what appeared to be torches.

Checking his surroundings first with caution, he 100% determined that no one else is left because of the silence in the air.

Looking into the hatch again, Satoru jumped down, entering the darkness as a predator.