147 Capabilities (1/2)

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While Luna, Mark and Ellen were oushed back by Raven's retaliation. Paul immediately moved forward to intercept Raven.

His charge was stopped by Raven on time but Paul didn't let up went ahead to stab him multiple times using his spear.  Raven nimbly dodged his every attack, making sure to move just a smidge away from being hit to reduce his energy consumption.

Sensing another arrow from Anne, Raven did a backflip. After landing on his feet his was then greeted with Ellen's glowing sword. Her relentless attacks were staggering, due to her having a very high affinity towards fire, her attacks are already carrying heat which made Raven feel terrible even though he was dodging her attack.

Raven watched and waited until Ellen revealed a gap on her attacks, as soon as she made a punishable move, Raven ceased the moment and sent a punch to her. Ellen almost failed to block the attack but managed to during the last second, however the weight of Raven's attack still forced her insides to churn violently. Fortunately, she managed to suppress this feeling and get back to her feet. When she looked up, she found out that Raven was already being harassed by Mark and Luna.

Mark consistently brandished his swords at Raven. Due to him dual wielding, dodging all of his attacks became very challenging for Raven. Most of the times, Raven was forced to parry his attacks, good thing that he was always wearing the Flexible Metal Set, which enabled him to efficiently parry his attacks without doing any damage to his hands.

While Mark was trying to land an attack at him, Luna came with him as well and went ahead to raise the pressure. Luna's blessed with a good fighting instinct, she could see when there's a gap in Mark's attacks, she knew that Raven is fishing for this opening to retaliate so instead of giving him those chances, she will attack to cover those gaps not only preventing Raven from fighting back but also pressuring him even further.

Mark swiped his swords in horizontal way, trying to sever Raven's head from his shoulders. At the same time, Luna performed a low sweep of her spear, greatly minimizing Raven's mobility. But they knew that this isn't enough to lock down Raven completely.

Just as expected, Raven hurriedly jumped back and sent compressed air spheres towards them. Mark and Luna managed to dodge, Raven was about to attack some more but he once again sensed Anne's arrows causing him to move away.

Upon his retreat, Paul once again charged towards him using his shield, Raven planned on receiving this again using his hand but he saw Ellen hot on his trails.

He decided to jump up and kick the shield of the charging Paul.

Paul staggered and halted his charge, he could feel his arm shaking due to the sheer weight of Raven's attack. He gritted his teeth and sent his energy towards his throat.

Raven saw his throat trembling and immediately knew what Paul was trying to do. He immediately gathered a decent amount of energy on his palms.

”AHHHHHH!!!!”

There it comes, Paul's Demoralizing Shout. His shout shook the entire training field, the students nearby unconsciously placed their hands on their ears to protect their eardrums. If Raven was hit by this Demoralizing Shout, then he will experience a great headache causing his to be paralyzed for a solid minute. In a fast-paced fight like this, one minute is more than enough for someone to get crippled.

Good thing Raven could counter this, with the energies he gathered in his palms, he placed his palms together and clapped.

*Pa!!*

The energy on his palms were fused with the sound, it clashed with Paul's demoralizing shout and neutralized it.

Paul's eyes constricted, this was the first time that his demoralizing shout failed him. Nevertheless, it wasn't like he was expecting it to fully work against Raven anyway so he managed to get over it in a split second and charged with Ellen once more.

Raven dodged another arrow from Anne, then he tangled himself with Paul and Ellen along the continuous harassment of Anne.

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”Wow.”

This is what Rupert could only say as he watched the fight between these people.