35 A nice greeting! (2/2)
Each time I manage to evade by a hairs breath. I thrust my hand at him and a small red orb shoots out, but he evades with ease.
”Hahahaha! Silly little spells! Ain't worth a thing if you can't hit!” He leaps forward and places a perfect kick on my chest. The air is pressed out of my lungs, but thankfully my stone skin spell protects me from taking serious injuries. I still feel like something broke!
I am still thrown backwards. It is like I was hit by a truck. After flying a low arc through the air I impact the floor and stay down.
While lying on my back and casting another healing spell I think about the situation. This guy is way too powerful. Something is off. He seems to use the same fighting aura, as that Senda guy. Senda fought just with his body too, but that guy is on another level.
”Done already? I am even more disappointed now.” It seems that Markorn doesn't want to shut up.
Somehow I am angry now. I don't get angry often. Hmmm, I guess using a second hand is allowed in that case.
Suddenly Markorn appears above me and I see the sole of a foot coming down on my face. Teleport again?
The foot stomps down but all that gets stomped is earth. I teleported ten meters above Markorn, swinging down one of my hands in a chopping motion from above, a wave of energy discharges from me.
But the sucker somehow realizes the danger and jumps to the side. A five meter long rift is struck into the earth, where he just stood.
Now he jumps up to me, but I teleport to the ground again. Hehehe. That's the problem with high speed movement, you can only do it if you can propel yourself somehow. Real teleportation is much more convenient.
I shoot another -air bullet- at him, which he can't evade. It strikes him point blank and he is lifted even higher.
*WHAM*
Air bullet is a nice spell. It doesn't have much penetration power, but it packs a serious punch of physical energy.
I wait until Markorn falls down again, in his face I see pure rage. When he is about five meters above me I hit him again, pounding him upwards again.
*WHAM*
And again.
*WHAM*
And again.
*WHAM*
Mwahaha, this is fun.
*WHAM*
Though, it's disturbing that I can't do any damage to the sucker. Hmmm, what to do? A little experiment to test his defence?
*WHAM*
Let's try how you deal with one of these.
A little, fist sized red orb of energy appears in my hand. I move my hand to aim at him but Tongord grabs my hand from the side.
”That's enough. I think there isn't much value in this duel any more.” He looks wary into my face.
”I don't think we are done yet!” I answer and stare at Tongord.
*PLOP*
Markorn hits the ground with an ungraceful belly landing. He jumps up and storms to us. ”I WILL GET YOU BACK FOR THIS! YOU ….”
*RRRUUMMMBBBLLEEEE*
A distant sound can be heard like the roll of thunder. Everyone turns into the direction to see what happened.
There is a mountain in the south of Midhold. But now a little piece of it is missing near the peak. It's no big deal that would be noticeable, if you weren't looking for it. But a cloud of smoke and dust marks the place pretty good.
It must be quite the event, if you can see it from here. The mountain is pretty far away.
”Isn't that the direction, one of those red orbs of yours went Angrod?” Tongord asks me with a serious tone.
”Uuum. Yes, the orb went that direction.” I smile a forced smile at Tongord.
Then Tongord looks at my hand, in which a fist sized red orb is hovering. ”That one is bigger!”
”Uuum. Yes, this one is bigger. You are very observant today teacher.” I still smile at him.
”Dispel that thing at once! You will NOT mess up my training field!” He screams at me.
”Hmpf. Fine.” I close my hand around the orb and it is gone. The lesson is at its end anyway. Tongord cares about his training field more than his own life.
Markorn still glares at me, but he is silent now. I smirk at him and walk back to the others, who are already grouped up.
***
Some time later Celes and I are inside the car and on our way home. I take a curious look outside the window and ogle the new look of the mountain.
”You had that dangerous smile on you face again today.” -Celes
”Dangerous?” -Me
”You know, like you were really enjoying to hurt someone. And when you started to treat him like a ball to play with. Then you got that other look, like you were dissecting a rare animal.” Celes sounds a little worried.
”Hm. And I am not allowed to experiment on a bastard, who broke my fingers? And tried to kiss you? He would have survived it anyway.” -Me
Damn! That came across the wrong way! Didn't that sound like I was jealous?
”He would have survived THAT!?” -Celes
Good! She didn't realize it!
”I felt an unbelievable amount of mana inside him. Maybe that spell would have been just enough to scratch him.... ” -Me
”Do we have a problem?” -Celes
I shrug my shoulders. ”Maybe. But it's for sure that you don't acquire that much mana by natural ways.”