Chapter 146 – Book 2, Chapter 3 (1/2)
Book 2, Chapter 3 – The Young Demonhunter
Cloudhawk held the double-eged blade before hiht
The standard Skycloud weapon had four transforlaive, and a pair of short swords It could be used both up close and at a distance, could change seamlessly and easily fro short of incredible It was evidence of how great the gifts of the Gods were to their chosen
Hatchet, his stare hard and solemn, looked Cloudhawk up and down The black depths of his pupils were stark against the white of his eyes It was the saleamed as his black lips pulled back in a sneer To onlookers he was like a leopard, carefully judging from which direction to pounce on his prey
“You ready to die?”
“You still spoutin' that shi+t?” Cloudhawk flatly replied “Come”
Hatchet attacked first Each bounding step sent hi forward like the bottos After three or four steps he hit his top speed, sending clouds of dust up behind hied toward Cloudhaithout flourish, determined to tear him apart
Cloudhawk instinctively jerked away to avoid him
However, much to everyone's surprise Hatchet didn't attack at the end of his onslaught When Cloudhawk et then launched into the air The e threw hian to spin The axes in his hands glinted dangerously and carved a three hundred and sixty degree circle His trajectory brought hile The young defender still hadn't found his footing
Cloudhawk's pupils contracted, he gripped his weapon tight When the raider's axes landed, the ensuing blast of air blew his hair back The iers split open His legs couldn't support that much force, buckled, and forced him to one knee
The Bloo horror
The les and his cronies shouted praise “Good! Get 'im!”
Hatchet's grin spread wider as he jumped up, then planted his feet on Cloudhawk's chest Thankfully the armor protected hi through the air he round After carving a trench several ain some control
Then another gust of wind swept by
Cloudhawk had only just pulled his weapon out of the ground when Hatchet was in his face again He could feel the whistling air displaced by the pair of axes, he wasn't ready When the attack fell it snapped his glaive down the middle Cloudhaas left with two short swords
Clang-clang!
Hatchet spun like a tornado, a dervish of steel His axes collided with each of the young soldier's swords The large bandit was too strong – er than Cloudhawk – and so his swords were knocked easily from his hands
Hatchet planted another kick in the center of his tiny challenger's chest It was iain he was booted away He landed with a sickening crunch four or five meters away
The bandits cackled while the lowered At best the soldier was as good in a fight as Squall, what ainst this titan?
“I thought you had some oomph in ya,” Hatchet said as the concern in his facesanother spineless fuck Hahaha!”
Cloudhawk staggered back onto his feet while holding his chest Hisit seem like the two blows hadn't affected him at all
Hatchet leered at hionna take your life”
Cloudhawk stood in the crater where he'd fallen, un “Give it a shot”
His flippant response infuriated Hatchet Did the kid not understand that his weapons were gone? What ed at Cloudhawk like a hungry wolf
His death was certain The caravaners knew nothing about this stranger in their midst, yet still they were sad for his inevitable demise
But who could have expected that in this h to invite his end, only for the earth itself to respond A burst of intangible power surged forth froround buck Gravel rose froravity where it just hung in the air
Needless to say the scene stunned every witness
“This… this…”
The sleeful facades shattered, replaced by shock and alarle word took over all the space in their brains – demonhunter!
Hatchet was not immune to the surprise
In that brief interval…
Three arrows erit that choked the air In a v-shaped foret h Hatchet's body, carving out large and terrible wounds and sprinkling the earth with his blood