Chapter 31: First real fight (1/2)
A Slave Whip is a weapon created and used by a subclass of the Tamer with the name Slaver. Instead of bonding with the creature, the Slaver tried to tame it; he breaks its spirit with his whip and makes it 100% loyal.
There are different types of Slave Whips, and when someone becomes a Slaver, one of the first things he can choose is which type he wants to create and is given free by the System. Still, only specific ones are available that way. After that, he needs to craft others, and their recipes aren't easy to find and are consumable.
This is one of those choices, and the different whips were for the type of target he wanted to Tame or, more specifically, to Enslave.
If the target was a good-hearted one, he had to use the white while the black was for the evil-hearted ones. The grey was for ones who weren't belonging fully at either. If he tried to use one on a target who doesn't belong to the right category, it would just pass through it without damaging him. They were similarly made as Energy Weapons but were enchanted differently to affect specific targets and have unique effects on them.
Shingi took a quick glance at his status and checked his SP, which he had used a little when he used ACCELERATION and his Mana, which was at 80%. He couldn't delay the battle as the Player didn't seem to care anymore, and he was ready for action.
But at least there was some good news.
He wanted to fight Shingi by himself and even made a signal to his Tamed creatures and other players to stay put.
But this didn't mean that this was going to be an easy fight. Shingi's attack abilities were pretty much nonexistent against a player like that. Even casting the DOME OF SILENCE like last time wasn't an option cause of two reasons.
Firstly it took too much time to cast and too much mana, and even if he won the fight with this, he wouldn't be able to fight the other Players after that.
The second reason is that even if he did that, it didn't mean that he would be able to damage him even if he surprised him. His spell won't last for long for him to lower his health to 0.
He could tell that his equipment wasn't as simple as the one the other players were wearing and was granting him more defense. He seemed more perceptive, so he may escape the DOME since it stays in place, and one can get in and out of it or even counter some of his attacks if he was too wise as Shingi thought of him to be.
As for running away, it still wasn't an option as he probably was a high AGI character. The Player could command his wolf to capture him if he tried to escape either way.
Shingi tried to make a plan, but the Player in front of him didn't let him think much as he made his move and attacked with all his whips at the same time. Of course, it was a waste of energy to use all of them as the lashes took some of its user's SP. The more you used at the same time, the more the cost, but he wanted to see what whip would affect him.
Shingi enabled his ACCELERATION, avoided the attack, and tried to keep the skill active only when needed, not to waste any SP.
He focused on his enemy and his surroundings to see if something could be used for his benefit.
Shingi threw some Earth Mana stones he created at his target. Since he didn't do it with casting ROCK THROW, it was using his IMPROVISED THROW WEAPON skill. It made it pretty much impossible for his target to avoid it since the stone was completed quickly; it turned in dust in impact. Shingi was aiming his face; it blinded him for few seconds and gave Shingi some time to breathe here and there.
He wanted to use his MARTIAL ART with his ACCELERATION to throw him off possibly and may cause some damage. Still, even with his speed, he didn't have enough time to do that, especially since he could maybe hit him with his whip while he was down, and Shingi couldn't allow it.
He wasn't afraid of the possible damage but of the effect, it would have on him.
The fight continued like that, with the Player throwing some taunts on Shingi to make an opening. He was mostly saying that he would find his sister and deal with her after dealing with him. Still, Shingi was used on those strategies, and they couldn't affect him, or at least not as his opponent wanted to affect him.
Shingi never had a good relationship with his family. It wasn't like he had considered Annoue fully like his big sister, but she was someone who seemed to mean a lot to her, which was something new for him. Even if he didn't consider her as a brother would normally consider his sister, it was the closest to that than what he had felt with his real-world family.
So those words made him somewhat angry, but he knew to control this anger and made it a weapon and not a weakness.
During the week he passed, he pushed his body to its limit every day, and other than the increase of his stats, he had also unlocked something else. Suppose he reached a similar state of being near his limit. In that case, he could get his body in a state even stronger than it would be past his limits, For a short time. After that, every action of his would use double the SP it would typically use and more frequently, so it was something he couldn't use whenever. He could stay in that state for 5 secs, and no matter what action he did, he wouldn't spend a single SP, and he could also use his ACCELERATION and MARTIAL ART at their real limit.
This way would be the only way to win this fight. If he defeated him since no one could command the wolf but its Tamer, he would have a great chance to escape.
And so he enabled his ACCELERATION skill and threw an Earth mana stone at the Player. Even if he couldn't avoid it in time, he put his hand in the way to not let the dust get in his eyes.
Shingi expected, as he appeared in front of him and cast a Spell right in the face of the Player.
That spell was LIGHT, and he made it to be as bright as he could make it and kept his eyes closed.
The Player was too slow to do something against that, and this let him get blind, but instead of holding his face, he made an attack in front of him in the place Shingi was.
But Shingi had already moved behind him and was moving at a speed, way faster than before. If one could follow his moves and see him clearly and not the afterimages he was leaving, they would notice some differences.
Firstly his neck was full of veins, and they were like spreading and appearing on his face too as time passed, some blood had started getting out his nose, and lastly, his eyes have become pure black. They were usually red, which wasn't normal, but he didn't mind it since no one said anything about it, but it was dark red but not too dark. But this time, it was completely dark without any red left in them.
And so Shingi started his counter by hitting the Player's legs first to make him fall to be easier to reach his face since the Player was taller than his child-size body. Then he attacked his main hand, which he held the whip to make it harder for him to fight if he failed, and disarmed him. And it didn't take too much to make the whip be released from his hand as he kicked it away by kicking the handle and avoiding making contact with any of the lashes. Then he focused on the head, which didn't have any protection by the armor since he wasn't wearing a helmet, and punched him with as many attacks as he could.