Chapter 54 - A New Skill (1/2)

With my back against the old man, we each had two opponents in front of us. The situation we were in was bad. The old man had no weapons and all I held in my hand was the wooden training sword.

While the enemies in front of us had real physical weapons.

The old man glanced at my weapon.

”Judging by the sword you're wielding you're a student of Avrion academy, I'm sorry for getting you into this mess. Just delay them as long as you can and I can deal with the rest.”

With that, the old man quickly went towards his two opponents. I didn't have time to see how he was faring against them, for the two dark guild members in front of me started to move.

Luckily there was one thing in my favour. It was night time and the alley had a lot of shadows. It was the most ideal scenario for me to use the black sash skills that I had learnt.

Using the shadows and my footwork I moved out of sight form the two in front of me. I then appeared behind one of the men ready to strike at his neck but before my blade could reach, I sensed a presence from my left. I moved back quickly, avoiding the strike.

If I was a few seconds slower, my head would be rolling on the floor right now. This was going to be a lot harder than I had originally thought. On their own perhaps I would have a chance, but with two of them.

The two men quickly came at me, I couldn't use my weapon to block their sword, it would just slice my wooden stick in half. What I needed now was speed and to be unpredictable.

I stuck the wooden sword in my mouth and went on all fours to use my beast form. Using the walls of the alleyway allowed me to jump from side to side. Using the strength of my fingers I was able to dig into the wall and hang onto them.

I pounced towards the two of them trying to strike with the blade in my mouth moving from one side to the next.

I managed to hit one of them right in the stomach but as I tried to move forward the sword wouldn't budge. It felt as if I was pushing against a boulder. I used all my strength to carry on moving forward, then the wooden sword broke into several pieces.

I didn't have time to wonder what had happened, I jumped up to the wall in front of me, and hung down to take a look at the man. The man stood there absolutely fine as if nothing had happened.

”Looks like the boy doesn't know how to use Ki.” The man said to the other.

”We were afraid for no reason, he will never be able to hurt us.”

The situation was grim, I had no weapon and it seemed like my attacks where useless.

One of the men jumped towards me with his blade. I jumped off to avoid the strike heading towards the ground.

When I landed, the other man came at me with a piercing strike. There was no chance for me to beat these two now. I had no choice but to run away.

When I was just about to disappear into the shadows I heard the old man's voice.

”Grab his arm and pull him towards you,” he shouted.