NOVPUB"Alduwin of the blood serpent clan? Isn’t that the....." one of the Elders floated in the air not too far away pulled out a wanted poster and compared it to Leon.
This face was Leon’s face on a tamlin group wanted poster. His biggest concern had come to fruition, he had been exposed.
"If I see a single member of the dalriss family here, I’ll make it my lifes mission to kill any member of the waterway family I find. The blood serpent boy is under my protection" Noticing the commotion Bartholomew announced. He did not doubt that the news of Leon’s appearance here would spread, in fact he did it on purpose.
He wanted the dalriss family to know that, not only was Liana under his protection, Leon was also. It was a clear provocation, especially with that fact that Leon was the prime suspect for the kidnapping of the marquee’s illegitimate son.
"Don’t worry about it blue devil, we aren’t stupid" one of the Elders said while giving the one with the poster an angry look.
Even though their family was well known they didn’t have a level 4 mage. If Bartholomew wanted to end them it would be too easy for him. The conflict between the blood serpent clan and the dalriss Household had nothing to do with them.
"Good, now let’s see what the younger generation has in store for us" Bartholomew turned his gaze to Leon who was standing in front of them and nodded.
(Okay, let’s do this)
Leon didn’t want this fight if it would cause him trouble, but seeing that Bartholomew had everything covered he felt relieved. A week, he had spent a week with Liana honing his skills.
He learnt how to really use blood serpent spells and his bloodline power, even though he didn’t fight as much, he got alot of practice in.....he was now itching for a fight.
"BloodSerpent work: BloodSerpent extensions"
Leon said and slowly four Snake constructs began emerging from his back slowly.
"Hisssssss"
"Hissssss"
The contract hissed at the sky talent as if they were living creatures, their fengs dripped with poison red as blood. This sight sent a slight shiver down the spine.
(I fucking hate snakes)
The sky talents face turned ugly. Snakes were creepy to most people, but Leon as a memebr of the blood serpent clan had no fear for them. They were closely tied to whi he was.
"Let’s get this over with" the sky talent Draven touched the floor with the tip of his sword causing a little ripple of water on the cement floor.
He had in his hand a magic treasure.
A ranker of the 30 sky mages of duan city, it was natural for him to have one of these at the very least.
"Water work: watersword whip "
With a single step forward, he disappeared and reappeared right in front of Leon.
—swoosh
From the top he swung down with a trail of water flowing at the tip of his sword, creating a sort of whiplash effect. If his sword missed the random whiplash effect would land.....for a layman this attack was unavoidable.
But the prerequisite was for the attack to actually go through.
"Hm?" Draven felt a warm wet construct slowly wrapping around his arm. His sword arm had been intercepted by Leon’s snake extension.
All he needed to do was apply pressure and be would be caught....Draven couldn’t let that happen.
"Hmp!!" He harrumphed
—shinnnng
—wooosh
With two moves he was able to not only free himself, but also cut one of Leon’s snake constructs off in the process. Before landed about 40 meters infront of Leon.
"Hmm, that’s swift," Leon smirked as visible the head of snake constructs began to form once again.
The life-energy he had in his body was much more concentrated than before, regeneration was also much faster, recreating the snake extension was quite easy.
"Let’s go again" Seeing Leon regenerate Draven prepared to lounge forward again.
—woosh
Again he was stopped....he didn’t give up though.
—woosh
—woosh
—woosh
Everytime he attacked, Leon stopped him and Everytime he was able to cut off the head of his snake construct. But never was he able to attack Leon personally.
Leon’s defence was impenetrable.
"Boooo!!!! Have you become weak kid? You haven’t even gotten him to attack yet..." from the side Bartholomew mocked Draven.
He was one of the sky mage talents of duan city....he couldn’t even injure a nobody? That was embarrassing.
(Playing mind games again? Fool me once old bastard!!!)
Draven screamed in his mind. He wouldn’t underestimate his opponent like last time. He wanted to take it slow.
(His close quarters combat and defence is pretty high, but how will he fair with long distance attacks?)
Draven mused, he then touched the tip of his sword on the floor again and streched his leg forward, assuming a fighting stance.
"Water work: flying waterblade"
A long distance attack. Draven swung forward and water as thin as paper was projected from his sword and barrelled towards Leon.
"Hmm, he’s getting serious" leon dodged casually. Even though that attack was easy to dodge, he had adopted more mana into it than his previous attacks.
(My hands are shaking...I want to go all out, but not just yet)
Leon felt his mouth watering. The amount of battles he had engaged in this life were few... And amongst them were fewer where he could really go all out.
There was his battle with Arian...at that stage he was truly fighting for his life against someone stronger than him even going as far as taking an oath to survive
Then there was his battle with the sorcerer. That’s couldn’t be really described the same as going allout.... because he had to run for his life there as the difference in strength was too much.
This one though....it had him excited. A hot blooded battle one he could go all out without worrying whether he would be killed by his opponent. He craved this.....
—shinng
—shinnnggg
—shinngggg
Waterblades came raining down at Leon, and he was able to dodge them every step of the way....it was beginning to frustrate not only Bartholomew, but Draven also.
He was trying to test Waters to see where Leones weaknesses lead. Be it in Close combat or long distant attacks...but he seemed to not have any.....
"Should i go all out ?" all of a sudden Leon’s voice resounded in the air echoing through the open area.
"Huh?" Draven squinted his brows, was Leon getting impatient? He was trying to end the battle so soon after it just started?
"Finally" Bartholomew yawned. Dodging attacks over and over again was boring to watch, this wasn’t a showcase of who had better spells. He wanted to see alien fought when he went all out.
The truth was he didn’t believe Leon could win. You just wanted to see his depths then built from there.
"Don’t fucking call me a kid ever in your life!!" As Leon was waiting for a response he was met with the most frustrated shout he had ever heard in his life. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝘤𝘰𝑚
"Ah...." Leon was flabbergasted, the kid really couldn’t control his emotion. He was getting riled up because Leon called him a kid? That was too immature.
Plus Leon’s soul was more than a thousand years old. He was older than everyone in this room...even the level 5 mage In the duan royal Palace might not even be as old as he was.
The guy was really a kid to him.
"Okay, no more small talk let’s in this" Leon smiled and freed his hands.
"BloodSerpent work: blood shield"
Two of his blood serpent extensions stretched forward and all of a sudden blood red translucent force field Shields appeared in front of him.
" blood serpent work: blood projectiles"
The other two rested on his shoulders and in front of their nostrils spear tipped projectiles made from blood appeared in front of them.
Meanwhile then Leon folded up the sleeves of his shirt seemingly preparing for a fist fight.
"That’s Liana’s auxiliary spell....did Liana decide on an inheritor already?"
The spells Leon had just activated were part of a set called the Blood Serpent Scared Warrior Set. They were set of spells that worked together to achieve a higher flexibility and damage output.
Liana used to use this spell when she was a level two warlock herself. He knew this because he knew liana before she became the leader of the blood serpent Clan
"Hmmm, well then....this should be more interesting than I thought" Bartholomew mused.....
—woosh
This time, Leon went on the offensive. He dashed forward towards Draven with all his strength. No dodgimg, Other than the blood Shields in front of him, he had no line of defence.
—Boom
—Boom
—Boom
With the help of his magic weapon Draven shot waterblades at Leon hoping to crack his defence spell.
But this was not enough
—Boom!!
Leon was able to close the distance in no time. As soon as he did, the blood serpent extensions parted ways allowing him to land a Punch directly at Draven.
—Boom
The true battle had begun.
