"Lady Camella, should we stop them?" Asked by a concerned elf captain.
The familiar figure was none other than Camella, she chuckles and shakes her head.
"Don’t worry, their weapons aren’t high grade enough for it to cause any damage on the two of them."
The two were using weapons that are used by common soldiers, it wasn’t sharp nor even tough enough to even pierce through their skin, once the blade hits their bodies, it will break.
The elves that knows Sean’s identity are still worried.
"Don’t worry too much and just watch the show, after all, don’t you think that it’s strange that Marie is present in this area?"
The elves were stunned, she’s right! The shop owner might be a good friend of Marie but she doesn’t shop here.
"She’s the one stationed to protect Sean, you should know how serious she takes her duties." The elves finally relaxes.
’Now then, how will you proceed, Marie?’ She smirks.
Marie was frowning, she was slowly being pressured by Sean’s strike.
Her style is one decisive strike, with her current weapon, if she tries to move in her real speed, it will break before even touching Sean’s clothes.
Sean might not be focused at using swords when fighting but he’s a quick learner and with his constant battle using his martial arts, he can transform the sword into an extension of his body.
BANG!
She feels her sword trembling after blocking one of his spinning strikes.
’Using spin to add more power in his strike while not really putting too much force in his strike so that his sword won’t break.’ She instantly discovers what he’s doing.
Sweep, parry, slash, parry, thrust, parry.
Each strikes that supposed to be an offensive strike can be chained into a parry, he also adds his own twist in his attacks.
’There is no opening!’ She was shocked to discover that his wild movements carries deception of full of opening.
There’s no way for her to strike, if she stabs, he would twist his body and also at the same time attack.
’Hahaha! Now you know what I felt when I was fighting! If you know just how terrifying his martial arts are, you would be given a bigger surprise!’ Camella was inwardly laughing.
He hates those that are saying that he had been defeated by Sean in pure physical combat because she was holding back.
As a beastman, she admires the strong, she was in awe when she fought against Sean, this emotion only increases as he achieve more.
She strongly believes that his title back in his world, Miracle Child, is well suited for someone like him.
The battle rages on and the elves present are mesmerized, the two aren’t moving too fast for them, still, they weren’t stopping and their movements are quite fluid and smooth.
Especially Sean, twist, spin, sudden thrust and hacking are all done in such smoothness that those that are watching are thinking that it must not be that hard to do.
Marie was graceful, her strikes are blinding, she thrusts more than three times in just one attack, each aiming at vital points.
Sean, would "luckily" dodge them with his body or by his sword.
"Those that are watching might not notice it because the transition is so smooth, it feels like it was his first decision in the first place." Camella states.
"What did we not notice, Lady Camella?" The elf captain was mesmerized and doesn’t want to miss anything.
"His movements are the same, it’s very difficult to do if you don’t have the same body as him."
"The same?" She was stunned, she didn’t really understand her words.
"Yes, the movements of his attacks are the same as his parries, that means that he’s basically attacking and defending at the same time, he can shift the direction of his attacks ever so slightly, becoming a parry, he can chain his parries into attacks, that’s why Marie is having difficulty keeping tracks of his attacks, she must consider his blocks and defense as attack also."
’It is so similar to that move! That move that redirects all attacks sent to him either to another direction or back to the attacker.’ She notices the similarities of his current style to a certain martial art that he practices.
She is right, Sean is using Redirection to direct the attacks away but because of the nature of Marie’s attack, he can redirect it back to her.
Suddenly, his style once again changes, becoming more erratic, he grabs the scabbard and starts going wild.
’Two handed?’ They were stunned but their expression changes when he starts linking his attacks and parries in combos.
’I believe him now, with such a way of fighting, he can use anything as a weapon, he’s definitely a better martial artist than he is as a swordsman.’ Marie thought as she was slowly being pushed back by his relentless assault.
His movements are rough to those that can’t follow his speed.
"Hahaha! How amusing, seeing the sword obsessed elf sword saint being pushed by someone who’s clearly new to the path of the sword!"
Camella isn’t going to lower her voice, she has been teased by her ever since her battle with Sean, she’s going to do the same.
Marie purses her lips as her movement suddenly changes.
Sparks flies as she’s no longer fighting defensively.
She’s going to overwhelm him with numbers.
’She got me good.’ Sean thought as he was slowly being pushed back by the sudden shift.
The only reason why he’s pushing her back earlier is because she has a hard time following his sword strikes.
It seems that she’s trying to guide him earlier but now, she’s fighting to win.
Sean is no longer trying to attack, he plants two feet on the floor and prepares himself.
PENG! PENG! PENG!
He’s blocking all the attacks, reading the movements and anticipating them.
Camella, who was watching everything grins, the situation is going exactly as her plan.
’That ability of his that can read the intention of his opponent, it’s almost as if he can see through the future.’
Gripping her fist, she expects something to happen.
Suddenly, against the barrage of dizzying strikes, Sean pushes forward, taking a step towards his opponent.
Camella screams inwardly, this is the thing that she expected to happen.
Marie’s eyes widens like they had seen a ghost, Sean didn’t just block her attacks, he adapted to it.
Reading her trajectories, blocking the strikes before it hit him, this was just the first phase.
As he becomes more experienced at her rhythm, he finally arrives at the second conclusion.
He recognizes her attack before she can even move.
She can’t accept this, suddenly, she assumes a striking pose that’s disregard her earlier graceful poise.
"That idiot!" Camella’s expression changes.
’Huh? Another brand new technique?’ Sean was confused.
BANG!
Her sword was destroyed, this strike of hers was too much for the sword.
Sean not knowing what to do stares at her with confusion.
"Did I just?" She was mortified on just what she did.
Suddenly, a familiar voice snaps her out of her daze.
Camella was laughing her guts out, she can’t believe what she just saw, seeing her friend’s expression after the realization was too much.
"That’s enough, aren’t you going to tour the other places?" She shooes away Sean, who was still confused on what to do in the current situation.
"Miss perfect was actually forced to use one of her technique just to hit Sean once." Seeing everyone leaves because of the intense pressure from Marie, Camella immediately teases her.
Taking a deep breath, she ignores her good friend and follows after Sean.
She might be angry of herself and extremely embarrassed but she still takes her duty seriously.
Meanwhile, Sean was deep in thought.
’Since when had I become like this? Was it after I become strong enough to not fear death or much earlier?’
A battle junky, one who likes to fight strong opponents.
’Am I just naturally curious about my capabilities?’
From his memories, he wasn’t one who challenge just anyone he encounters, so he can’t really call himself one.
He doesn’t know anymore, he just knows that during any battle, he would become excited and his stray thoughts would disappear, he feels at peace.
Peace!?
Suddenly, he freezes, he realizes something, he still carries his overthinking habit but every time he fights, many of his thoughts would disappear, focusing only in the fight.
He now understand why he likes fighting so much, it gives his mind a way to find peace.
The next place they visited was a wide area covered only with flowers, there are many cute tiny fairies going about.
"So beautiful." He can’t help but mutter in a daze.
"This place is one of our pride, each elven world contains multiple gardens with different types of flowers and our world is amongst those that rank in the middle!" The head maid proudly brags.
"I think your ranking is going to go up by one place or two, once your mother tree recovers her vitality, it will also affect everything inside of this world."
The maids aren’t surprised by his statement, nor, do they doubt it.
This is just how important the Tree of Life to any elven world, it closely tied to their own advancement.
The older the tree and the more vibrant it is, the stronger the creatures inside of it’s world body.
Especially, the elves, since they are directly under it and the mother tree also considers them it’s children.
"I think I’m going to build a similar place when I go back to our home world. If you guys visit my home using the portal, I want you to rate it."
The elves were surprised but they heard that his world has a Tree of Life, with it and his own unique abilities, he can create a similar place.
"Are you going to collect beautiful flowers from different worlds? I just know which worlds has the most beautiful flower available to purchase." One of the maids proudly states.
"No, I’m going to grow flowers that can only be found by the worlds connected to ours and also the flowers of our world, you can call it some sort of hobby when we try to take back our world from the undead and demon race."
They can’t understand what he’s thinking but this doesn’t stop them from agreeing with him.
The next place they visited shaken him to his core.
A lake made up entirely of Mana condensed into liquid.
"Amazing!" He exclaim.
This definitely taken years to create, Mana is different from spiritual energy, it also contains different types of energies to create one.
The most compatible energy is life force, the second is immense elemental energy.
To create a lake entirely made up of it, such endeavor is something that he can’t imagine.
"This lake is protected by one of our world’s guardian beasts, that’s why we aren’t afraid of anyone trying to absorb it."
World Beasts! The synonym of invincibility.
They are the last vanguard of high tier worlds that are lucky enough to encounter one.
"World Beasts, I know a couple of them from one of the worlds connected to ours, one is a giant turtle that can reshape lands and control the ocean, one is a lucky beast that grants luck and blessings."
They were stunned to hear that he’s friends with two World Beast but realizing who they are talking to, their shock disappears, what’s left was only admiration.
"Can I talk to the World Beast?" He asks.
"Unfortunately, you can’t, it’s not that we don’t want to ask but because the World Beast can’t come out, it’s now in a deep state of slumber."
He slaps his forehead. "How stupid I am! Of course it can’t talk, the world was plunge into a state of weakness because of it’s former condition, of course, the World Beast would be deeply affected."
The maids raises their hands and lowers it, they want to explain the situation to him but it seems that he already discovered the truth.
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