Burning Soul

As Theo closed into his leverage point, he knew that this wasn’t going to be easy, any single mistake and the tables would turn.

“If I stay like this, how am I supposed to get stronger!

It’s time we overcome the limits!” Theo was resolved to take on the enemy.

After getting to the treeline nearby he took a glance at the enemy to understand their movements.

Being daylight, they were quite active and were on guard as well, unlike the nighttime, Theo had no way to get them by surprise. If he failed, he knew it’d turn into a melee.

After giving it a final thought, he decided to use the combo skill just as due to the increased risk. Without the combo, the damage would decrease, and it would increase the chances of the enemy getting away unscathed.

He then drew his swords out and stood on the branch looking at them, closing his eyes he leapt forward in faith! As he descended to the ground, he activated the first skill from the combo,

Shadow Step

With it, he jumped in the shadow realm through one of their shadows, without anyone noticing.

Overdrive Pounce Striking lance, back-to-back activating the combo with additional buffs.

Just as they looked back, Theo emerged out of one of the shadows. And activated the skills not to mention the next one was following,

Lateral Collision.

‘Swoosh!’

With the last hit, every last one of the enemy standing was now cut to half.

The outcome was rather satisfactory yet unexpected, it looked like his attributes were boosted, right now he had no way to look at that.

‘Looks like Fate Power works better than I thought, what else did we get?’ ‘

Just as he was thinking he felt someone’s presence, suddenly he turned around to check whose gaze he felt.

‘I’m sure there was someone!’ Although he couldn’t see anyone, he felt someone.

‘Damn, is there someone who can erase their presence that well?’ He was a bit baffled.

“Now the real challenge begins, let’s see how you play when you are not in an advantageous position, kid” Aeneas who was watching this all sat on top of the tree nearby to get a good view of the scene.

‘Crap!’ Theo was confused at the situation, he could feel someone being there but was unable to see, which proved to be a drawback.

“Looks like I got no other option” He then closed his eyes and activated ‘Mana Sense’.

A few moments later he opened his eyes and moved a few steps hurriedly, at the next instance the place he was standing was hit by a high tier magical attack.

‘Oye Oye don’t tell me..’ he looked at the scene with dumbstruck eyes as from the flames his enemy emerged.

‘A warlock!’

‘This is bad! I can use only this one skill and he’s out of the question for close battle!’ Theo cursed inwardly at the situation.

‘Still, there is no other way!’ He charged in just like that. Both swords were inoffensive charge, he planned to test how strong this warlock was and also to test the probability of close combat.

‘Accel’

Closing in, he sped up to activate one of the skills form a combination,

‘Lateral Collision’

A sharp noise of metal screeching echoed through the forest

‘Damn he’s good!’ His head-on attack was blocked by the warlock most embarrassingly, he had stopped the blade by the back of his palm, the sound was the blade hitting on the armour.

By looks, the warlock was rather on the short side and looked more like a human kid with two horns on the forehead. Holding onto its staff while wearing a hoodie, its attire was screaming shadiness.

After taking a step back he charged in again,

This time he jumped right next to him rather surprising him,

Overdrive Pounce – Striking Lance

Using combination, he landed a direct hit.

But to no avail, it was blocked yet again.

“Oye kid! Use your brain!

Charging in blindly won’t do any good, tell me what you notice!” Aeneas yelled at him through the communicator.

“He’s got good physical attack resistance, being a warlock, he must have good resistance to magic as well!

I tried pouring in mana in the blade but he is damn good!” Theo replied while charging in again.

This time he didn’t use any skill but rather just drew some slash while pouring in Mana!

“Listen, warlocks are not that difficult target if you know exactly what you need to do,

Stun him first, cause a bit of chaos and land a heavy hit.

Then use your trump card!” Aeneas said as if it was so easy for Theo but right now he had no other option

‘Let’s do this then’ He stepped back a few steps to charge in again.

‘Accel – Boost’

With add-on buffs, his speed increased significantly!

He charged in pouring mana in the blade,

Lateral Collision

Warlock read his movements and stood with a stance to block it, but

Theo forced his body to the left side with all his might almost injuring his legs,

Overdrive Pounce – Striking Lance

This time he was successful in stunning it.

“Now!” Aeneas said it out loud

Boost – Lateral Collision

While pouring in quite a lot of Mana he charged in,

The strategy worked with him being able to land a direct hit on the Warlock.

“Yeah! I did it!” Theo was overjoyed with the result.

He looked at the way where the Warlock was sent flying,

But it wasn’t there!

‘What!’ Theo had a confused look

“Who said it’d be that easy!” Aeneas spoke in a low voice

Suddenly a wave of chill ran through Theo’s nerves and he jumped a bit farther, to his surprise that warlock emerged from a shadow right where he was standing.

‘Oho! You have an affinity to the shadow realm huh! Let’s see how you use it!’ Aeneas thought to himself while looking at the scenes unfolding in front of his eyes.

‘Did he just use Shadow Step! That’s bad!’ Theo was sweating from all the action,

“Screw you!” Theo cursed and charged in yet again, this time Warlock was prepared for everything

Or was he!

Activate Domain – Shadow