Outcast Hunter

[Ancient Mythlogical Monster]

[Giant Slayer, Kratos]

Seven foot tall, well built and its existence looks terrifying itself. Priscilla felt chills ran down her spine when their eyes met. It was dark, like there's another being staring at her from those eyes.

"He showed up too soon. I was saving the Boss for the last'

Kratos was Leo's last monster he needs to capture, aside from two more type of monster.

"I sensed a sinister aura coming from here and look what I have found"

He has a two-handed longsword with him, dragging around behind him. The space was swept away and the trees were completely cut down and the space was wide open so that the two could fight. Concern and fear filled the King and Queen and the others watching the feed shown by the Voyeur. The King could not help but be frightened..

Kratos was known as cruel, battle frenzy and don't know when to give up. He has already destroyed a lot of Villages and killed a number of humans and monsters. He once fought a group of Giants and other powerful .monsters.

He fought them all by himself and came out victor. He became more powerful and cruel upon receiving the title of Giant Slayer and Ancient Mythological Monster. He was addicted, begged and looked for more.

Leo's sword looked smaller compared to Kratos'. Leo told Priscilla to step aside and don't interfere. She knows that she won't be that much of help. Such scary monster would or get rooted by her petty vines.

She went behind a small tree and watched the two staring at each other face to face.

Both stood firm against each other, staring intently at each other.

"What's that guy doing?! Why isn't he running?! Priscilla! At least get out of there!"

"The young man has got guts. Let's just hope that he came back alive"

Leo pulled a punch.

"The fight has began!"

The spectators gave a variety of noise and screams when Leo punched his opponent.

"This has a pack to it"

Kratos caught Leo's fist and used his other hand to threw a punch, after sticking his sword to the ground. Leo, he immediately let go of his sword and caught Kratos' hand too.

Tension between them intensified. Both exerts force to crush each other's hand. They felt no pain, continuing what had started.

Kratos snarled at him, his spits spurting everywhere from his half-sewn mouth.

"Disgusting!"

He headbutted Kratos. Both has tough skull, feeling pain from their head coursing through their whole body.

Upon letting go of each other's hand, heavy blows and barrage of punches was thrown within a split second. Both took damage and both blocks one's attack.

So far, their fight had the Fallonians' attention only to their battle. Their throat dried and their eyes solely on the battle and did not bat an eye, left astounded.

Ir must be because of Leo. They were not expecting this scene. What they pictured inside their head was Leo getting brutally killed.

"A-amazing!"

The word that every one could muttered out of their mouth.

Kratos punched Leo's face and he did the same. Leo kneed him twice in the stomach and he did the same. He kicked Leo and Leo kicked him. What one does to the other was done to him.

After their minute of nonstop, consecutive punches, kicking and blocking, they stopped and both were panting.

"That was a good warm-up"

Kratos said, cracking his knuckle's bones and spits a small portion of blood.

"There's no better warm-up than that"

It's time to get serious. Both picked their sword up. They gave gap between each other and in a flash, a loud clash of sword echoed throughout the forest, making the other participants to stopped what they were doing, staring into the direction, where the explosion of powerful aura came from.

Priscilla's naked eye could barely follow their movement as the two monster's swords collided with each other. Parrying each other's attacks, something like excitement has been woken up inside them. Leo let out a wide smile whilst Kratos' facial expression remained the same. His mouth sewn off, and could speak through telepathy.

"Why don't we stir things up a bit more?"

'Ghost'

Leaving behind a copy of him, he continued where they left off. His speed was undoubtedly superior to Kratos'. Bit by bit, slowly, Leo was overwhelming his enemy, Kratos getting push back. He was forced to use his skill to put up defend himself properly.

'Resiliency'

He will feel no pain and his skin will be three times tougher than ever. Kratos has grazes and hollow cuts within his scarred body.

Gust of wind cleared the dried leaves on the ground. The air was mixed with dust that would took anyone's vision away for a few second if contacted in the eye.

Leo lunged in, striking the not-defending Kratos. Its body sounded like steel. It made no scratch in his hard skin. Kratos laughed triumphantly. He hit himself and proved that he was even tougher than before.

Leo switched his sword to his left when his mana-created arm had dispersed. Kratos had thrust forward. Producing his arm would be too late, but he insisted. With both hands, his enemy strike down.

[Your skill Mana Manipulation has leveled up and its name has been changed into Mana Pool]

The Mana around Leo became stagnant. The floating around mana had created a barrier for Leo, blocking Kratos' strike.

He slashed, strike and thrust nonstop. No barrier could hold such destructive blows. Upon noticing that the barrier would break any second, Kratos became eager and increased his slashing.

Leo lowered his sword to his waist and waited for the barrier to break down. He bit his lower lip.

"HAH!!!"

The barrier broke down and the mana dispersed in the air. Like a gust of wind, Leo dashed trough the flow of air. Kratos had his sword raised when he noticed Leo had vanished from his vision.

"Where is he?!" He felt a chill in the back of his head and shifted swiftly. "Gone?!"

Leo was aiming for his nape. Kratos was sharp so he has to prone and crawl between its legs. He cut its tendons and slipped in between.

He knelt down as he groaned. He saw Leo approaching so he had to block its attack. It was feint, the slash was. Leo's real aim was to knock him out cold with his clenched-tight hand. He noticed it earlier, when Leo tried to cut its neck it dodged. That gave him an idea that his neck was vulnerable.

The seven foot tall, well-built monster had flung away. He aid his neck and gagged out blood.

"I can't... lose consciousness! Uwah!"

He's coughing blood from his sewn mouth and his voice was cracking, making speaking hard for him. Even though it was telepathy and it was his mind speaking. Those words were still from his mouth.

"I won't let this end like this!"

'Check Point'

Kratos stood up as if nothing had happened. His tendon's healed to and he does not look he's in great pain anymore.

"Cut me some slack! He just regenerated from all that"

Kratos bursts into sinister laughter. His face grim and his eyes staring intently at Leo's eyes.

"If it weren't for my skill I would be out cold. Ahh, that look in your eye, I could see those souls staring back at me. It's chilling"

Kratos had definitely changed and had a power up. He's even more taller and the aura and mana around him was in a mess.

'Giant Slayer, Godsword of Avalon!'

He became one with his sword, fusing as one. Although there has been no changes in his appearance, Leo don't know about its strength.

Like a thunder that strike from the clouds, Kratos went in a flash and pierced a hole to Leo's shoulder using its index finger.

He grunted and had bitten his lip causing it to bleed. Kratos was not done, it was followed by a knee in his stomach and he was slammed in the ground. Leo groaned as he lied flat on the ground.

Leo has no time to recover, Kratos did not allow him to got back on his feet. Priscilla's former happy smile was replaced by fear, when Leo getting beat to a pulp. She wanted to help, but her feet, she could not move and could not raise her hands so she could use her magic. The blows were already passing as if a sword had cut him when Kratos' fist hit him.

Leo used Ghost and Misty step to recover his lost HP and to properly put up a fight against Kratos. After he leaped to a distance, his enemy followed his scent and soon, he was found. He switched to his copy and he was able to refill his lost HP.

Leo jerked his head, dodging his enemy's arm. He leaped back and picked up his sword.

[You can charged your Mana Pool with the souls stored inside the Soul Amassing Sword and create a powerful explosion made from mana]

[Do you want to charge your skill with 100 souls? YES OR NO]

'Mana Manipulation was upgraded into Mana Pool. My right arm, it is not going away anymore. And, the more I stack inside this arm, the powerful the explosion will be'

He said Yes to the system and he felt his arm getting heavier.

'Let's see how big of an explosion it will create!'

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