Before Ray could get to where Gray and the middle age man were fighting, he saw a body flying in the sky before crashing on the ground. Taking a closer look Ray recover that the one that was sent flying , Ray ran to him before giving him a hand.

" Are you alright sir Gray" asked Ra

" Yeah am good, it just a little scratch" replied Gray while getting up with a groa

Turning to look at who came to give him a hand and that's when he notices it was Ray and something about him felt strange. Taking a closer look he discovered that Ray aura felt differen

" Did you recently breakthrough" asked Gray with a shocking look on his fac

" Yeah, I actually breakthrough when we chase after that bandit that ran away" replied Ray with a smile on his fac

' no wonder there was a disturbance in the atmosphere recently' thought Gra

Turning to look at the middle age man in the distance, Ray couldn't help but aske

" How is the situation going"

" Not good, he seem to know a technique that is difficult to predict when and where it will hit making the battle hard for me to handle" replied Gra

Picking his spear up, Gray headed back to continue his battle with the middle age man and on his way , Ray ran up to him and said to hi

" It's possible that the orb is with him" said Ray looking at the middle age ma

" And how did you get to know about that" asked Gra

" Well we have already search through the storage ring of the others and we were not able to find it" replied Ra

" Then I will have to take it from him right after I cripple him"said Gra

" How in the world are you going to beat him" asked Ray while looking at the arrogant Gra

" I will just have to try" Gray replied before he continue to walk forwar

" And where do you think you're going" asked Gray when he saw Ray was still follo

" Am going together with you to battle the him" replied Ray in seriousness

" Just because you breakthrough doesn't make you qualified to battle him" said Gra

" We'll have to see about that" replied Ra

" So you still have the strength to get up and what's the deal of bring that kid with you" asked the middle age man while chucklin

" And who told you he's with me, he's all on his own" Gray yelled at the middle age man before turning to Ray and sai

" Listen up kid, make sure not to get in my way later on

Ray ignore gray and continue to walk while taking his blade from the scabbard before dashing at the middle age man and when he is closed enough he swing his blade at him only for the middle age man for the his attack to be deflect by the middle age ma

With a smile on his face the middle age man said to Ra

" Trying to compete with me in swordplay, you must be joking

Adding some strength to his hand, the middle age man pushed his sword forward which send Ray back and unbalanced, he was just about to slash at Ray but that's when he notices the killing intent that was heading his way. Pulling his sword back, he was able to defend himself from the attack sent by Gra

" Hey freak, am your opponent not him" said Gray while catching is spear in mid ai

The middle age man chuckle before dashing at Gray while sending sending attack. Using his spear Gray was able to deflect the attacks before pushing himself from the ground send a throwing his spear at the middle age man while following behind i

Kicking the spear to the side while sending a slash at Gray, Gray was able to knock his sword from his hand the moment it came in contac

After which they started with hand to hand combat, dodging and hitting each other with all they got while a loud bang could be heard from their battle.

Taking a look at them as they battle, Ray decided to wait for the moment when the middle age man will be exhausted before making his mov

Their battle continue for a long time before things were able to calm down and by the time they were done fighting, they separated from each other and began to pant heavily with a lot of injuries all over their bod

" Hahaha, nice one boy. Why don't we try that one more time" said the middle age man who seen to be enjoying the fight even though he was seriously injure

" Sorry freak but its time for you to die" replied Gray before removing a spear from his storage rin

" Oh , are you that confident that you can beat me" asked the middle age man while taking a sword from his storage rin

Gray just stood there while looking at the middle age man and at the same time gathering energy on the spear like he's going for a powerful attack

Standing by the opposite side, the middle age man was also gathering energy on his sword while waiting for the right time to strike

Meanwhile while all this was happening, Ray was just staring at the two of them in preparation to make a move right after their attack only to end up gathering bored of waiting and was thinking of launching an attacked but that when he saw Gray and the middle age man push forward with great force with their weapons pointed at each with the intention of ending the fight with this very attac

Thrusting his spear forward with great might when he was in range to attack but before he could land a hit, he saw the middle age man used that same technique that sent him fly once again but this time, he only used it to move himself from the spear range and send a powerful slash at Gray who was completely drained from the attack he just used.