Miko and Tang were in the middle of their long awaited battle. Miko had ducked under a punch and aimed an uppercut at Tang’s chin, but Tang moved back and avoided it before kicking Miko in the side. Miko’s body was forced to the side, but he pounced at Tang with a palm strike and stopped short from hitting his face before kicking him from the other side. The palm strike was just a fake.

“……”

Tang leaped to opposite side to reduce the damage that he would take from the kick and then pounce at Miko with a knee strike. Miko jumped and blocked the knee strike with his own knee and then jabbed at Tang’s face while midair. Tang moved his head and the punch missed him completely. The two’s feet touched the ground the same time.

“!”

Miko jabbed at Tang’s throat with his claws and Tang deflected Miko’s claw by quickly pushing it to the side before it hitting him; he then took a step forward and slammed his fist in Miko’s stomach and twisted it.

“Dragon Corkscrew!”

*Bam!*

A spiral force traveled through Miko’s body and ripped a hole in his clothes in the front and back.

“……!”

Tang suddenly got his arm grabbed by Miko, who twisted it and then in an instant lifted his knee up while dragging his arm down.

*Crack!*

A breaking sound could be heard as Tang’s arm was broken over Miko’s knee.

*Bam!*

Tang hit Miko in the face with a palm strike and forced him to release his arm. He then spun around and aimed a kick at Miko’s head. Miko ducked under it and went for the tackle.

“?!”

He, however, had to leap to the side to avoided an ax kick to the top of his head.

(He knew that the roundhouse kick would miss so he didn’t put his all into it so that he could stop his leg mid-swing and then swing it for an axe kick.)

Miko smiled.

“He’s really a martial arts genius.”

He placed his hand on his stomach.

(I protected my organs with Vita so I didn’t take much damage, but that was close.)

“You’ve gotten so much better, Miko. I can tell how much you’ve trained to reach this point.”

Tang said. Miko laughed.

“You make it sound like you’ve seen the limit of my abilities.”

“I can pretty much gauge it. I can tell that if the me that defeated you more than half a year ago faced the current you it wouldn’t even be a contest.”

Miko smiled.

“If that’s the case, then doesn’t that mean that you matured quite a bit yourself? Otherwise, you would’ve lost already.”

Tang said nothing and just smiled as he fixed his arm.

“So even when complimenting me you’re just blowing your own horn? How arrogant.”

Miko’s palms started glowing.

“You kinda remind me of another guy. I think that you guys would’ve hit it off if he was still alive.”

He took a fighting stance.

“Since he’s not alive I’ll introduce you to his fighting style that I improved upon and made my own.”

Miko’s feet started glowing.

*Bam!*

A burst of concentrated flames came from his feet as he flew towards Tang. He threw a punch and fired a laser at him. Tang gathered lightning in his palm and thrust it and blocked the laser; causing an explosion of flames and lightning.

*Swoosh!*

Lasers flew through the explosion and flew towards Tang.

“……”

Tang ignored it and spun around and swung his leg that was coated with electricity. He leg clashed with Miko’s glowing palm and deflected a laser. The laser he ignored hit a wall of electricity and wasn’t able to reach him. He scanned the area with his eyes and saw hundreds of orbs of lightning surrounding him. The orbs started firing lasers at him from every angle.

“Heh.”

Tang stood and waited until the lasers were all a mere seconds from hitting him. As the first one was about to touch him, he moved his body slightly and it few past him. It was the same for the second, third, fourth, and so on. Tang just made minimal movements and avoided all the lasers. He even started walking forward and was still able avoid them with small but fast movements.

“What’s this Miko? This is just child’s pla-”

*Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!*

Suddenly lasers started raining down on Tang from above.

*Crackle!*

A giant orb of electricity was erected and Tang was seen unharmed.

“Like I said, child’s play.”

As he finished speaking, the area became dark. Searching for the reason he looked up and that’s when his eyes widened with shock. Above him, the sky was covered with giant orbs. There were so many that they actually blocked out the sun and cast on massive shadow that covered at least a couple miles.

“This is one of Darius’s favorite.”

He saw Miko standing on an orb. He lifted his hand.

“This is my homage to him.”

He swung his arm down, and then it happened.

“Judgement Shower.”

The orbs all fired at the same time. To Tang, who was on the ground, it looked like a holy shower was coming down from the heavens to wash away the earths impurities. That being said, what really happened wasn’t something that poetic.

*Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!* *Bam!*

The shower of laser beams hit the earth and destroyed, scorched, and reduced everything they touch to ashes.

“That crazy son of a bitch!”

Tang shouted while he moved with his top speed to avoid the beams and the explosions they caused. That however seemed impossible, so he switched tactics. He stopped and clasped his hands together.

“Shenlong Style:….”

He leaped into the air and pulled his hands apart and drew his hand back as he faced the shower of beams.

“Heavenly Dragon Palm!”

*BAM!*

A powerful force rushed out of his palm and created a path in the laser shower. Tang flew through that path and made it behind the orbs firing the lasers.

“Amazing.”

He saw Miko applauding him while standing on an orb. The giant orbs that firing on the ground disappeared.

“What’s your game here?”

Tang glared at him. He could tell that Miko wasn’t being serious as he was before.

“I just wanted to test that fighting style out. I’m planning on adding it to my main skill set. If I mix lasers with martial arts and maybe swordsmanship then it should be amazing.”

“You’re using me to train?”

“In a way, but it’s not that I’m looking down on you. I’m always experimenting against my opponents.”

Tang had a rare frown on his face. He soon took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

“It seems that I’ve been going to easy on you.”

Golden light started coming off his body; this was Heavenly Vita. The glow quickly became intense and seemed like it wanted to cover the whole sky. When Miko saw this the smile left his face.

“You really are a different breed. There’s no way someone your age should be able to produce such oppressive Vita.”

A dark glow surrounded Miko’s body and an image of a blood stained warrior with a thousand hands appeared behind him. This warrior was holding a thousand bloody weapons, with a ferocious expression on his three faces. This was Miko’s Asura. He opened his hands and Ishma and Regis appeared in his hands and his eyes turned crimson. Crimson and black flames then started swirling around his body and his swords creating an image of the Asura being fire.

(He combined his Demonic Vita with his demon powers…)

Tang smiled.

“Looks like you’re finally being serious.”

An image of a warrior wearing golden armor appeared behind Tang. This warrior was holding a blade in both hands. However, it wasn’t a sword but a literal naked blade with no handle, which meant that using it in battle will only bring harm to the user. In other words, despite the warrior’s initial majestic appearance, upon closer inspection you’ll see that it was a maniac that purposely brings harm to itself. A perfect representation of Tang Xian.

Electricity started dancing around Tang; the electricity looked like a dragon that was dancing around him.

“Let’s go at this seriously, Miko!”

The two moved at the same time and met each other halfway. Tang thrust two fingers forward and a bolt of lightning was fired at Miko, who used leaped over it and swung both swords down on Tang. Tang calmly thrust a palm upwards and hit Miko’s sword.

*Bam!*

Electricity and flames clashed causing an explosive sound. Tang thrust two fingers on his free hand at Miko’s chest. Miko twisted his body and avoided a lightning bolt. Tang followed up with a kick to his head, Miko bent his back and saw an arc of electricity fly over his head. He straightened his back and slashed at Tang’s neck with Ishma. Tang moved back and evaded it and then thrust his foot at Miko’s chest and fired a lightning bolt at it, Miko crossed his swords in front of his chest and blocked it but was blown back and orb of light appeared at his back and kept him in the air.

He looked and saw Tang extend two fingers in the air. The sky then became overcast and thunder started rolling and lightning flashed behind the clouds. Tang swung down his hand and pointed at Miko.

*Roar!*

Miko’s looked up and saw a gigantic lightning bolt in the form of a Chinese dragon emerge from clouds and rushed at him with the intention of devouring him. He looked towards his side and saw Tang using wind to fly towards him with electricity dancing around him.

“There’s only one thing to do.”

Miko got rid of the orb behind him and dove towards the ground. He turned around and was shocked to see Tang not changing course and was hit by the lightning dragon.

“?!”

The lightning dragon instantly disappeared after hitting Tang. Miko blinked and then saw a fist directly in front of him.

*BAM!*

Miko’s was hit in the stomach by a lightning coated fist. He was then forced out of the air and into the ground. The impact caused the earth to burst open. Lightning flowed into the earth and created a crater under Miko, who was being electrocuted.

“D-Don’t underestimate me!”

Black and crimson flames burst out of Miko’s body and forced Tang back. When Tang’s feet hit the ground he suddenly saw Miko in front of him in the middle of swinging his sword. He thrust his palm out and it clashed with his swords.

*Bam!*

Tang was forced back by the explosion of flames and electricity. He looked and saw Miko spawn two pairs of extra limbs made out of flames. Each hand was gathering a different element in its palm. Fire, lightning, water, and darkness molded into swords.

“That looks dangerous.”

Tang started gathering lightning, water, and wind into his palms. Miko accelerated towards him and swung all six swords when he entered his range.

“War Buddha’s Elemental Murder!”

“Storm Burst!”

Tang thrust a literal miniature storm towards Miko. The swords clashed with the storm and immediately cut through it.

“Wha?!”

Tang leaped back with everything he had to avoid being cleave into two. He was still hit by a burst of various elements which he blocked with a wall of wind.

“…….”

Behind the wall of wind, Miko got rid of the extra limbs and sheathed Ishma and Regis on his waist. He lowered his center gravity and placed both hand on Regis’s hilt.

“Raging Dragon Style:….”

He suddenly disappeared. The next thing Tang knew he was spinning in the air with a long cut across his chest.

“Black Dragon Twister.”

“Guh?!”

He screamed out in pain when he was suddenly assaulted by agonizing pain. He, however, took a deep breath to calm himself. He then gathered lightning around him and started using the momentum he got from being attacked to spin faster.

“Hm?”

Miko them saw Tang moving like a disk before turning into giant lightning disk. The disk suddenly disappeared and appeared in front Miko.

“Lightning cyclone!”

*Bam!*

The disk hit Miko, and made him feel like he was being cut a powersaw. The disk then turned, forcing Miko to turn as well, and then slammed him into ground. He was now really like a piece of wood being cut. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was protecting himself with Vita, he would’ve been cut in two already. Even so, there’s a limit to how much he could take.

“Ignition!”

*Bam!*

Miko’s body suddenly exploded with flames, destroying the disk. Tang flew back with blood draining from his wound and burns all over his body. Miko stood up covered in wounds and breathing heavily.

“This is fun, Miko!”

Tang shouted.

“But it can be better.”

He smiled.

“So let’s take this up a notch.”

He clasped his hands together.

“Storm Dragon Mode!”