-Vol 5: A New Life-

-A hundred-year-old family’s fall(4.2)-

Although the muscular man regretted his overconfidence, he could do nothing about it either. There was no medicine for regrets, and in his arrogance he had also sent away his only help, it’s a double blow for him. But, he was not that sacred. He was confident in his ability to stay alive despite the worst-case scenario. He knew if push comes to shove, he could always use his skills and run away. Nobody could stop him at that time. But although he regretted his arrogance, he still didn’t use that skill to run away.

The reason for that was he wanted to get a feel of this woman. Even in the face of such dangers, he still stuck to his lust. That dedication was commendable. But then again, it was because he was unaware of the sci-fi skill of his opponent. He was thinking everything in his perspective, completely disregarding his opponent’s.

The man’s skill was also pretty weird, his skill, although an active type, behaves like a passive type that enhances all the body functions to a higher order. Speed, power, defense, physique, even internal body functions and chemical reactions to even enzyme secretions, he could amplify everything in his body as well as his opponent's. This was what made him the most dangerous opponent for anyone he fought.

Suppose he was fighting an enemy whose strength was greater than him, he could amplify the strength of his body at the same time, he could also amplify the fatigue felt by the opponent. The combination of both factors would slowly tire his enemy out even if they were several times stronger than him. Due to this, he was never afraid of anyone in his life. He had also made many studies on human and animal anatomy to use his skill efficiently, making his ability all the more dangerous.

But there was a problem. To use his skill, he needs to fill the whole area with a kind of transparent gas with effects decided by him. The range of this gas was around five meters, but today he found that his gas, whose transparency made it the most deadly thing to an opponent, was visible like its opaque under this light emitted by the woman. This put him in a bind and also gave him a huge sense of crisis.

Leena didn’t know what the man was thinking, seeing the green gases, her face became serious. She didn’t take any risk and directly used her kinetic powers to blow the gases away. Although she couldn’t generate the energy on her own, in this world, there is no absence of things that are always in motion around her. Even if nothing was moving, the air surrounding always does. She just manipulated the air’s KE and made it flow at a faster rate, blowing the green gases away.

After blowing the green gases away, she kicked a stone near her leg. Like a bullet leaving the muzzle, the bullet streaked across space and headed for the shoulder of the muscled man. She didn’t want to kill the man with this strike, it’s a general move she always did to find the amount of KE her enemy could handle. According to that, she would use her KE.

“YAAA!!” seeing the stone approaching towards him, the man screamed loudly and sent a punch to it. Before the stone could even touch the man’s body, it was vaporized by the blue aura surrounding him. But he wasn’t given time to recover, another one appeared almost instantly. Narrowing his eyes, he also vaporized the stone, but this time he felt his hands shook a little. Although the stone itself didn't do any damage, the force behind it did. He narrowed his eyes even more as he discovered this.

After repeating the process for a while, Leena got the hold of her enemies endurance and power. She was now confident of beating the shit out of him and making him regret doing what he did here. As a magic skill user of such a great ability, she rarely ever fought on close quarters. That’s didn’t mean she was weak physically, but there was no need to do so when she had a skill like that! Generally, her weapons were anything she could find on her surrounding, but in special times, she would use arrows to enhance her attacks and make the enemy die in one shot.

Using the KE around the arrow, she would telekinetically control it, making it a deadly weapon. But today, hurry she didn’t bring her arrows, thankfully she brought her adamantine balls. Tiny spherical objects of extraordinary hardness and weight. She would often use these balls to break through the high-defense of some of the monsters she hunted. Today’s enemy was powerful, he strengthening type hunter and have a weird skill that could emit out green gases. She didn’t dare to go closer to him.

The tiny spheres rotated around her palm as they formed a perfect orbit. Looking at the dumbly standing enemy, Leena gave a light laugh before sending two balls at the same time. One aiming at his head, while other at his abdomen. Both balls traveled at a breakneck speed, forming air rings around them.

Seeing this, the muscle man’s eyes widened. His body glowed blue color again as he crossed his arms above his head to protect it while bracing his abdomen to receive the strike.

Boom! Crack!!

Two booming noise was heard as the balls impacted the man. The ball aiming for his head impacted his hand and broke a bone while the ball headed for the abdomen impacted heavily to the man’s stomach, forming a black bruise there. Unable to endure it, the muscle man vomited blood on the spot and backed away a few steps to stabilize himself. His body swayed a little after the impact, and it looked like he would fall at any moment.

Another blue glow came out of the body and this time Leena saw the effect fo his skill live, the business formed on his stomach was healed at speed visible to naked eye. At the same time, the broken bone of the hand that he had broken also mended on its own, still making a cracking noise. This discovery made her draw a few conclusions. Either her opponent had a self-healing skill, or he had a skill that boosted that ability of his.

As a hunter that once worked in the capital of Japan, she had seen many weird skills. She had also seen people having two or three skills of different attributes, which broke the norm. So she wasn’t that surprised to see the effect of ability, on the contrary, she somewhat expected it to be the case after seeing the man’s blue glow a few times.

“Bi*ch! I will see you later. I will take revenge from today…” the man shouted in rage and turned around to run away. After receiving two strikes from the woman, he became sure of his weakness and the woman’s strength. He realized that the longer he stays there, the slimmer his hope for the survival would be. His skills also take a huge amount of stamina for every use, he couldn’t just waste stamina on it. Without his skill, he was sure he couldn’t hold a candle against the woman. Even with ability, he was barely preserving his life.

“Like I would let you!” Leena shouted in anger when she saw the man was preparing to flee. Utilizing all the KE in the vicinity, she gathered them above her palm, making the air glowing red. As the wind started to move in a very high speed, it started to heat up and form a red color glow. Before long the glowing sphere began to compress into the size of a marble.

Aiming it towards the running away man’s legs, she let it loose towards them. The sphere beamed across space and went for the man’s legs, at the same time, everything in the beam’s pathway began to melt like it was placed under a high temperature.

Within 0.04 seconds, the beam appeared behind the man, and before he could shout or curse, it passed through his legs and streaked across space into the sky before dispersing into beautiful light.