Crow wasn’t impressed. He still crossed his arms and tapped his feet impatiently.
"Grrgh!" Linda growled. She jumped up and slamd the war hamr down at the leopard.
’What kind of attack is this? So full of holes.’
Mater made his body lighter through Omnimotion. With that effect, he was also faster. He evaded the attack.
The war hamr slamd on the floor and created a giant hole in it.
Mater clawed at Linda. Then he dashed away in a blur.
John raised an eyebrow, "That ability. Did it just beco faster?"
"Isn’t it a speedster type of ability?" Tony comnted.
"Probably," Ray nodded.
Mater clawed at Linda again, plunging his claws into her flesh. She flung the hamr at Mater but could never catch him.
Mater went in, gave her a smack. Then went out, evading the counter attack, and went in again to smack her.
He kept doing the sa pattern of attack and got quicker and quicker.
Linda tried to oppose him and tid the correct counter. But she was simply too slow to make any of it effective.
"Of all the power in the world, speed reigns supre." Crow typed in his device, "You should have known from the beginning... That you have no chance of winning."
"Shut up!" Linda grunted.
Mater had hurt her quite badly. She’s bleeding all over her body.
The leopard jumped back and gave the stage back to Crow.
’Finish her, my servant. Show her what a true fighter ans.’
’My pleasure, Master.’
"Let show you the difference in our power." The chanical voice echoed.
Crow took out too black karambits from his back. Karambits were curved knives with the specialty in slashing.
He approached Linda head on.
She smirked, "I’ll show you, arrogant bastard!"
She slamd her hamt at him.
The hamr was stopped in mid-air. Stop by two small curved knives that should have broken a long ti ago. Crow was also using Enhancent Augntation. He learned that from the Atlas Database himself.
Crow did that so that he could teach Selina later. The abilities he learned were usable for any Chaos User. It was different from Empath Crystalization, where a Psycho Force was required.
"You? How did you know how to use that?"
Crow kicked her abdon and sent her backwards.
He didn’t answer. There was no ti to fidget with the device in battle. He disappeared from his location, using Abyssal Dash to get close to Linda.
Crow executed a three-combo strike.
The first strike cut her wrist.
The second strike slapped the hamr away.
The third strike stopped milliters away from her neck.
Linda dropped to her knees as Crow slightly pressed the karambit into her neck, bleeding her out.
"Stop!" John flew over. "That’s enough! She learned her lesson."
Crow relaxed and put his knives away.
John smirked, "Any objections now, Berserker?"
"I... Argh!" Linda scread and slamd the floor.
"From today on, you are stripped of your position, Berserker. Assassin will be the new co-captain of the Atlas Seven." John said.
Crow typed sothing in his device.
The chanical voice was sound again, "You are powerful. You have the strength to beco great."
Tony leaned over to Ray and whispered, "What is he doing?"
Ray shrugged.
Zachary smiled, "I think the man is teaching her sothing."
The voice continued, "But you have no experience of real combat. You don’t think. You don’t have muscle mory. You have no strategy or knowledge. A weak man might be intimidated by you.
But for a real warrior, you’re a joke."
Linda lifted her head up and glanced at him. Her eyes were full of rage.
"I think that’s enough, Assassin." John said.
But Crow continued typing, "Try to disable all your powers and learn to fight for real. You will understand why you do not deserve your title, Berserker."
"Shi-i-i-i-i-i-t!" Ray gasped. "The man is really going all out."
"Never see him say that much. Well, actually, never see him saying anything at all." Zachary frowned.
Crow turned and left with Mater. The two of them went to the landing pad and got on the aircraft.
They went to their next mission, where Mater was going to extract more souls to rebuild Bash.
In the arena, Linda stood on the ground, staring blindly at the wall.
The light was off and everyone left already.
Haley ca and sat down beside her.
"What do you want, Magician?" Linda said.
"John isn’t here. You can just call by my real na." Haley said.
"What do you want, Haley?"
"Assassin is terrifying, yeah?" Haley said.
Linda nodded.
"I think he is going to beco a Hazard soon." Haley said.
"With the GOD Suspension?" Linda said. "That thing isn’t stable, you know that."
"Right. But we can advance to Hazard the ordinary way, right? Just like other Psychics."
"We haven’t had any mbers advancing to Hazard for a few decades, Haley. Most that tried had died."
"Maybe. But we’re the Atlas Seven. We once even had a Diaster Psychic."
"You ant God Soldier?"
Haley nodded.
Linda chuckled, "I don’t even know what they fed him back then. How did he manage to get to Diaster with that Suspension in him."
"We’re relying too much on our power, Linda. Maybe Assassin is right? Maybe we need to learn actual combat like he said."
"You can’t be serious? We’re Psychics! We don’t need human fighting style!"
"Then why did you lose?"
Linda stayed silent.
Crow and Mater arrived at Las Khan. It was a state in the North of the Union. The place was covered in snow year round and much colder than any other places.
"Do you want so extra equipnt, Mr. Assassin? Your uniform might be too thin." A soldier said. He had a full winter cloak on him.
"There is no need. Just tell where the terrorists are." The device replied.
"Our interceptor had pointed to a settlent to the west of Ship’s Landing. It is classified as a squatter region. Many criminals ca there and even illegal immigrants."
"The governnt did nothing about this?" Crow typed in the device.
The soldier shrugged, "They’re people from across the Northern border. The place is in ruins and NCEs roam there. We can’t accept them but we can’t chase them away either. So as long as they didn’t cause any trouble, we would leave them be. But that allows for many dangerous individuals to take control of the settlent."
"Roger that. I’ll take care of it." Crow typed in the device.
He jumped off the aircraft. The leopard followed him right behind.
"Did he get a parachute?" A soldier said.
The other soldier shook his head.
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