Half an hour passed, and finally Asher arrived at the peak of the hill. His eyes fell upon the human silhouette he had seen earlier. It was a man sitting calmly on the floor with an unbothered gaze. He had black hair and black eyes, with a slash scar running diagonally across his cheek.
The mont Asher reached the peak of the hill, the man turned towards him and spoke with an exasperated tone, "Urgh, finally, you are here. I’ve been waiting for ages, you know," his tone remaining utterly unbothered.
"Ohhh... so I got a Wargrave, the Tenth Sun at that," the man continued as he rose to his feet, his height easily over seven feet tall.
Asher’s eyes narrowed slightly as the man recognized him, though he imdiately beca expressionless the next second. After all, as an Instructor of the Star Academy, it was normal for an Instructor to know him, although Asher himself didn’t recognize the man. The sa thing had happened with Instructor Sane and Instructor Mira.
If this had been another enemy, Asher would have already attacked, but this was an Instructor. They weren’t so easily caught off guard, so Asher wasn’t fooled by the man’s easygoing and careless movents.
’Crownstar Life Rank?’ Asher thought to himself before pushing the thought aside, the question didn’t matter at the mont.
The man also wore the sa jumpsuit and bracelets as Asher, and the mont Asher arrived, the man snapped his fingers and activated both pieces of equipnt. Imdiately, his body was restricted to the sa level as Asher’s current physical paraters with seamless asurent; this was done to make the battle fair.
Although the man didn’t explain anything, Asher already understood just from watching. After all, if the Instructors simply overpowered their students through raw strength alone, there would be nothing aningful to learn.
"It’s a sha the other student is still climbing the hill. I would have loved to take on both of you at the sa ti so I could rest afterward," the man added with a sigh. His eyes left his bracelet as he t Asher’s gaze while speaking. "Here I co, Tenth Sun," his voice calm and almost eager.
The mont those words left the man’s lips, he had already closed the distance in a flickering blur, the tip of his dagger screaming towards Asher’s eyeballs as though he intended to blind him permanently.
Asher’s senses scread with danger and death. His body imdiately snapped backward as he dodged at the very last split second, his back arching deeply until it was almost parallel to the earth itself. But the Instructor seed to have read Asher like a child. His dagger spun dexterously across his palm as he instantly transitioned into a downward stab.
Seeing this, Asher imdiately threw himself to the side frantically, the mont he dodged, the dagger tore through the air like scissors through silk. Asher’s body rolled violently across the earth, but he didn’t dare delay, he imdiately rose back to his feet, his eyes snapping sharply towards the Instructor.
But the mont he did, all he saw was a knee collapsing into his ribcage from the side, the impact was brutal, rciless in every sense of the word.
Asher groaned as his body tore sideways like a broken kite, the mont he was about to crash against a tree, he imdiately rotated midair like an agile cat, his feet landing upon the bark of the tree with controlled motion. The instant he landed, he didn’t hesitate, his pole tore outward as he smashed it forward with all his might without even looking.
The Instructor, who had already closed the distance, simply dodged with a grin spread across his face, his dagger blurring as he unleashed a hundred attacks within the span of a single second.
Asher, who had just landed upon the earth from the tree bark, imdiately drew back his pole. He knew he couldn’t dodge this barrage, he could only block.
And with that realization, his speed reached its peak, there was no ti to hold back at this mont. His pole transford into a blur as he deflected attack after attack with astonishing precision and motion. But as he blocked, the Instructor simply punched the earth with imnse force, the peak quaked violently, the ground beneath Asher imdiately shattering and destabilizing him while he defended against the attacks.
Asher imdiately frowned as he tried to recalibrate himself, but it was already too late, the remaining attacks instantly tore into his body, his skin splitting open as blood splattered into the air.
The instructor had taken advantage of that singular mont when Asher had been focusing on blocking the barrage of attacks, disrupting his foot, making the earlier attacks land.
Asher didn’t feel the pain, or rather, he ignored it completely, they were rely cuts, he had endured far greater pain prior to this mont, he simply focused harder, his senses heightening further, his mind sharpening as he attacked again, his pole blurring while he unleashed a barrage of attacks towards the Instructor.
The Instructor simply vanished from where he stood, not even bothering to block, but the mont he moved away, Asher imdiately gave chase. However, the instant Asher pursued him, the Instructor, who had originally created distance between them, suddenly erased it again by closing in at terrifying speed, his figure appearing directly before Asher in a flash.
Asher was stunned for the briefest mont, the man had been retreating... yet now he had sohow closed the distance instantly.
The Instructor’s dagger scread towards Asher’s neck, but Asher had already anticipated that possibility. He simply raised his pole and blocked with seamless precision.
A tallic crash rang outward as their weapons collided midair, with that, both of them vanished from where they stood, their bodies turning into blurs as explosive sounds thundered outward continuously while they remained in constant motion.
Asher was completely on the back foot, he couldn’t land even a single attack, even when he managed to read the man before him correctly, it sohow ended up being bait deliberately set by the Instructor.
Asher was practically hopeless as the man displayed movents, combinations, and transitions he had never seen before in his entire life.
With a boom, a foot attack collapsed against Asher’s chest, his body crashing into a tree hard enough to shatter it apart. Pain blood violently across both his chest and back, but he didn’t dare remain in place for even a second.
He imdiately vanished, the mont he did, the Instructor was already there, a fist attack tearing open a crater where Asher had previously stood. The man closed the distance again, never giving Asher even the slightest opportunity to think or breathe properly or even blink, he pressed his advantage endlessly and rcilessly without hesitation.
The mont he closed the gap between them once more, he suddenly tossed sand towards Asher’s eyes.
But this was sothing Asher himself usually did to opponents, not the other way around, so he had at least expected sothing similar to happen eventually, he imdiately dodged, but the mont he moved, he found the Instructor’s dagger already positioned exactly in the space he had dodged into.
Asher had no choice but to use his pole to deflect the dagger to the side, but the mont he did that, another dagger, a second one appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, and with one brutal slash, the Instructor cut across Asher’s neck with frightening efficiency and ease.
Blood splattered outward, and with that, the fight ca to a halt.
Asher had lost without even landing a single clean attack or being given even the smallest chance to breathe properly.
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