"I thought you were still locked away in your alchemy lab making new potions and reviewing the herbs sent your way after being grown at faster rates with unique skills?" The casual question was very against the atmosphere within the coliseum.
To Walker, it sounded like he was just appearing here as if on a casual stroll. But for those within the coliseum, they had been battling and fighting. They had been shouting. They had been going all out! This was the attitude the coliseum always had after all.
"I do go out you know!" and there was Rey's annoyance showing its face.
However, Walker had been glancing at Midnight who was covered in so unique flas. "You are training so new skills, right? You keep mixing the skeletal armor skill with different flas that cover your whole body and are even being absorbed in to your scales." With just a little looking, Walker had followed the flow of mana.
"Stronger!" Midnight stomped one of her feet a little as she proudly showed off the scales brimming with black flas before she used wind mana around her body to further stoke the flas and cover her body in more heat. It could easily deter most opponents.
"Oh, just call a shut in and then ignore ? You think you have a chance to get away?" Walker stepped out of the way of a full fla punch from Rey. He had sensed her move and the fire mana that she wielded.
This just further pushed Rey in to another combination of attacks though. Jabs and right or left hooks making her seem like she was focused just on one style of her fighting. That was until Walker sensed a lack of mana which was standing out.
The sudden kick had no mana in it. Rey had used that as a test to see how Walker would react. From that point on, her movents doubled in speed while the crowd present began to go wild. They hadn't expected this change of events and to be honest, they loved it. This was the colosseum and they were here to train and fight. So if their heroes were here, then they had to show so noise.
The fake attacks that Rey used varied in how much fire mana she added to them. This ant that he would accidentally didge in to attacks or he would need to move further away to avoid sudden kicks. The worst part being, that the attacks without fire mana were easily more dangerous than what one would think.
Rey had seriously powerful strength in general. From the simple fact that she had always been a brawler in the frost place. Her body was geared toward being a brawler and to her, fighting was the very sa as breathing. Plus, she could fight multiple opponents at once since she had done so when she was little in the orphanage.
Now, she had just trained herself with the party to be able to do that and even more. Against monsters and enemies of Genesis. Hence why she was so powerful without even using the strength of her mana in an attack.
Walker could resist her, but he had neglected the physical side of his training and focussed on the mana related side. For obvious and clear reasoning. But he couldn't match Rey's close combat abilities. He would be way too arrogant to say that he could rival her in hand to hand combat.
"What? Can't keep up since you have been too busy wandering around doing a whole bunch of nothing?" Remy knew that Walker didn't really do nothing. She also knew that he had often worked on smaller tasks that went to help the overall future of the city. But she also knew that if she taunted him, she could get a better fight out of him.
The thing that Rey knew well, was that Walker was able to adapt to other people's moods accordingly. Thaat was why it was enjoyable to fight with him. He could easily begin to get fired up and match her energy if she started to taunt him enough while fighting.
"Fine, I can show off so new tricks that will make you feel pretty damn weak!" He roared out and stepped forward, entirely disappearing from her sight. Rey only barely reacted when she felt the threat from behind her.
As she dodged for the first ti realizing that if she was hit she would go down, Rey looked and noticed that the threat she felt had already disappeared and was coming from her right side. The only thing that stopped the attack was the sudden intervention from Midnight.
"Don't. Ignore. !"
To be fair, they hadn't been intentionally ignoring her. But also to be fair, Walker was the one that interrupted the battle between her and Rey. Now he was keeping everyone that was lucky enough to be there to witness it focused on them and not at all on Midnight's new skill which she was training and testing.
Rey's fla wings flung out to push her away from the attacks of Walker and Midnight. The tail narrowly missing her while Walker blinked away from them again. "I really need to work on this skill. I feel like I just ran from the dwarven city to Genesis three tis." Walker had not taken in to account how taxing his new skills were on his body. Using teleportation and sped up since they were holding back in their sparring. He was able to use his full focus to manage the mana and draw in more. But that didn't an that he would be able to keep it up.
"Midnight! Catch him so I can land a good punch!" Rey didn't hate that Midnight had jumped in on the battle. She just smirked while dashing forward after she landed again. Her fists had stopped pulling fire mana around them though. That was when Walker noticed that she was using so of the spare knuckles she had carried.
While they would not survive her current strength, Rey had wanted to use them here and there while she waited for her gauntlets to be perfectly tuned to her. Hence why she also held back a little more lately when it ca to mana usage. She wanted to keep herself calm for when she could properly test out her new gauntlets to her full capabilities.
The wind mana gathered on her fists as Rey used it to strike a shockingly speedy jab at Walker. Midnight's following claw attack with black flas engulfing her talons made things much harder too. But they should have expected that walker would not just sit there for it.
The sudden flash of wind as Walker stole away the wind mana that Rey gather and used it in tandem with space mana to flash forward and appear right in front of Midnight's nose was enough to show that the pair had been underestimating the way that Walker was sparring. Just because he had been dodging did not an that he was just going to dodge. He had been feeling out their battle style while they fought. He had been sensing the ways that Rey had adjusted to the flow of mana that made her, her, as a trie fire dragon soul. And he had been watching how Midnight used the new skill to defend herself and ensure that she was protected from various forms of attacks with her added fla defenses.
But he had noticed how the skill would fade if Midnight moved. She was not accustod to moving and using these flas as additional defenses yet. Therefore, when he was close enough, he used the wind he gathered to punch out at a weak point and completely end the flas around Midnight.
She could only sit there stunned as she also realized that Walker had used the sa mana which dispersed after moving at an incredibly quick speed to then attack again. It was incredibly efficient and Midnight, nor Rey, could do what he had just done.
It was enlightening though. "I wonder if I can do that with alchemy fire..." Rey's mind wondered if she could keep incorporating the sa waste products from making potions to make other things. Or even to enhance the potion she was making.
Every process caused smoke or so form of waste in alchemy. Maybe, she could make sothing that utilized every material. Every single herb perfectly.
Midnight on the other hand, was looking at how she had lost her skill and how she might be able to improve it. Walker just stood next to her and began to try and copy her skill so he could train it with her. The sa thing they had done in the past when learning new skills. That way, they would both get stronger together.
The crowd loved it as they began to filter in to the coliseum and begin their own training. They got to train with a few heroes today. This was the perfect chance to take advantage of it.
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