"Is this another attempt at mocking , Sol Vestic?" Yu sneered, ckenching her weapon and pointing it at him. "Are you so dense that you would attempt to fight soone of equal footing witouut a weapon?" She asked, but found Sol smiling rather than being even slightly intimidated after she started exerting her mana in waves.
"Dense?" Sol chuckled, rotating his shoulders and leaning his neck until he heard a crack. "I'm not dense, I am taking you very seriously, the fact is that I am better off fighting without a weapon, that's all." He admitted.
With a clench of his fist his entire garnt caught ablaze and was incinerated off his body, revealing his baggy martial arts pants and the tight fitting turtleneck shirt that ca with it. "No weapon I wield is enough to withstand my power, the sa as tour spear will break before it can harm !" Sol declared.
"Then, have it your way!" Yu began skipping across the void towards him spinning her spear until it was nearly indistinguishable from her surroundings. "Do not bla if you die!"
"You are without bla!" Sol grinned, countering her first strike with his wrist, deflecting and allow the spear to slide along his skin harmlessly and spinning under her guard.
Yu had never so easily been so blindsided, but she understood now what Sol ant earlier; while his fist solidly connected with her lower abdon and the space around them fractured along with a section of her robcage, the woman could only regret not taking him as seriously as he was taking her.
Sol backed off, flashing his hand and chuckling when he witnessed her heal the injuries as soon as she got them, taking a few seconds and then righting herself again.
"What have you done?" Yu asked, staring at the fragnts of space floating around them spanning as large as the unit of the galaxy they inhabited.
She was flustered, She could not sense his power at all before, she only assud he was speaking the truth about their strength being similar because otherwise he would have been the most arrogant man in existence.
"Take this seriously..." Sol couldn't help smiling while he frowned, casting a villainous aura as his overlapping joy and seriousness created a new kind of expression he had never held before.
"What is with this mans's face, is he actually so sort of demon in disguise, did the demon race return after all tihis ti?" Yu wondered.
In actuality it was far more innocent, he was ecstatic because that blow she had easily recovered from was sothing that would have killed even the likes if the Emporium's Eighth General in one shot.
Source was unique, because of the composition of mana being vastly different from that of the Grand Collective, the spaces worked differently, power that could destroy universes in the Grand could barely shatter a star here, the land was several tis more dense and the air had ten tis as much mana, for soone who had suffered from mass destruction in all his fights, this was like a playpen where he could let loose for the first ti.
"Go all out, Yu, give everything you've got!" Sol continued grinning, cleching his fists and falling into a classical fighting stance while she shipped her spear around until it began bending like noodle, and then separated into two parts. "Are you taking your freedom that lightly, have you already forgotten that we have made a binding soul agreent?!"
"A thought just occurred to ," Grecia spoke calmly, drawing the attention of several other mbers of the Guard. "If Master wins this fight, is he not already the winner of the gas overall; the Masters' section I an?" She asked, and Fuhua began laughing lightly at her analysis.
"His victory is assured if he defeats the one person that is second only to the Heavenly Ancestor, right?" She asked again. Find your next adventure on empire
"The Vatui wench has a point-"
"You would be wise to never utter such a disgraceful word in Milady's presence again, don't you fear Master even a little bit now?" Fuhua who was in an increasingly good mood decided to tease the people opposing them.
"I thought she was just a slave, you do know that Vatui are-"
"She is Master's elder sister in-law, she has more status than all of you combined, baldy." Jena huffed. Staring at the large screen that could be seen from the surface in so places on the world beneath them, the fight between Sol and Yu was being broadcast on a High Fidelity System window that was law-defyingly huge.
"These people are complicated, and with his personality I think it is a good idea to listen to the little lady, unless you want to incur the wrath of soone who is clearly more ruthless than out Sister Yu is," An old man of the group looked to the young man who had continuously been trying to badmouth Sol and his small party.
"This is much better!" Sol laughed, blocking every single attack thrown at him with expert accuracy, causing a bit of space to be shattered with every successful parry leaving their surrounding a field of broken reality as Yu continued to relentlessly attack him, gaining montum with every new strike and swing.
The woman was getting frustrated though; after he had struck her so easily the first ti, Sol had gone on the defensive entirely, she had managed to bruise his hands after a long bout of attacks, but she had not drawn any blood from him, and his smile only seed to grow wider with every attack that she threw until the man was outright laughing.
"Damn you!" Yu snapped in outrage, stabbing at him and then releasing the short spear when he parried her attack, slamming her palm at what she assud would have been his abdon, but flinched when Sol's fingers locked with hers.
"A dance milady?" Sol chuckled, spinning her and blocking her following punch when she released th eother weapon in an attempt to finally land a blow. "What a lovely idea!" He cackled, catching her hand and raising his knee to block her kick aid at his ribcage.
"What are you doing?" Yu asked, feeling the pressure of a superior fight for the first ti in a long while. "Do you think this is enough to overpower ?" She began heaving clouds of mana. "I will show you-"
Sol shut her up with a headbutt to her nose, releasing her hands and sending her spiralling out of the void, crashing into a large dead planet, raging with a windstorm generated by the one layer of atmosphere that it could hold on to.
The clouds opened up once when Y ucrashed through them, and then parted and were dispersed completely when Sol entered the armosphere, leaving circular rings from one hemisphere to the other. "Co on then," Sol stood in the air with a triumphant grin. "Show , Yu." His smile slowly faded and his hair began flickering between gold and white. "Show the power that gained you the favour of the Heavenly Ancestor, show what your thousands of years of cultivation have amounted to!"
"This man..." Yu's rage had been replaced by shock. "This is the power Master divined to us would co our way soon, the intruder from beyond Source..." She mused. "The golden..." She saw Sol's hair settle in a golden glow and a ring of light appear behind him, with a smaller one manifesting on his chest.
"Sol, let's stop-"
"I don't think so!" Sol frowned, descending like a cot, destroying the terrain in a eruption of debris and golden mana and leaving a massive crater in his wake, his footsteps caused lava to form from his burning mana, and the air his breathed burned the atmosphere, creating soot that fell behind him.
"We have a deal, nobody is allowed to simply stop, the terms are that we fight until a victor is decided by true surrender, neither my companions nor yours have the ability to step between us, Fu, stopping is not an option raise your fists, my life and yours are on the line should we lose to the other."
"Right," She lowered her gaze, and then raised her eyes with bright ly glowing eyes, her pupils had beco golden and the skin beneath her eyes began slowly hardening, turning into red scales. "I apologise for tackling this matter half-heartedly, Sol Vestic, you are a master that has co from beyond my realm to challenge the Heavenly Master, I will greet you as the strongest disciple of his honourable excellency."
"What is she saying?" Fuhua narrowed her eyes. "Have they been fighting as a pleasantry this whole ti?" She asked shocked. "Any one of those attacks could have killed a dozen tis over...!"
"Try a hundred." Jena corrected her. "Master has been holding his punches because she has been unsure of him, but now that she has decided to fight with her all, he will also give his all, regardless of the consequences that lay beyond their fight this is their agreent."
"What consequences could there be?" Grecia seed confused about this.
"We did not seek invitation into source, aunty," Jena seed worried. "Master broke the barrier protecting this collecting through sheer force and determination, revealing himself in that form is his invitation for the Heavenly Ancestor to recognise that he is not here on a leisurely trip, he has exposed himself as a power that can ursurp or destroy Drifting Heaven without his presence."
"Haaaaah!" Sol charged across the terrain, while Yu did the sa, her dress had been torn up to the leg revealing more scales, and there were a pair of small wings on her back neatly folded and a thin tail flashing behind her.
"I welco you to Drifting heaven, Sol Vestic!" Yu roared, clashing palms with him and clenching her jaws when their fingers locked and the world which they stood on began trembling and tearing itself asunder. "Welco to Source!"
"Thanks for the warm welco!"
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