Chapter 149 - 149- Vendetta (Part 5)
Jumping in the air, Talon dodged the upcoming attack with ease. Ev with its high speed, the attack took more than a second to reach him which was ough for Talon to avoid it. But, Cha Kwang didn't seem like he expected it to hit as he instantly dashed forward, closing the distance betwe him and Talon.
"You didn't think I was going to do this, no?" He asked with a grin as he swung his hammer, aiming for Talon the momt he landed.
'He can't avoid this!' He thought to himself.
However, at that momt, Talon suddly shifted his balance mid-air before he landed with his feet on top of the hammer. Th, he jumped in the air again.
"Wha…" Cha Kwang stared at what happed in pure shock, only to realize that his emy wasn't intding to escape.
*Swish*
Talon lifted his leg as he threw a kick at Cha Kwang's face. The attack connected and st the man flying to the side like a ragdoll before smashing against one of the shelves violtly.
"Blurgh!" Blood gushed out of the man's head as he slowly rose from the g. "Fuck!"
'That hurts!!' Cursing to himself, he touched the injury, only to realize that something. 'Did his attack just get stronger out of nowhere?! That wasn't his strongest one yet?'
The hit felt like a train smashing him in the face. Ev his strong defsive skill which he boasted about and thought made him invincible didn't work at all.
This also meant a terrifying fact for Cha Kwang that he only realized at that very momt.
'If I don't keep my defsive skill activated… I will get killed with one single move…' His eyes wided as he heaved up and down.
"Get me my armor, now!!" He shouted loudly.
But, before he could ev look back to Talon, the latter vanished again like a ghost. Cha Kwang panicked as he started looking a in a rush.
'Where is he? Where did he go?' His heart rate increased as he felt two eyes looking at him. Th, out of nowhere, Talon appeared again right in front of him with his hand already moving toward the man's neck.
'What?!' With no time to dodge, Cha Kwang tried to grab Talon's arm. But, the latter suddly pulled it away and used the other one to deal a jab to the man's side.
"BLURGH!"
Feeling his tire body shake from the punch, he spat out another mouthful of blood as he jumped back.
"Hah… Hah!!" He heaved up and down powerfully as he stared at Talon with wide eyes. The young man had the same casual look on his face as if nothing just happed.
'This bastard!!' He clched his teeth powerfully.
All of his ego and confidce vanished completely and were replaced by soul-shaking fear. Never did he expect his emy to be this ridiculously stronger than him. This tire time, Cha Kwang thought that he was one of the strongest, if not the strongest human in the world.
He had strong skills, he was level 9 and he had killed countless monsters with his pure strgth. Nothing was able to stop him so far and that fueled his ego into the skies.
But, Talon came and shattered that belief in a few seconds. This wasn't ev a fight, it was a one-sided beating he was receiving.
'How could this be? How strong is he?! We started at the same time goddamit!!'
The more he tried to think about it the more Cha Kwang's instincts started telling him to simply ditch everything and run away. But, that idea simply made him ev more irritated.
'Why?! Why do I need to run away? I'm Cha Kwang!! I run away from nobody!!'
"FUUUCK!!!" Yelling loudly, the man channeled his Aetheris as he was about to attack, only to realize that Talon had appeared behind him and kicked him powerfully.
*BANG*
Rolling on the g violtly, the man ded up on the g.
'This gotta be a joke… This has to be a goddamn joke!!!' He yelled in his head as his eyes turned red from anger.
"I won't kill you instantly. I will make sure you feel every single momt of pain you made your victims go through. I will destroy your mind and soul till you wish to go to hell." Talon said coldly as he approached the man. His words only made the man shudder ev more as he slowly stood up with great difficulty.
'I really can't fight against him… He is far stronger than me… Do I really have to use that? Do I really have to?!' Staring at the cold young man approaching him, Cha Kwang realized that he really had no other choice but to do that.
As much as he was unwilling to use it, there was clearly no way to win this fight unless he used that thing.
"Ugh, screw it!" Wiping the blood off his face, he slowly moved his bloodied hands and put them against his chest. After that, he slowly started moving his hands across his body, coating it in his own blood.
Th, he channeled every single point of Aetheris through his body to his hands. However, unlike anything Talon had se before, the man did something completely differt. He halted his steps wh he noticed Cha Kwang's aura change.
'Hm? His aura changing color.' He asked himself.
"AGHHHHHHHHH!!" Th, a blood-curdling shriek escaped Cha Kwang's mouth that was so far detached from being humane that Talon thought for a second he was listing to the screams of a beast.
"What in the actual…"
"A sacrificial skill?" Acrypha spoke, taking Talon's atttion.
"A what?"
"He's using a sacrificial skill. These are skills that require the use of some kind of sacrifice to activate, usually the life force of a creature. In return, they gain a lot of temporary power to fight for that cost. How did he ev come across a skill like that? They're quite rare." She explained.
"Wait, so he's sacrificing his own life to get a temporary boost of strgth?"
"A very huge boost, but yeah, from what I can see, he won't be able to recover from using this ability now. Ev if he doesn't die, his soul will be heavily damaged by the d."
*BOOOOM*
At that momt, Cha Kwang's aura exploded powerfully, sding a strong gush of air a him. Talon covered his eyes to avoid the debris before he focused on the man again. His tire presce had completely changed. His muscles bulged noticeably and his veins expanded to a dangerous degree.
His eyes were also completely red as if they were that of a demon.
"Hagh, Hagh!!" Heaving up and down with a pained look on his face, Cha Kwang grinned wildly. "Hahahaha! I never thought I would need to use 'Demon Blood' in my life! Honestly, the cost of this skill is too much for me! But, wh I claim your soul, I know for certain I will recover from it!!"
Stepping forward, the man spoke in a distorted voice. His tone lacked the shred of humanity he had in him before. He was now a monster in human skin.
Meanwhile, Talon simply stood in his place staring at his emy.
"Here I come, bastard! Try to keep up!"
*Swish*
The momt he finished speaking, Cha Kwang dashed at top speed, crossing the distance betwe him and Talon in a split second. The latter's expression grew colder.
"TAKE THIS!!!"
Tighting his fist, Cha Kwang launched a powerful punch aimed at Talon. The latter crossed his arms in front of him at the perfect momt.
*BANG*
Upon contact, Talon's eyes wided a little as he was pushed back. Sliding back on his feet, he stopped a few meters away.
'Strong.' He thought to himself. The punch was far stronger than anything Cha Kwang had tried before. So much so that Talon felt his arms go numb.
"Not over yet!!!"
Cha Kwang didn't stop as he vanished again and appeared on Talon's side as he launched another punch at him.
*BANG*
Pushing him back again, Cha Kwang th followed with a series of punches, each more powerful than the other. Meanwhile, Talon deflected each attack skilfully as he moved back.
"Hah!! Take this! And this!! And this!!!"
The sheer power Cha Kwang exerted shocked Talon. Seconds passed as the rain of punches increased in intsity and speed.
"Why are you only defding, Talon? He shouldn't pose that much of a threat to you ev if he was using a sacrificial ability." Acrypha asked as she floated a him.
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*
"I want to learn more about these sacrificial abilities. They seem quite interesting." He said as he dodged an attack. "But, I guess apart from a little bit more strgth, it doesn't have anything else worth experimting with."
Saying that, Talon suddly changed his position as he quickly stepped forward, grabbing Cha Kwang's arm, he launched a punch with his right hand.
"Ugh!" The fist smashed against the man's stomach, shaking his core. Th, Talon followed with another punch.
"Fuck! It won't work this time!" Shaking the damage away, Cha Kwang clched his teeth and tried to yank his emy.
'Oh…' Wh Talon felt himself losing his balance, he was met with a fist going straight to his face.
*BANG*