YM778.TV Chapter 46: Spectre
Due to the absurdness of his physique which was even further strengthened by the fruit he ate before, the heat couldn\'t even make a single sweat leave his skin pores.
Spectre started running North immediately he saw that he was in a desert.
As Spectre was running, the ground started trembling as if something was coming up from beneath, and indeed something was coming.
Spectre stopped and looked at what was coming, then he saw Giant desert centipedes, and there were a hundred of them, all at the A rank and were 50 meters in height each.
\'Hmmm...is this a nest\' Spectre decided to let go of the idea and just kill them off.
They immediately breathed poison at spectre, who just dodged and increased his speed.
Running up the body of one the centipedes, then cut off it\'s head in one swift motion.
He used the body of the dead centipede as a foot hold then jumped to another with a fluid movement, then decapitated that one.
Then he used his movement art \'Lightning step\' to move rapidly while swing his Katana, leaving only a faint purple line and after images in his wake as he harvested their souls like a reaper.
He looked around the dead bodies and smiled, happiness coursing throughout his body and he was in love with this feeling
Ever since he could wield a weapon this is what he ever longed for, to battle.
But reality seemed to decline his only request and he had a pitiful talent for the katana which he loves, but that didn\'t break him as he trained everyday without rest.
After meeting Anthony, and got his physique, he trained like hell while imagining this very moment, and now it was no longer an imagination, he has truly changed his fate, well Anthony has truly changed his fate.
He increased his speed by using his movement art while also covering himself with lightning and in less than ten seconds he was out of the deserts, the remaining Giant Centipedes didn\'t even know what passed by, and they were all slaughtered before they could even sense any movement in any form and of course he didn\'t leave the corpse behind for other monsters to eat.
Immediately he got to the forest area, he was smiling with battle intent leaking out of him.
He suddenly turned his head north east as he sensed a strong aura moving towards him with great speed in response to his battle intent, which he released unknowningly.
When the monster arrived, it looked at spectre with a confused look in it\'s eye while raising one eye brow up.
It was confused because, such battle hungry intent meant that whoever released it is being starved and was in for a fight, and it came for a fight as it too was a battle maniac on it\'s own right, but when it saw that the one releasing such battle intent was an F- rank it was utterly confused.
Anthony looked at the monster with a surprised face at first, then a smile bloomed on his face like a dog with a bone.
"Human, you should tone down your hunger or you might die too early" said the monster.
Spectre was stunned because he has never met any monsters that could speak.
He looked at the monster that stood on two legs with hooves, with bulging muscles and two thick large curved horns coming out of the monster temples right above the ears, with just enough clothes to cover it\'s private part, while holding a large double edged Axe and stood at a height of 7 feet while releasing an aura of an S+ rank.
It was a Minotaur, a rare race hardly encountered but hard to counter as they were a battle hungry and savage specie.
Their love for battle and blood rivals that of demons, which is nevre racking to many.
"Let us leave the small talks and begin this" said Spectre as he was too hungry for this battle to speak with a monster that could talk, he has literally been starving since he was ten
"As you wish" said the minotaur who immediately became hazy because he had already left his original position and what was being seen was an after image left behind.
It swung it\'s axe at Spectre, attempting to cleave him in half in one fell swoop.
Spectre blocked the attack while having a crazed smile on his face, as he counter attacked by slashing fifty time at the minotaur.
The minotaur calmly parried every attack like it was child\'s play.
Then it stomped on the ground with it\'s hooves, activating a skill in it\'s possession, \'Earth quake\', the ground withing a hundred meters shook and cracked open, stones and boulders rose up as a result of the damage.
Spectre simply activated his \'Lightning step\' and moved on top of the peebles, stones and boulders, moving forward straight to the minotaur as the skill won\'t affect him if he didn\'t land within a hundred meters.
A terrifying boutade occured as their weapons clashed, razing everything within a couple kilometres radius to the ground.
*Clank**Clank***Clank***Boom**Boom**
They only left rays of light as they moved, and clashed weapons, leaving clouds of dust and explosions with petrifying demolitions in their wake.
"Don\'t underestimate me human" the minotaur shouted as it kicked the ground, speeding towards spectre as it swings it\'s body in the air and rotated as it flew with it\'s horn trying to stab Spectre with the momentum it gathered.
Spectre side stepped, dodging to the right then threw a devastating punch to the beast face as it was sent flying like a broken kite.
The minotaur broke down trees and mountains as it collided with them, breaking down more mountains as it moved.
The minotaur was bleeding from all over it\'s body, due to the force of collision with mountains, it\'s brain trying to shut down as result of the punch it received.
The minotaur was shocked by the physical strength spectre possessed.
It stood up from the ravine and looked coldly at spectre, this was a death glare.
The minotaur took a stance and used a technique, which shocked spectre again.
[Axe Technique: Minotaur Exclusive: Unending cleaver]
It immediately moved and arrived Infront of spectre and cleaving a thousand times at heaven defying speed with it\'s weapon and body covered in mana.
[Spectre Technique: Katana Series: Calm Waver]
He raised his Katana, coated with mana and matched the speed of the minotuar and parried all one thousand death strikes sent at him, then he sent out his own move next
[Spectre Technique: Katana Series: Alternating Swing]
He increased his speed more and moved with more ferocity this time, striking at the minotuar chest and abdomen vertically, horizontally and diagonally with no particular order, all strikes aiming for death and vital points alone.
[Axe Technique: Minotaur Exclusive: Furious Rush]
Minotaur released it\'s own technique and countered a majority of them but couldn\'t counter all, thereby still taking more damages to it\'s chest and abdomen.
****ROOOAAARRR****
It roared angrily as it could tell it has fallen into the disadvantage, but it refused to give in, it activated it\'s last attack to bring down itself with the opponent together.
[Axe Technique: Minotaur Exclusive: Final Form: One Life One Death]
This was a last ditch attack, as even if this attack landed on spectre, the minotaur would still die as this was a life sacrificial technique.
Spectres sensed slight death from this attack, and decided to use his own deadly attack as he has not used his elements to attack since he started attacking and only using it for movement once since this match up began.
[Spectre Technique: Lightning Katana Series: One Way]
They both swung their weapons at same time.
*****BOOOOMMM****
The clash of their attacks caused calamitous explosions to go off in succession as everything withing a ten kilometre radius was reduced to embers as their destruction gave no way for any life to survive, only spelling death for living and non-living things.
A large cloud of mushroom shape dust formed as the explosion and vibration and earthquake still kept on going bring down mountains to the ground level.
After a while everything cleared up and the Minotaur could be seen dead and battered, with an arm missing and it\'s chest slipt open as a result of their attacks.
The minotaur died standing like warrior, even in the last minutes it refused to give up, deciding they should take their battle to the death realm together.
Spectre could be seen without even as much as a sweat on his face as with his physique, he could end this monster with a slap, but he was too battle hungry and told to tone down his strength, though his current appearance spoke otherwise.
Spectre waved his hands and took the corpse of the minotuar and left as he ran across the forest with deadly speed.