A/N: I'm sorry for late uploading this time. I'm pretty loaded this week due to my Finals Exam and Projects. Either way, thank you for your continued support guys.
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The Way of the Spear, a transcendent technique used by the Spear Saint Of Sol Noriana.
A technique that you will gain if you manage to achieve the peak enlightenment in the spear.
Well, there are also other weapons that have their own variation of this technique but that's for another story.
This technique will be completed when..
Your soul and the spear become one, and they achieve unity— hence it's another name, One with the Spear.
That unity becomes the foundation of your ascendant technique.
Moreover, it's a direct proof that you call yourself, a semi-transcendent person.
For reference: There's a huge difference between a semi and a full-fledged Transcendent. These people achieved the peak of the universe and managed to break their own limiters. Then, they enlighten themselves on the peak of their own weapons, and thus, are called as full-fledged Transcendents.
For those who did not however, they are called just semi-transcendents.
Well, I didn't manage to break that limiter so I'm just a semi-transcendant. But I did manage to ascend my mastery of the spear to the absolute peak.
And that's why I gained this technique.
Well, all I can use for now is just the first form.
Or also known as the Balance, the balance to protect, attack and to use the spear to its fullest potential.
Also, it's in accordance with the current condition that I have, or my body that I have.
With the severity of my body being this badly hurt, I know that using all the power of the Equilibrium will leave me dead for good, either from bleeding or severe fatigue.
That's why I will just use the instinct of it, the feeling of using the Balance— not using the full power of the technique of the Equilibrium.
And another thing, using the other forms in my condition, will leave me dead for sure.
And also, I noticed something...
It seems like I can use the past techniques that I have in my past life. And although it's just the weaker version of what it used to be, I still can use it, when I immediately felt the immense strain in my body when I said the words.
"Oh well, it's a life-and-death afterall, I don't want to die in my enemies hands, ever fucking again."
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"The Way of the Spear, Equilibrium."
The man we were fighting was known as the Biggest Douchebag of the Empire, when he suddenly mumbled some words out of nowhere with incomprehensible sounds that we can't understand.
But oh well, we are already approaching the end of the line, we cornered him through our planned maneuvers and already approached the last place of the hallway.
Even if you're a seasoned fighter, being cornered will spell your death with two highly skilled assassins aiming for your life.
"But I wonder, what is that...?
Well, we can't comprehend the thing he said... and actually, we don't care for a dead man's word. A dead man can't tell any tales afterall.
And if it's you, then you're fucked.
Moreover, all he had was a steel spear from a fallen soldier's statue that he grabbed out of nowhere— in a hallway full of broken glass aimed to hinder his movements, destroyed walls and slash marks in its structure caused through our planned attacks that aimed to kill him.
And those attacks that we had earlier led to this current situation.
My powerful mana technique was already against his back, and it intended to surprise him and to take his life, as he was currently jumping in the walls and the statues.
Moreover, It's a guided attack afterall, an attack that had the power to pinpoint the enemies movement and cut the enemy into a straight half, then explode for a sure kill.
"Well, he's dead regardless of what we do."
Then...
Boooom! Boooom! Boooom!
The sound of a big explosion happened in his location when my attack directly hit his body, and explored in the first touch.
The debris scattered in the floor, the glasses of the window broke into pieces and the statues of the fallen knights, became a huge mess due to an explosion.
"We got him good, huh?" I said while waiting for any reactions and movements after that successful attack to that bastard.
Although it's a success, I don't want to be lax and careful in this battle— that man seems like a seasoned fighter afterall.
I continued to observe the surroundings.
However, my partner immediately celebrated.
"Nice! It's a big success."
My co-assassin, and my woman, Alicia shouted in joy when my attack hit that bastard.
"That bastard deserved it that much, fuck him."
She's almost dancing in joy due to a reason. Her family was one of the affected commoners that this bastard abused.
That's why she's eager to kill that man, even suggesting that she must be the decoy and I'm the finisher of this attack.
Well, as I continued to observe the surroundings, expecting him to appear for a moment, It was in vain at all.
After a couple of minutes, that man never appeared in the rubble of destruction, smoke still rising in the explosion that happened earlier so I can't see him clearly— leading to my vigilance.
"Well, let's go and collect the bounty on that bastard."
My partner suggested that the people of the mansion were already aware of the explosion that happened, and we must flee or we'll be exposed.
That's when something happened...
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"They got me good, huh?"
I immediately felt my hand tingling from the pain of directly stopping that technique, and blood trickling my face.
My forehead was cut on the left side due to some sharp debris that happened to hit my head after that explosion.
I managed to defend from the attack, but I was blown out in the corner of the hallway.
That's when I realized it— his attack, it's stronger, a lot stronger than I initially thought it would be. I was dumbfounded when I felt the aggressive nature of that attack that wants to kill an enemy in a destructive way.
And when I noticed a problem, me.
Laying down to the floor full of debris and fire.
"Maybe, I got too complacent?"
I wondered, as I felt this unknown pain of the wound that I have in my forehead, and when I sat on the ground— blood immediately flowed out from my left face almost covering my eyes.
"Maybe I become complacent because I thought this universe would be an easy one?"
Well, I thought of the things that I experience, and my first thought that I have in this universe was.
I want to die...
And I don't want to be a coward anymore...
But right now? I'm getting beat up by some unknown assassins.
Due to my carelessness and complacency, I was wounded on the top of my body hurting like a bitch in heat.
"Fuck, I must take this universe seriously."
That's the time I realized something in this goddamn universe.
My resolve...
I want to die...
Yes, but only through myself....
Nothing else...
Not my enemy...
Not the people of this universe...
And not even that fucking Ethos...
I just sighed and stood up from my sitting position, blood still flowing in my left face.
I grabbed the spear that bounced off from my hand in the corner of the hallway, as smoke of debris and fire still continued on the place that I stood up.
I tightened my grip, and used the stance that I always do.
The stance of the Way of the Spear, Equilibrium.
I leapt out and jumped at the katana assassin from the camouflage of debris and smoke— immediately delivering a downward slash to his wellbeing, but the assassin somehow still managed to parry that attack with the katana despite the initial shock.
Well, my opponents are expert assassins— it's no wonder that this man or woman can parry that attack.
"You're alive?" The katana assassin who sounded like a woman, with an expression of shock said to me.
However, I didn't answer and just focused on myself. It's a life-and-death battle afterall.
That's when the scythe user tried to attack me in the back, but I leapt out again and used my spear to deliver some stab into his direction.
We're fighting in mid-air like some sort of superheroes.
That didn't take long, as the woman who was below me suddenly leapt out too and delivered a horrifying slash in my direction.
"Draw of Issen."
A single fast slash that directly collided with my steel spear, but I still managed to bounce it off using the spinning momentum of my spear.
And by blocking that attack, I managed to gain the right momentum in my body to deliver a roundhouse kick to that woman in his abdomen that connected in itself.
"Huagghhh, Fuck!"
The woman, feeling the pain shouted with saliva all over his mouth, while his partner immediately performed a downward scythe slash to my battered body.
But all it hit was the floor of the broken hallway.
I evaded it because I'm not dumb to collide with it head on. I already experienced its power so I will not be naive to deflect it.
And with the momentary loss of the power of scythe happened, I immediately pounced on my enemy while the katana user was down.
I took the stance and tried to stab him directly to his vital parts, but he always narrowly evaded it by moving his body in unpredictable direction, as if it's some kind of mystic arts.
"Fuck! I can't hit him even with the Equilibrium."
That's when I noticed it— his eyes. It's kind of dark, like some sort of hatred immediately flowed in his eyes empowering him to the core when I hurted his woman?
"Ahhh, shit!"
And that's when I hear the thing he said.
"Scythe of Darkness."
When I heard those words, all the conclusion that pop out my head was..
"Goddamnit, I have to use it."
As I closed my eyes— seeking the very deep of my soul and my spear.
Although I can't use the 100% of it's power. I can use the true essence of it.
"The Way of the Spear, Equilibrium, True Form."
Then, an enormous dark slash cut through the hallway of the mansion, dismantling the whole hallway of the guest rooms, the windows, the floors and a huge explosion happened again due to the structure of the rooms and the hallway being cut in two.
Booom! Booom! Crashhhh! Booom!