Shackles Of Reality

One moment I was sitting on a bench with him at my front and the other I was flying backwards at breakneck speed. The bastard sent a flying kick to my chest, at least I managed to cross my arms before he got me. 'Since he dared to attack me, I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind'. But as I saw his body turning to steel, I realized that there was only one thing left to 'run'!!.

I took off to the skies with him following behind me, why am I suddenly getting a feeling of deja Vu.

"Hahaha, you can't escape, everything you try is futile" he laughed. 'I don't need to keep escaping forever, not that I could in the first place with him closing the distance every second. I just need to find lady divider and he'll be done for.

I kept away from the center of the city during the chase as anyone with half a brain should know that that's where everything started from and most likely the big guns will be fighting there. Even now I could hear tremors coming from there, there were also others fighting in the sky, some gold rank with even two platinum ranks.

As I was distracted by what was happening, a hand caught my leg and swung me towards the ground. 'Damn I almost forgot about him, and also now I know what triggered the sense of deja Vu. It was the same thing that happened during the attack at the academy, where that asura followed me and punched me down from the sky, only this time instead of smashing on the ground, I flipped and landed in style.

'Okay now I gotta survive for as long as I can, from what I saw his bloodline ability is turning his body to steel, so he's most likely only a melee fighter but I don't know if he has other abilities, so I have to be careful on this one, it seems I have to make my main priority dodging'. I employed bloodline reinforcement and braced myself for his attack.

He attacked with a punch to my side that I almost dodged, the key word being 'almost', as I started dodging it, his fist followed after me so in the end, I had to block using my forearm, to which I heard an audible crack coming from it and felt a pain like no other, but I didn't even have time to cry as the next moment, he came with a round horse kick, I dodged this one but it managed to graze my cheek, I caught the leg he kicked me with and swung him to away.

We continued our battle with me dodging some attacks and occasionally landing a few of my own. I had grown vastly in terms of combat prowess ever since that attack, but his sheer strength makes my battle instinct useless. Damn for a steel colossus, the f*cker is damn fast, one would think that the fact that his body turned to steel also made him as heavy as steel. Even I thought so,but I couldn't be more wrong.

That was until he said "You dont think why am I not slower?, my bloodline ability only makes me as strong and durable as steel but not as heavy as it hahaha". Is this idiot going insane?, Who tells their opponents what their bloodline ability does. So you get what I mean, sure I could sense his attacks, but that doesn't mean I have enough speed or reflexes to dodge every one of them. He sent me flying with a kick but not before I punched at his shin and heard a crack, it was his shin and definitely not my hand right?.

But now with his stupid declaration, while I'm sure I won't be able to beat him, he also won't be able to touch me. "Repel" I muttered, I could see the confusion on his face as he was caught off guard and sent flying for a few meters before stabilizing himself mid air.

"Oh geniuses, your type are the ones I love to torture, how dare you get born with incredible bloodlines and being able to fight above your rank while am not" he bellowed.

'Now I see, he's crazy, talk about inferiority complex' I thought. "That's also the main reason why I joined the 'Obsidian Order', so I can hunt down geniuses".

To him how could others get good bloodline while he's stuck with only being able to turn his body to some bloody steel, since he was dealt a bad hand by fate, he might as well foil fate plans by killing the sons and daughters of fate, that is geniuses.

After his little heartfelt speech, he flew at me and I repelled him but this time his speed only slowed down and he didn't even stop talkless of moving backwards, as he neared me I jumped backwards while still using repel, keeping him at the same distance more or less but I knew it won't last for long as he was getting closer with each push.

I started planning for when he came at me this time, I summoned my katana hoping to do what I did to the gold rank asura, so as he came at me I used repel for a moment only to release it and thereby misplacing his balance and sending him uncontrollably at me.

I took the stance of the first part of the severing style quick draw but outcomes sometimes don't go your way, instead of me beheading him, he swung his body in an unnatural way at the last second making my sword strike his chest instead of neck, before giving a solid kick at my jaw.

It sent me flying, I blacked out for a brief moment and when I recovered, I could feel my jaw was dislocated. As I was on the ground, I saw grinning as he walked towards me before he said "see it's always ends the same way" he said with a malevolent expression. "Sure for someone with inferiority complex you sure talk a lot" I retorted.

"Before I wanted to torture you but now it's instant death for you" he said with a rageful expression before picking the katana I dropped and thrusting it towards my heart, I tried to dodge but I knew it was futile.