NOVEL NEXT Chapter 88: Chess Match VIII
Tim stood up from his crash immediately and looked at the crater that could have had his body smashed into it in bits. He needed to be careful about Faye's sneak attack.
It was as if he was facing a swordsman and an assassin instead of 2 Sword Sages.
" Hmm. I wont lie. You have some raw strength. But raw strength is not needed alone to survive in this world. I will teach you the importance of skill, while you are still living." Zou said, as he accelerated towards Tim.
Tim accepted reality that he needed to give his all at first without relying on the skills and spells that he had access to at the moment.
Sparks flew as the 2 of them exchanged sword strikes.
CLANG CLANG CLANG
Each clash of the sword felt as if Tim was going to lose his limb at any time. Tim was obviously the weaker one of the battle of strength, but he refused to give in.
He also had his eyes out for Faye that always swoops in for the kill.
He was surprised when she asked that he leave the battle, but now he was more surprised by the fact that she was attacking him with the intent to kill.
CLANG
The last clash of the swords made Tim to be wide open. It was not something that Tim had done intentionally. It was Zou that perfectly timed his strike to throw Tim wide open.
Zou was a battle sage, but he did not need to use only his sword as a battle weapon. He had his body and any other thing that he deemed as a weapon.
Taking advantage of the opening that he created. He used one of his favorite skill " Almighty Strike!"
Heavy aura coated his massive fist, as he drove them directly into Tim's body.
BANG!
Tim's body folded, as he was sent flying just like a rag doll would.
As if that was not enough, before Tim had landed. Zou had followed up with another fist strike. Which also caught Tim by surprise. BAM! BAM!
Two aura enhanced fist smashed into Tim that had just previously received a life ending attack. Blood forcefully expelled itself from Tim's body, as Tim received the consecutive blows that Zou was dishing on him.
"Finish him off." Faye yelled from distance, as she threw Zou's sword that had been dropped previously due to the sudden switch in his battle style.
Tim's face and body was in a mess, but he still caught sight of what was happening. He saw when Faye threw the sword, and in that brief moment that Zou stopped his assault on Tim's body to catch the sword.
Tim gathered all the strength that he could muster into his dominant right hand, then he entered a stance quickly that would help him maximize his punching damage.
As Zou touched the sword. Tim released his super focused punch directly on the head of Zou. BANG!
The strike was calculated and forceful, it was practically the full raw strength of a 40+ strength stat.
Just like the way Tim had been thrashed around the battlefield, so did Zou experience at the moment.
His body flew beyond his control and directly crashed and destroyed a nearby boulder that was in the vicinity of the battle.
" I really can't face this lads with stats alone. Here I was thinking that my physical strength would have been enough to keep the battle at a stalemate.
Tim's sword now was in front of Faye. They stared at each other briefly, and she immediately knew what Tim's next plan was.
She knew that Tim would want to retrieve his sword to battle, but there was no way that she would let that happen, and Tim knew that. But he did not care.
Gathering momentum in his legs. He accelerated towards Faye. She was in the way, and he needed his sword back.
"Is he stupid? How can he charge at me bare handed." Faye said, as she coated her body with aura and also accelerated towards Tim. She intended to put an end to the battle while Tim was still stupid.
But the thing was that, Tim was not stupid. As Faye was about to use her sword to smash towards Tim. He hurriedly retrieved one of the daggers that he had acquired, and used it to block Faye.
CLANG!
The clash of metal rang out in the battlefield. Faye's eyes widened when she saw Tim's backup weapon, but she was not scared. What she was scared off had not happened so she thought that danger she was feeling at the start was false.
"Bladed Dance!" she yelled, as the aura around her body surged, as her speed doubled with her sending multiple attacks towards Tim at once.
ClANG CLANG PUICH PUICHH!
Tim tried his very best to intercept the sword dance that was happening around him, but it was not enough. Some of the sword attack tore through his armor then his flesh.
She made a mess of Tim's body with that skill.
Even with all Tim's stats, he still fell short in the face of an overwhelming skill.
Zou had balanced himself, and accelerated towards Tim once more. The bloodied Tim caught sight of Zou's advance and stared at Faye with a pissed of look.
"You are going to pay for making a mess of my body." Tim said, as he accelerated towards his sword once more.
"Fool. Blade Burst" Faye channeled almost all the aura in her body, as she accelerated and struck Tim who was accelerating towards the sword. POOOM!
The force that was exacted on Tim this time was comparable to a speed train slamming into a stationary person.
BOOM!
It was a burst attack that Faye reserved for special purposes. And she was happy that she used it.
She was sure of 2 things after she used such a skill. She was sure that she pierced a hole into Tim's body. That was evident and true due to the fact that her sword was coming out from the other side of Tim's body.
And she was sure that she had shattered his ribs and most of his bones, but what she was not sure of was whether she had killed him or not.
Because Tim at the moment was smiling as widely as possible.