5 Optical illusion and the three Elements

The dust covered the area around Vladimir, John and Antony. When the visibility finally became clear, only Vladimir could be seen scanning his surroundings. Both his brother and father seemed to have disappeared

John who was observing the situation hidden in the woods around the clearing, was trying to analyze his opponents moves

' Seems like father realised our plan to avoid a scenario where he can come after me first. He shouldn't be away from my position' he thought silently. He really wanted to sigh dejectedly.

' I should find him before he takes me down by a surprise. It all comes to experience in the end' while having these thoughts, a firing fist suddenly appeared in front of his face. Antony with his lightning speed had already arrived in front of him before John could even realise what happened.

The flaming fist approached his face but instead of hitting him, it passed through John's head. Seeing his son's figure to slowly disappear, a surprised expression appeared on Antony's face,but he regained his calmness immediately. He raised his flaming axe to block Vladimir's attack who had come to confront him when he revealed his position.

" I can't believe that I didn't manage to avoid the scenario where you can ambush me at any time. Seems like your improvements these 2 years are really impressive. I even lost the initiative to attack first" Antony didn't look sad at all as he was explaining the predicament he had fallen in.

"As if this is enough to beat an old fox like you" Vladimir replied coldly. His casual attitude had changed completely. His silver hairhad gained the brightness of the sun . On his hands, a huge greatsword made of iron had appeared . Every movement he made seemed to leave a layer of ice behind, while his body was covered by a thick sand armor. Combined with his cold expression and his natural beauty, Vladimir could easily be compared with an angel that descended from the Heavens to judge the ignorant humans.

Seeing his son's appearance Antony's eyes became totally wide. A mad laugh escaped from his mouth

" Hahahaha! Three elements! I can't believe it. My son is the first human to unlock three elements after hundreds of years"his eyes started to become blurry. He took a deep breath and tried tocalm down himself from the emotional state he had found himself in.

Vladimir didn'tlet the chance that Antony gave him to go as he raised his heavy greatswordand thrusted at his father.

No matter how much distracted the old adventurer was, it was completely impossible to be caught off guard by this kind of attack. The flaming axe and the iron greatsword collided with each other leaving behind fire sparks and ice crystals behind. After 20 moves, Vladimir started to feel exhaustion in his body. A pained expression that he tried to hide started to form on his face. Despite healing his wounds with the Light element, the toll of using three elements at the same time was something thathis mental state couldn't endure.

"It seems that you reached your limit. The use of three elements demands extreme concentration and mana consumption. The fact that you managed to force me on a stalematefor 20 moves is already something you can be proud for. In the end, the reason you lost today was because you didn't have the time to increase your mana capacity. Wait for 10 years and then the result might be different" Antony said as he slowly approached Vladimir.

In the face of the victory, no matter how experienced someone was, he would still lower his guard even for a second. The moment that Antony became slightly relaxed, a shadow emerged from Vladimir's body and attacked him.

' Fuck! I dont have time to avoid it. It will restrain me for at least 1 second' Antony thought as he tried to find a way to stall the time before he was attacked.

The shadow touched the legs of the old adventurer trying to immobilize him. At the same time a figure seemed to have appeared on his side. Holding a black dagger with a sinister aura on his hand he moved to stab him between his ribs..