Chapter 112 - Riku Vs Xelin I

Outside of the Arzotoc village, the two men were looking at each other with their sharp eyes. It seemed they were saying that they were ready for this upcoming fight.

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"What's your problem, Riku? This is not the right time to make reckless decisions." Emma said in a worried tone as she really disagreed with Riku's decision.

In her mind, if there was something happening to him right now. The Arzotoc village was the one who was going to receive the consequence.

He gently tapped her shoulder to calm her down as he already made up his decision. "I know, Emma. There is nothing for you to worry about." He responded, then walked closer to Xelin.

"Wait for a second, Riku. Do you understand what are you saying right now? That's a duel, if you lose I'm sure the village is already done." Emma was persistent to convince him.

"I got this, Emma. Also, I know that you are just worried about our current situation, but there is something that you don't know about me. I mastered all the types of martial arts." After he spits these words, he left Emma alone without ordering her to get back inside the village. Why? He just knew that he could win this fight.

At this point, Emma could not do anything. At the same time, she had no idea what were the martial arts he actually learned. "This man is ridiculous, he's acting the way he likes." She said to herself along with a deep sight.

After a few were moments. Riku attained a closer distance to Xelin which was around eight to nine meters. "So tell me, are you sure about this?" He asked him confidently.

Phew!

Xelin spits out some blood that was stuck in his mouth, eventually gave his nods at him. "Of course, I'm the one who asked this." He replied and you could see that he was still enduring his severe pain.

"If that's the case, tell me how our duel exactly going to work?" Riku approached him so he could become aware if there was a rule in their duel.

"It's simple, we are going to fight one versus one. The rules are simple if you win we are going to back to our Kindom and accept our fate there. But if I win, you should come with us and let us destroy your village." Xelin explained the rules in pain.

And all of a sudden, Riku chuckled which made everyone clueless about the situation. "You are making me laugh, man! You have greedy demand right there, huh?! Do you think I would agree with your decision? Remember, you are disadvantaged, there is no reason for me to accept that."

Well, he was quite right. He was pretending that their village had the upper hand so that he can force Xelin to make the condition that good for his side.

Xelin gritted his teeth as he never expect that this man was sharper than he thought. "Fine, our condition is, you are going to introduce to us the person who made the explosive. And you are letting that person come with us." He changed his condition so that the duel would happen. 

"I don't think if I'm going to accept your condition or not. But my mind might change if you offer your sword with me?" He smiled maliciously as he felt that sword was also a valuable weapon in this world. On top of that, once he successfully managed to bring that kind of item on Earth, there was a high chance he'll have the advantage among the other mutants.

Xelin nodded his head at him without hesitation as he was confident that no one in this world could defeat in one versus one battle. But the thing here was, he was already injured and he knew it could really affect his fighting ability. "Fine, if that's what you want..."

"No one would intervene if I notice someone I'll kill him without saying a word." Riku made it clear as he knew it was impossible for him to against them with their current numbers.

"This is a duel, it's our dignity. If I see someone from my men do something stupid, I swear I'll be the one who is going to eliminate them from this world." He said in a serious tone, looking at Riku with his red eyes, to show that he really meant his words.

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It looked like the battle would occur outside of the Arzotoc village was about to come. However, Riku did something that everyone stopped from cheering. Yes! He seated on the bloody surface, didn't care even there were corpses next to him.

"Before we fight, you should ask someone to heal your wound. So you don't have any excuses if you lose." He said in a weak tone, patiently waiting for this man to be prepared.

Xelin was shocked by this since this man was letting him do what he wanted. 'What is this man thinking right now? Where he could get such confidence to say something like this? Don't tell me, he was not just simply aware of the difference between our magical power.' He uttered to his mind. At the same time, didn't realize that he was dumbfounded for a couple of seconds.

"Heal yourself before I have changed my mind!" Riku yelled as he saw this man was just staring at him.

Then, in an instant, one of the attackers immediately towards Xelin. Or to be exact, they wanted Xelin to fight with the one hundred percent of his power.

[Healing!]

His eyes were filled with a green magical light that came out of the attacker's hand while the magic circle floated next to it. Moreover, the green light was slowly passing to Xelin's shoulder and closing the wound created by the bullets.

"This is so nice... After me, you should heal Vole. There's a chance he could die because of too much loss of blood." Xelin ordered the attackers next to him while narrowly looking at the man who passed out.

The attacker nodded his head without making any second thought along with a broad smile on his face. In his mind, once Xelin regained his strength he already had the victory.

The healing duration was also taken several minutes until Xelin was able to stretch his arm. "I'm good, let's start."

As soon as he felt comfortable with his body, he immediately invited him to start a duel while showing a suspicious smile on his face. Or to put it simply, he was like scheming for something.

To begin with. He gradually opened up his eyes and pushed himself into a stood up position. After that, he tossed the gun directly to Emma, he doesn't care if the gun was accidentally fired since it does not have enough bullets. 

"Hold it for me, Emma. Just stay there and if you see someone do something suspicious, don't hesitate to pull the trigger." He said those words to order Emma. The main reason he wanted to scare the attackers who wanted to do something against him.

Moreover, he directly faced Xelin that was gritting his teeth for some reason. "Are you keep insulting me? Do you know giving me a chance to heal myself is already mean to your death?" Xelin said in an annoyed tone, but it can't be helped he gave his sword to the attacker to fight him in hand-to-hand combat.

The numerous people around them give a spacious place for them to fight. Furthermore, Riku already predicted that this man had high dignity to himself since he was going to fight him fair and square.

"Enough chitchat. Let's finish this." Riku said in a deep tone.

Xelin nodded his head at him, then didn't make any second thought to start the fight. First, the cold breeze touched their bodies along with the rotten smell given by the corpses, and as soon as the huge bird passed to them. He dashed at him in an instant.

Swoosh!

In just one-second Xelin reduced the nine meters gap into one meter. After that, he widely swung his arm, aiming for Riku's head.

Bam!

His attacks landed but Riku managed to cross his arms in a short time to block the attack. However, Xelin's force was pushing him back which made him step back and quickly launch a dual spinning kick.

Thud! Thud!

Two solid kicks directly landed on Xelin's nape, but the thing here was, he had a tough body that could absorb the attack he was receiving right now.

"Too weak," Xelin said, then caught Riku's leg into the mid-air pushed it back to make him stumble his footing.

"Idiot..."

Well, Riku twisted his right leg and used the moment to create a massive kick once again.

Thud!

Another blood was spilling out of Xelin's mouth, didn't expect that this man was also a good fighter that could match him.

His head was barely tilted as he felt a mild pain. "Let's get be serious."

[Torso punch!]