Chapter 257: The End Result of Spar

"Huh?" The soldier was not dumb. Before accepting Desmond's offer, he looks around but could not find something suspicious. Still, he stared at them for a couple of minutes, "Young master, please stop joking around. Can you tell me your real purpose in visiting this area?"

Although the soldier spoke confidently as if he was suspicious about Desmond's offer, he still did not have actual proof about it.

And as expected, Desmond played with his act while tilting his head to the side," What do you mean, uncle? I just ask you to spar with me. Just reject my offer if you are not confident enough." He spoke while his tone sounded mocking at the soldier.

As a result, the soldier was enraged. Before, he holds his anger or emotions toward Desmond as he was a mere child from Master Witch.

Yet, when looking at his smug. Coupled with the expression on the maid that was standing behind him, this made the soldier enraged," Of course! Where do you want to spar? Here? Come!"

The smile on Desmond's face became wider, as he had been expected. The soldier was basically a commoner. The commoner did not have proper knowledge about anything related to the attic.

In conclusion, most of the soldiers were armed peasants with only combat knowledge.

Therefore, just using a few words, one could manipulate them. Still, this won't work if the captain was here.

"Of course, the faster, the more we have fun," Desmond replied and unseat his wooden sword.

They immediately took a step backward and made a few spaces for the spar. The soldier sheathed his sword and took his wooden sword as if he was ready before Desmond asked.

"What spar do you want, young master?" Even though the soldier was upset and annoyed by Desmond's provocation, he still did not forget his place and asked politely.

Desmond did not reply immediately as he raised his hand and placed it on his chin. His eyes wandering around, and he began calculating the situation.

We are fighting amid forest without any witness. Still, if I kill him, the people will feel suspicious toward me. Especially the soldier who was sent by Diana, he thought.

His intention was clear, to check and experiment. Could he absorb the Shapeshifter's corpse? But the soldier's presence was blocking his way.

"Let's set when one was hit twice, he will lose. You can unleash your full power. After all, I want to test my limit." Desmond spoke confidently, yet from the soldier's view, he looked arrogant and reckless.

Hah, I worried about nothing! He was still a teen that was full of passion, the soldier secretly sneered in his mind. Thinking he was worried about his action before, he was such a fool.

"As you said, young master." The soldier replied and then moved one of his feet backward. He bent for a moment before taking a posture to attack.

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Desmond was doing the same thing upon seeing his action, but he did not take an attack stance. Hmm, one slash is enough to knock him down. I don't need to waste more time, he thought.

While the two of them were staring at each other. The sound of chirping birds and the gust of wind blew up to their battleground.

The crickets sound was like a determinant to when the battle begins, and immediately after all the cricket sound was silent and the leaves were falling down and blocking their view, Desmond was the first person to speak.

"I'll be attacking, uncle. Be prepared!" Desmond shouted.

The soldier snorted at his arrogance, but before he could reply, his eyes caught Desmond's body had vanished!

The atmosphere became silent, without any sound of a footstep or the passing wind making the soldier gasped in surprise.

What! Impossible! The soldier screamed inwardly, but suddenly a chilling and agitated feeling was formed in his mind. With his instinct as a soldier, the soldier raised his sword with one hand.

*clank* *crack*

The ground shock because of the collision between the wooden sword of Desmond and the soldier. The ground below the soldier was seen forming a small crack.

Upon witnessing that Desmond was that attacking him, the soldier was astonished. He felt his arm was numb after the collision. He did not believe the boy in front of him had a power that was equal to him.

*swoosh*

Without further ado, the soldier took several steps backward, and without waiting for a dealy, he charged at Desmond, who was still in mid-air, leaving the cloud of dust scattered around.

His sword was carried a wind pressure as he placed the sword equal to his eye level. The sword began to thrust and forming pressure toward Desmond.

The soldier's action was too fast for ordinary people to react, yet Desmond that flying in mid-air, did not panicked.

As I expected from the middle-stage 1st class Swordsman, Desmond thought. Although his strength was increased, still his reaction was inferior toward the soldier.

The soldier stats were all rounded, with his agility and strength around 30. If strength indicated how strong a person could break the rock, then agility was how fast the person could react during battle.

With a slight movement from his waist, Desmond agilely spinning in mid-air. Simultaneously, one of his feet smashing toward the soldier blade from above, making him look like doing a backflip kick!

However, this made his face almost touched the ground with his body still flying in the mid-air and upside down with his sword was pointed upward, making the weight became heavier.

The soldier was surprised once more time upon witnessing Desmond's reaction. Up until now, his brain could not accept a mere boy was standing almost equal with him.

Upon seeing the kick that was about to hit his wrist, the soldier reacted in fast as he changing his position from holding the wooden sword on the right side to the left.

As a result of this sudden change, Desmond's foot successfully hit his right shoulder.

"Gah!" Such a speed, reaction, and coupled with his age, this could be proven Desmond was a genius in close combat.

The soldier was surprised as a sore pain was surging on his right shoulder coupled with the sound of bones breaking. But in exchange, he could thrust his wooden sword that was on his left side to Desmond's falling body.

This is the end, boy! The soldier smiled upon witnessing the helpless body in front of him.

Although Desmond's body was smaller than his, still as a soldier, he was confident with his aim toward Desmond's abdomen.

But what the soldier saw after his sword almost hit his abdomen was too shocking.

A wave of wind suddenly blew up Desmond's body. His body that was upside down turned back to normal. Before the soldier could react, Desmond appeared behind him like his first attack.

As soon as the sword hit him, the soldier felt pain in his neck, and slowly his view was surrounded by darkness. His body went limp as he fell to the ground.

*thumb*

With elegantly landing on the ground, Desmond was smiled upon seeing the unconscious soldier. Although he said a spar, he did not tell the specify and used his magic to secretly helped him.

Of course, this spar did not use any Swordsman skill, to be fair. And he won because the soldier was caught off the guard of his magic.

The battle was ended only in ten breaths! They were holding their breath as if their life was the stake!

"Fast, use your spell," Desmond spoke to Annie. He already tested his body and was satisfied with the result.

The conclusion was, his body was strong enough to handle the full power of a middle-stage 1st class swordsman but lacking in terms of reaction speed and movement.

[Written by DragonKnov || Published on Webnovel] 

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