Chapter 61 - Athena Vs White Crystal Puppet!!

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Both Athena and Kayn left the throne room under the shocked gazes of the Guards, including General Ruth. They were surprised to see Kayn clothes which only meant he was accepted as a bodyguard. How could some low-level warrior qualify to be a bodyguard of the princess, this was simply a joke under normal circ.u.mstances! Athena gave a small bow to general Ruth and continued onward, Kayn didn't even look at Ruth and followed behind Athena. This made Ruth a bit annoyed seeing how arrogant Kayn was acting.

Kayn had already talked to Athena about training and she opted to head to the training grounds. This was her private training area, away from other young members of her clan. The younger generation of her clan usually hung around the training grounds to practice, it was especially packed with the upcoming tournament approaching. Under several surprised gazes, they eventually made it to her private training ground. The training ground was huge, there were 5 arenas in the training ground that resembled the Cell games tournament rings.

"I am not dressed appropriately to train. I will go to the gear cabin over there to change into some battle clothes." There was a small warehouse that contained battle armor and other weapons for combat in it.

"Cool, once you get out, I will test your strength to see where you're at." Kayn could roughly guess Athena power level, it lingered around 60 to 90 million or so, which was pretty weak according to the clan's standards. Athena nodded and rushed off the Mini-storage to change.

"Hmm, I should test her by letting her fight some Puppets or Golems." Kayn brought up the interface and like always, the categories popped up.

[★ Ki and Aura Coloration

[★ Bloodlines

[★ Ki Practice's

[★ Energy and Combat Techniques

[★ Elemental Affinity

[★ Weapons and Armor

[★ Miscellaneous Items

Kayn immediately clicked Miscellaneous Items, the category showed Elixirs, Battle puppets, and many other things. Kayn immediately bought 5 battle puppets that didn't have any power levels. These were customizable puppets that required an individual to insert their Ki into to give them a power level, with Kayn's strength he could easily power one up to the billions or the trillions.

"Each of these puppets cost me 20,000 System points each. If this had been back in the day, I would be complaining about how pricey they were." Kayn shook his head and began to power up each puppet, he could also give them the Techniques he knew and even let them use his Ki Law innate abilities. Kayn couldn't help but think that if he were to get a bunch of these, then who could challenge him?

"Good, they're complete. Each one has their own color scheme with different fighting abilities and fighting styles." Kayn strengthened all of the puppet's power levels to 100 to 120 million each. They all have different colors as well. The colors were red, blue, purple, white, and black, Kayn then put them away except the white puppet since he wanted her to fight it first.

After about 10 minutes the princess finally came out, she wore armor this time. It both black and red armor, this was the tradition color that the Pheonix clan wore so Kayn remained unmoved, the armor was light armor so she didn't lose any speed.

"Alright, I am ready to train, how are we going to do this?" The princess paused as she was walking over because she noticed the white puppet standing beside Kayn. The puppet had a humanoid shape with a white core in its forehead, it had two crystals as eyes and its shoulder also had strong crystals on them. The puppet looked like a white crystal warrior, Kayn had personally customized it himself.

"This.... What is that thing?" Athena finally came to herself after looking over the flashy puppet.

"Hehe, it is your opponent that you'll have to fight. Let's head to the ring and see just how capable you are. This is a battle puppet, he will test your strength so take this fight seriously." Kayn grinned and said

"Hmm, okay, I will show you what I've got!" Athena took a big leap and landed on one of the arenas. "Bring it!" Athena yelled out. Kayn nodded and the puppet moved swiftly to the arena, Kayn had given this puppet some of his moves to use against her.

"Athena, once again, you may wanna take this seriously, this puppet is no joke!" Kayn warned

"Hmph, like I could lose to some puppet, I take all my fights seriously!" Athena sneered at the puppet who had a blank expression, but strangely a light flickered in its eyes which caught Athena off guard. "Um Kayn, is this puppet alive or something? I mean, can it feel emotions?" Athena was spooked

"Hehe, funnily enough, they can indeed understand words, so be careful what you say." Kayn was amused, he learned that these puppets can indeed understand what you're saying or trying to imply, he knew from his sparring match with puppet back on his planet, that boxing puppet.

"Interesting, then if you know what I am saying, then you know I will defeat you here and now!" The puppet didn't say anything and only stared at Athena like an idiot, there seemed to be disdain in its eyes. "You dare to disdain me! I will send you to death you little doll!" She couldn't believe a puppet actually disdained her, who made these damn things!?

"Okay, relax. This isn't a fight to the death. Whoever is knocked out of this huge ring loses, it's that simple." Athena didn't see a problem with that and agreed to these terms.

"Alrighty then get in position, the match will start in 30 seconds." Kayn said to Athena. Athena got into position and began to power up before the fight, the puppet just stared at her intentively, watching her every move until it took a fighting stance.

"The match will start in 5...4...3....2,...1 Fight!" As soon as he said that both the puppet and Athena slammed into each other creating a shockwave. The power level of this Puppet wasn't that high but it had some good moves or should I say, tricks.

Athena and puppet continued to meet punches until she gave the puppet a kick towards its chest, it blocked by crossing its arm across its chest but it was still sent flying away before regaining its posture. The puppet then shot a barrage of Ki blast toward Athena and she dodged them all with ease.

"Haha, your aim is terrible! Are you blind?" Athena ridiculed seeing that the puppet missed every attack. However the crystal gem of its eyes glinted, it seemed to be smiling but not smiling at the same time. Kayn could see what was going on right away since he was the one who made this puppet.

"You better pay attention!" Kayn said.

"Huh!" Athena looked back and could see tons of ki Blast in the air standing still, they were in the same spot unmoved, this could be no other attack but the Hell zone grenade! The puppet slammed it hand together and the Hell zone grenade Ki Blast slammed into Athena all at once. An explosion shook the battlegrounds creating strong winds and many shockwaves. Kayn shook his head, he knew that hell zone grenade was one of those sneak attacks that no one would see coming, so he couldn't blame her.

The smoke soon cleared and it revealed Athena who was surprisingly still okay. She had a barrier around her, she had managed to form it just in time before the attack hit her. "You damned puppet, I see you like to play tricks!" Athena was angry. "Heat Cannon!" Athena shouted as she shot a redish orange beam toward the puppet, it easily dodged as the attack flew pass the puppet, hitting the wall. Fortunately, these walls were built for this and could take just about any hit coming its way.

When she shot off her attack it was just meant to distract the puppet, soon she arrived above the puppet and kicked it in the face. Surprise flashed through its crystal-like eyes as it was sent flying toward the ground like a torpedo. The puppet had fast recovery and shot out the ditch and toward Athena in a flash. They started punching a kick toward each other at rapid speeds, shockingly Athena was good at close-quarters combat. The puppet couldn't match her hand to hand combat skills and it seemed to have noticed it as well. It had taken several kicks and punches to its body that Kayn could visibly see cracks on it.

"Oh, your backing away, I guess you've noticed that you're no match!" Athena looked satisfied seeing the puppet back off. However, this puppet was created for its trickery, it immediately used a galactic donut and threw them towards Athena. Athena didn't know what this attack was and didn't want to see what it would do, so she decided to run.

"Damn, what the hell are those 3 rings supposed to do to me?" She was a bit irritated being forced to run like this. "Forget it, I can't run like this forever." The rings followed her wherever she went and they seemed to be gaining speed. So she stopped and focused her energy into one of her hands for a bit and formed a Ki whip, she could only maintain this whip for a certain amount of time before it started to tire her out.

'Swoosh!' The whip swung forward and slammed towards the galactic donuts, they were destroyed upon contact. Athena smirked and looked at the puppet who was hover in the air some ways away. "You're next!" Athena rushed toward the puppet waving her whip, she flung it towards the puppet who was dodging the whip the best it could. However, it couldn't defy the inevitable and was hit with the whip across its chest. Athena smiled and send a barrage of whip strikes towards the puppet, it couldn't resist and its legs were broken off.

"Oh, this may be over." Kayn looked at the condition of the puppet and felt like Athena was going to win this fight for sure. Athena put the whip away since it was starting to take its toll on her, she didn't stop there a punched the puppet in the face, cracking one its crystal eyes on its face.

"This is for showing me disdain!" Athena kept punching it until it fell to the ground and landed in the arena. "Hmph, this is over, I am the winner!" Athena was assured that this was her win. However, the puppet hovered upwards, clearly showing that it could still fight despite its terrible condition.

"You still want to fight me with no legs, are you insane?" The puppet didn't say anything and readied its hands for a fight. "Good, let's see what you can do as you are now!" Athena rushed toward the puppet again, however, the puppet teleported. Athena was stunned, she remembered Kayn using such a move to teleport away without a trace. The puppet appeared behind Athena in an instant.

"To slow, you think you can sneak attack me!?" Athena turned to attack the puppet but it suddenly opened its hand wide and put them next to its eyes. A bright flash shot out, this was clearly solar flare and Athena was immediately blinded by the technique.

"You! I can't see!" Athena covered her eyes in shock, she was blindsided by the move. The puppet had used th full force of solar flare on her. The puppet then began to chant something in a low voice as it powered up an attack, it was the Kamehameha Technique! The attack was fired off with all the puppets might, Athena had managed to come out of her blindness at that moment, but it was too late.

She used a barrier to protect her at the last minute, but it was the last minute. Anything that was done at the last minute usually failed since there was really no effort and it was rushed, this was one of those situations. The blast slammed heavily onto her Ki barrier and Athena was blown back, she flew out of the ring and slammed against the wall.

She had lost the fight, just like that!

Athena got up from the ground, her armor was ruined from the attack. She couldn't believe the tricks of this puppet, it was simply too shameless that she was angered half to death just thinking about it.

"No! This is impossible, I want a rematch!" She could once again see the disdain in the puppet crystal-like eyes, it made strange sound as if it was taunting her. She was about to rush toward the puppet again in anger until she was stopped by Kayn.

"Hold it right there! You lost fair and square, you let your guard down and was defeated. This was just an evaluation of your strength which isn't bad." Kayn said as he appeared in front of her. Kayn then recalled the puppet, putting it away.

"Dang, it!" Athena was still furious that she lost. She lost in such a poor way and was even disdained by a puppet for goodness sake. Kayn could understand her frustration, he had given the puppet such a personality, the puppet he fought last time was given a random personality since he didn't give it one or block it from having one back then.

"It okay, we live and learn. You have quite a bit of weakness I would like the tell you about first." Athena calmed down and nodded as to listen to Kayn advice.

"The first weakness isn't really a weakness but when you see it failing to work, you should stop it." Kayn paused and continued "Number 1, you talk too much, your mouth was running the whole time nonstop." Athena's mouth twitched hearing those words but she could refute, she did talk a lot.

"Number 2, you need to pay more attention to your surroundings when fighting. That hell zone grenade could have easily taken you out if the puppet was more advanced with the technique." the puppet ki blast gave off fluctuations so she was able to notice it at the last minute. If it had been more advance, she would have been successfully sneak attacked by it.

"I understand!" Athena nodded and said. She recounted that was another moment when she was talking shit and her face flushed just thinking about it. She wanted to ask about this hell zone grenade attack but would wait until later to do so, it seemed like a cool attack that she would like to learn.

"Number 3, your Ki control is garbage and you seemed to be better at fighting hand to hand rather than anything else. We'll need to work on that as well because hand to hand can only take you so far." She wouldn't be able to handle forces like Majin buu with just hand to hand combat or any high Regeneration being, she would need ki attacks to completely destroy these types of opponents.

"I..I, this is true." Athena knew she wasn't good with ki like abilities and found many opportunities to get close and in person with her opponents. She drained ki fast as displayed when she used her ki whip, she was afraid of running out during a fight and rarely used Ki attacks. Athena would only use them for distractions or when she really needed them like what she did to the galactic donuts.

"Okay, we'll be using a gravity training machine with some special training for your Ki control." Kayn would either have to let her experience the hyperbolic time chamber or some serious gravity training, he wasn't so sure yet but he would figure it out soon enough.