Chapter 296 Ghast’s Dark Orb

Satoshi's teleportation skills shocked White Mist since he was able to react to his attack despite the small window of time where he could react to it. Not a lot of beast tamers could dodge that Dark Orb and yet Satoshi did it with relative ease. One way or another, White Mist could tell that Satoshi had been to hell and back when it comes to his fighting skills. He was as talented as any superhero with speed-type superpowers.

"What was that?"

"He was able to dodge that in an instant?"

"Is he even human? How could he do something like that?"

,m The shock that White Mist experienced firsthand spread to the beast tamers who were present in the room. They were also watching the match with keen interest, that's why they were surprised that Satoshi dodged something that was supposed to be impossible to dodge.

Without missing a beat, Satoshi extended his hands and a dark portal appeared on top of the field. Dark energy beams started raining down on the beast battle area, relentlessly attacking White Mist. The attacks packed quite a punch and it left a couple of craters in the area. They could tell that one hit from those attacks would actually deal a considerable amount of damage. White Mist was aware of it, that's why he tried so hard to dodge every energy beam that rained down upon him.

Now that White Mist had witnessed Satoshi's sheer combat prowess and his intricate control over his beast integration, he came to the conclusion that he was underestimating the kid. He was powerful, if not more powerful than him. White Mist couldn't help but let out a chuckle as he increased his speed.

At first, he had a hard time dodging the energy beams that rained down from above, but after a few seconds he was able to go with the rhythm, full adapting to the rain of energy beams, dodging all of them with relative ease. At this point, White Mist had already decided that he shouldn't underestimate the kid anymore. He was going to fight with full power and there was no way he'd give Satoshi a free win.

Determination filled White Mist's gaze as he activated the Bell Curse. Even though he had resolved himself to not use the Bell Curse, he still decided to use it since there was no way he'd be able to win against Satoshi with half his strength. Besides, he still had no idea whether such an attack would work against an Unearthly Type Tamed Beast. This is a good experiment, and it would help him with his tamed beast research in the long run.

Satoshi felt the Bell Curse spreading around the entire field but he wasn't bothered by it at all. While it was a bit threatening, Satoshi could feel that it didn't have any effects on Ghast at all. The Bell Curse was a pretty overpowered move, but if it was ineffective, then nothing would happen at all. (Ah yes, it's like the saying that goes— people die when they are killed)

Before White Mist could realize that the Bell Curse actually didn't have any effect on Satoshi, Satoshi appeared behind him, forming a dark blade on his hand and trying to stab White Mist with it. White Mist was able to accelerate forward, dodging the strike by a hair's breadth, much to his relief.

He didn't want to give Satoshi an opening so as soon as he accelerated, he turned around and shot a couple of psychic beams at him. He knew that doing so wouldn't hit Satoshi at all but it would at least occupy him while he tried to figure out what Satoshi's weakness is.

In response to his attack though, Satoshi held out the dark orb he was holding and he stretched his hand. It's as if he was holding the ball to protect himself… and that was the point why he did that.

In an instant, the Dark Orb transformed into a huge dark shield which deflected the psychic beams that White Mist shot at him. Satoshi then stepped forward as numerous amounts of portals appeared all over the field. He turned the entire field into a portal-infested room.

The crippling feeling of fear came over White Mist as he watched the sheer amount of portals that appeared in front of him. There was something sinister about the dark portals that rendered him immobile for a few seconds. During that time-frame though, Satoshi was more than merciful enough to not attack him. His plan had worked, and White Mist was already doubting his victory more than anything else.

Provocation brought Satoshi a step closer towards victory. His next move after that was to confuse White Mist so he won't be able to get his gears back together. If tangible attacks didn't affect White Mist that much, Satoshi concluded that he would attack him mentally. That way it would take him a longer time to recover. This would give Satoshi more openings so he could snag a victory under the White Mist's feet.

"Look at that kid!"

"Can you believe it?"

"He can keep up with the number one beast tamer in the world? Who's this kid?"

"See? I told you guys, he's a pretty good beast master." Shoyo proudly puffed his chest as if he was close to Satoshi. But then again, what he said a couple of minutes ago was right, that's why he couldn't help but feel sheer pride towards Satoshi.

Apparently, even though Satoshi was quite famous in Japan, and he had already appeared in a lot of news reports, some Americans were still oblivious to his identity. That's why they were surprised that he was able to go head to head with White Mist. If they had seen him in action, then this much wouldn't have surprised them at all.

White Mist stepped back a little bit when Satoshi turned away from him. One of the most basic rules when it comes to fight was that one shouldn't turn his back towards his opponent. But right now, Satoshi turned around as if he purposefully did so. This prompted White Mist to put his guard up instead of attacking his opponent. This was the second step towards Satoshi's plan of victory— to confuse White Mist as much as he could.

For at least a minute, Satoshi just stood there without doing anything. Quite frankly, he was waiting for White Mist to make a move but he didn't do anything. In fact, he didn't budge an inch from where he stood. He was just there, motionlessly still while waiting for something to happen.

Satoshi chuckled. He had already succeeded in the first two steps of his plan.

"Let's play a game, White Mist." Satoshi called out before he disappeared into thin air.

White Mist's jaw dropped to the floor when he realized that Satoshi just disappeared into thin air. Everyone who was watching had the same reaction. Even Jean Grey who had been watching the fight closely was surprised that Satoshi disappeared from the field. He tried to use his enhanced senses, even linking his mind to Pheross so he would be able to borrow some of his senses… but there were no signs of Satoshi.

"Let's play hide and seek. You're it." Satoshi called out.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Satoshi didn't disappear what he did was surround his entire self with portals so his presence would disappear. He was still there though, standing on the very spot where he supposedly disappeared.

Satoshi then stepped inside the portal but before he did so, he activated one of Ghast's new skills. It was a skill called Portal Mimicry, and it allowed the user to produce clones of himself and control them with the user's mind. This more or less resembled 'kage-bunshin no jutsu (shadow-clone jutsu)' but one wouldn't be able to detect which one's real or which one was fake since all of the clones produced an aura similar to the user. For the opponent, every clone was real, and no matter how hard they tried to detect which one was real, they wouldn't be able to do it. This was just one of the few new skills that Ghast learned after his power-up.

By the time Satoshi reappeared... There were already a dozen of him. Each of them got out of a different portal, and they acted as if they were real. A sinister smile appeared on Satoshi's face as he held out the Dark Orb in his hand.

The Dark Orb had already shown its wide array of uses when Satoshi was able to transform it into a shield a couple of moments ago. Apparently, the Dark Orb had the ability to transform into any weapon. This was because the Dark Orb was actually concentrated pure dark energy that Ghast always feeds with his unearthly powers. This allows it to shift into any form, and Satoshi just had to think of something in order for it to change.

White Mist couldn't help but stare in bewilderment as the twelve Satoshis in front of him changed the form of their Dark Orb. All of them held out a different weapon in their hands, and they started charging at White Mist without hesitation.