Chapter 31 New Year (Part-3)- End!

'I just have to kite him for two more minutes.' (Rio)

With this thought in his mind Rio continued to dodge all the different types of attacks Link unleashed. Although it looked as if Rio wasn't putting much effort but actually, he was putting effort in dodging Link's blow or maybe not… cough! Cough!

Two minutes may seem a small time period but right now Rio felt that time was moving rather slow right now, suddenly Rio remembered a great person's golden words from his previous life:

[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours.]

'I can feel why it was said, huh' (Rio)

Looking at the wrist watch, Rio sighed, to him it seemed as if he has been kiting Link for so long, yet there's still time left. He put this thought at the back of his mind and then continued to focus on the battle.

[35 seconds… 32 sec… 31sec… 30sec]

Suddenly Link stopped abruptly and baked off from Rio by jumping a bit he moved his hand in a strange motion as if he was preparing for something, Rio instantly felt that the situation was not right, he also backed of and took a defensive style ready to counter any incoming attack.

As the movement of Link's hands stop, the mana in the surrounding became turbulent and started to rush madly towards his hand concentrating at his hand forming a formidable pressure around Link.

Rio had a suddenly felt a bit nostalgic seeing this situation:

'Why does moment feel very similar to the protagonist's preparing for their final in order to kill an unbeatable villain, catching the villain off-guard.' (Rio)

Just as Rio was thinking this, Link finally prepared his attack, his insanity has reached its limit now and Rio knew that Link will definitely come back to his senses after he unleashes this blow.

'Okay, then let's end this now. Sigh~' (Rio)

[Concentration!]

[Body strengthening!]

[Elemental sword Arts: Sword Strengthening!]

[Sword Aura: Fire energy!]

Rio continuously buffed himself and finally decided give his all in this attack, he knew that the next attack of Link can't be taken as a joke. With all the buffs on his body, his mana concentration in the body increased, his sword started to burn with blue flames, his muscles tightened up to the extreme…

Thinking a bit more Rio decided to take the initiative now:

'Here I come!' (Rio)

[Lightening Sword!]

The sword moves with extreme precision and speed. The blue flames made a dazzling arc in the air, yet the power contained in this one strike was even more lethal than how beautiful it looked. In an instant Rio's sword was right in front of Link's face.

Link wasn't called the most talented individual in the novel for no reason, he immediately reacted and his punch directly collided with Rio's sword.

[Dragon Arts: Extreme Dragon Punch]

The two of the forces collided, the ground cracked even further leaving deep cracks all over the place, a huge shock-wave was produced from the collision and the nearby buildings which were still intact finally collapsed too…

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"Hey! You are so slow in climbing, hurry up Link!" (Riya)

"Yeah, yeah, I am climbing, wait a bit" (Link)

Riya pouted her cute face and looked at Link with a teasing face:

"Heh, the great and almighty Link can't even climb a tree, such a cowardly cat you are, hahaha…" (Riya)

"I-I am not a coward! Just you wait! I will catch you!" (Link)

"Oh! Then why don't you climb up faster! Mister great Link!" (Riya)

Hearing her teasing words, Link hurriedly climbed the tree, so that he can give this naughty girl a good punishment. Seeing that Link was finally coming up, Riya also started to climb more upwards.

"Hey! You shouldn't do that up, you may fall, come back down immediately!" (Link spoke with concern)

"Heh, are you scared? Then see how I climb this tree; you should learn from me" (Riya)

Ignoring Link, Riya continued to climb the tree and eventually she reached the second highest branch, but the distance between the second branch and the first branch was quite big. Seeing this Link tried to convince Riya to not try something dangerous, yet Riya ignored him again and directly jumped at the highest branch.

In the end she barely and unsteadily made it to that branch, looking around all the things looked small, she can see the setting sun in the horizon even more clearly, she can see that this grassland was so big that she can only see grass all around them.

The only exception was the huge villa situated nearby; this villa belongs to Link's family.

Just as Riya was busy in looking at the surrounding, she didn't even notice that the branch on which she was has started to crack a bit. But Link had long noticed it, so he tried to alert Riya:

"Riya! Be caref-" (Link)

but before he could do so, the branch directly broke and Riya fell from that place…

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"I WILL DEFINITELY PROTECT HER!!!! RRRRaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" (Link)

'Oh! Come on! Come back to your senses already!' (Rio)

Both Link and Rio pushed each other with more and more strength and mana yet none of them moved even a single centimetre back from their place, they were now in a stalemate. Until it broke up in an instant.

*Slash* *Bang*

Two high pitched sounds rang out and the mana in area finally calmed down. Everything returned to silence instantly, as if the previous loud noises of battle never existed in the first place at all.

Closely looking you can see that both Rio and Link has moved from their original location to forward a few steps and now both of their faces were directly opposite each other, while their backs were facing towards each other.

But none of them move for a few seconds and remained in the same position for a bit, then they both collapsed down directly on the ground.

"Ugh…my hands…" (Link)

Link's both hands were now blooding and they looked as if they have been cut by several blades. There were several wounds on both of his hands while one wound on his right hand was the biggest and most terrifying.

It is a cut mark extending from his wrist to the shoulder, such a long cut, ordinary individuals would have died from this wound due to excessive blood. This wound was created by the last attack of Rio's sword. (Obviously Rio struck on his hand on purpose, otherwise he could have struck his heart if he wanted to.)

Rio wasn't faring too well too; his hands were also bloody and his palms were also affected and bloody. Rio looked at the sword lying on the left of Rio. The sword had several cracks on it.

Although Rio had attacked with all his strength, he was not exhausted yet, he immediately got up and picked his sword. But his sword directly broke apart and crumbled into pieces leaving a broken blade.

Seeing this scene Rio sighed and shook his head:

'As expected, an ordinary weapon can't withstand my true strength, I will have to look for something better after I finish this mess, sigh~' (Rio)

Even though Link has been fighting like a madman and is now totally exhausted, he is still able to remain conscious for a few seconds, he looked at the unknown guy who had helped him calm down. Link wasn't a fool, after he came to his senses, he immediately understood that, this unknown guy could have wounded him more if he wanted, but he didn't.

"What your name?" (Link)

Rio looked behind and he was surprised for a moment that this guy was still conscious.

'Such talent, as expected of this guy.' (Rio)

"I am Rio Flash, a fellow classmate." (Rio)

After saying that Rio's figure blurred and he immediately disappeared from the spot. Link wanted to stop him but his vision suddenly darkened and he became unconscious.

Rio suddenly appeared again, this time he picked up Link and walked to the place where Link killed Yug. After Rio placed Link near that dead body, he hurriedly destroyed all the evidence of his and Link's fight.

'Hopefully, this should help me in not getting detected. I should leave now; professors should be coming in a few minutes.' (Rio)

Rio immediately left the place with the fastest speed possible. And as he had expected, after a few minutes Ms. Anna was the first one to come. Her face was rather cold and she had an irritated look on her face. After seeing all the mess in front of her face darkened even more.

After her several more professors also arrived at the spot and started to help in evacuation and rescue work. Several staff members and guards also arrived at the location one after one.

Seeing the sheer amount damage to the buildings and area had been done it can be seen that a huge fight has take place. Corpses of several individuals wearing black clothes were scattered everywhere. Not to mention looking at the body near Link, which was clearly reduced to a meat paste, it was really a devastating scene.

'what a mess, tsk' (Anna)

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Somewhere far away from the academy, a slum area. A man hiding his face walked in a broken and dilapidated small house. After entering the house, he brought out a peculiar device from his clothes.

He channeled his mana in that device and the device started to show complicated codes on its screen. The man seemed to be in hurry, he immediately typed something in codes on the device, with a panicked expression and after that, he immediately broke the device into pieces and put the broken pieces in his storage ring.

'I have already informed the higher-ups that the plan has failed and even Yug has been killed. Now I should leave this place as fast as possible otherwise-'

Just as he was thinking of leaving, suddenly he felt a pain in his chest looking down there was a huge hole and his heart was pierced directly. The man died just like that.

A man in the clothes of an assassin appeared and took the storage ring from the corpse, then he left as silently as he came.