Just like every other person Ulfur finally stood in front of Rein.
"I have heard so much about you that my ears are beginning to itch, you better not disappoint me"
"I don’t know what you have heard but I’m not much actually" Rein unsheathed the white dragon, it vibrated as he held it with one hand as if it was excited to be drawn."
Ulfur brought out the usual magical beam sword.
"Entertain me"
𝒕𝑯𝒘𝒂𝑪𝒌𝑲
Ulfur was the first one to move, with a monstrous speed,
𝒑𝒌𝑨𝒂𝒉𝑯𝒌𝑲
𝑷𝒌𝑨𝑪𝒌
Rein successfully parried by hurriedly using blade rhythm. He could see the sword flow.
"Oho, good starting"
But Ulfur did not stop, he continued to strike and push Rein,
𝒘𝑯𝒂𝒂𝒂𝑴𝒎
𝒑𝒌𝒂𝒖𝒏
𝒘𝒉𝑨𝑴
𝒑𝒌𝒂𝑪𝒌𝒌𝒌
𝑲𝒓𝒓
But Rein did not look like he was having issues parrying, with the foot works which have been fully worked on and the skill blade rhythm things were much easier for him. But eventually, he couldn’t afford to continue to be on the receiving end but Ulfur wasn’t leaving any openings at all, blade rhythm determines the flow and also helps to mark the best possible counterpoint, though it has not happened, it was just in the skill level up information, both relying on blade rhythm and using his head he couldn’t find anything, it was like every single movement was a thoroughly planned attack,
’I thought the guys said he was a magician, how can he have such swift movement and fine sword skills.’
Ulfur pulled back and flexed his sword, "don’t tell me you are getting tired when we are only just starting."
’I can’t rely on just basic swordfights with him, but the master said to avoid using sword of the moon with my newborn aura, so I will just stick to the regulars’
Ulfur weaved the sword wave but immediately an enormous amount of ice followed he belatedly cast a shield and was thrown back landing on his feet but was still being pushed back from the impact of the large ice that was dispersed immediately after the sword wave.
"Sword imbued with magical attacks? Are you a magic swordsman? "
"I don’t have a job"
"What? Are you shitting me right now?"
At this point, the rest of the party members were already at the spectators view at the training facility to see how this would eventually turn, especially Arnett who has been dying to see Rein in action, reaching there and meeting a pile of ice shocked them all but they weren’t expressing it, which showed how well they were adapting to being surprised by Rein.
Renard looked up and saw them.
"Your crew is here to watch you, what a sight to behold. I like your leadership spirit"
Ulfur dashed at him faster than even before but Rein swung his sword in the air creating circles, and immediately a large circle of ice cones formed out of the wave of the sword,
𝑪𝒓𝑨𝒂𝑺𝒉!!
Ulfur that was already dashing in at his best speed found it hard to slow down that fast and collided with the ice. He got up and was bleeding from his head.
"heal"
The wound closed immediately, he brought a white handkerchief and wiped away the blood.
"Smart"
’As expected of Master: to make Union leader bleed, no one else can’ Braschiold was so in his head and admiring the might Rein displayed.
’Is he a magic swordsman or the sword was imbued with magical attacks.’ Arnett was lost and tried to give a reasonable explanation to what he was seeing.
All of them had one thought or the other as all of them except Quetz who was there to see had fought Ulfur and gotten one talk or the other from him.
Ulfur stretched forth his hand and the gauntlets appeared again.
"Pierce"
𝑪𝒓𝑼𝒖𝒖𝑲𝒌𝒌𝑺𝒔𝒔𝑯𝒉𝒉
[𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 4055
From the ground beneath Renard protruded a sharp, cone-shaped Boulder, even though he did his best to dodge it scratched his head so hard that he was bleeding. But he immediately began to heal because of his new regeneration ability. He smirked and got up from where he had landed in his knee having to perform a quick flip to wave the boulder.
Rein pushed his right leg forward and pushed the left one backwards and bent down as though he wanted to run a relay race but the difference was that he was holding both his sword sheath and the handle with both hands to his right side, he closed his eyes and began to let his aura seep out.
𝒔𝑺𝒔𝑺𝒉𝑯𝒉𝑯
The whole atmosphere seemed to immediately bow to the presence of such aura, if one was a little bit dazed he would have felt stuck in a paradox.
’this aura... I’ve felt it before’
"Draw sword"
[𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭 7888
Failing to brace himself for what was coming and underestimating Rein, Ulfur got served, he saw the whole place roll over and he found himself on the ground staring at Rein who was still staying in that position, his only movement was that he slightly unsheathed the sword and sheathed it back.
[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐬
Rein could not help but pay attention to what was happening, the system right now was cracking and the blue tab in front of him seems to be breaking apart.
Ulfur stood fully healed, he cracked his knuckles and neck.
’I can’t let him be! He is too strong! Too strong! What is grandfather thinking!!’
"I will start by telling you today my job and why I’m special. I am what people call the thousand soul conduit"
Grim and Lorrim’s eye widened at what they heard, they seem to be the only ones that knew what that was but Ulfur continued to explain.
"Which means I house souls of heroes, magic, swordsmanship, spearmanship, name it whatever it is, that I can’t do, hence I have been holding back with you all, I was holding back a lot, probably using just one percent of my strength, yet you that have no class manage to make that one percent hit the floor, for me, it is life-threatening, do you know how I got here, by climbing and overcoming and you are a block that I must climb and get rid of, your strength disregards morality"
At once Ulfur’s eyes turned white and began to glow, his feet were slowly being lifted from the ground and his floating, his hair began to. float also.
"WHO ARE YOU?"
It wasn’t Ulfur talking because it sounded like the voice of a thousand through one medium. All of Rein’s party member jumped down in front of Rein.
Braschiold was the first to talk, "Master we will protect you"
Rein who seem to not be focusing on what was happening and was entirely consumed by something else stuttered as he replied.
"... No... T-that isss no-tt it, I’m not worried about t-t-t-that"
"eehh?"
"did he just say he’s not worried about that?"
’did he just say he’s not worried about me?’
None of them understood Rein whose god’s wrath was increasing like crazy.
[𝐠𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 » 3]
[𝐠𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 » 4
[𝐠𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 » 5
[...6]
[...7]
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...99]
[𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞
[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚
[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚
𝑻𝒕𝒕𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝒔𝑯𝒉𝒉𝒉
All of Rein’s scenery turned white immediately. For some minutes it was silent, then a stepping sound drew closer.
"HI, I am the system god and I have been ordered to get rid of you?"
"Why? What did I do?"
"You messed it all up when you thought you could fool the gods, you kept doing things that they were not aware of, and then you started to ignore the system’s help and now think you can grow on your own, that really hurt me though. I mean it was nice seeing you grind and all, it was fun watching you but then you started acting up, ignoring the aura the system gave you, becoming the student of someone the gods despise"
Rein was very devastated, he was scared of this being the end, even though the system god didn’t look as grand as he had imagined but he still couldn’t let go of the fact that the energy that the man in front of him kept emitting was nothing he could explain, he felt like he could get lost the moment he touched the man’s feet.
"but I did not know all of this, no one told me anything! How was I supposed to even know that!"
"Would you have stopped if you knew besides we just recently discovered that you are a bug that shouldn’t exist from the beginning, the professions were determined by your former life will but you got a profession that could grow and make you be able to even modify the system, at first I thought I could ignore it but seeing as you kept growing without even following the protocols that definitely meant that you are a bug"
Rein began to gasp for air, his eyes were now red as though something was strangling his neck, he held his neck and tried coughing hard.
"I will strip the system away from you and then you will return to being nothing then I would drop you back there to be killed as it should be with a bug, bugs are meant to be removed"
Rein tried speaking but it didn’t come out well, the system god tilted his head to hear again.
"D... dddog... sh.. it"
"how foolish, human"
Rein’s eye turned black and his hair began to float, the system God immediately disappeared.
"what are you doing godeye? Do you want to betray the gods"
"oho, I already did mongrel"
"What does it matter anyway? , why? you are willing to sacrifice your place as divination for just a human"
"Fool, I’m placing my bet on the highest odds and this kid is the real deal"
Godeye had taken over Rein’s body and was talking through him.
"hmm hmm, you can only draw 10% of your power anyways"
"10% is enough to buy time with a piece of shit like you as my opponent"
"I’d you are thinking of letting the demon come to his rescue. I have made it so that the demon would not be able to enter this place, this is a different dimension"
"tch, who is talking about that half-wit, witness the birth of Reinard’s new baby mongrel"
"I don’t understand... Does this have to do with the contraband the gods were talking about?"
"don’t know, don’t care"
"I really respect you as a higher deity. Godeye, let’s not do this. You can leave him, I won’t even report this to the gods"
"Coming here was a mistake for you mongrel since your presence will now disrupt the flow but I am cool either way, it’s not like it would affect Rein."
The system appeared this time as a heavily armoured sentinel with an axe, he clenched his fist and all the blue tabs began to display and disappear, all Rein’s stat began to go down.