Extra And MC-Chapter 175 - 171 - Synergy

Hearing Rigurd’s words, their murderous gaze unflinching, the brothers watched as the man stood still without saying anything else.

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Despite being quite far from him, the distance between them almost the length of half a football pitch, Aiden and Flynn couldn’t spot a single opening in Rigurd’s stance.

Not that it fazed them one bit.

It wouldn’t stop them from mopping the floor with him.

The Obelisk Arm on the other hand, ever a man of few words and always brooding, gazed at the two youths with a look that seemingly ordered them to make the first move.

To him, it was his way of showing mercy even though he was going to be snuffing the lights out of them a few moments from now.

However, when he noticed that they were similarly returning that exact same order with their own gaze, Rigurd, for a brief moment, wondered if they were just putting up a brave front.

In fact, that seemed to be the case because why would an S-rank and an A-rank, according to his most recent reports, be that foolhardy against he, a high-tier SS-rank.

Were they buying time then instead?

Hoping that someone would come along to help?

Well if that was the case, the man couldn’t help but feel a bit insulted.

"Come" Rigurd imposingly commanded, further increasing the murderous tension in the air between them.

"You come" Aiden ordered right back.

"That confidence of yours, we’ll burn it to the ground" Flynn coldly added, causing the Obelisk Arm to darken his gaze even further.

"Fine"

No sooner had those words escaped Rigurd’s mouth, he instantly appeared before both youths in the fraction of a second.

-Swoosh-!

Extending an arm, one that was aiming to grasp and squash Aiden’s head first, Rigurd suddenly felt as the gravity around him shifted, his eyes widening ever-so-slightly.

-Fwoosh-!!

Aiden, not missing the exact moment Rigurd had dashed forward from his previous position, casted [Zero].

However, when he did, he didn’t cast the anti-gravity spell on himself as he usually did but instead, cast it on his surroundings, effectively causing everything around him within a certain range to float.

Simultaneously taking the opportunity, Aiden extended a grasp of his own and tightly gripped onto the unsuspecting Rigurd’s face.

-Grip-!!!

As he did, the youth monotonously let out a threat;

"You’d better bring your A-game, or you might just find yourself buried six-feet under"

Rigurd, still donning his stone-cold expression even as Aiden countered, found himself been flung meters into the air with a powerful hurl from the youth in the blink of an eye.

-THWOOM-!!!

’The information was wrong…’ the Obelisk Arm inwardly commented.

’He’s probably an SS-tier ranker…’ he realized as he was weightlessly tossed into the air.

’And he…’ Rigurd watched as Flynn was already high up in the sky with clenched fists, seemingly expecting this, his eyes murderous and deathly cold.

’… is probably an S-ranker’ a brutal punch, one that broke through the sound barrier, pummeled him right back to the ground with a thunderous bang!

-BAM-!!

In an instant, Rigurd truly found himself six-feet underground, the deep crater created from his impact, causing an earthquake!

And yet, casually launching himself back up with the muscles of his posterior torso, the man was out of the crater with a renewed approach to handling the two irregularities.

-BOOM-!!!

"My mistake" he emotionlessly said as he reappeared right before Flynn whom was still descending from the air.

Like a blur, his fist coated with onyx-flames, connected with Flynn’s torso!

-BAM-!!

Instantly, Flynn felt the winds knocked out of his entire being as he careened through the air like a broken kite, a few of his ribs broken from that single exchange.

However, not even bothering to acknowledge the pain, the youth simultaneously casted [Ether Blades] to bring a few slates to his back and [Willbend] to push Rigurd right back to the ground with an even more powerful force.

-THWAM-!!!

Feeling himself knocked back to the ground, Rigurd repositioned himself and landed safely on his feet, the earth cracking into smithereens beneath him…

…only to watch Aiden already in his field of view with a launched fist, moving at a blur.

-Fwoom-!!

This time though, Rigurd effortlessly caught the arm and remarked;

"Slow"

Not even giving Aiden a chance to recover, he extended his other arm to grip his neck!

-GRIP-!!

And then, with the most brutal headbutt, one that shattered the sound barrier, Rigurd launched his head towards Aiden with a terrifying slam!

-BANG-!!!

However, since this wasn’t the first time he received an headbutt, the one from Sigrun far more painful than this, Aiden’s mild concussion only lasted for a fraction of a second before he launched a swift counterattack.

’[Gravity Series: Singularity]-!’

-SWOOOSHHH-!!!

Rigurd whom had not been expecting such resilience, watched as what seemed to be a ferociously churning, dark-green orb of immense suction energy, collided with his left side, sending him careening side-ways.

-BOOM-!!!

And then, as if to further add to his pain, Flynn whom he felt he had gotten rid of for a few seconds, reappeared a few meters behind him in a pale blue hue, his gaze deadly as he muttered;

’{Moonveil Art – First Form: Severance}’

Instantly, a deadly arc of pure energy launched at a terrifying speed towards him.

-SCHWING-!!

Effectively, the youths had cornered him in just a few minutes of their exchange, making Rigurd realize just why Magnus must’ve had such a hard time dealing with them.

’Their synergy… it’s uncannily perfect…’

’However… if this is the best they can do, they’ll still be dying by my hands’ he mused and then muttered under his breath;

"[Onyx Series: Corrosion]"

-Shwoom-!

As if in line with those thoughts, Aiden and Flynn watched as tendrils from the wall of onyx flames, extended at a speed faster than their released attacks, encroaching upon said attacks and corroding it in an instant.

-Fssshhh-!!!

Literally, whatever spell Rigurd had casted, had effectively rendered their attacks useless.

Observing the phenomenon, their gaze still as murderous as ever, the brothers watched as Rigurd, the upper portion of his cloth now torn off to reveal his chiseled body, cracked his neck casually.

Not a single moment wasted, Rigurd, swiftly retrieved an intricately-designed golden halberd, ruthlessly striking down with a terrifying speed whilst muttering;

"{Aegis Art – Second Form: Seismic Shift}"

-SWISH-!

Whistling through the air at an alarming speed, Rigurd’s halberd collided with the ground with a thunderous bang.

-BOOM-!!!

Instantly, the earth trembled and cracked open to reveal several fissures that spewed out magma in a 20-meter radius, completely altering the landscape in a moment.

-Grrrgggkk… PWOOSH-!

-PWOOSH-!!

-PWOOSH-!!!

Aiden and Flynn’s balance were instantly thrown off for a few seconds at the sudden shift in environment but Rigurd, instantly capitalized on it.

Using that fraction of a second before they recovered to his advantage, he reappeared behind Aiden, twirling his halberd in a wicked arc as he aimed to cleave off the youth’s neck!

-CLANG-!

Blocking the halberd at the very last second, Aiden still had to take on the full-brunt of the terrifying attack that sent painful spasms running through the muscles of his entire being.

-BOOM-!!

Careening a few centimeters through the air as he felt himself weightlessly lifted sideways and towards Flynn, Aiden tried to regain control…

… only to watch as Rigurd, spared no effort to launch another terrifying attack with his weapon art!

’Shit!’ he cursed inwardly, his eyes locked onto the man whom was already up in the sky, halberd raised up to the heavens as he coldly pronounced;

"{Aegis Art – First Form: Heaven’s Descent}"

-Crackle-! Crackle-!!

Instantly, the sky turned ominously dark and lightning crackled around Rigurd’s Halberd as he cleaved downwards in the direction of the two youths.

-Grip-!!!

Grasping onto Aiden’s hands, Flynn whom had already recovered, twirled in a skillful spin with excellent footwork, redirecting the force with which his brother was coming and launching him straight towards the oncoming hail of lightning!

-SWOOOSH-!!!

Without even exchanging a single word, Aiden, grateful for his brother’s help, employed his weapon art as he hurtled towards the oncoming lightning at breakneck speed!

"{Berserker Art – First Form: Whirlwind Slash}-!!"

Instantly, a thunderous roar of wind followed as Aiden expertly spun in a rapid, omnidirectional arc at mid-air, a massive, red, twister-tornado emanating from his very being!

-FWOOOSSSHHH-!!!

In a heartbeat, both attacks collided with a terrifying boom that shook the heavens themselves!

-BOOOOOOOM-!!!

As shockwaves from the attack pushed everything backwards, pressurized bursts of wind constantly emanating from the collision, Rigurd and Aiden soon landed onto the ground a few seconds later, their gazes still as hell-bent on snuffing the lights out of the other.

Briar whom had been watching glimpses of the battle from afar, tightly gripped her small fists, praying for her brothers to win as teardrops constantly dripped down her eyes.

Frank on the other hand, struggling to not lose consciousness, had a wishful gaze in his eyes, grasping onto a sliver of hope that the young masters would come out on top.

As for the other three, they were now currently in the wall of flames that Rigurd had casted from the very beginning of their fight, waiting for the other to make a move.

"I must admit. You two truly are monsters. Especially for your age" the Obelisk Arm spoke as he stood amidst the two.

"In fact, in the next one to two years, considering your astonishing growth, you’ll probably surpass the two strongest SSS-rankers…"

"Which is exactly why you need to be nipped in the bud" he added definitively whilst casting a spell;

"[Onyx Series: Entrapment]"

No sooner had he completed that statement, the wall of flames, closed in on all three at an astonishingly rapid rate whilst corroding everything in its path.

No.

It was safer to say, the wall of flames extended over to them at a blistering speed, creating a gigantic rectangular box that was trying to burn them alive by entrapping them in it.

Aiden and Flynn at that moment, knew that this was Rigurd’s trump card of sort, a spell where even if you casted anything within it, the spells would get corroded.

In a way, it was akin to disruption of mana in the air by the Inferno Dragons but his was far more sinister.

The heat from his onyx-flames, according to the knowledge of the novel, would absorb the mana from whatever spell one casted and add more to the mana of his own spell.

Effectively, it was like a domain of sorts and truly, it was a nasty spell.

But then again, as if completely unperturbed by the precarious situation, Flynn exhaled a deep breath of air, and then, with his concentration heightened to the utmost degree, casted a familiar spell;

"[Telekinetic Series: Force Field]"