Dominatrix System

Chapter 114: B-rank Battle

The pleasant surprise looked at me as that mysterious smoke started to cover his body. As it did so, the Mana made him disappear from my sight, as did the mana leave my senses. It was a new form of using mana that I had never seen or heard of. This world was vastly fascinating in different forms of mana.

The man charged at me while I was looking him over, trying not to let me think. He was a close-ranged combatant. I jumped back as the maAn moved towards me. My leather whip licked out towards the man. The mana parted, revealing the man behind it as the whip neared his face. The Man's face was scarred with significant marks. Some of those marks were gouges; some were long knife scars. An arm intercepted equally scarred intercepted the whip, letting the leather lightly bite into his arm.

A fresh mark appeared on his arm, and I used energy to stop the man from grabbing the whip to disarm me. The leather whip dodged the man's hand as he tried to grab it. I retracted the whip, and it started to wrap up as I guided the energy while my feet touched the ground to leap again.

The man continued with the reckless charge towards me. My whip lashed out to greet him again, trying to slow down that charge as he neared me. The bladed whip reached him, and it licked into his skin with conflicting mana at the clash as he tried to swat the bladed whip away from him. The blade of my whip cut deeper anyways, but the source of his mana seemed to have repelled the whip away after a second longer, sending it away from him and off to the side. The whip slashed the wall as I retrieved it back.

The man never stopped moving forward while I regained control of the whip, though, and his smoky fist filled my vision. My body leaned back, dodging his fist by a hair, and I followed the motion while my wrist flicked out, sending the leather whip up into where I believed his face was. The smoke started to part, and I saw the fist already charging to where my stomach was.

My feet moved as I did a backflip, sending my foot towards where his face was charged with energy. So much was happening at the same time I heard the floor break as my whip licked into something above me. My foot hit something hard while my world was upside down and my feet were in the air. It tried to knock it away, sending my backflip almost into a barrel roll. The pain went up to my shin, but my world was soon upright again as my body twisted itself, and I was on my feet jumping away as the man smoke filled the holes and the man charged towards me.

My instincts screamed at me a second later while I was in the air, and my bladed whip lashed out not at the smoke but the rafters of the warehouse. My whip gave me the leverage needed, and I twisted in the air as a fist from behind came out, making me yelp missing me only by a couple of inches.

Something allowed that man to move instantly or something else. Maybe an illusionist, but the pain I felt was real, and I didn't understand how he could move that fast. My feet, though, were free, and his fist had missed, and my claws extended from my feet as I swiped, fueled with the energy of my body. The claws bit into the skin, and the first real damage of the engagement was done as I heard the man roar under me. His arm was gashed as I then used his arm to leap using the bladed whip to move away from the man as the smoke moved quickly towards the man I finally got a good look at.

He was ugly, scarred all over with cuts, gouges lashes from many battles. This man was experienced and reached B rank through the blood of his enemies. Noises from outside made known to the two of us a battle was taking place, and the smoke covered the man again as I landed eloquently on the ground about twenty feet away from the man.

The smoke covered him again, and his mana was covered, as was his body. That smoke was dangerous, and I could already think of many ways that he could lead me into death with it. My heart hitched in speed, and a smile grew on my face as the man charged towards me again. My whips lashed out, and the smoke parted before them. The leather whip made it there a second before the bladed whip did, and the smoke parted before the energy.