TBATE - What if Tessia was the legacy ? - The legacy of it all

Desperately holding on

{Hannadreda Wykes}

Swinging my giant sword down with two hands, Uto effortlessly moved his scythe to block my attack without even looking my way, his expression displaying great boredom as he reluctantly raised a hand and formed a couple of iron spikes to counter Lucas's row of fireballs.

Cursing under my breath, I leaped back, repositioning myself for our next move while keeping my eyes glued on to the Retainer.

Uto was not only faster, stronger and more resilient in terms of both physical and magical aptitude, but he was also far more experienced with fighting, while Lucas and I struggled to keep ourselves coordinated in our strikes since we couldn't openly communicate.

-Is this all you people have?" Inquired the Vritra-blooded man after a long sigh, his tone incredibly disappointed as he glanced back and forth between me and Lucas.

On one hand, I felt extremely offended by his statement since the skills I was displaying had taken years for me to learn and master, but on the other hand, I knew just how much stronger Uto was and how little he had to do to defeat us; his reaction was perfectly expected.

Restraining that part of me that wanted to lash out, I followed my lesson on how to deal with an overwhelmingly stronger opponent.

- You're one of Alacrya's top fighters, obviously attacking a school full of literal children isn't going to be very exciting." I answered, agreeing with him in an attempt to lengthen the conversation as much as possible while waiting for help to show up, but also to make him overly confident, which could lead to him making more mistakes or intentionally stalling the battle, believing himself to be invincible.

-Hm ... that is a fair point." He answered while scratching his chin and taking on a thoughtful expression. "Since going after a half-bred wimp and a runaway slave is insultingly easy for me, I'll try to even out the fields." He answered with a mocking smile before putting his scythe away in his dimensional storage as I clenched my two-handed weapon while keeping my furious eyes locked onto him.

I wanted nothing more than to cut that fucking bastard in half and spit on his face for insulting me and my boyfriend like that, but I HAD to stay calm. Any mistakes could lead to my death.

- Such sportsmanship! I didn't know that Alacrya had such honorable fighters." I forced myself to answer to waste more

-I didn't know that Unity's protégé was such a weak, disappointing brat who has to compensate for her nonexistent honor with a sword three times her size while being engaged in a grotesque wedding to a somehow even weaker, more disappointing, prideless, filthy halfling who's—

-SHUT THE FUCK UP!" I screamed as I leaped forward, once again striking down with my two-handed sword as hard as I could.

-HAHAHA!" He laughed heartily from a few meters back, which only made me more pissed off as I rushed his way, swinging my weapon as fast and hard as I could. "Your face is so red, it's hilarious!" he continued to laugh while evading all my attacks without even looking at me.

-JUST DIE, YOU VRITRA TRASH!" I screamed as I got more and more frustrated over my inability to land a single blow or to even take him by surprise.

-HANNA, TO YOU'RE RIGHT!" Shouted Lucas, snapping me out of my wrath as I noticed three black metallic spikes hurling my way from the shadow of a nearby tree. Instinctively moving my sword to block, I felt my heart stop as Uto dashed toward me, got between me and my blade in an instant, and leaned in until his grayish, distorted face was only a few centimeters away from mine.

-You're going to die." He simply said with a wide, evil smile before I got hit in the shoulder by one of the projectiles, having completely forgotten to finish blocking, followed by him kicking me in the guts with his knee, sending me flying back.