Discharge [The User can absorb and store up to S-rank lightning-based attacks in his body and then discharge them towards the enemy for a devastating counterattack.]
Multiplier [All lightning-based skills will receive a 100% boost]
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"Cough~! Cough~!"
There was a lot of dust and debris blown up by the kaminari striking the groundandthe girl coughed to get rid of the worstof it. She was currently staying out of Mark''s sight while trying to get her bearings backso that she couldgo back into the fight. She still doesn''t know what that was all about. Since when could Mark use lightning-based skills?
That was something that no one ever told her about. They only said that he was good at tanking blows and dishing them out. No one has ever seen him use any magic-type attack.
Does that mean that he lied about his skills? No, we cannot be sure that he lied, maybehejustdidn''t tell thefulltruth about it. Then, is it the gloves? Mark wasexceptionally strong, therewas no doubt about it. The girl could feel her chest hurting from the massive punches that Mark gave her, and she knew that it would bruise tomorrow.
"Ah~!"
No, focus.
The only thing that could be responsible for Mark being able to use her lightning skills is probably those gloves. The girl felt a massive amount of anger the moment she saw Mark wearing those gloves, and she knew that Mark was not the ownerof those gloves. Were the glovesactuallysomethingreally impressive? I want it!
Crunch!
The sound of sand crunching under someone''s feet gave away Mark''s position, and the girl wasted no time as she turned around and shed her sword across the space in front of her!
Woosh!
Everysingletree in the vicinity was cut downas she tried to get to Mark, and the girl looked around to see if she managed to injure Mark in thattussle. There were no signs of Mark, and shestarted to think thatmaybe she heard wrong. Maybe there was an animal that moved, and she wasjustacting rashly! She had to calm herself. She was faster than Mark in a straight sprint.
The only time that Mark managed to keep up with her was when they were moving in different directions.His ability to change direction was just as good as hers, or maybeit waseven better, butin a straight blitz, she wasdefinitelyfaster.Shejusthad to pick the right moment to outpace him and finish this in one attack.
''But what if he tanks it like all the others?''
The girl bit her tongue as this thought came to mindandshe was distracted for one second as doubt crept into her heart!
"You should care more about the nts."
"!"
The girl turned around quickly as she heard Mark''s voice from behind her, but she was not fast enough to stop the massive body shot that mmed into her ribs!
Bam!
"Grk!"
She gritted her teeth in painas she tried her bestto absorb the hit!What the fuck is that power!? This one was much stronger than the previous punches! Don''t tell me he has been holding back on me all this time!
The only thing that allowed the girl to stay on her feet was her armor that covered her midsection! It managed to absorb some of the energy from Mark''s punch, and that prevented her from getting knocked out from the punch!
But evenin the midst ofall that pain! Even though she felt like her stomach was about to tear apart from the sheer force of Mark''s punches! There was still a silly, stupid smile on her face! She grabbed Mark by the arm and flipped her body so that she was above him before she brought her knee down in a swing and she tried to m it into his face!
Bam!
Mark brought his hand up and blocked the hit before he held her thigh and mmed her back against a tree!
Boom!
He threw her to the ground before he grabbed her hand and tossed her into another tree in the distance!
"RARGH!"
BOOM!
Crack!
The tree broke from the force of the hit, and shewas throwninto a different tree behind the first one!Mark startedto walktowards her slowly, but he felt asmallsting somewhere on his armandhelooked down to see some ck soot on the back of his wrist.There was a small depression in the skin there and Mark realised that it was from the girl''s sword.
She was able to try and cut me in that short time when shetriedto kick meandI didn''t even notice! If not for his higher constitution, Mark understood that her sword would have cut into his bodyandhe would''ve been bleeding all over the forest floor by now!
"Hahahahahah!"
Mark looked up as the girl''sugh echoed through the entire forest! He watchedas lightning gatheredin the airabovethemanda massive storm began to brew as wind echoed through the region! What the fuck is she thinking of now?
"I don''t care anymore! Nothing hurts you, you fucking beast, so I don''t care anymore! I''ve cut you, hit you, thrown fucking lightning at you, and yet here you are! So I''m just going to go all out! I was saving this for someone special, and I don''t thinkI''m ever going tosee anyone as special as you are! Youdefinitelydeserve everything that I have!"
The world quaked and echoed the massive power brewing over it as Mark felt the ground shaking from thefury of the storm. Trees were getting uprooted, and there wasa massiveroar from somewhere deep in the storm!It almost sounded like the stormitselfwas something living and conscious as it raged aroundbothMark and the girl!
The girl had her hand in the air, and Mark could see a determination in her eyes as she prepared to unleash her skill. She was bleeding from above her brow, and the blood was leaking down her face as she looked at Mark with an intense re! Her armor disappeared into the wind, and Mark could sense the shift in the mana of the atmosphere.
She got rid of the armorso that she wouldhave enough mana to carry the skillproperly.
Sweat was pouring from her brow, and her hand was shaking from exertion, Mark realized that this skill must bereally hardfor her to handle. Mark should have stopped her right there, but he didn''t want to. Mark wanted to see what she had to give. He wanted toseeif she was capable of giving him one good fight or not. Although Mark did not know anything about her.
He didn''t even know her fucking name because he didn''t feel like using the [True Sight] skill yet. Mark could still tell that she was not an evil person. She was just someone like him, someone who loved the thrill of the battle a little too much!
"Come on then, child of Zeus! Let me see what you''ve got!!"