The challenge

Nickel felt his body stats amplify by almost double, he had decided to actually engage now instead of shooting from behind, he whistled lightly, Erose and Ellie seem to understand the signal as they tell back to his side.

"You have to change your attack pattern, your style of fighting is unique but it is obvious Erose fights with her legs and Ellie with her fists, try changing your strategy and… good luck" Nickel explain led to them, the duo nodded in affirmation and then the trio dashed forward attacking from different angles.

'No holding back' Nickel said to himself internally as his gold marking began to shine brightly, he felt amazing as he kept a positive thought of being able to hit Noir just once.

Nickel approached the Storm knight head on, had too little experience in hand to hand combat but Noir had given away his chances of striking back and also moving, throwing a fist towards Noir, Noir simply used his own hand to tap Nickel's own to the side.

"Your attacks are too plain" Noir said, at that exact moment a white and red lightning streak appeared on both of his sides, this time Erose throwing a punch and Ellie throwing a kick, they seemed a bit wobbly though.

The Storm knight smirked "A change in attack pattern I see but you'll need more than that to win" he complimented the team as he simply raised his hands to block both attacks.

–Bang–

A low bang sound is heard as Nickel fired another order bullet, but the Storm knight tilted his head again avoiding the attack.

–Zoom–

The white and red lightning streak zoomed off again with Nickel dashing towards the Storm knight, his right arm's glow increasing, he went below in an attempt to sweep the storm knight of his feet, Noir once again lifted one of his legs avoiding the hit, at the same moment a red lightning streak appeared at his second foot that was placed on the floor and a white lightning streak appeared with a fist aiming for us head, at the same time another bang sound is heard.

The current training scene looked like three streaks of light aiming to touch a single figure who stood in a single position, anyone of low rank who watched the scene would only see a white, red and gold streak of light flashing about the training field and the storm Knight's hands moving around, wherever his hand stopped one of the streaks of light would be stopped.

"You won't consider losing for your beautiful wife" Linda's voice sounded with a chuckle.

"Not when my beautiful wife is against me" the Storm knight replied with a smile.

"Unicorn's grace" Linda stretched forth her hands as three small unicorns appeared flying towards Erose, Ellie and Nickel, they attached to their necks, Nickel felt his body stats multiply again as he increase this output of order again, white, red and gold streak of light flashes about the field but even at the rate they were moving, the Storm knight still stopped each of their attacks without breaking a sweat.

Nickel fell back a gold could had already began to sleep into his eyes m, his use of order ass reaching its limits "Chains of order" Nickel whispered as multiple golden chains burst out of the floor around the Storm knight wrapping around him, Erose and Ellie had stopped their attacks as Nickel's skill had come as a surprise to them.

Nickel lifted two of his fingers and flicked sending out two order bullets, this time faster and stronger, the restricted Storm knight looked at the incoming attack and took a breath in, he blew out air the air he breathed in from his mouth causing strong currents of wind to collide with the energy bullets dissipating them.

"If you keep using those strikes you'll never land a hit" the Storm knight said to Nickel.

"You're right" Nickel muttered a reply his eyes almost turning completely gold his left arm gave off a faint dark red glow as he stretched both of his hands in front of himself "Executioner sword" Nickel muttered lightly, a long silver sword materialised out of thin air, its blades giving off a slight aura of death, the hilt a bit longer than normal on the upper side of the hilt the marking of yin and yang, the yin symbol was outlined with gold while the yang was outlined with a dark red hue but both sides were empty.

The blade possessed an engraving of an eye but the eye was shut as if the weapon was asleep.

Nickel held the sword by the hilt, the energy of order flowing through him and the sword as the silver sword turned gold, the eye seemed to flicker as the energy in the yin marking increased by a bit.

All witnessing the scene felt a slight sense of foreboding and dread like death could come swiftly but it was just the impression of the sword in their hearts and mind.

The Storm knight shook his body as the chains of order binding him cut and vanished, Nickel swung his hand in a horizontal manner, a thick gold line was sent forward in an arc, it approached the Storm knight swiftly.

'This kid…' Noir thought to himself, he could have never thought a newly awakened would make him feel a slight sense of dread and that in itself was a testament to how talented he was.

The Storm knight raised one of his hands as he gestured in flicking manner, res lightning crackled with intensity around his finger 'No… this won't do' Noir thought to himself as the red lightning turned dark, he flicked.

The dark lightning shot out faster than the eyes could trace, it collided with Nickel's attack, order in one of its purest forms.

–Boom–

A low boom sound is heard on collision as a gold and dark hue covered the sky, as the sky cleared out Nickel could be seen on one knee as he could barely stand, blood dripping down his mouth as he had already heaved out a chunk of blood.

The Storm knight stood a few metres away his finger outstretched as he observed it a tiny scorch mark could be seen and an almost invincible drop of blood.

"Nickel…"