78 Gary's potential

The fact that his blade had managed to slice through my gauntlets meant he had a higher tier weapon. If all three of them were as strong as this man, we would have no chance of surviving. I looked over at Gary to see how he was faring.

Gary was currently engaged with the dual swordsman. Sparks flew as their swords clashed. Gary didn't have a chance to catch a break. He was doing well holding his ground but was getting a few scratches here and there. The longer their battle drew out, the more those scratches would add up and Gary would lose.

The fact that Gary was able to block his opponent's strikes meant he wasn't as powerful as the first man who attacked me. My enemy was most likely the leader of the other two.

The swordsman and the chain wielder came at me. I infused Ki into my gauntlets, preparing myself to counter their combination attack.

The chain wielder whipped the chain around his head a couple of times before slinging it at me. I pivoted on my left foot to dodge and manged to grab the chain. Before I could yank the chain, the swordsman was already upon me. I let go of the chain and rolled backwards to avoid his horizontal strike.

I dashed towards the chain wielder since was the weaker of the two, but the swordsman leaped between us cutting off my path. The chain wielder took advantage of this to gain distance between us and resume his ranged assault. No matter who I focused, the other would interfere. I decided to create some distance between them and rethink my strategy. However, the swordsman's sword started to glow red.

He began slashing his sword in multiple directions. With each swing, a line of fire would shoot out of the sword. I ducked and weaved the lines of fire coming at me. As the final blade of fire whizzed passed me, a metal weight attached to a chain appeared, hidden behind the fire.

Unable to react in time, the metal weight pummelled straight into my chest, sending me flying backwards and onto the ground. I gasped for breath as blood started to trickle out of my mouth. I looked down at my chest piece and it was cracked.

I was hurt but I didn't know how bad. Just then, I heard another scream to my right. Gary was reeling from a strike that left a deep gash across his left shoulder.

"This arm only just got fixed damn you!" Gary shouted at the man.

I was surprised Gary still had that much energy left. He was completely covered in wounds. If I didn't do something soon, we were both going to die. The man with the flaming blade was most likely the one who had caused the fire to surround us as well.

The chain came towards me again while I was still on the ground. I logged rolled to the side and grabbed the chain. The man tried to pull it back but it was useless. Right now, I had all my Ki poured into my gauntlet and I wasn't going to let go. The flame swordsman came running towards me. I placed my other hand on the ground and shouted

"Summon Noir"

In an instant where my hand was, a black furred horned wolf appeared. I quickly mounted on top of Noir while still holding the chain in my hand. With Noir's speed, we quickly ran around the two of them. The chain began to wrap around the two.

But the flame swordsman was quick to act. He struck at the chain causing it to break. The broken chain slumped to the ground.

"The boy is a mage. No one told us about this." The chain wielder said to the flame swordsman.

"It doesn't matter, the mission stays the same." The flame swordsman replied.

"Noir you take care of the guy on the left, the flame swordsman is mine."

The flame swordsman was clearly the stronger of the two, but with Noir fighting the chainman it was now a one-on-one fight.

When I thought Gary had already been defeated, he seemed to be getting his second wind. For the most part, Gary had been dodging and blocking for most of the fight. He would retaliate here and there but none of his attacks managed to hit the man.

But then, the attacks were getting more awkward for the man to deal with. Gary's sword was reaching him in just the right spots. The situation had now reversed. Gary was the one attacking while the dual swordsmen was blocking. The man wanted to attack back but there was no opening. It was as if Gary could read the man's mind and knew where he was going to strike.

"Dammit!" The man shouted. "Aren't they just students? Why are they so strong?"

Gary continued to attack the man and said,

"You're right we are students. But were the best damn students at Avrion Academy."

A strike from Gary was then aimed towards the man's head. The man could tell the strike was powerful. He needed to use both of his blades to block the attack. As he blocked the attack, he looked at Gary but he had vanished. The next moment, his legs gave in making the man fall to the ground. As soon as the man had blocked the attack, Gary went down to kick the man's legs making him fall.

Gary's sword was now pointed at the man's neck.

"Tell me, why did you attack us?"

Before the man could even answer, a line of fire came shooting from the side.

"Gary watch out!" I shouted. Gary jumped back just in time but the flames had hit the man on the floor and completely burnt him to a black crisp.

While I was fighting, the flame swordsman managed to shoot a flame out between our fight hitting his own man.

Gary stood up from the ground and started slowly walking towards us.

"Don't worry Ray, I'll come to help you now." As Gary spoke those words, his knees gave in and he tumbled to the ground.

"Just stay there, you've lost too much blood. Don't worry I've got this."

Although my words sounded confident, my thoughts were the complete opposite.