6 Just A Warm Up...

"Yes sir. I will inform Metal Knight immediately.", the staff of the heroes association headquarters said respectfully.

"Continue to monitor the situation in the dead desert. Use all our satellites to try and lock on the mysterious beings that caused this explosion in the dead desert. Inform all the S class heroes that this is an emergency and that all of them need to return to headquarters !", the senior executive of the heroes association headquarters shouted out his orders.

The senior executive of the heroes association headquarters secretly prayed, it must be a mysterious being. How strong is this mysterious being ? God level ? Or above God level ?

In the dead desert Duke stood unmoving in the sky and slowly descended towards Saitama.

Saitama was dumbfounded by the actions of Duke for a moment, "What's the matter ? Is the battle over", Saitama asked.

"No. It's just the warm up is over.", Duke said as he licked his dry lips. Duke was clearly angry he lost in the first round of his battle with Saitama due to Saitama being older and having more battle experience. Duke was 20 years old this year and Saitama was 25 years old, 5 years extra in fighting monsters and mysterious beings.

"That's great but is your injury okay ?", Saitama pointed to Duke as Saitama seemed worried. Saitama didn't want to end the battle so soon but Duke looked terrible on the outside with cuts and burns and his whole body was black covered in soot.

Duke folded his hands and swelled his chest.

"Life return !", Duke shouted out.

Duke was covered by a white light, in an instant all his bruises faded and his injuries disappeared at the speed visible to the naked eye. Duke's fatigue and fighting spirit even recovered back to its peak... no maybe above it's peak, Duke was stronger. This was the power granted by the Naruto world to Duke when he went to his dream space. All the different Duke exchange their knowledge and powers in that dream space. And to use this power you need to see the rule of the universe that Duke existed in. The higher the limit of power in that universe the stronger that Duke would be. And in the one punch man world, there was no limit to the power you could possess.

"Wow... How did you do it ?", Saitama asked as he saw Duke heal from his injuries instantly and recovered his fighting state to its peak.

"After a long period of cruel training and the physical body is beaten to the limit you can create the technique life return. You can freely control all cells in your body. As long as your Qi energy in your body is injected to the limbs, internal organs and even hair follicles you can recover the damage back to the original state.", Dukes said proudly not telling Saitama that this was the power granted by Naruto world Duke.

"That's amazing ! Truly amazing ! If I learn this technique can I control my hair to grow out of my head ?!", Saitama asked excitedly as he looked at Duke's thick black spiky hair with envy.

"....", Duke rolled his eyes upon hearing Saitama's words. Maybe for others if they have this power they can save their hair but for Saitama the strongest being in the one punch man universe the law of the universe stated Saitama must be bald, it would be impossible to restore Saitama's hair even with this power.

"How about it can you teach me this technique so I can grow my hair back ?!", Saitama asked excitedly.

"We will talk about it when this battle is over.", Duke said nonchalantly.

"It looks like I will have to speed up this battle and end it soon.", Saitama said as he clenched his fist and his eyes blazed with desire for hair.

"He. He. Don't think you can end the battle early. There are still a lot of tricks I have not used yet.", Duke said as he released his first limit on his body releasing a gush of Qi energy with his body. Duke's whole body seemed to wrapped in a white flame.

The gravel and sand on the ground floated in the air around Duke as he released his first limit.

Saitama's eyes flashed with surprise and shock as he noticed Duke had become even stronger.

"You are so strong. I will start the first attack this time.", Saitama said as he moved and his whole figure disappeared from the naked eye. Saitama moved so fast you could not even see his after image.

A huge fist seems to appear before Duke, it was Saitama's punch. That huge fist was indeed an illusion, the direction of that fist might no longer be there because Saitama was moving too fast. The power of Saitama's fist was so strong it was disrupting space itself, it was tearing space apart. Duke clearly felt if the fist hit him, he might die. Duke was unsure if he could survive a hit from that fist.

Duke was fully on guard. When Saitama's fist arrived, Duke blocked it with his hands and deflected the blow. Duke switched from defensive to offensive immediately and used his elbow to hit the back of Saitama's head.

Whoosh !

The elbow hit Saitama. The feeling Duke got was that he only hit an after image. How fast was Saitama moving ? Duke wondered.

"So fast !", Duke shouted out.

There was not much time for Duke to be surprised. When he noticed Saitama figure, his fist was coming at him again. The invincible fist of Saitama was approaching Duke again. Duke wanted to avoid Saitama's fist but he found that his reaction was too late.

Boom !

The fist hitting Duke caused a vacuum to be formed and space to tear.

When the fist hit Duke, Duke flew and hit the ground creating a new mound.

"Am I too fast ?", Saitama asked as he looked at the place where Duke crashed into.

"Who are you looking for ?", Duke asked with a wicked smile on his face.

Duke was behind Saitama without him noticing it. When Saitama turned around he was kicked by Duke and flew away. Saitama had hit an after image of Duke only.

To be continued...