New Strength!

It has now been over a year since I arrived in this world and I must admit that I have made good progress. I can now use the tokitobashi for 0.1 seconds in a natural way without it consuming all my aura which was a real problem.

I got used to my life in the village, I spent most of my time outside the village killing the grimms who got too close and continued to train my body to the point where I could feel an energy inside me but couldn't use it like something was stopping me.

That day I was walking in the streets of the village enjoying the good weather, I ended up stopping in front of the status of a man raising a sword to the sky.

Harold explained to me that this statute was built in honor of a warrior who had saved the village from destruction by a horde of grimm.

I stood there watching her because something intrigued me. This sword I'm sure I've seen it somewhere but where?

It probably didn't matter, I continued on my way when I noticed something strange. It was sunny without clouds but yet a shadow fell on the sunny ground and grew bigger and bigger.

Realizing what happened, she barely had time to jump forward, narrowly dodging what had just crashed in the middle of the village.

A huge cloud of dust was rising and then a gigantic roar echoed through the village.

The cloud dissipated and I could see what had just landed, it was a huge grimm manticore looking around surely in search of its first victim.

The villagers were scared and ran to take cover, leaving only me and the grimm in the street. This one turned to me clearly ready to devour me. I got into a fighting stance ready to strike.

The manticore tried to crush me with its paw which I dodged without difficulty and jumped towards its face giving it a punch at full power, the grimm was disoriented for a moment but nothing else, it was clearly much more resistant than the other grimm that I have faced so far.

He tried again to crush me but I slid under him to reach his do and hit him in his legs to make him lose his balance but I had to activate the tokitobashi to be able to narrowly dodge the snake which served as his tail about to bite me.

Fuck this grimm has no blind spot!

The manticore turned around while trying to reach me with a swipe of her claw which I dodged while running to her left and kicking her ribs causing her to groan in pain and move a few steps.

I may have hit him but he's really tough, I clearly don't have enough strength to be able to do any real damage to him and apart from helping me dodge the tokitobashi won't be of any use against him it will drain my aura completely before I can beat him.

The grimm attacked again pulling me out of my thoughts, I dodged his blow then took support on his paw to jump up to his face

and struck his fron . My blow made him shake his head in pain but he recovered quickly and tried to bite me. I dodged again using the tokiyobashi but I didn't see its tail come at full speed towards me and it hit me in the chest sending me crashing to the ground.

"Cough....Cough.....damn that hurts!"

I clutched my chest in pain, my aura flashing ready to shatter.

With a single strike he was able to do so much damage ... it's getting complicated I can't afford to take another hit or it's the end, damn what can I do!

Suddenly the manticore opened its mouth and fire started to appear forming a ball.

"You're fucking kidding me!!!"

A fireball appeared and was thrown straight at me.

I jumped forward to avoid it but two others arrived at full speed, I managed to dodge them and rushed towards the manticore which spat another fireball which I avoided by jumping, reaching its neck I kicked with everything what I had doing him real damage,

but my success was cut short when its paw came from my left at full force.

BAAAAM!!!!

I received the full force blow sending me through a wall, my aura shattered and my whole body ached. I was under the debris unable to move.

The manticore turned around and started to move towards the houses where the villagers were hiding, surely attracted by their fear.

"Damn.....when I think I thought I had improved, I find myself fighting against a Grimm much stronger than me...."

"Karma is a bitch for sure....."

Seeing the grimm getting closer to the houses I tried to draw on the bit of strength I have left to free myself from the rubble but nothing worked, I was trying so hard to find only a bit of energy that would will allow me to get up. I could feel this energy inside me but it was like something was blocking me.

"Fuck.....Come on.....Come on!!!!"

Suddenly something broke inside me and a torrent of energy ran through my body, my muscles contract like never before, it's as if my body was about to explode!

BOOOOMMM!!!!!

All the rubble around me was thrown in all directions, I got up slowly, my body making me suffer but at the same time overflowing with energy completely covered with a red aura.

I turned to the manticore and took a piece of the wall in my hand so that my fingers dug into the stone.

I threw it at the manticore, the projectile flew at frightening speed and crashed behind the grimm's head causing him to lean forward with the power of shock.

He turned around seeing me standing surrounded by a red aura, walking heavily towards him and producing an incredible pressure making the pebbles levitate around me.

Clearly annoyed the manticore launched a fireball right at me but with a blink of my eyes I reappeared 3 meters from where I was dodging the fireball.

Clearly surprised by what she has just seen the manticore remained motionless for a moment, I took the opportunity to rush straight ahead, disappearing and reappearing in front of her, giving her a punch so hard that she sent her flying backwards.

Seeing the brand new power I had the manticore spread her wings and started to take off, noticing this I leaned on the ground and propelled myself in the air reappearing behind her, landing on her back I grabbed her wings and with my legs I pushed with all my strength sending her crashing to the ground ripping off her wings.

The manticore got up screaming in pain, I landed behind her dodging the snake on its tail that tried to bite me, I grabbed it and pulled it with all my strength spinning the grimm in the air then threw it straight at the statue of the warrior destroying it, the sword was thrown into the sky, I jumped in the air and kicked the sword which sent it towards the manticore and impaled her on the ground.

The manticore got up screaming in pain, I landed behind her dodging the snake on its tail that tried to bite me, I grabbed it and pulled it with all my strength spinning the grimm in the air then threw it straight at the statue of the warrior destroying it, the sword was thrown into the sky, I jumped in the air and kicked the sword which sent it towards the manticore and impaled it on the ground.

The manticore let out a final scream and collapsed to the ground, then evaporated. I landed next to the sword planted in the ground breathing heavily. Suddenly the aura around me disappeared and my body was seized with immeasurable pain, I was crawling on the ground screaming to death and then finally lost consciousness.

When I woke up I was in my room lying on my bed, I looked out the window to see the sun in the sky.

Suddenly my door opened and Harold entered.

"Ha! Ayden you're awake!"

"Hi Harold"

"You had us all worried, you were unconscious for a week!"

"WHAT? A week...."

"Yeah after your fight against the grimm we brought you back here. Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah don't worry thanks to my aura I feel better."

"It's good to know, I'll let you rest, you can come down whenever you want, I'll prepare you something to eat."

Harold left the room and closed the door, I started thinking about my fight against the manticore, I did it, I used the kaioken.

It was both incredible and painful, the power I had was just great but the backlash was terrible, so that's how goku felt at the beginning....

After a while I ended up going downstairs and joined Harold in the living room who had just finished cooking.

We were eating in silence when Harold spoke up and said to me.

"Tell me ayden have you ever heard of the Mistral Regional Tournament?"