The Strongest Warrior - Part 2

Samuel was sent crashing into the ground and Tyklion landed on the ground with a heavy crack after punching Samuel into the ground, suddenly Tyklion took a step back and just managed to dodge Zalbas who had come landing with and overhead kick.

"Surely thats not the best you can do?" Tyklion mocked, and as a response Zalbas roared and swooped forward but jumped up in the air in front of Tyklion who missed his sweeping strike at Zalbas legs.

*Thud* *Thud* *Thud* Zalbas delivered three kicks in a split second while midair, one to the leg, one to the chest and the last one to Tyklions head. Even if he was fully armored the blow still staggered Tyklion temporarily.

"NOW!!!" Zalbas yelled and in an instant Vuldara bashed her shield into Tyklion's back her shield covered in holy magic, a soundwave was released and Tyklion actually went flying up into the air where Vazmarx was already waiting as he came swinging.

"Sword Blitz Imbued Fireball Coming Right Up!" Vazmarx slammed both swords into Tyklion's heavy armor and the power of a lot of explosive fire magic was released and it sent Tyklion into the ground causing a wide crater.

Samuel just about got up from the ground after collecting himself and all four of them were breathing while looking ragged, when the dust cleared there was Tyklion standing on two feet as if nothing had happened. Although some damage could be seen on his armor, it was as if nothing had reached him.

"I must say I am impressed! You were able to deliver twice the amount of damage more than I thought you would be able to." Tyklion spoke with a voice that was completely neutral as if this was still nothing to him.

"Your teamwork is relatively solid, with much room for improvement of course." This time he didn't take a defensive stance but held his weapon as if going on the attack.

"In fights when you are outnumbered, you always start by taking out the supportive elements." He didn't even finish his sentance before he was gone in a flash of blue lightning, making his voice came from all around them.

Samuel could see where he appeared again thanks to his eyes, "Vul!" He yelled and catching on to it Vuldara turned around and went complete defense mode as she raised her giant shield above her head.

What can only be described as lightning that came swinging down completely shattered her shield and broke her arm. Tyklion's attack was hardly slowed down by her strongest block, and continued and shattered her armor while jolting her entire body in blue lightning.

Vuldara's eyes went up into her head and she staggered for a few backwards before falling backwards unconscious. "Once you take down the support, you go for the commanding tower." Tyklion's head instantly turned towards Samuel and this time about ten swords formed behind Tyklion, that went flying with blue lightning towards Samuel.

But rather than flying directly towards him all of them landed around Samuel. Which blocked his line of sight in every direction. He wasn't even able to detect Tyklion until Tyklion was already behind him and smacking the side of his head which caused everything to go black.

But it only went black for a few seconds, instinctively Samuel had protected himself with his best reinforced magic. When he came to everything was blurry and he was on the ground and just barely manage to look up.

"Let's do this you furred bastard!" Zalbas screamed and Vazmarx roared. "Yeeeah!" In response and the two charge together towards Tyklion, what came flying towards them though was Tyklion's halberd that he had thrown, it hit Vazmarx right in the chest and sent him crashing to the other end of the large arena where he collided with a wall and went unconscious.

But not before transferring several spells to Zalbas as a reaction to the heavy strike. "Now neither of us have a weapon, ya blue bastard!" Zalbas channeled the aspect of every dragon into his body and a spectral dragon like appearance covered his body.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. "The ten steps of draconic divine justice!" Zalbas punched Tyklion all ten times, Samuel saw that Tyklion actually did something that surprised him.

He for once, fully guarded himself against one of their attacks, then Samuel could see why. Zalbas when pushed to the extreme seemed to channel more than ten times the normal power output but it also drained him extremely fast. But he saw splinters of Tyklion's armor flying off with each punch.

When his barrage was ended, Zalbas only stood there gasping for air and bleading from the forehead. "Impressive!" Tyklion admitted as he stood tall once more. "As expected of a Child of Mana born with the blood of every lineage of dragon. Unfortunately not good enough yet." Tyklion aimed a punch at Zalbas but just before it connected to knock Zalbas out.

Purple lightning hit Tyklion's back and sent him stumbling forward, Zalbas essentially passed out on his own as he fell over. Tyklion looked behind him to see what had hit him, and then he felt a presence behind him as he turned his head in an instant to see - his vision was met with a leg that kicked off his helmet.

Taking a few steps back and holding his face he looked up completely unscathed. Samuel didn't know what the purple lightning that he had shot was. He wanted to stop Tyklion's attack with a spell, but instead of a spell it was purple lightning.

But seeing it work he quickly used his best speed spells in an instant and actually managed to outmaneouver Tyklion and landed a kick in his face which knocked off his helmet.

Samuel was actually a bit shocked to see that the man underneath the helmet was just a regular looking man, with blonde hair and blue eyes and pinkish skin.

"Hmm!" Tyklion grunted in annoyance for the first time. Then instantly jumped back and summoned four gigantic swords covered in blue lightning. Holding out his hand he almost swung with it to shoot them towards Samuel.

Samuel saw something that could only be described as death approaching and held out his hand in panic as he felt the same purple energy come back. Samuel screamed in frustration and purple covered his entire body and shot itself out like lightning towards Tyklion.

It was a complete power standoff, the purple lightning stopped Tyklion's four swords and blue lightning in mid air, in fact Tyklion held out a hand to increase the magic pressure.

But even then it seemed like the purple lightning was overtaking and consuming Tyklion's blue lightning. Samuel didn't notice, but his eye color changed from Ice blue to deep violet as he grit his teeth.

Alsian whom had been a spectator along with Tyklion's team that had been hiding their presence all stood up. "So this is the power of the bloodline of Xaxiaz..." Alsian mumbled as he stared at the purple lightning. "Complete dominance over destruction."

A Shattering noise was suddenly heard as Tyklion's four swords were broken, however because Samuel had no real control over his power, the purple lightning scattered and missed Tyklion while dispersing his power.

Tyklion for once looked completely surprised, understandably so all of his teammates also looked at the scene in complete shock. Samuel slowly tried to stand up, but the previous blow he had taken made it very hard.

"Not quite done yet!" Tyklion held out a hand towards his helmet and it flew to him, he did the same thing with his halberd. Putting on his helm once more and readying his weapon he waited quietly, this was him showing respect and in a way saying that if Samuel wanted to try to continue then he would let him initiate it.

A growl was heard from the edge of the arena, as a fully transformed monsterous fox kin humanoid stepped out, bleeding from several places Vazmarx whom had his tails usually twirled into one big tail now unfurled them all.

"A ten tailed Fox Kin?" Markar exclaimed from the spectator row. His teammates seemed confused and looked at him for an explanation, all Markar could do was chuckle, "They say that the ten tailed fox kin are the ones destined for the biggest purposes, spiritually they are said to be the strongest among their people. The more tails the more opportunity to draw strength from the spirit world."

As if answering his call Vazmarx roared like a ferocious wild beast, and dark magic covered each tail. "I am supposed to be the chosen champion of clan Xaxiaz, I can't very well go down so easily and leave my lord to fight on his own!"

With those words it was like his body grew, in his fox form he had always been larger than his human one, but this was even further. He stood at roughly three meters tall and his muscles bulged suddenly, his eyes became completely white.

One could think that he became unconscious, but it was something entirely different. He looked nothing short of a monsterous beast with his long black fur that now was covered in shadowy dark magic. The contrast was his eyes now completely white as well as his fangs.

It really painted a picture of a dark entity, suddenly each tail grew slightly larger and it looked like he was controlling each tail at the same time. "Sword King!" Ten blades came from shadows and for each tail he gripped one sword, his tails looked more like hands gripping swords than anything else.

Then he also placed two of his shorter katanas in his mouth and gripped on to them while pulling the last two in each hand. "He can use fourteen swords at the same time? Seriously?" Azure looked at Markar. "What is the point of that?"

Alsian was the one responding, "If he truly has masterful control of each tail, then you should count on each tail being like an arm. It's not just for show... For him it is all about technique, but what truly makes him dangerous is the fact that he can channel magic into his sword and give them extreme explosive power that can penetrate most defenses."

"Give him a few years and he will be stronger than most of you." Alsian smirked, a loyal and true friend that was also going to become very powerful, House Xaxiaz had a worthy champion.

Tyklion also looked at him and took a deep breath. One would have expected Vazmarx to run with heavy thuds because of the size of his body, maybe it was because of the magic or maybe it was because of his paws, but he made no impact and hardly any sound when he ran towards Tyklion.

Tyklion took a new stance. "Naive!" Was all he could say at Vazmarx full frontal charge, Tyklion had a much better ranged advantage. Everyone of course felt the magic activate to Tyklion's left, Samuel smiled. "Finally! Got you bastard!"

Magic circles activated all throughout the arena, "How did we not notice any of those?" All of the spectators exclaimed except for Alsian who wasn't surprised. He only laughed again.

"Because this was always a five versus one and she managed to hide herself so well not even Tyklion noticed." As if that was her que, Shakkai appeared next to Samuel as a big shadow dragon.

"Synchronize!" She handed over a magic circle by placing it in Samuel's palm, the moment she did they fine tuned all the magic circles in an instant and all of them turned toward Tyklion, no fancy spells were needed here because no big explosions would do a lot of damage against him.

In an instant several rays of concentrated magic shot out from every angle at Tyklion who did his best tanking most of them. But even he was surprised when Vazmarx suddenly appeared in front of him, because the magic was shooting at him he would be caught in the crossfire.

But the ray that would have hit Vazmarx suddenly split right before touching him and going around his skin and reshaping itself on the other side where it continued its trajectory and his Tyklion.

Vazmarx brought down many swords at Tyklion but all of them were stopped by a large blue bubble that shielded Tyklion, but all the magic and swords combined put a tonne of cracks into his barrier and he actually sent himself flying backwards to dodge most of the attacks.

"Fuck you dude!" He heard someone speak from the ground next to him, Vuldara whom had been lying knocked out on the ground suddenly disappeared, "Illusion magic is my speciality!" Shakkai proudly exclaimed, because not only had she hidden all the circles, she had also healed Vuldara the best she could and then made an illusion in her place.

Vuldara realized she was still essentially useless, but she managed to regain enough strength for one attack. She thrusted her sword imbued with all her remaining magic and even if she expected nothing she at least hoped to distract Tyklion.

Out of nowhere Samuel appeared like a specter as he held out a hand and purple lightning covered Vuldaras weapon. As she thrust through the underguard of his upper arm, blood stained the blade and some was splattered over the floor.

She had been so beated up she didn't manage to aim better as everything was blurry. Vazmarx still came charging and Tyklion dropped his weapon that dispersed like a blue flame.

"Well done!" Tyklion said, and that was the last thing Vuldara and Vazmarx remembered, but Samuel who was what happened was surprised to see Tyklion moving like a lightning bolt as he knocked out Vuldara and Vazmarx in an instant.

Samuel instinctively took a step back and he felt the pressure of the swing that just missed his face, then massive pain overtook him and he dropped to his knees screaming in pain. Tyklion instantly came to a stop as a wave of purple energy was released like a bubble.

Tyklion was about to jump out of range when he saw the others unconscious, he instantly jumped into the purple energy and absorbed most of it himself. The bystanders all quickly jumped into action and made their way down in an instant to check on everyone.

As the smoke cleared, Tyklion stood there, with his armor completely cracked and essentially falling off. Samuel, Vazmarx, Vuldara & Zalbas all knocked out on the ground and Shakkai running around to check on them.