Mystic Battle!

For the first time since he got and bonded with his living sword, Rex unsheathed it in preparation to use it in their first-ever battle together.

Coincidentally, this battle was against a mystic beast!

In an extremely cool manner that screamed boss vibes, Rex pulled his living sword out of his head and pointed it toward the beast.

Once Rex had his hands on his living sword, all the tension and pressure in his mind calmed down immediately. An invisible resonance took place between him and his sword as their bond grew closer than ever before.

He no longer felt afraid of the mystic beast once he held his living sword.

With all the pressure gone, calm took over as his great brain that enabled him to overcome a lot of challenges, even becoming the best in the sword battle domain in the whole Obedin Mystic Academy began working at full power.

Rex forgot every other thing, only the battle was now in his mind. In this state, he recognized how awful he and his friend fought against the beast.

"So foolish!"

While he cursed, he entered his battle stance.

Throughout the past few years of his life, Rex may have lived a life deficient in every other thing but swordsmanship was the only thing that he was never deficient of. He lived and breathed swords all his life.

In the 5 years that he lived with his father; Rex did not waste them. The Aurora Swordplay which was his only mastered sword technique was not the only gain that he got from his old man about swords.

Rex learned the Drizzling Rain Steps movement technique from his academy's battle library, but he learned everything that he knew about swords from his father, including all his sword skills.

All that he learned from his school, most especially from his swordmaster was better methods to finetune his already ridiculous swordsmanship.

His sword stance was also the signature stance of the Vector family.

With his right leg still in its initial position, and his left leg shifting forward a few inches, he squatted a bit to lower his center of gravity, successfully activating his subtle sword domain that made his battle responsiveness reach its peak.

In this stance, despite his pain and his injuries, Rex no longer saw the mystic beast as the predator. He was now the predator; the pig was his prey.

"Bring it on!"

After taking its time to prepare, the pig finally started its ultimate charge.

GRUNT!

The massive pig exploded with an unparalleled speed far faster than all the ones it had used before. Its flesh jingled as its short and stocky limbs hit the ground, its snout let out smoke like inside it was an engine, and 2 horns grew from its head.

The battle preparation of the mystic pig was the rock that erupted from the ground again, forming an earthen armor around its massive body that seemed eager to crush Rex into a million pieces.

Rex was not intimidated by this show though. His mind was as calm as the sea, he smoothly recalled briefly and followed the basics of combat in his head to the letter.

Rex manipulated his mystic energy before channeling it far smoother than he had ever done since he awoke the energy. This time, his mystic energy didn't just cover his sword, it covered his whole body.

Bam!

Rex kicked at the ground and jumped when the pig was just a few inches away, narrowly dodging its charge and providing the counterattack opportunity.

He used his strongest sword skill from the onset.

"Sword Skill: Plutonian Slash!"

Rex did not show mercy, his living sword seemed to sing to his song as the sword cut down with such speed and coldness that raised all the hair on the pig's back, causing this mystic beast to stop for a moment.

Clang!

The sword finally came down.

Like the previous attack, the earthen armor held but only for a brief time as the living sword persisted and cut through it, finally drawing blood.

GRUNT!

An angry mystic beast retaliated furiously but Rex was already gone.

Having predicted the furious tantrum, Rex retreated a few inches, using the opportunity to circle to the beast's side as he slashed with his sword.

Once Rex saw this battle against the mystic beast as any other battle, he started performing at his peak and his peak was dripping lethal.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The furious beast tried to retaliate on more than 1 occasion, its rough and forceful maneuvers felling a lot of trees but it never got Rex. Rex got another opportunity to use a sword skill and he did not skimp.

"Sword Skill: Needle Stab!"

The sword dug deep this time as the stab aimed at the massive pig's flesh just beside its front left limb managed to cut in extremely deeply.

With this attack, the mystic beast's limbs were affected as it limped in pain. Rex did not leave this opportunity, he was a poacher, and his sword was already ruthlessly slashing once the pig limped the first time.

Empowered by his domain mystic energy, the sword cut through, and this time, sword energy was unleashed that dealt even more damage.

Grunt! Grunt!

The mystic beasts' grunts were no more as intimidating as before but were now as pleadingly gentle as those of a female pig in her period.

Rex completely thrashed the mystic beast with a mixture of superior intelligence, superior weapon, and superior battle intuition.

The mystic beast was powerful, but he was abnormal.

The mystic beast may have fought more life and death battles, but it hadn't done so for as many times as Rex has practiced with his sword.

The bleeding of the mystic beast weakened it with time, and in a few minutes more, its mystic energy was exhausted as it could not use its earth skills anymore.

Once this happened, it took only a few seconds before Rex took its head.

Ptui!

Seeing the blood that spurted out of the mystic beast's head, dyeing his clothes red, Rex finally confirmed that the battle was over.

He looked down at his hand which held his sword, suddenly feeling a closer bond to his sword than ever. The euphoria of killing his first mystic beast, he was not the only one that enjoyed it, his sword enjoyed it too.

With the battle concluded, fatigue finally settled in. Rex's mystic energy disappeared into inexistence with a pop.

He felt like falling to rest, but Rex did not dare. The mystic beast's aura certainly prevented other beasts from interfering, but he could not be sure if this strategy could work again the longer the beast was dead.

This was why Rex fought his exhaustion, brought a rope from the leather bag, and rapidly tied all the prey that they killed together.

He was not leaving without his price. And also, he hoped that carrying the mystic beasts' corpses would keep the deterrence to other beasts.

With this done, Rex finally lifted his friend into his shoulders and started escaping from the beast sanctum.

It took him 5 minutes, but he succeeded in leaving the treacherous forest.

Once Rex was outside and he saw the single-apartment building, he let out a deep sigh of relief as his exhaustion finally got the better of him.

He fainted.