Chapter 29: Sparring

They got home rather late, most people being asleep by this time.

And just as Stroph was about to drop dead into the bed and fall asleep, Violet asked him something.

"Master, I have a favor to ask of you, please do it!" Saying this she bowed and kept her head down waiting for Stroph's response.

He didn't quite understand why to ask for a request so officially, but he was used to the way Violet was addressed to him so he replied without thinking, "Okay, what`s the request?"

"I want to fight you one-to-one, please!" Violet thought a lot about Stroph's words at the slave market, it was important for her to know how strong she was.

Stroph didn't answer anything and only headed toward the underground floor, without even lifting her head Violet could feel his movements and understood everything at once.

At this moment all that Stroph could think was: <This day is longer than my whole life and I am being made fight right before I`m going to sleep, what a bullshit> but he agreed for one simple reason: it`s better to do it now and go to bed than tomorrow morning.

After they went down to the underground floor they stood against each other and Violet said: "Master, what is your fighting style?" She didn't feel Stroph having any weapons in his hands, she could certainly assume that he preferred to fight with his bare hands, but that was unlikely.

"I use a firearm, but I won't pull out a weapon now."

"Master, please, fight to the fullest!" Violet didn't want him to be succumbed to.

Upon hearing her, Stroph only waved his hand and replied, "No, if I use a gun you will die, and I'm not going to kill you."

Violet was stubborn and continued begging him, "Master, I am confident in my strength! There is no need to hold yourself back! I am strong enough!"

Upon hearing her words, Stroph grinned slightly and replied with a slight smile on his face, "Oh, really?" A moment after these words, Stroph began to emit his own aura and the aura of "Snow White Darkness", he decided to teach Violet a lesson, for her own good, because if he pulled out the Last Light this fight wouldn`t end without injury. Moreover Violet wasn`t in the best condition yet, she needed to heal and gain weight.

That terrifying aura made Violet's legs buckle, she'd never experienced anything like it in her life, because of her muscles she was a little overconfident. Especially when Violet heard that Stroph was a shooter, she thought her master was weaker than she in the case of physical strength.

Stroph absolutely didn't feel sorry for her, he was pouring out as much aura as he could.

Violet's entire back was drenched in cold sweat and to her shock, she saw the silhouette of the death over him and it was the first thing in her life she was able to see at all.

Certainly, she didn't become sighted, it was just that so much of the incredibly monstrous aura struck at her very soul.

She fell to the floor and was breathing heavily for a while, only a couple of minutes later she got over it, stood up, bowed to Stroph and said: "Master, forgive me, I was overconfident, let's go on with it". After the recent scene, she had absolutely no thoughts of begging Stroph to continue fighting at full his strength.

Stroph only nodded slightly and was waiting quietly for Violet`s attack.

To tell the truth, if his stats hadn't increased significantly after the updating of his status, he wouldn't have risked to have a physical fight with Violet, but at the moment he could tear apart the bodies of most second rank monsters with his bare hands, so he wasn't worried about anything.

The next moment Violet shifted from her seat, lunged toward Stroph and struck him right in the chest with lightning speed. But just before her fist collided with his body, Stroph blocked the blow with his right hand, grabbing Violet's fist.

The force of the blow reverberated throughout his body, he was stunned, her blow would tear apart any monster of the first rank and deal substantial damage to a monster of the second rank. It was something incredible.

<It's crazy, her punch is so strong, especially given the fact that there neither technique, nor training here. In addition, she's very skinny at moment due to she hadn`t eaten well before, which affects on power> Such thoughts flashed in Stroph's mind, the next second Violet released her arm and swung her right leg at Stroph's head.

He didn't block her punch this time, his legs were usually much stronger than his arms, so he might well have gotten some kind of bruise as the price for blocking such a blow, so he just crouched down.

Violet didn`t expect that, which was evident by her surprised face.

<Yeah, she has no battle experience at all, her punch was dodged and already confused> The next moment Stroph slightly lifted himself up, grabbed Violet's leg with both hands which was currently over his head, and just threw Violet over behind him, she was very light as a feather.

Violet quickly regrouped in midair and landed smoothly on her feet, but just a split second before she landed Stroph's fist was at her stomach, the girl was able to do nothing, her master's speed was too fast and she just didn`t expect that he didn`t even allow her to fall down.

Fortunately for Violet, Stroph stopped just before his hand should have touched her.

In the next second Stroph calmly said: "Violet, you`ve lost, you're too careless and you still need to get better." He sighed slightly rubbing his hand and continued: "But, I must say, you've got a lot of strength, in the future you'll literally tear your enemies into pieces only with your physical power."

"Okay, I've had enough for today, I'm going to take a shower and then go to bed and I suggest you to do the same." Having said these words Stroph was going to leave, but suddenly he heard Violet's voice, "Master..."

Stroph felt a strange confusion in that one single word and turning around he saw a surprising picture. Violet's face flushed heavily and after a brief silence she continued: "Master... shall we... spend the night together...?" She was very much embarrassed, she knew what the slave girls were often doing at night.

Stroph wasn`t surprised by her question and in spite of all her uncertainty and embarrassment calmly replied, "No, we`ll sleep separately, you are not my type, sorry" After these words he began going upstairs to take a shower.

Violet was just standing there and didn't know how to react to his answer, she was overwhelmed with feelings. On one hand, it was good that he wasn`t some kind of a lecher but at the same time it hurt her and she felt something like a wish to kill him for such words. She was standing in such a stupor for about five minutes, and then she went to the second floor where she fell asleep on a big bed. There were two practically identical rooms on the second floor, one for Stroph and one for Violet.

While taking a warm shower Stroph remembered that he needed to call Cristo and ask him about the monsters, so he dialed his number on his bracelet, then a beep sounded...