MTLNOVEL Chapter 144: The Duel (1)
Gouts of flame continued to shoot in from the holes in the walls and the ceiling. Then a dragon head poked in from the ceiling and rasped the words, "Maven, Dylan, come out."
"Ladies, protect the remaining candidates in the auditorium. It seems they only want me and Maven," I said.
Maven held onto me and I manifested Midas. While I held onto Midas and Maven, Midas flew us up through the hole in the ceiling and landed us on the roof of the building.
Florick Zengo stood on the rooftop in his human form. Dragons flew through the air around the building, circling. "I'm so glad you could join us," he said.
"Cut the shit, Florick! What do you want, and why are you endangering innocent lives to get it?" I said.
"My apologies for the interruption. I was simply trying to get your attention. All I want is for us to conduct our duel. You seem to have been avoiding me the last few days and I wasn't sure you were going to show. So I just came to you. I hope that isn't a problem," he said.
"You know damn well it's a problem, when you almost destroy a building to get to me. We could've done this like men, but apparently that's not your style," I said, getting undressed.
"What, what are you doing?" He said as I got naked in front of him.
"I'm changing into my martial arts uniform. I hope that's not a problem," I said.
I stood naked before him and concentrated. I sent blood to my cock to get hard.
"I guess that's not a problem, but now what are you doing? Why are you getting hard? And why is it so god damn big?" Florick said. He looked over at Maven and said, "Is this what you left me for? An unsophisticated brute with a huge cock?"
"I didn't leave you Florick. You left me. To die. You forfeited our marriage with that decision," she said.
"I was going to come back! We just needed to regroup. There were too many of them!" He said.
"She was buried under rubble when I found her. She would've been dead by the time you showed up," I said. "And as to what I'm doing, a man once told me, there's nothing more intimidating than a rock hard dong. Feel intimidated."
After I was done with my childish antics, I pulled my martial arts uniform out of my inventory and put it on. It was predominantly black with red trim. Florick's uniform was predominantly red with white trim.
"So what are the rules and what are the consequences?" I said.
"The rules I propose are fight to the death, to the winner, go the spoils," he said.
"What are the spoils?" I said.
"Well if I win, the spoils are I get Maven back. And if you win, which you won't, you become the new leader of the Dragon Sect," he said.
"That seems equivalent, but what if Maven doesn't want you back?" I said.
"With you dead, she'll have nothing left to cling to, and she'll come crawling back to me. With you out of the picture, I'm all she has left," Florick said.
"I'll never go back to you!" Maven said. "I'd rather die!"
"If you don't come back to me, you will die," Florick said.
"Ok, so if I win, which I will, I get your sect, and if you win, you get my woman to either get back or to kill? Am I getting that right?" I said.
"She's my woman, but yes, you have that correct," he said.
"While I don't like endangering Maven's life on a bet, I can't wait to wipe that smug look off your face," I said.
"If you chose not to fight me, I would just order my men to kill you both where you stand. You kind of have no choice, but to fight me. Unless you think you can take on the whole Dragon Sect by yourself," he said.
"I think I'll stick to fighting you, and then see if they actually hold up their end of the bargain and follow me like you say they will," I said.
"Then it's settled! We shall fight to the death!" Florick said.
"Maven, stay here," I said. I walked over to a section of the large roof that didn't have any holes and was far enough away from Maven that I felt it was safe. "Let's fight over here."
"As you wish," Florick said. He walked over to me.
"So do we just go or does someone say 'go'?" I said, standing there.
"Someone usually announces the beginning of the fight. I'll call one of my men down to do that," he said. He looked at one of the dragons flying around and yelled, "Charles! Come down! I need you to oversee the fight!"
Charles flew down and changed into human form as he landed. "Ok. I suppose I should just announce the beginning and make sure you both fight fair or something?"
"Yes. Something like that," Florick said.
"Ok. Let's do it," I said.
Charles stood nearby us and yelled, "Fight!" He ran farther away so we would have more room without accidentally hurting him.
Florick went first. He punched at me and a fireball shot out of his fist. I dove to the side and narrowly dodged it. The fireball was massive.
I drew my sword and activated Blood Draw. I activated Blood Saw and ran in close delivering an overhead strike. He put his arm up and I watched in slow motion as dragon scales formed on his arm.
When I struck his arm, he deflected it, but I shaved a few scales off his arm. "Fuck! What the hell is that thing?" He said.
"None. Of your. Business!" I said, as I delivered three more rapid strikes. He once again deflected them all but I continued to shave off more scales and the last strike drew blood. "It's a Blood Saw, if you must know."
"A Blood Saw? What kind of barbaric technique is that?" He said. He jumped away and fired off a few fireballs at me. I still hadn't figured out how to block them, so I dodge rolled out of the way of all three of them.
"It's one I made up, actually. I'm quite proud of it!" I said, as I ran up to him.
I held out my sword straight in front of me like I was going to run up to him and try to stab him, but instead, when I was a couple meters away, I extended to blade with blood rapidly. Then I struck forwards, catching him by surprise.
He got his arms up in time, but he hadn't recovered his arms in scales yet, if he even could do that, and the blade went through both of his forearms and stopped against the scales on his chest.
I pushed down on the blade and cut my blade through his forearms and out of them. His forearms were fucked. I had only half way cut through them so he hadn't lost them yet, but there was no way he could use his hands now.
He roared at me. Then he took a deep breath and breathed fire at me. I ran to the side, but he turned his head as I ran and the flames licked at my heels as I ran around him in a circle. I only needed to outrun the flames long enough for him to run out of breath, but he just kept going.
Apparently he had trained his lungs or something, because the fire breath lasted entirely too long in my opinion. I had run around him three times before it ended.
As soon as it ended though, I was on him. I ran up and struck down. He moved his head so I hit his shoulder instead. The scales blocked at first, but my Blood Saw quickly tore through them and I started to cut into his shoulder.
He got a leg between us and kicked me away. Then he crouched and started to do something. I wasn't about to let him pull anything, so I ran back up to him, but he was faster.
All of his scales instantly reformed on his body, but then he began to grow. That's when I saw it. His humanizing bracelet was on the ground. The bastard was going full dragon on me.
Of all the lousy tricks he could pull. He was allowed to do it, sure, but it was such a huge advantage that he had over someone the actual size of a human, like me, that it felt unfair.
[You can do that too, you know]
'I can?'
[Yes, but you'll have to sacrifice 1,000,000 life essence to do it. You only have 1,500,000 excess life essence left]
'Why so little? I thought I had 3,500,000 last time.'
[You transferred it into the girls when you came. Did you think the power ups you gave them came out of nowhere?]
'Well, kind of.'
[The power ups are a result of life essence transfer. Your seed is only a vehicle with which to do that]
'Oh. Well I'm going to need to recharge after this then.'
[You will. Now do you want to transform into a dragon or not?]
'Yes. Do it!'
[Initiating transformation]