Strongest Among the Heavens
Chapter 195: KAZI: Fragile and Weak

Chapter 195: KAZI: Fragile and Weak

Just like his Dadi, everybody was fragile and weak. He saw their faces. He heard their prayers. No matter how illogical it was, Kazi Hossain wasn’t able to stop himself from answering those prayers. He healed everyone he could, the Divine Rain pouring down harder and harder until the stench withered away.

All except Jack.

"I was wondering when you would show up." Slow footsteps followed the voice of the Ripper, very calm and cool, his golden rapier scratching the ground and the flesh of the corpses. A piece of his mask chipped off. "Such optimism. Such power. This rain...is it your doing? I’m shocked. An A-class skill? Or S-class? Regardless, manipulating clouds is as hard as establishing an octa-circle."

Casting Divine Rain sucked up ninety percent of his mana. Kazi didn’t move, however, kneeling and looking down at Marta with a smile. "I’ll be back," he said.

The blonde’s tears mingled with the rain. "Please don’t die..."

Both her arms and her legs had been taken from. Rage boiled inside him yet he simmered it down to nothing but kindness. For Marta, he had to be, wiping her tears with great affection. "I won’t. I promise."

As soon as Kazi rose to his full height, Jack stopped and tilted his head. "What’s up with your eye?"

’That sword...it’s as powerful as Jack himself,’ Kazi noted. ’Too powerful. Is that why the city is messed up?’

His surroundings were indescribable. Several sections of the city walls were collapsing while the buildings were nonexistent. A couple of wooden planks and stone bits stood amongst the ash. He assumed much of the cinder were corpses turned to nothing. His left eye identified that none had survived. All of them were murdered and incinerated, save Sun-young, Marta, Jules, and Matty. Four survivors amongst thousands.

A tragedy.

’Equip.’ In his left hand, he summoned Arboreal Guardian’s Spectre. His mana surged through the weapon and then—snap! The staff broke into three pieces.

Jack laughed. Kazi paid him no mind.

’I figured as much. I felt it before but...I’ve gone way past normal Flow of Mana.’ He readied Stormedge, going into an Ochs Stance, raising it up and to the side of his head. ’But this blade...this blade can handle it. Thank you, Husnü.’

Jack stood there with no form. His black aura spoke for itself. "I’m ready for your futile attempt," he seemed to say.

His legs tensed up. He was going to be charging at him with everything he had, no holding back. Kazi drew in a breath and blastedtowards him like a laser beam. He arrived in a split second and there was a moment where his eyes took in his form. Jack shifted from lax to alertness, his rapier clashing against the forward curve of Stormedge.

Instantly, Kazi noted Jack’s rapier was far superior to his own. In fact, if he got a full swing in, Kazi suspected he could shatter Stormedge.

He wouldn’t let that happen. This battle was going to happen as he foresaw it. His eyes narrowed in on the tension on the left side of his body and the way Jack held his sword solely with his right hand. Mana continued to flow through him, his two-handed grip and initial speed having given him an advantage.

’There!’

The moment he tried to push back, Kazi jerked himself forward and bashed his head against his mask. There was a minor tremor in the ground and Jack staggered back. Distance was created. Kazi aimed blade forward and uttered, "Fire Dart."

From the edge of his sword, a concentration of fire appeared and flung towards his opponent. Just as he anticipated, Jack slashed it apart.

"Fire Dart, Fire Dart, Fire Dart...!"

What remained following the barrage of fire attacks was smoke. He shot out a couple additional Fire Darts throughout the area, breaking all standing objects that could cast a shadow. The smoke spread and since Jack had no visual aid Kazi deactivated Mana Flow entirely, funneling his mana into Stormedge, and then throwing the sword.

’Super Spark Strike Thrown!’

His sword parted the smoke and came a hair’s breadth from hitting Jack’s shoulder. In the brief moment where the Ripper was torn between looking at the sword and him, waiting for it boomerang back, Kazi ran with Mastered Flow of Mana at full throttle, in his hand a powerful swirling mass of fire.

Jack’s mask spun back at him and his golden rapier sliced him in half. Glancing down, blood splattered out, his legs left behind. Kazi fell to the ground with a deafening thud, seeing a pool of blood.

’What—’

Kazi was back here. He hadn’t moved since Super Spark Strike. But how...

A prediction? He was thinking several seconds ahead, but that...no, couldn’t be. The vision was too vivid. A beat passed, with Jack waiting for him with his rapier high in the air while Stormedge returned to Kazi’s hands, having missed the shoulder of the Ripper.

"Not going to come at me?" Jack lowered his rapier. "Wise move."

’That wasn’t just a vision or a prediction. That was...’

His left eye burned and his mana reserves felt depleted.

’I think I saw the future.’

[ New skill learned : Foresight ]

Bad timing. For the first time, Jack went into a fighting stance: two fingers forward and his sword parallel to it. Kazi didn’t have even a moment to read and find out what exactly Foresight entailed of. He had to wing it.

"You remind me of someone," Jack said, "and it’s annoying me. I’m going to finish you here and now."

Kazi’s mana reserves were utterly drained. Then, in an instant, it shot up to normal. Jack’s two fingers twitched.

"What...?"

All of it was recovered. All the mana he desired was back in his hands. Kazi’s left eye glowed brightly and he read the attributes listed above his head.

[ Name: Jack the Ripper

Level: 38

Class: Dark Sorcerer ]

’Half my level,’ Kazi thought. ’This guy...his strength doesn’t come from his level but his ability to control his mana and his skills.’

What flowed in Jack’s veins was mana thick enough that it was oppressive. He would have brought the entire army down to its knees. However, he didn’t. For an instant, Jack powered down, then powered back up when Kazi charged at them and their blades met.

Kazi put everything he had into the clash. Super Spark Strike plus Mastered Flow of Mana—and all it did was put him on the backend. Kazi grit his teeth, pushing against the electrifying rush of magic. ’It’s the rapier! We both have Mastered Flow of Mana but what’s different is the weapon!’

"You...!" The black dots in Jack’s mask turned darker than black. "Infinite Blades of Darkness!"

Over his shoulder, a black sword started to materialized. Then another, then another, then a hundred. Jack broke away from the clash and signalled the weapons of darkness to hurl down at him. There was no time to summon the Magic Barrier. The weapons came hurling at speeds breaking the sound barrier and Kazi tried to dodge and block. He did his best, calculating the precise trajectory of the weapons and where they would end up.

Alas, his body was unable to catch up with his brain and a spear struck his leg. The damage wasn’t too bad, the damage mitigated by the Champions Belt.

"Got you!"

Then Jack swooped in, hiding under the guise of the raining black weapons, and lobbed his head off with his rapier.

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