I have Nine Lives

Chapter 183: The war (10)

Marshallo looked like a manly man with big muscles that looked as if he hit the gym regularly. But not big enough for him to be called a bodybuilder.

His lower armor was bloody red, and he was topless. Showing a bunch of scars all over his chest that varied in size.

Some of them covered his whole chest horizontally. Showing that they mostly came from blades.

While other scars were just small dots or bite marks.

His flowing black hair reached his back, and there were two stumps where his other two lower arms were supposed to be, showing that his two extra arms hadn't disappeared naturally like Binela's.

It seemed that his life wasn't as easy as hers, even though they both came from similar situations.

Marshallo maddened eyes slowly turned normal as he took a glance towards Marquina and Binela. Then waved his hand, indicating for them to leave. As it wasn't a battlefield that the duo should be on.

Binela grabbed Marquina by the arm and dragged her away. She knew that the current fight was going to be something that they couldn't witness from a close space.

Felix looked towards Marshallo as he felt the immense strength converging on his body, it was obvious that the image of a skull came from his aura, which was both an image and domain. Showing that he was at a higher level than him in his aura proficiency.

Felix's and Marshallo's gazes collided in mid-air as literal sparks blew around them. The twin's half bodies had already disappeared far away, while the few surviving ships, regardless if they were the big or the medium ones, decided to take a healthy distance away from the duo.

"It's finally nice to meet you face to face... I don't think you have ever said your name while you fought with any of us. Would you mind if you told me your name before we fought?"

Marshallo seemed like someone who was both prideful. But also respectful of his opponents, or else he wouldn't have asked for Felix's name like that.

Felix thought that they would go straight to fighting, but considering that he didn't feel any killing intent from Marshallo showed that he was serious with his inquiry:

"Name's Felix."

"Felix? What an interesting name, My name is Marshallo, and I hope the two of us can have a great fight together!"

"Wait, before we fight, can you answer me one question?"

"Which one is that?"

"Why have you invaded us?"

Marshallo seemed like he was ready to burst laughing at the question as he looked up towards the emptiness of space, but then he shook his head as he said:

"It's more of a few reasons, actually. I will indulge you before the fight as a show of respect for a fellow person who reached such a level of strength."

"Let's start with the beginning, right? Well, I have heard from our rulers that your people had trespassed on our territory, and considering our races' policy against invading outsiders, you should know what that led to."

"Anyways, this was the first reason. The second one being that the gods of our planet wanted to invade yours after they gained knowledge about it through their connection from us."

"And the third and last reason... was that I wanted a good fight, so I didn't oppose the invasion!"

Marshallo's muscles twitched as the skull appeared behind him in a pillar of energy. And this indicated that the talking time was over!

Felix was glad that he could atleast glean this amount of information from Marshallo.

Felix's aura engulfed him as it became the second layer of orange armor around him. Felix's aura layer looked quite rigid, unlike Marshallo's, which was easily flowing around him. Compared to each other, Marshallo had way more experience in the orange level.

"Here I go, Felix!"

Marshallo's movement triggered spatial cracks everywhere around them as space was half broken, only from him moving at Felix with his full strength.

Felix could feel his senses going haywire, but he kept his ground as he stood in a horse stance.

He was slowly accumulating power for a counter-attack as he waited for Marshallo to hit him. And that happened soon after!

The attack was sent directly towards Felix's face. Felix absorbed the attack making his body start shaking due to the immense amount of energy that was coursing through it. And then redirected the attack directly towards Marshallo's stomach!

However, when the attack hit Marshallo in the stomach, nothing happened. Marshallo almost laughed afterward as he said:

"That tickled!"

Felix's eyes widened. This was a counterattack coming from his own strength, which was combined with the insane strength that he absorbed from the first attack landed by Marshallo. But it did no damage whatsoever!

"My turn now."

Marshallo shot his fist directly through Felix's stomach at a speed that Felix couldn't comprehend. Blood was splattered down into the coldness of space as it hardened and floated around.

Felix could feel his strengthened organs shaking but the gaping wound in his stomach closed the moment that Marshallo retrieved his fist, a small smile was on his face as he licked the remaining blood off his fist and said:

"It's good you can regenerate. I don't want a quick and dull fight, but you should step it up if you don't want to get trashed badly. I like a target that can strike back."

Felix strengthened his conviction that was a little bit broken- after he saw how easily the man shrugged off his counterattack.

"Good, a weak conviction will lead to a quick fight, which isn't something I like at all!"

Felix clenched his fists as he concentrated his power. The lightning armor engulfed his whole body while his skin started to turn pink.

A sudden strike hit Marshallo in the face making his head lean back, but then his head popped right back up as he cracked his neck and said:

"Good beginning strike, let's get serious now."

Marshallo tried to strike Felix back only to find out that he struck an after image.

Then he looked behind him only to find out that the moment he shifted his body to look behind, Felix had already gone back to his original spot and struck him thirty times in quick succession directly in his spine.

Cracking sounds came from his spine, only for them to disappear quickly after. Cracking sounds also came from Felix's fingers and knuckles as he easily endured the pain from having them broken.

While his spine was damaged from Felix's attacks. The damage was negligible, and it was just like someone normally cracking their knuckles and fingers.

"Oh yeah, that's the spot."

This time Felix found a fist bearing directly towards his head which he quickly dodged again, only to find another lightning source appear around Marshallo's body, increasing his speed to the point that he could now keep up with him.

Felix already had trouble dodging Marshallo's wild and precise attacks, but now they were almost undodgeable!

The strike hit him directly in the head, making his vision swim before pushing him a few kilometers backward, creating a sonic boom and making space break everywhere around them.

A grey lifeless area surrounded them as the broken space was slowly mending itself, but as they continued to fight, the broken area continued to enlarge.

They were in a different dimension compared to the observing people, even Binela and Marquina couldn't currently say what was happening in the grey area.

Felix put his arms over himself in an X as he took another strike making his guard falter and drop, thus leading to an ongoing combo as he was pummeled continuously into the broken space also leading to his body being lacerated and further injured by the spatial shards that surrounded them.

"Come on, fight back!"

Felix's head was still swimming from the strike back then, and he couldn't even hear Marshallo properly. His body wasn't reacting to the commands that he gave it, and his heart was beating very quickly for some reason.

The tattoos all over his skin started to light up as his blood started boiling in his body. His locked potential wasn't fully activated up till now. But it was slowly starting to unleash itself through the barrage of fists that Marshallo was unleashing on Felix.

The more beatings he took, the more his body and soul reacted to the perilous situation he was in, although he knew that he would be able to revive due to his connection with Aaltarox. His body and soul now acted instinctively to protect his life as they reached a higher level of power!

Marshallo smiled under his cold and crazed mask as he looked at Felix's orange armor, which was slowly starting to morph under his assault.

"I knew I sensed your potential right... this fight better be worth it!"

Marshallo howled as he put both of his fists forward, a conglomeration of energy appearing at the ends of them that quickly converged into a big ball of purple energy that had lightning bolts arching across it, which was launched at the currently unguarded Felix.

Felix could sense the impending doom of the energy ball that was quickly getting towards his immobilized body, and then he heard something in his body break... it was a cracking sound as if some type of glass had shattered.

His immobilized body was engulfed by the purple energy ball as Marshallo's eyes widened in surprise:

"Have I misjudged his potential?"