The Sanctuary: Chapter 24

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Chapter 24

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"The rules are simple. No killing! No crippling! Lastly, no weapons! Aside from that, anything goes!"

"The fight will stop if one either surrender or lost consciousness. Am I clear?"

The referee then asked the two duelist staring at each other if they are ready. Dylan merely nod, and Enzo smirked. Seeing the two are ready, the referee shouted "fight!"

Enzo rushes towards Dylan like a raging bull. He planned on pummeling Dylan to the ground.

But seeing Enzo's charge, Dylan stayed put, unmoving.

"Why isn't that guy moving?"

One of the observer watching the asked the person by his side, confused by Dylan's inaction.

"No idea."

Was the person's reply, he too was confused by Dylan's strange action or rather the lack thereof. The two were not the only ones confused, the most of the audience are too.

Dylan's refusal to move also confused Enzo, but since Dylan's waiting to be hit, he'll gladly oblige. But as the moment his fist hit Dylan's face, Enzo was startled—there's no pressure— his fist simply went through Dylan!

Enzo feel danger and tries to dodge but before he could move, a fist hits him on the face, sending him flying!

What!?

The sudden development surprised everyone watching with the excemption of the older and more experienced "Blessed". They saw that before Enzo's attack could hit Dylan, he took a step back, leaving a mirage of himself. Once Enzo hit the mirage and lost his balance, Dylan gave him a punch to the face that sent him flying!

Enzo was muddled after receiving such a strong punch to the face and if anyone attacked him now, he or she could easily defeat him. But to everyone's surprise, Dylan simply stand there and did not do a follow up attack.

"Why is he just standing there? That's his chance!"

Someone among the crowd couldn't help but exclaimed at Dylan's inaction. Like earlier, Dylan's strange.behavious confused them.

Sigh!

Fatty Jing couldn't help.but sigh after seeing Dylan's behaviour. Unlike the people on the crowd, fatty knew exactly what his friend was thinking.

It seemed like someone's gonna get one hell of a beating...," he said.

"Do you know anything fatty?"

Dylan's teammate Ed couldn't helped but asked. His questions mirrored what is on everyone's mind.

"Yeah, someone's gonna have the crap beaten out of him."

Shrugging his shoulders, fatty Jing gave a vague answer to his classmate's question.

"Huh?"

Ed and the others couldn't helped but become more confuse. Fatty's answer was no different from giving no answer.

"Just watch."

Giving no thought about his classmates' confusion, fatty merely told them to watch the fight.

Without Dylan's follow up attack, Enzo was able to shake off the dizziness he is feeling. He then looked at his surrounding until his sight fall to Dylan who is just standing there with an emotionless face.

"What happened?"

Still vaguely confused, Enzo tries to remember what happened earlier. All he could remember was something hard hit his face and he blanked out because of the pain. Seconds later Enzo finally recalls what happened and his eyes bulged with anger.

He glared at Dylan with reddened eyes and yelled, "you!"

Dylan ignored Enzo's wrath and said, "use everything you have, or you won't have the chance to use it later."

"Good! Good! Good!!! I'll make you regret hitting my face!"

After saying "good" three times, Enzo's body started changing. His skin become glossy and black. Spikes started to potrude from his arms, feet and back! Enzo suddenly turned into a humanoid porcupine!

[Spike Skin]

Enzo finally used his ability, the offensive and defensive ability known as [Spike Skin]. Similar to fatty's ability [Bronze Skin], Enzo's ability allows him to change his body and turning it into a weapon!

"[Spike Skin] huh? Ins't weapons forbidden in this duel?"

A guy among the crowd couldn't help but ask the person beside him.

"It's unfortunate but [Spike Skin] is an ability and not a weapon, so he didn't break any rule."

The person being asked shakes his head and thought that Dylan had missed a golden opportunity to defeat his opponent.

"Come, let me beat you to a pulp!"

Enzo arrogantly dare Dylan to attack him. Dylan without saying anything calmly walks towards Enzo. Everyone looked at the calmly walking Dylan, and wondered how he is going to fight the porcupine-like Enzo without a weapon.

The crowd knew that Dylan is of the assassin class, and without a weapon he is no match against a weaponized opponent from the soldier class. Yet to their surprise, Dylan was still calmly walking towards his opponent.

The moment Dylan was on his attacking range, Enzo suddenly charges at Dylan with incredible speed! The floor shattered due to the overwhelming force of his charge. Enzo raised his iron like fist and punched towards Dylan's face!

He wanted to give Dylan the same treatment he received earlier. The fist didn't have spikes on them as killing his opponent was against the rule. Nonetheless, there are protrusions on his knuckles that could easily shatters bone—Enzo wanted to disfigure Dylan!

The fist went through Dylan's body but this time Enzo was ready. Small Iron-like spikes protrude from his face. If Dylan dares punches him in the face like what he did earlier, his fist could easily turn to a pincushion!

Enzo saw a fist quickly approaching his face and smirked. Since Dylan was dumb enough to punch his face despite the spikes, he'll gladly allow him to experience the pain from his fist shattering. And while he is yelling in excruciating pain, he'll slowly enjoy pummeling him until he lost consciousness—he won't allow Dylan to surrender!

"Idiot, prepare to feel the—"

Gwah!

Before Enzo could finish a sentence, he was again sent flying by a fist on the face!

Crash!!!

But this time Dylan punched him with more force so not only did Enzo flew, he also flunged to ground several times before crashing to a stop.

Everyone was caught of guard by the sudden development. When they saw Dylan punching Enzo's face, they thought that his fist was gonna be destroyed. But not only did it not get destroyed if even hit Enzo with such force that he flew, and flung before crashing to the ground!

The crowd looked at Dylan's fist and was surprised to see no injuries. Instead they saw some black fire-like patterns surrounding it.

"What are those patterns?" They thought.

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to be continued

Chapter 23 / Chapter 25

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