Round 2
Red Rager and Blue Blitz did'nt take turns harassing Aron this time, attacking in sync. Blue Blitz strikes once, Aron sidesteps, Red Rager strikes again.
*CLANG*
10 meters apart
Red Rager flies towards Cecil, Blue Blitz strikes. Aron pulls out a defensive stance, crossing his sword over his chest, his other hand lightly holding the blade's tip, pulling the back slightly, bending it like a bow. Blue Blitz curves last second, and Aron lets go.
*CLANG*
5 meters apart
The blade hits the incoming dagger, stopping all of its momentum, and making it spin in place.
Both of them were practically face to face, and Aron advanced, swung at Cecil's neck.
*CLANG*
Holding Green Guardian, Cecil blocked the neck strike. Well, the dagger almost slipped off his hand, but the duel was'nt ove-
*poke**poke*
Aron poked the blunt tip of his sword at Cecil's chest.
"what?"
Cecil did not see that coming.
"what you just did was parry and riposte. Except you just parried the attack away, did not even try to riposte."
"I literally repost entire subbluits overnight."
"... No, I meant counter. Block incoming attacks and hit the attacker back. Because your enemy won't stop after their one attack fails."
The audience were in minor disbelief. This skinny ass dude blocked one of Aron's strikes. Outrageous.
They didn't know that parrying in pure swordfights doesn't depend on strength(unless the gap is very big).
Well, it's not like Aron's going to explain fencing to them. Guess that's just more social clout(?) for Cecil.
"oh, and C,"
"what?"
"hold your dagger correctly, your grip is hurting my eyes."
Cecil was holding Green Guardian in reverse grip, the blade pointing at his elbows.
He then proceeded to hold it correctly, the blade pointing forwards, like it should.
"as long as you are using it like a weapon and not as a tool for a dagger based skill, do not hold it like that."
Aron then proceeded to hate on reverse grip like a pro hater for another minute and half. 10/10, a true bluitor.
Round 3
Not a lot to say.
Cecil tried to attack remotely with Blue Blitz, and Red Rager constantly hunted for gaps in Aron's defence.
But Aron still managed to advance, without using anything more than his sword, physique and the strength of an average, balanced level 1 binder.
Round 4,5,6
Cecil tried using different positions for the daggers, and the end results were... Confusing?
Green Guardian only worked in defense if the attacker was close(no shit), but it worked better as a ranged projectile if the attacker was, like, 10 meters away, because it functioned like a cannonball.
Blue Blitz was fast, but it was more of a nuisance than a threat in open or large areas, working best in areas that are small enough for it to travel instantly over to any point, making it a good weapon for guarding against ranged projectiles(he wants to aura farm everytime he blocks an attack 3 cm from his face) and for doing surprise attacks.
As for Red Rager, Cecil saw it as a jack of all trades. And Aron was, well of a slightly similiferrent(?) opinion.
"The only thing that makes you a threat is the red one. The thing is the primary threat, always being a danger no matter the position or the distance."
The audience was now tilting more towards the combat than just Aron. A slow fight with no real purpose felt nice.
Cecil was moderately tired, but his mind was not. He had not managed to touch Aron even once, well, it doesn't really matter if he beats Ar-
[...ite successful]
[Mandatory quest]
[Make Aron admit defeat]
[Reward- A dagger skill to help hide your real skill]
Cecil could swear that he saw a red system notification for a second, but all system notifications were blue. Right?
"Melder?"
Cecil called out, watching Aron's back as the pale bastard walked over to the other side, spinning his sword by the 'pommel'
"What exactly would be my winning condition?
With the veiled arrogance of a person ranked 7th, he replied.
"Just touch me."
He immediately realised the error.
"or do a little bit of damage."
The more the merrier they say. Cecil scanned the Rose Gold and 6 Jade rocks he had kept beside his phone near the weapons.
[
Jade, Lv75
Sentience- None
Cost- 20Mp per
Suggestion- No use in animating them. Can be sold.
]
[
Rose Gold, Lv 150
Sentience- None
Cost- 50Mp
Suggestion- The metal has the ability to change its shape easily. Can be used in a lot of situations.
]
Rose Gold is dense, and his chunk is barely fist sized for Cecil(164 cm tall).
Aron would probably just throw it like a baseball glove.
Cecil suddenly looked at Aron more intently. how tall was he?
"C, are you ready?"
"yeah."
Cecil had a pretty good poker face. Or maybe with how pale Aron looks, Cecil's brain immediately tried to act cool as if impressing a girl.
[Mp- 49/60]
" *Goddamnit* let's go."
Round 7
Cecil had a new strategy. He let all three colors attack at once.
The discord sown from having three attackers didn't seem to affect Aron at all.
The three slashed in a pattern. While the first lunged at Aron, the second took position and the third recovered from an inevitably missed strike.
The strategy... Worked? Aron was not swatting them away with his sword, opting to dodge all the strikes.
Countering this move was actually very easy for Aron, he already had three ideas (everything else at his arsenal) to counter, but he did'nt.
Why?
Because he had limited his brainpower to the standards of a level 1 binder.
That was not required, but Aron really tried to make this as fair as possible.
Well, minus the reaction time and stamina. You can't really control those.
The three daggers moved like clockwork, rotating and attacking perfectly.
And for a full minute, the two of them were in a stalemate. Both 15 meters apart, watching each other as the daggers moved like gears in a machine.
Aron was impressed. This strategy was simple, but very effective, kind of like his sword moves, disrupting focus with constant dodging.
No level 1 binder is capable of surviving this blender ass attack for a whole minute, much less be calm enough to think of a way to counter.
That's why Aron is here. Creating hypothetical scenarios in real life.
60 seconds are up, and in Aron's opinion, an average level 1 binder would have grasped the simplest way to break though this.