The Metal Military Academy
Chapter 53: The Negative Effects of the Stroke

All the spectators were made tense with this fight, even the number of spectators present in the stands seemed to increase when they learned that there was an epic fight in this Arena Room.

Smoke thickened from the explosion from the shadow slash belonging to Shujin, Ardan's figure was completely invisible in position, covered by smoke.

After launching the attack, Shujin landed, standing alert while looking at the smoke, trying to find Ardan.

Did the senior succeed in him falling or even avoid?

In a moment of silence, there was no sign of an attack from Ardan. Shujin also can not arbitrarily try to attack if the position of the object has not been estimated.

The atmosphere became increasingly tense as the smoke slowly began to thin. And just then, a spear shot out from behind a puff of smoke towards Shujin.

Shujin's reflex brushed him off using a dagger to a loud thud, but the spear instead spun in the air towards Ardan who had now leapt high above Shujin.

“Heargh..!”

Ardan lunged at Shujin with the spear position ready to stab. Shujin tried to hold back by crossing the two daggers in front, but Ardan's spear thrust felt so hard that Shujin could not hold it anymore.

The spear's eyes managed to scratch a bit of Shujin's ears and make his body almost fall. Shujin's hurry dodged, but Ardan returned to give a barrage of attacks.

All these attacks that Ardan launched were faster than before, making Shujin start to be overwhelmed dodging and fending off all attacks.

“That's you, boy!”

Ardan again spears Shujin so hard. Shujin managed to protect himself from being knocked out using the flat surface of the dagger, but his body was pushed away by Ardan's powerful tug.

Shujin stroked her slashed ears and bled. He was angry, did not accept if the senior managed to hurt him, while he himself had not given any injuries to Ardan.

Really, that orange youth is really annoying.

“I'll teach you a lesson, Ardan!”

The two Shujin daggers were crossed to give off a purplish black aura, a sign that he would re-launch a heavier attack.

“Tomb of Death!”

Shujin slashed a shadow slash onto the floor, creating an area as bleak as a grave. Several types of tombstones fell periodically near Ardan and dozens of crows flew over him.

“Tu-wait a minute. That...” Chrysanthemum was stunned to realize something strange about Shujin's style.

“What's up, Kris?” tanya Nadia turned to Chrysanthemum, as well as Rafa who seemed curious about the Chrysanthemum response.

“That crows... It looks like my style. Isn't Shujin only mastering the shadow element?” krisan astonished.

Rafa took the fight seriously again. As expected, there was something strange with some kind of moves Shujin put out.

In the arena, Ardan began to avoid falling gravestones directed at him. While dodging, Ardan dashed quickly towards Shujin, about to strike back.

Of course Shujin did not stay silent. In one flick of a finger, there appeared many hands of the undead in the gloomy area he created and that Ardan passed through, all hands trying to reach Ardan's feet. Realizing the appearance of the hands, Ardan also tried to avoid.

“Ck, shit,” decak Ardan.

Ardan has been hit by apes. Already trying to avoid a hail of gravestones, now instead trying to avoid the handcatch of living corpses under the floor while running towards Shujin.

Unfortunately, how agile Ardan dodged, his legs still managed to catch some hands of the corpse.

“Ap—.”

Not only caught his leg, the hands also crept upwards, binding Ardan's entire body until he could not move.

In any case

No

Could

His comrades in the stands were so shocked to see Ardan who was known to be tough in the fight was able to be cornered so badly by his own junior that he seemed not to dwell anymore.

“Binders.”

Damar, Nadia, and Chrysanthemum turned their heads towards Rafa as he said so with a solemn expression.

“Shujin makes a binder on Ardan, where Ardan will have trouble moving and escape the effects. This binding effect looks very strong, so Ardan seems unable to move at all,” explained Rafa.

“What is Ardan really unable to escape from this binder, like the freezing effect that hit him when one of the junior ice elements froze his legs?” ask Damar to hope.

“Sorry, sorry, nih.” Rafa continued, “As long as I train with Ardan, the freezing effect is still too easy to remove if it is just to trap, not completely freeze the target into the organs of the body. But, if this binder is an exception. The effect looks very tight on Ardan, so it's hard to escape. Except, Ardan has the ability to eliminate negative effects.”

Rafa shook his head. “But, darling.... Ardan is only a metal controller, not a single nurse can eliminate the negative effects. That is the reason why he often trains the body's defenses.”

Unless Ardan used the Controlling Power and Created the Weapon, perhaps Ardan could create a weapon that could eliminate the negative effects of the enemy force on him in order to escape.

But, impossible. It would only make the original strength of Ardan known to many people. Of course Ardan will not use that power only in the crazy orientation test that has become this real battle arena.

“Wait, Bang. You said a binder?”

Nadia blinked her eyes several times while watching the arena. He was conscious and surprised at something.

“Effects fastener?! The binding effect that traps Bang Ardan is similar to the style of my Trapping Turtle that had been revealed to Bang Ardan during the test. Only, Bang Ardan can avoid it, so not to hit,” hysterical Nadia.

Damar was astonished to hear it, “Serius, Nad?”

Nadia nodded, “My move if hit will bind the target as well, but not as strong as Shujin's, can still be separated if destroyed.”

One more fact Rafa got. Almost all of the moves Shujin uses are similar to those of some other Awakening Power users.

First, it was similar to two juniors attacking Ardan using the elements of ice and earth. Second, it looks like a Chrysanthemum. And third, similar to Nadia's style with a slightly modified effect.

Rafa can slightly conclude that some of Shujin's moves are not the original moves of the shadow element.

There's something strange here.

....

Ardan really can't move here. The spear he was holding fell to the floor among the entourage of hands that kept tying him.

He really can't do anything.

“This is a reply to the nonsense you threw at me.”

Shujin twirled the two daggers until they re-created a dark black aura accompanied by a shiny purple hue, preparing to re-launch the final attack to completely incapacitate Ardan.

“Sok sage talks about soldiers who must have empathy, care, and only take responsibility for protecting civilians. You think the universe is that simple?”

“War knows no empathy. There was only destruction and death that the soldiers had to face. And being the strongest is the only way to fight the world.”

With maximum speed, Shujin darted at the second position of the black aura dagger ready to slash Ardan.

“I'll show you that the universe is cruel!!!”

Shujin sped quickly, just a split second until it passed through Ardan who was firmly bound by the hands of the artificial undead. And when Shujin landed far behind him, Ardan's body was immediately filled with many incisions, his single-t-shirt torn to the bare chest, even the blood flowing from the wounds instantly turned pitch-black.

Everyone in the stands immediately panicked, especially the staff when checking the level of negative effects given Shujin's style.

Shujin did not hesitate to poison all the incisions in Ardan's body.

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