Extra And MC-Chapter 127 - 123 - Battling A Valkyrie

"I, Sigrun Valkyrie, will only release the orbs when you’ve impressed me well enough!" she suddenly declared, immediately adding a few more words after with a devious grin.

"So, you better prove your worth!"

’Prove your worth?!’ Flynn internally exclaimed while huffing in annoyance, his hands tightly gripping his katana’s tsuka which was still in the second form of his weapon art.

’If I did know any better, I’d bet that this valkyrie’s just a darn battle junkie!’ he inwardly declared.

"Oh~… You are one perceptive young child aren’t you?" Sigrun directed a wicked yet amused smile in the youth’s direction from the cover of her beautifully-designed helmet.

From the moment she had stated that she was going to test them, Flynn had felt an uncanny sense of amusement from the Valkyrie.

And when the battle had actually begun, his foreboding sense had turned out to be right.

Mana sense was currently unusable and their bloodlust did nothing to numb a single bit of their pain!

This dimension… or mindscape as she had referred to it as, was interfering with the use of those two abilities so they were left with only their spells, endurance and will.

In addition to that, despite how screwed they were in a battle against her, she seemed hell-bent on wanting to push them to their limits instead of actually trying to kill them.

"But sadly…" Sigrun uttered again as she blinked directly from where she was and immediately reappeared before Flynn.

"It won’t change anything" she concluded while raising her hands up and descending it down instantly in a powerful arc as a formless silver weapon suddenly began to materialize.

Swiftly reacting to the attack directed at him, Flynn’s formless katana barely met with the formless silver weapon in time to block it.

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-Tang!

Pushing him staggeringly backwards, another powerful swing of Sigrun’s formless weapon descended upon the youth again.

-Tang!!

Barely blocking it in time again, Flynn uncontrollably skid backwards on the very rough terrain of the platform, forcefully digging his fingers which were coated with mana into the ground to kill his momentum.

-Skrrrrr…

Having a string of thoughts brushing through his mind in a split second, Flynn was unsure of which exact weapon Sigrun had been using to attack him.

The first attack had been very heavy, making him wonder if it was an axe. Then the second had been lighter, causing him to wonder if it was actually a sword she was wielding.

And now, as Flynn instantly got up from his feet in time to block the next oncoming attack, he watched Sigrun threw a brutal thrust as him with her weapon from a few meters ahead.

’Too late!!!’ he inwardly exclaimed as the formless weapon crashed through the last ditch [Force Field] he had made, oppressively colliding with his chest in a powerful burst.

-BAM!!!

"Kah!!!"

Watching as his chest caved in, Flynn let out a painful cry as the impact of the attack sent him pitifully tumbling across the unforgiving rocky terrain in a split second, his body rolling over and over till he reached the edge of the platform.

Slipping over the edge, the youth mustered all of his strength and held on for dear life, his consciousness once again slipping as he gazed at the starry abyss below.

Considering that all of the relentless assault happened in a few seconds to Flynn, Aiden who was rapidly closing the gap as he reached over to Sigrun with a mad dash, soon found the Valkyrie blinking directly above him!

"Slow!" the armored Valkyrie maliciously spat with a glint of danger in her eyes, her armored boots ready to viciously oppress him with a brutal curb stomp!

Stopping his dash in an instant, Aiden watched as the world around him slowed down in an instant, his greatsword already slashing downwards as he used {Counterstance}.

Even with that, the rapidly incoming curb stomp didn’t slow down by any means and all Aiden could do at the moment, was meet the mighty attack midway with his greatsword.

-Taaannnggg!!!

Holding that same position for a few more seconds, a compressed burst of pressurized air soon manifested, forcefully pushing all the debris of small to medium-sized rocks which had been shattered from their collision away.

Despite this, neither of the two backed down from their powerful attacks!

A few seconds following this though, it became very obvious that Aiden was in a losing battle as the Valkyrie’s armored boot slowly began to push him into the ground, a small crater forming beneath.

-Grrrgggkkk… Crack!!

Watching as his leg slowly yet forcefully began to bend and bury itself into the rocky terrain, Aiden mustered all of his strength from the tip of his buried toes, all the way through his body and into his hands which were holding his greatsword.

"Haaarrrgggghhh!!!"

Letting out a strong battle cry, the youth slowly began to push himself upwards while simultaneously casting both {Suction} above his head and {Reversal} to begin flight, both of them joining to create a vacuum that would forcefully pull him up.

Having her eyes widen in genuine amazement from the first time since their battle started, Sigrun released her powerful foot stomp on the youth as he burst into the air like an unrestrained rocket, the rocks beneath his feet shattering.

-Thrack… Twoosh!!!

Now in the air, without wasting even a single moment, the youth immediately took the stance for his {Whirlwind Slash} mid-air, intent on releasing its destructive power.

-Flap… Twoom!!!

Not giving the youth enough time to enjoy his new-found freedom, the Valkyrie covered the distance between them in the blink of an eye, just as Aiden was about to release his weapon art.

’{Berserker Art - First Form: Whirlwind Sl-}’

Cutting the attack at the very last second, Sigrun held the youth by the neck with a chokingly powerful grip, her devilishly amused eyes grey eyes, staring straight into Aiden’s emerald green ones.

Slowly lowering both of them downwards onto the platform as Aiden continuously kicked his legs and used his free hands to try to break free from her grasp, Sigrun didn’t even so much as flinch.

"How futile…" the Valkyrie sneered as she watched the youth’s pitiful struggle.

In an instant, without so much as even holding back a bit, the Valkyrie performed a devastating headbutt to the youth, knocking his consciousness out for only a split moment as a colossal shockwave rippled across the space.

-BANG!!!

In addition to that was the way Aiden’s body was sent careening into the ground, creating a long deep groove on the jagged terrain as his body collided against it, gradually slowing his momentum to a halt.

-Crashhhh!!!

Unable to even let out any words of pain from his mouth, the youth just stared upwards at the star-studded starry abyss with shifting iridescent hues of light, a deep grimace settling on his features.

’Fucking hell…’ Aiden inwardly cursed in a pained yet tired manner, his hands slowly beginning to push himself off the ground.

If not for the fact that he was now an S-ranker, the youth was so sure that he’d have been knocked out cold the moment that attack landed on his being.

Slowly levitating onto the ground, the Valkyrie leisurely began to walk over to the youth who was now trying to get up from the ground in a wobbly and staggering manner.

As she did, she noticed a particular object hurtling towards her from the periphery of her vision.

"A last ditch effort I presume child…" Sigrun snickered while retrieving her formless weapon.

Casually turning towards the direction the mana blades were coming from, she skillfully used the weapon to deflect all of them, sending them flying into different directions.

However, Sigrun soon noticed that Flynn wasn’t even in the radius of her vision, and neither could she sense him from the periphery or behind her either.

’Hmmm… this is most curious…’ she thought to herself, a slight frown gracing her beautiful face which was hidden behind the helmet.

’Where could he be…’ she wondered, a bit confused that she still couldn’t find him despite being in her own created domain of sorts.

-Grrrgggkk…

-Crack!!!

As if in response to her question though, the ground just behind her suddenly cracked open and out of it, Flynn appeared, his eyes cold and dangerous and his hands, curled into a strongly clenched fist.

Widening her eyes in utter shock and amazement, Sigrun realized what exactly it was Flynn had done to bypass her senses and before she could even avoid it, the brutally powerful punch landed squarely on her face!

-BAM!!!

Gently staggering backwards, Sigrun had an eerie yet amused smile spread across her face behind her helmet as Flynn stood before her, tiredly huffing with his hands covered in bruises and cuts.

"How’s that for ’proving our worth’ ?!" the youth declared with a similarly wicked grin to hers, his silvery-green hair full of tiny stone particles.

"Not bad child. Not bad…" the Valkyrie muttered, her uncannily amused eyes clearly showing how much she was enjoying this turn of events.

Watching as his younger brother stood with his fists clenched, multiple cuts and bruises on it along with a blood streaming down his thigh, Aiden tiredly walked over to him, a few limps in his step.

"Wow. You look like you had your ass handed to you big time" Flynn said to his brother who had painful grimace on his expression.

"As if you have any right to say that when you were sent flying across the terrain like a useless ragdoll! I still lasted way longer than you!" Aiden tried to scoff in response as another pained grimace etched its way onto his face instead.

"Frankly, you’re making my ears burn with that one but we aren’t out of the woods just yet!" Flynn gestured with a slight tilt of his head over to Sigrun, whom during their small banter, had already levitated far up into the air once again, ready to dash forward at them with the intent of inflicting severe pain.