BXBX NOVEL Chapter 247 First Loss
Ceterus felt a cold sweat on his back. He had lost control again this time! This is the side effect of his Trinity Drago Transformation II... He can still control himself from the weak influence of the first transformation, but when it comes to the second, just a slight distraction, he would lose control! Not only that, he can get easily angry and become temperamental in his second form!
Due to this, Ceterus rarely uses it and treated it as a last resort. Because in the past, he had accidentally killed an A-rank criminal. Fortunately, the man wasn't worthy of his guilt, or else...
'I should end this quickly before I hurt Fein...' Ceterus dispersed, the terrible black light emanating from his fist and replaced it with fire and lightning.
'It seems regained his sanity.' Fein heaves a sigh of relief. Then he saw Ceterus run towards him with lightning on his feet.
Fein commanded his 'Flame Advent' and the atomic size red sparks instantly formed into the shape of a spear. Then it launched itself to greet Ceterus...
"The same trick won't work." Ceterus channeled a large amount of degu energy on his finger. 'Repulsive Wave!'
Just like that, an invisible force pushed away everything near Ceterus. A strong repulsive force that came out of his finger pushed away wind, sand, stone, and every obstacle in its way, even the flames' sparks.
"You've developed a lot of applications with your gravity manipulation." Fein looked at Ceterus with respect.
"I have already lived for a long time and performed countless experiments to develop my gravity to this extent. Of course, there's still a lot of application that I can't use because of insufficient control and knowledge of gravity." A proud smile appeared on Ceterus' face.
No one knew just how much energy and time he spent just to develop his gravity manipulation and create new applications. Now, he can utilize different effects as the basis of his experiment. He even studied how gravity works by reading elementary physics and basic scientific books that are up to date just to improve his powers!
Ceterus walked in the air and controlled the rocks floating around him. Then he threw at Fein with a speed faster than bullets. Fein just dodges them with ease. "That's one of my applications. I can imitate telekinetic abilities. Though it's only useful for daily life..."
"Gravity manipulation is really versatile power for combat..." Fein glanced at the devastated environment due to their battle and the floating objects around.
Fein was really envious of such a power that has a wide variety of applications. With gravity manipulation, you can just increase the gravity and crushed the opponents to the ground or immobilized them depending on how much gravitational force one can apply.
One can also do the opposite and achieve 'Zero Gravity' where all things in the user's surroundings would float. With this, the user could carry a large object with ease by reducing their weight. Or perform 'Telekinesis' by mastering attractive and repulsive force as that Ceterus did!
You can even walk through the walls and ceiling or increase your speed with this power, or generate black holes! This gave Fein an impulse to use his tickets and see if he can get gravity-related powers. Of course, he knew that the chance is low! After all, he wouldn't always be lucky.
"Yes, it's a pity I haven't mastered it yet, even after decades of development." Ceterus felt a little emotional. He almost dedicated all his time, but he still didn't reach the full potential of gravity manipulation.
'Well, that's only normal. Gravity is one of the fundamental forces.' Fein thought. He had to agree that Ceterus hadn't fully grasped his powers. Nonetheless, it was already impressive to develop a lot of applications.
What puzzled Fein was, he didn't see Ceterus use gravity to decrease the gravity of his attacks and weaken it. 'Or he just hasn't thought of it yet?'
"If you really managed to master your gravity power, then controlling space-time continuum, warping reality, manipulating time and space, and moving planets, stars, and galaxies won't be impossible," Fein said.
He wasn't talking bullshit at all, because that's really possible! That's why gravity was part of the four fundamental forces of the Universe in the first place.
"I don't understand what you're saying, but it sounds awesome." Ceterus scratched his head awkwardly.
"That's fine." Fein smiled.
"Let's continue where we left off!" Ceterus felt satisfied as he got to boast a little.
Fein was about to manipulate the flames' sparks when they suddenly dissipated. 'Oops, it seems my degu energy can't support it any longer.'
Seeing this, Ceterus smirked. "It seems I've won."
Then he appeared beside Fein, but Fein vanished again, which caused his punch to miss. "I don't know how long you can do that! I must remind you, you can't drink potions or that would be considered cheating." Ceterus swept his eyes in the surrounding, and when he saw Fein appear not far away, his eyes lit up and lunged at him again.
Just like that, Ceterus chased Fein, who kept disappearing for two-minute straight, it only stopped when Fein can't use his 'Ghecko Substitution' any longer and shouted. "Stop! I give up!"
Fein sat on the ground, panting. He already tried his best and threw thousand of slashes but Ceterus only dodged them with ease. Although some of them grazed him, it was useless in front of his regeneration speed. The same sword slashes that could cut mountains and buildings are useless because he can't land a clean hit, which made Fein feel helpless.
He only needs to land one or two clean slashes to kill an S-rank as long as they don't have Ceterus' cheat-like regeneration speed. On the other hand, if he can slice Ceterus's head, he would win... But that would kill him, no matter how cheating his regeneration is. And they were only doing sparring, not a life-and-death battle. That's why Fein wasn't aiming for the head.
Monstrous agility and regeneration are the combinations that Fein found hard to cope with. Because even if he aims for the head, Ceterus won't just stand stupidly and let his most vital part get hit. With his speed, even if Fein really aims for the head, Ceterus would just use his speed advantage to dodge critical blows. So, Fein could only accept his defeat!