Chapter 108: A Fight in One’s Mind
The silhouette was by far the fastest entity I had ever seen. Every punch it threw felt like a bullet passing by. But despite this, I was somehow dodging it. Maybe it was because this was in my mind. Or maybe I'd been strong from the start—after all, it only landed a hit the first time because it caught me off guard.
Whatever the reason may be, I was keeping up. Every punch would just nearly miss me, graze my hair, touch my ear. I was hanging on without a shadow of a doubt, but this was tiring. It was clear that my Endurance Boost skill wasn't activated.
In fact, I couldn't activate any skill. Whether it was Instinct or Hand-to-HandCombat, none of my skills would activate.
Unfortunately for me, we were at a standstill, every punch it threw I could dodge. The problem was that I doubt this entity could get tired. I on the other hand, was already getting exhausted.
Eventually, I would run out of steam and that would be the end for me.
I needed to attack.
In all honesty, I wasn't much of a fighter. My only real fighting experience was a bunch of scrawny fights during my younger teenage years when I was an F-Rank. They usually ended with me on the floor, knocked out. The only other time was when I was fighting Logan in the cabin. Though that was more a battle to the death. There were no rules in there, just a messy brawl.
I had no choice but to rely on the movies I watched with the girls, hoping their fight scenes were realistic enough to help.
So I kept dodging, again and again. My body was burning up and looking at a clock I could tell only a minute and a half passed, but it felt like hours upon hours.
Then-I saw it.
He had a tell when he went for a right hook. The shadow would mistakenly charge up his punch a bit giving me the slightest moment to counter-attack.