Chapter 200: Capture the Flag(Part 7)
"Lexia, get out of here and lay low. I’ll take him on myself," Instructed Raven, cracking his neck.
He’d drawn a line in the ground to indicate the distance from the flag within which he had to stay in, just a few meters ahead of the entrance of the cave.
"Yeah, alright," Sighed Lexia, before disappearing into the trees as Raven met Tacitus’s gaze.
"Come on, you don’t think I’m actually going to fight you, do you? You can’t get too much closer to me than you already are, kid, so you aren’t going to be able to stop me from running away. So, let’s just call this a draw," Remarked Tacitus, as he began to back away.
"That’s where you’re wrong. You really think you can run away from me? Sorry, but I’m not going to give you much of a choice in the matter," Responded Raven with a smirk, unleashing his Aura while simultaneously transforming into his Dark Form, a powerful burst of energy erupting around him as Tacitus froze slightly, his blood running cold.
Without a second thought, he turned around and began to run away, before Raven swiftly extended out his right arm with immense speed, grabbing Tacitus’s left leg and pulling him up and off his feet, before dragging him back.
Tacitus activated his Nullification Zone, Raven’s unleashed Aura getting forcibly suppressed, before Tacitus whipped his sword across at Raven’s extended arm slicing through his forearm and freeing himself of Raven’s grasp.
Blood gushed out of Raven’s arm as Tacitus hit the ground with a thud, pulling the severed arm off his leg and tossing it away with a grimace.
"Huh, guess I can’t regenerate until I take you down, thanks to your Nullification," Mused Raven, as he retracted his arm and stared at the stump left around it, before tightening the muscles around that spot with a grimace to stem the bleeding.
"Here’s a thought, let me go and you’ll be able to heal yourself right now, it’d be a win-win," Pointed out Tacitus.
"No, I don’t think I will, I can wait. Hey, remember after we first met and you started training me...man, you sure did thrash me around a whole lot, didn’t you? Yeah, I was constantly bruised and battered, it was pretty rough. Come to think about it, it’s been quite some time since we last sparred, hasn’t it?" Mused Raven, an ominous gleam in his eyes.