However when he looked closer he realised most of that blood was not hers and on her hand was a severed head.

She grinned as she fell down like a meteor, chasing her were five angry looking projection realm enemies.

However he knew these guys were unlikely to be able to take her down easily, she was fast.

White was Incredibly fast and agile, landing a hit on her was already hard enough let alone one that can take her life.

He ignored her and flew towards the old man and punched him again sending him even higher.

They rose thousand of kilometres into the air until they were able to see the curvature of the earth which was a long distance considering the size of earth now.

The man spun and stabilized himself. He shook his arms. " You're merciless, beating up an old man like that."

Ved didn't respond and took a fighting stance, the old place a foot forward and drew back his fist.

The red light on his gauntlet intensified, space bent around his fist and it created it own gravitational pull.

Wind converged and spun around it. Ved took a breath, his own fists lit up with blue light.

If he can't use nuclear energy in long range, then he will do it in close range. The two lunged at each other.

They disappeared and appeared right Infront of each other. Their fists collided and blue flames exploded covering the entire sky.

They were both sent flying back like ragdolls. He looked at his fist and saw blood leaking through the cracks on his scales.

The old man shook his arm with a frown as well. His entire arm was covered with burnt marks.

Ved's punch had an caused explosion of nuclear energy. Their wounds healed rapidly, ' He has regeneration too?' Ved thought.

The old man had received a report about him so he knew most of the abilities Ved had used before including regeneration.

" I have to admit little beast, you're much stronger than they gave you credit for, not many can take my punches and live to tell the tale, you should be proud."

Ved growled, " I can say the same for you but do not worry old ghost, I will send you to your rest soon."

" Ho ho, to threaten an old man, how uncultured you are." Ved clapped his hands generating heavy winds.

Then he made thousands of swords and hid some with stealth trait. He sent those weapons flying at the old man.

" I see, so these aren't made of energy? It seems the report was not very accurate." The swords flew at the old man like streaks of lights forcing him to dodge.

While he was dealing with those swords Ved created chains. They were a combination of wax and web giving them a hard yet flexible nature while also making them sticky like web.

The massive chains danced through the air like snakes chasing after a rat. The old rat, punched some of the chains and swords shattering then into pieces.

Ved regenerated those weapons and continued attacking. While doing this he tried to sneak attack the old man with the stealth swords.

Just as one was about to cut the old man in half he grabbed it from mid air then shattered it.

" I know all of your abilities child, did you think I would not prepare for this." Ved noticed the old man's eyes were glowing red.

' Can he see through my stealth trait?' Ved immediately assumed the old man was the one who discovered him before.

However that made no sense, none of them including this old ghost seemed to see through his stealth before that other man came to report something to them.

Thinking about it won't help, if he can't use the stealth trait then he will fight him head on.

Ved opened his mouth and out came thick mist that covered hundreds of kilometres in seconds.

Dream mist wouldn't work on somebody this powerful, however it wasn't entirely useless considering the preparations Ved already had.

The old man punched the air dispensing some of the mist but it filled back up a moment later.

He tried again and the same thing happened, realising it was useless he stopped trying.

While this mist did effect his perception a little, he can still see well enough. He pulled back his fist.

Wind gathered around him, Ved expected him to lunge so he prepared himself. However the old man punched the air.

" Volstone Arts: Raging Bull." A massive red bull lunged at Ved faster than lightning. It moored dispersing the dream mist around it.

The chains and swords in it path shattered into fine dust and scattered. Ved was caught off guard and failed to dodge.

He grabbed the bull by it horns and was pushed back 5 kilometres away before the red bull disappeared.

He looked at the old man surprised. ' I thought you said no ability worked in his domain.'

" No, I said no energy based long range ability." Manas replied. ' Then what was that?'

" Martial arts." Ved's eyes opened wide, ' Martial art can do that?' " When it's trained to the point of martial intent, yes it can." He nodded.

' Wait, intent? So that means only projection realm and above can use it? Is there a martial law above it?'

" No, those are completely different intents, the one you thinking of is merely called intent but it's simply a simplified form of a law.

Martial intent is the physical manifestation of ones own martial arts. It's born of a strong will and imagination plus a lot of training.

It doesn't need essence energy only stamina like all martial arts, now shut up you're distracting me" He nodded with understanding.

' Imagination and will, does that mean I can also do it?' Manas sighed. " Like all martial arts what matters is skill, the proper movements, energy expenditure, breathing rhythm and speed.

You would need to be so skilled you can control every individual muscle in whatever body parts you use for your martial arts whether it be arms or legs. Imagination alone is not enough."

He understood now and realised how impressive what the old man had achieved is.

Even for beings of their level, there are things about their bodies then can't control perfectly.

Like most of the involuntarily systems of the body. ' Is there anything above martial intent?' " Yes, now shut up." 'Volsto... Wait did he say Volstone?'

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