Chapter 73 - Another Antagonist?!!

Back in the Virtual Arena, both of them were only one step back before their ultimate sync with soul weapons. But this time, the scene was a Lil different from before, earlier Sam was on attack and Howk on defense, but now Sam was on defense and Howk on the attack. How it turned out to be like that was an interesting plot...

Just a few minutes ago, Sam was targeting Howk with a downpour of arrows, not giving a single chance to close the distance between them. He knew it very well if Howk came near, then he is done for.

On the other hand, Howk was running all over the Virtual Arena like a spider without any difficulty, be it the floor or the walls or the ceiling, he could run and walk on every side of that virtual cube, making it hard for Sam to aim at him. This game of Tom and Jerry was amusing and would have continued for some more time, but something unexpected happened, and the game changed within a fraction of minutes. The prey became the predator, and the predator became the prey.

All this time, Howk was trying to establish perfect sync with his soul weapon, and he achieved the same thanks to the pressure he was getting from Sam's side.

All of a sudden, his disc started glowing. The white line patterns on it became turquoise blue. Watching this scene from a distance, Aryan's heart was beating faster.

'Just what kind of weapon is that disc' was something in his mind from the very beginning, but till then, he had found out only one of its uses. I.e. To use the sharp edges of the disc as a sword to cut the arrows coming towards him.

Howk gripped his disc tightly and made one last effort to close the distance between them, without caring for the arrows and his safety, he ran straight towards Sam, since Sam was getting a golden chance, he merged ten of his spirit arrows into one and fired it towards Howk with all his might.

Howk saw the spirit arrow coming towards him, but instead of backing down, he ran towards it. Some spectators were thinking he will cut that arrow with his disc while others were thinking he will take that arrow head-on, but the result was completely different, out of their expectations.

At a close distance of five hundred meters from the arrow, Howk jumped high up in the sky and performed an aerial cartwheel. Everyone's mouth was wide open from seeing that daring stunt of Howk's. One mistake and he would have been done for with that aerial cartwheel of his. But he successfully performed it and avoided the arrow.

One more thing was when he landed on the floor, he longer had his disc on his hand, only a few had noticed this, that when he was performing the cartwheel mid-air, he threw it disc towards Sam stealthily so that he won't be able to dodge it.

Sam, too noticed that something was wrong with Howk after he dodged his arrow. The distance between them was ten meters approx, but instead of closing on the distance between them, he ran sidewise towards Sam's left. He had a confused expression on his face, his mind was running every possible simulation of threat, and at last, he found the answer.

Krachh!!

A cut mark appeared on Sam's back. Blood came out gushing from it.

The reason for the cut mark was Howk's disc. He threw it in such a way that instead of making a direct hit; it went past Sam without him noticing then attacked him from behind, similar to a boomerang.

But a boomerang couldn't make that much of damage as much as the disc can.

Sam touched his back and found red blood gushing out, he didn't bother to stop it and looked towards Howk with eyes of grudge.

"Howk, till now I was playing with you, now that you have done it, I will go all out, I won't reserve anymore." he threatened Howk.

Howk smiled at him and said, "I have heard many empty threats like this, I am numb to them now."

"You son of a bit**" cursed Sam and took out a stabilizer rod from his quiver.

Howk had a confused expression on his face looking at the rod and he mockingly said, "Ehh…. What will you do with a stabilizer rod, with your soul weapon? As long as I know you can't use it with soul weapon unless…."

Before he said another word Shoosh!!

An arrow passed through him, making a cut mark on his cheek. Howk touched his cheeks in a daze and found a few drops of blood in his hand. The arrow was fast enough that he couldn't even sense it.

"Hahaha, what were you saying some time ago??" Sam asked with smug on his face.

Howk cursed himself for his carelessness and created some distance in between them within a second, Sam was in a rage but this time he didn't attack like before.

Howk was expecting another downpour of arrows but this time he got single arrows. Each one was faster than the other. It was becoming hard for him to dodge them, let alone cutting them with his disc.

It was a time of pinch for Howk. Sam had already lost it and targeting Howk with the intention of killing. Howk had no other way except to go all out and establish his ultimate sync.

He stopped running from Sam's arrows and close his eyes. Out of nowhere, a barrier was formed around him. He dived into his soul sea and summoned his soul weapon with its name.

His disc floated in the air and started spinning on its own. After sometime Howk abruptly opened his eyes and shouted out, "Howzer, Go!!"

Somewhere far away from the cultivation fair, a long sturdy man was observing everything with a visual device. A smile appeared on his face when he saw Sam going all out against Howk.

"Ha!! That kid couldn't even win against that Howk kid. I should have sent someone else for the job. Let's see how that time reverse kid does hos work."

This person observing all these events from a distance apart was giving out a bad vibe and releasing a bad aura, all the plants near him had dried out, and all the animals fainted. His hoody was covering his face ad his voice was as hoarse as thundering clouds.

"Ha!! Let them do their work, for now, I go and drink my tea, I have ordered some good pastry from the sales 8 market."

Meanwhile, somewhere near the Floating Arena, Hox and his team were ready to infiltrate the barrier just waiting for the right time to start their work, they had been planning for it for the last three years, and now only they had got a chance to do the same.

To increase their success rate, they had been trained many times with the high-end simulator, and the best candidates who showed outstanding performance were selected.

And Hox was one such candidate. Even though he lacked some in his upper department, his cultivation technique and its special power was not something to underestimate.

Apart from quantitative and logical reasoning, he scored full in all the tests for candidate selection, it's a different thing that he became the leader of the group by using his power, but that too was under the consideration of the head of the department.

So in total, four different parties were involved one was Aryan, Yoshino, and Sir Jean, who was enjoying the match, another was Howk and Sam, who were fighting in the virtual arena, another was Hox and his group, and the last party was that one many army enjoying his tea and pastry somewhere far from the fair.

None of the party knows the other party, but all of their fate was inter-tangled with each other, and all these parties were somewhat related to Aryan and for Aryan.

Watching the fight from Sir Jean's lap, Aryan excitement was crossing the heavens. In his past life of seven hundred plus years, never he had seen a fight like that. First, these weapons were called soul weapon, then these terms such as the ultimate sync and perfect sync...

He wanted to learn them all, know everything, and to become the strongest was his dream.

At that time, he could feel the murderous aura of Sam, but he didn't bother about it as it was common for cultivation practitioners to get aggressive in fights and release negative aura.

Little did he know that soon, a major event will take place in his life, and he will get to use his new soul weapon and part of his power bestowed upon him by the Sage Of Harmony.

Meanwhile, in the Kalinga Palace, Grand Elder and Aditya got news of this organization planning and were on their way to the International Cultivation Fair to stop their scheme.