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The first stage was over now they were given one day to rest but for Russell it was a time of getting stronger. After he finished spending time with Suoh and sparring with Doppo, Katsumi, Retsu and Shibukawa.
Looking at his inventory he began to look for any items that could rejuvenate him since he wasn't going to spend time sleeping.
Still whoever the hell hired Yujiro was dead after this tournament, he swore.
So far he had two rejuvenating items but it felt like a waste to use it.
He was just about to get up from his bed when he saw that Blaire and Suoh were again on his bed. After switching places with a pillow after using Tricks he then took a bath. So far no one was here but him until he heard a someone humming.
Turning to the source he spotted Sayaka taking bath. Did he mistakenly entered the women's bathroom?
Sayaka realized that someone was looking at her and turned to him. "Oh hey, morning Russell." She said with a smile not caring that she was actually naked.
"Oh right, she was a bit of an exhibitionist." Russell thought. There was no reason to panic since Sayaka wasn't your averag female in the anime or manga that would usually scream and throw stuff to a guy when they were seen naked.
Hopefully Metsudo doesn't find out. Still this woman was hot and the water dripping on her body just added a few more points.
"Sup. Sayaka right?" He said earning a nod. Starting conversations wasn't really his fort especially if it involves women.
"Yup. I have to admit though what you did there was incredible." Sayaka said while washing her hair. "I've seen a lot of kengan matches but I never saw anyone fight like that." She said.
"Your just pulling my leg." Russell said while washing his body.
"Nope it's the truth. I mean seriously, using a kure clan technique, you have balls of steel to use that in front of the clan head." Sayaka said while looking at the fighter.
"Well it was useful and it would be waste to not learn it." Russell said trying to look at the attractive female. Stupid hormones.
"So how did you learn Removal?" Sayaka asked while turning off the shower and leaned on the wall. Not caring that she was literally showing him her bare breast.
"Deep breaths." Russell thought. Seriously? Is this woman really that uncaring to the point she wasn't going to put on a towel.
"Well I do have a talent in learning techniques in one glance but it also helps if I mimic their character." Russell said before surprising Sayaka when he suddenly transformed into Imai Cosmo. "Like this, or this." Again he switched form into another person, this time into Sayaka. "What do you think?" Russell said while still in 'Sayaka' form.
Sayaka blinked before whistling a bit. She had to admit, Russell was a good actor the fact she was seeing a double and hearing him talk with her voice definitely put him on one of the most dangerous individuals she met.
If he wanted to frame anyone, he would just mimic their appearance and voice, no one would be able to tell the difference except the victim or those close to them.
Russell immediately changed back and finished his bath before leaving. Sayaka followed but she can't but notice another factor that made her take interest on the fighter.
"That guy is a beast." She said while giggling.
Russell shivered as he puts on a black shirt and jogging pants. Taking a look around he then proceeds to take walk around the facility before going outside. It was still early in the morning so no one was up.
"Well better start training." He muttered while taking a jog.
Hours passed, Russell stopped when hearing someone fighting. Following the sounds he found out it was Retsu and Katsumi doing their usual spar. Doppo and Shibukawa doing the same.
"So is this a private fight or can anybody drop in?" He joked while approaching the four.
"Oh Russell, good morning." Katsumi said with a grin.
"Morning guys. So did you like the show?" Russell asked.
"Hahaha, it was entertaining you almost had us back there. Pulling off that technique on such a scale is impressive." Shibukawa said with a grin.
"Speaking of which what was that?" Retsu asked. While he had no need for such technique he was curious on what Russell had done. Hypnotism came in various forms but what he had seen was nothing he had encountered.
"Oh that? That was the ZONE but I modified it so I can use it better." Russell answered before going into more detail. His senior and teachers were astonished by it. Katsumi wondered if he could combine that technique with his karate.
"So about the spar, mind if we take it up a notch?" Russell said earning their attention. "Why not make it a mock-battle royal? There's only rule is we won't injure each other too much and the time limit is two hours."
Doppo laughed before agreeing to the idea. Shibukawa was excited as he thought about the idea. Retsu agreed to the idea as it would keep his instincts sharp with Katsumi agreeing.
"Alrighty then." Russell said before kicking Retsu which the man blocked. Doppo followed suit and attacked Shibukawa. Katsumi went to Russell's blind spot but was stopped when the young man dodged Retsu's fist.
Doppo suddenly passes them followed by Shibukawa intercepting Retsu's attack with Russell switching targets and struck Doppo on the abdomen.
The older karate master shrugged it off and delivered his own which managed to hit Russell's cheek.
Katsumi and Retsu were exchanging blows before Shibukawa grabbed both of their fists and slammed them into the ground.
The two got up with Retsu kicking Shibukawa was left open for Katsumi to punch him on the face.
"Okay forget the first rule." Russell said while attacking Doppo with another punch.
The fight lasted two hours and thirty minutes when thr fivr got back to their rooms to change, everybody saw they were covered in bruises but all of them were smiling.
"Not bad kid, not bad it's been awhile since I had such an exciting match." Shibukawa said to Katsumi.
Russell laughed as he rubbed his left arm. Doppo really packed a punch. "Yeah though I have to say what the heck is your nuts made of? I kicked there ten times already." Russell asked while looking at Doppo, who just laughed and didn't bother to answer.
"Russell what happened to you?!" Suoh yelled while walking towards him.
"Just a friendly spar." Russell said with a grin. Unfortunately Suoh didn't see it that way.
"A friendly spa- Are you an idiot? You look like someone who got through a war zone." Suoh yelled.
Katsumi yelled watching his junior get scolded by the young woman. Retsu tried to hid his chuckle while Doppo and Shibukawa were amused by the scene.
"Now come here." Suoh growled and grabbed his right arm before dragging him away. Russell on the other hand realized that he might have stepped on lion and looked to his friends for help.
Unfortunately the four martial artist were busy looking anywhere but him. "Good luck kid." Doppo said while giving him a thumbs up.
Russell just sighed and let himself to be dragged around by the young CEO.
Ten minutes later he was back in his room with pair of swimming shorts on the bed.
Suoh had dragged him to a shop since she wanted him to take a break. Blaire showed up and took a black bikini while Suoh chose white. Russell decided to take the red swimming shorts.
Now here he was checking his injuries before equipping Ring of Salazar to heal faster.
"Should I change my hairstyle?" He muttered. He had been using the same hairstyle since he met Ohma. Spotting something on HUD he quickly pressed it. The screen changed and showed him a huge array of hairstyles.
Pressing one of them, his changed into an afro. Russell blinked before spotting three bars which he assumed must involved the hair color. It had two options BASIC and ADVANCE. Russell had enough knowledge that this was akin to a
Create A Character or CAC. Grinning he quickly cracks his fingers.
This was going to be fun.
Suoh was slowly losing her patience while Blaire was busy on figuring out how her new power worked. Russell had given her the basics but she wanted to figure out the rest herself.
Finally the door opened. Suoh was could only gape at what she saw while Blaire's were twitching wildly. Both women were staring at Russell with a blush and a hint of lust.
Russell had worn his swimming shorts and a pair of slippers. His upper was bare to see, showing off his muscular physique.
Suoh drooled, no matter how many times she had seen this, she just couldn't get bored. Blaire who for the first time saw his body couldn't help but think about 'mating' with this alpha male.
Russell had his hair swept back, with a strand hanging down his face, the hairstyle had striking resemblance to Gilgamesh from fate/prototype. His eyes were now a bit menacing and cocky yet at the same time remained kind.
Most of all Russell had somehow changed into a handsome young man while at first he was plain average or a delinquent depending on a person's perspective.
"What?" Russell asked confused at how the two were just staring at him.
"Russell from now on you have to keep your hair like that. Do you understand?" Suoh suddenly ordered with glare though her blush still remained.
"She's right, you shouldn't hide that handsome face." Blaire said while pushing her breast on his back.
"Uh okay..." Russell said while trying not to get a blush on his face.
"Great! now let's go I want to go swimming." She said pushing him while Suoh dragged him.
On their way to the beach every female in the vicinity would stop and stare at Russell with interest and lust.
Achievement:
The mysterious Adonis: This title gives you the power to woo any female regardless if they are divine or not so long as you meet certain requirements.
So he had a curse or a gift, depending on the situation and it didn't mean he could just charm any girl in a blink but it did made things easier in getting a waifu. Okay it might be a little OP but he still needs to work on it.
Still it did have an idea on what universe he was going after the match.
Speaking of which, he still wanted to save Ohma from his doom but was now on an impass. If he won up to the semi- finals that meant he would have to fight Ohma and win. Losing meant that Ohma would face Yujiro and die in an agonizing way.
Ohma may have been a character but here? He was his friend and Russell would be damned if he let it happen.
A paradox character, that's what Russell has always been. A cautious and logical character yet someone who would throw away said caution if someone close to him was in danger.
He could have left the universe anytime but he had that feeling that something was wrong hence joining the Kengan Match was inevitable.
Still he wasn't regretting it, meeting Suoh, Doppo, Katsumi, Retsu and Shibukawa had helped him on the way, even though he just saw them as tools to make himself stronger at first and in making sure Ohma survived.
"Hey are you listening?" Blaire said poking his cheek.
"No sorry I was spacing out." He said with an apologetic smile.
Blaire pouted before lying down on a mat. "Geez, you should really pay attention when people are talking to you. Anyway mind putting this on me?" Blaire said while giving a bottle of cream.
The magical cat then removed the knot on her bra before leaning on her front. Every male on the vicinity except the fighters were drooling at this until Russell gave them a chilling glare and decided to look away.
Russell sighed before deciding to just get it over and proceeded to run the cream on Blaire's back.
Suddenly he heard her moaning as he kept rubbing it. Finally he was done but his face had become red from Blaire constant moaning.
Hearing a cough and turned only to see Suoh on her front while waving the same bottle Blaire had given him.
"Sigh... This is just not my day." He muttered while doing the same.
Suoh also started moaning as well in pleasure and by the time he was done, Russell left to get some cold drinks.
"Russell!" Karla yelled while running towards him. Luckily managed to stop her when she leapt on to him.
"Hey Karla-san." He said while putting her down. "Good morning Russell-san, Karla-chan."Elena said while walking towards him. "Good morning to you as well Elena-san." Russell said.
"Congratulations on your match last night. It's good to see your alright." Elena said.
"Yeah your fight was amazing how did you know the Removal?" Karla asked.
Russell just grinned and poked Karla's forehead. "That's a secret." He said while laughing when Karla pouted. "Anyway I'm gonna go for a swim." He said.
"I'll join you." Karla said while hugging his arm.
So the three went swimming while Suoh and Blaire enjoyed the sun. Next was building a sand castle and then playing card games. Hours later Suoh suggested to play volleyball with Russell as a referee. Suoh and Blaire teamed up against Karla and Elena.
The first match ended with Suoh and Blaire as the victor. The second ended with Karla and Elena.
Russell had stop the match when Blaire was about to use magic on Karla who was on Removal.
Now it was night time. Karla had went back when Hollis came and picked her up while Elena went with them.
Suoh had fallen asleep after drinking an entire bottle of wine and complaining to her being a CEO or him bringing women when he had her.
After tucking her on the bed. Russell turned to Blaire. "Blaire, I'm heading to the Dungeon want to come with me?" He asked.
"Ara, ara, how bold. Not even taking me on a date and your already asking me to do kinky stuff." Blaire teased.
Russell took a deep breath but his ears were red. "Not that dungeon, you crazy cat, I meant the other one." He said.
Blaire just giggled at Russell's attempt to remain cool. "Sure, sure."
"ID DUNGEON." Russell muttered.
Blaire watched as the area changed into a dark themed place.
Russell quickly summoned Sword of Rebellion, Great Ouroboros, Jackal and Warden. Checking his items he nodded at the amount he had. He had 99 flashbombs, grenades, traps, molotoves and smoke grenades.
"Status." He muttered.
Username: Russell
Str: 343
Int: 300
Wis: 299
Dex: 344
End: 345
STMN: 340
Gold: 380, 489, 990
"Considering I just fought somebody with an abnormality make sense." He muttered. "Skill set."
Emotion Suppression.
Observe
Ultra-instinct Omen (lv.2/3)
Vanisher (lv.2/3)
Star (lv.1/3)
Thieves hand(Lv.1/3)
Anomaly (lv.2/3)
Golden vein (lv.3/3)
Tricks (lv.1/3)
Absolute Zero (lv.1/3)
Blaire didn't bother checking her stats since she didn't do anything related to combat but it did gave her some benefits and skills.
Unlike most dungeons he read in the fanfic. His didn't give Quest but instead it gave Challenges.
The difference was that if you fail the latter it just doesn't give Exp or items while the former had dire consequences or not. Also the dungeon seemed more of a place where you can grind and get gold and doesn't give him any new weapons or skills.
Challenges:
Defeat 4000 enemies
Perform 300 combo
Defeat 3 Aggressors at once
Defeat one Aggressor with technique.
Russell blinked before hearing several foot steps. Turning around to the source the two could see a horde of enemies marching towards them.
"Ooh robots." Blaire said in excitement. Russell draws his sword and slowly walked towards them with Blaire beside him.
"Ready Blaire?" He asked. "Yup." Blaire said.
Grinning Russell sprints towards them and began slicing anything close to him.
Blaire provided support with her magic, destroying huge chunks of the army.
Russell punches one of the machines away while blocking another one with his sword.
Summoning a Juggernaut, Russell orders it to take as many robots as it could.
Suddenly a larger robot wielding a large axe appeared. Blaire was able to destroy it but more kept appearing.
Summoning two more juggernauts and three Vultures he quickly orders them to attack. The dungeon then began to spawn it's own set of arial machines and more larger robots.
"So it's now responding to whatever summons I have." Russell thought. The dungeon seemed to have updated itself as well. Back then, whatever summons he did it never spawned any special grunts, only increasing the amount of enemies. Now it was increasing and spawning special types of grunts.
He felt himself getting stronger as more grunts were destroyed and so did Blaire. Russell then fires his guns after throwing his sword like a spear to another robot. Hails of bullets went through the mobs like paper.
Blair had switched tactics and was now using her sleeves like a whip with her hat doing the same.
When one of the arial machines was behind the felibe Russell equips Emperor and drives straight to it and rams the machines into the others.
The motorcycle then splits into two. Russell grins as he quickly swings the two parts. The tires changed into saws, the robots were hepless as he tore them into shreds.
Looking at the challenges, they were finished the first and second part. "Russell is it just me or are there three giant robots walking towards us?" Blaire asked him.
Confused he looked at where she was staring and she was right there were three robots walking towards them. They twice the size of juggernauts. They also had the word Aggressors on top. Russell this time was worried how much his Dungeon had changed. Agressors were always human size no matter what but to see these three made him think that using the dungeon might be more dangerous now.
Ordering his summons to attack they were dealt with swiftly by the Aggressors. The juggernauts were crushed and his vultures were swatted like flies.
"Russell I don't think my pumpkins is going to hurt those things." Blaire said in worry.
Shooting Jackal, Russell noticed the Aggressor took a small amount of damage. After telling Blaire to fire a pumpkin cannon it took twice the amount of damage his gun made.
Russell quickly attaches the two parts of his motorcycle and gets on the bike with Blaire summoning a larger pumpkin and getting on top and flew away.
Russell drives around the the Aggressors and began firing Jackal. Blaire did the same with her pumpkins. The grunts were of no concern as Russell would cut them with his sword or ram his bike while Blaire handled the fliers whenever they appeared. Ten minutes had already passed and they only managed bring down one while the other two were still fine.
"Russell this isn't working." Blaire said. Russell clicked his tounge, unfortunately one of the Aggressors managed to hit his bike making him lose control and crash.
The vehicle vanished while Russell groaned and looked up to see the Aggressor responsible about to stomp him. Russell immediately caughts the feet as ge tries to stop it from crushing him, the thrusters on the Great Orouboros working in giving a boost.
Using Tricks to appear above it and shoots the visor which staggers it before ramming his sword into it's neck and proceeded to swing upwards with the thrusters letting out a huge burst of boost. The head splits into two as it fell.
Russell was falling as the last Aggressor attempts to grab him.
Luckily Blaire used her hat to pull him out. "Thanks." He said while looking at the Aggressor and then to Blaire.
She looked exhausted and worried, then again it was natural. Blaire had displayed it that she can take things seriously in the anime.
"Got any bright ideas?" He asked. "Nope. You?" Blair said while keeping themselves distant from the giant machine.
Russell frowned and used Observe, what he found was that it was running on a magical core while being protected by the armor and magnets in case if anything makes it through.
"Absolute Zero could work but how do I get in?" He muttered before noticing it was staring at them. The visor glowed as a large red beam was fired.
Blaire managed to dodge it but the beam turned around and began to follow them.
Russell quickly raised his hand, blocking the attack and felt the laser hit him. It didn't hurt him but the heat made him scream in pain. Still the skill revealed it's second stage which involved cancelling or destroying esp or sci-fi abilities.
Blaire watched in horror as Russell gritted his teeth in pain, noticing the machine was prepared to fire again, she immediately fires a pumpkin to it's feet. The machine lost it's footing and fell.
"Blaire do you trust me?" Russell asked while fighting off the pain.
Earning a nod, he grinned. "Great I have a plan."
Meanwhile the machine recovered and looked towards the targets only to see them heading towards it in fool speed.
The machine immediately fires it's laser while Russell readied himself.
"Whatever happens don't stop." He said as he readies his sword with his right while raising his left as it blocked the beam once more.
"I still think this is a bad IDEA!" Blaire screamed.
Once they were close enough Russell rams the sword into the visor and charges the gauntlet and delivered a left jab. Combined it with Flashbang Kata it's speed had gone beyond it's limit as it collides to the head.
A huge explosion and dust happened while Blaire and Russell were blown away from the shockwave.
The landed on the floor hard but still alive. "Ru-kun if we ever doing that again I swear I'll blast. you with my strongest Halloween Canon." Blaire said earning a thumbs up from the young man.
Looking at his screen they managed to finish three of the challenges. He saw his HP bar rise once more into full.
Blaire could feel herself rejuvenated as she watched her stats rise quickly. Followed by her HP and MP bar replenished.
Russell checked his stats with Blaire doing the same.
Username: Russell
Str: 410
Int: 399
Wis: 350
Dex: 420
End: 420
STMN: 400
Gold: 1,380, 489, 990
Username: Blaire
Str: 410
Int: 315
Wis: 315
Dex: 450
End: 450
STMN:510
Gold: 444, 345, 599
Russell then checked his skillset.
Emotion Suppression.
Observe
Ultra-instinct Omen (lv.3/3)
Vanisher (lv.2/3)
Star (lv.1/3)
Thieves hand(Lv.1/3)
Anomaly (lv.2/3)
Golden vein (lv.3/3)
Tricks (lv.2/3)
Absolute Zero (lv.2/3)
Russell decided to spend some gold to skill and his weapons before pressing ASCENSION. Though he did lose 1,200,000,00 gold it was worth it.
Mastered Ultra-instinct: LEVEL UP! The skill will now automatically let you dodge, counter blows that would completely destroy you provided your fast enough to dodge it. Additional boost when your attacking.
Golden Rule: Your skill in looting will now let you retrieve special items that were hidden in plain sight. Increased amount of Gold you gain during missions and a passive ability of gaining 100 gold every one hour.
Player: From flirting with the ladies like James Bond to becoming a nerd with no friends. This skill have no need to copying people's appearance for a disguise just put on an eyeglass and no one would notice your the same person.
Godhand: No, the other God Hand sheesh. With this skill you are now capable of steeling anything provided you have an idea of what your taking in the first place.
His weapons on the other hand had increased in one rank.
Sword of Rebellion (Gold rank)
Jackal (Silver rank)
Warden (Silver rank)
Ring of Salazar (Gold rank)
The emperor (Gold Rank)
Great Ouroboros (Platinum rank)
Russell smiled before looking to Blaire. "So ready for another round?" He asked.
Blaire blinked and hummed for a minute. "Okay fine, as long as we don't do anything stupid again." Blaire said. Russell nodded with a grin.
Do you wish to set up the next Challenge?
Pressing 'Yes' the terrain changed as a new set of armies marched towards them. Russell gave Blair one of his rejuvenating potions before dashing towards their enemies.