I hope this chapter is long enough. The fighting scenes have sorta changed in a way though.
Huuumph- *Cracks fingers*
Let's get going... again.
"Fire fist!" Elsword exclaimed with great power in his voice.
His fist flies quickly through the air toward Raven's stomache, but only grazes it slightly as Raven swiftly sidesteps his attack and quickly counters with Power Assault. His attack's shear force sends Elsword spiraling into the air. Elsword lands on his feet with a medium sized bruise on the impacted area, gasping for air.
"Is that all you've got? You'll never be ready for the next quest if you're this weak." Raven retorted like Gary Oak after beating Ash in a battle.
This criticism slightly ticked off Elsword, so he replied in a way he commonly would, swinging his sword with full force towards the critic.
"Mega Slash!"
But once again, Raven just sidestepped his attack and landed another impact on the same area as before, which resulted in Elsword spiraling into the air, even further than last time, while a small amount of blood oozed out of his mouth mid air. He landed on his feet once again, his hand on the drastically impacted area, and gasping even louder for air. Raven walked up to him and responded to Elsword's stupidity.
"You're never going to learn, are you? At this point of the battle, the attacker would've already killed you. If you could have thought about what was going to happen instead of dawdling along like a joke, you would've at least landed a scratch on me."
But during that long response, Elsword noticed a pattern in Raven's attacks, when he attacked, Raven would counter, so if he attacked again during that counter, he would be able to atleast damage him. So Elsword suggested one last thing,
"Give me one last attack and i'll show you.." Elsword returned slowly.
"Hmmph. Fine." Raven regretfully responded.
Elsword jumped on to his two feet and charged towards Raven. He began with his signature attack, Mega Slash. Once again Raven sidestepped and began to use Power Assault once again, but his charge was disrupted by Elsword's fiery fist slammed at his chest. This made him slide across the battlefield on his feet, stirring up dust around his shoes.
"Finally you've learned. Could have took you a shorter amount of time, but you learned. Our next training session starts the day after tomorrow, don't be late like today." Raven proclaimed loudly, causing his voice to echo throughout the forest.
Elsword turned his head slightly to the right to see Aisha, Eve, Chung, and Klide standing on the edge of the battle field.
"What are you guys doing here?" Elsword questioned them while moving his head a little more to the right to stare rudely at Klide.
"We were just watching you two train." Eve explained.
"Yeah! You were doing great at the end!" Chung remarked while his eyes brightened up.
"You should have been thinking more instead of just charging wildly at Raven hoping to land a hit!" Aisha bellowed in hot headed anger.
"You sucked." Klide blatantly muttered under his breath.
Why does this kid think he's such a hotshot when he just gets destroyed in a battle? It's so annoying!
"What did you say?!" Elsword exclaimed angrily.
"I said you sucked." Klide said bluntly.
"I could take you down right now!" Elsword barked.
"Not in this condition. Get some rest before you go throw your life away. You two can battle tomorrow." Aisha suggested while tugging away at Elsword.
"H-hey L-let me go!" Elsword roared while getting dragged away noisily by both Aisha and Chung.
"Tch. Idiot." Klide mumbled under his breath.
The next day..
"Are you two ready?" Eve asked carelessly.
Klide and Elsword were on the dusty battlefield Elsword and Raven fought on. Klide was standing on one end of it with a face as serious as when your son fails the 11th grade 3 times in a row. On the other end, Elsword stood there with a cocky expression and a somewhat arrogant stance. They were at a stare off, waiting for the exact moment Eve says "Go." in her low, monotonous voice.
"3"
"2"
"1"
"Go."
Elsword dashes off towards Klide at an alarmingly fast speed while Klide holds his ground and gets into a reliably defensive stance. Elsword surges fire into his fist and throws a punch towards Klide's stomach.
"Fire Fi-"
Elsword's attack was quickly put to a halt when Klide lands a vicious kick to Elsword's stomach. The kick sends him staggering backwards. Klide walks toward Elsword by keeping the pressure on him by repeatedly kicking him and charging up power in his left hand. He shifts his weight towards his hand and aims it towards Elsword's chest. He creates a small explosion, sending him towards a gigantic boulder. The impact leaves the boulder with an Elsword shaped print on the side. Elsword stands back up and rushes back towards Klide. Klide, again, takes a defensive stance and waits for an attack. Elsword swings his sword with brute force and Klide tries to interrupt it with a kick, succeeds, and kicks again, but Elsword dodges the kick and counters with a Wind Blade, puncturing Klide's left arm, leaving it semi-usable.
"Haha! What are you going to do now? You can't attack me with rune based attacks on your good arm anymore!" Elsword laughed in self-triumph. He then knocks Klide over by sweeping his foot with his own and points his sword toward Klide's neck to try and make Klide admit he lost and claim victory.
"Grr.." Klide mumbled crudely.
God damn it, that hurt.
Klide sweeps Elsword's foot and kicks him while he falls to the ground. The kick sends him sliding backwards on his two feet, stirring up dust around his feet. Klide comes up with a relatively small idea to keep Elsword in check until he can come up with a more bigger, destructive, one. Elsword dashes towards Klide at great speed once again to only be interrupted by a couple of destructive blades coming out of the ground.
"Idiot. I can still use this." Klide commented quietly.
I'm not really toe-to-toe with Elsword right now and I wonder why. I'm one job advancement ahead of him and it seems like he's getting the upper hand. How could this be? Hold on a sec.. don't all classes have a weapon to use at all times during the battle? Elsword has his sword.. His sword! He's getting the upper hand because of his sword! If I'm MK's next job advancement.. doesn't that mean I should have a sword-
"Wind Blade!" Elsword roared loudly.
As soon as Klide heard this, he rolled out of the long blade Elsword summoned to try and end the battle quickly. Klide apologetically answered Elsword's attack with a sharp kick to the face. At that moment, Klide conjured up a sword. This sword was like Elsword's knight class' sword but instead the blade was full silver, a rune mark lay on the area around the base of the blade. Leather lay wrapped around the lower base and the hilt in a spiral-like fashion.
"Hoho! Alright! The real fight begins now!" Klide shouted while brandishing his new blade.
Klide came at Elsword at twice the speed he had been running, leaving only a blur of Klide as he ran. This sudden turn of playstyle startled Elsword greatly. Klide swung with absolute force at Elsword. Elsword blocked the hit, barely keeping still from the impact. Klide kept on the barrage of slashes on Elsword while Elsword was struggling to block them all. He sent a kick towards Elsword's chest and sent him staggering backwards. He came at Elsword and swung with all of the power he had at the moment, cutting a long, horizontal wound on Elsword's chest. Klide swiftly knocks Elsword down with a sweep of his foot and points his sword down at Elsword's neck.
"Checkmate."
I might change the attacks in-story Klide's skill bar a little bit. But, who knows?