In an circular enclosed camp hidden in the inner courtyard of a floating castle, two figures stared at each other, one skeleton made up of frail bones that shook anytime the wind swayed violently and another skeleton made up of human skin that were glued into the skeleton bones in a web of little strings that looked like the human nerve system but you would be wrong if you thought the skinwalker was human, hidden deep inside the skin, no human organ were found and although a skeleton had no sense of smell the skinwalker was reeking with a pungent smell of decaying flesh.
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Frank couldn't understand why Berry was looking at him in a strange way, mistaking the situation Frank charged at Berry with full speed aiming to push Berry out of the stone circle, but before he could approach Berry, Berry slowly drifted away from Frank with ease.
Frank was a little bit stunned at what he was witnessing he had the belief that drifting only worked when a place was watched for an absurd amount of time (within 10 to 12 seconds) and it was after that happened the person would teleport a little to the place but Berry had casually drifted away from the front of Frank like it was nothing.
Frank thought about it for a moment before deciding that it was because his skill was still ranked "F" that he couldn't drift that way.
Meanwhile, Berry was flabbergasted at what he was witnessing, he felt as if the easy prey that was Frank suddenly became his nemesis.
Frank attacked Berry once again by charging towards him, Berry swayed gently once again evading Frank's charge. This continued for a while until, Frank and Berry was about a few distance away from each other in the middle of the circle.
Frank prepared to charge at Berry once again but before he could move, Berry had already charged at Frank, Frank was stunned for a moment because Berry suddenly moved in an unexpected way, Frank had the belief that Berry was a weak person and that he had no experience in fighting, that was why he mostly evaded Frank's attacks.
Not thinking much of it Frank once again prepared to charge at Berry, thinking that the force of his body would crumble Berry's already frail bones thereby making him the winner of the first round but unbeknownst to Frank, Berry had been carefully evading towards a certain direction so that Frank would play into his hands. Berry charged at Frank not because he wanted to slam himself into Frank, no, Berry was too smart for that instead he charged at Frank so that he would execute the last part of his plan.
Frank had already put his full force into making a strike at Berry while eyeing an especially small and slightly cracked frail bone in Berry's lower ribcage but before he could slam his fist on his intended target, Berry slowly drifted away from Frank's view while appearing at his back, Frank tried his best to slow down and change his direction but before he could do that, his right leg suddenly left the ground while floating upwards for a brief moment before slamming into the ground once again.
That brief moment, was enough to topple Frank's already unstable motion thereby causing him to roll and tumble repeatedly while heading outside the energy dome, sensing the trouble he was in, Frank hurriedly tried to stop himself from reaching outside the dome, after what looked like a flurry of hasty steps and skidding around in the circular tip of the stone circle, Frank heaved a sigh of relief while thinking of what he could do to secure victory in the brawl against Berry, Frank shot a slight glance at Berry, but before he could glance back at his surroundings.
A loud bang was heard and a few words coming from Sebastian who was observing the duel was heard.
[Frank has lost the duel by stepping out of the stone circle.]
Frank could not believe his ears, he looked hurriedly at his surroundings only to find out that, his left leg was dangling outside the tip of the stone circle, Frank cursed a little after finding out all the skidding he did to break his fall was for naught.
Sebastian continued:
[The winner of the duel is Berry.]
A couple of servants cheered for Berry while a few officials who were not cheering just looked at Berry blankly. To everyone surprise, Sebastian was cheering for Berry.
Before Frank was defeated a few of the officials and servants were wondering how Frank was able to defeat a huge skeleton but couldn't land a blow on a seemingly weak skeleton. They had this on their mind but didn't voice it out but they were a little more surprised and worried when they saw Sebastian smiling widely when he discovered that Berry won.
It was common sense to know that most skeletons especially skeleton knights had no feelings towards others, they were mostly what they were - "dead to the world", so how could Sebastian have a perfect smile as if he had beensmiling since the day he was formed if he was in a sense of being dead to the world.
So a few officials asked Sebastian why he was smiling and he replied:
[It was just ironic to see someone that could be referred to as the weakest soul being defeat someone that was stronger than him.]
[That Berry may be weak in body but his mind may grow to become the strongest in the whole of Darkovia.]
Hearing Sebastian words, they were slightly inclined to understand Sebastian point of view which prompted him to smile.
A few officials were fooled by Sebastian explanation while others had conflicted hearts.
An official approached Frank and handed him a cursed energy bar but before Frank could receive it, Sebastian stopped the official. Sebastian opened a leather bag that had silver coating at the tip while he pulled out a small cylindrical glass container with a lemon green aura sealed inside the cylindrical glass container, stretching his hand to Frank and handing over the glass container to him.
Sebastian informed Frank that that was the last of the two life energy bar he had with him and that he should use it wisely.
Frank grabbed it nonchalantly and headed towards his room to keep it while a few officials and the servants could not take their eyes of the life energy bar.