Chapter 986 Kremeth's Hesitation
Asiva absolutely saw nothing wrong with her own son.
He was the apple of her eye and in her eyes he could do no wrong.
For Asiva, the fact that Kremeth had a kind heart, that he was respectful towards his elders and lived a disciplined life was more than enough as she did not wish for Kremeth to become the strongest in the universe.
Her only ambition for her child was for him to live life happily and to the fullest and she believed that with the Universal Queen, Drax, Zippo, Jake, Kartikeya, Amy and many such formidable warriors around, he did not need to strive to become the strongest.
She did not care much about the Rajput legacy and she did not wish for her son to become the next Supreme Lord after Max, or to take up any role that would need him to be assertive and dominant.
She was personally tired of bloodshed and living around men who would disappear for years on end with no explanation as to where they went or if they were alive.
However, her ideology did not match with that of Max, who wanted his son to understand the importance of attaining strength first and living a happy life after.
Max knew that if he tried to convince Asiva along the lines of letting him take out Kremeth to make him tougher, Asiva would never agree to it, however, if Max told her that he wanted to spend more quality time with his child and wanted to take him out to bond and train, it would be something that Asiva would root for.
Having matured, Max knew precisely what fights were worth picking and which one's were the best to avoid and this was a fight where Max knew that deceiving Asiva was for the best.
Both of them wanted the best for their child and both of them were trying their hardest to raise him right.
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( Kremeth Jr's POV )
" A trip with dad? For how long?" Kremeth asked with a perplexed expression on his face.
" He says it'll be for a few months, but who knows, it'll probably be as long as it takes for a slight adventure" Asiva replied with a smile on her face.
" Why don't you come too mum? It'll be more fun if all three of us go" Kremeth said while sulking as Asiva pulled his cheeks.
" You already spend so much time with mother, it's good to spend time with your father too" She said, not entertaining his demand to go together as this trip was something that she and Max had already decided upon in private.
" But- but dad's scary! He's too strong and he doesn't listen to me at times.
Everything must always be done as he wants it to be and it's intimidating" Kremeth complained as his past interactions with Max over recent years had been less than optimal to say the least.
Instead of the warmth and reasoning that Asiva provided, Max was more like a military commander who only ordered Kremeth around.
Asiva chuckled at the words of her kid, as she realised why this trip was important.
When Max told her that Kremeth hardly looked ever him in the eye when holding a conversation and was highly uncomfortable around him, Asiva thought that Max was over-exaggerating, however, listening to Kremeth's words now, she realised that Max was right.
Kremeth was uncomfortable around his own father and as long as Asiva was around the two of them could never bond as Kremeth would always run and hide behind her when things went south.
Max knew precisely how to handle Kremeth as long as he was a child, however, once that child began to grow towards becoming a man, it was this transition where Max had absolutely no clue how to handle him.
Kremeth did not wish to be treated like a man, and Max would not treat him like a kid, which is why the poor soul felt like his father was too hard to interact with without his mother mediating.
" Well, he won't eat you, he's your father, you have to understand how his mind works and adjust to his attitude.
Also, he's a pretty cool guy! You will have lots of fun together" Asiva said as she ruffled junior's hair and promptly ended the conversation.
" You head out tomorrow, your instructors have already been informed" Asiva said before leaving Kremeth's room as the young enhanced vampire was left alone to contemplate a strategy to survive the upcoming months.
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( Meanwhile Rudra )
Rudra thought long and hard about the perfect warrior's cloning ability.
Rudra already knew that Max had a skill under his belt that was called [ Perfect Cloning ]
A skill where Max was able to create a clone of his body having the same skills as his body and little to no restriction use.
If the clone died, the consequences of his death were not bore by the caster, however, once destroyed it could not be summoned again for 24 hours.
If the caster decided to merge with the clone, then the re-merger would prove to give the caster a huge headache, however, the solution to not suffer such fate was simple and overall it was an extremely broken ability to have under one's belt.
Assuming that the first image of the perfect warrior that spoke before him was an illusion and the one that he managed to hit was the clone, the real body would be the third perfect warrior that sent him flying as recalling the entire battle Rudra could not help but grit his teeth at his own stupidity.
He always knew that [ Perfect Cloning ] was a great skill!
He always knew that it was a skill that could be learnt if only he asked the queen for it, yet in his infinite stupidity he never learnt the move before ascending.
While the seed of knowledge was useful, and had the knowledge about creating a clone, if Rudra wanted to use that knowledge and derive a working move from it, he would need to spend at least several years to perfect the method which would be a criminal waste of time.
The worse part was that he had no idea as to how many such hidden cards the perfect warrior had?
Beating him once was hard enough, however, if he could magically replicate himself and become two, then the difficulty of that battle dramatically increased tenfold.
Although his opponent was not an immortal, he might as well claim to be one with how difficult it was to beat him as while Rudra painstakingly came up with the counter for his [ Mind Reader ], he realised that he could not keep coming up with the counter for each and every one of his opponents moves and learn how to fool his every trick.
Right now, Rudra was only playing the perfect warrior's game and that too on his terms, however, if he wanted to truly best the Perfect Warrior then he needed to invent a fighting style of his own which could handle going up against the perfect warrior and focus on perfecting that style.
It was impossible to beat the perfect warrior at his own game, and to beat him one definitely to go beyond the limits of what was possible and create something new that was superior to everything created yet.
'A sword strike that can't be evaded-'
Rudra had long wanted to create a sword move that was superior to anything else in the universe and which could simply not be evaded.
A move that utilised his dual swordsmanship to its limit and pushed him to the pinnacle of the sword path, and to do so he knew that he needed to take help of one of the celestials who had reached tier9 long before him and had walked the path of the sword for way longer than him.
To create the most powerful and unavoidable sword strike, Rudra knew that he needed to ask help from the sword saint!
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