Chapter 87: Training Exercise
Jason turned to his dragon once again, and that feeling of excitement that he felt when he first saw it slowly bubbled up from inside him. Jason put his hand over his chin as a grin slowly began to form, and for a moment he thought about how amazing it would be to ride on the dragon’s back.
’I need to get back already, it should be nighttime back home and I need to meet with Mum. She said she wanted to talk to me about Janet, right? But this is a dragon! It’s a freaking dragon! I’m sure Mum will understand if I’m a bit late, right!? Who can say no to a dragon!?’
Even though Jason was very mature for his age, there was no denying that he was a teenage male at that moment as his desire to ride a dragon overrode everything else in his mind! Jason decided that it wouldn’t be the end of the world if he was a little late to a meeting with his Mum, and he immediately told Ragnar to lower itself, and he jumped up onto its back!
Ragnar released a roar of excitement as it felt Jason’s eagerness and Jason’s grin widened as he shouted,
"Let’s go!"
ROARRRR!!
Ragnar released another loud roar before beating its wings and blasting off the ground!
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[Riverdale]
[Headquarters of the C Rank Panthers guild.]
BOOM!
A massive explosion went off inside a large training room as a man unleashed a ball of fire! The man ran to the side immediately after unleashing the ball, and in his hand, two more balls of fire formed as he kept his eyes trained on the figure opposite him! The room they were in was large with white walls and a tall ceiling. It was made from a very strong metal that allowed superhumans to use their abilities and train without holding back!
The man with the fireballs in his hand was named Randy. He had short black hair and narrowed dark eyes, and he was wearing cargo pants and a loose top that would allow him to move around easily.
He was a C Rank superhuman who had more than ten Red Gate dives under his belt! He was a member of the Panthers guild and had been a part of it for the better part of five years now! Randy awakened as a D Rank six years ago, and it was only through sheer hard work that he was able to build himself up to becoming one of the most powerful members of the guild! Everyone trusted him, and he was seen as the most likely to take over from the guild leader when he retired! In fact, they were already talking about him becoming the next vice leader of the guild since his power had already grown beyond that of the current vice leader!
Randy knew about all the things they had been saying, and on the outside, he always kept up a smile and tried his best to make people think that their words weren’t affecting him at all, but on the inside, he allowed their words to feed his already inflated ego! As the only superhuman in his family and the current breadwinner, Randy was the king of his own small world! Nowadays, he was highly respected by everyone both in his family and in the guild, and he treated the people around him like they were lessers because he knew that he was stronger than all of them!
But all of those fantasies that Randy had built for himself were beginning to crack at the edge and break into pieces!
’How in the world did she get this strong!?’
WOOSH!
A massive gale of wind erupted from the figure standing opposite Randy and the smoke from his explosion dispersed into nothing immediately! Randy narrowed his eyes in anger at the woman standing there, and he immediately stopped moving as he saw her take aim and unleash three blasts of wind in his direction!
TWOOM!
The wind shot forward like bullets and it was only Randy’s natural athleticism as a superhuman that prevented him from being eviscerated on the spot! Randy twirled around one of them and he ducked low and moved out of the way to allow the other two to sail past! The wind bullets slammed into the wall opposite Randy and left small dents in the wall, and Randy cursed as he increased the power output to the ball of fire in his hand and chucked them towards the woman!
The fireballs flew straight for her, and Randy was shocked when he saw her create two large arrows from the wind and send them straight at the fireballs! Was she trying to nullify his skill with her own!? How cocky can she get!? Randy watched as the arrows of wind slammed into his fireballs and the fireballs didn’t even manage to go off before they were extinguished like nothing!
Randy’s anger soared as his teeth clenched in anger, and he immediately created two more fireballs and sent them after the woman! He created another two, and then two more fireballs on top of that and sent them forward so that there were six fireballs in all! Randy knew that he could easily hurt her if he went too far. This was just a training exercise, so they were told not to do anything that would cause any damage, but Randy’s pride wouldn’t allow him to be shown up by this bitch!
Randy watched with bated breath as the fireballs headed for the woman, and he was shocked when the woman suddenly dashed to the side! His grin widened as his balls followed after her, and he almost laughed when he thought that she was running away! Randy’s gift allowed him to create tracing fireballs. The fireballs would lock onto a target and follow after them until they impacted the target or anything else in between! This was one of the reasons why he was so highly regarded in the Panthers guild.
If you had him in your team during a Red Gate dive, then you could be sure that you would easily clear the Gate!
Randy got ready to finish off the woman since she was running away, but he felt his eyes widen when she created seven arrows from the wind and sent them in his direction! Six of the arrows slammed into the fireballs, causing a massive explosion to echo through the training room, and the seventh arrow immediately headed for him!
Randy realized that she hadn’t been running away at all! She had just been shifting her weight to one side so that she would have enough room to send an arrow at him as well! Randy was shocked! He knew just how strong this woman had been the last time they fought! She usually struggled to create more than five arrows at any one time and he thought that the six fireballs would be able to overwhelm her! But now she was not only creating seven arrows, but she was creating seven arrows that were all more powerful than they had ever been!
Randy rushed to try and create a new fireball to nullify the arrow coming for him! But the shock he was experiencing at that time prevented him from reacting quickly enough, and when he created the fireball and threw it forward, the arrow was already right in front of him!
The arrow and the fireball slammed into each other and a massive explosion occurred right in front of Randy!
BOOM!