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Several of the villagers rushed over to Bobba and cuffed him in a set of iron handcuffs. "Bah..!" He huffed, as they pulled him away. "Do not hide me! I must see what becomes of-" Bobba was cut off as one of the men holding him pulled him back from his struggle and conked him on the head. "Ahh..."

Nothing happened right away, but Katie rushed from the crowd to greet Jenso after his victory. "It really is you! I could tell from your hair, a mile away! What the heck happened to Bobba?" Katie asked. The crowds around them began to chatter as the stone continued to glow. "And what's this thing? Hell what is any of this stuff? You show up and suddenly the entire village is up in arms!"

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Chapter 16

_{Orobo's Elemental Guardian}

The Orobo meteor still pulsed with energy despite Bobba's defeat, shining brighter with each passing minute. Bobba chuckled under his breath despite his crippling defeat, coughing a little bit between his laughter fits. "You can't stop the elemental call.." He insisted.

It was true. Something was on its way to Orobo, and it might have been even more dangerous that Bobba.

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Bobba thought he'd adjusted and accounted for every factor, but Jenso's strength shooting up so violently was not one of them. He felt his stone-covered hands shatter as Jenso's shoulder muscles rippled and he grabbed hold of his knee. Bobba surrounded his leg in armor, but it didn't stop Jenso from pulling him right off his footing. While in midair, Jenso aimed to punch Bobba's wrist. He covered his arm in rock armor, and Jenso's fist struck against it hard.

Jenso's knuckles were scratched afterwards, but Bobba was laying on the ground, with his chest to the sky. Jenso's fist has crushed the armor around his arm, and by extension, his bracelet. Without his source of magical power, Bobba was no match for Jenso. He lay there defeated, contemplating the logic of what had just happened. How could he have been defeated? Who the heck was this guy?

Jenso could see that Bobba's spirit was shattered, and with it, the threat of the Orobo meteor, whatever it was.

Or so he though.

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~ End Of Chapter 15 ~

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Bobba missed, and his stomach took Jenso's punch head on. But Bobba didn't move at all despite Jenso's strength. His feet were rooted by even more stone that momentarily attached them to the ground, and his stomach was covered in thick armor for a split second. Bobba's sycthe faded, and he grabbed Jenso's shoulders as his attack was blocked. He then struck Jenso right in the chin with an armored Knee-strike, taking full advantage of his mistake. He reeled his foot back and prepared to strike again, and slowly covered Jenso's shoulders in his rock armor around his hands.

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It was a reflex now.

As Jenso kicked at Bobba's arm, a sheet of stone appeared in an instant and blocked his foot. Bobba then rushed forward, the stone and spike disappeared, and he swung his left arm at Jenso's face. A blade of stone scythed out from his forearm, aimed to cut Jenso's head clean in half.

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Bobba's movements felt sluggish, he was making mistake after mistake now, the most horrid being when he allowed Jenso to grab his hand and crush his black bracelet, and successfully throw him into the fireball of his own design. "Raaaaagh!" Bobba cried as the flames dispersed. He was revealed, still standing. His armor had faded, and he seemed to be mostly disarmed.

"How!? I accounted for your agility with the armor change, how did you!?" Bobba shook the feeling off, his shirt completely burned off and his face half-reddened by the fire. Jenso's shirt was still perfectly fine despite the fire though. "I won't underestimate your poverty any longer!" Bobba charged Jenso again, but this time, he had no armor at all. But as he punched with his right hand, a spike popped out of his knuckle, towards Jenso's chest.

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Bobba didn't listen to Jenso's taunts, detonating his black crystals behind him and creating another cloud of yellow smoke. Bobba stepped to his right, where the first cloud still was, and Shicked his thumb against his index finger after applying a couple thin layers of black stone. The cloud lit up in fire and chained over to the denser cloud behind Jenso, which exploded. Bobba then dashed forwards and slashed at Jenso with one hand after the other, just like Lark had done with his sword. Bobba's speed wasn't nearly as fast as Lark's, but the motion was still hard to counter, especially with an explosive fireball expanding behind him.

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Bobba's claw struck air, but as Jenso rolled away from his crystals, the shopkeep kicked them towards him again. The immediately released yellow smoke between Jenso and Bobba. As Jenso dashed through it, Bobba was not on the other side. He was further to Jenso's left already, and threw a series of black crystals at him again.

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Bobba scoffed at Jenso's arrogant remark and jumped over his kick, aiming to slash at his chest with his right arm on the way back down, using his forward momentum, and Jenso's stance against him. "Speak no more!" Bobba shrieked as he flew forward like a hawk. Meanwhile, he prepared another set of black crystals on his left hand, dropping them onto the ground at Jenso's feet.

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Bobba turned around slowly, still in disbelief. He felt the power of Jenso's kick strike his helmet hard, and send him straight to the ground in a slide. But he wasn't going to stay down. Bobba immediately flung a series of black shards at Jenso as he rolled back onto his feet and gained his bearings. "You..!! Golden boy! All of this for a shirt!?" Bobba shrieked. Katie tried to look over the shoulders of the taller villagers to see what was happening, but barely got to see Bobba get decked the fuck out.

"Is that.. Is that Jenso?" She questioned quietly. The shirtless warrior was here to save them, and stop Bobba. But what the heck was going on? What was this about the meteor calling elementals earlier?

Bobba was on his feet again. He extending his armor plating along the edges of his arms, and created a set of stone claws over his hands. "I'll sell you to the devil!"