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A Hero Tale {Complete}

~ Chapter 169 ~

_{Totally Titanic Tantrum}

Rajaka's voice boomed, not only as a voice, but as a projection of his unstoppable, relentless Ki. With every syllable, shock waves unsettled the very air and pushed back like torrential winds. But, there was something more about it, something unnatural, like the golden giant was unleashing an overbearing presence that slowly threatened to overtake the very foundation of Jeff and Bruce's Ki. Rajaka's muscles bulged, and twitched as his teeth ground against one another. The power coming off of him just kept going up. It just kept getting stronger. Before, his strength had already made Jenso look puny in comparison, but now?

"You First"

Rajaka threw a punch at the air between him and Bruce. No yellow shock wave this time, no Ki, but even without his Ki control, the atmosphere warped at the pressure of his strike, sending a deadly torrent of wind and sheer force towards his target.

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Mikey rose a hand quickly and spread its mangled fingers, shakily keeping himself conscious. He managed, even if only the slightest bit of control over his body, to raise himself back up to his knees. But, slowly, with parted movements, his hands moved towards his stomach, and he began to groan. "It... Iur...Urpp..." With his head hanging forwards, Mikey's mouth spurt out a copious amount of Purple liquid onto the floor in front of him. It kept coming, and coming, until there was nothing left. Mikey looked over to Jenso, smiled, and toppled over, while the goo that emerged from his body slowly dissipated into a thin gas, until it was gone from the world.

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~ End Of Chapter 168 ~

A Hero Tale {Complete}

Mikey staggered backwards as the whip wrapped itself around his legs, burning a strip of his aura away around both kneecaps. With the center of his body cut off from his legs, the bottom half of his aura, below his kneecaps, faded away as well, lowering him to his knees. But as Jenso rushed forwards, Mikey summoned his battle bubble shock wave one last time. It didn't cover him completely, instead only projected forwards, marking that he'd reached his energy limit. In a flash, his super-form disappeared, Jenso spun around, and his foot bent the projected barrier, crashing through it and smashing Mikey right in the face. As his foot collided with Mikey, he was launched halfway across the the battlefield, tumbling sideways like a rag doll until he was near the rooms exit.

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Jenso took several ice shards through sections of his body despite his attempt to dodge. Some embedded into his legs, while others found their way through his arms and abdomen, before melting shortly after. Despite his best efforts to evaporate the water on his body however, Mikey was able to keep it active, rapidly cooling it with his own power while channelling his technique. "Flash Flood!" He shouted, activating his ability. In a single motion, Jenso's flames consumed his hands, while his Flash flood dug into Jenso's arms, thousands of frozen Arki particles into his body. Mikey reeled back and pulled his arms out of the fire. His forearms, all the way up to his hands were burnt, and his sage aura was stripped away, but he still stood up. It seemed his left hand was also still mangled. Had he been manipulating his fingers through his sage aura despite the fact that they were shattered?

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Mikey stood still for a moment as his battle bubble remained expanded. Then he felt it, a sudden burst flying through his mist into close range, ending up behind him. He instinctively began to rapidly thicken and the liquid around Jenso until it began to collect on his arms, slowly moving to consume him. But the amount of mist in the air wasn't enough to cover his entire body. At most, his limbs might've been weighed down by the mist that continually poured out of Mikey's body. When the ground shook as the omega saw emerged as many smaller saws, Mikey's balance wasn't affected, his bubble absorbing the shock from Jenso's stomp. But the spinning blades were another issue. Mikey's bubble suddenly crystallised into an ice ball, spiky and dense, too thick to see through, and too cold to immediately melt, which the flame-saws were easily able to pierce through. But as they struck it, the orb exploded, sending shards of ice in all directions, threatening to shred Jenso as close range. Inside of the explosion, the saws exited through the other side, and Mikey stood in place with several small holes in his body. But none of them were bleeding. He'd phased through the attack, like he'd done with Jenso's earlier techniques. But by doing so, Mikey expended a great deal of Ki. Phasing his arms and legs was one thing, but several holes in his body at random intervals in such a short period of time required so much concentration, that he couldn't help but use his energy inefficiently to dodge. That didn't stop him though. Panting, but still active, Mikey spun towards Jenso and pointed at him again.

"F..Flicker"

That technique again. With Mikey consistently channelling energy into the water that clung to Jenso, it would be difficult to for him to move, or evaporate the extra weight. Would he be able to dodge the ice shards, escape his bindings, and dodge flash flood all at the same time?

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Mikey, despite Jenso's efforts, turned towards his spear after he lost the ability to sense it through his mist. Mikey created a disk of liquid energy beneath him to block the flames, one that dipped downwards as he fell slowly, waiting for the flames to dissipate before landing on the ground again. Then Jenso came at him. But Mikey noticed the spear a moment before his attack came forwards. He hopped above Jenso, so that the spear would collide with him instead, and flipped through the air gracefully, through the smoke that ensued. The Mist of course, closed in once again, but left a large area clear of water, where Jenso's heat had stopped it from progressing further. Mikey landed after the spear had passed him, and used his battle bubble to clear the smoke nearby, while also spreading out even more mist around his immediate vicinity. Although he didn't know what Jenso was doing, exactly, he had a general idea of where he was. Mikey aimed two fingers towards his general direction, and fired a wide-spread volley of liquid lances towards him in order to locate the hot-head.

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Mikey had the wetness of the field to his advantage, able to sense Jenso's movements while he moved through the mist. The bubble blocked his flames easily, while Mikey ran through them, jumping into the air as Jenso threw his spear, and dispelling his bubble as he left the danger of his flames. He made a sign with his hand again...

"Flicker.."

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Mikey slowed his attack as Jenso got Close and expanded a layer of water around himself, pushing everything nearby away with a shock wave as his battle bubble took form. But unlike his usual bubble, this one didn't impede his movement or make him float. It meshed to the ground, and followed him as he turned to face Jenso. From the edge of the bubble, a torrent was high-pressure water shot off in his direction.

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~ Chapter 168 ~

_{Grit Those Teeth!!!}

Mikey's sage mode aura completely consumed him again and he rushed Jenso, with his arm still working at the behest of his energy. The puddles that evaporated rose up into a steam that filled the room slowly, once more. This time it was heated, but it slightly affected the vision of both fighters. Without Delay, Mikey began to fire Liquid lances at Jenso in rapid succession from both his hands.

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"Well, I mean, if I'm gonna follow through with this line of thought, then there ain't any other way, is there?" His aura flashed and his head was consumed slowly. "Before the 'fake' me gets erased..." In the last moment, before his mouth was blocked off, Mikey smirked.

"You're just gonna have to punch me out of this reality!"

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~ End Of Chapter 167 ~