When Petrovic realized that his opponent had no intention of revealing his plan, he decided to resume the fight, trying to force his opponent to reveal his plan
With a quick movement, petrovik pointed the tip of a spear, and the flame Sunna rushed towards Darius, threatening everything in front of it with annihilation, Darius realized the magnitude of the danger threatening him, so he moved quickly using lightning steps and evading the flame Sunna, which threatened to burn him, retreating backwards, leaving behind successive images
But something was out of place
The flame tongue began to form in the form of a bright blue punishment and began to chase Darius at a fast pace
Darius realized that he was facing a skill inherited by his opponent
Predatory perception
This was the name of the skill that Darius knew from The Chronicles describing the nature of the flame pursuing him
You can dodge as you like, but you will not be able to escape from this flame no matter how hard you try, he is able to catch up with his target even for tens of kilometers. Petrovic shouted, seeing his opponent moving away little by little in space
Darius was trying to increase his pace, but the nature of the arov cloud prevented him from achieving his goal
He began to feel the danger approaching behind him and was almost catching up with him, so he decided to try a second way and changed his direction from going deeper into the cloud to the ships of the supply fleet
Petrovik was watching what was going on and understood what Darius was trying to do, so he smiled and said
Do not try, predatory cognition is subject to my will and will not target anyone else but you
Thank you for this information, I will test how well you have mastered this skill, we have a lot of time. Darius said
Darius turned towards one of the tankers and made several laps around the hull of the ship before turning around to see how the flame would cope with the way it moved
The flames seemed to circle around the ship, following Darius ' path, and before completing the rotation, Darius decided to try another way
He accelerated the circulation of energy inside his body and condensed it in his right palm before targeting one of the side gates of the ship and breaking into it
The corridor was full of fighters motivated for any attack and preparing to engage the enemy when a problem occurred
Boom there was a loud explosion followed by a suction force in the corridor, in moments the safety systems inside the ship closed the gap, which returned the situation to normal, the soldiers who fell to the ground seemed to regain their balance
What just happened. One of the soldiers said
I think someone blew up the gate. One of his comrades replied to him
The soldiers began to inspect the gap in the gate before they noticed something strange, at the end of the corridor there was a stranger who was not one of their comrades and he pointed them towards the gap and said in the language of the Empire
Be careful, guys, you may get burned if you stay where you are, and before the fighters understood what was going on, the armor covering the gap seemed to quickly melt before the gap exploded again
Darius moved with lightning speed inside the ship, knocking down everyone who came his way quickly and heading towards the stern of the ship when he reached the engine room he stopped looking for something inside the room
He searched at length before he found the thing he was looking for, it was a black ribbed Crystal whose surface gives a feeling of cold
The use of stellar fuel inside the engines generates very high heat, so there had to be a way to cool the engine quickly and efficiently, for this, a frozen sapphire crystal is used to prevent heat from damaging the engine
After a short time, Darius felt that the heat was increasing inside the room and that something was rapidly approaching the entrance
The engine room was dark and cold suddenly the temperature rose and the room shone with a strong light
A bright blue Vulture entered the room and began to fly around it looking for its target, it didn't need to search much
At the end of the room there was a person sitting on a seat set up for the engine supervisor who was unconscious next to him
This is the end of your escape route. Aether's voice was echoing through the flames
Why are you in such a hurry, we haven't finished our dialogue yet. Darius said
The punishment did not pay attention to Darius's words and quickly pounced towards him
Darius quickly moved to the opposite direction and began to aim at the flame with everything he could catch to delay it as long as possible
The Punisher started shooting flaming balls of fire towards Darius, who was making every effort to avoid them, the areas on which the flaming balls fell were liquefying and turning into magma Darius continued to flee from the flames, jumping and throwing objects towards him, which further provoked the Punisher, who felt offended after his prey managed to escape from him every time
The Punisher increased the pace of his attack, trying to burn his prey as hard as he could, so much so that he launched a burning attack in every direction to turn the room into an oven to grill his target when his attack ended, he noticed something strange, the walls of the engine room were not flattened or even hurt from the attack, he looked at the walls and
Do you realize now why you ran away here. Darius was standing outside the engine room while with his left hand he held the metal gate, which was covered with a number of Stones, holding with his right hand the unconscious engine official
The flame tried to pounce quickly towards the entrance, but it was too late, Darius closed the gate, hearing the howling of punishment and his disapproving indignation at this shameful end, Darius could hear the struggle of punishment inside the room, who was trying to escape in any way, but the crystals of frozen sapphire, which were cooling the air quickly visible to the eye, did not give him a chance before
In outer space petrovik was watching what was going on with his skill and saw how Darius lured the punishment to the engine room and how the punishment faded away when he opened his eyes he saw a familiar figure leaving one of the ships and approaching him
If you were saying it's no use running away. Darius said that, smiling
I must admit that I underestimated you a lot, now I will show you what is the real power of my flame element. Petrovik said that as he pointed a spear at Darius and infused astral energy into it, the blade of the spear turned him into a shape three or four times larger than the real one
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Then I must also reveal my true strength. Darius said that and he also turned his sword into a bright blade with a white light from lightning
The two weapons collided with each other and the Lightning and flame elements interfered in a fight for the supremacy of each other
Petrovic, thanks to the quality of his weapon, was far from the lightning sword and tried to take advantage of this to expand the flame flame on his weapon to attack his opponent, forcing Darius to shorten the docking time to prevent his opponent from taking advantage of this advantage and trying to launch a blitz using the length of his opponent's weapon
Darius realized that if this situation continued at this pace, his opponent would have the upper hand, so he decided to launch a broad attack to distract his enemy from the attack and turned the situation around, so he retreated backwards, letting his opponent rush towards him, and before his opponent reached, Darius freed the handle of the sword and grabbed several wires made of very hard conductive materials
When the wires almost hit his opponent, a dense flame spread from the opponent's body and completely enveloped him, what Darius expected happened for this before the flame turned the wires into ashes
Darius grabbed the sword and began to accelerate the energy inside the tracks before passing it to the sword, specifically at the end, turning it into a blade of incendiary Lightning, a skill that Darius honed over two decades before pushing it towards the opponent
Petrovic was overcome by a strong sense of danger as he saw the tip of the sword rushing towards him, promising to end his life
So he decided to throw a spear with all his might to prevent his opponent's attack from hitting him, but he watched the lightning beam that surrounds the tip of the sword turn into a kind of bright liquid circling around the sword before it penetrated space heading towards him very quickly, so he knew that he had no chance to escape, so he decided to intensify the flame around his body, trying to absorb the attack before
The bright liquid penetrated the sea of flames, hitting its target, Darius heard a scream coming from the figure wrapped in flames, but he did not have time to ascertain the size of the injury, the spear was heading towards very quickly
He decided to move his body to the right, trying to avoid the spear, but the edge of the spear had reached his left shoulder and he dived into it for several inches before it stopped
Darius landed on the deck of the command ship of the supply fleet, grabbed the tip of the spear from his shoulder, found that his injury was not that bad, and then turned his head to look at the person who landed in front of him
The clash between him and his opponent did not last either for a few seconds, but the result has already been decided
How did he manage to do this. Panting, petrovik put his hand on his right chest while blood was seeping from his fingertips, he said
I have spent many years honing my ability with such mastery. Darius said
Hey, do you think I'm naive, the thing you've shown now is an inherited skill and not something that can be mastered, do you want me to believe that you can turn Lightning into incendiary plasma just by mastering. Petrovic said that, looking in a different way at his opponent
Darius was silent and did not know how to respond, he knew that the thing he had shown now was an inherited skill, but he did not know how to explain to the other party that he had never received or learned anything and how he possessed an inherited skill without anyone teaching him any skill, but he managed to achieve this mastery relying only on his efforts
Darius looked at petrovik and said
How did you know that the thing you just showed is an inherited skill
Do you know how to distinguish between ordinary skills and inherited ones. Petrovic said
I don't know. Darius said
Have you heard of the threshold peak. Petrovic said
It's the maximum one can achieve when honing one's skill, isn't it. Darius said
It is also here that the greatness of inherited skills is manifested, as it can exceed the peak of the threshold and turn the skill into something else completely.the flame can be transformed into a living form that has the Will and ability to attack, or turn metals into moving forms capable of defending and attacking, or turn Lightning into plasma capable of burning anything. Petrovic said
While Darius was thinking about the words he heard, petrovik was trying to buy time to stop the bleeding of a wound that proved to be stubborn and barely treatable, when Darius raised his head and said
You've told me a lot, petrovik, so I'm going to make you realize what the purpose of my attacking your troops in this particular place is. Darius said that as he motioned for petrovik to look behind him
Petrovik was wary of Darius and did not turn around quickly to make sure that his opponent was not planning anything before turning his head to look back petrovik did not notice anything at first, but after a few moments when he focused on the horizon he saw something that made him shocked and scared and said
It's not possible. don't tell me you've been stalling for time
On the horizon there was a comet rapidly approaching towards the arov cloud from the North, radiating a dark blue light
Petrovic knew what this comet was he had previously seen it several times in different places during his missions
This is a neutron dwarf comet. do you know what you're doing for God's sake. Petrovic shouted at the person standing in front of him with a calm face and did not seem to be worried or interested in what was going on
Yes, this is one of the neutron dwarf comets wandering around the periphery of this system.I made a slight change in its trajectory in order to pass through the arov cloud, don't tell me you got scared. Looking towards petrovik, Darius said
Petrovik was shocked by the words of Darius, who thought that his opponent was an unrivaled and cautious person, but now he is doing a crazy act that the mind does not believe, but now it was not time to be stunned, he quickly got to his feet and shouted towards the cockpit
Sedok turn the ship to the left at full speed and inform the fleet to start the engines at full speed
But the engine shows no response and our communications with the other ships were interrupted three minutes ago. Sedok responded through the communicator
There was silence on the deck and petrovik looked towards Darius as if he saw a Mad Butcher about to commit a massacre of his troops
Don't bother, my men have jammed the inter-ship communications. Darius said that as he looked calmly towards petrovik before raising his head to look towards the comet that was rapidly approaching, he raised his hands and said