“What's wrong with you?”

“Ah, just excited over your classes.”

I can barely contain my happiness. I say.

“Since this is only a practice match. Please go easy on me.”

I pull out two of my totem swords. She looks at them with a strange look. I ask a question.

“Would you like me to just use melee attacks or go all out?”

“We should stick with melee attacks for now. When… I mean if you lose, we'll switch it up.”

She was strong enough to defeat my generals in fights… I can't take her lightly.

“Will you try to use all of your classes during the fight?”

“I suppose I can try. You'll have to last through them all though. You're men… Didn't last very long.”

“Don't worry about that, I can go all night.”

...Damn this new trait. I look at her before we start. She is holding two wooden swords, one in each hand. Her armor is the black cloth she was wearing last night. She has her face revealed but could easily cover it if she was trying to be stealthy. She lets me go through my normal pre-fight preparations. Activating my three harmonicas. Injecting a stat potion. Activating all of my buffs before we start. Besides Aegis, I'll use him if it is necessary. She doesn't waste any time when I give her the go ahead.

Nami rushes in, faster than I expected. I barely get a control nature off to strengthen my sword before two swing down and break on mine. She swung hard and fast enough to break a specially made wooden training sword! It confuses her when the weapons that were broken were hers instead of mine.

“I've got strong wood.”

...Damnit! I can't even fight without making sexual innuendos. She throws them away, pulling out another, much longer and thicker sword than the two that were just broken. She is holding it with both of her hands. You don't really see that fighting style from dexterity fighters very often. It is possibly because of her samurai class? She is ten feet away from me. She starts to channel magic. Her body is wrapped in wind, spinning fast enough to make her cloths visibly move. She puts her sword above her head like she's going to att-. SHE LAUNCHES A BLADE OF WIND AT ME!

I barely dodge and she was charging behind the wind strike to attack me when I avoided the attack. Her blade has wind spinning around it. It has orange mana, or chi rather oozing out of her attack. I brace my blade again. I have a feeling my hands wont be enough. I block with my foot as well. The weight from her pushing down almost knocks me off balance from my unorthodox block. The attack would have been un-blockable any other way. I kick on my sword to throw her backwards.

“Aegis boost!”

My stats increase. Man I'm regretting not having Gear on me right now. This fight would be far easier with him. I didn't want to look any weirder than I had to when talking with the shogun. Having a backpack with a wooden man on my back would have been extremely weird.

I charge forwards, reading my strike. She dodges and is… Almost floating mid air… WHAT THE FUCK!? She lands a few seconds later. I let her gain her balance again before charging in. She charges as well. Is she going to do something different?… WHAT THE FUCK! There are three of her! How am I supposed to fight three! I panic and use flame breath. The other two disappear only leaving the real one behind.

“I thought you were sticking with melee.”

“Sorry… I panicked, wont happen again.”

We begin the fight again. She pulls out a belt full of throwing weapons. Launching several different types of shurikens at me. I avoid all of the ones from that belt. She pulls out another one. I continue to dodge while she throws things at me. Pulling a third belt out! FUCKING DAMN WHY SO MANY SHURIKENS!

The last one is full of throwing spikes, or darts or something small and pointed. If the other belts had twenty shurikens, the last belt is loaded with five times as many spikes. She throws all of them. Pushing me back as she does, I have to retreat because she is throwing four at a time. She empties the last belt… Then pulls out a spiked chain.

Throwing it at me, I try to avoid it but she moves it remotely with her wind magic. It raps around my leg, digging in, I can feel poison on it. DAMN! Where was she holding all this stuff? All those throwing items were to set me off-guard for the final one. This would normally immobilize someone. She charges in, I hope I can get the drop on her. Since she thinks I'm immobilized, she might go all in on this attack. I prepare a heavy rending slash for when she is in range.

She swings her sword one handed and blocks my attack. She pulls something else out of her pocket and throws it in my face. It explodes and blinds me, some gets in my nose. It's pepper! I'm blinded! I quickly pull water out of the ground and splash my eyes. I wasn't quick enough. She strikes down just as I block with my left hand. Breaking it… This would normally be where the fight is called…

“NOT YET!”

I jump backwards and start chanting regenerate and heal on myself. Drinking a regen potion. The shock on her face from my quick recovery is noticeable. I call out again.

“You're too strong, I can't go easy on you or risk embarrassing myself in front of someone as pretty as you. I am going to start using magic from this point on. Prepare yourself.”

I immediately switch into dragon form. Dropping my totem sword I fly into the air. This doesn't even phase her, she jumps in the air after me. Almost flying, she travels towards me. I see wind blowing her in my direction. I begin to cast a breath attack but she throws another pepper bomb right into my mouth before I can get it off.

I continue to cough as she puts the sword right into my stomach. If I had eaten anything today. It would have come up in the attack. If Aegis stat boost wasn't still active I would have been knocked unconscious. I retaliate with a strike from my tail. Knocking her down to the ground.

She falls slower than I thought it would because of the wind underneath her. She was barely hurt by that. I start to cast my diseased locus attack with silent chanting since I'm still coughing. Locus appear around her to inflict my debuffs but can't attack her because of a smoke bomb she set off. The locus wont go into the smoke and if they do they are instantly knocked down. They float around the outside of it waiting for the smoke to disperse.

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The smoke starts to cle-. WHERE DID SHE GO! I kunai flies close to my face. I see an enchanted piece of pap-. BOOM! It explodes in my face! I get hit with four more shurikens at the same time. I'm going to lose! Aegis stat boost has worn off.

I change into my human form. Falling to the ground I cast white wind towards the ground. Falling into the healing wind. Silent chanting a heal while I'm doing this. I found out I can use a breath attack and a silent chant at the same time because of melded magic. Another two kunai's are thrown at me, with a spiked chain between them. They swing around me!

The spiked chain wraps around me again. I change into mouse form and they fall to the ground then change back into dragon form… She still hasn't come out of the woods. I get myself back up to full health… HOW DID THE ENEMIES BEAT THESE ANNOYING FUCKERS!

“Come out of the woods or I'll blow them up!”

“That's a bluff! YOU'RE NOT STRONG AT ALL!”

She continues to piss me off. I crunch a vial in my mouth. Pulling out a few scrolls, I begin to burn a portion of the forest down. The second I begin the attack I see a shadow behind me. I blink strike away and turn around as quickly as I can. She is already rushing towards me again after missing her finishing strike. A wind strike is launched at me, then another, then another. All while she is running towards me.

“Fight wind with wind.” Aegis yells out.

I barely get a wind wall up as soon as the first blade hits it. The blade bounces back into the other one canceling it. And the third one bounces off, firing back at Nami. She gets her sword up to block just in time to catch it. I use a control nature uppercut opportune strike to launch her into the wind wall.

She gets thrown into the wind current and is floating stationary in the air. I jump towards her and hit her with a heavy rending opportune mana slash strike with all my rage and energy put into it with rage empowered and energy empowered strikes… She is knocked unconscious… I won the fight.

I walk over to her. Try to pick her up until I realize that it is a stuffed doll in her place. I'm knocked unconscious before I can react.

Class learned Ninja passive skill gained Way of the ninja- Gain chi through combat

Level 1 Ninja skill gained Ninjutsu- Gain chi based skills that will help your deception of enemies (must learn the skills from a teacher)

Class learned Wind mage “Blade mage” passive skill gained Wind absorption- Able to absorb mana from surrounding air

Level 1 Wind mage skill upgraded Wind blade--> Wind slash- Attack made while focusing can launch powerful wind to cut the target

Class learned Samurai passive skill Chakra- Convert mana into chi

Level 1 skill gained Chi strike- Add chi to a strike from your weapon

I wake up. Nami is apologizing profusely to my generals who had watched that fight. Both of them are laughing it off. I hear Leon say “Don't worry, he probably enjoyed losing to you. He's weird when it comes to fights.” I hear Nargzar say “He loses more fights then he wins. Honestly it is to be expected now.”… I kind of laugh when I hear them say it. All three look at me.

“You got me good there. Thank you for the amazing fight. I'm surprised there are still people stronger than me in my dragon form.”

“N-N-NOT AT ALL! I had to try against you! Do you know how mad the shogun is going to be at me for assaulting a diplomat!”

“Don't worry about it, you asked if I wanted to fight. I'm honestly glad we did. I need a teacher for ninjutsu now, if you feel like making it up to me. You can teach me all those tricks you just used.”

Nami looks at me oddly. Like she doesn't understand what I'm talking about. She asks with hint of not understanding in her voice.

“What do you mean? It would take a hundred years to learn ninja to any non murine folk. You want me to follow you for a hundred years because of a simple fight?”

“No, I already learned three classes from you, I just want to learn the skills tied to ninja if you don't mind.”

She continues to look at me weirdly. Like what I'm saying is a complete lie. I pick my sword up and begin to focus on striking with a wind slash. I launch it into the air. The wind powered strike is of a similar size to hers except it has swirling winds around the center wind strike. Her eyes widen when she realizes I have already learned something that must have taken her years to learn.

“NO! I WONT TEACH YOU! YOU'RE CHEATING!”

She gets up and runs off… Too bad, I'll have to find another teacher for the ninjutsu skills… I would rather learn from someone who can beat me in a fight though. I'll try to convince her later.