What Nolan and Riri were looking at now was something called a Gate. A small world that gives a reward to those who clear it. The red and blue colours indicated that the Gate was almost cleared and the people inside would come out soon. Fortunately Nolan didn't have to wait for too long, after just a few hours of scouting, a person came out of the portal. Immediately after the person came out, the portal turned blue for a few seconds before closing up and disappearing.
The blue colour indicated that the Gate had been successfully cleared and if it had turned red after the person came out, it would mean that the Gate wasn't cleared successfully.
The person who came out was half naked. He was wearing only torn pants, a clear indication that he'd been in many battles inside the Gate. The man's aura was completely contained within him, making himself appear ordinary. That would have been the case if his body wasn't built like a piece of art.
His chiselled muscles, milky white glistening skin, handsome appearance and otherworldly hair spoke volumes about the man. Nothing about the man's appearance indicated being ordinary. This man was the same person that Nolan had seen in Ben's Restaurant and even exchanged a few blows with him. Nolan had found out through Loid that this guy's name was Tyler Egac.
Tyler, who had just appeared sensed danger and his body moved on its own, dodging the shurikens that suddenly appeared from nowhere. The shurikens were followed by dozens of arrows laced with poison.
In Tyler's eyes, these arrows were too slow for his eyes because he could even follow their direction with his eyes after they missed him. Tyler's eyes followed the last arrow that barely missed his cheek, his expression was calm the whole time but something unexpected happened.
After the last arrow missed him, a man had suddenly appeared in front of him holding a black marble. The marble then expanded in size and covered a large area in a short period of time. Everything happened so fast that Tyler didn't have time to react and was trapped inside the marble's space.
Tyler looked at the person standing not far from him and recognised him immediately. It could even be said that the man had had such a great impact on Tyler that Tyler could recognise him at a glance.
“It's you!” exclaimed Tyler.
“We meet again, Tyler Egac.”
“You, how do you…”
Two sharp daggers were thrown at him before he could even finish speaking. Tyler twisted his body to the side, the two daggers barely missing Tyler's head. But before Tyler could sigh in relief, Nolan appeared a few centimetres from him, grabbed hold of one of the daggers in reverse grip and tried to pierce the back of Tyler's head.
Tyler did a 90 degrees forward lean and successfully dodged the attack but he wasn't out of danger just yet. Since his body bent forward by 90 degrees, he executed a heel kick. The heel kick landed on Nolan's chin but it wasn't powerful enough to do any serious damage but did push Nolan back.
Tyler then raised his other leg and was now standing upside down and finally, even though upside down, he had his eyes on his enemy. A dagger was already aiming for his waist so he rolled back his legs, another dagger aimed for his head again and he executed a kick up. Spinning mid air like a cat when preparing to land on its feet, took out two crescent blades and blocked another dagger attack aimed at the back of his head.
The reason for so many dagger attacks was because Nolan had attached thin threads on the daggers in order to not be unarmed when he threw them. These threads helped him to pull them back and use them continuously.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Daggers and blades collided again and again as the two guys exchanged dozens of moves in mere seconds. They also moved at such a fast speed that without the sparks, pinpointing their location as a Star Warrior would have been extremely difficult.
Tyler knew that his body was very strong but his instincts told him to be wary of the daggers and he didn't ignore them. If it was a fist fight, Tyler was sure that Nolan would have lost because he was physically stronger than him.
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Tyler retreated a great distance after successfully blocking all attacks from Nolan. He then tried to escape this place using special means but nothing happened. Tyler then sensed danger from Nolan again and when he looked at him, the guy had taken out a bow and arrows.
“Fuck..!”
Swoosh!
The first arrow was released from the bowstring and flew towards its target but Tyler easily dodged the arrow.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Nolan kept releasing arrows and Tyler kept dodging. Many times he'd thought that Nolan was out of arrows only for the guy to take out more from his storage ring and continue aiming for him.
Tyler realised that he had no choice but to engage in close combat since this running around was depleting his stamina.
‘Motherfucker! Pushing me to a corner! I'll show you that rats also bite when cornered!’ he thought. He continued to dodge Nolan's arrows while closing the distance between them.
Nolan had perfectly planned all of this. If someone wasn't proficient enough in close combat they'd naturally keep their distance from their opponents. So Nolan came up with a solution for that too, ranged attacks were the best when distance was involved. With this, he gained a greater advantage over his opponents because he was constantly on the offensive, leaving his opponents no room but to try and end the fight quickly.
Tyler was doing the exact same thing, he wanted to end things quickly and was about to go all out. Nolan thought that he had everything under control until he saw and experienced Tyler's trump card.
Tyler's body turned red from the heat coming from within him. His golden hair turned yellow and his eyes glowed brightly like two suns in the sky. The temperature in the surroundings rose rapidly, heating up even the air.
Nolan felt like he'd been thrown in the pool of molten lava, when he breathed in, the hot air damaged his lungs. His skin was slowly being cooked and he couldn't open his eyes or else he'd lose them. Nolan also realised that he'd miscalculated but all hope was not lost.
[Killing Aura Release!]
He released his Killing Aura which looked like a cloud of black gas, no longer crimson red like before. Nolan didn't use his Killing Aura to attack Tyler's Soul because his senses told him that that would be useless so he used the Killing Aura as his eyes. Nolan also found out that Tyler's heat, whatever it was, was suppressing his Killing Aura greatly.
‘Shit! I have to finish this quickly! Just what fucking kind of star did he awaken! It's so fucking domineering!’ thought Nolan as he prepared himself.
Tyler sent a punch that he blocked with his hand but still got burned. Nolan though didn't care and moved his hand like a snake and grabbed Tyler's wrist. This time, he didn't aim the dagger at Tyler's hand but it melted before it even touched him.
Tyler then sent a second punch, then a third, a fourth and soon, Nolan was being bombarded by Tyler's extremely hot punches. If it was an ordinary Constellation Warrior then they would have turned to ashes a long time ago.
Even though Nolan wasn't dead, his situation wasn't good. His arms which blocked most of Tyler's punches were now nothing but bones, most of his face was also burned, showing his teeth and parts of his skull. He was completely naked but still spared enough energy to protect his penis.
“Tyler Egac, let's finish this in one final attack. Inside my Death Space, all forms of spatial travel don't work here and only the last man standing can leave this place! With my next attack, I'll be sure to take your goddamn life!” said Nolan as massive amounts of Killing Aura was released by him.
Seeing that Nolan was preparing for his last attack, Tyler also did the same. His fist was coated in orange energy with such a high temperature it caused space to tremble. He put everything in this next attack and was very confident in himself.
“COME!!!” shouted Nolan.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
BOOOOOM!!!!!
A powerful explosion occurred that even collided with the Death Space barrier, causing it to tremble. Dust had risen but as time went by, the dust settled down and the outcome of the battle was shown. Nolan had a gaping hole on his chest, his heart completely destroyed. Tyler was standing in front of him while missing an arm and was exhausted.
“Haa… haa… haa… I… win…” said Tyler with a triumphant look. Nolan didn't respond to Tyler and just fell face first to the ground. His body without signs of vitality. Tyler wanted to take Nolan's storage ring as his spoils of war but he couldn't find it and naturally came to the conclusion that it was burned to ashes during the battle.
He turned around and walked away slowly while limping. He kept on thinking about the battle and how to approach similar situations in the future. He also thought about how lucky he was to actually advance to the Constellation Realm when he was still inside the Gate. As he thought about all of this, he thought about the endless arrows that Nolan had constantly taken out from his storage ring to exhaust him.
‘Wait a minute. Since when did destroyed storage artefacts not release everything inside them? Unless…’ as he reached the last thought,
Puchi!
Pfft!
Puchi!
Swoosh!
A white spear pierced through his heart and he vomited blood, the spear was then pulled out and sliced through Tyler's neck and beheaded him. While his head was flying in the air, Tyler was astounded by Nolan's current appearance that he forgot about what he wanted to ask, he did manage to utter a single word before he died though.
“Beautiful…”