Kosh’s grin fell from his face, unsatisfied with the outcome his opponent was dealt, he looked around to see a young man kneeling down next to him, one of his arms covered in scars, Kosh rested his hand on the hilt of his sword, raising it he swung down, his target seemingly unaware, but the sword was stopped by a wall of white stone, that began to encroach around the sword, Kosh pulled against it but his sword was stuck,

“What the hell, pull out you lunk of metal”, Kosh said, grumbling,

“looks like bard is okay, but he is out of this fight”, Aster said, standing up to face Kosh,

“are you to be my next opponent, perfect, I’ll put you out of commission to for having the brazen audacity to attack prince Ea”, Kosh said, releasing his sword which had now been completely trapped by the white stone wall,

“ohh, but doesn’t a knight need his sword to fight”, Aster said, walking towards Kosh, but stopping just short of him next to the sword, placing his hand on it,

“I only need my hands to deal with a young naïve fool such as yourself”, Kosh said, steeping up to Aster, who he soon realized was almost as tall as he was,

Aster grew a grin on his face, “try it if you dare, Royal bootlicker”, Aster said,

Kosh’s eyes burned with anger and annoyance, reeling back his hand he struck a blow to his young opponents face, Only for it to be blocked by Asters hand,

“Nice try, I may be young but I’m most definitely not weak”, Aster said, stomping his foot on the ground, as a spike grew out of the floor and raced towards Kosh’s chest, a noise rang out as the metal armor bent and tore frome the spike piercing it, but kosh stood there grinning,

“Nice try, but I’m not weak either”, Kosh said, grabbing the spike and breaking it, he took a step back, he placed his hand on his chest grabbing the armor and tearing it off,

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“truth is I don’t need this armor, I wore it to bring comradery amongst my men in the royal guards”, Kosh said, dropping the armor to the floor, the hole in his shirt visible from where the spike pierced, but underneath the shirt, his skin was dark with a metallic shine to it,

The grin on Asters face only widened with excitement, Aster lunged in towards Kosh, grabbing, wrapping his arms around his abdomen, as he squeezed tightly and began to lift his opponent in the air, Kosh was taken aback by such a straightforward attack, that it got the better of him for a moment, when he realized his feet were off of the ground, he clenched both of his hands into fists, slamming them repeatedly into Asters back, but the young man wouldn’t , let go no matter how hard he hit him, Kosh soon felt the direction he was moving in shift, he began to harden his body as fast as he could ,soon feeling the back of his head slam into the ground, he looked up to see Asters grinning face,

Kosh didn’t let himself breathe a moment, pushing his body off of the ground as quickly as he could,

“interesting, your natural blessing, feels similar to my blessing, it feels as though it is connected to the earth in some way’, Aster said, looking down at his fist,

“enough of this I’m ending this fight right now”, Kosh said, charging in towards Aster, Aster did the same charging in towards Kosh, the two clashed, but as Asters fist made contact with Kosh’s armored skin, this time it ripped a piece of the armored skin off,

Aster stepped back from the force of Kosh’s punch, but was satisfied and grinning to himself as he could see the blood running down his opponents cheek, he steadied himself, the small rocks and and stone let loose by all the fighting forming a glove around his hand, as both men stepped in once again to attack each other, Kosh aimed for asters face once more but this time his attacked stopped by aster, who lowered his stance slashing across his abdomen with the earthen glove, ripping his shirt to shreds along with his armored skin, as bits and pieces of kosh’s skin hit the floor sounding as if pieces of metal were being dropped repeatedly one after the other, as the blood began to gush out of his stomach, Kosh stood there in disbelief, the natural blessing he was so proud of, that made him one of the strongest, ripped to shreds by a someone he considered below him, he clenched his fist and bared his teeth, his eyes dilating and becoming manic as he stepped forward his skin reverting back to normal, the sound of flesh ripping apart was all Aster heard next, as a pure white blade ran through Kosh’s abdomen, the blood slowly dripping off of it as the blade retreated,

“KOIS’ SILENT SOUND” polaris’ voice said, icicles sprouting Kosh’s wound as he feel face first to the ground,

Aster looked on, his face said it all, he was pissed,