Chapter 367
Explosion after explosion was happening throughout the Shadow Mercenaries' base, and all this damage was caused by two individuals, Alex and his grandfather Richter . Alex was no longer using his gun since that proved pretty useless against someone like Richter . On the other hand, Richter kept on using different guns which were interchanging mid-battle .
His skill in predicting how Alex would move was bordering precognition . He was like a machine as his timing for each shot was perfect and almost undodgeable . If it was anyone else they would have already gotten hit or even killed many times .
Alex then did two mid-air spins before slashing down on Richter . Seeing this move the old man took out two desert eagles and started shooting, he then took out gun after gun from his coat and shot six times with almost no delay . The bullets were able to stop Alex's downward spinning slash, and it even made him stumble on his landing . This gave Richter enough time to take out another gun and shoot . Alex who couldn't dodge properly nor block decided to shift his body a bit and take the hit on a less vital area . The bullet pierced through Alex's left thigh, which would slow him down a bit .
Even Richter was surprised for a second making him lower his guard for but a fraction of a second, which gave enough time for Alex to counterattack . Alex quickly threw a dagger aimed at Richter's head . Of course, Richter noticed the incoming dagger but was a bit too late . The speed that the dagger was traveling was even faster than a bullet, it was a good thing Richter was able to react fast enough and blocked using his left hand .
The impact of the dagger to his hand made the gun he was holding fly out . This distraction gave Alex an opening to charge forward . Being weighed down by the multiple guns hidden in Richter's body made fighting Alex in a melee extremely difficult .
As Alex finally got to his preferred range, Richter had no choice but to defend and dodge all the incoming attacks . At this range, his fists were faster than his guns . Richter quickly assessed the situation and acted without any hesitation as he discarded all his weapons that were simply dead weight at this point .
He threw his heavy coat at Alex, who tried to slash it but upon contact noticed that the coat was something similar to a bulletproof vest, which made Alex make a mistake on how much force he needed to use to cut it .
'The hell! This was swayiing and moving like it was an ordinary coat, how the hell is it so hard and heavy!' Alex screamed in his mind and he didn't continue to slash down on the coat but evaded it instead . When he evaded to the side a fist came flying towards him, Alex dodged by swaying his body backward . He then saw Richter's leg high up and about to drop on him . Alex was going to counter using his sword but it turned out that was a feint and Richter did a sweeping kick on Alex's feet making him fall .
Now unarmed Richter had a slight edge on speed and his striking techniques left no room for a counter . It was like a heavy rain of punches and kicks . Richter's techniques, be it on gunmanship or his hand to hand combat style, had no errors to speak of, as his precision was beyond human . Once he got you following his rhythm it was near impossible to counter .
Alex then discarded his sword since it was useless at this point and he started to fight Richter unarmed as well . Usually, if an unarmed person fought an armed person with the same skill level, the person who was armed would win, but not for people like Alex and Richter . The sheer speed on which they fought made them look like blurry figures to the untrained eye, their punches and kicks were faster and stronger than any gunshot .
Richter who was enjoying playing with his grandson did an outside crescent kick while Alex countered with an inside crescent kick . the two were equally matched in speed and strength that they got pushed back a bit, but then Alex did a back kick, in which Richter evaded by ducking and doing another sweeping kick . Alex evaded that move this time by doing a butterfly twist kick, seeing Alex do that, Richter quickly reacted and did a rising uppercut . Alex who was in mid-air couldn't do anything but block the incoming fist, which made him fly upward towards the ceiling .
Before his back hit the ceiling, Alex was able to do a mid-air flip and his feet landed on the ceiling, where he pushed his body back down . He was going to kick Richter with double the force, but he was able to move away on time, the moment Alex landed the floor cracked .
Seeing Alex still unbalanced from the rough landing, Richter charged forward and did a skipping axe kick, in which Alex blocked by crossing his arms above his head . Yet that was a simple distraction as Richter immediately did a hook kick, which caught Alex's neck and proceeded to try and smash Alex's body to the ground, but before Alex's body hit the ground he stopped by using his hand . He then squeezed Richter's leg using his thighs .
Alex got Richter on a good hold, but then before he could emphasize on this, a sudden surge of power came from Richter and he was able to forcefully release himself from the hold using nothing but raw power . When he got out he took some distance from Alex and smiled, Alex, on the other hand, looked at his grandfather shocked .
"That was RELEASE," Alex said the words, but still couldn't believe what he saw and felt . Richter couldn't help but smile even wider .
"You keep on using this technique, and Lyner even used it on his final battle . I keep on seeing it so much, I learned it . Now that we're done with the warm-ups, how about we play a bit more seriously . "
Richter's whole body started to bulge, and then it shrunk . His face regained its youthful vigor and he looked like time turned back when he was at his peak . This was the form of full RELEASE, that Dan uses, but for some reason, it seems to be improved upon .
'I gotta say, even though he's the worst grandfather ever to exist, he is extremely talented . ' Alex praised his grandfather Richter but only inside his head, he would never admit that the crazy b*stard has any good qualities .
"Surprised? This technique is quite amazing, it can even return me to my peak state back when I was at my prime . It's a really a convenient skill to have . No wonder you like using it so much . I guess that blondy wasn't all that worthless, I should reevaluate him . " Richter was pleasantly surprised by his first real use of full RELEASE was quire please by the effects .
"So what do you say Alex, how about we start round two . " Richter did a hand gesture provoking Alex, telling him to bring it . Alex seeing his grandfather act like this made him sigh, as he too went into his own version of full RELEASE .
With that round two of the grandfather and grandson bout began .