The Zombie Tournament

Act 22 : Magical Blood

 “Oh, you’re cheating, old friend. It’s a disgrace for a knight, indeed.”

The young knight listened on their opponent’s yapping and shriveled an eyebrow out of it. His terms as an “Old friend” of Deino Gunnar established one meandering history and multiplication of choice. Being renowned as a leading General of Numonia, everyone in the country could be determined as a friend to Zeno Gunnar’s eyes. The legendary warrior has no limit in list of rivals, spanning from Thalsmia Kingdom’s regular skirmish to the far-sighted Animea Kingdom of the northern continent, so there should be a hole of information to explain for complete consideration of an old friend.

In its place, however, there was one such opponent to take into account. It was occurred in the closed elections for various military positions of Numonia. That man wields an axe for his role as a devoted blood sage practitioner in the city. An enormous battle of wits between them, certainly, for themselves to split tables amongst top-tier politicians of the kingdom apart.

For insurance of his thoughts, there are no way but to talk it out with the person itself, so the man decides to act by force and yells.

“You’re Zamona Sulain, aren’t you?” He blabbered.

The gigantic beast’s three meters of posture goes appalled by Zeno Gunnar’s random accusation. His clenched fist of knuckles lessened a bit against the young knight’s guessing, then tilted back towards Zeno Gunnar for a word of clarification from his side.

“How could you- ah, precisely from my term of ‘old friend’, for sure.” The gigantic zombie muttered.

“Yeah, everyone in Numonia would never absent on that glorious battle, Sulain.” Zeno Gunnar sneered,”You’re departed from the city, so that’s my presumption from it.”

To the conclusion, the gigantic zombie laughed incessantly within blank expression of the living dead’s body frame,”Yeah, my league of blood sage hunted me down right after our defeat to that dastardly warrior, and that’s the answer of my self-exile and the new name on the plaque.”

“But now, he’s dead. I could be declared a winner in this chapter. So please, call me by ‘Valentino Rosta’, okay?”

Deino Gunnar’s living dead state could no longer hold its rage outburst after his sworn rival’s considerable knockback. Zeno Gunnar has locked him in all-rounder mode, but his father could escape away from it in any second of their battle nonetheless.

“Time for you to do a red one, father.”

(click-click)

‘rage mode initiated. Brace for impact.’

As the wristwatch announced, Deino Gunnar’s eyes submerged in crimson flame. Zeno Gunnar had contemplated of such method earlier at the latest battle against four gigantic zombies of the lobby. By pushing the red button before its own system declared on unbreakable madness, the young knight could override its automatic mechanism and directing his father’s sense into place.

“Ho-ho, you’ve activated such almighty form against mere me, herr Gunnar. I’m impressed.” Valentino Rosta taunted, speaking within his own beast’s throat to compliment,”What about-“

(crash!)

Deino Gunnar bounced instantly when his owner pressed on the last string of command. The legendary warrior’s speed are extraordinary, reaching Valentino Rosta’s gigantic zombie position in lesser than half of a second despite their 5 meters distance in the emergency stairs’ room. As to the counter-act, Valentino Rosta has never estimated on such bargaining from his guest, therefore made him carried out alongside Deino Gunnar’s rush immediately afterwards.

“Graa!”

For the first attempt on the attack, Deino Gunnar unleashed the golden axe’s power on his right hand and bashing towards silver-plated armor of the gigantic beast before him at once. The beast’s time was short to let loose of such haste, so He lacked support of Golden Greatsword on the other. Zeno Gunnar’s has considered it beforehand, as they are still within a cramped space of Welodge’s building, therefore his limitation to the legendary warrior’s choice of weapon at the time.

(dodge)

“Hup!”

The young knight was almost plunged into his father’s commencement of attack. He feint sideways by swaying to the left, avoiding such monstrous energy from Deino Gunnar’s horde of assault. The legendary warrior crashed onto the wall consequently, with gigantic zombie’s back as the shield for the clash.

(Bash! Bash!)

Deino Gunnar swings his weapon repeatedly to the gigantic zombie’s heavy armor, and now it is carved in the sharp edge of Golden Axe. Most of the office’s blue-colored table got crushed by the pair’s enormous feet when both of them collided against many furnitures of the room. They rammed towards the second wall afterwards, crashing into it without much trouble to begin with and destroying them all to bits.

“Umph, this is way too harsh, Deino. You have stolen something so good from my colleague.” The gigantic zombie teased. Of course, there would be nothing in reply from Deino Gunnar, as he sticks deeper wound to his enemy’s torso by the continuous blast of the axe.

“How about this?!”

(bash!)

The gigantic zombie loaded a quick uppercut to the living dead before him, abruptly stopping Deino Gunnar’s advance to the second room of manager’s office. A hint of red flash beckons at the tip of his fist. Its shockwave soared high and low, slamming Deino Gunnar upwards to crash on the next floor of the building.

(bam!)

Regardless, Valentino Rosta’s counter-attack was never projected to finish by pummelling a fist to the guts. The gigantic zombie springs towards his opponent for doing another blast of power to its face, made him took a flight aboard the leap of nonsense. Another floor has crumbled against Deino Gunnar’s immediate collision and created a wide array of gap to its terrain, dropping down some of its wooden cubicles at the top.

“Taste this! also this!” Shrieked Valentino Rosta to his victim,”How can you-“

(bam!)

There is no way for a zombie to yield against such terror. Golden axe’s power of chewing down courage has increased Deino Gunnar’s might gradually. It crunches Valentino Rosta’s bravery and given a portion of payments to the man in charge, lifting up the legendary warrior’s prowess across the battlefield. To add on the improvements that was intact, the golden axe’s dimension has also been multiplied by two times of its 50 centimeters length.

(crash!crash!)

Deino Gunnar’s overhead strike bashed the gigantic zombie’s figure down to many floors below them. He was fallen into more than 5 levels of the building instantly, cracking a widened apertures on Zeno Gunnar’s feet.

“Ugh, damn it! How could I forgot of that axe’s power?” Valentino Rosta moaned, roaring to his failure on deflecting Deino Gunnar’s attack,”I have to release my weapon, or else that beast could shatter this armor like a cake.”

(hum)

The gigantic beast’s lips was curled shut, but an enchantment of mystical properties is performed under its throat. A blood sage needs one spark of vital energy to summon his matters of assault. In foundation to the iron particle instilled within such liquid, Valentino Rosta could animate anything from void and utilize it on his will.

For his first choice of resource, the blood sage reaps on a bit of red from Deino Gunnar on the floor of 46th. Shortly after, the man assembled a dark brown scythe from nothingness, ready to use and manage on his whim.

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(tap-tap-tap)

Rather than fighting Valentino Rosta together with his father, Zeno Gunnar is in the middle of a new objective for the time being. He was accompanied by the speedster zombie of his group for locating the man’s actual position in the building. To such a fluke of the man, emergency stairs’ room was safe and sound. The gigantic zombie’s penetration to its structure are insufficient to obliterate its solid composition of marble. As a result, the young knight has enough time to carry on for finding the true person in control of the foe, and rushing towards the top for defining the truth of their upcoming.

“That blood sage is dangerous, for real! We can’t beat him without proper countermeasure to hold his power back somehow.” Zeno Gunnar pondered into himself for awhile,”What if.....”

(bzzt)

“Hey, Gunnar, are you there?” A voice emerged into Zeno Gunnar’s radio transmission. Of the bold color in his voice, the young knight could determine its owner in a flash and responding to it with delight.

“How’s you been? Where are you, this time?”

A rustling breath of the man implied many tensions in Tony Simmons’ own warfare. He laid down one instance of exhale, following to the next, all before eventually whispering to the radio later on,“No time to chat, Gunnar. I’m at the 46th and having to tip-toe a bit from combustible speedster baby.”

“Find out who’s behind this, okay? I’m counting on you.”

(beep!)

Receiving his current partner’s condition, Zeno Gunnar grasped an idea in his way to pursue on many floors above. For it to succeed, he needs to recall on the white-induced aura of serenity once more. There are no limits to such manifestation of composure. One full period of two minutes is absolute for the man to enact a rigorous search over their target, and he has to provide it by himself at the moment.

(beep-beep)

‘vigilante mode initiated.’

Zeno Gunnar triggered sensitive awareness of the speedster zombie to cover his six from harm. After that, he crossed both of the legs to meditate and collecting calm factors within his heart.

“hum...”

The young knight breathed in constant fashion to perform a steadiness composure to his entire figure. In each session of inhalation, Zeno Gunnar relaxed many strains of muscles to be soothed out of its nerve-wracking clash earlier. His father’s Greatsword power emanated an aura of intimidation to its surroundings, no matter on which side its prey was, so his own fear has beckoned nonetheless. On the other hand, The golden axe devoured instances of courage whenever it was situated therein, hence its definitive toll on Zeno Gunnar’s valor afterwards.

So much contradictive power for a heap of energy to his father, indeed, but a white aura of Numonia could shower them all back to balance in a short time. Before long, one person’s projection is imminent after the young knight’s imagery. He could produce numerous silhouettes of Welodge industries’ advanced weaponry upon the rooftop of their building. In the middle, Zeno Gunnar learned on Particle disintegrator’s actual dimension amongst two missile installation across both sides of the platform.

“He’s at the top of something solid to the left-most area of the gun.” Zeno Gunnar mumbled,” Ah, it’s their bullet cache.”

“Okay, time to run!”

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It takes approximately 20 more minutes for Zeno Gunnar to arrive on the peak. Valentino Rosta was busy on hanging underneath his silver helmet’s visor. Looking at many explosions in front of him, Deino Gunnar’s genuine battle was started way earlier than their disembark. On the wristwatch’s panel, the manager of Welodge Industries has been interacted with extensive combinations of moves and attacks. All of them are about the gigantic zombie’s most authentic skills, a handful of knuckles to hand down and bring about against Deino Gunnar and his might.

In spite of his monkey business towards the gigantic zombie’s constant pummeling, Valentino Rosta was alerted by Zeno Gunnar’s appearance on the similar floor to him. For welcoming him in proper manner, he flies down from the flat rooftop of the weapon cache and grinned.

“Oh my, look at our visitors right here.” He said, tilted his head 30 degrees to the left,”Where’s your human partner, herr Gunnar? You know, I’m expecting all of you to come here”

“He’s having his own battle.” Zeno Gunnar replied aimlessly. To that answer, Valentino Rosta summons two bloody-red axe on both hands.

“Alright, then. Killing you would be also fun for me anyway, bring it on, will ya?”