Chapter 74:

Chapter 74: Intensify The Storm

Beyond The Stars

“Now, do you see why, despite all three of you fighting me, you aren’t going to win?” Walno asks, smiling politely yet speaking victoriously.

“We will win!” Kurt declares defiantly.

Kurt charges at Walno and uses multiple Flame Aura Punches. Walno blocks all of them with his mallet, its size too big for Kurt to get around. Kurt then jumps above Walno, trying to get past his mallet. Kurt tries to punch Walno from above but Walno blocks even that with his mallet by simply angling it upward.

As Kurt lands on the other side, Walno swings his mallet 180 degrees while Kurt unleashes some of his magic energy, the mallet still slams into Kurt. It knocks him back, but the magic energy softens the blow.

Kurt steadies himself, and then holds both of his arms out. “Aura Barrage!”

A barrage of spherical-shaped aura blasts filled with energy releases from his arms. Walno is unable to block all of the blasts because of the wide range that they cover. He is caught in explosions from a few blasts that land near his feet.

Walno takes damage from the attack, but still maintains his confidence. “A wise attack.”

“I’m not done yet!” Kurt yells while closing in on Walno, taking advantage of his recovery time.

Walno’s eyes widen, shocked at Kurt’s lack of hesitation to get close. With no time to defend himself, Kurt punches him in the face.

“I’m not giving you a moment to prepare!”

Kurt rapidly punches Walno all over his body, causing him to lose his grip on the mallet in the process.

“Enough!” Walno shouts, finally showing signs of anger and irritation.

Walno eventually kicks Kurt in the gut, stopping Kurt’s rapid punches and knocking him back.

“You may be able to gain the upper hand but it will never last long!” Walno shouts.

Walno follows up his last attack by throwing his boomerang at Kurt. Kurt charges his hand with magic energy and catches the boomerang in the air. “I caught your boomerang! So much for that!”

“What a foolish idea,” Walno says in a deep cold tone.

Kurt drops the boomerang, and grabs the hand that he caught it with, as that hand is now bloody and in pain. “Gah! It hurts a lot…!” He pants, the damage taking its toll.

“I doubt you will even be able to use your left hand again for the rest of the battle,” Walno says just before chuckling. “It’s over now!”

“No, it’s not…” Joe replies, breathing heavily in his weakened state.

Walno turns around to see Joe charging his magic energy.

“You won’t be the first opponent to think that just because I’m injured, that means I’m out of the fight…” Joe starts before he screams, “No, far from it! It’s time to intensify the storm!”

The charged magic energy in his arms is crackling, barely contained.

“And what do you mean by that?” Walno asks, not showing even a hint of worry.

Joe grits his teeth, glaring at Walno. “Here, let me show you! L4 Tornado!!”

A strong tornado is released inside the room and the only thing keeping the room from being destroyed is the magic properties that the whole mansion is made out of.

Kurt braces himself and Joe grabs hold of Emily, who is still unconscious.

For the first time in the fight, Walno is scared, his eyes trembling with worry.

“No!”

A lot of objects that are not stuck to the floor start flying around. Walno tries to retreat, but he and his mallet are caught in it.

Swirling inside the tornado, Walno is continuously bashed by his own mallet, severely damaging him.

Kurt picks up the boomerang. “Here is your toy back!” He throws the boomerang at Walno. The boomerang hits Walno and knocks him out of the tornado toward a wall.

“And now for the finishing blow!” Joe screams as he points his finger forward. “You can have this thing back too!”

Joe has the tornado throw the mallet with heavy force at Walno, delivering the finishing blow and knocking Walno out.

“Yes!” Kurt screams victoriously.

Joe ends the tornado, and Walno’s body lies on the floor, completely lifeless.

Joe grins with excitement. “We won!”

Kurt takes a deep breath before saying, “Yes, but unfortunately, we took too much damage for a three-on-one fight.”

Emily regains consciousness and rubs her head.

“Emily!” Kurt shouts as he runs up to her and Joe.

“What happened?” Emily asks, still a little woozy.

“Walno knocked you unconscious with his mallet, but we were able to finish him off while you were out,” Joe replies.

“Thank goodness,” Emily says with a sigh of relief.

Joe glances around. “Now, the question is where do we go from here?”