18 Attention

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The creator was an observer, after building so many realities, his attention span had become quite short.

He had observed something intriguing in his new 3d build, an early bend in reality. There were some races that, after countless evolutions, gained technology that could bend reality.

What he had observed occurred in the first 20 million years of the creation of habitable planets and 5 million years since the creation of life forms.

It was the earliest and most minute disruption in reality the creator had ever seen.

What he didn't know was that this bend only occurred due to Earth, in the hex build, by a man who bypassed his own reality.

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Madison felt haunting fear from Nero, a child who was not the least hesitant to end a life if it threatened his own. This is a child? More like a goddamn monster.

Also, how did he sneak up on her? She had always been cautious enough to her surroundings to never get sneaked up on, yet a meager child managed to skip past?

She had many questions about this extraordinary dark grace, yet she was sure he was a monster more terrifying than any she had ever seen.

The blade of the scythe had also shocked her a bit. Never had she seen something so beautifully unique, so intricate and a blade so light, that a kid could weild it with a single hand. She still didn't know how physically strong Nero was, so it was a guess on her end.

A snap from Nero finally brought Madison out of her daze.

She got into a stance and showed him a basic move set. Horizontal slash, vertical slash, double diagonals, a U-curve slash, a Z-slash, an 8-slash and the most basic protective blade rotation.

'Her stance is more focused on exerting force, rather than the stance I made for speed.' Nova analysed.

'I really hope we get to train against her.'

"Give me a minute, I'll try to do what you did." Nero sat down, and replayed what he saw in slow motion.

He already knew how to handle a blade, at much much higher speeds than that protective blade rotation, however he was trying to find the moments when she physically exerted more force in a strike.

He zoomed in and saw her veins bulge exactly when the blade was at a 90° from her body.

"Okay, here we go." Nero jumped into her stance.

He had realised why she wasn't moving her blade so fast, it was that the strength needed for her blade to make an incision on an animal came from her body, rather than built up redirected momentum like what was suitable for Nero.

He had already asked Nova to provide him guidelines for his blade movement. Madison was both struck with awe and scared for her life.

'The potential! The chief told me he had never used a weapon in his life but this... He only saw me once, and he's almost completely copied my Movements, scaled them down, and applied force exactly where I did. I don't even have to teach this kid! I'll just show him how I fight and he'll learn even better than me trying to teach him, and he's able to do blade protection FIRST TRY?!? What. The Fuck.'

Madison was quite convinced of Nero being a monster posing as a human, but he was a monster she could do nothing to stop. He had monstrous learning, talent beyond paragon, and he could easily kill her with his manipulation.

"Alright, let's spar." Nero didn't look one bit exhausted, it was clear her moves were of no challenge to him, of course perfecting and refining could be done but his moves were very well performed.

Sparring commenced.

Both of them went to opposite broken pillars and Nero levitated a piece of stone, then dropped it from a 10m height.

The moment it landed both bodies accelerated towards each other.

Nero's body was already enhanced beyond an average person's, with all the beasts he ate, he was already stronger than most adults on Earth.

His body was much lighter than before, yet it could dish out more force than a normal man, all due to the compositional change in the muscle make up.

People like Madison, who survived in the wilderness, had also gone through this change, though not at the rate and efficiency Nero did, their bodies naturally refined beast mana but at a very minute rate and with 10x times worse efficiency in contrast to Nero's body. Needless to say, it was all due to Nova that Nero's body could so effectively refine beast mana.

As their blades clashed, Madison was the one pushed back, only because she wasn't actually using all her strength. She had clearly underestimated this Little monster in front of her.

Nero had coped very well with the strike, balancing himself in an instant, and moving into an offensive stance seeing as he had pushed the weapon specialist back.

Madison knew she could easily win if she used some other moves and stances but this was about using her skill and limiting herself to the moves she'd shown Nero, not overpowering him with threatening and deadly moves, because she knew she was the one with a higher chance of dying if she really went for the kill.

She had also felt the sturdiness of the blade, its double edges really made her feel threatened, much more so than her single edged blade.

Seeing Nero close in on her, taking advantage of her momentary unbalance, she readied herself to use blade protection.

She used it the moment he pulled back his scythe, to fend off and get a comeback, however, it was only a feint.

She had been fooled!

Nero had streamlined his body the second began to spin her scythe, aiming his edge right in the center, pushing the spinning blade, as well as it wielder, backwards.

The serrated end gleamed brightly as it embedded itself into the Shaft of the scythe.

Madison long knew that a pointed blade to the center was the only weak point of the basic blade protection. It had been clearly exploited in front of her eyes by a beginner.

She had long stopped referring to him as a child, a monster was clearly more suited this boy.

She had long been pushed back on the floor while the lightless blade drilled into her precious scythe.

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