His torso was completely bare
Sighing Annie stopped abruptly around the two hours and ten minute mark So much so that Hank looked up surprised He hadnÆt come close to catching her but his Dodge Roll and Dueling Skills were rising so quickly he couldnÆt believe it Had she finally given up
Honey can you take care of this man HeÆs surprisingly resilient Annie complained flipping her hands He just wonÆt admit he lost this duel It truly surprises me that he can claim with a straight face that he is a man
The individual that Annie was speaking to smiled Hank would call him a man but that would be woefully inadequate in describing truly who she was speaking to It was a man like the hulk was a man But where the hulk had a physique without an ounce of fat this man just seemed solid Not that he was particularly fat but he did have something of a belly and there wasnÆt much definition to his arms But where he stood out was pure size
His shoulders were the size of basketballs and his hands were large enough to wrap around a personÆs head He was probably fully two meters tall and weighed close to 300 pounds At least
The man cracked his knuckles It looks like he just wants to box Annie But look since you seem uninterested how about I handle it
Annie tittered You would do that for me
Chapter 545
Annie actually thought that this ambassador from Zone 1 was rather cute if misguided There was a very aggressive pleasure in slowly shooting the arrows until his clothes revealed the body underneath for all that the man was probably 10 years her senior
Besides there was something very pleasurable in how he refused to concede even when it had become increasingly obvious that there was a vast disparity of power between them Of course this meant that he had probably gained two dozen Skill Levels over the course of their confrontation but that didnÆt mean that most people could see the benefits in remaining in the fight and being humiliated Men especially found it a hard pill to swallow
There was a spark in this oneÆs eye he was desperate for the wildness and thrill of testing himself
Crossing her fingers Annie hoped that Dozer wouldnÆt be too rough with him
Dozer moved with surprising quickness for his bulk and closed the distance between himself and the cowboy The cowboy for his part said nothing to imply he rejected the challenge In fact he raised his fists and adopted a boxing posture
Dozer was not a particularly emotional man although he truly was more insightful than Annie gave him credit for early on in their relationship But when the cowboy adopted a stance he smiled pure and wide It was the look of a child who had found the toy he had been waiting for
At an unspoken signal both rushed towards each other the cowboy moving much more quickly than Annie would have given him credit for She had been aware that part of her advantage lay in her use of her stealth Skills to keep him from being able to read her shots but it was still impressive to see his stride eat up the distance His movement style also revealed that he was a competent boxer as well
Dozer had no grace just momentum Then he threw his first punch There was an audible crack as Dozer tightened his hand into a fist and raised it The blow seemed deceptively slow
To his credit Cowboy rolled backward instantly But as the cowboy looked up at Dozer his eyes narrowed and she sensed he could intuit that he had just made a mistake
Building on his momentum Dozer rumbled forward two more blows smashing outward From anyone else these would be casual jabs From Dozer it could kill a regular human and even those with Classes would blanch at the thought of being hit with the fist directly
Instead of dodging Cowboy stepped forward and under the blows After he had narrowly missed getting his head knocked off he threw a left of his own one that smashed into DozerÆs midsection Dozer had a good 7 inches on the man and the closest target to him was DozerÆs huge torso
Without bothering to dodge Dozer brought his left arm around in a hook
The cowboy expertly stepped to the side and then threw two more lefts But before they even landed his eyes widened as he sensed the danger After throwing the hook Dozer twisted his left arm and clawed outward at the cowboy using a lot more force this time It was fast and too late to dodge The cowboyÆs eyes narrowed
He adjusted his stance and twisted to throw a right at DozerÆs jaw
It hit and DozerÆs head tilted incrementally to the side At the same time DozerÆs hand landed on the cowboyÆs shoulder There was a moment of pause as the cowboy was knocked off balance and stumbled while Dozer gathered his strength
With a roar Dozer burst into motion his body twisting almost 90 degrees to the left His attack was now more of a grab than a claw and the cowboy yelped as the rapid rotation caught him and brought him around flinging him into a nearby tree
He tumbled head over heels and crashed into the tree which cracked Wood and man collapsed in a broken heap to the ground Silence reigned for several seconds
Annie rolled her eyes I know heÆs tough but jeez That barely took any time at all You need to learn to savor your meals
Shrugging Dozer cracked his neck while rubbing his chin thoughtfully All the while that wide grin stayed on his face It was a good punch
Randidly stared intently at the remains of the bonfire he had made the previous night
There was a weight to burning he was slowly realizing and that was key There had to be a certain amount of constant heat in a large area around it and then like a seed an even deeper and more dangerous seed would slowly bloom That bloom would slowly spread outward until it filled the entire space that the prior heat had occupied If there was enough fertile ground now an even more powerful heat would be born there But that required area
The coals in front of Randidly glowed orange and red a luminous rainbow of ambient energy It was impossible for him to up the scale of the experiment without alerting Ghost so he had simply made a small example after a barbecue was held in the small shanty town
It was very far from what happened in the case of a sunÆs formation of course But it was illustrative of where the power came from It was almost pseudo science at this point but that heated area slowly increased the possibility of something greater being born
The supernova phenomenon occurred because at some point that seed of heat that bloomed was to the functioning process of a sun fundamentally more dangerous than any of the vast space had been previously It broke the balance
Unfortunately no balance would be broken in a small fire
Congratulations Your Skill is now 75% formed
But that didnÆt mean there wasnÆt something to learn
However before he could consider further Randidly received a message from Dinesh
I found another one of Unity ChurchÆs facilities
Randidly eyes glowed emerald and vicious in the darkness It was time to find out what the Church was truly doing He had been somewhat hesitant about what to do after learning that his Grandfather was part of the Church After all RandidlyÆs relationship with his mother was strained to say the least She had a similarly distant relationship with her father who had raised her alone after his wife died
But there was always a wariness there On those rare occasions that Randidly saw his grandfather he had always been on his best behavior Because the man was extremely eccentric and volatile One time to prove to Randidly that there was nothing to fear from riding a bike his grandfather had ridden a childrenÆs bike 12 miles from the store back to his house and back
He had returned with RandidlyÆs overnight bag because he was staying with his grandfather at that time Then his grandfather had checked his watch I might as well just tell your mother to pick you up here Good day