Chapter 1025: Remembered
Sam and the opponent are staring at each other. They are not making any moves, but the tension kept getting higher and higher between them.
Kimpurushas have a decent recovery but compared to Sam's it is still far behind. After all, he is a part vampire, even if he surprised, the vampire cells in his body, wouldn't stop recovering.
The more the fight got delayed, the more beneficial it would be for Sam and the opponent seemed to have noticed that, he wanted to be a bit passive at least until the bleeding from his feet stops. But after looking the wound on Sam's face he decided otherwise.
The damage to the feet is not exactly a small one though.
So, he leaned forward and placed his arms on the floor standing on all fours like a real beast.
Sam smiled, but he didn't change his stance.
Both of them moved towards each other, the opponent still being on all fours.
As they reached within the fighting range, Sam tried to kick the guy in the face, but the opponent caught the feet and tried to dig his claws into it while putting Sam in a leglock.
But before the leg lock was even completed, Sam used that hold as leverage and his other leg which is glowing with the spiritual energy made its way towards the other party's gut.
The skin cracked on the torso of the opponent and blood slowly seeped out of it.
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The impact made the other party move away, but the grip on Sam's leg made a tear appear and he started bleeding.
But he didn't care about it unlike his opponent and ran towards the target before kicking him upwards and slashing his back with the claw.
The opponent took the chance and used the impact to his advantage and rolled forward to keep a distance.
"You are far better than I thought." He muttered to himself and suddenly his energy flow started changing.
Sam could see that the energy particles around him are acting differently through the energy vision, he became vigilant and took a defensive stance without attacking.
The opponent lunged forward and threw a spinning kick towards Sam's head, which he tried to dodge, but just when the leg was about to go past Sam's face, the opponent swung his fist in the opposite direction and his foot made a contact with Sam's jaw.
Sam was stunned by the sudden movement and he wasn't able to see the cause of it as he was too focused on the leg itself.
The opponent threw a jab with the claw towards Sam's chest, which he wanted to intercept, but all of a sudden, the position of the arm seemed to have changed instantly and his interception failed which made the jab land on him.
Luckily it handed on the shoulder as he managed to dodge it a bit.
Sam frowned at this. It was his instinct to focus on the attack that was coming at him and both times the attack changed, but not because something happened to the attacking point directly rather some other change that happened somewhere affected it.
He changed his focus to the body of the opponent as a whole, this time he is going to find out what is wrong with this situation even if he has to take some hits.
And he moved forward with just those intentions and tried to block the claw all the while looking at the whole hand.
He missed the timing to intercept, but he managed to get a glimpse of what is happening.
When the claw was coming at him from the side like a hook, something happened at the elbow as soon as he tried to intercept it.
The energy particles accumulated together and created a small explosion, which propelled the motion arm a bit and made the claw gain momentum which should have been impossible from the start and make Sam miss the timing.
This is a dangerous fighting method as it will make the user damaged a bit as well.
It is hard to find out with normal methods but once it was detected, it is actually easy to counter.
Sam took a step back and let the other party attack and this time he didn't intercept. He let the attack near him and just when the claw is near his body with just a few centimeters gap between them, Sam was about to make a move which made the opponent nervous and he used the attack anyway.
Sam smiled and just tilted his body a bit. The claw landed on the feathered coat and the claws stuck in the mesh for a fraction of a second. Even then, Sam took the brunt of the attack and should have moved backward, by instinct, but he controlled the urge and used that fraction of second and used his claws on the arm that came.
He used his full speed and he didn't spare any energy. Within that one second, he moved his arms eighteen times and all of them landed on the opponent's arm.
The flesh was torn apart from the bone and it became visible.
The arm is unusable now.
The opponent kicked Sam in the gut and used the recoil to move away.
Sam wiped his sweat away as he looked at the opponent, before slowly stepping forward.
"Since it is a sparring match, I don't want to be too cruel, but forgive me your techniques are too good for me to hold back."
Generally, in a fight, the fighters always aim for the vitals of their opponents to ensure that the fight is finished.
It is not like they deliberately want to do it, it is how they trained themselves and Sam is no exception.
They only focus on defending themselves and attacking the opponents on their vitals as they deem the rest of the minor injuries negligible.
As for tearing apart the flesh like Sam did, unless someone lost rationality or in a deliberate attempt to torture their opponent, nothing of that sort comes to mind, of course, desperate measures can also be a reason.
But for Sam with all the restrictions he placed on himself, this is the only way.
With this recoil method or whatever the opponent wants to call it, the opponent can escape and dodge easily. In normal cases, Sam would have used some other skills, or elemental energies or even the three styles would have made it easier.
In fact it would have been a walk in the park, but with the claws, the fastest method he could think of is only this.
Sam lunged forward to make a move but right before his claw touched the opponent, he stopped in his tracks.
The torch was put off.
Sam placed his palm on the opponent and channeled the light elemental energy to heal him. The arm that looked like it was mangled by a shark was healed completely.
"As I said. I am really sorry."
The fight was over and Sam stepped off of the stage.
He looked around and found a large stone wall.
"Can I use this for something?"
The tribe chief just nodded casually and Sam used his claws to slowly scratch the words on the wall.
'SAM WAS HERE'
Every time he did this in a different place and with a different weapon, it is giving off a different aura.
He smiled and said.
"You can remove it if you want. But I would like it if you keep it that way."
With that he and Nali left the tribe in search of a delicacy for this spot.
After hunting down a deer and eating it, Sam and Nali decided on the next journey.
He went to a different realm, fought a different opponent while maintaining different restrictions for the next few months while eating different foods, and everywhere he went, he left those three words along with some humiliation for his opponents and their families.
Of course, not everything was smooth sailing.
He has to fight the whole organization sometimes and sometimes he was caught up in the mess that he didn't want.
Sometimes the organizations sent assassins after him and sometimes getting the opponent is a fight itself.
Some people asked him to help them overthrow the tyrannical rulers they are under and some rulers wanted him to help them eradicate their rivals.
Some wanted to give their daughters to marry and tie him up to one place and some wanted to just make friends with him.
But whatever happened in every realm he visited, one thing happened in common. They couldn't forget the presence of Sam there.
His fame slowly started to spread in the realms.
He mostly operated in the realms that are not actually on the list of the organizations for the game.
So, he roamed freely without any restrictions and fears.
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He even earned many titles. Some called him fire slayer, some called him dual sword devil, some called him the poison monarch, some called him the Shadow of the death, some called him the Lightning blade.
He got many titles based on how he operated in different places.
He became a hot topic in taverns and inns.
Many people just dismissed them as mere rumors as they are too diverse and everyone who witnessed him in action believed their version is the only true version.
But one thing is for sure, no matter how they remembered him, he was remembered.