Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 57

Chapter 57: A Satisfying Fight
“You’re in for a hell of a treat from me~~”

After saying this, the white-haired youthful beauty disappears from the air where she is previously located, the ice platform underneath her shattering as a tremendous force goes through its entire structure, this tremendous force something that can be attributed to how the horned beauty is currently moving at a terrifying speed towards the emperor-like young man, her figure as if an arrow aiming straight to the opponent’s head.

Seeing this, Diluc doesn’t allow himself to be hit by that, bracing himself from the impact as he knows that he can’t really dodge this attack anymore, rooting his feet to the ground and raising his arms in preparation for the impact he is about to experience.

“Screw it, there’s no use hiding it now” knowing that he can’t really reason himself out once he comes out with minimal injury from this attack, Diluc is well aware that his identity as someone who takes the path of both mage and martial arts will be revealed to this lady, but knowing that there’s no second chance for him if he were to be defeated, he decided to show a bit more of his strength, of course, up to just a reasonable degree unless something happens.

As the white-haired horned beauty finally lands the attack on him, she couldn’t help but smile as she feels the direct hit on the young man’s body, however, the moment that she looks at the current situation, her eyes start widening as while she expects him to somehow avoid being killed by her attack, she doesn’t really expect him to come out of it pretty much unscathed.

“You are…” knowing what this means, she starts speaking once again as she looks at this young man, someone who seems to share the same talent as her, a thing that she deduced just from him blocking her attack.

‘The twin path of power!!!’ she thought to herself as she decides to confirm the authenticity of this speculation she has by herself, already knowing that he is a capable mage as she saw the report of how he melted the middle part of the testing dummy there, now the only thing she needs to confirm is whether he is really a martial artist as well.

However, given how tough his body is, she can pretty much confirm this fact already, it’s just that she is still in quite the disbelief due to meeting someone who has similar talent as hers.

“Great!! Try this now” she smiles as she creates a distance between her and the young man before she dashes once again, deciding to do something that only true martial artists can follow.

Meanwhile, the young man who is quite used to fighting with magic rather than his physique, is struggling quite a bit with this white-haired beauty’s fighting style, the only thing that is keeping him from revealing an opening to her being the fact that his martial arts level is fairly high as well.

‘She’s getting faster and faster’ Diluc thought to himself as this horned beauty starts to attack him on a faster and faster pace, making him frustrated as he couldn’t even throw a counterattack at her, proving her experience in battle as she can still barely suppress him with her current strength.

‘Damn it!! If not for this spatial domain restricting me to the Yellow Core and Muscle Conditioning, this wouldn’t even be a fight at all!!’ the white-haired beauty complained as she continues to strike barrage of attacks towards the young man who is completely defending himself despite there being a difference with their strength, him being at the Vague Orange Core and the Early Muscle Conditioning, while she already being on the highest level of these two cultivation stages.

After a few more moments into the fight, Diluc finally starts getting used to her way of offense, which is more focused on suppression rather than his defeat, his gradual movements of catching up to hers not escaping the youthful beauty’s eyes, which becomes pretty surprised once again as she knows how complex of a technique the one she’s currently using is.

‘He’s really a monster’ she confirms for herself as she starts moving to dodge, parry and block now as well, having some attacks of the young man slipping through her defenses and throwing her off guard, these moments starting to tip the fight more and more into the state of balance.

‘What a monster’ Diluc thought to himself as he continues to struggle slipping in attacks from this horned beauty’s defenses, making him think that even if they are of the same realm, Yggdrasil and Argenta might not be able to hold their grounds against this beauty on a fair, one on one martial arts fight.

The two of them continues to immerse themselves on the exchange they are having, fist turning into palms blocking other limbs aiming to hit each other’s body, their knees, feet, elbows and wrists becoming weapons as well the moment that the other person had even just the tiniest bit of opening on their defenses, the way they take advantage of this kind of miniscule openings showing so much about their high-risk high reward nature.

As they continue the exchange without a single care to the surroundings, the lady continues to parry as more and more of the young man’s attack slips into her defenses, only at this moment did she realizes that this young man is already using the same martial technique that she is using against him previously, the apparent smile on his face making it all the more obvious that he manages to learn it within this short amount of time.

‘Really impressive’ she thought to herself as she picks up the pace, not allowing the reputation of the principal of this academy to be tainted by a young man almost a decade younger than her, a young man whom she is sure of becoming someone with strength that will surpass hers in the future, should he manage to grow and not die in the process of metamorphosing from a young practitioner to a peerless expert, a bridge that majority of people not only in this kingdom, but all upon this vast lands, fail to cross.

‘This is becoming manageable’ Diluc thought to himself as he pushes this horned beauty more and more, the expression on her face seemingly easing up now as well given that her eyes are showing more and more emotion compared to her previous smiling face, and one of the identifiable one among the many emotions shining in her eyes being somewhat of a proud, if not an excited one that seems to be directed towards him.

As their limbs continues to cross each other, they eventually found themselves on a stalemate, with one of their hands holding one of their opponent’s legs, while their other hand is locked with each other and trying to escape from this lock.

Having considered how awkward of a position they currently are in, the white-haired horned beauty decided to let go of her locked hands first before she immediately pulls her legs out of the young man’s grasp, observing it and seeing that there’s not even a mark of his grasp on her despite her clearly feeling how securely he holds her leg in a lock with his hand.

Meanwhile, seeing this youthful beauty performed all those things swiftly, the emperor-like young man couldn’t help but feel like she’s hiding so much more of her strength than she had shown, something that he quite expected is true but not to the extent of the lady’s true strength that is enough to make her a guardian of a nation.

“That was a fun fight, kid, you passed” after escaping from the deadlock, the white-haired beauty, the very principal of this academy, Aria Frostborn, announces with an approving smile on her face directed towards the young man, all while her little fist turns into a thumbs up of commendation and appreciation for the fight that he had given her, something that she never experiences when dealing with people of the same realm as her.

‘I can cheat the detection of this spatial domain somehow and add another level to my strength to test his limits but…’ looking at this emperor-like young man who piques her interest, Aria couldn’t help but think about that before she eventually shoves these thoughts to the back of her mind before she reasons to herself once again.

‘… Forget it, if he wants to hide it for now, then there’s nothing I can do about that, true gems couldn’t really hide themselves for long anyways’ she reminded to herself as she recalls her younger times in this academy, standing out time and time again no matter her desire to not gather too much attention for herself.

“You’re now a part of the academy, kid, be sure to grow even stronger and not show anything that can ruin the reputation of this place outside”