Reborn as an Extra - Chapter 30

Chapter 30: New Year(Part-2)-Link Vs Rio!
(A forgotten memory)

“Hey! Link! Would you like to climb that tree with me?”

“Nah, I don’t want to.”

“What, you scared? Hah, the son of such a great person is scared…”

Seeing the smirk on the cute girl’s face, Link got annoyed; he felt his pride was being hurt.

“Who said I am scared!? I am not scared! Let’s climb!”

“I will climb before you can, you little scared cat!”

“I am not a scared cat! Wait, I will catch you!”

Link started running towards the running girl. He tried to run as hard as he could, yet he was not able to catch her. As he kept chasing her endlessly, the girl tripped and fell on the ground.

He immediately ran towards her and checked her knee for wounds.

“Are you okay, Riya!”

“Ye-yeah, just a little scratch.”

“You shouldn’t run so fast, you silly girl!”

“I am not silly though~ Link’s sillier than me~”

Ignoring her teasing, Link helped her get up. Both of them then started to walk towards the tree they had wanted to climb:

“Hey Link…”

“What?”

“w-would you always save me in the future too?”

“Yeah, I will!”

“I-I see…”

…

Looking at the same girl he had promised to protect being in grave danger, Link’s heart started to beat faster; he started to feel extremely anxious and worried. He wanted to protect her no matter what, no matter what

‘No matter what I will protect her…’

‘Protect her’

‘Protect her’

‘Protect her’

‘Protect her’

‘Protect her!!’

Suddenly the mana started to concentrate around Link, and he started to lose his sanity at the mere thought of losing the only most precious person that he ever cherished in his life.

Until he finally snapped…

The unknown A-ranker felt a sudden sensation of death at that moment.

“Wh-what’s happening!?”

A strange silence appeared and an eerie atmosphere surrounded them, until the silence was broken by Link:

[Dragon Arts: Maximum Output: Mana Overload!]

Instantly the mana in the surroundings started to tremble and madly rush towards Link; even the ground started to crack from the mere impact of the mana moving.

If not for the fact that Riya was right now held captive and was inside the mana shield of the A-rank individual, even she would have been affected by this much mana.

The last black-clothed individual who the A ranker wanted to save also burst apart into pieces, and his body’s mana was also sucked dry by Link; his innards were splattered all over the ground, and the scene became extremely ugly.

Link’s muscles started to bulge up, even the blood vessels started to become visible on his hands and face.

His red eyes started to glow even more brightly, as if a fire were burning in them, as if they had already locked their prey, and obviously his prey was the individual holding Riya.

Seeing the boy suddenly transform like this, the A-rank individual suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

His senses were telling him that something is very wrong with this boy; even though he might just be a bluff, this boy is definitely giving him the feeling of ‘death’ right now.

The A-ranked individual was not a fool; he knew that the professors of the academy should already be rushing to this place and must be on their way. As the person he wanted to save was already dead, he immediately came to a decision:

“You forced me to do this, boy, See how I kill her and remember that me, Yug, an A-rank assassin, had killed her! ahahahah!”

*Clink!* *thud!*

Just as Yug was about to do the final attack, a sudden slashing sound came, with something falling on the ground.

He glanced down and found that the girl he had been holding in his left hand up until now had disappeared without him even knowing.

His mana shield suddenly collapsed and just as he was getting more confused, he felt a bit pain in his right hand. Looking at his right hand, he found it was missing.

Yeah, you read it right; his right hand was now on the floor.

“Wh-what the f**k!!?!”

He immediately stopped the fountain of blood by using his mana to seal his right hand’s wound instantly.

Yug is a veteran assassin, yet he never got to know what suddenly happened all of a sudden and how his arm got sliced off so fast that he only felt the pain after a few seconds.

Seeing that Riya was nowhere to be seen, Link’s rage suddenly reached its limit; he immediately launched towards Yug with extreme speed.

In a mere blink of an eye, a punch landed on Yug’s face with so much force that even the ground split apart due to air pressure.

*BOOOM!!* *Crack!!*

Yug was sent flying straight towards the nearby pillars, yet his body continued to penetrate right through the pillars, which caused the entire upper floor of the nearby building to collapse.

It is fortunate that the collapsed building was already empty from the start and no one was harmed.

Not satisfied yet from that much, Link directly jumped to the exact location where Yug’s body had stopped; he broke through the debris and dragged Yug’s body out while holding him by the neck.

Yug was already coughing out blood; his several rib bones had broken from the previous punch. He had already lost his strength to fight back anymore.

Moreover, his dominant arm had been sliced off by someone’s sneak attack, so he had no way of fighting Link in this berserk state.

Link was not satisfied though; he threw Yug’s body directly to the ground and started to rain punches right on his face like a madman; one by one, the punches landed with more and more lethality.

*BOOOM!* *BOOM!*

Blood splattered over the ground, and the ground cracked more and more with each punch, making debris fly in the air like crazy.

As time passed, more mana started to fuse with Link, and his punching speed and lethality increased even more.

He continued to punch and punch and punch until he found that the body was already reduced to a meat paste.

He reduced Yug to a battered paste of meat splattered all over the ground, and there was nothing left of that veteran assassin’s body now.

As Link found that the person had been killed, he immediately got up to look around. He was still in his maddened state and wanted to go out his anger on someone.

He has long forgotten his real goal, and now he is at the peak of his insanity; he’s gone completely berserk now.

Just as he was going to jump towards the area where the people had evacuated, his attention was attracted by a voice that appeared from behind him.

“It looks like I am a bit late today; sigh~ I guess stars enter the show late, so I can’t be blamed, right?”

A boy with dark black hair and pupils was sitting on a broken stone right behind Link. He had an expressionless face and an average look.

All in all, he looked average from every aspect, yet his aura was telling Link this guy was not ordinary at all.

Link wasn’t in the right mind to differentiate between friend and foe right now. So, just as he saw the boy, he directly launched towards him with an extremely fast speed.

In a blink of an eye, Link’s punch was right in front of Rio’s face.

Just as the punch was going to land, Rio tilted his face a bit to the left, and his face moved away from the punch’s trajectory in a matter of a millisecond, easily dodging the attack without taking any damage!

“Well, speed is my specialty… If you want to compete in it, then be my guest!”

[Elemental Sword Arts: Wind Type: Serpentine Wind!]

Instantly, Rio’s figure blurred, and he appeared right behind Link.

Rio’s sword moved even faster, and he directly slashed at Link’s face with even faster speed than before; his sword moved like a serpent in the air, and his attack was strong enough to make the air tremble like crazy.

[Dragon Arts: Defense Type: Bane of Heavens!]

Link wasn’t a pushover though; he immediately sensed the danger, and with his increased mana, he strengthened his body and used his extreme reflexes to block the sword attack with his bare hands.

Yeah, he blocked Rio’s sword with bare hands and then directly deflected it to the side!

Even Rio was surprised for a second but instantly he jumped back and made a safe distance between the two.

‘As expected, he really is strong… But this is just the starting!’

[Elemental Sword Arts: Moon Type: Curved half-moon!]

Rio’s sword suddenly started to glow with a faint white light as if moonlight had condensed on his sword, and with the next swing of the sword, a thin wave of light cut through the air with extremely fast speed.

This is the best elemental type he has that is precisely made to cut strong defenses.

This time Link was a little slow to react; a little cut appeared on his right arm, which he directly ignored and walked it off.

[Dragon Arts: Barrage: Consecutive Dragon Rush!]

A rain of punches was unleashed on Rio; just the momentum of those punches was strong enough to make Rio feel tense.

He knew that he couldn’t dodge them all so he had to bring out his newly acquired skill,

[Handling!]

Rio used his sword as a medium to deflect the trajectories of Link’s punches

Both Rio and Link kept attacking each other at speed faster than the naked eye of someone below C-rank can’t even see.

They kept going back and forth with no one getting the upper hand for a while.

As time passed, their attack speed kept increasing, and both of them continued to exchange blows like crazy.

When a punch was about to land on Rio, he deflected it using ‘handling,’ while Rio’s sword only made small cuts on Link’s body, even though it landed on him successfully; both were stuck in a stalemate.

‘Tsk, this guy has such thick skin, I am not able to cut it! What the f*ck does this guy even eat in breakfast… Diamonds!?’

Now Rio totally understands why Link was considered the biggest challenge for Fade. This guy is just that strong and can’t be defeated so easily.

‘I doubt that if not for the plot armor, Fade would have never been able to even make a scratch on him!’

‘This guy is even more unbeatable when in this rage mode of his; its fortunate that he can only maintain this for a short period…’

After all, the mana overload puts a huge stress on Link’s body, and if used for a long time, it can cause serious damage to him.

Due to which after ten minutes of activating this skill, Link will automatically come back to his senses and this rage mode will go off.

This is the only way for Rio to deal with this situation now.

Obviously he is not using his all and is only trying to pass the time somehow while distracting Link’s attention from the people in the evacuation hall.

Considering that Link was already fighting Yug before Rio came, he only need to do one thing now:

‘Two more minutes left; I just have to kite him for a while more….’