The Terminator charged forward, its violent stomps cracking the ground and stones within its path. Somehow it looked to be even faster than before.
[Skill Activated: Black Fog]
The black fog instantly shrouded the surrounding once more, completely covering the front where the Terminator was charging. Mikael this time charged into the black fog an excited smile replacing his earlier indifference. Now that only one Terminator remained, he could be freer with his actions. He did not have to look behind him every second in case of a sneak attack. It was time to test how he would fare against this future assassin.
"Brrrrrrrrrrrrr." His pistol came forth from his storage, countless bullets landing upon the Terminator. But it reacted faster, raising its arms upwards before the bullets could land, protecting its head from any damage. Mikael moved into striking range with these actions. His arm muscles tense, ready to attack. Hardening further encroached on his arms, solid mass of destruction.
[Augment: Harden]
[Water Stream Technique: Crushing Stream impact]
His arm impacted the Terminators stomach, and it showed no reaction. His concentration of force not even forcing it a step back. The only thing he earned himself was a numb arm. The Terminator gazed at him as if his action were some sort of Joke. The T-800 punched at his face a steel mass of death and Mikael quickly ducked beneath it, easily predicting its attack. It brough its open arm forward wanting to grapple him down easily with his overpowering strength and Mikael body became a blur before the hands could hold down on him.
[water stream Technique: Constant Micro Tremor step + Crushing Stream Impact]
Mikael appeared behind the T-800, his leg kicked out violently at the Terminator's leg, it knee bent slightly but did nothing else. He became a blur just as the Terminator swung behind at him wishing to catch him in another one of its bone crashing blows. Mikael appeared on the Terminators' right. His dagger appeared within his arm, he swung the dagger countless slashes appeared on the Terminators body, he vanished again just as the Terminators arm opened forward and reaching for his face, its arm clenched but it met empty air. Mikael appeared this time in front of the Terminator, his blade raised high, he stubbed it down on the Terminators neck. The dagger stabbed deep, piercing through flesh and impacting wiring and metal.
"Crkkkkkkk."
An arch of electricity suddenly arched from the wound he had created, just before he could retreat, the arc of electricity arched through the blade and into his body, instantly numbing his body. He still managed to jump backwards but his actions were delayed. The Terminator seeing an opportunity instantly acted. It had been observing the human's attack patterns, so it noticed instantly the break in its attack.
[Skill: Tremor step + Endo Jump]
The Terminator stomped on the ground its steps quaking the ground and instantly destabilizing him, it was like the solid earth became like loose falling rocks making it impossible to stay stable. It then suddenly leaped forward with a burst of speed, taking advantage of his luck of aerial mobility to appear instantly Infront of him. The Terminator, instead of its normal attack that would normally crash into him and throw him away, it opened his arms wide ready to grapple with him on the ground. Its arms snakeing forward incasing him within a tight hold. In an instant, Mikael found his arms being crushed, the Terminator holding him in a tight hold. He could already once again feel the crushing in his bones and the tearing of his muscles already happening.
'This was bad.' He thought, already knowing it was foolish to engage with a Terminator in a direct fight of strength. 10/10 he would lose in a battle of strength. This was the main reason Mikael had been using such an indirect fighting style. Sneaky attacks with quick retreating. 'Creak' That was the sound of his bones just about to snap!
"Crack, crack, crack."
Before the Terminator could break his own bones, Mikael dislocated his own bones expertly. His flexibility increased further and just before the Terminator could clump down once again on his fluid body, he had already detangled his arms from its hold, but it came with his own injuries. The few seconds the Terminator had held onto him had made his arms turn red and numb. The dislocating further made things worse his arms currently flaying uselessly like spaghetti.
'Its time to retreat.' Mikael quickly rolled away and jumped to his feet. He was ready to run again and look for another chance of attacking. While he did this the bones of his arms quickly reformed, bringing with it a painful stiffness within his usually fluid arms.
The Terminator, seeing he was about to run again, it suddenly lunged forward before he could get far. Its quick jump had immediately gotten it to his retreating figure and the Terminator clutched his leg before he could escape its grip. It pulled strongly backwards on his leg and Mikael found himself being thrown to the ground.
[Skill: Cyber Rift]
The Terminator immediately stepped forward, following his falling figure, its arm was clenched in readiness to finally end the fight. While still holding his leg it hammers down violently.
"Crack."
Mikael bones dislocated within his leg, his leg instantly becoming fluid jelly. Using his still good leg he pushed himself forward slipping from its grip before the punch could crash into him. The ground cracked destroyed by the Terminators strength, but Mikael was not there. Already a safe distance away.
His Barret M107 appeared instantly within his arm the moment he jumped forward, while still in the air his aim locked onto the Terminators' figure.
[Skill: Terminate] "Bang"
The bullet fired but just before the Terminator could be blasted to pieces it activated its skill. The damage that should have resulted in its destruction was nowhere. Instead, the Terminator had been blasted backwards, stumbling into the ground. He noticed the sudden arcs of electricity running throughout its body. Whatever it had done looked to had caused some sort of damage to it.
Mikael was greatly shocked. How could this be! This was the attack he knew would end the fight and not only had it landed, but the Terminator had survived. He noticed the Terminator had experienced a drop in its energy and that could mean it had used a skill. Suddenly an even more abrupt drop happened.
[Skill: Cyber rift]
The Terminator raised its hand, and Mikael was already aware of what the motion was supposed to do. But what confused him was why the T-800 was using a skill while he was obviously outside its effective strike range.
"Boom." The Terminator struck the ground and suddenly instead of the ground just collapsing due to its strength. It was like a shockwave of energy erupted from its strike. That shockwave appeared upon him instantly and it blasted him upwards like an explosion from the ground. He felt the pain rush through his body again. But Mikael ignored the pain. It was a friend he had come to accept within his life.
He adjusted himself while still in the air, ignoring his aching back and aimed again at the Terminator. If it could still use that broken defense skill of it Mikael would make a break for it without hesitation. He already lacked ways of injuring the Terminator, what was he supposed to do if it could suddenly become invulnerable.
[Skill: Endo Lunge!]
"Bang "[ Skill: Terminate]
The bullet shot forward, it accelerated faster before the T-800 could act and Mikael instantly knew he was going to win. But at the corner of his eyes, he suddenly saw something that pulled his attention away, the Terminatrix, the one he had earlier damaged the leg from. It suddenly appeared from who knows where and with a burst of speed, it had jumped in the middle of the bullets strike path. The bullet ripped into the Terminatrix, blasting into its neck and completely ripping it apart destroying it instantly. The bullet had lost its momentum, but it still impacted with the Terminators body, once again he noticed how the Terminator was unaffected, and Mikael was in immediate shock. What sort of heaven defying luck was this!
[Title Machine Predator progress 3/10]
[Dreamer has earned 10000 Dream Points for killing a T-800]
[Skill: Endo Skeleton]
Suddenly the Terminator that had been knocked down suddenly burst into flames. No, it was not that the Terminator was bursting into flames, the fake skin that was covering its body was the one that burst into flames; the Terminator then slowly stood from the ground its skin flaking off in fiery amber. It finally stood in its full machine glory, the fake skin completely vaporized. Its red rimmed eyes locked onto him and it's somewhat human teeth were visible exposing a strange sort of cruel smile.
[Skill: Tremor step + Endo lunge]
A large sum of energy dropped form the Terminators stats and as it stomped down with its leg the foot crushed down, impacting the ground and like a homing beacon the energy shockwave rushed to him and arrived instantly towards him. Mikael leg broken, the attack impacted him before he could dodge. He was thrown upwards again like a grenade erupting below him and a rush of pain rushed through him again.
[Augment: Harden]
His hardening appeared all over his body in an instant covering his body in a protective crystal membrane. But that would not stop the T-800 it had arrived upon him instantly with its jump and this time its arm wound around him into a crushing bear hug. The tight hold almost squeezed the life out of him but Mikaels quick reaction saved him. Hardening had reduced the damage and his consequent shifting of his organs had helped him avoid the severe crashing force after.
The Terminator did not stop its charge. With Mikael in its arms, it charged forwards to a group of trees planning to use him as a human sized battering ram.
"Crash, crash, crash." His back impacted countless tress, ripping them in half but the T-800 did not stop in fact, its eyes showed a strange sort of cruelty as it held on even tighter, the edges of its fingers digging deep into his Crystal protection. Mikael could feel the edges of his sanity loosening, the pain breaking a certain rationality within him that he himself was surprised he still had. A mad exhilaration was also born in his eyes. A grenade appeared within his hands, the pin already removed. Without hesitation he stuffed the grenade within the Terminators chest cavity, the same strategy he used to crush the Terminatrix earlier.
"Hahaha. A life for a life." Mikael had learnt something with this fight. Now with the awareness that his title of the strongest was useless in the tower. This was the only way to fight. Exchange your own life in the pursuit of victory. Throw away everything to achieve your win. If the pursuit of survival destroyed that pursuit of victory, abandon your life and only focus on winning!
[Augment: Double Harden]
"Hahahaha. BAANGGGG!" The grenade exploded and it eclipsed the mad laughing of Mikael. The two were forcefully blasted apart, both with varying degrees of injuries but the Terminator had the worst end of the stick its chassis completely shattered. Its red rimmed eyes flickered on and off surviving from whatever sort of will power or energy that remained within its hydrogen cell battery.
"Cough, cough. Hahahaha." Mikael was in no better condition. But surprisingly, he was also at the same time not that injured. Beside him within his arm laying black and charred was a huge bone, the Femur bone of the Death bear king that Mikael had taken out at the last moment, using it as a barrier between him and the explosion. And it had worked. Mikael had come out with the better hand. Not completely and he may have blacked out for a second, but he had won!
"Cough, cough. I'm going to feel this in the morning." He said once more stuffing stamin pills, bone mending pills and even a minor health potion within his mouth. Why wait for his minor regeneration to kick in when he could get instant relief. That was how he felt at least as the medicinal effect of the drugs kicked in and a sort of numbing pleasure washed over his body.
[Augment: Removal]
Mikael was just about to rest and allow his body to regain some of its strength when a sudden realization dawned on him. 'Where's the kill Notification!'
"SSCRRRRRRRR!" The Terminators suddenly let out a mechanic grinding scream as it suddenly burst from where he thought it was dead. It had lost its lower body now leaking a sort of oily blood. One of its arm was gone and it still persisted forward pulling itself with the sole arm which sparked with its continuous movement, electric arcs running through its body. It only had one eye and with that eye it only had him within its vision. Within the Terminators' eye all it saw was its target of elimination. It's mission objective, its purpose of existing! It saw the human was injured and the Terminator used the last of its strength, its arm braced itself and it launched itself forward. Before its hydrogen cell power core run out it would accomplish its mission…!
"Bang!"
His arm dropped weakly to the ground. The smoking pistol now lay weakly within his grip. One shot, one bullet. A bullet that went straight through the missing eye socket of the Terminator and caused instant death.
[Title Machine Predator progress 4/10]
[Dreamer has earned 10000 Dream Points for killing a T-800]
Mikael's head hit the ground. He almost felt the drowsiness that always came after a fight, but he easily ignored it. He then raised his arm shielding himself from the sudden light and it was only then he noticed that morning had already arrived. And the first rays of sunlight welcomed his killing to this world.
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