As Roanoke's first strike came onto contact with the Crab's exoskeleton, underwater, he heard it emit a cracking sound as the crab's pincer shell was cracked.
He had infused a great amount of Ki onto his shoulder and arm muscles to strengthen his strike, but it seems like it wasn't enough as he was only able to make a crack on the shell and not really shatter it. But he was not dismayed.
Infusing Ki onto his feet, he hastily kicked the water and put some distance between him and the crab. It seems like this fight will go on for so long, but he has no worry about a battle of attrition, He had already improved his stamina from all the swimming for weeks, so he can keep fighting underwater for a long time.
Seeing that Roanoke had put some distance between them and made a Crack on its shell, The Crab let out bubbles as if it was screaming and then clipped its pincers.
The moment its pincers were clipped, it then did a motion as if it was punching forward, and after that, an underwater current soon then rushed toward Roanoke.
Surprised by that, Roanoke hastily swang Skull Crusher to block the incoming torrent. With a ki infused swing, the current was repelled but the recoil from the collision of strikes sent Roanoke a few more meters away from the Crab.
Frowning, Roanoke tried to regain his stability and saw the crab coming towards him in great speed.
Chuckling, Roanoke kicked the water as he decided to meet the crab with his strikes. The crab, also seeing that Roanoke was coming at him instead of avoiding, it then raised its pincers and once again clipped it as an underwater slash was sent flying towards Roanoke. The golden haired lad meanwhile, just smiled and skillfully dodged the incoming slash by swimming to side as if he was just dodging in surface, without the limiters of the underwater. Then the pincer slash of the Crab did not end with just that.
Roanoke soon then raised his skull crusher and swang it to destroy the slash that was coming towards him.
After destroying it, he swam closer and when he can finally reach the crab, He then delivered a devastating horizontal slash towards the Crab's exoskeleton and followed up a vertical strike, forming a cross.
"[ Sword of the Sun: 1st form: Sunlight Cross ]"
What he just performed was the swordsmanship style that was being taught to every member of his family. Since his family was called 'The Sun of the Empire' for producing highly skilled warriors and heroes. He was supposed to become one as well, if only he had not been branded as Evil.
He used that technique as he did not actually hate his family that much, he only felt nothing towards them. He had been abandoned by them, yes. But because of them he was able to escape and survive. So he could not hate them, but that doesn't mean that he should love them.
And what's more....It is the only sword style that he knew. He just cannot create one on the spot, making one is very hard and dangerous.
As the technique collided with the crab's exoskeleton, he then saw the barnacles on the crab's back being cleaned off by the strike, but it did not even one bit shatter the exoskeleton. It only left a crack.
'Is it because the strike was too weak?'
Roanoke thought as he stared at Geoffrey on his hand and saw that it was being shredded. It is breaking.
'Ah...so that is why. I had a weak weapon.'
Finally having a realization, Roanoke scowled as a pincer soon then collided to him. Of course he did not let his guard down, he saw the pincer coming to him so he swiftly raised Geoffrey to block...but the Crab was able to adapt swiftly, it just threw a feint as it clipped the water and delivered a water slash towards Roanoke.
Surprised, Roanoke was sent flying a few meters back. His torso was cut from the water slash as blood spilled out.
Groaning in pain, bubbles came out from his mouth as he scowled.
Not letting the large wound on his torso bother him, Roanoke brandished Geoffrey once more and delivered another technique on the crab's exoskeleton. This time, he infused more ki onto his strike.
"[ Sword of The Sun: 2nd form: Sunrise ]"
Swinging his sword in a rising manner diagonally, Geoffrey then collided with the Crab's right pincer and destroyed its exoskeleton, showing its tender meat inside.
Feeling that, the Crab groaned as bubbles came out from its mouth. Its oversized body moved around as it clipped the water with its pincers.
Seeing that, Roanoke was ready for another slash....but he was wrong.
What came right after was not a slash. From the crab's barnacled back, there came a spike, a spike was shot from the barnacles on the crab's back and it soon rushed towards Roanoke, aiming to pierce him.
Surprised at the great speed of the spike, Roanoke tried to repel it but there were a lot of them. He was only able to repel one spike as the other ones pierced through each sides of his shoulder while the others grazed the side of his stomach and cheek.
Groaning in pain, blood spilled out from the mouth of Roanoke. As the wound where the spike had pierced him soon start to be corroded like it was being poisoned, but instead of a poison, barnacles grew onto his wound and slowly spread on his body.
Disgusted at that sight, Roanoke wanted a pay back. He thought about his strikes and realized that it was all pointless with a weak weapon, he should have just borrowed a sword from his master.....but even his master did not have a blade aside from a kitchen knife or an axe. Right, he should have borrowed an axe instead of messing around with a stick.
Roanoke had started to regret his decision as the barnacles slowly nibble onto his flesh. He felt the disgusting ticklish feeling from the barnacles. And as he was thinking about the possibilities and the stupidity of his decisions....Roanoke had an idea.
'Wait, how about I just Enhance Geoffrey?'
He had a thought and while he was rushing forward and dodging the water slashes skillfully, he willed the Ki inside himself and then made it run through his right hand as he let it flow towards the stick on his hand.
He had not tried transferring his Ki to an object before because of how hard it was. He can only wrap it to himself, doing something like that was like trying to put your consciousness on an object.
So now, it is his first time trying it out.
Finally annoyed at Roanoke being slippery, The Crab upped its speed as it delivered a punch towards Roanoke with its pincers. Since the crab's speed had improved greatly, Roanoke was unable to get away in time as he just raised his arm to block.
Upon colliding with the crab's punch, Roanoke felt his forearms shattering because of the devastating strike. But he did not give up on enhancing his weapon.
Then finally, he achieved it. With a bloody smile, he stared at the weapon on his hand being covered in a golden mist of energy. Since his arm had shattered from the strike, he cannot do a powerful swing.
So with the little bit of strength he had on his arm, he willed the ki to strengthen it as he threw his weapon towards the crab, like a javelin.
'Fuck you, Crab meat'
He muttered in his mind with a smile and felt his breath slowly reaching its limit. So he swam up, trying to run.
The crab, seeing the bamboo stick flying towards it, it reflexively raised one of its armored pincer to block, but it was a foolish move. Geoffrey pierced through the crab shell as it passed through and penetrated the crab on its head. Killing it.
Watching that while swimming up, Roanoke had a bloody smile and swam back up in a hurry.
'I won again'
He muttered inside his mind.