The bow-woman lunged forward with a swift predatory grace, with her hands outstretched and eyes locked onto Rudra, before he could react, she was upon him with her legs straddling his abdomen, pinning him down with an iron grip. The bow was in her left hand as she used her right hand and blew a flurry of punches on Rudra's chest and face.
Meanwhile, here Rana and Dharanesh were engaged in combat, Rana drove his spear at Dharanesh, darting through the air, the sharp pointed head spear gleamed as it darted towards Dharanesh with a powerful force. Dharanesh acting out of his reflexes swung his sword at the darting spear. The long sword blade arched down on the spear, clashing with it, it out the spear in the ground.
A sharp metallic clang chimed around and both the weapons scraped on each other's metallic surface. Both the sword and the spear were stuck in the ground in a stalemate struggle to overpower the other. Rana's eyes narrowed as he peeked at Dharanesh. Clutching his hand into a fist, he threw a punch at Dharanesh.
Cutting through the air, the fist reached Dharanesh within seconds, just before it could land on Dharanesh, the fist was halted in its tracks by an old hand mapped with wrinkles, with a thin skin veined like parchment. Following through the arm, Rana's gaze met with Aagam's eyes which stared at him very intensely with a predatory gaze.
Before Rana could react, Aagam delivered a powerful punch, that streaked with swift and sharp motion, landing on Rana's chest, the powerful force delivered by the punch caused him to stagger a few steps back, yet he used his spear to balance himself and regain his posture.
"That punch gave a testament of your powers old man, it will be fun fighting with you again after these years."
"Don't worry, boy, I will ensure I beat you down in the ground.", Aagam said.
"Ha! This time I won't repeat the same mistakes.", Rana said as he spun his spear and a purple radiant energy flew out of his blood vessels, that engulfed his spear, forming very specific intricate carved patterns on the surface of the spear, the energy surfed through the new patterns and gathered at the sharp nose of the spear, it was gleaming with a powerful glow.
"There is no doubt you have an exponentially strong spear talent, let's see how much you have improved!", Aagam said as he lunged at Rana.
Rana darted his spear at Aagam, but using a very complicated footwork, Aagam avoided that powerful spear and in a blur Aagam's palm swung towards Rana, moving through the space between them, the palm dived and delivered a sharp cut on Rana's shoulder. That powerful impact caused Rana to bow down as an excruciating pain flashed through his shoulder.
Gritting his teeth, he took the opportunity and delivered a powerful punch on Aagam's abdomen, both of them took a few steps back and regained their stance, Aagam shifted into a poised posture, as he swung his hands around, forming a few hand symbols, a powerful energy coursed out of his hands. Engulfing both of his palms the energy seemed to strengthen his hands.
There was suddenly a bulk visible in his hand muscles, and the veins bulged out as well, clearly indicated he had used a powerful technique, Aagam said, "I will admit it, you have proved yourself by forcing me to use this technique again!"
"Well, if it is so, then this time it is going to be a lot entertaining!", Rana said as he pivoted on one leg and jumped ahead, he swung his spear upward with a sharp whistling sound , it's sharp nose sliced through the air, the spear covered with the purple energy streaked with a purple and black trail. The force of its ascent replaced the surrounding air with ripple waves, creating a tangible sense of pressure pushing everything around outward.
He brought the spear down with a fierce arc, cutting the air with a menacing swing. The descend carried a crushing force, with the purple energy swirling around it as if yielding to the weapon's sheer momentum. Aagam was already aware of how powerful that attack was, driving his hands and swirling them he created a specific hand symbol, which enraged the fist energy around his hands.
The black spear dived down as the purple energy coursed through its energy patterns and gathered at its gleaming sharp nose with a radiant shimmering glow, it darted towards Aagam, where as Aagam's hand shot forward with a sharp, precise motion, cutting through the air to land on Rana.
On the other hand , Rudra, after taking and avoiding a flurry of punches, wrenched his hand free, moving his hand in a sharp and precise motion, he was able to deliver a punch to the bow woman's shoulder. Knocking her beside, Rudra somehow got up with the sharp pain in his chest. Lunging forward he jumped at the bow woman struggling to pin her down.
The bow woman reacted fast enough and delivered a knee cut in Rudra's abdomen tossing him off, she stood up and regained her posture, and took a poised stance. Rudra had now become aware of how dangerous this woman could be in a close hand combat.
Rudra got back on his legs, clenching his grip on his rusty dagger, he lunged with a predatory motion. The bow woman grabbed an arrow from her quiver in her right hand and Darted it towards Rudra. Showcasing his fast reflexes, Rudra grabbed the bow woman's right hand mid-air, and swept his dagger at her with a menacing force.
However the bow woman was able to block the dagger through the wooden arc of her bow. Seizing this opportunity, Rudra twisted the right hand and drove the arrow grasped within towards her left arm. Before the bow woman could react, the arrow had plunged in deep through slim hands, causing her blood to gush out like a water flow.
The deep injury on her left arm made it disabled for a few moments, loosening her grip on the bow. The bow woman, immediately freed her right hand from Rudra's grip and caught her bow. Without wasting a second, she delivered a blow on Rudra.
Here, Rudra who had already expected such move from the bow woman, entangled his left hand around the bow that came at him, halting its movement, Rudra swept a deep cut on her right arm with his rusty dagger, and continued doing it until her entire right arm was filled with bruises and cuts. Immediately after that, without any delay, Rudra stabbed his dagger through the bow woman's abdomen, causing a lot of blood to gush out.
The serious cuts on her right arm, caused a sharp pain to flash out in her right arm, making the bow woman let loose the grasp of bow. Rudra caught the falling bow mid-air with his left hand and drove it ahead, giving a powerful blow with the bow on the bow woman's head. Screaming in agony, the bow woman lost her balance, falling on the ground.
The bow woman struggled to even move herself, looking at her Rudra said, "You were quite a challenge."
Here as Rana and Aagam were engaged in their fierce combat, Dharanesh was now surrounded by other bandit fighters. All the bandits lunged at him at once like hyenas, one of the bandits who held a sword and shield, swung his blade at Dharanesh's back, causing him to loose his balance, meanwhile another bandit delivered a powerful fist blow on dhaaranesh's head.
These two attacks caused dharanesh to fall on his knees partially, seizing the opportunity another bandit kicked Dharanesh, pushing him a few steps back, however, Dharanesh was still able to balance himself and regain his posture. He grunted as he removed his helmet, letting his head to be free in the natural air.
Dharanesh swung his long sword and locking his eyes on the guy with a sword and shield, he swept his long sword at the bandit with a menacing force, the long sword streamed an arc filled with a shining hue, as the sword dropped down, the bandit used his shield to block the sword.
The sword with its unstoppable force tore through the shield and hit the bandit's chest sending him flying away. Similarly, Dharanesh continued his brutal attacks and knocked out all the other bandits in just a few minutes.
While fighting with Aagam, as Rana realised that all of his fellow bandits had been knocked out, it raged his anger even more, as he swung his spear and delivered a powerful attack on Aagam, in his struggle to withstand the attack, Aagam crossed his arms and staggered a few steps away from Rana upon being hit.
Having the right moment, Rana lunged at Dharanesh without any thought and threw a powerful punch towards him. Within no time it landed on Dharanesh's chest plate with a fierce force, causing him to be thrown a few meters away as crashed on the ground and dragged for a few seconds.