Date- 3 April 2321
Time- 10:47
Location- Sky Blossom City, Airstrip
“Yes, you heard me right. All you have to do is break free from this temporary A-rank gravity multiplier array formation with your own capability without any outside help and from then on you have no obligation toward me, establishing cooperation between us as equals. And if you can’t, stop being rebellious and follow my arrangements,” Lorenzo repeated himself seeing the disbelief in my eyes and continued to add, “As the world and the rules with it as my witness I promise to stand by my words. There now do you believe me?”
Was it Lorenzo’s pride speaking or the overconfidence, either reason the old bastard dug himself a pit to fall in hard. He is so certain that the high schooler will not be able to break free from the A-rank array that he trapped him in that he was willing to wager something he would not agree to in a normal circumstance when he wasn’t so drunk on power thinking, ‘This brat can bearly move in the array, let alone disassemble the array, he won’t be able to withstand the gravity for long. And if that brat had the ability to break free of the array then he would have kept struggling instead of standing there helplessly and sending me death glares.’
Hearing Lorenzo’s oath the corners of my mouth turned upwards while my eyes stopped staring at him as if he was my family’s enemy and switched to a gaze filled with mockery looking at Lorenzo as if he was the stupidest card emperor on the planet.
Seeing the sudden shift in my expression the grin on Lorenzo’s face broke and his eyes grew bigger coming to a sudden realization, that he has been dupped by the teenager in front of him. An old fox like Lorenzo will never make the mistake of underestimating his enemy on any occasion yet he ended up underestimating me right now mostly because of his arrogance and partly because I lead him to believe that I was nothing but a helpless little lamb under his butcher knife waiting to be slaughtered allowing Lorenzo’s arrogance consume his reasoning.
Getting Lorenzo to look down on me and my capabilities wasn’t hard because under the influence of the gravity multiplier array I was really in a sorry state, as even breathing had become difficult to me because under the influence of the hundred-fold gravity the walls of my lungs found it challenging to expand and contract like it usually used to, not just my lungs even my heart was finding it difficult to pump under the pressure and felt like it would burst any minute now. Thank’s to Hive AI’s timely intervention which helped the body maintain it’s regular maintain blood circulation otherwise I might have fainted due to the lack of blood circulation to my head. Withstanding several folds of gravity was not a joy, even if my muscles and bone frame are able to withstand it, the same is not true for my organs, even though they were altered with viltronian physique and tempered by refined soul energy, defense is not their strong suit, we have muscle and skeletal system for that. Because I was facing a genuine hardship I was easily able to make Lorenzo believe that I was helpless against his A-rank gravity suppression array.
Lorenzo’s oath was unexpected to me as well, I was waiting for a perfect movement for face slapping Lorenzo but never expected him to free deliver his cheek to me within seconds putting all the other free delivery systems outside to shame. Now that the old bastard has shown up at my door with his face ready to be slapped I could not disappoint him, “Field Negator- Space Collapse”
With my chant, the Field Negator card activated, and the space surrounding me crushed like cramped paper, destroying the surrounding nature’s soul pathways, with that the temporary A-rank gravity array formation set up by the Lorenzo crumbled down to nothing and the gravity’s influence on me suddenly went from full throttle to the minimum limit, my body suddenly felt so light that for a moment I felt weightless.
As the A-rank gravity multiplier array formation crumbled down the smug smile on Lorenzo’s face was nowhere to be seen instead it was replaced by an expression of total disbelief. The old bastard was still in a state of shock and sounded like a stuck old recorder repeating himself, “This…this … this…”
Now that my body was finally free from the suppression of the enhanced gravity my muscles felt sour and stiff so I did some stretching. Meanwhile, Lorenzo finally recovered from the disgust he for himself for being deceived by a teenager and denied my victory claiming, “This counts as my victory.”
“How so? Please enlighten me, senior” I said glancing at old Lorenzo with a playful expression.
“The terms of my wager were that you should break free from the array with your own capability and without any outside help. But you used your card to break free from the array, which is considered outside help, so you lose because of mal practice and I win by default,” Lorenzo explained the reason why he won the wager.
“Senior, you seem to be forgetting that, cards and grimoire are considered as the parts of a card apprentice. So I did not use any outside help. Please don’t make things difficult for yourself as the world and its rules are witnesses to it,” I argued.
As if expecting my response, Lorenzo shook his head and said, “As long as the card is not created by the said card apprentice himself it is considered as outside help.”
Hearing Lorenzo’s counter-argument I rolled my eyes at him and said, “Even the world championship has discarded that rule ages ago, to apply it to our present-day wager you must be one stubborn old relic. Well, I will agree to it since it was my fault for not asking you about the rules and terms of the wager.”
“Here,” I unequipped the Field Negator card and threw it at Lorenze’s face, and then asked, “Who won?”
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