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An Odd Paradox III
🕑 Added 2022-07-15 13:38:43 +0000 UTC.................
Chapter 144: An Odd Paradox III
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"Huh? What are you talking about? That was for scientific purposes."
"Right right, now hurry, and let's start!" Harley let out a giggle while nodding, obviously taking his words like air.
"You two... You two!!!"
Ian turned his attention to the seething Diana, ignoring Harley's odd words, "How do you feel?" He asked with curiosity.
"Haha, how I feel? Hahaha," Diana couldn't help but let out a loud laugh. This would be the maddest she'd gotten if not for Hippolyta's death.
"You're really... I'll bring you down. Of that, I swear," Diana took a deep breath before she leaped at Ian, seeming to be flying through the air, reaching him in an instant.
"Why?" Ian was confused as he teleported away, barely avoiding her. Her anger seemed to be fueling her, augmenting her prowess.
Diana's reaction was fast as she totally ignored his words, her Lasso already traveling through the air close to where he appeared, clinging to a tree.
All she had to do was to pull with such force that it brought the tree right out of the ground with ease. That still did the job though, thrusting her towards him on the ground.
She hopped right back into the air with her sword already ahead of her, seeking to decapitate the target of her wrath.
This all happened in less than a second, at a speed inconceivable to those around them. Yup, she was extremely fast as she is blessed by Hermes.
To those around them, there was only a flash... And that's it because their brain simply couldn't comprehend how fast they were moving nor were their eyes able to keep up at all.
However, Ian still felt something amiss. Diana wasn't trying her hardest, in fact, he felt like she was going easy on him.
He deduced the reason in what can be perceived to be an instant, 'She wants to lead me away from the Island. Only then can she do her best.'
Ian glanced at the Amazonianzs or the Island a bit away by now as she carefully guided him away, gaining the ability to somehow glide through the air at someone, or perhaps she just saw no need to use it before.
'Yeah, the speed force is broken. Nothing of this would've been possible without it. Even her warrior instinct is far above mine in every regard. She is simply a beast in combat.'
And unleashing her full force will certainly cause such destruction that it would bring down the entire Island with her. Moreover, she wasn't exactly how strong Ian is but what she saw was enough to make her wary.
"I can teleport. I can use magic." Ian stated while glancing at the Island. It was obviously a threat that was followed by his desire, "Let me continue with what I was doing."
"You won't have the chance." Diana was much calmer than before, and she also seemed a lot more determined as a cluster of white energy started circling around her feet, almost forming into tiny wings.
She held a sword in hand and the Lasso in her other hand, looking graceful and grand, basically taking control of the entire scenery around her.
"Harley, be a dear and wait for me in darkness." Harley didn't react because even their words were spoken at hyper speed.
Harley just found herself in his dimension, a dark but warm dimension. A sun could be seen within though, a sun that provides little to no light, in fact, it seems to be trying to absorb all light.
That was no sun, but Trigon's flames constantly getting sucked out of his scroll, forming something akin to sun, an entire realm of flames.
"Very well, I like this very much, so I'll play with you and see if my experiment is a success." Ian smiled, bringing out his staff.
He doesn't really need to have it in his hand. He mostly leaves it floating in the center of his dimension, but it's way more effective in hand.
He can transfer his Death force to things not in contact with him due to how masterful he had become, but it's much more potent when in contact.
It's even more potent when in contact with things he likes, such as a simple kiss. Who knows, perhaps that was just an experiment, yeah, it was definitely for scientific purposes.
"An experiment? Yeah, of course..." Diana was already before him as her voice reached her, seeming to reach him instantly.
Her sword shone deep golden as she swung it at him, truly going for the kill without hesitation.
Only, Ian vanished yet again only to find her appear almost instantly right where he appeared again, "I'm faster." Ian murmured as his feet touched the cold water of the ocean, vanishing again instantly.
This time, however, he used the speed force to evade before piercing directly into her heart with the staff.
"Yet I'm better, just better." Diana countered with an easy dodge, seeming to have predicted his attack and the one following after, and after, and so on.
Ian was a monster in combat, but she was something else entirely as if she was born for just this.
She was such a monster to the point that Ian found his ribs broken despite being much faster than her, way faster.
All it took was her taking a few sacrificial hits from him as her Lasso found its way to his legs, and teleporting took an instant which was too long with how close she was.
At least he was able to redirect her sword away from cutting his neck with his staff, the result of which created a noticeable fracture in the very core of the ocean around them.
There was nothing but chaos around them, whirlpools and tsunamis everywhere, and even cracks on the ocean floor were very visible to them. Thankfully, they were far away from the Island, or else it'd be an underwater island by now.
Diana gave him absolutely no sympathy or time to get himself back together. His broken rib was of no concern to her, in fact, she wanted it more broken.
From punches to her sword slashing at him, then her Lasso trying to keep him in place or even squeeze him into charity juice. She did her best.
Ian on the other hand did not. The most he was doing was a bit of magic to amplify his defense with magic barriers and such.
He was mostly relying on the Rose of speed to keep up while using all that he had learned from Richard Dragon, switching from one fighting style to another.
Being in the speed mode allowed him to constantly improve, and eliminate his mistakes, yet it was as if everything was for naught because Diana didn't budge.
In the end, Ian was the one to find himself profusely bleeding with most of his clothing shredded. Several parts of his entire body were blue, other parts were obviously completely broken.
His attention however was on his neck... There was a cut there, making his expression a bit weird as he murmured, "That was close... You almost died. Well, likely died."
Diana for the first time gave him time to speak, not out of charity but because of his staff. It was blazing with energy very familiar to her, divinity.
"I? I would've died?" She asked with confusion while her eyes asked the other question as they were obviously focusing on the staff.
"I have no control of it despite how far I have come, and I really like you, so I should really take a bit of control despite it being from indirect means."
Ian let go of the staff allowing it to hover behind him, still releasing that rich energy that feels very similar to magic to him, especially after he had come to understand a lot of things about divinity.
"You like me you say?"
"Yeah, that's why I wanted to see if your memories can be preserved. I wanted to see what kind of wonder can be created after the timeline comes back to what it was. I wanted to see if you can remember your other memories, but... It seems that I failed."
Ian let out a resigned sigh. It was unfortunate for him. Playing with people's memories is certainly a bad thing, but to him, it was just a simple experiment, "Very well... Rose Of Divinity."
Comments
Gilgamos
It would be quite nice if Wonder Woman remembered their interaction and that leads them to hooking up
It's more complicated to use than that. You'll see when he uses it.
Doesnt he have the evolution force why would he stay human
