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nSam is relaxed, but Sanjay is anything but that. He is extremely cautious and he became even more cautious after watching Sam's calm face.

nHe and Sam are only two feet apart and they are linked with the chains.

nBut he didn't want to leave this chance, so he raised the sickle as was about slash at Sam.

nBut at this exact moment, he frowned when he noticed the change in Sam's body. He sensed two types of movements, one of them is the wind elemental energy at the surface of the body and also the spiritual energy in his body was concentrated in his muscles.

nHis movement slowed down a bit, but he determined to make the first hit, even if he takes the next one. As he proceeded and swung the sickle, but just as he was about to make his move, Sam squatted down a bit and his body bent forward along with the chains.

nHe is forcing the spiritual energy that is binding him to move the chain along with him. As they are connected, Sanjay felt the force pulling him by his hands, as he wanted to control it, he noticed Sam's movements.

nHis body suddenly became flexible as he moved like a snake in the air. He moved towards Sanjay's left leg with his head first.

nBefore Sanjay could react, he placed the head between the legs and coiled his body towards his back and his head came out of the gap between Sanjay's right hand and the torso. Meanwhile, Sam's legs coiled around Sanjay's left leg and forced him to stretch his legs.

nSanjay was about to stumble due to the sudden change in the balance, but he didn't get a chance to stabilise himself.

nSam bit the chains on Sanjay's right hand and rolled to his side forcefully making his back to stay against Sanjay's back, but in the process, Sam's claws tore his armour and then pierced into his back.

nBut that is not the end of it, Sanjay stumbled backwards due to the sudden movement and his head hit the ground hard.

nEven though, Sam is under Sanjay, the main attack is not the fall, but the impact it would bring to the claw which is already pierced in his back.

nThe spiritual energy inside the chain which is binding Sam, was completely dissipated and Sam threw Sanjay to the side and stood up.

nHe looked at Sanjay with a smirk. It has been a long time, since he used these moves. He hasn't used these techniques since he came to this world.

nThese are the techniques he created himself to use them when he wore claws or fighting barehanded.

nHe never got a chance or the situation where he has to use these techniques and suddenly, he felt like thanking Sanjay.

nThis person is the first person who forced him to use these forms.

nAs for how these techniques are formed, he created with the inspiration from the Origin Martial art of the previous world, the martial art of ancient India, Kalaripayyattu. He doesn't dare say, he learnt this martial art completely, but he did learn this just like how he learnt all the other martial arts and he created his own fighting techniques based on this martial art.

nBecause, Kalaripayattu is most versatile martial art which not only focuses on usage of the body parts, it also emphasizes and focuses on various kinds of weapons suitable for various occasions and situations of the battle.

nAnd this martial art was developed mostly based on the forms of various animals and these forms include an animal as large as an Elephant to an animal as small and complicated as a scorpion.

nThere are eight different animal stances which are used in this martial art, but apart from that, there is another phase which is called Kalari chalanam in which the martial artists, observe, practice and make the movements of the animals theirs and make them part of their battle moves.

nWith this as an inspiration, he observed various animals and other species and made himself some moves which are suitable for himself.

nAs for his current movements, he got these from the movements of a python. Of course, it is almost impossible for him to replicate those movements as his body is not as flexible as a python, so he concentrated mainly on his limbs and mouth.

nSanjay didn't stay for long and stood up. He felt the back and could feel the blood. He felt extremely irritated. Sam gave the first hit and did so in such an extreme condition.

nThe claws went deep into the back and almost a small piece of flesh was almost torn off.

nHe held the sickles as he gritted his teeth. Right now, both of them almost forgot the surroundings as they got involved in the fight.

nSanjay lost his cool a bit and there is no calmness that was present at the beginning of the fight.

nThe exchanges went on as they fought and after another dozen or so moves, it almost turned into the initial dead lock, Sam noticed that the elemental energy was starting to rile up around Sanjay and the next second.

nHe slashed towards Sam's chest but it didn't connect as the latter dodged, but this time there is a small change.

nThin fog appeared in the form of the streak of the slash and an extremely thin and transparent ice formed in the shape of that slash, like a blade.

nSanjay waved another sickle and slashed the thin ice blade. It broke into two and both the blades slashed Sam in his chest and his movements came to a halt.

nTwo scars appeared on his chest and started bleeding.

nHe never guessed that he would meet such an attack.

nHe was already surprised when he noticed that Sanjay is using his Ice element very scarcely. Generally, the ice element attacks are extremely eye-catching and massive in size.

nThey will influence the surroundings a lot and wouldn't move too much. Almost all of them are ranged or area of attack attacks.

nHe saw the first unique user of the Ice element in this world.

nThe next few exchanges revolved completely around these ice blades and Sam was injured a couple of times.

nHe mainly focussed on dodging the thin blades which are becoming harder and harder as the vision is not even useful in this scenario.

nSanjay is about to gain the upper-hand and at this exact moment, he suddenly took a step back as he loosened the chain of the right -side chain sickle and rotated it with extreme speed.

nThe sickle revolved around the two of them and created a layer of fog around them while leaving the icy blades.

nThe whole scenario happened in an instant as Sanjay dragged the chain-sickle as he struck from above.

nThe blades which are surrounding them, moved towards Sam from all directions.

nSam who is the centre of the attack, felt a bit anxious and raised his fire elemental energy. His whole body was surrounded with the golden flames as they raged with an extremely high intensity and the glass blades which are about to contact him turned into water and then into a steam before they could even hit him.

nOf course, there are a couple of blades which bypassed the flames and hit him, but compared to taking the brunt of the whole attack, this is much better.

nThe Steam covered his vision and as he was concentrating on avoiding getting hit by the blades, he didn't notice that Sanjay is making some hand-signs.

nAs soon as Sam's concentration came back, he was greeted with a thick transparent dragon head made of ice behind him.

nThe dragon maw covered his whole body as it closed its mouth. Sam was trapped inside the dragon's mouth and the head froze on the land as soon as it took him in his mouth.

nSanjay is panting hard as he looked at Sam who is frozen behind the dragon head.

nIt is like a work of art, but he is not least bit interested to explore or appreciate it.

nHe wanted to see if this could trap his opponent or not. This is the most he had exerted his strength in a while when he fought with his peer.

nHe took a breath as he looked at Watt, who is near the entrance and all he noticed is a calm person standing with his back against the wall in a relaxed posture with his arms crossed.

nIt is as if, he was watching an entertainment show which he already knew the plot of.

nHe seemed extremely uninterested in the way it goes as he already knew the result.

nAnd in fact, that is true, Watt is extremely sure that Sam is going to win.

nSanjay is wondering what gave Watt this confidence.

nAs he thought this, he turned around and what he faced next made him think to understand why Watt is confident.

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