"Not so fast," A voice came down from the top of the trees, it was Amir. "I don't have much time to waste here." Abbadon started walking away.
"You dare ignore me." Amir jumped from the tree and rushed back to Shayan. "Look up, it's your doom." Amir smiled, and Abbadon looked up. The leaves of trees around him were coming down from the sky, and their speed wasn't normal. The second leaves touched the ground and it made a hole in it. "You increased the weight of leaves, impressive." The leaves started falling on both of them like bullets raining from the sky. One leaf was strong enough to smash a rock into pieces. "Die, you arrogant bastard." Amir looked at Shayan "You saw that? I just defeated them in an instant."
"You were wounded badly, now you seem not so wounded," Shayan said as he looked at Amir. "They weren't life-threatening, I just increased my healing ability and healed the bigger wounds."
Shayan laid Zayan down on the ground. "Hey, he isn't healing. You can heal him, right?" Amir looked at Zayan. "Let him be. He isn't our problem. If he dies, it would be a good riddance."
"What the hell is wrong with you? Why do you hate him so much?" Shayan asked with a calm yet aggressive tone. "He was banished from his House. He is just like those two guys--"
"You thought you have killed us both?" Someone interrupted him, Amir looked back with shock in his eyes. When he turned back, he saw that Abbadon and the other guy standing there unharmed, and the leaves he threw from the tree had vanished as well. "How did you--"
"You forgot what I told you about my Prodigy? I can decrease the existence of anything I touch. And I can decrease them until nothing is left, meaning that I can remove things from existence." Abbadon started walking away "I have important things to take care of." Amir rushed towards Abbadon "Like I would let you run away." Before Amir could reach it, Abbadon disappeared into the woods. "I am your opponent. My name is Aminta the Defender." Amir jumped and kicked Aminta in the face, "And I don't care." Aminta fell off his feet and touched the ground, "What the hell?" Aminta thought. "How is he this strong--" Before he could think anything else Amir kicked him in the gut, Aminta flew and hit his back to the tree. "I just decreased your body weight," Amir smirked. Amir turned his back and looked towards Shayan, "Leave him already, he is better off dead. Let's go back." Amir placed his hand on Aminta and increased his weight as much as he could. "He shouldn't be able to move now, let's go."
"Why do you hate him so much?" Shayan was dead
"He was born into a noble family but, he doesn't have the talent for using Prodigies like his father, what does that mean? His body emits a small amount of Nur Energy, the same as a newborn baby. Then when they tried to get him an Eldris Vessel, You do understand, don't you?" Amir asked as he explained to Shayan.
"If he isn't like his father doesn't mean you can just start hating him for being born," Shayan shouted.
"He is a bastard. His mother slept with some other guy and to top it off, it wasn't another Noble, and it was a human. An Aurian gets his Prodigies from his father, it doesn't matter if the mother is a commoner or from another House, the kid will always have the same Prodigy as his father, my father is an Augmentum, that's why I am also Augmentum even though my mother is from House of Anima."
"That's their family problem. Why do you hate him?" Shayan still couldn't understand anything.
"Everyone hates a bastard. His mother was executed by her own brother to show what happens to women who don't respect the boundaries of marriage." Amir shrugged.
"It doesn't make any sense to me."
"She never ratted that human out, so he survived and was never found. I don't expect you to understand because you were humans once."
"Good story--" A man's voice came from behind. It was Aminta and he was standing on his feet. "Let's begin, Noble."
"How the hell are you standing, your body weighs more than a ton?" Amir jumped back and faced him.
"I am from House of Dynamo. I just took the effects out from my body and gave it to the land below me. So, your weight increase won't work on me anymore, I was just testing your limits." Amir rushed towards him, "Let's test that theory." Aminta smirked, Amir made a punch and swung his fist at him. Aminta didn't even move and took the punch head-on. "What the hell?" Amir said after realizing that his punch didn't even make him flinch.
"My turn--" Aminta punched Amir in the face. Amir fell to his knees. Before he could move a finger, Aminta kicked him in the face and started kicking and punching him again and again. Amir tried to punch but, his punches didn't even hurt him a bit.
"House Dynamo? They can take and give, I didn't understand at first but if I am right. This man has Prodigy to take the effects of something from object A and give it to object B. He is just taking the effects of Amir's Prodigy and giving it to earth. Maybe that's why he is barefooted." Shayan didn't budge from his place, he was sitting there with Zayan's bleeding body in his lap. Maybe he was afraid or just didn't want to fight. Aminta took Amir by the neck and started choking him. Amir struggled, but it was in vain to Aminta's absorption of Prodigy. Everything Amir threw at him, he just took its effects and gave it away instantly.
Aminta suddenly heard someone coming towards him. He stopped choking Amir and looked back before he could see anything Shayan punched him in the face and broke his nose with one hit. "Try taking effects of that, asshole," Shayan shouted at him. Amir fell on the ground from Aminta's grip, Shayan pulled Amir up. Amir was hurt but it wasn't that bad. "He can take the effect of anything and just give it away to anything but only when he knows that it is there, if we punch him at random, we can win. He can take and give effects instantaneously only when he can see the attack coming. If he doesn't see it coming it takes time for him to nullify the effects." Shayan helped Amir stand up.
"You will use your weight increase Prodigy, right after I punch him when he is not looking. One target attacking easy to nullify effects, two targets attacking at the same time difficult to counter." Shayan said to Amir,
"Okay!" Amir jumped back and took out stones from his pocket. "I'll go with long range attacks you go with close range."
Shayan smiled and eyed Aminta who has almost healed his broken nose by taking the effect of Shayan's punch to the ground. Shayan didn't wait for him to heal completely and punched Aminta in the jaw and sent him flying, before Aminta could hit the ground Amir threw a stone and it hit him in the gut, and Aminta fell on the ground slowly. "What the hell?" Aminta spat out blood. Amir rushed and touched him on the forhead as he was falling. "I decreased your body weight, and things with less weight take more time to fall. And by increasing it just a bit it will be easy to throw you from here--" Amir took Aminta from his collar and threw him towards Shayan, "to there." Shayan was already standing in position, he jumped and round-kicked Aminta, turning it back towards Amir, who was standing with a 5-foot-long log in his hand that was lying around, he hit Aminta with it and threw him back towards Shayan. Shayan took him by the head and smashed his head into the ground, "Goal." Shayan shouted.
"Good job. Why you didn't join our fight when I was getting punched?" Amir gave Shayan a high-five.
"I was figuring out how these Prodigies work, in the book 'Art of War' there is a quote 'A war is won before it's fought.' Or something like that. If I had joined you in a fight without figuring out how to stop him, we both would be in the ground." Shayan was happy and he couldn't take off that smile off of his face, "What is the Art of War?" Amir asked. "It's a book from the human realm."