Revenant Slaves Chapter 26: Chapter 25: Ash

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Chapter 25: Ash Ash and Kaeler charged at each other, with very different gaits. Kaeler walked with controlled precision and perfect discipline, holding his shock spear in a perfect posture, one hand gripping the middle and the other at its base. The blade on the tip was perfectly aligned with his eyes. Meanwhile, Ash charged wildly, his speed increasing with every step; he was holding his spear in one hand, with no posture, no discipline. The way Kaeler held his spear in perfect form, poised to defend and attack at a moment’s notice, where Ash was poised only to attack, relying on his momentum to carry him to his mark, more than posture and weapon control. Leaving no room for defense, the same momentum he would use to thrust at his opponent would be used by his opponent to secure a sure hit on him. (Ash vs Kaeler Test-Render in spoiler tag below) https://i.ibb.co/Mx77Jp4J/Chat-GPT-Image-Apr-22-2026-01-46-11-AM.png Ash knew from the little training he had gone through that no object in motion, and certainly no human, could alter their body’s trajectory with enough speed or precision to avoid a blow from an undefended front, especially in front of a master like Kaelar. Ash’s head was poised to be impaled before his weapon would reach Kaeler. Moments before Ash appeared within his short thrust range, Kaeler extended himself, sacrificing a little defense for extended range. Moving in for the kill, favoring the longer thrust, he extended out his arms to their full length, the maximum he could push the spear without breaking his perfect stance. Momentum would cause Ash to crash into his weapon, but it would also be behind Ash’s spear, and Kaeler didn’t want to be injured by a dying man’s desperate thrust. The spear was perfectly aimed between Ash’s eyes. Ash sidestepped at an impossible speed, narrowly dodging the blow aimed at his head, and got inside the arc of Kaeler’s weapon. His nerves got the better of him; he had side-stepped too hard. He was going to miss Kaeler. Ash planted his feet, forcing himself to come to a stop. The skeleton held, but his poor human tissue and bones creaked something terrible beneath, and swung his spear sideways with all his enhanced speed and might, aimed at Kaeler’s torso. Ash struck home, and he felt the impact of the hit ringing all through his arms as Kaeler got thrown back a little. Kaeler still managed to land back on his feet, although he was clearly in a lot of pain. There was a little blood on his torso. ‘Huh, his side should be painted red.’ The thought hadn’t finished when the uproar from the crowds invaded their ears. The shouting must indeed be deafening if it reached them here. Ash forced himself to focus and studied Kaeler, wondering how he had survived. The realization hit him on why his arms had been ringing from the impact of his weapon. Kaeler had somehow still managed to pull back from his thrust enough to barely take Ash’s slash with his weapon instead of his body. Ash’s blow had been powerful enough that it had knocked him back and had pushed his weapon with such force that his arms weren’t enough to absorb the impact. So instead of a fatal slash cutting his torso, he had instead received a devastating blunt blow from the shaft of his own weapon. Kaeler suddenly puked up a little blood from his mouth and planted the tip of his spear in the ground to stabilize himself. Ash didn’t waste the moment and charged at Kaeler again, full speed, but it seemed this sudden charge from the max-output exoskeleton was too much for his joints. As he took a step, then another, his ankle gave out. The blinding pain caused him to go wide, barely able to stop himself from falling with the help of his spear. As he did so, Ash barely saw Kaeler’s spear flying at him before he was impaled.