My Soul card is a Reaper

"You shouldn't let your Arcana charge head-on towards a stronger enemy." Barton's voice echoed in Azzy's eyes as he saw his wolf was crashed onto the wall and fell on the floor.

Strangely, the walls weren't even cracked a bit. But Azzy's attention wasn't on that but his Master's words.

The only problem was that he never trained with his Arcana. It hasn't even been that long since he started combat training. fr𝚎e𝙬𝚎𝚋𝚗૦ν𝚎𝒍.c૦m

He does know how to fight with fists or with his scythe but not with the wolf.

What tricks can he use to battle this robot… He doesn't have a clue.

Using their telepathic connection, he conveyed the same to Vajra and asked it to use its instincts since he doesn't have any tactic in his mind.

Following Azzy's order, Vajra charges head-on once again but this time, at the last second, it changes its direction in the last second, evading the robot's hand that was about to catch it again.

It tried to bite the robot from behind but its hands are faster.

Instead of trying to catch, the left hand swatted the wolf, making it crash onto the wall once again.

"Grrr…"

Shaking its head, it growled while looking at this powerful enemy who hadn't move from the spot.

Meanwhile, the old man's voice once again resounded in his student's ears. "Do you see it now?"

Azzy replied, "It indeed has precise control. It has a peak-rank-6 strength and yet, my Vajra hasn't been harmed a bit. Forget about being injured, there hasn't been a scratch on it."

'I asked a vague question but he answered it correctly. What a smart kid.' The old man smiled upon hearing Azzy's answer. He was satisfied with it. "Assume the roles are reversed. The Robot is a high rank-4 with perfect control and your wolf is a peak-rank-6 with a lack of control. Who do you think will win the battle?"

Suddenly, he dropped a question.

Azzy grabbed his chin and mumbled, "Can the robot win?" he wondered whether that's really possible.

Thinking for a while, he opened his mouth.

"Obviously, not," Azzy answered it firmly.

"Oh!" The old man was intrigued. This time Azzy's answer was different from his thoughts. "Why?" He asked him the reason.

"If my Vajra is a peak-rank-6, then, it will have the speed of atleast mid-rank-7 beast. Even with perfect control, can that machine able to react to Vajra's speed if that were the case?"

"Ah! Yes. What you are saying might be right…" Barton became flustered for a second. He only wanted to tell him the importance of control but didn't expect Azzy to counter him with simple logic.

Barton knew that the robot can analyze Wolf's moments even if the latter is a higher rank as it has nothing to do with its power. However, if it limits its strength to rank-4, then, despite knowing the attack in advance, its body won't be able to keep up against the wolf.

He calms down himself and explained, "What I'm trying to tell you is that with perfect control over your strength, you won't be wasting your soul power unnecessarily. After all, in a battle, the first to empty his soul power will be defeated."

Azzy wanted to argue, not necessarily but in the end, he kept quiet and shifted his attention towards the spar between his wolf and the robot. The former was getting angrier while being crashed onto the wall a number of times.

As a former weapon of the King of the Heavens, its pride was hurt and the sparks around it became thicker and bigger. Soon, it surrounded the wolf.

Slowly, a giant head that resembles the wolf appeared over it in the form of dark energy with lightning sparks all over it. Its eyes are pale yellow without any pupils.

Azzy felt his soul power dropped from 77000 to 72000. He wondered, "Is this a soul skill?"

*Wow* it let out a powerful bark.

The head around it moved towards the robot, opening its mouth and revealing its sharp teeth as if it wants to bite and swallow the enemy.

The Sparring bot quickly analyzed it within a fraction of a second and then, spoke in its robotic voice, "incoming attack… peak-rank-5 strength. Activating Divine shield."

As it raised its arms, a blue shield appeared before the robot like a wall and completely blocked the incoming attack.

"What the…" Barton suddenly cried out in surprise. His eyes shook as he saw the shield is slowly developing cracks on it before it bursts and disappear.

He thought, "They told that the Divine shield was supposed to withstand a soul skill from a platinum grade beast of even a rank-6.

That means, even if this beast is a top platinum grade, a rank-4 beast's soul skill should only able to scratch it at best. Then, how was it able to destroy the shield? Is that beast a dual attribute one with dark and lightning?" Despite living for almost 600 years and encountering many geniuses, he wasn't this much flustered as now…

Meanwhile, Azzy was as calm as ever. He experienced a similar thing back when he was sparring against Evelyn.

The only difference is that before, his death energy slowly corroded the shield and now, it was slowly cracked. He knew that it is impossible for the black lightning to damage a higher level shield. That would only mean the situation happened because of Protos energy.

'How wild is that energy?' Azzy wondered about it. He also felt more curious about this Protos energy that even gods hate.

"Divine shield, failed." Azzy then heard the robotic voice once again. "Defense mode level-2, activate."

This time a red shield appeared in its hand as if it gestured the wolf to attack again.

While Azzy felt no changes in the robot, he still thought that this shield might be stronger since it initiated to challenge the shield.

He also felt the robot is childish despite not having any emotions. Those scientists probably programmed that way.

On the other hand, Barton frowned, as soon as he sensed an aura of mid-rank-7 from the shield. "Hostile mode, that soon? No, its eyes are still blue. So, it isn't activated or else, there will be an energy cannon or sword in its hands."

The hostile mode is a program, which makes the robot more initiative in attacks. It won't hold back and fight seriously.

Once again, Vajra dashed towards the robot, which was intending to block its attack with its red shield.

As the wolf reached its opponent, it raised its paw. Sharp claws extended from its left paw. Right then, Azzy once again felt soul power consumption. This time, it was decreased by 10000, which means, this is its strongest attack.

Like previously, a dark giant paw filled with black lightning energy appeared in the air and it slammed the shield.

Azzy was standing behind the robot, felt the gush of air pushing him away. It wasn't the attack but was just the residual force.

To his surprise, the cracks started appearing on this shield as well but unlike the last one, the shield self repaired itself at a quick speed. It was as if the shield was never damaged before.