Ben guessed that this was a martial technique. The red color gradually faded and it looked as though the space around the terrorist was shivering. Ben did not wait any further. He did not want his opponent to unleash some attack that could finish him. He threw some rocks and trees at the terrorist and moved towards his opponent, intending to take advantage of him defending against his projectiles. But to his surprise and horror, the stones and wood got deflected of the armor. Also, some of them straight away reflected back at Ben who had to dodge it with considerable effort. When Ben dodged it, the shock waves from his opponent struck him. The terrorist was making use of the gap in Ben's evading and striking him. Some shock waves struck him and caused some bruising. Some of them he could dodge and defend. But some of them did wound him. He was bleeding from several points on his body. Luckily, all these were flesh wounds.
This continued for some time. Ben could not find any solution for this. He was stunned to find out that just one martial technique was making such difference. His aura reserves were being lowered. The terrorist however was using his aura sparingly through the martial technique. Ben could sense that he could not continue like this. But he could not find a solution. He was getting desperate. He felt that his opponent was smirking. But he did not know what to do.
While all this was happening, the meridians inside Ben was being strained. The penetration rate had reached 87% during the past few days and this battle pushed it to about 88%. Ben had not paid attention to the Shamanic script on his right hand much. This was because he had not fully unlocked the power of the Shamanic meridian seed. That did not mean that the inscription was simply sitting there. With the increase in penetration rate the Shamanic scrip also had grown more profound and gained quite the contrast. It had grown from his arm towards his shoulder. Now with Ben's body and mind being pushed to the limits, the inscription began to act. At first it was a faint glow. Then it began to illuminate more. The glow was covered by his clothes first. Then it began to glow over it and the terrorist also saw it. But before Ben could understand what was happening, somethings came flooding to his mind. His aura flared, garnering even the attention of the lord level fighters who were fighting at a distance. Azurbaan who was a beast sensed something that came from inside him. His blood line seemed to tell him the arrival of a king, of an alpha. Not just Azurbaan, all the lord class fighters and beasts nearby felt it. Across the forest, all the animals in the species of lupis and canis experienced call from their bloodlines. Something that caused them to bow down or lie down. Other animals or people did not sense anything.
In the battlefield of Ben and his opponent, the terrorist was also experiencing a sense of fear. He did not know what was happening. But he could sense a spike in Ben's aura. He decided to act quickly. He attacked him with a medium powered shock wave and then moved towards him at him speed. He was also using another martial technique to use shock waves to propel himself.
Ben on the other hand was experiencing something else. He saw an aether lupis, with a majestic fur shimmering which had glittering white motes on it, overlooking the cosmos. One second it was standing still and the next second it moved. It moved at rate that stunned his imagination. Ben could see that it passed planets, before light from nearest star reached it. It jumped across neutron stars and blackholes before its gravity could affect it. But for some reason Ben could keep up with it. He looked at it closely. He saw it using aura in a particular way. He did not fully understand it but could see that it was kind of a push pull mechanism. Nothing could stop the majestic journey of the lupis. This vision lasted for may be a few seconds. Ben's body had subconsciously used what he saw. All his opponent saw was blur. The terrorist could not even sense where the opponent went till punch landed on his gut.
"Grahhhhh!!!!!"
That was literally the first time the terrorist gave out a sound. The terrorist clutched his stomach and sat down. But Ben was not going to let him rest. He kicked at him with full power, sending him flying at quite a distance. Ben's meridian circuit along with his physical and mental faculties were in a state of overdrive making him excited and berserk at the same time. The terrorist did not get any time to regain his bearing, before a claw came from above that could crush. He barely dodged at the last minute. By using his shock wave based technique he opened some distance between them.
The terrorist could see that Ben was in a state of semi-stance. He was half aware of himself and the surroundings. The rest of him was immersed in a state of enlightenment. Ben turned to his opponent. The aura which was chaotic regained stability. But Ben was still in the semi-trance state. The terrorist looked at him with horror. He thought 'What happened? I am someone who is almost at the peak of knight stage with a penetration rate of 95%. This boy is barely 18 and he can pose a challenge to me forcing me to use two martial techniques. What kind of meridian seed is this? I need to end him here. I should also report about this anomaly.'
Ben meanwhile felt something was wrong. It felt like he needed to end his opponent quickly or else something will go wrong. The terrorist suddenly saw the sleeves of his shirt tear open and the ethereal half of a lupis come out. It did not have eyes. Ben his palm towards the terrorist and the ethereal lupis flew towards the terrorist. It reached the terrorist within a fraction of a second and went past him. The terrorist felt emptiness on his right side. He looked there and saw that the right side of his torso was missing. He looked back and saw his hand lying there. The ethereal lupis was not to be found. He looked back at Ben. By now Ben regained his bearing. He looked at the terrorist and saw his handiwork and was stunned. He wanted to puke but held on. He was also out of aura and was feeling dizzy.
The terrorist knew his end was near. 'If I am going to die, I will take him with me.' His body began to glow. Even the hand separated from his body was glowing. Strange inscriptions were visible on his exposed skin.
Ben instinctively used his movement skill which he learned and opened some distance.
The terrorist exploded suddenly. Ben was affected by the debris and the force of the explosion, rather than the explosion itself. It launched him quite the distance. He hit a rock formation and lost his consciousness.
The lord class terrorists heard the explosion and they understood that their companion had self destructed. Mahaansh, Vishok and Azurbaan were also worried about Ben. During the brief interval where the terrorists were caught off guard due to self -destruction of their companion, Mahaansh attacked one of his enemies. The attack was so fast that the explosion caused a large dust cloud that covered all of them.