Chapter 17: A friendly spar
'Eleven months....., I would definitely have been fired from my job by now. Also if eleven months had passed then this is the month of April, just a month before the plot of the movie Avengers starts. Fury must be out there recruiting the Avengers. And I have a feeling that he would definitely try to recruit me,' James concluded.
'Joining Avengers is not a bad idea for now. Doing things would become easier with the support of the 'Avengers' tag. The benefits definitely outweigh the losses. Also I hope that I would make some money out of this. Plus all the fighting with enemies after joining Avengers will help in increasing my level of abilities. Although there are some restrictions after joining Avengers, within a few years I would become so strong, that I would be able to ignore these restrictions,' James was lost in a deep thought.
"So what are you up to now?" Thor asked with a bit of pity in his eyes.
"Going back to Earth comes first," James sighed lightly.
"Okay I am coming with you," Thor stood up.
"What, don't you wanna find your escaped brother?" James asked curiously.
"No, I did my best trying to find him for last four months and had no leads," Thor frowned. "I am bored and I am coming back with you to Earth," Thor said with a tone that allowed no arguments.
"Fine with me, but what are you going to do there?" James asked.
"Hanging out with you," Thor grinned.
"Suit yourself. Although I am warning you, that I am a pretty boring person who likes to sit home all day watching anime, movies, reading novels, etc,etc, " James warned.
"No problem," Thor said with determination.
"Now that I am jobless, I really have nothing to do all day," James said. He didn't want to take on a new job and repeat the same life as his previous world. He was waiting for an opportunity, which was to join the Avengers team. And probably even if he wanted to take up on a job, with all the shit happening in the world he won't have the time and commitment to carry it out.
"Wait don't you want to test your newly forged sword?" Thor asked excitedly.
"Sure," James had totally forgotten about it as he was focused on the detail that eleven months had passed.
Thor led James to the training ground specially prepared for him where he had practiced from young age. Both stood a few metres apart from each other.
"Go easy on me and don't use all of your strength," James warned the excited Thor and transformed the bracelet into the sword. He didn't want to get smashed by an excited God of thunder. He clearly knew the difference between his and Thor's strength.
"Don't worry, I will only defend and you can attack all you want," Thor assured.
James used the sword's first ability, 'Size Modulation.' He increased the size of the sword to about 50 metres long and instantly slashed at the direction of Thor. James didn't feel the increase in the weight of the sword even after it elongated. But the air pressure surrounding the sword told him that the weight of this sword was tremendous, while he was swinging it.
Thor didn't even flinch while looking at the upcoming sword and used his hammer to block the pressure from the sword. Even after doing that, he was pushed back 10 steps and his arms were a bit numb from the impact.
"Strong attack," Thor praised and corrected his posture. James didn't reply and launched himself toward Thor while reducing the size of his sword and started attacking him. He constantly tried to adapt himself with the sword by reducing and increasing the size of the sword mid battle in order to obtain an advantage in this mock fight.
However Thor although a bit surprised, was still able to counter every strike of James's sword. The reason being Thor's Level 6 physical strength and his insane combat experience.
Seeing that there was no effect James teleported back and prepared himself to use his second ability,'Thousand Swords.'
He flew in the sky and a thousand swords appeared surrounding him which instantly flew towards Thor.
Thor in order to block this attack started revolving his hammer at a great speed, forming a barricade, deflecting the swords. However even he was not able to hold the attack of the thousand swords at a time. Thor was thrown backwards from all the impact of these swords. Finally not being able to take more, he used his lightning power and crushed all the swords.
The thousand swords which appeared had an ethereal look. It looked like they were real and unreal at the same time. However the power emanated from these swords would make anyone take them seriously. Only a black outline of these thousand swords was visible and once the swords attacked Thor they instantly disappeared into nothingness. However the damage they dealt was the real deal.
Thor was bleeding from his mouth after the round of such a destructive attack. James looked at him with concern, however Thor just smiled and beckoned him to continue the attacks.
James didn't use the 'Thousand Swords' ability once again as it had a limit of being able to use two times a day. So James saved it as a type of surprise attack against Thor while fighting.
With Thor's permission James continued to attack Thor only with his sword while refraining the use of Deva Path Ability at first. As time went by he became more experienced in the use of sword and its abilities. Slowly, slowly he also tried to use the teleportation and Deva Path ability along with his sword in order to increase his combat power.
Having a Level 3 physical strength and a tremendous amount of chakra along with the chakra recovery ability James kept fighting with Thor for hours.
Finally James stopped after being exhausted and using every means possible to attack Thor. This round of fight had a huge positive impact on the use of his abilities and sword. Just after a few hours of fighting he had improved a lot.
Thor too was panting after fighting with James. Though he only blocked the attacks most of the time and countered some of the attacks which he thought would cause him a serious injury.
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