Playing Waterbending (Avatar: Last Aibender SI)-Chapter 84

Hmm...

Could he be Iroh's non-canon son?

Or maybe the Fire Lord, desperate after learning about metalbenders and dustbenders, had started training a unit of lightning benders to counter them in a hopeless attempt.

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A hopeless attempt was simply a desperate one.

It was a good sign, though. It meant that the Fire Nation was starting to admit that they were losing this war.

It could just be my simple-minded assumption.

But it was the best one I could come up with, other than Iroh's secret son.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Ozai is my father, and the Fire Nation is my mother," he replied, staring directly into my eyes. He didn't have an ounce of fear in them. I was actually a bit taken aback by the courage this young man showed.

But what was courage, again?

Acting in the face of fear.

But what if there was no fear in the first place?

That means you're facing a highly trained individual who's done this many times, or you're facing a special kind of psychopath. And again, the latter still feels fear, or else they wouldn't have survived this long.

"So, you're a highly trained secret unit by Fire Lord Ozai," I said, watching the man for the first time show any emotion.

"How, you wonder?" I asked. "Simple. If your mother is the Fire Nation, then the only possible daddy is me, because I'm the one who fucks it. As for Ozai being your father and you knowing how to lightningbend, that means you're a trained assassin, probably for desperate times, to fight against dustbenders?"

The young man's cold expression couldn't hide the slight flinch in his heart, which I could feel. The pulse in his body was unstable.

I closed my fist, and the body twisted on its own.

[Killing shadow unit lightningbender.]

[+50k experience points]

50k.

I guess lightningbenders were quite overpowered in this world, after all.

Nothing is faster than lightning.

And it's so deadly that it could kill the Avatar before he could even enter the Avatar State.

Suddenly, a few lightning bolts shot at me from different directions.

I waved my hand, channeling my Chi, creating a curved path.

The lightning that was about to strike me followed the Chi's path and shot back at the senders.

[+100k experience points]

-x-X-x-

Azula was standing at a distance, eyes wide open as she watched the scene unfold.

Azula was quite normal.

She had felt many emotions, betrayal, love, hate. She had even felt intimidated by her father.

But what she had never felt was powerlessness or fear.

The man flying in the sky was simply too absurd to exist, more absurd than even the mythical Avatar.

From far away, she could see how their fleet was rising into the air before dropping like flies, poisoned.

The men who fell into the ocean didn't have anyone to save them.

They drowned, peacefully and powerlessly.

Their fate was better than the ones who fell on the ships and splashed into bloody puddles.

And then, one of the elites her father had secretly trained in lightning bending was just murdered like that?

What Azula thought was one of her biggest battlefield assets, lightning, was completely useless against Ryuk.

More people shot lightning at him, those trained to fight dustbenders, but Ryuk could simply make the lightning twist in the air and send it back at them.

The ships that tried to escape got lost in the mist, colliding into each other. Only a few managed to get away.

She looked left and right.

The waterbenders weren't doing anything.

They just stopped to watch the show.

And worse, their side had stopped as well.

This man definitely wasn't the Avatar, since the Avatar was about justice and protecting the weak.

But this man was about crushing the weak.

Them.

"How can you defeat a monster like that?" Azula muttered, her lips trembling before curling into a smile.

It would be stupid to fight him directly.

He would crush her easily.

For the first time in her life, Azula felt fear.

'So, this is what I've been doing to others?' she thought about her emotions. 'Anyway, I need to send a message to my father. There's no way we can win or assassinate him. We need to strike during the comet or find a weakness and take him down. If he's still alive after we conquer the Earth Kingdom, it'll just be a temporary win. He'll fly over our bases and crush our men. Not to mention the trouble the metalbenders and dustbenders pose. Fuck. And here I was, preparing for an easy, glorious life. But I guess I can't help it. Men avoid me, so that must mean luck is avoiding me too... Shit. I need to send an immediate letter.'

Azula turned her head, feeling sore and powerless. But it was the logical decision to let those men drown.

As for those who survived...

They would obviously be executed.

You wouldn't expect to be spared after being captured by the enemy you've been killing for years.

She sighed as she walked away, not feeling guilty, but knowing she made the right decision at the right time.

-x-X-x-

"Man, that was quite difficult," I said, wiping the sweat from my forehead.

I'd been taking down enemies by the hundreds, knocking them out. It was the fastest way to use bloodbending.

Even though I had been blessed by one of the spirits, I didn't have endless energy. I wasn't in the Avatar's league.

But I had enough power and skill to handle this naval battle.

I slowly floated down.

As I did, I noticed there were endless bodies floating on the surface of the water.

'Huh, I guess the Ocean Spirit was helping me after all,' I thought as I saw those who had drowned.

Well, it was their fault.

Who told them to wear heavy armor in a naval battle? It's not like they were going to be spared after being captured.

I scratched the back of my head as I looked down, thinking about the new information I had.

So, the Fire Nation had started spreading lightningbending to people in a desperate attempt.

And since my last demonstration of power, I doubted there would be any more of them trained.

The final battle wasn't going to be as easy as I had originally thought.

That meant I would have to take care of the final part of my plan after leaving the North Pole.