A deep evil appeared in the man’s eyes. His lackluster attitude made Leo think he was someone who rarely fought and was rather a cold blooded scholar or an assassin which would make sense considering the man’s speed and damage. The man wasn’t weak or untempered he was bored. Bored of the unending chaos raining from the skies just showing how powerful the man was. “My name is Red Blade I will remember this fight. Please indulge in the feeling of battle!” Leo smiled as he felt the Red Blade’s words provoke something in his mind. The need to fight and conquer. Primordial Shard went slicing straight into the Red Blades neck.
Leo realized he wasn’t winning the exchange as he was thrown back by a casual wave from the Red Blades hand. He charged again and the Red Blade looked up from his fingernail as Primordial Shard’s rune shined bright. A spatial tear met a sturdy barrier of Cursed Energy surrounding the Red Blade. Leo smiled as Eternal Wrath’s second rune activate. The Red Blade smiled as he tried to activate his Domain Blocker Rune as Leo liked to call it. Leo felt himself trying to do something he never tried yet. Infusing the Void into his non-Void abilities.
It worked! The barrier was completely unable to block out the slashes and The Red Blade stumbled back. A full power Dismantle with the finger and all activated as another set of attacks landed on The Red Blade. The Red Blade smiled as he drew his katana slashing apart the space causing a spatial tear rush towards Leo. Leo activated his third rune again and a Asura appeared six arms covering Leo. Leo flew back as the Asura shattered. One of the Void Plates covering his right eye shattered exposing his right eye as even the Asura was unable to tank the slash.
Abyss and Light merged as a beam of Twilight blasted into the Red Blade and two swords converged into one as a blade of pure Twilight slashed at the Red Blade. Shade was going all out and even the Reb Blade was forced to take her seriously. But in all regards Shade wasn’t the Red Blade’s level at swordsmanship. A Void Slash slammed into the Red Blade and he was pushed back. They jumped him and the Red Blade found himself getting attacked by both of them at once.
The Red Blade grinned and a weird pulse erupted from his Heart. Leo felt his Danger Sense spike even higher as the Heart Curse activated. A grotesque transformation pushed them back but what came out was beautiful. A weird red spiky visor covering the man’s upper half of his face including the nose with two long spikes curling out of the part that would be onto of the ears. A armor that covered his body beautifully and sleekly the same red color. And two flags jutting out of his back with one word on both of them.
It was the common Multiverse dialect for Reincarnation and suddenly Leo realized what was going on. The Red Blade wasn’t a normal E-Grade Cultivator. He was one of many reincarnations! This was something done by most higher grade cultivators as they found themselves at a bottle cap instead deciding to split into septillions of clones and spread across the Multiverse gaining insight at a tremendous speed. The Red Blade was probably one of many across the Multiverse and had a plethora of information along with power making him far more powerful then any average E-Grader.
Two blades slashed all over the transformed Red Blade but he took no heed to block as he smiled and slashed. Leo and Shade both drew back and looked at the maniac with no regards to his life. The bastard was intent on trading blows confident in his ability to out endure them! Shade grimaced and held a token in her hand ready to use it if necessary. Leo immediately recognized it as the [Skyfall Blade] it was a one time use token that would conjure a Heavenly Blade that held the power of a Hegemon’s strike although it left the user bedridden for months with damaged pathways and foundations.
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Leo activated the Asura again and felt his reserves drop scarily close to zero and he knew this would be his final activation and that if the Asura fell Leo wouldn’t be able to match the Red Blades speed. The six armed Asura pointed with every single arm and casted [Void Dismantle]. The Red Blade smiled and just crossed his arms as innumerable invisible slashes slashed all over his armor. A second set of arms emerged from his chest to catch the blade Shade attacked with.
The Red Blade grinned ominously as he charged at Leo seemingly intent on killing the Asura. The Asura was no slouch though and followed Leo’s movements as six swords slashed at the Red Blade. The Red Blade clashed head on and the earth trembled as the two locked blades. The Red Blade despite being at a disadvantage by only having four arms was able to keep up with the eight armed duo of Leo and the Asura together. Leo pushed his body pass his limit as he kept on slashing. The Red Blade smiled harder and a sinister glow appeared in his eyes.
Leo kept the pressure pushing the Red Blade back even landing a couple hits that sent chips of his armor flying. Shade came in and a Twilight infused punch slammed into the back of the Red Blade and for the first time in the fight the Red Blade wasn’t smiling. Leo grimaced knowing that if he was able to use his Dao Fragments it would kill the Red Blade in a instant even without the Asura but unfortunately the Dao wasn’t that easily seized it still needed time to process making Leo unable to use the Dao in this fight. Thankfully Shade wasn’t restricted as such and was unable to unleash her ultimate attack.
[Twilight Punch] allowed the user to use a Dao one grade higher so a Dao Seed would have the power of a Dao Fragment and so on so forth. Such power had limitations though Shade couldn’t repeat the same feat forward beyond Earthly Dao’s the stage beyond Dao Branch. Using [Twilight Punch] was draining and took a lot out of Shade making it a do or die move. The Red Blade’s armor cracked like an egg and the glow of Twilight shone through the cracks. The Red Blade’s eyes rolled back showing red orbs of evil and he wasn’t given time to recover as eight weapons descended on him damaging him even further.
Shade groaned as her reserves hit zero. Unlike Leo with his absurd stat pool Shade didn't have the luxury of huge reserves that attack basically knocked her out of the fight. [Void Slash] activated in each weapon as the Red Blade regained consciousness. The Red Blade dashed backwards and looked at Shade and Leo with a sense of caution finally in his eyes. Half of his pristine face was bloodied his armor was broken and he was missing an arm. Leo smiled. He won! Eternal Wrath’s second rune and first rune activated. The pillar was broken during the fight and the activation of it and the second rune’s weird Domain Dismantle put Leo down to his final 10% Energy.
Cuts opened all over the Red Blade’s body. The Red Blade’s gaze never left Leo as his body was torn into shreds. The Red Blade stumbled backwards as a stronger slash hit him in the chest but was immediately pushed forward and to the right at the same time by two equally powerful slashes. Soon he was stumbling left and right the slashes whittling him down even further. Finally the Red Blade stumbled back as twenty two strong slashes hit him in the chest at the exact same moment. The Red Blade slumped down and Leo deactivated his rune feeling his Energy drop to 5%. The Red Blade looked up at Leo somehow still alive.
Leo stood up shakily and held up Primordial Shard as he prepared to end it all. The Red Blade looked up from his kneeling position and laughed. “I guess this is it then little calamity.” Leo smiled down at the Red Blade and the rune activated as he swung down at his neck.
The Red Blade’s head rolled and Leo slumped down as he felt his Energy reach 0% he just saw a man carry him away as he fainted.