98 War!
In the stands, the sword dukes were clenching their fists in anger. A random idiot was challenging their teacher and their sky, they sword duchesses were the opposite. They felt completely assured with the win of their young master, their faces were filled with a light blush.
The sword flashes continued as the arena started to feel the consequences. Sharp sword qi and sword winds would slowly decimate the arena unintentionally.
"Draw the Cage!" Shen yelled out as the white sword Qi moved to create a sealing vortex around Kallis.
"First Sword Art: Pressure Blade." Kallis sword Qi ascended to the skies as he concentrated his qi into his sword. The sword howled and shined as he swung it vertically across the vortex.
The vortex split in half due to the pressure of the sword, it was forced apart and Kallitus proceeded to slash again. He kept slashing until the sword Qi was sliced into hundreds of pieces.
"What sword technique is that?" Sasha couldn't help but ask, this match determined the direction of her life. She depended on the outcome could either beat her brother or be sold off to Shen.
"I don't know how but he got the Ancestor King's sword intent and created his own style." The king said with a dreadful voice, for the secrets of his nation to be disclosed like this. He almost thought there was a traitor among them, he looked over at where Dante was previously sitting.
'Did you really betray us, Dante?' The king thought back to when he trained the tyke himself. He was wildly arrogant and didn't listen but he was very talented.
Everyone thought he would become like Aringer, a near-legendary mage. But then Dante asked to lead the expedition to the Dread Ruins. The king told him not to but Dante insisted and the king allowed it.
Then Dante came back he was extremely weak even close to dying. Soon after he recovered a little and he couldn't advance. The king realized the problem with Dante was his arrogance and greed. So he stopped investing in him, and Dante blamed the king for everything. But the king wasn't dumb, he could feel his hatred and so he remembered that.
'But why to the Dread Empire, what are they hiding?' The king continued to introspect as he remembered a matter for years before.
"Draw the Self." Shen declared as the sword intent swirled into 4 different vortexes. The sheer wind and power obscured the vision of the sword king.
Then when the wind settled there were 4 Shens. Each with a domineering stance and sword intent rising towards the sky.
"You've really diversified in your techniques, Shen." Kallis said as he released his higher level sword intent.
"Then let's take this to the next level." Kallis laughed as his sword intent seemed to take a form, all the people in the stands could feel their sword almost fly out. Everyone felt an almost omnipresent sword stab at their foreheads.
"Sword Heart realm, he's carved his path!" A knight yelled out in utter surprise.
"Clam up, Walter." The Grand Knight yelled at the knight next to him.
"Sorry, Dragon Spear Volkmer." He said in a polite voice as he addressed the Grand Knight with his title.
"The younger generation is rather impressive, they might even surpass sword heart realm....." Volkmer said in an appreciative voice.
"Oh so you've finally made your path, I don't need to use my path to beat you though." Shen said as each of his sword intent clones followed him in an attack.
"How arrogant!" Sword Duchess Vanesa said as her brown eyes shined with love and appreciation, as she watched sword king slash at the sword intent clones.
"You'd best not look down on me, Shen." Sword King said as he slashed one clone into sword intent then destroyed the intent.
"Oh I am not looking down on you, I am sparing your life." Shen uttered in extreme arrogance as his sword intent rose through the roof.
1% 2% 3% 4% 5%! It went up all the way to a 24% increase in power until it completely overtook the sword intent of Kallis' sword heart.
"He...Reached 99% in his One with the Sword." Walter said almost stuttering this level of affinity far surpassed having a path. Even Sword King had a path, but Shen was about to truly step on that path.
"He's destined to be a legendary knight and the peak of that level." Volkmer said with a woeful voice, it was a level he couldn't even hope to reach.
"You when did you reach this level?" Kallis said in utter uncertainty, he knew Shen he lost to him back then. But Shen was never this strong they were extremely close to each other. Shen just won because he was just a little bit older.
"You don't need to know, just give up or else...." Shen snickered out as he walked in the sky and sheathed his sword.
He stood atop the air with arrogance cemented on his face as he looked down upon Kallis. Sword King gritted his teeth in determination and took up his sword prepared to fight to the death.
"Never, I will not give up as long as I breathe!" He yelled out as his sword intent inundated his sword and it howled in extreme power.
The sword intent condensed into physical form becoming stronger and stronger. The air around it was becoming suppressed and becoming blade winds.
"Shockwave!" He yelled out as he slashed at Shen with all his power. From his sword came a huge shockwave of sword intent and blade winds.
It flew at Shen in the Sky who coldly looked on, the king looked agitated for a moment. Although he didn't like the scheming of Dread they could make a friendship and even become related. Ever since the loss of Lucas, his schemes for the future had been affected.
The king decided he needed new blood, and he would protect them well this time. The king was about to dash in and save Shen when he felt something utterly terrifying.
"I will thank you, Kallis, back when I was weak you helped me out twice." Shen said as his body relaxed to the limit and his eyes flashed with a dark intent.
"War form!" His sword intent seemed to transform becoming a dark and evil intent. A black aura of death and decay came from Shen's body. Then an eye of chaos flashed open on his forehead, his sword became black to match.
"So let me show you my path. If you live through it, you shall have a chance to see the peak and pursue it." He said with a cold voice, as though he was far above this fight.
In Shen's sword intent seemed to be screeching demons and screaming faces of various figures.
"The First Sword is of Judgement: Lightning step" His feet crackled with lightning as they formed magnificent lightning runes calling down the judgment of the heavens.
"The Second Sword is of Infinity: Serpentine Armor" Along his body appeared an armor of serpents, like multiple divine armaments.
"The Third Sword is of Evil: Devil's Gaze." Unending devilish qi soared to the skies and fused into Shen's eyes making his eyes shine with a devilish black light.
"The Fourth Sword is of Time: Windshadow's Withering." Around him appeared a spider web of pure wind shadows that moved at alternating speeds. The spider web increased in size until it sealed the entire arena with torrential powers.
Then he soundlessly uttered another phrase, but this one was completely unheard. A black pulsating longsword appeared outside of his body. He hadn't truly mastered the final intention and as such couldn't fully operate his war form.
"War!" He declared as the web and all the power condensed on his longsword in a single moment. The sword acted as though it was a vortex consuming all the malevolent intent.
The incoming shockwave was also consumed by the vortex becoming a part of the attack. Kallis, the audience, and even the king looked on in utter fright. Raised in the sky was a gigantic black divine sword, it looked like the First King's Black Blade!
"Release!" Shen yelled out as he slashed out from the sky the sword slashing down on the arena. Creating a brilliant black beam of destruction burst out. It dominated the visions of all the onlookers overtaking the sun and making the world dark.
The sword beam blasted at Kallitus who tried to guard himself. Sadly, under the domination of the sword beam, he was being forced back. Soon after his intent was unable to guard him, as the beam blast him back in pain. The King's hidden servant acted quickly and appeared in the arena.
He burst about trying to smash the Black beam, and he split it apart. Even he felt it hard to repel, he looked at his hands and could see demons biting it. It was like an evil devil was consuming his vitality, he released his exuberant vitality destroying it a single moment.
His hand was being slightly corrupted but soon after it disappeared. He couldn't help but look at Shen in the sky with dread, to even make a peak level knight feel his strike. What kind of talent would it take?
