Chapter 43

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*Third person point of view*

Sakray uses his flames to attack the assassin in red but they are repelled by the aura of black color that the assassin emit, it covers him like a barrier... all those who felt the power of Sakray were so surprised that they failed to discover the true power of what they named 'little light', and once again they both launch against each other clashing their swords so they can continue the fight...

BOOOM!!!

"WHA-WHAT!? WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!??" Huggin yell, she clearly saw it when both men clashed their swords an explosion and shock wave occurred, without using any skill or magic, just the blow using their own strength achieved that effect at the clash of their swords.

The part where Sakray is standing is covered in flames, the other half is covered by an aura of darkness, both auras do not let the other advance and both combatants stare at each other in the center, around them sand and some stones are throw away. Them come silence...

Although this tranquility does not last long, as both combatants separate and clash their swords again, generating an even bigger shock wave that before, it even removes or destroy some rocks buried in the ground around them, even some buildings that are far from the area are collapsing. Again Sakray uses his.

"[MAGNUK BREAK]" But this time the little sand stones and rocks that were still around him turns into magma due to the heat of the flames . And again the assassin dodges him by jumping into the air above Sakray, but unlike before this time the assassin throws a black spear in his hand at Sakray while he is floating in the air, behind the assassin hundreds of black spears begin to fall on Sakray. Sakray in a true show of martial superiority begins to dodge and repel them, sometimes using his own lances of fire to defend himself and counter attack...

TREMBLE!!! BOOOM!! Both fighters continue to fight, both women barely manage to perceive them due to the great speed they are using. So they really don't have the slightest idea if either of them is winning, or if they're really even.

"This is no longer a battle of mortals, I'm not even sure if gods could fight like this... were we really stupid enough to release that man in Midgard?" Although at that moment while they were contemplating what to do, since they didn't even receive answers from their god, the unthinkable happened, they saw how Sakray's sword managed to make a small cut on the assassin's cheek, just above his mask....

'It's over, that assassin was the only one who could stop this madness... but now with just a drop of his blood he already gave Sakray the key to his victory, now he will be able to understand his opponent's fighting style... and everything will be over...' To tell the truth, Huginn doesn't even know what to think, she knows very well that Sakray is a threat to everyone even them, he will be the man who will break the balance, the starter of the Ragnarok...

But again the unthinkable happens, after the assassin hit Sakray and threw him into the sky, Sakray smiling began to cover the sky with fire... only to be stopped by the assassin who appeared below him, surprising everyone, when several of his blows began to fall on Sakray without him being able to defend himself.

They both fall to the ground again, and this time both can clearly see it, the assassin is easily defeating Sakray, connecting blow after blow without Sakray being able to do anything to defend himself, apparently he is the one who is most surprised by this. In the end he hit Sakray so hard that I threw him towards one of the buildings and he was momentarily buried...

"H-HOW!? I know your way of fighting, Tartanos has drink you bloood!! I know very well what you will do, how you manage to hit me!!??" Sakray star yelling once he is unearthed from the building, then he remains silent, watching the assassin in red with his mouth open as if he was seeing something that is impossible.

"I never thought to see him lunatic in that way. I'm sure if we hadn't seen first that anomaly we found in Ant Hell we could not even comprehend the power of this Guillotine Cross... " Say Huginn They cannot blame Sakray since they are not so different from him, if this Guillotine Cross decides to oppose Odin and the Aesir, joining Lady Freyja or worse... He joins forces with that anomaly of the desert...

"Muninn after this we must use all our strength to find that person we found in Ant Hell, we must do everything possible to prevent both from knowing each other... It is a pity that we have already made enemies with the guild " For her part, the other woman just nods, the fact that the Nornirs don't say anything makes them doubt their decision to support Sakray.

While they see how the assassin for his part only places his swords at his sides again opening his arms a little, taking the same battle stance that he did at the beginning of the battle. Not appearing frustrated or concerned by what Sakray is saying. The only dangerous thing is that the assassin in red had finally noticed the presence of both women.

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*Leonhard point of view*

'I guess I should stop playing... only using 1% of my strength with this idiot, he already cut my face, now he's going to learn everything I know...' I watch as I throw him into the sky, from where Sakray starts creating fire completely covering the sky with it…

'Hmm? Now what he's planning... it's better if he doesn't attack with powerful skills, but this it's most likely a trap...' I think while he comes down from the sky, taking a rather weird battle stance while falling, despite the fact that this clearly is a trap, I have no choice but to take it and so I attack him... without him defending himself!?! So I don't miss the opportunity he gave me and use the Paladin's skill [Sacrifice (Martyr's Reckoning)], which is the only skill that I can use at the moment without attracting attention from our mysterious spectators.

[Sacrifice (Martyr's Reckoning)] Lv: 10/10 Skill Form : Active Type : Supportive Target: 1 Target

Description: Change 5 physical attacks after activating this skill into special attack. Each attack enhanced by Martyr's Reckoning will drain an amount of HP equal to 9% of character's MaxHP. This skill can make the caster killed...

It ignores FLEE and DEF of the target. It is always hit with Neutral element.

[Lv 10]: Damage HP *1.9]

At the moment I have, 24,145,062 HP, so if I attack with this skill I can do a good amount of damage.... - 4,128,806 HP, - 4,328,806 HP - 4,128,806 HP - 4,328,806 HP - 4,328,806 HP, in total - 21,244,030 HP.

'2 hits to the body and 3 in the head... Sigh... I'm going to thank Kirkena very thoughtfully, she most likely is going to protest the next day but I have to show her my appreciation enormously, those magic lessons really helped, being able to use skills without shouting their names, as well as changing their visual appearance so they're not so recognizable... But...' I think as I throw Sakray into some ruins after some hits, where he is now buried...although for someone who has HP in the billions this damage is probably just a small scratch...

'But what the hell really happened to Sakray? We were practically in Servant mode, launching attacks everywhere without caring about the consequences, we just needed to launch our Noble Phantasms... if we has any. Did the blow to his head affect him too much and I gave him a stroke? Well it was good while it lasted. It's a real shame he was really making me improve my skills'

"H-HOW!? I know your way of fighting, Tartanos has drink your bloood!! I know very well what you will do, how you manage to hit me!!??" And now he starts screaming like a fool... he is a master swordsman and what swordsmen should have the most is patience and will.

Without saying anything, I take my position again, placing both hands at my sides, something that is costing me since I don't want to use any of my more recognizable battle stands... and for the first time since we started I get to see the persons who were watching us... a pair of women, one a silver haired girl... naked with only a raven cloak and other one a tall woman with long brown hair covering her left eye.... I'm not sure if she is also naked under her cloak.

"YOU!! YOUUU!! HOW THE HELL ARE YOU USING SWORDS!! YOUR BLOOD DOES NOT LIE YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE A SWORD!! YOU USE AN AX!!!" Sakray starts screaming like crazy... and he throws himself at me.

'Huh? wait a second... Why the fuck are you so convinced that I use an ax? In fact, I don't remember using one before..... I have to be more careful as well. If I remember correctly the system also says something about absorbing my force too...' I think while I see how Sakray approaches me, so I simply prepare to repel the next exchange of blows.

In a very disturbing way, I was really enjoying this fight immensely, I was limiting my strength while attacking Sakray directly to be able to fight a swordsman of his height and I was clearly improving while doing it. But it's clearly a fight I'm going to lose if it drags on... although I really don't think I'll ever find someone like him again...

With just a few minutes of fighting I have managed to increase my personal sword mastery enormously, Now I know that the system only gives me the skills mastery to use weapons, but another very different thing is that I manage to integrate them into my own fighting style. Now I understand why my instinct was telling me when I leveled up the Sword Mastery skills and the others, if I improved them to the maximum level I would lose a lot to learn... and now since I don't have them at the maximum I can clearly continue improving.....Probably that is one of the problems of this version of the system....

'However... what happens to Sakray? This last minute of the fight he hasn't been able to defend himself against me like before... he defends himself and attacks in a strange way... Huh? Wait a second... the position he put himself in was to defend himself from a blow using brute force... does that mean that although he absorbed my blood, he only absorbed the Mechanic's/Merchant's part? So he absorbed my skill with axes?' Suspiciously, I continue to attack, and if he is clearly defending himself against me as if he were going to use an ax.

'If I no longer have a way to continue improving my mastery, I suppose I shouldn't drag this out any longer, if he is preparing to defend himself against skills using axes, So I'm going to take advantage of the carelessness to the maximum.' It is an advantage to have a mask otherwise he would see how I am smiling... I already have my way of winning...

So this time without saying anything I rushed towards him again, again I use my magic to change the color of my skills to black and purple, Sakray for his part moves automatically to cover a blow from above... This time I'm not going to disappoint him as I hit him from above [Ignition Break] and [Sacrifice (Martyr's Reckoning)].

[Ignition Break Lv: 10/10 Skill Form: Active Type: Area of Effect

Description: : The weapon hits the ground, causing a strong explosion, damaging all enemies around. Half of the critical chance of the caster is applied, damage increases as BaseLv increases. For Critical Damage, half of Critical Damage option is applied....

[Level 10] : ATK 4500%]

- 8,062,560 HP, - 4,128,806 HP, - 4,328,806 HP - 14,128,806 HP - 4,328,806 HP - 40,328,806 HP, in total, - 75,306,590 HP....

After that I lost almost all my HP using two times [Sacrifice (Martyr's Reckoning)] is dangerous, even so I managed to throw Sakray away from me again, so I took advantage of it quickly, in addition to increasing my damage considerably by damaging critical parts of his body, such as the neck and head, Another thing that I managed to learn about my inventory is that I don't need to take things out to consume them, just like in the game with a mental command I automatically take a Yggdrasil Berry.

From what I see of Sakray, it seems that he is being completely controlled by his sword, it's idiotic that he doesn't fight with everything, if Sakray was in charge of his body he could easily fight like before. It's a shame that his sword is so stupid.... I hope that if that happens to me at least I can get along with mine

And again, without waiting for him to recover, I do something that just occurred to me when I used [Sacrifice] before, with my the same hand I launch a skill from the assassin class saying the skill name and I mentally use another skill, luckily my guess was true...

"[Soul Breaker]" '[Hundred Spear]' and using magic I create a wind spear changing it to black color before throwing it, so I was able to use two different skills at the same time with one hand!! That means that I can cast 4 spells at the same time!?

[Soul Breaker Lv: 20/20 Skill Form: Active Type: Ranged physical

Description: : Deals strong ranged physical damage to a target.Only the half of Critical Chance is applied. Damage increases based on BaseLv, STR and INT. Only the half of Critical Damage option applies.

[Level 20] : ATK 3000% + MATK 3000%]

Soul Breaker - 21,608,280 HP, Hundred Spear - 15,850,721 HP....

'I'm hurting him but to tell the truth... that man is cheating... and it's not what I expected, clearly I'm going to have to get cards to increase my damage... I am clearly underestimating the inhabitants of this world a lot, even though we haven't been fighting for long I have only been able to do 150 - 200 hundred million damage.... so I only need to do all that about 80 more times.... Easy...

To think that I finally stop limiting myself to only using a percentage of my stats... and still I won't be able to finish this fight easily, this bastard is a true monster... I can only imagine what it's like to fight Thanatos, a type ghost bastard that is said to be the greatest warrior that ever existed... or against Satan Morroc... not to mention all those new bosses that have enough HP to sit and let me beat them for days without doing any real damage...

I'm probably going to end up destroying the desert before I can kill Sakray at this rate, not to mention that this bastard is lord apocalypse himself, creating a tidal wave of flame and magma wherever we pass... the good thing is that we are already far from the Assassins Guild... and those two women don't seem to have followed us, wait that reminds me... [Lex Aeterna], [Soul Breaker].

[Lex Aeterna Lv: 2/2 Skill Form: Active Type: Debuff Target: 1 Enemy

Description: : Lux Aeterna causes the target to take double/triple damage from the next real damage source of any kind. Healing, misses, status effects and Shield Reflect do not trigger the effect. Cannot be cast on a frozen or petrified target.

[Level 2] : Damage * 3]

Soul Breaker - 64,824,840 HP

'Hahaha, I already discovered the way to beat it!! I had really forgotten that this skill existed...' again I use [Lex Aeterna] but this time I use it with another skill, now that we are really far from any observant eye, covered in fire, dust and smoke, I use one of the most broken skills of the game... [Acid Demonstration].

- 89,672,742 HP, [Lex Aeterna], [Acid Demonstration], - 89,672,742 HP [Lex Aeterna], [Acid Demonstration], - 129,672,742 HP [Lex Aeterna], [Acid Demonstration], - 289,672,742 HP[Lex Aeterna], [Acid Demonstration].

'Shit... that must really hurt and I'm doing more and more damage every time but... how the hell can he move his sword when his arms are nothing more than bones!?? The last attack hits him directly in the chest, dealing heavy damage...wait... is he running away!?' I was a little surprised when I see him start to run away from me, in the end he already realized that he will only die if this continue like this, hit by more and more of these attacks he will die helplessly...

"But do you really think you can escape me so easily?!" Since the start of the fight, I finally talk to him and used the Body Relocation skill, appearing directly in front of him and using my new combination [Lex Aeterna] and [Hundred Spear], throwing him in the direction of the Assassins Guild.

Hundred Spear - 47,552,163 HP

I used Body Relocation again to reach the place where he was but I could only watch helplessly as he used Teleport or something similar and disappeared from the place... I need to figure out ways to block that type of skills.