There was one combination in Raze's arsenal that stood above all others. It was a technique that didn't just cause damage, it caused absolute devastation. Regardless of the stages he climbed or the star level he achieved, nothing compared to the synergy of the Ten Descending Steps when fueled by a complete depletion of his Qi. It was a cumulative build-up, a kinetic debt where each step borrowed momentum and pressure from the last until the energy was a screaming, compressed torrent.
Then, he added the Darkness.
As the shadow mana swelled around his blade, it transformed into the Eclipse Strike, a move designed to blot out the very sky. Raze remembered a conversation from long ago when Dame had told him that if a warrior could truly master the transition between the Ten Descending Steps, they would become the strongest Pagna warrior in existence. Now, standing before the "invincible" inner wall of the Noble Guild, it was his time to prove that legend true.
