The viscount and his army of knights looked above at the net of shadows hiding the sun and spreading darkness everywhere, but the viscount only gave it a glance before focusing on the man who had just landed twenty metres from him with a great-sword in his right hand made of aura and a strange red weapon while in his other hand he held a giant runic axe like it weighed nothing.
Ali's black aura slithered from his right arm to cover his whole body now, 'I could feel the boost in speed and strength between level three and level four, approximately thirty percent difference', Ali thought as his eyes transformed to silver draconic eyes with whispers of silvery fire escaping the edges of his eyes.
Combined with the black veins now covering his whole upper body up to his left eye that now still held its draconic form but an inky black entered it creating a combination of black and silver swirled in Ali's left eye.
He looked like a monstrous War Demon, semi-human and semi-monster, with hints of Dragon all over him.
But the viscount didn't care as he gripped his spear tightly and raised it slightly above the ground he stood on, he was circling level four aura right now in his body which Ali could see was incredibly controlled and uniform with a great set rhythm throughout his body.
The viscount closed his eyes but his sharp senses warned him of two powerful entities flying over him and towards his men, like a darkness hungry to devour the men who were his brothers in arms.
"Vile Creatures of the Dark", the viscount muttered as Ali lowered his stance slowly and his whole body tensed ready to explode in any direction.
The knights behind him held their formations as they stared at a swarm of blood-red bats flying at them and a massive Black portal opening up in the sky above them.
"DEMONS!! READY!!!", a senior level four Aura Knight shouted commands and the battle-hardened knights followed his war cry. A rainbow of colours burst from them as their aura activated and acted as a beacon of light in the darkness; they resembled the knights of old fighting the demonic forces, the powerful aura of human heroes breaking through darkness and evil.
"COWER BEFORE THE SONS OF HARDENED SMITHS", the viscount shouted the motto of his family.
He tapped his spear onto the ground and an ethereal yellow exploded in a circle all around him; the yellow light broke through the darkness, making himself a beacon to his men stranded in the darkness.
His knights roared seeing the bright aura fly to them; the viscount was now clad in a dense yellow armour made of aura that covered him from head to toe; from his back, a yellow cape amplified the light of his aura and a boost of strength and speed befell all his knights; they could feel their bodies lighter and stronger than ever before, their aura flowing smoother and answering them with ease.
In that split second, Ali saw the light that shone around the men and remembered words told to him by Cassian after a spar at midnight days ago, 'My Father is a great Knight, so are the rest of my family; he was a powerful rank six Aura Knight, but his most powerful gift is still the specialty of his Aura armour, which he gained in the fifth rank. Once he activated the armour, he had an incredible Blue Cape.' Cassian told Ali, looking at the stars.
'I remember seeing it for the first time, SIGH. The cape gave my father the ability to fly, but it burned out the longer he flew. Flying made my father a monster on the battlefield. Every knight who reaches the fifth level and gains their armour will have a specialty specific to them, a very dangerous weapon…', Cassian explained to Ali.
Back to real time, Ali saw the cape and thought to himself, 'His specialty is an area boost to his men, and an expelling of dark mana.' Ali thought to himself before his cold eyes landed on the cloud of bats that froze, seeing the sudden light.
The Viscount watched Ali from under his visor, a smile on his face as his specialty directly countered whatever tactic Ali had set up for him.
"Shadow EAT", Ali said with a smirk, shocking the viscount who glanced behind him. He felt something was wrong.
BOOOOOOOOOM
The earth around the army of knights split into pieces as massive fangs more than thirty metres tall each exploded from the ground and blocked them from the light of the Viscount, acting as a barrier against it and entrapping his men in the darkness.
The bats plummeted at the men below, and from the portal, a monstrous dragon emerged that was hard to catch through the darkness except for the terrifying violet eyes larger than men staring at the knights with satiated hunger.
'That's the most I can do with the fangs, I can't make any for a while…But this shadow spell is just too much of an advantage…', Ali thought as he exploded from place and reappeared with his great-sword swinging down at the now eight-feet-tall Viscount. His armour was massive and didn't encumber him at all as it was an extension of his most powerful aura.
"YOU BASTARD", the viscount was forced to look away from the huge fangs and he raised his spear to block Ali's swing.
The viscount was faster than Ali, and the moment the two weapons clashed, a huge shockwave exploded, tearing through the area around them, but the viscount came out of it the winner, pushing Ali back and stabbing forward.
Ali twisted mid-air, avoiding the spear, and the aura covering the spear was so powerful that it shredded the skin on the left side of Ali's abdomen. The fifth-level aura was so violent.
Which is why fighting a fifth rank as a fourth rank was suicide….
Unless….
Ali blocked a slash from above with his great sword and used all his strength, surprising the viscount as Ali was able to resist his strength and twist away from the spear before stepping on the ground and smashing rocks out of the earth.
The rocks flew at the viscount with the Force and disintegrated on contact with the aura armour.
Now a cloud of rubble surrounded the viscount. "Petty tricks", the viscount waved his hand and strong winds dispersed the rubble instantly.
'Try blocking this', Ali thought as he swung the axe in his left hand with all the strength he could muster.
"DO YOU NOT LEARN? YOUR ATTACKS ARE USELESS AGAINST ME!!!", the viscount roared, raising his spear to block.
Ali smirked as at the final moment he sent a surge of aura through a specific line of runes on the axe's blade.
'FUCK', Ali thought as he felt his shoulder immediately dislocate and the muscles in his arm from his hand to his shoulder get shredded to pieces from the inside out.
The shift in weight was out of this world…
SPARK
A yellow and red spark flew from the initial impact of the two weapons before…
The smile on the viscount's face vanished, his eyes widening and his aura surging to the absolute limit…
CRUSH BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
The spear instantly fell down right above the viscount's head as he felt like a mountain fell on him. He held the spear with both arms, holding out with all his strength.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The viscount roared under the weight of Ali's axe, his aura exploding at such a rate that a yellow flame now covered his pristine yellow aura armour. He looked like a God of war with his armour transforming into the shape of an armour forged in yellow Hell.
But then out of nowhere, the immense weight disappeared like it was never there, and the viscount's instincts screamed at him from behind.
He was an incredible warrior and swung with incredible speed; from outside, it looked like his body teleported to the same place but just facing the other way, where he hit the inverted Spear Heaven with his spear, deflecting the stealth attack from underground.
Ali used his Force and attacked telekinetically with the Axe towards the Knight's exploded left side, but the Viscount's speed was so ridiculous that he made it in time to block with all his focus and strength, expecting another monstrous strength behind the Axe.
'Fell for it', Ali thought as his body blurred and he appeared on the Viscount's right side with the Great-sword held by both hands, his left arm already healed and the skin on his abdomen perfectly regenerated.
The red lightsaber under the aura shone brightly, making the Great-sword look like a red inferno trapped under the black aura.
Ali swung with all his might; the Great-sword was now a massive ten-metre-long Aura Attack that the Viscount could see the edge of from the other side, and he realised he fell for the double bait from Ali.
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