All around the battlefield battles raged on and blood stained the ground. The Golden Core cultivators on the ground were fighting in literal showers of blood. Blood fell from the skies as if it were raining it and not only blood, the dead bodies of the Rebirth Demons and Humans alike were crashing into the ground.
In the air a young man with short black hair holding a long sword was currently facing three pride demons. The human was Ethan Heart a cultivator at the Early Rebirth rank, and he was fighting solo against 2 Early Ultimate Core and 1 Early Rebirth demons.
BANG!
The Demon in the Rebirth rank landed a massive blow Ethan's back and sent him flying. Ethan quickly recovered as he pressed his foot down on thin air as if it was solid ground. He tightened his grip on his sword and exhaled.
Then he moved.
WHOOSH!
He made a direct beeline for one of the Ultimate Core demons. Seeing this the demons spread out and casted skills simultaneously.
|Law of Pride - Pride of the Soul|
The three voices sounded fused as if they had combined into one. This skill used by them didn't make any flashy sounds or displays. It attacks the soul of a person and made them foolishly become victims of their own pride.
Even though this had no effect on Ethan. In fact, he sped up and reached one of the Demons.
SHK!
One swift swing of his sword and the head of one of the Ultimate Core demons were beheaded. He used no skills or abilities.
It was purely swordsmanship.
Seeing this the Demons slightly panicked before they recast the same skill.
This only resulted in another dull attempt. Ethan engaged with Rebirth ranked Demon and began to bombard the Demon in attack from his sword. The Demon was not to be outdone as he met the blade with bare hands. Every blow he received he delivered a blow in return.
BANG!
SHK!
BANG!
SHK!
From the side of his eye Ethan could see the other Demon rapidly approaching so he disengaged. He created some space and moved directly to the approaching Demon. Seeing the Demon approaching he gripped his sword tighter and then he cast a skill.
|Law of Fatal Cut - Pinpoint|
As these words sounded something unknown shifted in the depths of his soul. Deep within the soul of Ethan was a longsword that was all black. The metal seemed to be similar to obsidian and on it the sword's hilt was an eye.
The eye was pitch black with singular white dotted pupils. From the sword leaked a weird black energy that looked like death.
And as if feeling something the eye moved. When the eye moved it looked directly out of the eyes of Ethan.
Then a deep ancient voice sounded from the chained sword.
"Tch, finally some action after so many years. This is the first time you have truly acted like a swordsman... I will lend you some of our power... find your path!" As this voice sounded a few of the chains on the sword began to break. The deathly black energy began to fill up parts of Ethan's soul.
Even though Ethan couldn't hear the voice of the Sword, his soul could. In fact, the Sword was his soul, and these words resonated with Ethan's entire existence. On the outside he also began to change.
His eyes became a black abyss, and his pupils changed to singular dots. That's not the only thing to change though because in the eyes of Ethan he could see a single point. The point on the Demon was right in the center of his forehead.
BOOOM!
Seeing this Ethan sped up and left the sound of a sonic boom behind. With his sword in hand, he thrust it forward aiming directly from the pinpoint. The force behind this thrust caused slight tears to appear in the space around.
In the next moment Ethan and the Demon met, but it was not clash at all.
SHKKK!
With one swift thrust Ethan sword pierced directly into the demon's forehead. The odd thing is though; no blood stained his blade nor did the demon bleed.
Instead, the Demon turned to ashes as if it had been burned alive.
All of this happened in a matter of moments. Ethan moved so fast that other Demon didn't even have an opportunity to help.
Hell, he could barely keep track of Ethan after his speed boost.
With the same blacked eyes and dotted pupils, Ethan slowly turned around and faced the Demon.
He spoke no words other than his ability.
|Law of Final Cut - Soul Severance|
HUMMM!
He swung his blade and out of it shot a bright sword arc. This arc moved at a speed the Demon's eye couldn't even follow. And without even being able to defend the sword Arc passed directly through his body.
Similar to the demon before, he didn't bleed or even get sliced in halve. He simply fell from the sky with lightless eyes.
Seeing this Ethan seemingly emotionless turned to find the next group of demons. He spotted a few Ultimate Core Demons, and he then raised his sword high above his head. His lips moved and his voice sounded almost possessed, like there was more than one person speaking.
|Law of Severing Soul - Soul Oblivion|
HUMMMM!
He activated a Law and ability he never once even heard of. But if Ethan was in his normal state right now, he would feel this Law was more... him?
The sword began leak dark black energy into the battlefield. He then swung his blade downward at a group of Demons.
WHOOSH!!
A massive black sword arc shot directly for them.
They demons not even knowing what happened simply fell from the skies as their eyes dimmed. Seeing this Ethan still didn't stop his rampage. This time he moved and began to slaughter every demon he came across.
Whether it was Ultimate Core or Rebirth, it didn't matter. In a matter of minutes Ethan had slayed over 100 Demons.
Even then he didn't stop. While in this weird state, it was hard to tell who looked more of a Demon.