Part 1
Shadow smiles as his grip became stronger
Sereph stares at him with a mix of intrigue and annoyance as he thinks
"His already learned stage two of essence refinement"
Shadow lets go and immediately after Sereph jumps back and gets into a fighting stance with his right leg forward and the other back both his arm stance imitated his leg stance with his fist clenched
The air around him seemingly became denser as he excused an immediately crimson aura
Shadow presses his hands to the ground and jumps back up as blue flames envelopes him he stares at the now green glowing crow symbol on Serephs left biceps
Shadow then closed his eyes as he let out a long breath
The spirit flames then began condescending only covering his hands while a soft blue glow envelopes his body
He then smiles as he thought
"It's works"
[Guidance prompt]
[Congratulations for reversing the affects of spirit flames and ripples technique]
[Spirit flames mastery:lvl 2]
[Ripples technique:lvl 2]
Shadow got into a similar stance as Serephs but his fist weren't clenches instead straight and shaped a and blade
Sereph then says with a firm yet cold voice
"Have you finished"
"Thanks for waiting"
"I simply wanted you to be at your best when I kill you"
Shadow continues smiling as he says with confidence
"Then come at me"
Sereph forcibly steps the ground and launches at him as Shadow does the same within a second they're fist colided shaking the area sending up gust of dust around them
The two jump into the air as Sereph throws a jab Shadow dodges and counters with an upper cut Sereph sways back slightly as he sends a kick Shadow twist his body and blocks it with both arms
Sending him hurling threw the air but Sereph immediately follows sonic booms follow him and as he catches up with Shadow,the two immediately clash but this time it was different as Serephs attacks became sharper and stronger while Shadow's dodges and counters became faster,sharper more fluid as the two thought
"His attacks are rapidly improving"
"His counters are rapidly improving"
Each attack and counter progressively left sonic booms until the two spun and met each other with a kick that sent shock waves across the air,Shadow and Sereph step back as they hit the ground but immediately accelerated towards each other with a mix of emotions in the two that couldn't be described
Sereph throws a right hook but Shadow ducks as he descends to the ground and supports himself with one hands then sweeps Sereph legs but Sereph Leaps into the air as he shouts
"RED DEATH FIGHTING ARTS...1000 FIST OF RAGE!"
Sereph repeatedly punches downwards and seconds later one thousand red fist descended towards Shadow
Shadow smiles as he readies himself his flames and technique switch as his fist glowed red
Shadow jumps into the air as he meets with the attack he counters with his own punch
Seconds later the attack dispersed as Shadow is sent flying deep into the ground and Sereph follows
A moment passes with silence until the ground shook as eruptions of red blue energy shot out from the ground then Sereph Shadow jumped out from the ground and with a batttered body lunged towards Sereph as there fist met once again
Shadow jumps to give Sereph a front kick to the chin but Sereph now with a dull expression casually blocks it and continues to block Shadows insuing attacks as he thinks
"How am I still fine,even if I'm a ranked higher then him I should've sustained a little"
When suddenly Sereph felt Something as he losses concentration as he says
"Jaress-"
Sereph then received a punch from Shadow that sent him slightly stumbling back when his eyes darkened as he says
"Bastard"
Before Shadow could catch his breath Sereph instantly appears in front of him and with one hand grabs his face as he accelerates into a mountain and begins dragging Shadow across it until he let go then spun and delivered a devastating heel kick that sent Shadow through the mountain on to the other side
But not even a moment later Shadow who lay on the ground with bruises and broken bones eyes dialtes as a transparent dragon engulfs him when Sereph voice heard
"RED DRAGON FIGHTING ARTS...DIVINE RED FLAME DRAGON!"
As shadow is engulfed in red flames the ground around him was now schorched black with residual flames burning around
Sereph descends in front of Shadow With cold expression as he says
"Give up your finished,don't embarrass yourself further"
Shadow remain silent as Sereph turned his back as he said to himself aloud
"Now It's time for me to go help Jaress to take of that Desheta Doshi once for all"
Sereph begins to walk away when everything went deafly silent as Sereph felt the air thicken he heard something get when he heard cracking
With was Shadow's spiritual cracking when it cracked once more
Shadow got up as he says with killing intent in his eyes
"If...if...you dare hurt her"
More cracks appear on his spirit but then they began appearing on his body when Shadow puked out blood
Sereph felt something was very wrong as he turned towards Shadow
Shadow now with a dark expression says with blood smeared on the ground and with a cold voice
"If you dare hurt her...you and your supposed savior will-"
The cracks began spreading as white energy began seeping from the cracks
As a being began forming behind Shadow
It was completely white with completely black narrow eyes and a sinister mouth as
Shadows hair began floating along with debri around him
His eyes beacame white as he was engulfed in white energy
Shadow roared
"WILLLLLLL PAAAAYYYYYYYYY!"
As Shadow energy erupted Sereph with a surprised expression received a system
[System prompt]
[The individual known as Shadow Habana possessing the body of Shedoden Habana has awakened a forbidden god]
Sereph thought
"Shadow Coqetsu what are you"
Shenky and the women who were casually walking around the war immediately sensed Shadow's energy as Shenky thought
"Hmmmmmm...interesting"
The women then said with a casual voice
"Are you gonna do anything about it"
Shenky retwarts
"Ellen why do you expect me to deal with such a trivial issue"
"Well that's because what I'm sensing from that thing is that it should have enough power to destroy or corrupt the time"
"And where exactly in that statement say it's my problem"
"Hmmm what about your ramen"
"It won't matter I'll just reset the timeline to keep my ramen intact"
"You really are selfish huh"
"Yep...but what worries me more is that everyone ordinary and abnormal should be feeling this overwhelming sense of despair as well"
On another segment of the war Plague doctor suddenly twisted his head completely backwards as he says with intrigue
"Hmmmm it seems i have a new test subject"
[System prompt]
[Project convert is 83% completed]
Plague doctor snaps his head back to normal as he turns into black mist leaving behind and eerie chuckle
The scene shifts to Jagik and the game announcer as Jagik says with uncaring attitude
"Wow wow boo hoo it's not nice to have a crazy entrance Shio you almost triggered my domino affect early you little brat"
Game announcer tilts his head in curiosity as he says
"What do mean?"
Jagik smiles casually as he says
"You'll find out soon enough"
Quantity then says
"It seems my prison is cracking again...hehheehehe"
The scene transitions back to the raging Shadow when the image of the monster behind me began to shrink until it completely dissappeared as red energy was replaced
Shadow murmured
"No way in hell would I accept the power another"
Shadow then went into his stance as red energy enveloped him he said resolutely now fully healed
"Sereph i want to beat you with my own strength and without any of us holding back that being said"
Suddenly the crow symbol on Serephs bicep decipates as Sereph looks in slight surprise then he stared back at Shadow and before he could utter a word Shadow said
"I did it by using my flames while we were fighting it just so happen me awakening was the final nail in the coffin"
"So that explains why i didn't take damage through out the confrontation...but my question is...why?"
"Simple i wanted to fight you at your full strength without restraint..."
Shadow clenches his fist as he yells
"AND BEAT YOU!"
end of chapter 20:our clash
Part 1