The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss-Chapter 276: Last Blow

Our swords collide, breaking everything as we repeat the process with several quick blows in sequence, each one generating shockwaves due to our mana.

I dodge a giant cut by leaning my body all the way back as the pillars fall, I use the shadows to grab the pillar and throw it at us, forcing him to choose what to attack.

I use the shadows to get behind him as he turns with extreme speed, hitting me while his sword collides with a large axe and the pillar ends up being completely destroyed by the shockwave.

In a nostalgic way, I create a giant shark using the shadows of the pillars, and it bites, closing its mouth around us while Mikael tries to cut it, but I block his blow with a halberd.

Smaller sharks bite his legs, locking him in place, while with my tail I hit him with extreme force, throwing him against the teeth of the giant shark.

He twists his body and launches a cut that I dodge by crouching down while everything is cut in half and the shark dissipates, without giving him much time, I advance.

"[Earth Divider]" I use earth magic, creating a huge rift in the ground, which makes him momentarily fall.

I make wings with the shadow and advance against him using a movement style like that of dragonflies hunting prey, I advance with a quick thrust that he defends, but just as dragonflies can change the direction of their flight in milliseconds, I do the same, but even faster.

Exchanging direction and flying, repeating this process, I give several attacks at different angles that he can barely defend because he doesn’t have a solid base to defend himself.

He receives several cuts from the various thrusts with the sword, he then swings Mesumari, covered with his mana, making a giant mana cut that I dodge by quickly changing the angle of flight.

The environment quickly regenerates, and Mikael simply kicks the air, rising while I’m left down here, being closed by the ground, but I use Mikael’s shadows to teleport, instantly getting out of the now closed hole.

However, Mikael takes advantage of this to hit me with the flat of the sword, giving me a powerful blow and throwing me, and then appears behind, striking me the same way on my back, throwing me forward.

He repeats the process at different angles, copying what I did to him, but instead of thrusts, he’s batting me, the force of each blow, along with the unnatural turns, make it impossible for me to focus correctly to regain control.

I use my tail to try to find the ground, and as soon as it touches the ground, it sticks while I quickly regain my posture and defend a blow from Mikael that ends up throwing me far away because he’s full of mana and mine still isn’t.

I create wings and fly up, regaining some attack space while forming giant thorns with the shadows on the ground, forcing Mikael to defend.

I advance against the ground, holding the sword in a thrusting position, while spinning my body super fast, using the wings and mana to make it like a drill and enter the ground, using Mikael’s mana as radar to locate me while the ground that quickly regenerates practically hides me.

I move at extreme speed through the ground, rising well above Mikael, who uses Mesumari to cut downward when he feels the ground below him trembling and sees me coming out, while he barely dodges in time.

But I defend the blow, pulling his feet with the shadows and completely breaking his posture while I hit him in the chin with a kick, breaking his posture while I pierce his abdomen with my tail.

He then grabs my tail before I can react and slams me against the ground with force, but without letting go, he repeats the movement, slamming me against the ground again and again.

Until realizing that I’m going to escape his grip, he spins me by the tail and throws me while making a giant cut with Mesumari.

"..." I use Violet’s ability, appearing in that place and seeing Violet picking up the black thread and the white thread, noting that there are many more black threads, showing that I’m taking too many risks.

For his cut, I react by forming a copy of his attack, making an equally powerful mana cut, both colliding and generating a powerful mana explosion that obscures the vision.

We both advance in a charge, making a thrust, and I notice that his pattern has changed to a copy of mine, since Mesumari is a terrible sword for charges due to its size.

Even so, Mikael begins an exchange of blows against me, using attacks similar to mine, which is a complete absurdity given the difference in the size of the swords.

I make another sword using a two-handed style, forcing him to stop copying me since he only has one sword.

I use the shadow of wolves to take some distance, Mikael is like a wall, there were few times when he tried to take distance from me, it’s mainly me who takes distance to regain my posture and use a new form of attack.

This shows how our fighting styles are different, Mikael is like a war tank, brutal, solid and powerful, not being pushed back and not retreating, only advancing, trusting in his "armor" and destructive power.

I form a sword with a thick base that gets thinner towards the tip, being a sword 7 meters wide and having a disconnected blade, basically a whip.

Mikael tries to defend, but Mesumari doesn’t have the range of motion that Violet’s whip can do, I make attacks and more attacks, making shallow but constant cuts on Mikael’s body.

Every time he defends, the whip blade curves several times until it hits his body and makes a tearing-type cut, which tend to be more painful than common cuts.

Violet is the one controlling the movements, I just need to move and choose the direction, and Violet takes care of the rest of the movement, but Mikael quickly finds a way, forcing Violet to wrap around Mesumari and pull the whip.

But I simply let go of the weapon, which won’t make a difference to me since I can always create new weapons, he just pulled the weapon and didn’t expect me to simply let go of my weapon, is caught off guard when I advance with a giant spear with a conical spiral shape.

He barely has time to defend the perforation with Mesumari’s blade, while the shockwave pushes him back, breaking his solid posture.

Taking advantage of the fact that he is defending, I tighten the palm of my hand with extreme force, making it bleed, and move my hand, throwing my blood into his eyes.

"[Explosive Life]"

But somehow, without being shaken, he manages to use only one leg to spin and, with the sword covered with an enormous amount of mana, he hits me like a baseball, throwing me extremely far away.

I must have been thrown at least a few kilometers, losing sight of him, although I see his mana, his mana gathers at a single point completely.

"It seems he has decided to finish this with a single blow," I murmur, feeling his mana concentrating at an extremely small single point, so he’s probably going to make a charge with his full power.

"Pandora, can I try to change the destiny for him to miss or something similar and..." Violet starts to speak, as we have time to do something.

"Violet, be quiet," I order her to be quiet.

"I am the Demon King, I will never lose to a human when I am obviously stronger, if he is going to come at me with his maximum, then I will hold his maximum and show that I am the one who is above him," I form two gauntlets.

With the time I have, I make the gauntlets as well-made as possible, having a refined form and finely forged details to provide support.

"You...you’re CRAZY? DO YOU WANT TO HOLD HIS ATTACK WITH YOUR HANDS?" Violet yells at me, realizing what I’m going to do.

"Yes, I’m going to hold his attack with my hands, it’s a test for him! If I dodge, I’ll be seen as a coward who flees from his power, as in the past when I was so weak that I could only run and stay alive."

"But just trying to match his attack with an equally powerful one doesn’t work, that’s inefficient. If I just give an attack as strong as his, we’ll tie, and that way we’d be equal."

"I don’t want that! I am absolute! The best way to show this is to hold his attack with my hands! He has to understand that he can only dominate me if I let him dominate me, just like in sex!"

"I won’t lose," I start to fill the gauntlets, which have Violet, with my mana, but I won’t be stupid enough to put everything, I’ll leave 3% of my mana with me so that I still have something to use later.

"...Haa...you’re so crazy, you know? I’ve never seen anyone with such suicidal tendencies and ideas to try to hold an attack like that when you’ve already seen what he can do," Violet says with a sigh.

"Okay! If we’re going to die, then we’ll die together, but know that I don’t want to die, so you better win, Pandora!" Violet encourages me in her own arrogant way.

"Of course," I agree while moving my legs, slightly opening them, entering a position to hold his attack, my tail is fixed to the ground while all the shadows in the environment are used to firmly fix me in place.

Just as my mana concentrated in the gauntlets forms a mana aura that will defend the place of the first impact wave, preventing me from being blown away.

"..." I take a deep breath, closing my eyes momentarily while feeling that absurd concentration of mana, all in a single blow, while feeling the slight movement.

"It’s coming," I say, feeling him advancing and preparing for the impact.