NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1292: Sword Saint
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"Hahahaha! HAHAHA!"
Against what Blake expected, the calm Prideulieven revealed his true nature at the same time as his bony mask shattered into pieces, revealing how he looked, so human-like in appearance it was almost bizarre.
This was the power of Xenoids when they reached the pinnacle, not only could they be resilient monsters of space, but as they absorb cultures, techniques, intelligence, technology, powers, even abominations like them can take upon powerful egos, and even reach enlightenment.
FLAAASH!
A powerful white colored aura surged from Prideulieven, resembling two more silhouettes of himself holding a sword, the same katana-like blade he wielded, they were made of his ghostly white aura, with glowing white eyes.
"I've finally met another madman that has mastered a single weapon! My match!"
Blake quickly began to realize just how different Prideulieven was to every other Xenoid he had fought before. His Aura alone already told him he wasn't normal at all, and that his Enlightenment Level of the Sword Path was much more advanced than he initially imagined.
"Let's continue, shall we?!"
He reached Blake within an instant, moving his legs forward as his entire body moved at the same time, despite both floating in space, he moved as if he were stepping on solid ground.
"HAAAHH!"
He swung his sword down and then upwards, vertically, horizontally, and then to the west, east, north, south, left, and right all within a few seconds.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Hundreds of attacks reached Blake within that split second, his eyes widening as his senses were sharpened instantly, he unleashed his combined power at once, pushing himself to his limits.
He knew he had to go all out, unless he wanted to die being cut apart into pieces!
"{Mimicry} is still in cooldown; I cannot do that again so easily!"
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Blake unleashed his spear techniques, rapidly parrying and intercepting the attacks from the Xenoid. The power of {Mimicry} he had used came from Rainbow Star.
By using this power, Blake created a perfect clone of himself by mimicking his own appearance through his aura, leaving it as a decoy to be destroyed instead.
This allowed him to surprise Prideulieven and fake his death, which ended making him lower his guard for a moment, allowing Blake to strike him from below and surprise him.
However, using Mimicry constantly was not possible, and it had a "cooldown" of a couple minutes. It was a power that exhausted Rainbow Star after all, as it was what it used to recreate its own body by mimicking Blake's appearance.
"{Enlightened Sword Arts}: {Myriad Blades}"
Out of nowhere, the Xenoid stepped even closer to Blake while seeing his foe parry his blows, his gigantic, two-hundred-meter-tall body swung his titanic sword of over three hundred meters and unleashed a storm of titanic slashing blows.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
"Hah, this bastard's truly a monster!"
Blake never imagined that there could be Sword Saint of this size and power, the last one he fought was only around the same size, a humanoid alien named Zhu Wuleng, originating from a planet named Murim.
He was a terrifying swordsman that even traveled space on top of his blade… He was a powerful adversary, and someone that became his rival for many years until he was slain.
"Zhu Wuleng simply cannot compare to this bastard!"
He unlashed his spear technique a second too late, as a dozen slashing attacks impacted Bravelion, his barriers made out of his aura were cleaved thinly and easily, as the hard armor of Bravelion's draconic form while fused with Rainbow Star was shredded rapidly.
"HAAAH!"
Blake stepped forward amidst the cutting attacks, Gluttony overflowing with crimson and black thunder as he unleashed a powerful forward blow with everything he had.
"{Divine Spear God Arts}: [God-Killing Celestial Piercing Strike]!"
FLAAASH!
All of his concentrated energy flowed into a single point, the tip of Gluttony, and then was released into a deadly thrusting attack, piercing through Prideulieven chest while sliding through his sword, a piece of Gluttony's blade was sliced, but this didn't weaken the blow!
BOOOMMM!!!
Instead of a simple strike, what was released was an immense explosion, demonic flames encompassing the interior of Prideulieven all while Drake combined his flames together.
His Demonic Authorities surged rapidly fusing into white and silver colored flames! This contained the Divine Infernal Flame Authority that combined Spirit Flames, Divine Flames, Demonic Flames, and Bestellen's Demonic Flames with the power of Gluttony and Wrath's Authorities.
"BURN!"
He infused these flames into his spear, as Prideulieven started burning from his wound, screaming in agony while he desperately swung his blade to finish Blake off!
"DIE!"
SLAAAASH!
Prideulieven rejoiced, although he was taking tremendous damage, he had Blake at point blank! A single attack was divided into a hundred. Blake was done for; his body would be reduced into pieces alongside Bravelion!
"{Elemental Bestowal: Space}!"
FLUOSH!
Suddenly, Bravelion gained the bestowed element of Space, his entire body trembling and making ripples through the empty space.
In that second, his entire body disappeared!
"Impossible!"
Prideulieven was furious, as he saw Blake appear above him, kicking his face with all of Bravelion and his own strength combined.
CRAAASH!
His bony mask fully shattered, revealing his complete face, and his other half, which wasn't what Blake expected.
Although his revealed face was that of a handsome humanoid, the other half was grotesque.
With many insect-like eyes together, resembling tumors growing out of the fleshy skin, and insect-like jaws.
"Aaaaggh…! You saw my face…! Bastard!"
"I don't really care how you look, but that look sure suits your despicable and horrendous kind more. Instead of pretending to be human-like, why don't you simply act like the beast you are?!" Blake had no respect for Prideulieven despite the skill he showed.
"I HAVE ASCENDED BEYOND XENOIDS! I AM NOT…! I AM NOT A MERE BEAST ANYMORE! I AM A SWORD SAINT!"
"Prove it right here and right now, Prideulieven!"
Blake called him by his name, showing he actually did respect him, even if a bit.
"HAAAHHH!"
"RAAAAAH!"
Both clashed within space, ripples through the empty cosmos erupted, as explosions constantly emerged each time their weapon techniques clashed.
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