The battle began with Shadow attempting to kill both the runaways. "Not gonna let you!" Hekari yells, parries the blow and gets launched into the poisoned sewer water, "Nghh~". He gets up from the water and immediately feels the poison effect hitting him. The shadow tries to catch up with the runaways, but is immediately shocked by his recovery speed. "Two seconds I was trapped, taste the water", Hekari roundhouse kicks the shadow into the water, and hears the water sinking.
The shadow jumps out, throwing needles that punctured him. Hekari noticed that his leg was numbed, and formed a "Shadow Shield" (The shadow was formed into a physical shield) with his sheathe. Right in time, he defended multiple "Fireballs" in contrast with arrows. His leg returned to normal, told the shadow, "Are these poison from Jackal Bees and Silverscars?" (Jackal Bees are known for Chill Spines poisoning and Silverscars are known for instant numb poisoning [which is up to 3 seconds])
A pack of silverscars runs, trying to bite him. Hekari activates his trump card and chants, "When the darkest nights arrive, the metallic sounds break, one life taken to one grabbed… Dark Style: Cursed Dash!" After he'd used his trump card, he was wide open and he thought to himself "I had to use it". He looked forward and saw the man, he knew this 'thing' was a hooded man, he chanted. "The wavering suffering consumes you, as if the body of the enemy softened, as cold as the freezing fire… Icicle Condensation (Raindrop): Incinerating Pulse!" The Bladen Sheathe Soldier thought to himself, "Am I dead?", was devoured by The Icy Pulse.
The Bladen Sheathe Soldier noticed a shadow completely armored him. The shadow told him something, he couldn't understand it, but subconsciously pulled his sheath out and threw it. The hooded man was hearing a blunting sound and it grew closer. This sound soon envelope into a sound of death, this itself had stabbed the hooded man's chest. The freezing pulse subsided afterwards and it seemed as if the sewer water was no longer a frozen polluted yard. He chooses to walk away from the possible danger he could only make up from the shadow's talk.
Thornwood and Shirley ran, almost to the king's chamber. They had felt a sense of warmth again, Thornwood pulled his great sword in a defensive position. Whispering to Shirley, "Run now, go straight forward to the chamber with my elemental surge", she does what her brother said in this dire situation. The man appears standing let's Shirley pass through and glares back at Thornwood.
"Let's go and finish our disrupted battle from the king", the man said. Thornwood said, pulling his secret lightweight sword, "Yeah, how far do you want to go, Ralk Airind?". "To our maximum capability, General Thornwood Chasmfell." They both dash towards each other from 50 feet away and meet in the middle at 0.7 second. The water completely vaporized by their speed and elemental/magical attacks.They parried each other's attacks and both replied, "1,000 blows during our trip and 10,000 once we met."
The clash echoed across the underground complex. Each clash caused a sonic boom, and purified the nearby water droplets. Right after, the odor was removed and Thornwood's magic transformed the sewer into a natural ecosystem, filled with plants and fungi. Ralk's wind pressure gave the plants and fungi nutritional air quality as they battled.
The water started to dissipate and starved the life around them. "Our 10 millionth clash… no injuries occurred from in and outside", Thornwood finally spoke in the first minute. Yeah, true about that, except the fact the spark we produced burned our skin", Ralk further out the truth to Thornwood, while twisting his armed arm. They continued to clash, crushing each other's blade with equal stepping.
They know if they continued, the castle would just collapse by multiple impacts. Neither did not cared about the king, one who only joined to protect their family. While the other joined just to accompany his true best friend. So they continued to clash because of those stand points from the beginning. "Then now the girl fled with the evidence needed to demote the king, let's now go full on out", Ralk yells in excitement. "Yes indeed, my true best friend, Ralk, a battle to the beginning to the present", Thornwood yells in happiness.
Then they resume attacking each other in full power. One of them fought like an experienced knight, as the other one fought like an experienced samurai. They were shooting elemental projectiles against each other. The elements neutralized each other and there was no sign of them falling. "Guess this will be a win-lose situation, this means we are in a draw only situation", both states in a way that makes them monsters. Then both continued, but appeared as figures in the dust fog to everyone else.
Both the generals found new powers, Nature and Tempest. Both used their new incantation at the same time. "The Blessing of Nature dwells in me… Spears of Nature!" Thornwood chanted. Ralk chanted, "The destructive ball formed by the wrathful wind… Tempest Blast!" Then they both lunge towards each other and their weapons shattered. They both formed crystallized versions of their old weapons to continue the battle. Though they made premature attacks, the other saved another for their amusement.
When Shirley saw what was happening, she covered her eyes, falling down. Hekari returned to see this happening and forced himself to activate his full power, The Yang. He made this action clear, since this completely goes against his culture. "Don't", Shirley slowly shouts louder, "Don't… d-... STOP IT PLEASE! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE! Not again…". "I see, I will do what you say Shirley, I shall do what my disciple told me to do", Hekari said to the fainted girl.
"These folks can't hear them, they had faded from reality a long ago", Hekari knew muttering this. The generals couldn't hear, but only feel. Hekari let the element to take over him, since he knew The Element of his follows his deceased father footsteps. He had to swipe then down, he doesn't know how. Then he knew, just knock them out with the Bladen Sheathe technique. "All evil, all myths, all legends, everything starts to the origin. The shadow performs, death's claw configures, life's scythe breaths outwards", Hekari chants to grab the general's attention. "All blessings, all life, all techs, they must all come to their end. The Yin, life, good, truth, The Yang, death, evil, deceit, Weiju, the null, nothing, half, hearsay I. Yang Style: Darkness Dance!"
The ultimate attack started to really injure the generals, since this ultimate attack is made to take down the unbreakable, immortals, the deities. Yang Style: Darkness Dance brings them the target's worst trauma, while gashing their physical flesh.. Thornwood and Ralk snapped out after this move was used. They both saw Hekari vanished from the ground, then Thornwood dive into the air. He saved Hekari and was then saved by Ralk with his Tempest power.
Their arrival, Shirley saw Ralk and Thornwood, then started to cry. She yelled while crying, "What were you thinking, this is absurd! Why you guys thought it was fine to kill each other and I, having to worry about you! I-I thought I was going to lose you guys again, that feeling really aches my heart!" She continued to cry, but when the general tried to comfort her, she backed out. "The hell were you doing, you two, don't try to comfort me!" She screamed.
"Don't look at me, the reason I am so far from my village is to find my fiancée", Hekari declined their offer because it was the generals fault. "Hey, you could've been there, Hekari", Thornwood raised his voice at him. "Aren't you her protector, Katanist'', Ralk further push the blame to Hekari.
"How can I protect her if she saw you two trying to kill each other! It's obvious why she doesn't want to be comforted by what she saw! I don't know what happened, but you two lost control of yourselves! Just how I lost my fiancée and I don't want to let her leave", Hekari finally threw his burden out. Then Thornwood and Ralk felt really ashamed of themselves for their actions.
1 week after the incident. When both Shirley and Hekari were about to go through the sea, Hekari talks to the generals. "If you want to come with us, you can, not for me, but for Shirley. Just don't do what happened last week", he said leaving. Then the generals chose to follow for keeping Shirley safe. There is a new king in Sparkson City after Shirley collects the evidence.
"Finally, this is my first time on the ship", Hekari exclaimed on board. The generals caught up and yelled, "I am joining you both! Whether you like it or not!" Then they continued into the seas, hoping nothing bad happens.
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