Test XI

"Well, let the real battle begin" I declared with a slight smile on my face and dangerous eyes.

At this moment I already had my Duranvil in my left hand and completely converted from my blood, holding the hilt tightly I prepared myself for the attack of the now missing shadow.

I had already foreseen this course of action of it, but this also means one thing, possibly it has its own domain where it is currently seeing me.

Before I thought he was hiding and attacking by creating bridges of the same darkness, and possibly he did that, since creating a domain and hiding there is, for someone as weak as him, something almost impossible to do in the long run, so possibly he comes out next.

And exactly that happened, swift and ferocious claws were going towards my face with the intention of cutting me lo , but now my physical capabilities are equal or superior to the shadow's, so it wasn't much of a problem to hit his claws on my weapon.

*metallic sound*

Very different from before when my Duranvil impacted its claws and its blood began to fade, now it was not the case or at least there was so much that the difference was negligible.

Quickly the full form of the creature of the abyss became visible, returning to the world, with other scythe-like claws going my way at great speed.

Although I had physical capabilities possibly a bit superior to his, in a sense he still has a great advantage over me, camouflage, create a domain, two hands with fierce claws, regeneration and maybe one or another trick he has lying around unknowingly.

And I was using another one of his advantages now, throwing his other claws while holding my weapon on his previous attack.

'Fuck it' I shouted in my mind, moving my body again so that his attack would impact my right arm and slashing him in the process.

*Chorro*

A great gush of blood was being expelled from my right upper limb, my little sacrificial lamb in each of my important battles so far.

A great strength came over me instantly, I had never had a limb cut off before, but the satisfaction of having great strength and the pain of the brutal wound made me grimace strangely on my face, though not scream because I had a great resistance to pain.

*Dull sound*.

With my now greater strength, I slashed the shadow's claws and then its right arm. This course of actions I normally could not do, but now I far exceeded the speed of the shadow, so it could not counterattack or defend itself from my storm of attacks.

Not wanting to miss the opportunity, I immediately jumped again with a light leap to turn my body and again throw a kick at the goblin's ugly face. How his left arm was still outstretched from cutting my arm in his attack, he also had no time to defend himself and received the full impact, again sent flying, but this time I was running after him chasing his path.

"Gale Rapier" I shouted, gathering all the mana I could and raising my Duranvil towards the abyssal creature still flying in the air. My now signature move was expelled from my weapon, compressing as much as possible, the attack was in the form of a rapier at great power.

In its passage it even lifted all the surrounding rocks and dust, finally impacting its target, specifically its only remaining arm, I had aimed for its head but it moved at the last moment to avoid its death.

*Shock*.

The shadow narrowed against the cracked wall of the Hall, thus creating more cracks, he was running to end his life quickly, but, one of his tricks that he knew he had hidden finally came out.

"Wh-" I couldn't even utter the words as the words were stuck in my throat along with the red liquid coming out of my mouth.

"Did you think it would be so easy to win against a son of Chaos? If so, several Gods would have already rebelled" mocked the shadow with a wide grin on his face, looking at my wound in my abdomen, a large hole was visible, you could see the other side of the room through it.

I couldn't understand how this happened, I had my guard up, all on high alert because I knew that the moment he was in great danger and I was in confidence he would reveal another trick. I already had it in my eating sense that the last moments of a living being's life in a battle are really dangerous, so I never let my guard down.

"Poor thing, you know? The hardest thing for a creature of the abyss is to fight against another of its own kind" He stated with a big smile on his face, slowly standing up with his right arm regenerating itself.

His words clicked in my mind. What you trust the most in being from the abyss is mostly darkness, that was in my mind as a kind of common sense, a law itself, to fight what you trust the most, what will happen?

What if you fight without knowing that would happen? I was so confident in the darkness that it played against me, my young and inexperienced mind in this case has been my undoing? But didn't I feel the darkness before? Didn't I avoid the attack? My mind could not find an answer.

I fell to my knees, never in my life had I thought of falling to my knees before a goblin, a being of the lower abyss, I had no memory but I felt I could have no worse humiliation.

My anger filled mind completely clouded my intelligence and my veins protruding from my body further confirmed my state of rage.

'Shame, fury, humiliation' was the only thing my mind could repeat, releasing my grip on my weapon for possibly the first time in battle since I had been in the Trial.

At this moment I looked defeated, wounded, humiliated and furious.

The shadow just chuckles as he slowly approached me; "Like I said, I was going to win, too bad, my arm can't heal anymore because you used mana against it" He commented, pulling out his long right claws, extended his arm up dramatically.

"You certainly are the best person in this world for Physical, but anyway. Goodbye" He commented with a hint of sadness and disappointment, while his claws were already descending towards my neck.

And so... I died!