Wish And Determination

"Ooh… Good, then let's continue this fight." Abaddon quickly disappeared from Luke's sight this time the demon was moving so fast and Luke could barely tell the movement and direction of the demon's attack.

Luke re-mounted his defensive stance and prepared to receive attacks launched from all directions by Abaddon, Luke who kept his blind spot so he could protect himself from Abaddon's attacks that might attack from that direction. However, the prediction was wrong, Abaddon lunging from above. The demon was in the sky and he quickly grabbed Luke. However, Luke who was already on standby parried the attack and there was a huge explosion around them that made the originally calm water ripples start to fall apart due to the immense pressure emanating from their two swords.

"What's wrong Partners? Is that all you're capable of?"

"Ughhh… AAAAAAHHHH!!!" Luke shouted while pushing his sword so it could reflect Abaddon's attack.

Shortly after that their swords which were originally crossed now parted and Luke who saw that Abaddon's feet had not yet touched the surface of the water he quickly attacked the demon that was still hovering. Luke launched his first slash horizontally and followed by a vertical attack that slowly looked like an x. Abaddon who managed to restrain it took a few steps back and Luke quickly emitted purplish black flames shaped like a crescent moon towards Abaddon.

Three black crescent moons approached Abaddon and the demon pulled his body back and managed to dodge the first attack and he shot back to dodge the second attack and the third attack he parried it using the same attack that Luke did which was to throw out a black crescent moon. However, when the two crescent moons collide and cause an explosion Luke infiltrates the explosion and catches Abaddon who doesn't expect what his partner is doing.

Luke quickly launched an attack with his sword and Abaddon didn't expect it to prevent him from strengthening his defensive stance which caused him to fly a few meters from where he was standing.

"Ha ha ha ha…. This is very interesting," replied the demon while he was still kneeling. "You fought so recklessly partner. Is that how much you want my power?" Abaddon stood back up.

"No," Luke lunged at Abaddon again and this time the demon was ready for Luke's attack. Their swords crossed again. "I'm doing this because there are things out there that are very important to me. That's why I don't want to lose in this place especially lose to you."

"Hahahaha… Well done partner, let's keep fighting until we determine who is the strongest between the two of us."

The two of them retaliated against each other and for some time the direction of this battle was very unpredictable who would lose or who would win. This fight was so fast they were evenly matched and their movements were unpredictable. If, someone was here watching their fight then that person could only be stunned to see this fight. Shortly after that they kept their distance between each other and it could be seen that Luke was breathing heavily and was starting to lose his concentration on the other side. Abaddon just looked relaxed as if he wasn't out of breath or demonic power was swinging his sword in various directions as if when he fought Luke was just a warm-up for him.

"What is it? Have you run out of cool partner? Just give up already."

"Give up? You think I would do that?"

Luke took a deep breath and let it out so he could regain his breath while trying to refocus. When Luke was about to lunge at Abaddon. Suddenly Abaddon snapped his fingers and black flames began to surround Luke.

"Looks like this is your loss partner."

"My Defeat you say?" Luke tried to buy time so he could figure out a way to get out of this dark circle of fire.

"It's all over partner, you can't get out of that circle of fire." Luke who heard Abaddon's words tried to lunge out of the circle of fire but, Abaddon enlarged the fire until it formed a wall of fire.

"Your soul is mine partner." When Abaddon said that Luke suddenly penetrated the wall of fire by covering himself with the fire he created which the fire did not burn him.

"It's over," Luke who was about to try to cut off Abaddon's head was suddenly startled when an arrow or perhaps more accurately called a thin blade pierced his right shoulder. "W-what?" Luke fell not far from Abaddon while enduring the pain he was feeling. This pain seems real even though this world is the world of the soul. What if he died in this world would his life really end?

"You impressed me partner. I didn't think you would create such a thing. But, it's useless in my opinion. Look up partner." Abaddon pointed at the sky and Luke looked in the direction Abaddon was pointing. "What the hell." He was surprised to see so many sword blades in the sky. Hundreds? Or maybe thousands of blades covered the blue sky and slowly the world began to be covered by darkness.

"Give up partner. At least you don't feel the blades of these swords pierce you."

"You know," Luke stood up with the help of his sword even though it still hurt and his body seemed so heavy he had to try to stand up. He must try to win and gain the strength to go out there. He didn't want it to end like this he didn't want to be an empty human and a life filled with fear.

" There are no words of surrender in my life so no matter how many times you ask me to give up I will continue to stand even if I lose both hands or lose a leg. nor can I see I will continue to stand. Because, there are people out there that I have to save. I don't care about this world I don't care what this world wants to be because from the start, I've been living in this bad world. But, at least if I want to die, I don't want to die a coward."

"Then this is your end partner." Abaddon started to lower his hand and the blade started to move towards Luke. Luke who could barely stand up straight and his stance that were already in disarray could only survive the barrage of attacks. Luke parried the blades one by one and there was also one he failed to parry which made the blade scratch his body. If, he continued to endure like this he would only end up in a pathetic manner.

"Hahaha… Feel that desperation…" While Abaddon was laughing out loud suddenly a blade crossed his face which cut his face. His laughter stopped and he touched his scratched face which was not blood but a shadow of darkness behind his face.

"Ooh… To think you would show such an expression." Luke who was full of wounds from successfully stopping the relentless attacks of the blade that Abaddon was moving saw on his face he was grinning.

"Why don't you just give up!!" Abaddon shouted at the man who could barely even stand up.

"Didn't I tell you that words like that don't exist in my life. What's up Abaddon? Why did you lose your composure."

"You!!" Abaddon excitedly moved his blades towards Luke again but, the blades were repelled by the same blade. This time it was Luke who created the blade and the battle between their two blades continued.

"Why!! Why!! Why are you trying so hard?"

"Of course it's because this isn't where I die and there's still things I have to do out there." Luke walked slowly towards Abaddon who had lost his composure while being protected by the blade of his sword.

"AAARRRGGGHH!!"

Abaddon increased the number of blades and saw an imbalance in the number of blades between the two of them. Luke calmly focused his blades forward and moved them through the crowd of Abaddon's blades. Abaddon managed to dispel the blade from Luke but there was one thing he couldn't avoid. Because he was too focused on blocking Luke's blade he didn't notice that Luke was throwing his sword at Abaddon. Abaddon quickly parried the sword but, when he looked in front of him there was no Luke and when he realized that it was for him it was too late because by the time Luke flew his sword at Abaddon he was already right above the demon. Luke summoned his thrown sword and started to launch an attack vertically. His sword was filled with black flames and charged towards Abaddon who didn't have time to defend himself. Abaddon's defense was not perfect which caused his sword to split into two pieces and he was shocked to see this and suddenly there was a huge explosion.