Aren looked at the hamr; he could tell from a glance that this hamr was a soul weapon, but it wasn’t a simple one at all.
Ragna gripped his hamr in front of him, and then shut his eyes for a brief second, and when the eyes opened again, what was there was no longer Ragna, but instead sothing else, a being leaking with imnse power that was definitely not his own.
"That hamr, whatever it is, it’s definitely more than a normal soul weapon, where did this dude go and find sothing like that?" Aren wondered. He kept his gaze pinned on Ragna, waiting for him to move.
WHOOSH
Ragna moved the next mont, but the speed at which he vanished from sight was so much that Aren couldn’t keep watch of him. His eyes darted around very quickly; he tried to locate Ragna, but he couldn’t, even with Shadow Sense, and when Ragna finally ca into his sense, he was right behind Aren with his hamr raised.
"Shit," Aren cursed, kicking the ground. He retreated very fast; the hamr slamd into the ground and the shockwave that followed was so massive that it ripped the ground, rocks the size of small houses shot into the air, hurled forward by the force of the attack.
Aren crossed his arms and crouched as small rocks slamd into him; they didn’t harm him despite moving at the speed of bullets.
He landed, his foot pressing against the ground. He looked up and Ragna was already charging at him.
"Arghhhhhhhhhhh!" Ragna bellowed while swinging again.
"Enough of this," Aren muttered, summoning the ancient devourer. He stomped his foot into the ground, leaving a crack there as he swung his sword upward, twisting his entire body into the motion.
CLANG!
Sword and hamr collided; the sound was so loud it would rip the eardrums of a normal person. The wind from their collision alone pushed against both of them hard. Aren clenched his jaw, putting every ounce of his strength into holding the stalemate.
"Arghhhhhh, you can’t stop !" Ragna yelled. His veins bulged even more, his grip tightened on the hamr as he swung down with every single force that his body could muster.
BOOM!
Aren was thrown back; he landed fine and charged into it again.
"Keep coming so I can destroy you," Ragna yelled and then hurled his hamr forward at Aren. Aren placed his sword to the side quickly and moved his body slightly, allowing him to parry the hamr. It deflected and flew by as he closed the distance between him and Ragna.
Aren leaped into the air, swinging down. Ragna called back his hamr at the sa ti. His hands wrapped around the hamr at the very last mont before Aren’s blade got to him.
CLANG!
He managed to block the attack and then smiled from behind the hamr, teeth wide and happy. "Is this all that the great number one awakened has to offer?" he yelled right in Aren’s face, channeling more strength into his arms. He pushed Aren’s sword away, creating a direct opening to Aren’s chest.
"Shoot, this is not good, that hamr to the chest would be too bad to handle."
Aren used shadow form very quickly and the hamr phased through him, but this ti it didn’t go easy, as Aren felt a painful jolt from inside his body as the hamr passed through. He collapsed to his knees, wheezing hard; everything went blurry for a mont.
"Haha, seems your trick didn’t work," Ragna said and then grabbed Aren by the hair, picking him off the ground. He looked Aren right in the eyes and called back his hamr.
"Shit, I forgot that shadow form doesn’t do well against magic, and this hamr is carrying a shit ton of soul energy now," Aren thought to himself while his hair was getting yanked on by Ragna.
Ragna looked eager and ready to finish off everything. He swung the hamr, slamming into Aren’s face, throwing Aren through the air, blood gushing from his nose and mouth from the impact.
He hit the ground hard, skidded across the floor, and finally slamd against a massive rock at the base of the mountain, breaking into it. The rocks crumbled down on him.
"Urghhhhh," Aren groaned in pain; his head was currently ringing.
"You seriously going to allow him beat you?" Flo suddenly appeared and spoke.
"Nope, not at all," Aren said. He pushed himself out of the rubble, standing up straight. He flexed his arms a bit to free his muscles and then bent his head from side to side to loosen up.
"Do you need my help?" Flo asked.
"Thank you, Flo, but I got this one," Aren muttered. He gripped his sword and locked onto Ragna, who was already rushing towards him like a rocket.
"It’s ti I shut you down once and for all, Ragna," Aren said, instantly unleashing a powerful claw strike at Ragna. Ragna very quickly blocked the attack, but it was only a distraction as Aren closed the distance in an instant.
"I think it’s ti I use my martial art properly, don’t you think?" he asked while swinging for Ragna’s head. Ragna leaned back and dodged the attack, but Aren was already close again, his left hand coming in for a punch.
Ragna’s eyes followed that fist as it travelled through the air, yet there was nothing that he could do about it; it landed clean on his face.
BAM!
He was sent flying through the air. He slamd into the ground, rolled for a couple tens of ters before finally stopping, rising to his feet filled with rage, but he didn’t see Aren anymore.
"From above, bozo," Aren yelled, coming down with a full swing.
"Arghhhhhhhh!" Ragna roared and attacked upward. Hamr slamd into blade; the ground cracked in an instant, the wave spread far, Ragna was forced to bend a knee.
"Arghhhhhhhhhh! This is impossible, I’ll not allow you to defeat !" Ragna roared, but before he could make a move, Aren kicked him in the chest, sending him flying through the air.
Ragna refused to allow the force to lead him, so he slamd his hamr into the ground and forced himself to co to a stop.
He looked up at Aren and was about to attack again, only to see Aren standing there with a smile spread across his face.
Aren showed his sword, and on the blade was a small drop of blood.
"Look at this," Aren said, then looked at Ragna again. "This is a single drop of your blood, and all that’s needed for to end this."
Right before Ragna’s eyes, the blade twisted and turned, changing into its true form of tallic spinal chords and a dragon head mounted at the top.
It let out a roar, eyes locked on Ragna, ready to attack him again.
Ragna looked at the awakened form of the weapon and then scoffed.
"You believe you are the only one that has so tools at your disposal?" he asked, and then lifted his hamr into the air.
"The average awakened only knows that soul energy is their source of power, but they do not understand the intricate details that follow having this sort of energy rushing through your body, it is a feeling that no one will understand unless you have the right training.
"Soul weapons connect your soul to a weapon, and through them you can harness your true strength," Ragna spoke like he was delivering a sermon.
And then his hands suddenly started twisting like they were made of so sort of liquid. They wrapped into the hamr and rged in, fusing with the very hamr itself until it beca one, his hands connected to it, becoming the handle of the hamr.
The hamr head now had veins all over it, glowing red and pulsing with power.
"What the hell is that?" Aren couldn’t help but mutter in shock; he had never seen or heard of sothing like this in all his ti of being in the domain.
Ragna could see the shock in Aren’s eyes; he let out a victorious laugh.
"Hahaha, I told you, Aren, I have prepared every ans possible to ensure that I defeat you for sure, and I’m willing to expend my own soul to do it, and if I cannot, then Lily will rise to the occasion, and she will co for you, she will finish what I have already started." He moved into a runner stance, one hand on the ground while his mutated hand was extended in the air.
He locked eyes with Aren and then grinned from ear to ear.
"Aren, the number one awakened of the trials, ready yourself, for I, Ragna, will bring your end, here and now." As soon as those words left his mouth, he launched, his speed far faster than anything he had shown till now.
The ground was ripped apart as he tore through the air, and when he got into range, he swung.
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