Chapter 291: Mental battle and the breakthrough (1/2)

Sam didn't wait for the shadow to make the first move, he slashed diagonally and the sword hit the shadow that just appeared squarely in the chest and a portion of the darkness that is surrounding him vanished creating a large grey patch.

But it is only one-hundredth of the whole darkness. So, Sam has a bitter battle ahead of him.

The two figures exchanged several sword moves, Sam's first move was due to the unpreparedness of the shadow and since then, it became hard for him to land a solid strike on the shadow.

As they were exchanging moves, Sam's skin was being blackened bit by bit. But with his whole body, it was very minute all that was blackened is half of the pinky toe.

But the darkness around him was also receiving damage and was being eroded bit by bit creating grey patches randomly all over the place.

The spirit didn't say anything at all. The eyes on the horizon are carefully inspecting Sam.

The battle is unlike the battle of cultivators, it is a pure swordsman battle without sword lights and sword rays. It is a battle of pure skill.

Since the start Sam didn't move much from his original position. He had used his moves to the bare minimum as he battled.

Even though he didn't cover a large portion of the area, the area within the range of the sword is completely in his control.

The shadow's moves are being read and he was becoming more and more proficient in stopping, at the same time, Sam's moves are also being read as he noticed that he wasn't able to do much damage.

Sam stopped receiving any damage when his left foot was completely blackened. The shadow could be seen becoming more and more restless.

At this moment, Sam made his first huge movement. He started attacking the shadow from all the sides, his speed was used to the extreme and in a second all the sides of the shadow have slashes.

A large amount of darkness was greyed out, leaving only one-fourth of it around the shadow.

”Human, you are the only one who forced me this far, but this is as far as you can go.” The spirit said after a long silence.

The darkness around the shadow slowly disappeared and concentrated into the shadow's body. The sword became extremely bright and a dark aura was being emitted from it.

Sam also started concentrating all his remaining mental energy, his whole 'body' became dull and translucent and the true body of Sam outside was bleeding through the nose.

In a second, the bright and the dark sword collided fiercely and the whole space rippled due to the collision.

Sam crashed backward into the grey surroundings like a ragdoll and the shadow which was standing there was completely greyed out. The eyes looked at Sam who is barely conscious and there seemed to be a glint in them.

Sam was completely blackened. From a foot to his whole body everything was blackened except for a small portion at the forehead.

A small portion which is only as big as his eye was still in normal bright color.

”You are an interesting kid.” The eyes disappeared and Sam's consciousness returned to his body.

When he opened his eyes, Sam felt his head spinning and there was blood all over his clothes which dripped down from his nose. His hand was holding the shadow sword and as he was in confused whether he had succeeded or not a voice boomed in his head.

”Human, you are not that bad, although you only have a fraction of ability of my master, you are not the worst one, you are better than an average cultivator.

I will stay with you for now. But don't think about wielding me in battles, my power is too much for you to bear, even a single swing will cost you a limb. Except you are in a desperate state don't use me and even then, I will be the one who is in control, or else you would die sooner or later.”

Sam smiled at the sword spirit's words. He was extremely excited to see the capabilities of the sword, but as the sword said he is too weak to wield its power.

”Thank you, but I cannot carry you around, I will send you somewhere, don't resist.” Sam sent the shadow sword into the divine dimension, where reaper and executioner are present. The sword circled around the other two and sent a voice to Sam.

”Boy, who made these two?”

”I made them myself? Why?”

”Hmm, you are not that bad. Although they are not as great as me, the materials and craftsmanship are not bad.”