Chapter 1021: Battle with Shadow (2/2)

When he felt the blade near him, he is sure that he would be completely cleaved into two if he got hit. He endured the pain of backlash and used all his strength to move back.

The scythe made a keening sound as it cut through the wind and slashed at his chest.

The cut was smooth and deep.

The opponent started panting as he tried to control the bleeding.

Sam stood there on the spot while holding the scythe behind his back as he let the dust to settle a bit.

The demon once again tried to use the same technique as before to see how accustomed Sam is to it and this time, Sam held the scythe by the extreme tail end of the staff and channeled his energy as he spun on the spot.

The glowing crescent slash, not just swept the rubble, it is propagated further as it sliced the tiled layer off of the floor next to it.

The demon had to once again dodge that crescent slash and before he could get the balance, Sam is already near him with the scythe this time aimed at his throat.

This time, he cannot dodge like the previous time as he is in mid-air, so he used his hand to block it with his arm guard.

But the scythe cut through the arm like it was butter and the blood spilled all over the place including Sam.

The demon managed to find his foot and retreated a bit as he looked at the fist that was separated from his arm at the wrist.

The cut was so smooth that it took a second for him to realize the pain.

The elder who arranged the fight wanted to stop it, but the opponent gestured him not to move as he channeled all the shadow energy to the chest and a large dark energy orb surrounded him.

Sam made his move as he decided to cut the orb in half and stop the process in middle, but unfortunately, as the scythe landed on the orb, it was deflected.

He activated energy vision, but he couldn't see anything past the orb.

He channeled his energy to the one point on the edge of the scythe and started attacking a single point on the orb.

The orb slowly started showing some cracks, but all of a sudden multiple shadows shot out of the orb and surrounded Sam.

They all looked identical to the opponent and the place where the arm was cut off was covered with a dark black cloth.

The blood is not dripping at any of them.

Sam's initial reaction was as usual use the energy vision, but there was no use this time. All the clones looked real in terms of energy.

All the images of the opponent started throwing the shuriken and knives and Sam once again focused on dodging and blocking, the only good thing is the opponent kept a lot more distance than normal.

Sam felt a bit frustrated. He decided to attack one image after another to finish them off, but as soon as he moved to one, the rest of the images that were on the opposite side and closing in to attack him in the back.

He couldn't understand how the opponent has this much energy left in him, but he has to find a way, and while thinking he kept on deflecting all the attacks made on him.

He couldn't see the blood drip to identify the real body, but as he thought of the blood his eyes brightened.

Sam focused all his energy on his nose as he closed his eyes, he placed all his concentration on the nose as he completely ignored the rest of the senses and even let the projectiles attack him a bit.

After three seconds, he lunged forward towards one of the images.

The three images opposite to the one he targeted moved towards him and started attacking from the rear.

But this time, Sam didn't stop to defend and just moved forward as he deflected the attacks from the front.

Right before he was about to cut the image off, he kicked the ground turned around and slashed the middle image that was coming at him.

The shadow demon was stunned and widened his eyes in disbelief.

Sam's rear is stabbed with a bunch of projectile weapons, but all of them didn't go past the feather coat by much, in fact, they are barely stuck in the fabric gaps. The scythe stopped right before it sliced the throat.

The edge of the blade slightly cut the skin on the throat without going too deep.

The shadow demon gave out a heavy sigh as the rest of the images disappeared and a faint voice was heard on the stage.

”I lost.”

The crowd became silent as their hero lost in the match which they are so sure that he would win.