122 Battle for Top 1 Part 3 : A Name Worth To Remember (1/2)

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Few moments before Shin's clones killed Exheart and Bryan.

HellBan didn't dare to stop moving or even pause on a single place. Because if he do that, Shin might jump at him out of nowhere.He also didn't stop summoning his skeleton warriors even if it consumes a lot of Mana for him.

For now, HellBan can summon twelve skeleton warriors at most. And even if he can't control them manually due their numbers, their battle standards are still the same as a High-Level Elite Monster.

But since their weapons are only a pair of shield and sword, their attack patterns are pretty much predictable in Shin's eyes, so they didn't give much trouble for him.

But the one that gave him much headache is HellBan himself.

This guy is quite cunning. He keeps changing his position to prevent Shin from getting near at him. And every time Shin managed to broke through the blockade of skeleton warriors, HellBan is always there to lock him up in place, and preventing him from moving forward.

The only good thing on Shin's current situation is that HellBan can't use any kind of powerful skill since he don't have a leisure time to cast any. Especially since Shin is always keeping an eye at him to make a mistake.

”Tsk! This can't continue.”

Shin and HellBan have the same thought in mind when they come at this point.

HellBan do some consecutive blinks backwards to put some distance away from Shin and his skeleton warriors.

After that, he immediately raise his bony-staff in the air as he extract some Darkness Mana from his surroundings. Then he absorb those Mana on his body, making his stats to become doubled.

'Necromancer Skill: Dark Extraction'

After upgrading his powers, HellBan cast another buff to himself. He chants some necromantic words before gaining some blessing from the God of Undead.

Immediately after that, his casting speed suddenly become more faster while making the cooldown reduction of his skills to shot up with a great margin.

'Equipment Skill: Blessings of Undead'

On this state, HellBan doesn't need the help of his skeletons warriors so immediately cut his connections with them and let them swarm at Shin blindly.

After that, HellBan take advantage of the chaotic battlefield to start chanting out some necromantic words while borrowing some Darkness Energy from his surroundings, he is trying to summon something.

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At the same time, Shin hop backwards while dodging the attacks from the skeleton warriors. After that, he jump in the air before doing some consecutive flips backwards to distance himself away from the swarming skeleton warriors.

And when he gain enough distance, Shin immediately activate the 'berserk skill' attached on his headgear.

'Equipment Skill: Dawnbreaker'

But Shin is not done yet, his trousers suddenly release a brilliant white light before being absorb by his legs. And that Dawn Energy gives him an additional 500% of movement speed.

'Equipment Skill: Speed of Light'

And after all of those buffs, Shin immediately made his move. He slightly squatted his legs before staying on that position for few seconds.

Then suddenly another Shin appeared right in front of HellBan while swinging the [Dusk Blade] on his right hand downwards.

Boom!

And that is when a sonic boom exploded and follows the path that Shin have taken while sending some air shockwaves on its way.

Such speed already surpassed HellBan's dynamic vision, but before Shin's sword reach its target, a dark void suddenly appeared beside HellBan. Then a pitch-black broadsword suddenly thrust from that dark void, blocking Shin's sword strike.

Clang!

After that, a knight with full-body black armor walked out the void while radiating with a very dangerous aura.

'Master Necromancer Skill (Tier 2): Summon Death Knight'

Then the eyes in the gap of the Death Knight's helm suddenly release a crimson glow while looking at Shin. After that, the Death Knight swing its broadsword powerfully, pushing Shin backwards.

Tshing!

Shin absorb the force from that attack while doing a back-flip in the air. And when his feet touches the ground, Shin immediately charges forward, leaving another afterimage at his previous location.

The Death Knight move at Shin's path protecting it master behind it.

But Shin suddenly change his direction and circle around the the Knight once again. Unfortunately, the Death Knight is not to be trifle either. It is able to responded at Shin's movements and blocked his path for one more time.

Shin's body suddenly turned into a blur as he accelerated once again a circle around HellBan while swinging both of his swords in the process.

At the same time, the Death Knight chase after Shin's figure while also swing its broadsword to block each of Shin's sword strikes. Then a bunch of sparks and metallic sounds are created because of the collision the swords.

Tshing! Ding!

Cling! Cling!

Clang!

In the eyes of the spectators that are watching the fight, Shin and the Death Knight's figures are impossible to be caught by their naked eyes. They need to relay on the slow motion feature of the spectator mode to be able to watch the battle more clearly.

Sometimes, Shin is leaving a bunch of afterimages behind as he circle around HellBan but the Death Knight is always at his neck to prevent him from interrupting the spell that HellBan is casting.

Moments later, HellBan is finally done chanting his spell. He raise staff in the air as it emits a dark aura. Then he immediately smash the bottom of his bony-staff on the ground, sending a powerful ripple on the air.

After that, a bunch of black smokes was released from the bony-staff before swarming towards Shin with a great speed.

'Master Necromancer Skill (Tier 2): Darkness Corrosion'

Shin quickly move backwards as he distance himself away from the incoming black smokes. With his current speed, it is impossible for the swarming smoke catch up at him.

But the Death Knight is a different story, it immediately block Shin's retreating path, and forcing the swordsman to pause his steps a little.

And that slight pause is more enough for the black smoke to catch up at Shin. And immediately after that, he is completely devoured by the swarming smoke together with the Death Knight.

HellBan's mouth suddenly curve upwards when he saw that. ”Heh! I finally got you!”

He is about to cast a large destruction spell when he suddenly felt something. He squinted his eyes and look more carefully at the black mass of smoke. Then he suddenly noticed a brilliant light coming from inside the smoke.

Moment later, the black mass of smoke was suddenly cast aside before dispersing completely as it was replaced by blinding white light.

HellBan immediately raise his bony-staff to blink away from the spreading light as he saw Shin in the middle of that blinding light while raising the [Dawn Blade] in the air.

'Weapon Skill: Radiance'

At the same time, the Death Knight who was standing on Shin's side when he was devoured by the black smoke received a massive damage because the brilliant white light is directly shining at it.

What's more; the Death Knight is an undead creature so it received more damage because the 'Radiance' equipment skill is a light based skill which is coincidentally its fatal weakness.

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Then Shin immediately take advantage of that time to finish off the Death Knight. He tightens his grip on both of his swords before swinging them at the Death Knight. And each of the sword slash is stronger than the other.

The first batch of the sword strikes is a three consecutive sword slash followed by a more powerful five slashes.

'Self-Created Skill: Triple Slash'

'Grim Reaper Skill (Tier 2): Purgatory Slash: Penta Slash'

The Death Knight swing its broadsword to protect itself but it only managed to block the first, third and fourth slashes.

Cling!

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Clang!

Clang!

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After the fifth slash, Shin pause for a moment as he gathers a bunch of Dawn Energy at the [Dawn Blade]. Then he immediately swing his sword diagonally in an upper-left to lower-right motion. After that, a crescent Energy Wave was sent flying towards the Death Knight.

'Grim Reaper Skill (Tier 2): Purgatory Slash: Energy Wave'

Swoosh!

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Then the body of the Death Knight was cut in two when the crescent Energy Wave slice through it. After that, that sliced body was suddenly exploded into a bunch of smoke before dispersing in the air.

And that is when Shin's foot landed on the ground. Immediately after that, his figure suddenly flickers, indicating that he left an afterimage behind.

And HellBan also felt that. He already unsummoned his skeleton warriors earlier to save more Mana, so no one will hinder Shin on coming at him. And now that his Death Knight died, he also needs to face Shin himself.

Since HellBan's casting speed become doubled, he wave his bony-staff and left arm together as he cast a basic spell after basic spell like there is no tomorrow.