Chapter 1047: Principle of sword and saber (1) (1/2)

The sound of the air ripping and the booms accompanied each strikes and movement from both Loki and Sasha.

Her sword seems to also imitate the personality of its user.

The sword method of Sasha, is quick and nimble, light and breezy, yet hidden in this breezy moves lies danger

Suddenly turning, suddenly rising, the sword seems to be able to fly, countering myriad changes, deflecting thousands of attacks, moving in every direction, making it difficult for the opponent to defend against

her sword is like a flying phoenix.

If this is anyone else, they would probably had lost against Sasha in the first few hundred exchanges.

Yet, it is precisely because it is Loki, that her sword moves did not work as intended

Her dazzling moves broken with one simple strike. Her fluttering and agitating attack is ignored, each unpredictable attack become predictable.

There is something that the whole world doesn't know about Loki.

A secret only known to a select few like that of Yewa Hafar and people who came from the same era as him.

Loki is a person most proficient in Karma.

To be proficient in karma, you have to be proficient in calculations. This is unlike the calculation of math, of created numbers by mortals to make sense of the Universe

The calculation of Karma is the calculations of probability. It touches upon fate and destiny. Of time and Space.

Loki greatest abilities is not that he mastered all kinds of magic or that he had learned as much runes as possible for an outsider of the Asgard, but that he had the ability to calculate certain trajectories of fate and destiny

Compared to the calculations of such intangible concepts, how hard could it be for him to calculate the unpredictable sword moves of Sasha?

A sword technique is just a sword technique after all, just like a saber technique is just a saber technique

the changes in sword technique are always at the end of a movement.

Ages have passed and all kinds of swordsman have put thought into this. There is nothing new about sword technique under the heaven.

No matter what change it is, it had long been predicted. Since it is something that could be predicted, Loki could surely see through it.

Even when her attack is full of tapping and stabbing, he broke it.

When the sword thrust forward, he cut forward. When it tries to absorb the force of his strike, he pushed even more forward.

none of her stealth and concealment methods could hide under Loki gaze. Her sword method is quick and nimble, light and breezy, so Loki inverse it.

His saber method forces her to slow her attack, put heaviness in his strike, slowly breaking the pace that she had forcefully recovered

He lifts his saber when Sasha wanted to bring down her sword, he hooks the sword with his saber to direct the sword, he slashes across when she tries to stab and at times he even throws a few of blast of compressed air toward her by using his environment.

The sword and the saber is their feet and hand, yet it is no different than real sabers and swords.

Loki uses all the basic moves of saber technique, from hacking, forward and downward, chops to the left and right, a move called throwing, propping the saber, hanging the saber, raising, seeking, and stabbing

All of it is used to deal with the diverse sword method performed by Sasha.

Loki could no longer did what he did before where he created a knife intent that seems able to split the Heavens and Earth apart but that did not mean his saber intent is weak.

The battle between them had only been one minutes but tens of thousands of moves had been exchanged and all kinds of principles of swords and sabers were exchanged in that one minute

What is more remarkable that both of them still remains vigorous after all that exchange. Then another explosion sounded as both of them jump backward from each other

The explosion did not spread out.

Instead it surges toward the sky and when it reached one hundred feet, this force dissipated when it hit the height of the dome.

On top of the dome, there is now a slight crack like it has been cut by something. The cut is deep but fortunately after a moment, the formation reassemble itself

On the ground below, now that they stopped for a second, that one could see their figures.

When they were fighting, no one could see them as the only thing they could see was the effect and blast of air that appears because of their clash.

Loki is in fighting stance. His three-piece suit had scratches and holes all over.

His fedora also had disappeared. His sunglasses are cracked and his leather shoes seems to be worn down.