Yuki hesitated just floating in the air. He didn’t expect to see such a scale. It felt almost like staring into a sea of metal. He couldn’t imagihe trol o maintain every single one. If sery could humble someohe dispy from the stro MP in the try succeeded. Just witnessing it made him feel defeated already.

  Nothing about what he saw felt like a bluff or faked as he would have thought from someone else. It was a truly accurate scale of his power. ‘How do I even fight something like that? I mocked him for being cliché, but this isn’t even just a bump in strength. This is a plete eclipse of his previous power.’ A tough to swallow gulp went down his throat.

  ‘How did I think I could eve someone like this? He’s got decades of experiend practibsp; I’ve got two months.’ Yuki tried to keep his hands from shaking. It wasn’t even a fear of death from him. In fact, he wasn’t even sure if Demosthenes wanted him dead from the look in his eyes. The mere presenpletely overwhelmed his senses. ‘What have I gotten myself into?’

  Chapter 270 – Screaming Bdes

  Eudokia couldn't really see Yuki clearly from her distanbsp; She had to keep out of their fight. But it didn’t require superhuman sight to see how much it affected Yuki. “Yuki! Yuki!” She o call him a sed time just to get his attention.

  “Ayumi?” He looked down the dista her. In all of the fighting, he sort of fot about her. It was the first time during the fight, after she snapped him out of his rage, that he aowledged her. But he got the sense she could tell how uled he was about Demosthenes’ new reveal. It made him more self-scious about getting his body under his trol.

  The whole thing was meant to be her final test for him. If he could defeat Demosthehere would be nothing else left. She k ossibility that he would pull it out, but Yuki o ha on his own. ‘I thought he’d see it as a challenge. He seemed to have the spirit to want to test himself out and see what he could achieve. I didn’t imagi would have the opposite effect.’ A miscalcution threatened her pn. “Are you an idiot, Yuki? Did you fet everything that I taught you?”

  “Idiot? Hey, aren’t you supposed to say something a little more inspiring at this point?”

  “Is that how you see me?”

  “Well…no, I ’t really picture you doing something like that. You’re more likely to just attack me and threaten me.”

  “You think that I’d attack you?!” she shouted up, getting annoyed with him.

  “Hey! You asked! You’re not the soft geouch sort of person.”

  “If you know that the your ass ba the fight!”

  ‘You’re really not helping…’ He stared down at her with a look of disbelief and annoyanbsp; He khat she couldn’t see his rea and he didn’t see hers, but it really felt like she snapped back at him for talking back to her. ‘Fine…’

  Yuki didn’t feel aer about his odds against the newly powered up Demosthenes. But the shaking in his arms disappeared. He just o focus on the issue at hand. ‘It’s not so bad, just ten thousand ons all ing at me at once,’ he thought mogly.

  The battle wasn’t over. Yuki had little choice, but to tinue. It wasn’t as if Demosthenes po stop just because he was no longer fident. “Well let’s get this going again!”

  He summoned up his mist around him needing more defense. Yuki tightened up his hands and firmed his flight support. The slow increase in tension he added before the fight resumed made him even more nervous. He could see Demosthenes rise off the ground slowly, almost in a deliberate manner just to unnerve him further.

  Once high enough in the air, Yuki waited for any sign by the old man to absp; However, it seemed that he waited for him to make the first move. It might have been an act by Demostheo let him pick when he was ready to tinue. Yuki didn’t think too hard on it.

  Waiting further just made it even worse. Yuki ched his fists and yelled in blind uainty. He charged towards his target ready to take on whatever happened. Immediately, he was fronted by an army of ons. Yuki sidered himself knowledgeable enough on ons to know many of the types and names, but he had no clue on half of the ones he saw flying at him. Which didn’t even speak for the rest floating around him. The only thing he khey were sharp.

  He dodged, pushed and dragged himself out of the range of many, but some still mao touch him. His body wasn’t built like Saki’s new body; he couldn’t easily dodge so many ons. It still only came off as little cuts or shallow wounds, but they kept adding up for him. ‘Damn, I o be faster…’ Yuki tensed up a little pushing his reflexes even further.

  The assault of ons made it impossible for him to get near Demosthenes. All he could do was dodge and even that barely actually kept up with things. He flung his body around so quickly he had to be careful of the G’s he started pulling. His Law wasn't prepared for such things, otherwise he would have sidered removing it from his Field. ‘Expins why some of them get away with pretty crazy movements, removing things like G force makes a big differen bat.’ It also made him realize how the old man could do the things he did, he likely made signifit alterations to natural ws. Until this fight, it wasn’t even something he sidered doing.

  Despite the disadvantage, Yuki mao keep up. The longer he worked with flying the better of a feeli for it. He didn’t need as many overt movements. It started to bee a little more natural. However, it didn’t ge his situation.

  Demosthenes hadn’t even moved from his position. He didn’t o with all of the ons. ‘I know he’s skilled. He doesn’t o stand back, though I guess it could limit the angles of attack.’ If it remaihe same, Yuki would never get an atta. His body would colpse before he did anymore.

  ‘I need a new pn… I o get close to him…’ Yuki flew away from Demosthenes with the ons all chasing after him, though he flew into more due to the high saturation. It was almost like a minefield, but rather than explosive, they had sharp edges.

  While he drew away, he popped out of the maximum range of Demosthenes’ Field. ‘Now I get a free moment… Don’t knoell this will work…’ Quickly, Demosthenes caught on to the range and made sure to adjust, but Yuki worked to keep the distance.

  Fog on the mist, he started to draw it into his hand. Streams of it came in from all sides, p into an increasingly brighter glowing mass. Yuki had to push his flying skills as Demosthenes caught up to him. Dodging while gathering wasn’t the most ideal, but he expected it. ‘Almost there…’ The super dense mass started to take on a nearly solid form being pletely opaque.

  Once he felt it built up enough, Yuki ged his course t himself straight for the old man. He still gathered more of the mist, signifitly redug his defense. Most of the excess went into his tempt. Evading became even more important, something that he felt in the more frequent hits he took.

  There was only so close he could get. All of the dodging he could manage wouldn’t make him actually rea range of Demosthenes. The defense around him was imperable. Close would have to do. ‘Now or never…’ Pulling his hand back, he dropped his other hand over top for support before he fired it off with outstretched arms. “Go!”

  Immediately, ons moved in to block his attack, but the high-density mass of energy puraight through. Some bdes shattered or broke off, while others were left with holes carved out. It sped through everything with Demosthenes closely approag. Nothing he presented could stop it.

  However, the problem was that Demosthenes didn’t solely focus on the sphere of energy. He targeted Yuki as well. Yuki tried to keep his eye oarget as much as possible, but high-speed dodging made it difficult.

  Yet despite it all, Demosthenes didn’t seem ed by the speeding, unblockable objebsp; He simply charged forward, tinuing his distaabsp; When it came in range, he swung his great sword upward splitting into eveions.

  ‘Damn,’ thought Yuki, gng at the oute while keeping up his movement. ‘That sword is the closest to him, the strength is likely the highest, though the rest are hardly g. I even focused everything on it.’ As the mist broke down and filled out the air, he stared at the aftermath. ‘I did lose my tration while dodging…’

  Yuki wasn’t pletely vi was a loss. Gathering the mist back around him, he fortified his defenses while he sidered his pn. ‘I just o maintain my focus, all of the dodging is what’s making it worse for me. He’s got nothing to think about but attack.’ Their distance slowly closed through dodging and attag.

  Set on his course, Yuki drew in the mist once more, but focused them to his hands a. He hardehe energy once more into a tightly packed shape. Rather than a sphere, he took to something a little more practical for bating his surroundings. Bdes formed at his hands for him to take hold, while at his feet they hovered as though affixed. They became solid glowing ons.

  on bat wasn’t his forte. He preferred unarmed bat, but against other ons reach trumped preferenbsp; “Let’s do this!” Brandishing his ons at his side, Yuki charged in a new dire back at Demosthenes.

  The density gave him the superior cutting edge against the ons. He dove through them like a khrough butter. Broken ons rained down around him in his wake. Yuki cut his way through to Demosthenes. His ons cshed with sparks smming down ohenes’ sword and parried off with the scythe.

  A quick rapid exge betweewo left Yuki with several more wounds. It showed him how much of a differen skill with ohenes was. It wasn’t even a matter of stronger powers or tration. He lost to pure skill.

  g his hands around the ons, Yuki grit his teeth to push through the situation. “It’s not over yet!” He spun around bringing his feet up to attack Demosthenes as well. All four bdes ehe fray trying to get him from multiple sides. It actually seemed to have an effebsp; Yuki could get in some nearly unblocked strikes. Until it finally happened, he slipped through the defense and made a shallow cut on his left shoulder.

  The reward for the first real wound was a sudden and swift point bnk attack by the great sword, which opened up to reveal a cealed energy on. “Dammit!” yelled Yuki as he fell back to the ground.

  Prone and sore, only his barrier padded the blow, Yuki stared up at Demosthenes. ‘I got a hit on him, but this is still going to exhaust me before him. Even with all of the mental power, my body isn’t going to hold out. I’m still a little out of shape from the year I stopped fighting, not even ting all of the wounds I have. I need something to end this…something he wouldn’t see ing…’

  Yuki didn’t get much time to think whehenes returo the offeh more cealed effects in the ons revealing themselves. From hidden projectiles to energy attacks to elemental based attacks, the wide range of methods did little to surprise Yuki anymore. He had enough ons for an army and each was distinctively different.

  Keeping on the move, Yuki racked his brain for ideas. Anything to turn the fight around would be enough. ‘What would he not expect from me?’ Dodging became even more challenging as he didn’t have only cle ons to deal with. The fight truly o end soon if Yuki was to win. ‘I’m still o these powers, so anything advanced he’d probably expect from others, but not me. But what? I only have a feles…’

  Then his mio his st fight, Vangelis popped in his mind. The man who still puzzled him with his abilities. ‘I don’t know how he did it, but he was always switg around doing things to throw me off and knew what I expected and subverted that at every er.’ The more he thought about Vangelis’ attack from the text of their powers, he started to poke through what it could be. ‘The most likely situation is that he had all of that in his head and he just separated it into a pletely differe. The plexity of such a power…I ’t imagine how he mao keep that all in his head. But my power isn’t desighat way…and dropping it…’

  His options shrank quickly. He could tell how much his body started t on him. The wounds were catg up to him. Yuki puhrough everything he could, flying low to the ground with as much support as he could muster. He moved quickly, even faster than before to get himself out of the range. Drawihenes' attack away from where their fight started. The fight moved towards the city.

  Yuki gnced up at Demosthenes cheg the distanbsp; ‘Almost there…just a little further…’ He kept measuring out the distanbsp; The desired position finally hit aurned sharply around, throwing everything he had into the speed. He sped back towards the pace causing it to disappear from his powers, even during the fight the courtyard size was rge enough that it was only marginally affected at the start. However, he dove straight into the paoen grass Field. People scattered everywhere until suddenly the pace popped back.

  Demosthenes moved in towards the pace watg for any signs. ‘He turned off his power? He must be trying to e up with a new power to ter me. Dangerous move…’ He flew to the pace quickly removing it once more with his grass Field to discover Yuki. ‘He’s got his power ba. What has he decided on?’

  ‘Damn…I didn’t have as much time as I hoped.’ The mist all returned around him. He wielded it loosely as more floating ons to bat the dangers. Once he had an opening, he jumped bato the air to fly closer. Left behind him, a k of the earth where his feet oood was no longer present.

  Moving closer to Demosthenes, Yuki jumped into his mist to grab back his ons. He closed the distah Demosthenes. g with him, Yuki mao parry the massive sword and even slid down to dodge the shifting to an assault on. Flipping backwards, he sshed at the sword to knock it out of his path. The scythe came in as a quick parry and defle, but Yuki’s bde actually sliced through it easily.

  He stabbed through embedding the bde into Demosthenes’ shoulder. The surprise allowed him to drop the sed bde into his other shoulder. When Yuki released his hand, Demosthenes suddenly dropped out of the sky. He clearly tried to recover, but could do nothing but soften his blow into the earth.

  The colpse of his body coughed up blood, dirt and smoke around him. All of the ons turned down before fading away from sight.

  Yuki could finally sigh with relief. “It’s over…”