"GOD HANDS" the aura condensed even more and formed a new set of arms two that appeared from the side of my chest. Arms of pure Mana. Even with the purple color, if you look close enough it will seem to see trough.
I opened four-dimensional storages and brought four weapons from them.
Two broad swords and a spear and a round heavy shield.
These were gifted to me by Osfor once I showed him what I was able to do with the Mana clad when we were in the forest.
The weapons were not as strong as the devourer not by a long shot but these were all I have right now.
Lori seemed shocked at the new appearance but she still charged forward. I was too was surprised at first when I learned that I could shape mana to anything I want, but why did I choose an extra set of hands is beyond me, it just tugged on my instinct, something told me or hinted to me that I would be more comfortable with these many hands so I listened to it and it seems to work just fine.
Still activating hyper recognition, I dodged the first slash using Shunpo and appeared at her side slashing with both human arms that had the broad swords at once. She held her shield up to block.
The weight of my strike was by no means light. As she was forced to her knees. She still managed to slash at me with her glaive cutting my spear in half. The aura covering her glaive was dense and sharp enough to make a steel made spear look like tofu.
Damn, I was unable to do anything with that weapon and it was already lost.
I had my shield held with my Mana arm at a position that was almost behind my back so that it will not hinder my movement. But the glaive would cut me in half if I didn't block it so I hastily brought the shield above me.
The weight behind her strike was magnificent as it made an ugly dent in my heavy round shield.
Pushing her weapon back with the sheer force of will, I disengaged and jumped backward.
The second I touched the ground I rushed back again this time using that split second when she felt the weight of my swords off her, to charge at her with my shield held forward. Yet she still caught on and pulled up her shield once more.
Both the round shields clashed and made a deafening sound.
Hers was made of pure aura while mine was truly just a hunk of metal. It started to melt when it was in contact with the aura shield.
I had to drop it. As it now becomes useless.
I shot two fireballs at her which were negated by her shield and she slashed at the air making a wave of aura charge at me.
Dodging the attack, I used a water ball and a fireball at the same time casting them from the Mana hands again.
They were not aimed at her but they were to create a diversion.
The two balls struck at each other making a small smoke screen which was all I needed for my next move. She swung at the smoke making it dissipate and slashed at me with a hit that cut me in half.
Or so she thought, I used the vapor particles with a bit of light element and made a clone of myself. Osfor sensei thought me how to do this when we were training with a lot of other spells. She fanatically looked all over trying to figure where it was to be surprised by an earth-shattering smash that rocked her from the side.
Rolling on the ground and dangerously getting closer to the edge she was still holding her glaive and managed to impale it to the floor before she could drop from the platform.
'Damn that was close' I thought
"WHAT A COMEBACK!!! ASURA PROVES TO BE ABLE TO HANDEL HIMSELF. Are these guys truly just high school students?? Damn it some of the elite warriors will barely handle themselves in front of the might of these two uprising stars," Said the Lord. The guy was hyped.
I am starting to feel tired, I was using a lot of spiritual energy in this fight.
I have to finish things off quickly or I might find myself in trouble.
She rose back up again this time grinning and smiling.
She said
"Oh, I will have to apologies for calling you a weakling you are truly remarkable. You said you are not underestimating me so you must have reasons not to use this 'mode' of yours. Alright it's time for me to get serious, MARTIAL POISE"
Her green aura now became slightly redder, she started to swirl her glaive in a dangerous motion and charged at me. Four exchanges happened in hyper mode, the audience must have only seen blurs and heard the echoes of metal clashing.
Both my blades were shattered after that exchange and I am now again weaponless.
Or that is what I made her think as she struck at me with her Glaive I dodged to the right and pressed my hand forward.
Making her grunt in pain.
She fumbled a bit back and fell on her bottom.
Her hit points reached a dangerously critical level by that hit.
How? Simple.
When I used the smoke screen, I used another spell afterward. Once she was fully focused on dissipating the smoke and cutting down the clone I used a chain conjuring spell -the same one that the Maid-san used on Ousay the other time to restrain him- and grabbed the Devourer.
Seeing as the judge said nothing, I concluded that it was within rules so I used the same mist to cover the blade and make it reflect the light behind it. It was atrociously hard to do as I had to concentrate on manipulating the light to not make it stand out.
Then I struck at her side with it when I had the opportunity. Underhanded? Yes. But this is free for all challenge and nothing is not allowed.
I waited patiently for her to stand up as she did the same for me.
She didn't seem to mind the way I used my weapon so she took her position again this time her aura became blood red and the hair on her helmet was flailing upwards.
Surprisingly her hit points that were at the critical stage rose quite a bit above half health…how did she do that?
But right after that, they started to drop at a slow but steady pace…
It must be her berserker form like Master said this is their ultimate form. They become ravaging beasts even deadly wounds will feel like a bee sting to them but once this mode is over the backlash is always sever.
An intelligent decision would be to just Shunpo all over the arena dodging her when she is like this until her hit points reach 0. But I am not one to tarnish the pride of a warrior that wants to go all out.
She charged at me once more and we went on a frenzy of metal hitting metal. Sometimes I receive a small gash on my body and sometimes I land a successful hit on here's yet we were still at a settlement but only she was losing Hp with every passing of a second.
More and more exchanges happened while metal hitting metal. Blocking with her shield and striking with her glaive then fully discarded her shield and grabbed her glaive in both hands.
The exchanges became faster and faster yet sadly I too was running on fumes as my Spiritual energy is almost depleted.
The first to stop will lose and I'll be damned to win by waiting for her Hp to hit 0 because of her mode.
I will be the one to finish her and not some damn self-inflicted debuff.
She capitalized on a misplaced footing of mine as I was struggling to fight her while almost exhausted.
With a downward cut that would undoubtedly finish me off and my sword way too far from a good position to properly block I grabbed the blade of her glaive with my Mana arms.
Searing and screeching, the Mana and the glaive aura collided another shockwave erupted while purple mixed with red smoke rose from our exchange. I was pushed to the ground, knees crushing the floor below, almost squashed by the strength she is showing.
Her HP was almost depleted and her complexion even under that helmet seemed painful.
"SHUNPO"
I used Shunpo to disappear from in front of her making the glaive strike at the ground while still managing to graze me on the left shoulder.
I finished it with an earth-shattering smash to the side that finally made her hit points hit 0.
It was my victory.