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Training the manifestation is currently the only way left for Ryuuji to become stronger, due to that he had to convince his weapon spirit to teach him how to achieve such state of being. Of course because of this, Ryuuji is currently having a rough thrashing from his weapon spirit, as he overwhelmed by its attacks.
What's more this is somewhat a embarrassing situation as Ryuuji is fighting Ifrit with his original weapon while the latter himself is fighting him with a stick imbued with rough mana to form a greatsword. But despite the disparity of the weapons, his bladed weapon is losing agaisnt a stick imbued with mana.
Alongside it the difference on their grip strength is apparent as Ryuuji sometimes needs two hands to even exact a heavy attack on the opponent, however Ifrit could re-enact such heavy attacks with only one hand.
With that one can even imagine just how disadvantageous this situation is for him.
Soon after he got blown back by a couple of steps after Ifrit swung his stick, Ryuuji then begun to catch his breath as he tries his best to not lose sight of his opponent.
"Can't you see the difference between us? Your weak, you've always been weak, the only reason why you've been deemed strong until now is due to your chaos ability, with its destructiveness, it has carried you this far... nevertheless it can't change the fact that you are weak down to the basics"
"But even so... I won't give up, I'll keep fighting, it's the only way for me to protect anything"
"Self sacrificing... useless!!!"
After Ifrit said those words, he then rushed towards Ryuuji as he swung down his stick, forcing the latter to quickly defend himself from such an attack, only to get blown away once more and stumble on the ground.
However Ryuuji quickly got up to his feet, as he sent a fiery wave of flames towards Ifrit while preparing for the next attack.
In response to this, Ifrit strengthened the mana around his stick to cut the flame in half using his own flames, before he quickly blinked away when Ryuuji sent out a laser like attack the moment his flames were split apart.
After dodging that surprise follow up attack, Ifrit then appeared on another location, as he quickly rushed towards Ryuuji while gathering fiery flames on his own stick.
Seeing Ifrit heading his way, Ryuuji then quickly gathered his fiery mana unto his sword, as he met with Ifrit and clashed his weapon against his own reinforced stick. In just one collision, a huge explosion and shockwave rung out towards the surroundings, as flames engulf everything around them and lighting up this dark dimension where Ifrit resides.
However in this collision, Ifrit appears nonchalant of the situation as if he were telling Ryuuji that he hasn't gone all out yet. On the other hand Ryuuji is trying his best to stand up against ifrit as he is currently giving his all to win this confrontation.
"Your struggling, I'm not... that's another difference between us"
Upon hearing this, Ryuuji then begun to grow agitated as he roared out loud while pushing away Ifrit and doing a quick counter attack which left the latter to defend himself.
Quickly jumping up into the air, Ryuuji then let loose all the flames within his weapon to form a huge sword made out of fire, as he swung it down towards Ifrit, forcing the latter to quickly blink away to dodge the attack.
In one explosion, flames spread out towards the surrounding as the attack shook the darkness below, which even cause a small quake which shook the whole dimension. However Ryuuji's attack didn't end there, as he rushed towards Ifrit once more and swung his weapon horizontally towards him.
Upon seeing this, Ifrit let out a sigh of disappointment as he raised his stick and easily blocked the attack in a surprising stint that he had made in the split second when his stick collided with Ryuuji's attack.
It is somewhere around a precise mastery of mana. To be exact Ifrit defended from that attack by releasing a huge amount of mana tantamount to what Ryuuji is releasing as the very second the collision was about to happen. Somewhere around activating it when there was only about 0.5 seconds left before collision.
Due to this not only was he able to cancel out Ryuuji's attack, Ifrit was also able to save up some energy for himself without wasting his mana like what Ryuuji did to attain destructiveness.
"Efficiency in controlling the mana, that's another difference between us... can't you see the difference? Your clearly outclassed"
After hearing that Ryuuji then quickly pulled back his weapon as he used another angle for his attack, before slashing down his sword. However Ifrit simply repeated what he did to cancel out Ryuuji's destructiveness and made his tactic be useless infront of Ifrit.
With that after blocking its third attack, Ifrit quickly closes in towards Ryuuji, as he grabbed him by the throat and threw him off towards the far distance. While he was still in midair, Ifrit quickly followed after him in great speed as he swung out his stick and caused a fiery wave of flames to engulf Ryuuji cuasing chain explosions to erupt and assault the latter endlessly inside the flames.
From that Ryuuji fell to the ground all tattered up, as Ifrit landed right beside him.
"See the difference now? You'll never catch up to me"
"... not with your own power, but what about mine?" Said by Ryuuji as he grits his teeth and refused to give up. Despite his injuries Ryuuji then endured the pain he felt all over his body and begun to use his chaos eyes which he often used in various situation.
Just like that the atmosphere inside the domain suddenly changed as the eyes of destruction got activated and was about to cause havoc within this domain. However despite the changes in domain, Ifrit stayed composed as if he knew that this was going to happen nonetheless even if he interfered with it or not.
But as Ifrit was thinking of this, he then suddenly reacted as he blinked away when Ryuuji suddenly looked at him with his eyes which caused a huge crater to erupt at the previous location he was at. If Ifrit was a tad a little bit late to react, he would have been blown away by such an attack, which will put him in a precarious state. Luckily he was able to anticipate such an attack and react accordingly.
This time however he is fighting Ryuuji who is now using his chaos eyes.