(Robin's POV):
I went back towards my sky island in the swamp area. Finally feeling at home again, I took a nice rest as I felt relieved that this wasn't ransacked by some random players. I cleaned it all up before going back to the palace alone. The homely feeling of living alone finally got into me that I got carried away with cleaning up the place. Seeing as I have no visitors currently, I simply just cleaned everything up and had this place get disguised as a normal cloud in the sky.
"Phew... I guess that should be enough adjusting..."
I went back directly to the palace where Jay and the others officially became residents. There is nothing to worry about them spending money or having a small risk with getting aimed at in their sleep. They're able to sleep peacefully without even worrying about anything else.
"I'm glad everything's over now... I just have to wait for Denzel to finish Stardust Claymore."
After I arrived to the palace, there seems to be no incident that happened. I didn't give out any signals and just visited normally.
"Ah! It's Robin!" - Jay
"Yo, where did you even go?" - Grace
"Well, I went back to the swamp zone where I had my house. Figured that I can come back here pretty quick anyway so there's not that much difference."
"I see, well I want to thank you for this Robin." - Jay
"Well, it's just normal for friends to be reunited when separated right? So I just did what I have to do."
This time, I gave Jay a pat in the head. Denzel saw the spectacle and showed up this time.
"Why are you g-?" - Denzel
I immediately shot a searing light directly to his face which he dodged pretty smoothly. Dang it.
I clicked my tongue due to the miss and Denzel starts talking right in front of everyone. Gayle who was beside Jay started chuckling for some reason which tells me that she has read Denzel's mind.
We're currently in the entrance of the palace with the main door just nearby. The area is somewhat large but I don't think Denzel would cause a fight and break his own palace rules. The people around are the twins, Grace and Terrence, Ridley, Rylle, and Lester. There are more members that are watching from somewhere and I could see a pair of guys staring at Denzel. That should be Malech and William.
"Well now guys, it's great that Robin had reunited you but did you know?" - Denzel
"Eh?" - Jay
"Robin does tend to take things LIGHTly." - Denzel
"Boooo! You suck!" - Gayle
I fired another searing laser which he dodged and made an exit on the palace, taunting me for a duel. You're on.
"Wha?!!" - Jay
Everyone was surprised with the clash as I blocked one of Denzel's attacks with his shapeshifting weapon that's currently in dual blades state.
"I... I didn't perceive..." - Grace
Both Jay and Grace were shaken but I pursued Denzel immediately outside. The others followed me towards the place where he used as an arena.
We arrived to a large open area where Denzel used to practice without holding back on any ability. The fact where he uses this area means that there's no playtime here.
"I guess you're ready to die Denz?"
"You too." - Denzel
Both of us took our stances, I brought out Mana Breaker and the Paladin's Sword straight off the bat.
"Paladin's Sword immediately?!" - Jay
"Crystallization!" - Denzel
"Arch Paladin!"
Both of us know well each other that it will be rough once we get serious. Denzel immediately brings out twelve phantasmal blades without hesitation and I brought out an equal number of searing blades.
"Commandment!"
"Vajra!" - Denzel
As expected, Denzel would know the counter towards the attacks I have. Then that leaves me no other choice but to make this even more fun...
I dashed forward immediately and clashed with Denzel at the center. I tried to land multiple strikes but he blocked everything with the left half of Vajra. After a short while he converted the shield into a short sword and made an attack that is extremely difficult to react to. But I simply bent down and avoided it completely.
I tried to counterattack by converting my bend backwards into a back handspring while launching upward kicks. Denzel converted the sword into a gauntlet to minimize the damage and tried to ensure I have no recovery.
"Righteous Seal!"
I sealed both of our abilities for a while and used some abilities as a follow up.
"Lingering Light! Commandment!"
Denzel finally took some damage where I was still in full health and unscathed. But Denzel didn't flinch from the sudden damage and continued his attack like it was nothing. It was the time where I received damage.
"Mist Bullet."
Denzel summoned multiple ice particles and it flew all around me. He made it completely unavoidable to take damage so I simply took quite a standard amount of damage. Denzel immediately dashed back where I thought I had gained a bit of free air. But knowing Denzel well, he tends to provide small air to breathe sometimes only to know he has an instant comeback attack after a split-second of breathing. All the phantasmal blades were still clashing against my searing blades without interfering. I had a feeling that both of our extra swords will disperse soon since these will pretty much be waste of mana.
I parried the attack of Denzel's weapon that changed into a scythe. The scythe design was similar to Gayle's Mysteria but smaller than Michael's chuuni scythe.
"Frostbite enhancement." - Denzel
Denzel's attacks will now activate frostbite which will be dangerous once I get hit.
"Chih... Sunburn enhancement."
I also enhanced both my weapons to sear the cuts I will land. Both of us clashed immediately and parried each other's weapons. Denzel's Omnitelum changes multiple times with extremely small margins to dodge. It changes from scythe to dual blades, into one gauntlet and then alternate the change while constantly making follow ups with different kinds of weapons. So far, I have seen a short sword, gauntlet, revolver, katana, sickle and chain, whip sword, pile bunkers, and even a great sword. The weapon rotation makes it extremely difficult to try and perform a counterattack because Denzel just makes sure his opponents never make a strike. After some time, both of our seals have been broken and now it's a battle where we have to be at the peak.
I was planning to make him use his strength card first before using my Justice. He has the same plan of making me use my tarot card first because he understood that I will equalize.
Now that both seals are undone, he starts using even worse follow up abilities in my case.
"Crystal Burst." - Denzel
Denzel starts emerging crystal spikes from below without hesitation. I had to make severe dodges where I would be left with a large opening. He would follow up the emergence of ice spikes with firing more of it by forming a bunch out of thin air.
I had to constantly dodge and rely on my ability to damage him bit by bit with both Commandment and Lingering Light. I do manage to fire searing light at him but he always smoothly dodges it as he keeps closing in the position once he throws multiple ice spikes at me. Both of his weapons are in gauntlet form so I can guess that I will be parried.
I tried to strike him down with both swords. He blocked one of which with his Omnitelum in Vajra form and the other held in his gauntlet. I dropped Mana Breaker and brought out Heaven's Beacon after pulling my hand back to try and stab him. He changed the shield into a gauntlet and grabbed Heaven's Beacon. He then dropped Mana Breaker and gripped my Paladin's Sword. I dropped both weapons and brought out the Enchanted Sword and Starfury to land attacks but were both blocked when Denzel covered his front with both gauntlets. He absorbed the projectile of the Enchanted sword and I dropped both weapons again. Denzel had to dash back from the Starfury projectile which is a star that will deal a decent amount of damage. I then brought out two searing blades and noticed Denzel has flinched. Because of that, I landed a decisive blow onto his chest.
Now that he's on the side that steps back he starts dodging all attacks pretty well. Some of it were very close but I was up for a major surprise.
"Glitchy Process!" - Denzel
Denzel's arm glitched out of him for a second where my searing blade passed through without hitting anything.
"Chih! Lingering Light! Commandment!"
"Kuhh!" - Denzel
Denzel flinched again where I tried to land a decisive blow. But he managed to dodge the attack extremely smoothly and swept my feet down pretty easily. He then dropped and emerged multiple spikes to immediately surround me. Denzel managed to land multiple hits from my limbs which will be a problem.
"Tarot Card VIII! Justice! Activation!"
I activated my tarot card and got myself out of the situation. Denzel seems to have realized that frostbite wouldn't do anything to me due to my class and he immediately got rid of the enhancement just to save up mana.
"Tarot Card XI! Strength! Activation!" - Denzel
Now this is where it gets completely serious.
Both of us returned to where we started except we both have extreme buffs covering us. I flew up since I had wings for my battle. I took advantage of the fact that Denzel can't fly so I could deliver nice attacks from above. I launched searing light a few times, and even used burning light to try and eliminate Denzel in one go. However, he smoothly dodged every attack even when I tried to swoop down and land some attacks with a pair of searing blades.
After going back midair, I suddenly felt a major chill going up my spine as I saw Denzel show a dark smile in his face.
"Flesh Blaster." - Denzel
Denzel changed his weapon in his left arm into an artillery cannon which is extremely dangerous to fight against. He immediately aimed the cannon at me and fired it instantly.
Multiple shockwaves resonated within the area and damaged my wings easily. The only problem with Denzel's flesh blaster mode is that, he will be stationary.
I fell down and prepared burning light and deal a dangerous amount of damage to him. He seems to have loaded a powerful round and both of us fired at each other.
"Fire." - Denzel
"Burning Light."
Both of us received a huge amount of damage in the duel and are pretty much exhausted for the time being. I had a hole in my stomach just like what I dealt on Denzel's body. Both of us are suffering from bleeding X but we got potions to prevent dying.
I drank my potion and stood up, Denzel seems to have done the same and come close to my position.
"Draw again."
"What's the score?" - Denzel
"16-16-28..."
The others who watched the spectacle happen were completely speechless.