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Author Note:
[ ] = When Twilight is speaking.
{ } = When talking through Telepathy.
' ' = When thinking in your mind.
<< >> = When talking with your Pokémon or Tamed Beast.
--- --- = When describing a certain period of time.
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Both Primis and Scáthach were standing in the distance of 10 steps while looking at each other.
WHIZZ!!!
WHIFF!!!
The wind was blowing making Scáthach long hair and Primis Midnight-Coat fluttered. They remained like this for a minute before......
SWOOSH!!!!
Scáthach was the first one to move. She appeared in front of Primis in an instant as her the tip of her red spear was 0.1 mm away from penetrating through Primis' skull.
FWOOSH!!!
Though that was enough for Primis to tilt his head to the right and dodge it from the breadth of a hair. That's not all. The moment he dodged, Elucidator moved, and its tip was also 0.1 mm from entering Scáthach head.
FWOOSH!!
Yet, just like Primis, Scáthach also tilted her head and dodged it with hair breadth.
Once she dodged it, her left knee was at Primis' chest.
FWOOSH!!
Primis sidestepped to the right and it missed. Then he also raised his right leg and kicked Scáthach back.
FWOOSH!!
Scáthach ducked without looking back and evaded it. She didn't stop there and pulled her right arm back. As a result, the back of her red spear attacked Primis.
SWOOSH!!!
Primis jumped forward and appeared on top of Scáthach back while successful dodging the spear. Next, he launched a vertical slash from with little backward motion and overhead position on Scáthach wide back.
SLASH!!!!
DING!!!!
Scáthach didn't stop the movement of her arm even when Primis dodged it. Hence, the body of spear arrived front of her back and stopped Elucidator.
Primis continued with another two upward vertical slashes.
SLASH!!!
DING!!
SLASH!!!
DING!!
Then he attacked with a powerful downward slash.
SLASH!!!!
DING!!
TIU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With the last slash, a square of power drawn with the four hits came out. It then continued spinning for the distance of hundreds of kilometers before dissipating. The area till where it travelled to all got destroyed.
Since Primis was not holding back and releasing the power of "True Demi-God", in case he had used this much power in another world then that universe had been obliterated by now. It's only because the "Land of Shadows" was as strong as Multiverse, it was able to handle such power without issue.
Still Primis and Scáthach completely ignored the destruction caused by Primis attack.
Primis was looking at Scáthach back and her red spear which blocked his "Vertical Square" with hardly any efforts.
Scáthach also remained indifferent since she didn't think that attack was that strong. Because she can also release an attack of that scale quite easily.
SWOOSH!!!
She turned around and attacked Primis with many stabs.
STAB!!!
FWOOSH!!!
STAB!!!!
DING!!!
STAB!!!
TRING!!!!
...
…
Even while in the air, Primis easily dodged, deflected, and parried her attacks.
THUD!!!
THUD!!!
THUD!!!
...
…
Even then the force behind those stabs travelled to the sky and made many holes in the clouds and atmosphere.
DING!!!
Primis deflected another one of Scáthach attack and went on offensive this time.
THRUST!!!
TING!!!
THRUST!!!
TING!!!
THRUST!!!
TING!!!
THRUST!!!
TING!!!
THRUST!!!
TING!!!
Elucidator moved and released five high-speed continuous thrusts at Scáthach. After the fifth thrust, it was followed by a downward cut.
SLASH!!!
DING!!!
Then an upward cut.
SLASH!!!!
DING!!!!
Finally, with a full-force swing from the overhead position, Primis slashed download and landed on the ground.
SLASH!!!!!!!!!!!
DING!!!!!!!
CRACK!!!!!!!!!
BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The moment Primis landed, web like cracks appeared before the ground was destroyed to the far distance.
Nevertheless, Primis and Scáthach didn't have any problem. They were still standing on their spot.
Primis released "Howling Octave" this time. But Scáthach still blocked every single one of those attacks easily.
While looking at their confrontation until now, it may appear that Scáthach was strong. Why? Because Primis was using his "Sword Skills" while Scáthach was blocking simply by using their spearmanship. However, the truth was different. Because "Vertical Square", "Howling Octave", and other sword skills could no longer be called skills.
.
.
"When a skill stopped being a skill."
.
.
This was a realm of true master.
Whenever a "Sword Skill" was executed, you need timing, posture, magic before unleashing it.
Yet, Primis did no such thing. He used them as easily as he was slashing. This was Master level. Before Primis base strength was weak, hence, he couldn't show the true strength of a Master. Now he can.
As a Sword master, all Primis "Sword Skills" had completely integrated with his Swordsmanship. That's what a Master.
Once someone starts learning Swordsmanship, you start basic like slashing, thrusting, stabbing, swinging and so on. Those are called basic forms of Swordsmanship.
As a Master, all Primis "Sword Skills" had become different forms of his Swordsmanship.
That's what it meant by "When a skill stopped being a skill."
The same was the case for Scáthach. Scáthach learned many skills during her lifetime while killing countless Man, Wraith, Divine Spirits and so on. She then integrated all those skills into her Spearsmanship.
So, in a way, Primis and Scáthach no had such thing as "Sword Skills" or "Spear Skills". They only had Swordsmanship and Spearmanship. That's all.
By doing not did they learnt many forms(skills previous) but also the strength of these forms(skills previous) increased drastically by several folds.
They were True Masters.
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SWOOSH!!
The Red spear moved and attacked the left side of Primis's neck.
DING!!
The Elucidator also moved and stopped it.
SWOOSH!!!
The moment it was blocked, the spear moved in the opposite direction and attacked the other side of neck.
DING!!!
The Elucidator blocked it again.
Once it blocked, Scáthach took a step back, rotated the spear and thrusted forward with a momentum.
Primis countered by putting Elucidator on his shoulder after blocking spear's second attack with a single sharp forty-five-degree diagonal slash. From top-right to bottom-left. It was "Slant".
THRUST!!!
SLASH!!!!
DING!!!
Both weapons collided and both attacks were deflected back.
Without wasting even for a moment, both held the handle of their weapons tightly and attacked again.
CLING!!!
BOOOM!!!!!!!!
A shockwave spread to the distance.
GRIND!!!!!!
GRIND!!!!!!
Both the spear and sword were grinding at each other as sparks were coming out. They continued this for a second before pushing each other back.
Scáthach started spinning her spear over her head and attacked with a powerful slash.
SLASH!!!
DANG!!!
BANG!!!!!!!!
Primis blocked the attack but the force behind it forced him to take a step back as the area behind was utterly destroyed.
STOMP!!!
CRACK!!!
Stomping hard on the ground, Primis leaped at Scáthach. Putting the sword on top of his shoulder again, he launched from top to bottom vertical slash. It was "Sonic Leap"
SLASH!!!
DANG!!!
Scáthach stopped it but was also pushed at step back.
Both resumed their onslaught on each other.
SLASH!!!
DING!!!
THRUST!!!
DANG!!!
SWISH!!!
CLING!!!
SHING!!
CLANG!!!
...
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Both kept on attacking each other non-stop. From different different angles, from different different positions. Primis used many of his skills(now form) and Scáthach also did the same. Yet, both were always able to stop each other's assault.
Scáthach was spinning her spear wildly around her and was attacking from all directions. Primis was using his sword and was executing different different combos. Both were blocking, dodging, deflecting each other's moves.
DING!!!!
After exchanging another attack, they both maintained a distance.
Scáthach: Amazing. I never had so much fun in a long time.
Said Scáthach with an excited smile on her face. She had a genuine fondness for fighting. She had met and fought many talented people in her life. She really appreciated their potential and braveness. Yet, none of them could make her go all out.
Using her Clairvoyance, she had seen many future events. Especially the events in which her Heroic Spirit clone participated. Even though those clones had lost, they were defeated by different different means. Like, how Servants surrounded her and fought her altogether. How people had used many different artifacts and treasures. Even how she was defeated by her disciple Cú Chulainn altered form.
She accepted all of them saying everything was fair in War. However, deep down, she was just deceiving herself. She wanted to fight someone whose skills were either equal or might even surpass hers.
Now, her wish had been fulfilled.
'Scáthach: When we met years ago, I really wanted to fight yoy that time. But you left. Even when I used my Clairvoyance, I didn't see any fight that will occur between us in future. So, I had given up on it. But now it seems that my wait here was worth it.'
Lowering her hand which was holding the spear, Scáthach closed her eyes.
Primis kept on looking at her as he sensed the changes in her appearance and aura.
The protective gear was wearing underneath her body suit disappeared. Then a black veil appeared over her head along with a short cloak over her shoulders, connected by the shoulder pads.
Last but not least, a second red spear appeared in her other hand before she opened her red eyes and looked at Primis.
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*A/N: Please throw some power stones.
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