Eden stood before Reynolds as they prepared to deul. Rey looked at Eden with a serious expression,his eyes gleaming with intensity. He raised the wooden sword he was holding on front of him.
" Oh,that won't do. Well use these." Eden said using his abilities to control salt minerald to make two crystalline swords tossing one at Rey. Rey bent down and picked it up. He noticed that the sword was well balanced and strong even though it was lighter than he'd thought. He also noticed that the sword was sharp.
" Hmm,I think they're dull enough." Eden said examining the blade he was holding.
" Yes this should do." He turned to face Reynolds.
" Dull" Reynolds thought," What on earth is this monster thinking. Is he trying to kill me?"
" Time to test your grasp on your Supreme Enchantment "
Reynolds braced himself grinned, cracking his knuckles. "Bring it on."
" But before that..." Eden said concentrating his energy. The ground around them turned to white sand and salt pillar rose from the ground.
Rey's eyes widened in disbelief.
The air distorted as Eden activated a partial manifestation of his World: Allsehende Augen Des Verehrten (All-Seeing Eyes of the Venerated).
He kept it confined to the barriers he'd erected around the training area.
" This man is a monster. Kojo actually beat someone like that? Being able to manifest even a small fraction of an inner world takes a lot of Arcana and he's doing that while maintaining a multi-layered barrier?" Rey thought to himself,as he began to sweat.
"I'll only use this to prevent environmental damage," Eden clarified. "No other abilities will be employed."
" Now come." Eden commanded.
Reynolds charged forward, his Supreme Enchantment resonating. The ground trembled as his frequency amplified, disrupting the surrounding molecules.
"Resonance Amplification, an ability that affects universal frequencies. It's the perfect counter to my Chaos Theory."
Eden could passively manipulate probabilities such that all projectiles moving toward him would miss their mark. Reynolds' attack veered off course, striking a nearby pillar.
Reynolds' eyes widened. "What the—"
Eden smiled. "The odds are in my favor, always."
He struck Rey, knocking him back and followed up with a horizontal slash.
Reynolds unleashed a devastating shockwave by striking the ground with his sword in order to escape that blow. Too soon, he realized that he'd already been cut and was bleeding profusely. The bleeding suddenly stopped. Rey then made a strategy as he charged at Eden and unleashed a maelstrom of slashes and jabs at Eden who was barely using his sword to avoid.
" I can't fully utilize my abilities yet. In that case I'll Tune down Erase and use it to knock him out till then..." Rey thought as he released a powerful lightning bolt that shattered several pillars surroundimg them. This caught Eden of guard but the debris simply flew past him. Taking advantage and using the dust cloud as a cover,he enforced his blade with electricity and attention to strike Eden with a downward slash.
Eden sidestepped, probability shifting. The shockwave dissipated harmlessly.
Reynolds summoned his arcana which he compressed into energy constructs and attacking him as the blades he'd created from his lightning flew at Eden from all sides. The two few through the domain that had been manifested with Rey being knocked away through several pillars but shooting back to the assault like he'd been shot out of a gun. The two were locked in an exchange of blows as Rey moved around Eden ,who was stationary and barely moving,trying to find an opening, a maelstrom of resonant energy, shredding the air.
Rey dodged as Eden countered one of his strikes and made a swing at him. He made a sign with his hands converting his lightning blades into balls of opposing electrical current. He clenched his fist and the balls converged on Eden,causing and explosion.
Eden conjured a probabilistic shield, deflecting the energy.
The battle raged on, and though Reynolds was literally dying again and again,he was getting thehang of his skills,now being able to apply his supreme enchantment in his fighting style even being able to merge it with imhis lightning magic. After a few hours he had gained the ability to sever the molecular bonds that hold an object together. Though with each breakthrough Eden made the battle more difficult for him to win.
Reynolds in an attempt to land a hit , he blindsided Eden and created a localized resonance cascade, shattering nearby boulders with the swing of his sword. Eden however changed the outcome,revering the effects on Reynolds whose body crumpled, bloodied and broken.
Eden reset probability, reforming his broken body.
"Again." Eden said, stepping back. Rey groaned before once again going on the offensive. He'd lost track of how many times he'd died now.
Reynolds generated a harmonic resonance field, disrupting Eden's probability manipulations.
Eden adapted, injecting chaotic variables into the field, Seizing the opening, unleashing a probabilistic barrage.
Reynolds: dead.
Try again.
Reynolds attempted to synchronize his resonance with the environment.
Eden anticipated this, introducing entropy into the synchronization.
Reynolds' control faltered.
Reynolds:dead
Try again.
Reynolds tried everything he could even coming up with newer tactics and techniques but exact time he tried hed have his body shattered, reformed, and shattered again. Soon he was panting, breathlessly,his body, bloody and sweating.
Eden however remained unscathed, his Chaos Theory optimizing probability of him not dirtying his clothes.
Rey decided to give it his all. His blade glowing bright blue as he gathered all his remaining Arcana. And charged at Eden with full speed. Eden swung his sword to defeat him but that was actually an afterimage.
In reality he'd converted his body into energy and was about to fire himself at Eden at close range. Eden shouldn't block or avoid. Rey's victory was assured.
Eden smiled.
Or was it?
It is a fundamental law that energy cannot be created or destroyed but converted from one form to another. But what if that rule was broken? What if energy can be destroyed?That would be an Absurdity in the laws that make up everything. Or in this situation
An Impossibility
An Impossibility that Eden manifested,delivering a decisive blow, probability condemning Reynolds to oblivion.
Reynolds reappeared, restored by Eden's ability. He was lying on his back in the middle of training field. He sat up. Aside him being in bad shape,there were no sign that a fight had taken place here. The sword in his hand turned powdery and fell through his fingers.
"I think that's enough for today." Eden said with his hands behind him.
" You weren't a total failure,but there's room for improvement."
" But I lost." Rey pointed out.
" You did manage to catch me off guard." Eden responded.
" And my abilities?" Rey asked.
"Flaws in your usage. Unstable frequency resonance. Inefficient energy conversion."
Reynolds listened intently.
"To meet Kojo's expectations, you must master control." Eden said before turning to walk away.
"We continue tomorrow. Get some rest and brace yourself. I'm not going to go easy on you like I did today"
" Yes sir!"
Eden smiled as he disappeared. Exhausted,Rey collapsed back on the grass and closed his eyes.