Luke stands before the crossed one ready to end the fight as they both head towards each other, The crossed one tries to stop Luke once again but he notices and teleports out the way to right behind him as he charges a kick straight to his face, quickly the monster blocks the attack as he casts the cross on Luke and stops him from moving and quickly attacks Luke with a barrage of fists as he gets blown back, moving again he teleports right in front of him and asks "How long will this be going?" "Until either one of us is dead?" "Weren't you told to not kill me" "I don't care of his orders, I want a fight where we both can be serious, with death the match becomes intense" "That is the truth, I can see why you saw the others as weaklings" The crossed one smiles "Let me ask you, what is your name?" Luke immediately answers that question and asks his own "Jigoru, once a knight of a kingdom but now just a monster" "I agree with your request then Jigoru, let us fight till our death"
He begins to teleport from place to place once again as Jigoru finds it hard to catch up and tries to stop his movements at different places but fails to do so as he gets punched in the face from left, then right, then a kick from above and keeps getting hit from different places as he teleports right above him one last time to force Jigoru to place cast on himself. Teleporting away, he finds the stopped monster right in front of him as Luke breathes heavily with his left eye closed from the pain its enduring. "You were really fun to fight I have to agree, Jigoru" as he doesn't give a reaction, he look straight at Luke and suddenly moves to touch Luke but he quickly teleported behind him and stas him through his chest "Prediction is one of my greatest skill" as Jigoru smiles, he turns to dust as Luke falls to the ground slowly falling to sleep and takes a good rest before going onto the next floor.
There stood a man he met down below named Raksh who first begins clapping as he smiles and says "Congratulations, you have made it to the 99th floor" Luke hearing this was surprised as he says "So you are the last one before…" "yeah" as he takes out his sword and says "Do you have a problem with that?" "No, not at all" as he takes his stance, both looked towards each other as Raksh says "Sword Skill, Levitate" as his body slowly rises in the air he looks down on Luke who tightens his fist and gets ready for another battle when the man flies around Luke trying to attack him from multiple spots but Luke activated his light around his body and endured all attacks as he finally saw an opening and charges his fist straight at it, hitting Raksh in the face blowing him away.
Luke quickly teleports behind him trying to land a second hit but Raksh stops himself before that and flies up high in the air as he says "Sword Skill 2nd, Burst" and suddenly starts shooting down multiple burst of strong winds forcing Luke onto the ground unable him him to move as he slowly looked towards Raksh and teleported above him to grab onto his body as he charges starts punching him on the shoulder join multiple times with light covering it while the monster tries to fly around try to get him off. He crashes him onto the ground, but Luke didn't let go covering his body with light armor once again hitting him continuously as his shoulder finally lets go of the sword and they both crash onto the ground far apart from each other
Luke stands up first while Raksh does so after holding his shoulder with a smile on his face when Luke teleports right in front of him and charges his fists at him, first the face then the stomach then the chest, then the shoulders and slowly barges him down with attacks none blocked by Raksh who had began bleeding purple.
When Luke was about to attack him in the face one last time, he stopped right before and said "What happened, don't make it this easy, at least dodge" As Raksh smiles, he replies "There is no point to this" "What do you mean?" "Do me a favor and pick up my sword" "Huh?"
"Just do it" Luke reluctantly goes to the sword and picks it up and felt the non acceptance from the sword "So now what?" "You know about Swords Skills right and how they can be used?" "Form a bond with the sword and as strong as your bond gets, the sword reveals new skills to you right?" "That's the basic gist of it alright… well can you form a bond with my sword?"
"What… it has a strong one with you already… I can't ""But what about when I die?" "What…?" "After fighting with you, you are supposed to kill me right…. Break me free from my curse but then, who will take care of my sword?"
"So that's what you mean" "Yeah, I took care of this sword for 100 years forming a bond so strong that the thought of breaking it broke me from the inside, but if I want this sword to live on… I need it to be with someone strong and capable of looking after it ""And why do you think that's me?" "I saw your battle with Klaksh kid, I know you can take care of a sword alright and you are my only option now, that is why I ask you… take this sword with you, please, this is my only wish"
Luke looks at the sword and then holds it tight with both his hands and focuses hard on the sword's aura and the voice it makes, the voice of… "Sadness and despair, that's what she feels right now… she doesn't want to leave you" as Raksh with a kind smile walks up to it and touches the hilt with Luke as they both concentrate and they appear in an empty world, before a female figure wearing white clothes and hiding its face
Tears fell from his eyes as it begs Raksh to stay while Luke watches from a distance. Raksh kneels down and touches the cheeks of the girl as he says "I am sorry, but now I have to go… you were an amazing companion Celia and now, you have to the same for him" as the girl looks behind towards Luke, she tightens her fist as Raksh pats her head and steps away from the sword
While the girl cries to her full extent, but soon stands back up, turning around and begins walking towards Luke as she looks towards his face, Luke gets a peek at its face as his eyes are wide open. "I am sorry I rejected you before, but nice to meet you… my name is Celia but you can call me whatever you want" as Luke looks towards her, he replies "Then… it shall remain Celia, and no need to be sorry" with a kind smile on his face. Celia puts on a small gentle smile on her face as Luke returns back to his world having formed a small bond with the sword.
"Now then… finish your job, Luke" and get ready to be killed, arms open, as Luke tightens his grip and heads straight towards him, cutting his head off and turning him into dust as his scabbard falls back. Luke picks it up and places it around the back of his waist tiled and puts the sword back into it. After a rest of some hours, he finally moves onto the next and final floor of this tower where he meets Yuko once again sitting on a seat menacingly.
As the adventure continues….