In a colosseum, Sebastian was training with Bastian. He was currently being taught how to use his spiritual to enhance his power and sixth sense. At first, he was confused by process of increasing his spiritual energy but it didn't take long for him to catch onto it.
Each training session was short as increasing spiritual energy was long and hard but rewarding in the end. The only known way to increase spiritual energy was to constantly be in a near-death situation or near-death in general.
Each session, Bastian would start out strong as he didn't hold back on his attacks. One of their sessions he almost actually killed him. Luckily, there was a healer on standby and managed to save him.
"Heavenly Departure!" Bastian shouted.
With a single slash, a wave of reddish black energy cut through the air and cut into Sebastian's chest. The strength from attack was surprisingly weaker than he had thought it still carried a lot of force as it sent him through the air.
Bang!
"What the hell was that?!" Sebastian shouted, coughing up a mouthful of blood.
"Who the hell is interrupting my nap?!" Ragnar said, standing up from the colosseum stands.
Glaring at Sebastian, Ragnar noticed his injuries and looked toward Bastian, and saw a grin on his face. Angered, he jumped to the sky and equipped his mythical glaive before charging it with his spiritual energy.
The strange reddish black energy enveloped both Ragnar's and Bastian's weapons and both weapons were a few inches apart until a reddish black orb of energy appeared, colliding with each other. Soon, reddish black electricity arced from the reddish dark orb of energy and shattered the ground beneath. Their clash was so strong that it started to warp the realm and created spatial tears around the realm.
The damage to the realm could be felt throughout the realm as it shook violently from the strong energy fluctuations. Surprisingly, everyone continued on with their day as if this wasn't the first time this had happened.
"How dare they ignore me!" Sebastian shouted, angered.
He flash-stepped forward and appeared beside Ragnar and Bastian before throwing his special dagger at the clash of spiritual energy. The reddish black energy disappeared and both of their weapons finally clashed together.
Bang!
Both of the weapon ended in a stalemate between strength as they couldn't move each other but another probably arose. Angered, both Ragnar and Bastian glared at Sebastian and immediate regret entered his mind.
Swoosh!
Before Sebastian could comprehend, his body moved on its own and bent backwards out of Ragnar's speeding glaive attack. The moment Sebastian dodged his attack, Ragnar's face became fierce and his anger increased.
Thrust!
Ragnar released three quick consecutive thrust toward Sebastian and each one was dodged. Agitated, he kept threw more quick thrusts at him but he still continued to dodge out of the way of the attacks.
A small grin formed on Bastian's face as he realized this was the best way to increase Sebastian's spiritual energy capacity. One attack alone from Ragnar would be enough to cause fatal damage, if not death for him.
'Yes! Continue to anger him! If they keep this up, he'll have a massive capacity for spiritual energy' Bastian appraised
"Shattering Earth!" Ragnar shouted.
BANG!!!
Ragnar slammed his glaive onto the ground and activated his vibration magic, which caused the ground to shatter beneath them. The force generated behind attack was enough to send Sebastian in the air and ready to receive an attack.
Imbuing his spiritual energy into his glaive, the blade on the end of staff turned black and symbolized his immense capacity of spiritual energy. Sebastian, in response, activated his own spiritual energy and hardened his body while imbuing his giant sword with spiritual energy.
"Sky Piercer!"
With a single thrust of his glaive, Ragnar released a single sharp strike flew through the air. In response, Sebastian swung his giant sword down and matched the output of spiritual energy within Ragnar's attack. Surprised, Bastian and Ragnar were flabbergasted by how quickly Sebastian adapted and increased his spiritual capacity.
Unbeknownst to them though, Sebastian didn't explain to them that he became the Apostle of War. When becoming the Apostle of War, you have a chance of inheriting the Blade of Rage and gaining the ability to adapt to combat quicker than most.
Shatter!
Surprised again, Ragnar witnessed his own spiritual energy shatter. Not only that, but he saw as Sebastian's attack continued on forward as if his own attack wasn't powerful enough to contest his strike.
Slash!
Drip!
Upon feeling a somewhat stinging pain, Ragnar looked down at his chest and saw his own blood on the ground. Angered, he released killing intent on full-power as the entire realm was filled and shook violently. Everyone who felt this were surprised and scared for their life. This wasn't the first time they felt this and sure wouldn't seem to be the last.
'Oh sh*t!' Bastian thought.
Tapping the bottom of his glaive against the ground, the ground disappeared as if it instantly faded from existence. As he watched this, Bastian became serious as he didn't think Sebastian would be able anger Ragnar to this extent but he somehow did.
'He's actually pissed off at a kid! The guys won't be able to believe it once they find out about this.'
The ground was soon replaced with white marble flooring and kept shaking, as if it was alive. The arena itself was started to transform from a circle to a square in half a mile in each direction, creating the perfect square arena.
"Come on, Ragnar! I'm only an seven-year-old kid."
"Seven-years-old and you've already killed hundreds of people while other kids your age probably have yet to even kill a person."
"Just fight it out, Sebastian!" Bastian shouted.
Equipping his armor and all of his weapon, Sebastian was ready for combat but this fight would prove to himself that he had been overestimating himself by a large margin.
Barely moving his glaive, Ragnar caused the surrounding area to vibrate violently and shatter. He then took a single step, and created a mini-earthquake that sent strong shockwaves throughout the colosseum and realm.
'I could fight against him with my dagger and nullify his magic but he'll overpower me with his immense... Another variable I don't know about is whether this dagger will shatter. I don't know this weapon's rank and I doubt a weapon appraiser will be able to reveal its rank.' Sebastian thought.
"Blurgh!"
Suddenly, Sebastian coughed up a mouthful of blood, which made him confused. Even if Ragnar's power affected the air and the ground, it shouldn't be able to affect Sebastian's body, right? Wrong, by vibrating the air, it would send invisible shockwave throughout the air and make a low frequency sound that could harm the internal body.
Slash!
Cutting through the air with his dagger, Sebastian nullified Ragnar's magic and confused him in the process. He didn't know that Sebastian had acquired a magic nullifying dagger. He then cut in an "X" with his newly gained chained blades.
Drip!
In front of Bastian's eyes, he watched has Ragnar's skin was cut without much resistance. Surprised, he glanced at Sebastian's weapons but he didn't know what rank they were.
'Where did I see those chained blades from?' Bastian wanted to ask.
Swoosh!
Before Sebastian could attack Ragnar again, he disappeared from his sight and only a shadow figure from the above could be seen on the ground. Trying to react quickly, he turned around and saw as Ragnar's glaive whistled through the air.
Splat!
His attempt to dodge Ragnar's attack was unsuccessful as he looked at his own arm and realized it was gone. Surprised, Bastian didn't expect Sebastian to dodge in time for Ragnar's attack and could only suspect it had to do with his meeting with the Apostle of Darkness.
Sheathing his Umbral Blade, Sebastian took a step back and slightly leaned forward. He then started to concentrate hard on the edge of his blade as a ring of black energy was sent throughout the air. Ragnar saw this and rushed in to prevent the charging on Sebastian's attack.
As Ragnar's blade neared Sebastian, he witnessed as he took a step to the side and deflected his blade. Before he could react, he saw as Sebastian released a wave of reddish black energy along his arm.
A sudden throbbing pain was felt along his arm as he noticed the energy began to spread throughout his arm and would continue until his entire body was infected. He was also surprised to see how much damage he sustained from the attack.
'That blade... Just what rank are those chained blades and that strange black blade?' Ragnar wanted to ask.
Drip!
From his hand to his shoulder, Ragnar saw as he was losing blood at a rapid and ever increasing rate. His veins then shined a reddish black as it signified the infecting energy was spreading throughout his arm and infecting his body.
"This energy… it's interfering with my healing… interesting… I guess I'll have to move some of that blood to get rid of it." Ragnar said.
The area along Ragnar's arm turned purple as the strange energy was being pushed out of his wound. As it continued to push the strange energy out, Sebastian watched as Ragnar stretched his arm and healed his injury.
"You damn oversized human! It is nearly impossible to even try to strike your vitals! Your skin is too damn thick and requires me to use a lot of energy to even pierce it!"
Sebastian's rage triggered something inside his body as a bright golden flame enveloped his body. Both Ragnar and Bastian watched in surprise as they felt his strength increasing and his rank jumping by a quarter. Ragnar, on the other hand, didn't sit still and took a defensive position.
"You've been selec-"
Bang!
Before Ragnar could complete his sentence, he fell slightly back as he felt a throbbing pain in his abdomen. He looked down and saw Sebastian with his fist covered in a golden flame.
'When did he move?' Ragnar asked himself.
Pulling his arm back, Sebastian threw his chained blade across Ragnar's abdomen until it stabbed into his body. Ragnar then felt a piercing pain in his abdomen as he watched and knew what Sebastian was about to do next.
Splat!
Yanking onto the chain, the blade was dragged across Ragnar's abdomen until it sliced open and returned to Sebastian. He then plunged his fist into the opened abdomen and released nearly all of his auras into Ragnar's abdomen.
"Blurgh!"
"This is what happens when you underestimate me, you damn big human!"
He jumped back and watched as Ragnar fell to one knee while grasping his abdomen. Ragnar felt a great pain overcome his body as this was the first time he ever felt something like this.
Walking back to his detached arm, Sebastian picked it up and attached back on. While he was healing, he watched Ragnar slowly pull out his auras and realized that his chained blades were only able to pierce his skin.
Stepping back and leaning slightly forward again, he sheathed his blade and began to concentrate on the edge of his Umbral Blade and infused more energy into this attack. Upon seeing this, Bastian vision intensified on Sebastian as he saw a bright lit fill the sky.
'He's putting his all into these next few attacks… Ragnar better take these attacks with extreme caution, otherwise he actually might lose a limb. Ever since he ranked up, Ragnar has become more cocky.'
The sheath around the Umbral Blade started to crack under the immense power that it was concealing and didn't take long for Ragnar to recognize the sheer amount of power that was being concealed.
The cracks started to glow different colors as Sebastian started to channel all of energy into the edge of the blade. The energy being infused into the edge was his spiritual energy, auras, and energy from the Umbral Blade itself.
Shatter!
The sheath shattered and the immense energy was released, sending alarms going throughout Ragnar's and Bastian's mind. High in the sky, the clouds were split apart and turned dark. Thunderclaps were revolving around Sebastian as he was prepared to release his attacks.
Slash!
Clap!
'Huh?' Both Ragnar and Bastian thought.
Sebastian's speed while unsheathing his blade far surpassed the speed both Ragnar and Bastian could comprehend. The only noise they heard was a loud clap throughout the air as it signified that Sebastian broke the sound barrier.
Thud!
Ragnar felt as he lost feeling in his entire left arm and looking at his left arm, it was no longer connected to his body. He then looked at Sebastian and saw that he was bleeding from his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.