Andrew dashed to his lookalike aiming for his head but as his blade was a millimeter off his opponents head,he felt indescribable pain in his heart and his lookalike commented ,"Other than your hands,remember you also have a body." Before tossing his body like a ragdoll bashing the palace wall and once again Andrew regaining his senses pulled the sword out of the wall but compared to the countless number of times he's tried to pull it out, this time it was easier. He saw his lookalike with a taunting smile and tried to come up with a strategy in his mind. After a split second he charged at his lookalike and implemented it. His plan did involve illusions and to his dismay,his efforts resulted with his beheading as the lookalike easily spotted him. "If you plan on killing me then it's not going to work as you need to lose your will and reform it to be greater if you plan on making a scratch on me."
Andrew was confused with this. Inorder for him to injure his lookalike, he had to lose his will to fight. "I know it's out of context but did you use the priest to spy on me before my death." His lookalike laughed before saying ,"Not just then. I've always kept my eye on you." Andrew feeling somewhat better though was it. Knowing a God was keeping a constant eye on you would be unsettling but it did clear his head a little bit as he always felt as of someone was always watching him. (Author note- same here.) He then stopped planning and blindly rushed in without formulating a plan as his lookalike had advised. 'Wait, is this training ?' Andrew thought but the more it continued, the more he came to terms that he was training. Before he didn't need to train as he could just wield experience and be a proficient master with any weapon or any form of combat but now here he was, struggling to even get close to a still target. Everytime he died ,he realized something rather unique ,'It seems that he always makes his attacks by moving his left leg by three inches.' Adjusting his method of attacking, he chose to exploit this weakness by baiting him in moving in said direction as he would move in a random set of steps. He executed his plan only to face a deadlock and was easily overpowered and strangled to death slowly. "It seems that you easy to fool. Hahaha" Andrew back again realized that his opponent let him see this and was easily baited."
"And keep your thoughts to yourself." His lookalike joked. Andrew then knew that his lookalike could read his mind so coming up with a strategy was pointless and saw that his opponent wasn't actively engaging in sword fights as he would manipulate the sword to fight but it sure did feel like it was a real person wielding it. He tried to move the impaled sword from the wall and he was weakly levitating it ,"You catch on easy." He ignored the compliment and tried to engage it in a fight but it was way too sloppy and slow in terms of movement compared to his lookalike. It was quickly put down and his lookalike summoned another sword as the first one was keeping Andrew's sword down and shot it directly at Andrew's head but he caught it with both hands clamping it in the middle. Andrew was happy that he was able to stop it but his lookalike simply lengthened it and it swiftly tore through his head leaving a gaping hole. This time Andrew started to focus on manipulating it as it was clearly evident that this would prove more effective.
Spending god knows how much time, he was able to lift it with his thought but since it was antimatter, he had to be careful and precise as it could easily backfire corrupting his body through telepathy. He didn't stop till truly mastered it and after he was done, he tried challenging his lookalike and this fight lasted for ten minutes before he died once again to a sword which appeared in his heart. "Don't focus too much on the sword to leave your body open to attacks." He once again instead of trying to take his lookalike, he focused on summoning a second sword just like his lookalike. "To summon one you need to understand that antimatter exists everywhere. From the hundredth plane to any plane in existence including parallel universes. It's just that it's in small quantities and for your progress, this place has the least amount of antimatter particles even better than the heavens so as to deal in such circumstances. Provided you can sense even the slightest particle, you can replicate it over and over again." He then raised his hand manifesting a sword larger than the palace and Andrew was shocked by this sight before the sword was directed at him leading to his death.
Having understood something he tried to do the same and he was able to materialize a small nail. He repeated this process over and over again till he was comfortably able to make a sword similar to his lookalike's gigantic sword. "Fast learner. " His lookalike then summoned countless swords simultaneously aimed at Andrew but instead he shot his gigantic sword at himself covering his body with antimatter. "Clever. Though hiding isn't going to give you victory now will it ?" He then turned his body into antimatter and said ,"Just do this instead. It enables you to not with take any damages and fight at the same time." Andrew then dematerializing the sword tried to do the same but failed ,"You need to concentrate and pull the antimatter particles towards you and reconstruct your body with it." Andrew having a better understanding tried to implement this but failed. After what seemed an eternity he finally got it though he wasn't able to sustain it for long. "You have to master this or the result will be your death."
Though he wanted to give up so bad because inorder for him to reconstruct his body, he had to destroy his body molecule by molecule inorder to achieve this and it was worse than being corrupted by the antimatter. Though he knew for him to achieve great power, he had to sacrifice a lot. He gave it a shot and by this point he lost track of time as his system was disabled and finally stabilized this form for as long as he wanted but a problem arose during the transition. "The pain will fade the more you do it." Relating to his death, he intentionally kept moving back and forth between the two states till he could no longer feel the pain. Now that he had fully mastered it, he was more confident in facing his lookalike. He summoned countless swords simultaneously and shot them at his lookalike but his lookalike made his body out of antimatter and realizing what would happen next Andrew did the same and the two exchanged moves till his lookalike seeing the fight was getting nowhere finally moved and taking Andrew by surprise but he quickly adjusted but experience was king and it was obvious that Andrew clearly lacked it died shortly after. "You've never held a sword in your life judging by that embarrassment." Andrew facing the hard
reality accepted it with a dejected face ,"Yes." His lookalike then continued ,"Then we have a lot of work to do. As for magic your will should cover it but try to strengthen it by making use of it often to familiarize yourself with it."
"We'll start by your stance, then your defense, your footwork, your blindspots and weaknesses combined and to finish it off we'll work on your offense." Andrew wanted to jump straight into the offense but he knew that it would be better if his base solid and training they did. He trained with not only a sword but every weapon available and after a while he finally got through the stance for every weapon. They went through this process with his defense, his footwork and what really took time was definitely his weakness and blindspots. His lookalike could easily spot them with his eyes closed but they managed to get over this hurdle. Finally came what Andrew had been waiting for, offense. They practiced and practiced and Andrew realized that he couldn't feel anything. They've been training nonstop this entire time and he's not felt tired, hungry, sleepy or any emotion on top of that. The more he died, the more he lost his emotions but for the greater good , that being his own personal agendas he did it. "I may have left one form we need to work on but it's not that important as it will naturally come to you the more you engage yourself in battles." Andrew with his curiosity piqued ,"What is it?" A small laugh escaping his mouth ,"Prediction. You should be able to predict your opponents."
Andrew content with what he learned asked ,"So I would like ..." He would have liked to continue but his lookalike knew where the conversation was headed ,"You want to go back to your Ash, hahahaha. I could do that but let's have a match to decide. If you are able to cut my head off,then I will take you to your world. If you are able to injure me then I'll drop you off close and let your accomplices who came with you but if you're unable to even touch me, I'll kill you permanently this time." Andrew confident with himself ,"Fair deal. Though what will I owe you for training me cause I find it weird that it would be free." His lookalike simply engaged the fight without hesitation and Andrew locking in (Author note-I had to say it, come on) gave a rather promising fight but judging the way it was going after a hundred moves, it was clear that Andrew was slowly starting to fall at a disadvantage so he did something unexpected. As his lookalike was about to make a prompt cut towards his neck, Andrew simply made a clone out of antimatter and engulfed his lookalike. Sensing things were taking an ugly turn, he too did the same engulfing Andrew's clone but so as to assimilate the clone, he had to fuse antimatter particles even though it was under someone else's command which could result in his senses dropping momentarily so as to adjust to the frequency of Andrew's and it was within those seconds where Andrew made his comeback and went for his throat and stabbed him but before he could go any deeper to cause a fatal injury, his lookalike dematerialized and appeared out of the clone.
"What kind of move was that ?" Andrew asked and his lookalike answered ,"It's about enveloping your antimatter particles with will and moving them. You could say it's teleportation but it's mass movement at a molecular level. Simple right." Andrew kept that concept in his mind and stated the obvious ,"That's clearly not what we agreed. I would have killed you." His lookalike stated with a serious expression for the first time making Andrew somehow worried ,"Don't expect things to go your way,Andrew as the world and the heavens will be against you. Especially the leeches. Anyway a deal is deal. And if you face any foes that you don't want to encounter, just manifest a portal from the real world by focusing antimatter particles to form a circle and leave the rest to me. And avoid as much as possible from falling into unreality." Andrew was then shocked by this but before he could ask his questions, he appeared in a world similar to earth but not quite as this world had a few differences. 'Where the hell am I.'
[{You are on the third dimensional plane.}]
[{Notification:New party added to the system.}]
Andrew was baffled by this but he quickly calmed down seeing who it was.
[{So did you arrive.}]
Knowing who it was Andrew replied
[{Yes, Though what should I call you}]
[{Just call me Bill}]
[{I couldn't place you and your accomplices in the same plane but they are not that far off from you}]
[{And do not brute force your way as this could draw heavens eye to you.}]
[{They should be busy with something else}]
Andrew making the last comment before surveying the landscape of the place.He still had his abilities working he simply made a small house though it couldn't even compare to his palace, he stayed for a couple of days before getting a notification from his system.
[{Getting information about present dimensional plane from unknown source.}]
"How long will this last ?"
[{Process could take an estimate of month}]
[{System will be offline till then}]