By creating my own field of fire I was safe from the black flame which has turned the surrounding into a volcano field but I didn't know what morris was trying to achieve by doing this.
Soon the black flames covered my vision. Sensing that morris was trying to do the same thing which Lucius did, trying to block my vision and play some tricks maybe fighting with a new sword or retrieve new artifact, to prevent that I manifested two huge wings behind my back and flew toward the location where I was sensing morris's presence, but as if he was expecting me to attack, he was ready to attack me.
I felt a sense of crisis envelop my whole body and a shadow passed by me the attack hidden in the shadow was too fast for me to block but on pure instinct I moved my sword and my sword collided with a hard object.
The force behind the attack pushed me to the ground and I was thrown into the lava below. My body dipped into the lava but immediately transforming into my true dragon form the scales on my body saved me from melting away.
I jumped from the lava flying in the air trying to locate morris but I could only sense a shadow moving at an incredible speed inside the black smoke too quick to pinpoint.
I released [Dragon breath] from my jaws multiple times to hit the shadow but morris avoided my [Dragon breath] easily and attacked me multiple times in that short span of time even severing one of my wing cleanly.
I fell from the sky transforming back into my humanoid form landing in the hard ground surrounded by lava and could hear the laugh coming from the distant where the shadow was standing.
"Do you understand now demion, there are some walls which cannot be conquered, for you it's me and for Guardian Alex it is King Azmath." The black smoke surrounding morris vanished and revealed uninjured morris whose forehead was drenched in sweat definitely due to frequent use of his ability. The stone in his sword was shining brighter than before which shouldn't be the case after he has used the ability of artifact time and time again which can only mean one thing.
"Aren't you acting too proud after solely relying on that time artifacts, changing that gems again and again how many of them do you have in stock?" Hearing the different answer which he was not expecting from me his expressions changed.
"Enough gems to kill you." He answered and prepared his sword to attack me but this time it was my time to counter attack.
"Then come and try." I said and my red eyes shown pure white from my body white flames radiated and covered the whole surrounding pushing and devouring the black flame and lava.
The eyes of Morris went wide and he fired his black flames in the direction of white flames but my flames proved superior and his attack vanished. He distanced himself from the flames soon the hot and turbulent surrounding became cold and silent.
In few seconds the environment around us has changed 360 degree and morris was dumbfounded because of this development. The ground become hard again but white flames were still burning between the cracks and morris tried to touch it.
When the flames touched his hand he didn't felt the cold sensation he was expecting on the other hand his flesh started to burn, quickly producing black flames and overpowering the white flames in quantity he extinguished my flames and stared at his charred hand which was regenerating.
"I see merging your life force with your fire ability you have produced something that could be considered a new evolution path for the whole fire dragon clan." He commented trying to understand the nature of my flames.
"The likes of you won't be able to produce the flame this pure." I said once again taking a stance to attack him and covering the blade of my sword [Punisher] with white flame and activating the 1st ability of the sword [Overload] once again.
In the current situation when morris is fighting using the full power of the time artifact I can't fight him holding back, I have to go all out and bet my life if I want to achieve my objective.
"It's a pity that I have to kill so many talents born into my own clan but for the better future of dragon race you have to die." He said dying his own sword with black flames, more fiercely than before and charging toward me.
This time I was barely able to keep up with his movement, continuously exhausting myself by using [Overload] while the gem embedded on the sword of morris was also dimming slowly indicating he won't be able to keep this up for long.
It is only matter of time before any one of us exhaust and one lands a decisive blow on other and from the looks of how things were going it would be me who will lose because I could feel the more I push myself the more weak I feel. It was the 2nd time I had used [Overload] and soon the sword would run out of mana.
Increasing the intensity of white flame I imbued more of my life force into the flames and fill the sword with my own mana just to keep up with morris and it was working to some extent. I could see that morris was doing the same thing trying to surpass my speed drawing more and more power from gem.
It hasn't been even 15 minutes us fighting and our surrounding has changed to the point it has become hell. There were deep cuts on the ground whose end could not be seen from the above the ground. Because of our force countless tornadoes had been formed wondering in the distance. The dome has been widened to almost 50 kilometer in size. Our fight was not as clean as fight between Lucius and Lord Alex but that was to be expected, he had the way to prevent Lucius from using his time artifact and I didn't.
I exchanged many blows with morris after that at the speed which could only be described as speed of light but I couldn't land a critical hit to his heart or head on the other hand my body was slowly starting to burn, my flames starting to dim down little by little therefore left with no other option I decided to take another gamble.
Deactivating the skill [overload] I landed on the ground and distanced myself from morris seeing me on my last leg he deactivated his time artifact thinking of torturing me before killing me not finishing me immediately. My wounds started to heal but I was nowhere near in my prime condition and so was morris.
Taking deep breath I stood up while morris also imbueded a new gem inside his sword, from his facial expression I could see we have only fought for 20 minutes but from the looks of Morris demeanor, it looks like he has fought a battle for hours.
Storing the [Punisher] sword inside my space rune I retrieved the sword [Aurora] and held it in both my hands.
"The guardian's sword, do you think it will make any difference?" Morris said holding his sword in front of him activating the gem in his sword.
Without saying anything I activated the first ability of the sword [Aurora] and combined it with my 12th sword technique.
[Void Slash]