Journey Of A Legend

"That sword is accumulating his power?!"

*Swish!*

*BAM!*

"!"

Greg watched as another shockwave, which was twice as big as the previous two broke out after Joe hit the Echo Spirit's neck with his sword.

The power was so strong that it created huge craters below and around the creature, while the shockwave made the ground in the vicinity form huge cracks one by one.

Naturally, Greg was doing perfectly fine even under such crazy power luckily because of his mask and tempered body. However, it was entirely possible that anyone else who was below the Ascender rank would have been blown away instantly, if not driven to the brink of death.

"Such a scary weapon. And it was down there too... Just what is that place truly?"

While Greg tried to figure out the background behind that sword and the mysterious place, Joe was flickering here and there around the creature with insane speed.

Because of his special Guardian ability that let him use his Ascension Ring even though he was only on the Calamity rank, he could barely keep up with the creature's attack.

Also, his mysterious jade sword which was accumulating power with each strike made his position in the fight to become even better as time passed by.

With his speed that was almost on the God rank and with his powerful weapon, it was only a matter of time when he could deliver the final blow.

But, unfortunately, time was not on his time this time. It was obviously visible that his power which let him surpass ranks for a limited time put a huge burden on his body.

Just like before against Netherclaw, blood was visible on the corner of his mouth and what was even worse there were more than before.

Greg seeing this turned serious and thought, "He said he can only use that power only once or twice a day, yet he is forcing himself to use it again. It's the 4th time today? I need to help him!"

With that in mind, Greg took out a potion from his shadow and instantly he activated his Fifth Flow.

Immediately, his whole body was covered with white light, and like a bullet, his entire being burst forward.

*BAM!*

With speed almost as crazy as Joe's, Greg appeared next to the Echo Spirit and swung Shapeless in his hand while threw the potion in his hand to Joe.

"Here! Drink it!"

*BAM!*

With a loud bang, his staff hit the creature in the back, but unlikely as Joe, his attack didn't leave a single scratch on the skin.

However, it was perfectly a fine distraction, because the Echo Spirit instantly turned its head toward Greg and slashed at him.

"It is fast!", thought Greg and made Shapeless in his hand to change form.

Immediately, the black staff in his hand turned into a wide black shield with the golden carving on its surface.

*CLANG!*

Like metal hitting against metal, the creature's claws which were able to pierce through anything, this time was deflected and stopped by Greg's Soul Creature.

However, not without a price naturally. The moment the impact happened, the carvings lit up with golden light, while Greg felt instantly as the fifth ability of Shapeless activated on its own.

With the fifth ability which let Greg's Soul Creature to defend against attacks from the God rank this time was on the verge of breaking, but luckily Greg could jump away just in time, making his shield only to sustain 5 deep claw marks.

"Damn. That thing is ridiculous!", thought Greg with shock, but after seeing the claw marks on Shapeless started to heal automatically because of its fifth ability he sighed with relief.

However, he couldn't relax for a long while, because just as his feet touched the ground, the Echo Spirit attacked him again with its claws.

Seeing this, Greg jumped to the side, easily avoiding the attack because of his light element that boosted his speed to a frightening level.

And while this happened, on the side Joe stopped drinking Greg's potion, making his eyes to widen instantly.

"Amazing! It's almost as powerful as those potions from the Alchemist Family. No... It's much better than that.", said Joe quietly as he watched the pain in his body vanish instantly.

He felt like he has woke up from a long, deep, and pleasant sleep, making his body to be filled with energy again.

Not wasting any of his time further, Joe activated his Ascension Ring again, making his presence to grow up to the God rank.

Instantly, a robe appeared around his body made out of thunder, but there was a slight difference. This time the thunder and lightning it was made out of looked much energized, while the air around him felt electrified too.

"Here I come!", said Joe and fused his power inside his sword, while he accumulated his momentum, making cracks to form under his feet.

*BOOM!*

*TREMBLE!!*

Like thunder itself, Joe's figure burst forward with a deafening explosion and appeared at the side of the creature.

*KRR!*

Feeling the dreadful presence on its side, the creature swung its claws toward Joe without any hesitation.

"Chance!", thought Greg seeing this and immediately deactivated his mask's power and activated his Fifth Flow's area power.

*BOOM!*

Instantly, in a radius of five meters, white light covered both Greg and the creature, and directly an amazing scene happened.

Greg's power made the creature's attack speed to became a bit slower than it originally was. However, this 'bit' made Joe to reach his target, and with a fast and smooth chop, he slashed at the creature's neck.

*Swish!*

*Squash!*

"SCREEAAACCHH!!!"

With a sound that was similar to that when the knife pierced into raw meat, Joe's sword got chopped into the creature's neck.

Instantly a scream that shook both the earth and the sky at the same time broke out from the Echo Spirit's wide jaw, however not for long because with a black flash something exploded onto its mouth.

*BOOM!*

Like throwing acid onto flesh, the creature's half mouth started to rot, but that was all. However, the sight was still shocking.

"!"

Joe seeing this glanced from where the shot came from, only to see that Greg was pointing at the creature, while on his palm a black glove made out of black mist could be seen.

"Just that much damage?", thought Greg a bit disappointed, but it was only natural.

His Black Larva Soul Creature was only on the Creator Rank, so it would be quite surprising if it would have what it takes to kill a creature on the God rank.

But still, it did such a huge injury, so Greg couldn't complain at all. Instead, he turned Shapeless into a bow, and with its Duplication ability, he made the other one into an arrow.

Activating its Home of Attributes ability, Greg covered the arrow with golden flames and aimed at the creature's open mouth.

"Sckrechks!!!"

With an angry cry, the Echo Spirit wanted to scream, but because its half jaw was hanging wide open, it couldn't let out a proper scream, but only a disgusting grumbling.

So instead of doing that it slashed at Joe with its trident-like tail, which was still on its side, and jumped toward Greg, ready to tear him up into several pieces.

Joe seeing the tail pulled its sword out and after deflecting it by a swing he jumped away. As he did that he watched as the creature in the air was only a meter away from Greg and was ready to assault him.

"A single arrow won't kill it, what is he trying to do?", thought Joe, but before he could have thought about anything else, Greg fired his arrow.

*Swish!*

*Sckreahsch!*

With a disgusting grumbling, the Echo Spirit was about to land onto Greg, when the arrow that Greg fired pierced right into its mouth, and with the help of the golden fire around it, it scorched its way through the throat and reached its stomach.

However, unfortunately, that was all it could do. It couldn't pierce through the whole creature and kill it, so as a result it was still flying toward Greg with insane bloodlust.

Seeing this, however, Greg just looked as calm as ever and avoided the creature's attack just as easily as he did the first time.

Jumping to the side next to Joe, Greg undid his Fifth Flow powers and lowered his arms.

Joe seeing this looked confused and while watching the Echo Spirit struggling by the pain, he asked, "Why didn't you attack him with something more powerful. If you would have used that technique of yours, it would be dead long ago!"

Greg on the side hearing what Joe said shook his head and said, "Not at all. If I use my technique and fail to hit it or it uses its strange ability to send my attack back with twice as strong as it originally was, I'm definitely done for. Also, I need preparation time before I can use my skill, so against such creature, it would be a foolish act, so this is why I chose to do this."

"What do you m-.", started to say Joe, but couldn't finish his sentence, because suddenly Greg started to smile and waved his hand.

"Just watch and see!"