Chapter 559: A shadow of the greats
The crusader sidestepped, narrowly avoiding Pareth’s mace. Mana coursed through the ground as enchantments built into the room’s floor and walls absorbed the strength of the blow, preventing the place from collapsing.
The fight continued at that pace for a good minute, Sofia and Pareth playing it safe and keeping their mana reserves high as they analyzed the crusader’s way of fighting, neither side managing to inflict any real damage on the other.
Somehow, both sides were back to their starting position, and there was a second of calm.
Come on, you know you want to do it.
Vakarian’s magic started to swell up.
There you go, use that signature skill.
Space started to distort around Sofia and Pareth. Pareth immediately stepped closer to Sofia as their surroundings were being warped by Vakarian’s skill. The relatively limiting room became a wide expanse under a black sky, thousands of stakes in the shape of Sorrow’s divine rune growing from the ground. The crusader’s armor was surrounded by currents of dark energy flowing out from the stakes, as he slowly floated up in the air, his sword splitting into a smaller sword and a lean scepter canalizing the dark energy.
That’s more like it!
“Let’s go all out!”