Unlasting World

The two of us dashed forward using our 

highest speed, and we slowed down right before we crashed.

I put a ton of force to my muscles and swung my scythe at full force. Jericho is doing the same with her lances. She swung both of them in the opposite direction of where I am swinging my scythe.

PRAAANNGGGGG!!!!!!!

The weapons collided with a powerful force and the force threw everything to a tantrum.

The wind force from our clash very much affected even the spectators despite them having a protection barrier to protect them. The ground formed a large crack, splitting her ground and mine. The crack goes all the way and completely obliterates the entire arena into half, all while sounding a loud cracking sound.

As we held our weapons to one another, we both grinned while the wind force brushed our hairs away maniacally.

I leaped backwards and Jericho quickly chased. With haste, she swung one of her lances. 

I lifted my shadow scythe and parried, causing a powerful clash from our two weapons. But she had two lances, which gives her a chance to parry my parrying.

CLANK!!

PRAANGG!!!!

We both fought at high speed and swung our weapons at full force every time. The ground turned completely devastated and the wall even got destroyed. The force of each clash throws the spectators to tantrum.

"A-Amazing… Jericho is completely fighting on the same level with Rize…"

Manda mumbles as she covers the wind force coming at her using her hands. The wind is literally ripping away the spectators and they are quite jumbled by it.

But, neither Jericho nor myself is letting down on our attacks. We clashed fearsomely and dauntingly, not letting ourselves be beaten.

Slowly the fight on the ground moved on to the air, and became an airborne battle.

Jericho's speed in the air increased tenfold the last time I saw her, and now I am eating my words. 

Her flight… is faster than mine.

VWOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She casted multiple wind magic strikes at me, but I simply swiped my scythe in the air and a large wall of shadow quickly formed. The wall shattered into pieces when the wind magic impacted it, and the wind force threw me back.

Jericho didn't give me the time to regain balance. She is already meters away right after the wall collapsed and is now moving her lance for a stab. I parried the lance to my right, and it managed to graze my hand a little.

Feeling the pain, I quickly got taken aback and lost control. Using my left hand, I formed a gigantic hand and smacked her to the ground.

BAARR!!!

Receiving the heavy punch, she slammed to the ground incredibly powerfully.

Everyone was taken quite aback when Jericho got suddenly smacked to the ground so inhumanely, but I know that won't kill her.

She can still stand up. But by the time she looked up, a gigantic palm made out of shadow was already above her, ready to slam her to the ground again.

BLAAMM!!!!!

The gigantic hand wider than an elephant slammed Jericho down without mercy. Everyone quickly became worried about what would happen to Jericho, but their worries were for nothing.

The gigantic hand slowly got lifted up as a scream came from below it.

"Hoooooaaaaaaa!!!!"

Jericho is both enchanting and augmenting her arms when she lifts the giant hand. Her arms are now shining from both light magic and wind magic, pushing the gigantic shadow palms upwards as much as she can do.

She switched the entire force into her left arm while lowering her right arm and formed a fist. She augmented it with everything she got, and with a single punch, punched the gigantic hand into smithereens.

PRAAANGG!!!!!!

The hand shatters like glass to pieces and disappears to the air. My expression must have been quite shocking, because she seemed to be grinning widely.

Jericho spent no more time and immediately leaped up with her highest speed. She arrived only meters away from me in just less than a second.

She lifted one of her lances for an attack, but I swung my scythe at a much faster and stronger speed than hers and smacked away her lance. The lance got thrown away from her grip and flew to her right. It slammed the ground once before slowly dissipating into thin air.

"Khh!!"

She gritted her teeth. Using her other hand, she swung her final lance and we continued our little rampage. With only one lance, her close quarter combat is definitely much weaker. I ended up looking down on her and simply fought calmly.

But, that of course was planned by her.

She purposely throws a heavy hit on my scythe, causing me to get thrown backwards. She then immediately lifted her empty hand towards me, but nothing appeared in front of it.

Instead, the skin at the back of my neck screamed.

VWOOOOOOMM!!!!!!!!!!

A wind blast occurred just behind my head. That could have given me a concussion very easily, but I was able to react fast enough to create a shadow shield behind my head. I still got thrown off by it, though.

Damn you, Jericho… Purposely letting my guard down…

BOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!

Jericho moved out of the way just when I flew past her at high speed towards the ground and crashed.

I slammed to the ground with a couple of bounces before finally landing my face on the ground. I slowly lifted my body up and glared upwards. Not a single scathe can be seen on me. Even the graze she caused earlier has been healed.

Even if she is more powerful than me, she still has no chance of winning.

I still have my healing magic, and as long as I can heal myself, I am unbeatable.

She noticed that I am quite unscathed despite all the planning she did, and she became rather enraged. She quickly dashed down towards me with her lance ready. She slammed the ground with her legs, causing dust to cover her completely. And out of nowhere, she stabbed towards me with her lance.

She is still… not giving up…

All right, then.

Her lance is moving towards my face at high speed. But, I simply grinned as shadow marks covered my face.

ZRIINGG!!!

The sound of wind and light explosions can be heard when she throws her lance at me, but it was completely stopped.

The dust finally clears and shows Jericho the reality.

My left hand, completely covered in scales of black shadow, is holding her lance with just two fingers. Though the edges of my fingers are sharp, it was still capable of stopping her lance completely.

My whole left arm has transformed completely. Sharp looking spikes formed on the arm, and more spikes have grown on the elbow and the shoulder.

My left wing has transformed completely and looked a lot more like a devil's wing, while the left side of my face had some black streaks, going past my eyes from the forehead to the cheek. My left eye, which originally had a red pupil and white retina, is now a bright red pupil with pitch black retinas.

The horn on my left side also has grown considerably bigger, more fearsome and more real-looking rather than the other one on my right.

I have 'partially' transformed into a devil…

And a wide grin formed only on my left cheek.