After few clashes of the sword, the sorcerers behind created chains to bind me, I jumped to dodge, but from the front, a flare of black flame came toward me, it was created using the sword of Marth, I tried to dodge by leaning to the side, but the thrust of the sword tore my clothes revealing the gem on my chest,

Marth noticed that “How fortunate, you are also just a replica I see, that too a flawed one, a replica powered by a core are the most useless ones, if one destroys the core, the replica also gets destroyed, also such replica can only operate in a short distance, so your real body also must be somewhere near here.”

His confidence seems to have increased than before, but, “You speak so confidently, yet I wonder why is it that you have not managed to a inflict a single wound?”

My mana was depleting slowly, in the battle between the undead, it seems my army was winning,

I had decided not to reveal my spatial and darkness magic in this battle. Also if I had used any high tier spell, it would have harmed even my own army,

After begin cornered from three sides, their chains had finally managed to surround me, breaking them using them just physical strength was impossible, but I could reconstruct them,

I had hoped to wait until three of them got closer, but, “He should not be able to break those chains, using the replica search for his real body”, saying that he turned back, but the two undead sorcerers grabbed my shoulders

[Initiating Deconstruct and Reconstruct]

I released my hands and grabbed their shoulders, “Purification.”

New skill [Purification] learned

[You killed an Undead Sorcerer]

[You killed an Undead Sorcerer]

New skill [Shadow Wave] learned

New skill [Blood Assault] learned

Purification was a light attribute magic that dealt severe damage to darkness users, I could use the light attribute, but I currently had no techniques using light, but I remembered Purification, it was a spell the elf king had used against me, I tried to copy it, unlike him who could use it long distance, I could only use it in close reach,

I could also not take any light skills from the priests as I was not the one who killed them,

Marth noticed it, “How could you escape those chains? You should have not been able to use magic after being entrapped by the chains.”

Well, the flow of my magic had stopped. Still, I had two sources of magic, one was the magic my own body produced and next was the one the gem created, the two types of magic would work in equilibrium, but after getting trapped under their chain, the magic my body produced had stopped flowing but, the magic of the gem was still there flowing.

“You simply rely too much on your tools, first the sword and now the chains, having too much trust on your tools rather than your own strength, what a pitiful person you are.”

“Damn you”, He rushed towards me with his sword surrounded in dark aura, I blocked the thrusts and slashes of the sword,

His speed and strength were more outstanding than mine. Still, mine techniques were far superior, that caused the sword fight to be on equal footing, after few slashes he backed down, I was surprised to see someone other than me from the race undead sorcerers be able to use the sword to such extent, I had previously thought all of them would be just be sorcerers.

“Let your power flow through me, Awaken my sword, Vengeance of Grace.”

I see sword awakening,

Like skills, even swords were classified into various tiers. The tier of a sword varied upon its durability and the power it gives the user upon awakening, to awaken a sword, one must completely master the sword first. The higher the tier of the sword, the harder it is to awaken it, Swordmasters like a paladin or dark knights could even match the power of human sorcerers.

“To think an undead sorcerer would be capable of sword awakening, impressive.”

The color of his eyes changed, his body was suddenly covered in back sword aura, I converted my weapon into dual swords,

From my vision he disappeared, I felt bloodlust coming from my right side, a direct slash came from the right, I blocked it using my sword, but his momentum overpowered me, my legs went off the ground, I crashed through many building before stopping,

He slashed through the air, a black slash came towards me, I bent back to dodge it, the buildings behind me got sliced into two

“This is my sword ability, it can cut through anything, even air and once wounded, it will corrupt your body, and turn you into my puppet.”

Few more slashes came towards me, I barely dodged it, the speed of the slashes was incredible, my eyes could clearly see it, but my body could barely react to it.

Reversing my momentum, I went directly towards him, I covered my swords with the aura of light. After a few backs and forth of sword clash, I converted my swords into gloves and caught his sword with my hands,

“Purification”

I used purification on his sword, but it could not destroy it, but I stopped the awakening.

Both of us jumped back a few steps,

He could not awaken his swords now, but surrounded it with sword aura, and rushed towards me, I also ran towards him, he thrust his sword, his speed being more incredible, his sword penetrated through the gem, my fist reached his face, and he got thrown back, and fell on the ground,

He slowly stood up, “How? Your replica should be destroyed, how are you still standing?”

“Oh, this? It’s just a backup mana pool, not a core, maybe if you had struck my heart instead of the gem, then I might have lost.”

“What? But you said”

“I never said anything, you just assumed it yourself all I did was let your attack hit me, and show you this gem, to think you would actually fall for it.’’

He took a sigh, “Still nothing has changed, you should have used my misunderstanding to inflict a grave wound, but you wasted your one opportunity to win, and just punched me, causing me little to no damage at all.”

“No damage? I really wonder about that.”