Chapter 164: Cloak Vs Sword!

An abyssal slash travelled toward Zoran at insane speed.

It cut through the wind with ease, leaving a trail of black-blue particles in its path.

Unlike before, Dante could now affect the properties of the Shadow Aspect used to unleash the abyssal slash, and of course, he used light!

This allowed the attack to be faster, almost blurring in the vision of the giants.

Zoran’s eyes sparkled with arcs of lightning as he charged directly toward the slash.

SLASH!

The slash didn’t explode upon touching Zoran’s gauntlet, holding absolute cutting power that could sever steel.

“Deflection!”

TZZZZ!

However, Zoran used the back of his gauntlet and a burst of lightning to deflect the attack to the side, surviving with a wide cut across his whole arm.

Slash! Slash! Slash!

The slash continued moving forward, cutting everything in its path and carrying a surge of lightning that was caused by Zoran’s deflection.

“Argh!”

At that moment, an unlucky giant who had been watching was severed in half by the slash.

“Run!”

“Stay away from their fight!”

The giants panicked and started retreating to their hole. They were all Rank 2 warriors, the elites who could change the situation of a battlefield.

But against the abyssal beings with bloodlines, simply watching them was dangerous for their lives, even within the same rank!

“I… I’m sorry!” Zoran realized his mistake, looking at the corpse of the dead giant with a troubled expression: “Hell, why are you little guys so weak?! I mean… stay away from here!”

Dante looked at the titan with a raised eyebrow.

“Is this guy stupid?”

Did he really send the attack to another soldier without noticing? After that, all he could do was apologize?

Not to mention, he was the one who exposed them!

Zoran glared at Dante and gritted his teeth: “What do you mean ’stupid’? I’m the smartest in my family tree! A wise mage told me that!”

BAM!

“Lightning Bolts!”

The earth beneath Zoran shattered as he launched himself toward Dante, sending bolts of lightning to erase all the shadows that Dante could use to escape.

Without the ability to escape, Dante had no choice but to block the attack head-on.

“Slam!”

CLANK!

Zoran’s leg suddenly expanded and landed on a shield made of several segmented blades, but the impact was strong enough to crush the ground under Dante and send lightning through his body.

“Damn you!” Dante gritted his teeth and punched his shield, throwing Zoran a small distance.

Once he landed on the ground, he charged again toward Dante.

“Punch!”

CLANK!

“Kick!”

CLANK!

“Uppercut!”

CLANK!

Zoran rained down on Dante with a barrage of attacks. His punches shook Dante’s arms, his kicks almost broke his stance, and his lightning ran through Dante’s body.

Dante’s clothes were burning against the heat of the lightning, and his body was struggling to stay in its place.

’Axe kick—’

Just then, Dante dodged Zoran’s axe kick and crawled swiftly behind him like a living shadow.

“Now it’s my turn to kick!”

BOOM!

With no time to change the form of the shield, Dante’s demonic leg shot into Zoran’s ribs, covered in chaos energy. At the point of impact, a mana cannonball burst out of Dante’s leg, expanding the damage to Zoran’s body.

However, Zoran didn’t even move from his location. Actually, Dante was the only one affected, as the lightning almost paralyzed his leg!

The only difference that Dante could see was less brightness in Zoran’s cloak.

“Not enough!”

At the next moment, Zoran turned around and returned the kick to Dante’s ribs, shattering his exoskeleton and sending him away.

Bite!

Simultaneously, a giant wolf dug into Zoran’s injured arm, digging into his exposed flesh with its flaming teeth.

“A stupid dog!”

Zoran just slapped the wolf, and its head was launched out of its body, falling dead immediately.

Dante landed on the ground and coughed a mouthful of blood, staring daggers into Zoran’s figure.

“That’s a small problem.”

It was Dante’s first time fighting such a being.

The titans were like the dragons, not the demons. They didn’t have special energy, but their bloodlines were specialized in enhancing the body.

Zoran had a body that was far stronger than Dante’s. But his spirit and mind were average like any normal Rank 2 being. That was likely why he relied on physical attacks.

Mind and Spirit.

These were likely the only things Dante could use to win against that muscle head. But even that was uncertain, as the titan clearly was able to endure Dante’s only mental attack.

Dante couldn’t win instantly like most of his fights now. For the first time since he awakened his class, there was an opponent that was capable of fighting Dante like an equal under the same rank!

“Lightning Strike!”

Rumble!

A lightning strike suddenly hit Dante’s body, paralyzing him again.

“Damn…”

Before he could recover, a giant hand threw him crashing into a rock.

“Fine. I’ll become serious now, you mindless bastard! There was a new technique I wanted to try anyway and you look like a perfect target!” Dante spat and turned his relic into a sword.

His body moved forward like a shadow without any sound or force, yet his speed couldn’t be underestimated as he left afterimages in his path.

Zoran charged his arm and eyes with lightning, preparing himself to track Dante if he tried to dodge.

But to his surprise, Dante swung toward Zoran’s gauntlet!

“Ha! I like your confidence!”

Zoran smirked and his arm exploded forward with arcs of lightning, electrifying Dante’s hair and causing the air to push his hair backward.

CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!

“Huh? Three?” Zoran frowned upon hearing three attacks and feeling three swords striking his gauntlet.

His arm was pushed backward!

When he looked closely, he saw two shadowy blades clashing with his gauntlet alongside the original Dante before disappearing.

They were pure shadows, not flaming ones, yet each one of them held immense force!

Dante pushed Zoran’s hand aside and swung his sword toward Zoran’s chest.

But at this moment, Zoran raised his second arm and blocked Dante’s attack with ease.

However, Zoran’s eyes widened upon seeing two shadow swords emerge behind Dante and follow the path of his attack like afterimages.

Clank! Clank!

The shadowy swords struck the same point, phasing through Dante’s sword as if it didn’t exist. The force of the new attacks were more than enough for Dante to push Zoran’s arm away.

Both arms were away.

His defense was wide open.

Zoran’s body was exposed!

Dante’s sword changed its path midway, defying all that could be called logic and cut upward.

Slash!

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