Ataraxia Abyss
Chapter 20: Pandora's

Regal was currently facing his shadow, the two of them exchanged attacks. Although it was his mirror, Regal could sense that he was superior to Regal.

Starting from the physique and technique were all the same yet he could not feel any fatigue. The wounds received by the shadow could easily recover, Regal saw that every time he injured the shadow he would definitely heal himself.

His shadow body was almost completely made of a dark substance, which, each time it was cut, would grow or heal his organs.

Regal and his shadow were constantly fighting. Regal could sense that the shadow already knew about his attack, but he felt that something was strange. Every time they clashed, the shadow seemed to be unable to see the future with the Mystic eye of Fate. Is that because it's a special eye? Regal also did not see the shadow using any magic.

Regal finally decided to try it... As they clash forces, the Regals try to do the Avenger. The shadow that knew Regal was going for a counterattack. The shadow tried to retreat further so that Regal did not have the momentum to perform the Avenger as he approached it.

The moment the sword touched the ground, the shadow came forward and tried to stab Regal with the tip of his sword. But when he almost pierced Regal's eyes, he saw Regal disappear from his eyes.

Regal disappeared somewhere, the shadow felt danger from behind him. Regal appeared behind and slashed at the back of his shadow. It was fortunate that the shadow could still advance so Regal's sword did not slash too deeply.

The shadow began to realize that, it was not the Abyss Step. Regal completely disappeared without a split second being missed. Regal retreated backwards and reassembled the horses.

Although it was a dangerous attack, the shadow realized that Regal's soul was starting to unbalance. The shadow smiled and was conscious about the technique.

Regal expends its energy to stop time by moving Regal's dimensions and these dimensions. Although now Regal's soul has stabilized, now he has to face Regal's attack.

The two of them went back to fighting each other, Regal then saw his shadow fighting while being alert. As Regal tried to pierce his shadow, the shadow dodged and tried to counterattack.

But when the shadow counterattack almost hit him, Regal disappeared again and appeared to the shadow's blind spot. But the shadow knew and quickly covered the gap. Regal immediately retreated and took some distance, but the shadow began to chase after him.

The shadow eventually learns, first Regal can not interact with objects around him, otherwise he will attack when he stops time. And secondly, the side effects of the cessation of that time made his body unstable and had to take some distance first.

But on the other hand Regal also learned from it, because Regal did not use the power he used when saving Anne because he was worried that the shadow would survive and learn to use it. But the shadow seemed to be able to learn, but did not use it. Regal smiled and saw this as an opportunity.

When the two of them returned to fighting, Regal managed to calm his soul, the shadow then took off one hand and swung his sword with his right hand alone.

The shadow tries to perform the Avenger with one hand and his left leg used to step forward. Regal disappeared again and appeared behind the shadow, but the shadow already knew about it.

In the sword, the footstep is important, you put the dominant foot you have behind when you do the horses, making you able to move your strong legs to exert maximum strength.

The shadow casts its left foot and performs the Avenger, but the creature follows Regal whose dominant foot is the right. And by placing his right leg behind, the creature made the Avenger who had originally attacked with a slash and retaliated with a slash now become attacked with a slash and retaliated with a stab to the back.

Regal who had just mounted the horses to do the puncture finally advanced with his right foot to do the Abyssal Step, Regal was currently increasing his speed without him realizing that his eyes had been targeted by the shadow.

But when Regal's eyes almost collided with those shadow sword eyes, he immediately turned to the right when those eyes and swords were only less than 3 cm away. Regal who was currently beside his shadow finally cut off his shadow head which was already unable to defend or retaliate against the attack. And with that Regal can win that fight...

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Regal sighed, his body was really very exhausted. Fortunately Regal tricked the creature. It was true that he was unable to attack while merging those worlds, but he was wrong regarding his unstable soul after merging the worlds.

The new Regal skill "Severed Universe" a skill that can make it combine two different dimensions. The two dimensions would be timed to a standstill and only Regal would be able to move when the world merged.

Regal will indeed experience a disturbance to his soul and make it unstable, but not in this world. Regal can stop time for 3 seconds and at that time Regal can not attack and can not wear Vis because it must focus on defending the Severed Universe.

The reason why his soul was unstable was because Regal was expending his strength excessively, and the moment he carried out Regal's final attack did not expend any more excessive energy. That's why the shadow confidently sacrifices its balance to focus on risky attacks.

"It's no mistake that it's the strongest creature I've ever fought after ascending from the Abyss."

Regal could see his shadow turning to ash, Regal then saw the door north of the podium now open. Regal then went inside that door, inside there was a tomb. Regal saw a coffin inside, a coffin with writings from another world but Regal could read it.

"Nippodrome..." Regal opened the coffin. When it opened, Regal found a book and a beautiful long sword from inside the box.

"I think this is what he's looking for..." Regal picked up the book then tried to swing the long sword he saw.

The sword looked extremely thin and fragile, it was more like it was made of glass than a sword, but Regal could sense the powerful magic of the sword. Regal put magic energy in the sword, suddenly 4 shadows from the sword that were currently flying around Regal, the sword that surrounded it had a texture and also Mana that was similar to spirits.

With his mind Regal can control the sword, but his endurance is very bad but when Regal deployed the 4 swords to a stone pillar, the pillar was destroyed in an instant but of course the sword was also destroyed.

However Regal can make a new sword again by giving Vis to the sword, Regal can make more than 15 swords in the air and drop it into one place. The weakness of this sword in addition to its durability is that it takes time to make it, the more it is made at once the slower it will be.

"I think that's enough..." Regal finally returned with that spirit sword. For Regal this is a contract with an extraordinary advantage...

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