Chapter 787: Sparring Session With My Shadows
Even as I was flying through the air, I conjured another wall of water right before a [Laser] hit it, the water redirecting the beam of light away from me.
I then countered with a [Laser] of my own but she also did the same thing and directed the light beam away with a wall of water.
I landed on my feet and took a moment to let out a breath, looking up at my sparring partner with a cautious gaze.
Eins was standing opposite me, my Shadow Guard waiting for me to make my move.
As you might have guessed, today was one of the days I would participate in the training sessions with the servants inside the training room, which happened right after I came back from school after dealing with that idiot Bracca.
I needed the stress relief anyway so this was a perfect chance.
Odeta was there too and she was currently sparring with two of my Shadow Guards who were quite literally owning her right now.
The same went for me as the first time I fought Eins, I told her to fight me seriously and the first thing she did when the fight started was to shoot a [Laser] right through my head.
The second time, I managed to block the [Laser] with a wall of water but then she teleported behind me and stabbed me through the back with a sword made using her Umbramancy.
Damn… Eins really is ruthless…
I then started to take the fight seriously and treated her like a real enemy which led to my current position at the moment.
She leapt into the air again and I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand, prompting me to leap out of the way right before another [Laser] shot through where I had been moments before.
In return, I shot a [Spark Strike] at her, the bolt of lightning streaking towards where I remembered her to be and… It struck an empty space.
That was when I realised there was a portal on the ground in the midst of closing up. I realised what had happened and I quickly created a portal of my own to drop into before Eins swung her sword at me.
Her blade sliced through where my neck had been earlier while I fell through my portal, droppin me back down a few feet behind where I had been earlier which meant that Eins was now in front of me.
I did the same thing as well, using my [Shadow Forge] to create a sword to try and bring it down in an overhead slash on her.
Eins spun around and lifted her own sword overhead, blocking my attack before delivering a snap kick into my abdomen and sending me flying away.
I flared my wings and stopped myself from flying too far but Eins seemed to have been counting on that as a [Fire Blast] was immediately shot towards me.
I reacted by flapping my wings quickly, propelling myself away from the flames and very narrowly avoiding being burned.
I then saw her opening another portal beside her and her hand reached out towards it.
My initial assumption was that she was going to appear beside me to try and grab me, only to realise she had created the portal right behind me where I had propelled myself towards with my wings.
I could not stop my momentum and went straight through the portal, her hand already there to grab me by the back of the neck by the time I went through.
Godamnit, why are you so OP Eins?!
I used [Strength] and [Body Current] on my tail and swung it backwards, my tail shattering the shadow sword she had tried to use to impale me from behind and also smashing it against her abdomen.
Damn… I think that\'s the first solid blow I have against her this entire fight.
I dropped down onto my feet and turned to face her, finding Eins looking at the place my tail hit her before looking back at my tail.
Something popped out from her lower back and I realised she had used Somatomancy to create a tail for herself as well using mine as reference, since my Shadow Guards did not have my Meslatar characteristics normally.
But really? Why are my Shadow Guards so scarily efficient in using my skills? In fact, I feel like I\'m learning from a better version of myself right now.
Hey, this is perfect training material though, so I\'m not complaining much.
I watched as she swung her tail a few times before coiling it up like a spring and lowering herself so that the tip of her tail touched the ground.
I wondered what she was trying to do when her tail suddenly extended again, propelling her forward more explosively than if she had just kicked off the ground.
Fucking hell?! I can do that with my tail?!
I created a shield made using my Lumenmancy and braced myself right before the missile known as Eins smashed into me.
My shield managed to hold but the force of the impact sent me skidding back.
This time, I noticed her opening another portal behind me so I created my own portal in front of it to teleport me behind her instead.
I prepared to swing my tail to knock her off her feet until I felt something wrap around my waist to lift me up into the air.
I only had a moment to realise that she had wrapped her tail around me before she slammed me onto the ground, knocking the wind out of me.
A gout of flames from her [Fire Blast] then started to engulf me and I only managed to avoid being burned thanks to the light shield I was still holding.
Thinking quickly, I opened a portal below me which teleported me above her, aiming to use gravity to smash myself down on top of her.
She immediately turned around and punched her fist upwards as though she already knew I was going to do that.
Eins must have also buffed herself because that literally sent me flying towards the ceiling and smashing me into it.
I managed to maintain my hold on the shield which was what saved me because she immediately shot a [Laser] at me which would have pierced through my head had my shield not been in the way.
As I fell back towards the ground, I fired a few [Spark Strikes] at her, the lightning bolts missing their targets as she expertly dodged and weaved through them.
I then saw her creating a lump of earth as big as herself using her Geomancy before that was thrown towards me, forcing me to alter my path with a flap of my wings to avoid being smashed.
What I didn\'t expect was that she had used that chunk of rock to hide herself clinging to the side of the rock.
She must have teleported herself onto it after she had thrown it at me.
That was so unexpected that I didn\'t have time to react before her [Laser] pierced me in the side, the light beam going through my torso in a fatal blow.
I then found myself teleported outside the training area again, right in the arms of Zwei who caught me before I could fall on the ground.
She then started patting me while I was fed a cookie by Katsuki.
Mmmmm!! Sweet!
Just saying, the cookie thing was something that Katsuki decided to do on her own and this act of Zwei catching me to pat my head after each defeat was not something I told them to do either.
For some reason it just started to happen… Not that I\'m complaining of course~
By the way, the other servants who were also training against my Shadow Guards were also having a hard time.
Most of them could handle one on one fights at least, but when they were faced with two, everything changed.
My Shadow Guards had no need to communicate their plans with each other and could react and support each other instantly without even looking at each other.
That was an entirely different type of fight altogether and it was something that the servants were not used to dealing with.
Even in a situation where they were outnumbered, they learned how to read their opponents through their body language to react and counter attacks.
My Shadow Guards have none of that.
Coupled with the fact that they also don\'t need to chant spells and could cast them immediately, it really was quite overpowered.
I already know that this new skill of mine is overpowered but holy shit… I didn\'t know it would be this overpowered…
No wonder I was told that people would quite literally go to war for this skill if they knew about it…