<h4>Chapter 504 - Forced On The Back-foot</h4>


    The avatar that Rudra had manifested was extremely troublesome for the dark faction yers . However the mana drain the avatar had on Rudra was also astronomical .


    Hence while the enemy was trying to reduce the avatars size andnd blows through its defences, Rudra had to reconsider the size of the avatar as he had to voluntarily shrink as to reduce the consumption to mentain the avatar.


    The eight alive dark faction members hence dominated the next phase of battle , as it was a slow bleed for Rudra . His HP steadily fell from 70% to 50 % , as the avatar shattered when Rudra did not wish to send his mana reserves below 30%.


    A full 35 minutes after he first manifested the avatar, Rudra was once again just a normal human , as he looked increasingly tired and out of options against the eight remaining dark faction yers.


    Shadow said " I''ve got to hand it to you , Shakuni , you did a pretty good job. However your road ends here " .


    Rudra also looked as if he was a defeated man , as he had noebacks for this sny remark , as he braced himself for what was toe.


    The billions watching worldwide also thought that while Rudra had fought magnificently uptill this point , without the avatar the fight was going to end quickly . Everyone expected the downfall of shakuni of the elites.


    Shadow cocked his most powerfull arrow onto his bow , as he pointed towards Rudra. A ck thunder appeared on the bow string as it was stretched back.


    It was the tier 4 move , ck Thunder Arrow. A terrifying move for a one vs one fight , as it was practically unevadable with the blistering speed at which it came towards the opponent and caused extremely high damage.


    Hence when that move was released , everyone had a single thought of '' It''s over '' , as the dark faction members were each ready to use the item given by the church on Rudra''s death , that would temporarily stop him from undergoing the rebirth process and redirect him to a meet with Lucifer.


    However to their horror , when the blistering quick lightning did approach Rudra , the attack was met with the elven sword , as a death gleam was evident on Rudra''s eyes as he said " Full counter! "


    Rudra countered the ck thunder and returned it with double intensity towards shadow , who tried to sidestep the attack ,but the blistering pace of the attack made it impossible to do so , with the attack just nicking the side of his arm. However since he managed to avoid taking the full-blow of the attack , it went onto hit the dark mage behind him . Who was killed by the attack!


    Mages inherently had low defences , hence hit by a 2x power , peak tier 4 spell . It was no wonder that he died when taking the brunt of the spell.


    It was a lucky shot for Rudra , who did not intend to kill the dark mage with it . However it was a terrifying p of reality on the face of the dark faction yers , as Rudra still had a lot of fight left inside him , as the initially 10 best rankers of the dark faction were cut down to only 7 in a 50 minutes long overall fight against ONE single yer . With the fight still ongoing.


    Rudra looked at shadow as he now said " This ends only one way ..... Which is with me walking over your dead bodies , HAHAHAHAHAHA ".


    Taking battlestance , Rudra said " Summon mana legion ! ".


    As 2000 mana soldiers formted themselves around Rudra . As the dark faction yers were subjected to more and more of Rudra''s insane move arsenal.


    The elites were roaring and cheering once again , as their leader showed a second flurry in the battle . With the battlechants now changing to .


    " GO ...


    AWAY !


    .


    DARK


    BASTARDS


    .


    GO ....


    AWAY! "


    The crowd went wild as the 2000 mana legion soldiers charged onto 6 of the seven remaining dark faction members. As although weaker and not a serious threat to the tier 3 rankers. Those engaged against the force were still having to give time and attention to these troops , as Rudra isted the speed demon Lorenzo from the battle as he took him on one vs one!


    " You think , you are too fast eh? , Let me show you what real speed looks like boy ! ". Rudra said as hepletely got engrossed in weaving insane sword patterns as Rudra started performing the move leaf de hurricane , but only 2 times the normal speed.


    It was a move that Rudra had in his memory , however generally a move could only be executed at its said speed when learnt from the system AI. However Rudra searched the depths of his brain andprehended the move as a series of muscle patterns and performed it physically at twice the execution rate.


    It was an insanely difficult stunt to pull off , but Rudra being in a state of absolute focus of a cultivator was able to reach a ce where he could perform the move.


    Leaf de hurricane in itself was an insanely fast series of sword moves that were hard to parry with the naked eye. However with his new and advanced version of the move , Rudra just shattered all limits as Lorenzo found himself being cut with one in every three moves that Rudra made.


    1 minute after Rudra started his flurry , the armour that Lorenzo wore was in tatters , as his HP neared 35% . However , to his horror he was unable to see Rudra''s attacks much less parry them , as it was a huge mental blow for him , someonepletely built on the speed build.


    He desperately tried to reach for help , however with Rudra ying dirty and nearly 300 mana legion soldiers circling a single ranker , the rankers needed a little more time to be free from the pressing pesks as they could not help at the moment.


    This meant that Lorenzo was on his own for a breif time that support needed toe to him. He needed to holdout for 20 seconds more.


    But could he?


    /// Bonus chapter for the supergift by daosituXu . Thank him in thements for this one! ///