The two shes mmed into each other, shaking the ground and emitting a loud ng from their des that rang out for dozens of meters around.


    With each new sh, the ground trembled and blood fell on the cold surface, whether it was the blood of a monster or a human, it didn''t matter, their blood had long since mixed to be a single trace of their fierce battle.


    The ck de spinning at breakneck speed left more and more wounds on Adam''s body, scratches and deep cuts covered him, bright shes of pain appeared relentlessly, but for him, it was only embers that helped his fire of battle to keep burning brightly.


    "Come on! We have less than a minute left! Is this all you have to show before you die? These are yourst seconds of life!"


    Adam eximed with an excited expression before swinging his ws, leaving four deep cuts on gue Reaper''s side like the paws of a massive beast.


    Despite the vivid pain, gue Reaper didn''t react in any way. He simply grinned widely before continuing to attack.


    From time to time, Katrin joined their battle, but since she had weakened considerably by spending her five minutes, she could hardly do anything to gue Reaper.


    Well, in fact, she had sessfully inflicted several wounds on him with both her staff and roots, but the reason was that gue Reaper was no longer trying to dodge.


    With each passing second, his victory was getting closer and he could feel it.


    ''No... I have to do something. Despite the wounds they''ve received, neither Adam nor gue Reaper is going to fall...'' Katrin muttered inwardly while energy streams that were already as thin as threads flew in front of her.


    Katrin bit her lip.


    ''gue Reaper also has a limited time, no one can fight at this pace forever, but... considering he doesn''t care about his wounds, he definitely won''t copse in a minute. Our time is quickly running out.''


    By then, only forty petals were left on Adam''s chest, and Katrin''s Evolution Tree was preparing to emptypletely.


    ''Fine, there''s no point in thinking about it, I can''t waste any time on this. Those two are right, the most important thing is to act now, as some of us don''t have long to live...'' Katrin''s gaze grew serious as she pointed her hand at gue Reaper.


    The next moment, ck roots with already opened crimson flowers emerged from the ground.


    The roots appeared right in front of gue Reaper, separating him from Adam like the rods of a cage.


    Earlier, gue Reaper would have just evaded, it was quite easy to do so from his spot, but now that wasn''t an option.


    Whoooooooosh.


    With a single swing, the ck de sliced through the roots, while crimson blossoms detonated.


    The ming st consumed everything around it, but despite its brightness, gue Reaper paid no attention to it, as ifpared to the desire to fight to the very end, these mes were pale and insignificant.


    Adam''s eyes went wide when a ck sh shot through the red fire, gue Reaper shielded himself from the mes with his coat.


    The edges of his coat burned away, leaving smoldering sparks on the cold ground.


    Bam.


    gue Reaper spun around, kicking Adam''s right in the stomach.


    His body moved in preparation for the next strike, but Adam''s ws instantly traveled across his face, leaving three deep cuts on gue Reaper''s cheek.


    Streams of blood quickly coated his pale skin, tending to fall to the ground.


    Adam was about to attack again. Oddly enough, his body allowed him to do so.


    gue Reaper''s eyes instinctively watched as Adam''s ws approached him. The electrical discharges helped his attacks reach some unthinkable speed.


    Even in his current state, gue Reaper had no time to dodge, it seemed to him that time itself stopped and only Adam was allowed to move.


    A swift gleam ran down Adam''s ws, the threads that made up his gauntlet trembled, quickly losing their shape.


    At once, as if at someone''smand, the gauntlet with the sharp ws disappeared, the threads simply parted to the side, exposing Adam''s arm that the next moment fell to gue Reaper''s chest.


    "Agh...? What the hell...?" Adam muttered in disbelief. He looked at his chest, he still had twenty petals, for another twenty seconds he could fight withplete freedom in his actions.


    Whooooooooooooosh.


    gue Reaper''s fist immediately plunged into Adam''s stomach, and a stream of blood came out of his mouth, coating gue Reaper''s chest.


    "Adam! Don''t you dare stop!" Katrin eximed appearing behind gue Reaper.


    Crackle.


    The sharp tip of her staff pierced gue Reaper''s leg, causing his face to distort in bright pain.


    "RRRRAAAAAAH!!!!"


    gue Reaper roared, turning his torso around and hitting Katrin sharply, the back of his palm smashing into her face.


    The impact threw Katrin aside, stunning her head as if two steel hammers struck it simultaneously.


    Second by second, Adam tried to force gue Reaper to his limit, but his efforts were not enough.


    ''No...''


    Adam internally muttered looking at the red particles of energy flying in front of him.


    Throwing a quick nce at his chest he saw that he only had three petals left.


    His heart beat faster, he realized that he had tounch his most powerful attack right now.


    Whooooooooooooosh.


    Tensing his muscles to the limit, Adam plunged the needle straight at gue Reaper, about to slice him diagonally through the hundreds of threads that made up his needle, each thread as sharp as a razor.


    gue Reaper''s excited face abruptly became calm and his eyes filled with sadness.


    He took a step forward.


    The tip of the needle split his chest, revealing the ribs behind which hid his heart, which started beating much slower.


    Then, the gue Reaper''s ck eyes reflected thest petal flying off Adam''s chest.


    As ast attempt, Adam raised his right hand high up, the tip of his needle shining, but... the flower already disappeared from his chest.


    Bam.


    Adam''s bones cracked, his flesh tore and his legs trembled, unable to support his weight. Surges of blood came out of the numerous gaps that showed up all over his body as if under powerful pressure.


    His time was up.


    Step. Step. Step.


    gue Reaper calmly approached him, looking from the top.


    Just a few seconds ago, he figured it out, so his gaze filled with sadness as he realized that their fight was over.


    Whooooosh.N?v(el)B\\jnn


    gue Reaper attacked, bringing his scythe down on Adam.


    Adam''s arm instinctively twitched, blocking the first attack with his needle, but the recoil spreading through his body was unbearably painful.


    "Stop!" Katrin eximed angrily running towards them.


    However, her steps were slow and clumsy. Out of one minute and fifty seconds, she had less than ten seconds left, she had lost almost all of her strength. The streams of energying out of her body were thinner than human hair.


    gue Reaper cast a nce at her, but no more than that. There was nothing she could do to stop him.


    Then, he raised his scythe high above his head before quickly lowering his weapon. The ck de sliced through the air in its path, about to end Adam''s life.


    Crackle.


    The long de thrust into flesh, cutting through bone with ease, but... Adam felt no pain, only a few drops of someone else''s blood falling on his shocked face.


    "Tsk... It hurts insanely..." Katrin muttered looking at her reflection in the ck scythe de deeply plunged into her right shoulder.


    From the pain and force of the attack, she fell to one knee, managing to protect Adam at thest moment.


    "Five... no, I probably have less than seconds left now..." Katrin muttered feeling that she was approaching the beginning of thest ten seconds when she would bepletely devoid of her powers, practically no different from an ordinary human.


    gue Reaper''s eyes went wide, he couldn''t believe Katrin had actually done it. Thick streams of blood flowed down her shoulder, which was already missing an arm.


    Not letting the thoughts consume his mind, gue Reaper gripped the bone hilt tighter, about to pull the de out of Katrin''s shoulder and attack once more to kill them both with his final sh.


    Tap.


    Slowly but surely, a cold palm touched gue Reaper''s chest, right where Adam had split it with the tip of his needle.


    gue Reaper lowered his gaze, and... he shuddered at the way Katrin was looking at him.


    There was a slight smile on her face and her eyes were filled with sadness.


    "Goodbye... until we meet again... It will happen very soon."


    Katrin muttered before her eyes shone brightly, onest time.


    A lone root emerged from her palm, the sharp tip advancing forward, between her ribs, easily piercing gue Reaper''s heart and exiting the other side.


    Ssh.


    Simultaneously, blood rushed from gue Reaper and Katrin''s mouths, both of them running out of time, but for now, it only meant death for one of them...


    Bam.


    Katrin and gue Reaper fell, rolling down the slope together before stopping in the middle of the dusty ground.


    The first wind current ruffled their hair, carrying away splinters of Katrin''s root that had already shattered since she had lost all her powers. Herst ten seconds had begun.


    Evolution Tree was draining the life force out of Katrin.


    Even though they had won, their original n was not going toe to reality. They had too little time left to kill some Light Yellow monster and save Katrin.


    But...


    The me of life was only gone from gue Reaper''s eyes, Katrin still had thest seconds of her story.


    "Hah... herees our hasty reunion..."


    Katrin muttered, before extending her hand towards gue Reaper.


    She opened her palm, white particles of energy turned into an active vortex.


    Katrin summoned Revolve.