Chapter 379: Battle of Supreme Swords... Part-4.


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    ''What does usually goes through my mind when the opponent is only one and there''s allies to help me fight?''


    ''Of course my first thought is...''


    [Elemental Sword Art: Water Type: Diverging tides!]


    Rio swung his sword horizontally and two water tides made up of condensed water


    elementals rushed towards the two clones.


    But the two clones didn''t flinch at all, they immediately used ''Frost Type'' to instantly freeze the water tide.


    *BOOM!*


    Rio broke through the frozen ice and swung his sword at one of the clones.


    [Elemental Sword Art: Thunder Type: Concentrated Thunder Arc!]


    He swung his sword in an upside-down motion and the clone barely was able to react on time to bring out ''Earth type'' attack to neutralize his thunder attacks.


    ''Not yet...''


    Seeing that the expected didn''t happen, Rio decided to use ''DarkWing Movement Art'' to dodge sideways to avoid the iing miasmic de swung by the another clone.


    The first clone also took advantage of this opportunity and stopped using Earth type, it used a ''Thrust'' type attack on Rio instead.


    [Handling!]


    *nck!**Clink*


    Rio had to parry those hundred thrust attacks at once to fully avoid taking damage.


    ''Now that I am facing it... I can indeed say it for sure... fighting me is definitely a pain in the A*s...''


    Rio simply has too many tricks up his sleeves.


    Not only is he fast, he hits like truck and if you don''t properly dodge his attacks, you will get hit by ten or more of the simrly powerful attacks and won''t even have the leisure to even breathe.


    Moreover, Rio simply has too many defensive abilities, not only he can parry most weapon type attacks with ''Handling'' he can basically avoid nearly all physical attacks with the shadow robe.


    Lastly, there''s true immunity, which will directly render all tricks useless against him. In other words, if you want to win against Rio, you need overwhelming power, if you can''t overpower him in one go, then it''s going to be very difficult to win.


    Even Rio himself is having a hard time fighting his own clones as he has to guard against many potential fatal attacks.


    But Rio has an advantage right now.


    That is, he knows his own habits and thinking process better than anyone else in the world. He knows what decision he will make in which type of situation.


    That''s why, he''s artificially trying to create situations that would be more beneficial to him as the clones will likely be more vulnerable to making mistakes in those particr situations.


    ''Not yet...''


    Rio used the Darkwing movement Art to enhance his speed again.


    [Sword Intent!]N?v(el)B\\jnn


    [Elemental Sword Art: Poison type: Swamp of Death!]


    Rio''s sword''s tip touched the ground and the water in the hall turned into lethal poison.


    Rio himself has ''Imperfect Sword Heart'' that makes him immune to poison, but the two clones don''t have it.


    They will have to make a choice in this moment, either use ''Frost Type'' the swamp and eliminate all hidden danger altogether.


    Or use ''Wind type'', take a risk and use the momentary dy of Rio''s sword being towards ground and not in a proper stance, to do a risky attack on him.


    The clones had a mere millisecond of time to make a decision and finally the thing that Rio was waiting for, happened.


    One of the clones used Frost Type, while the other used Wind type to do the risky attack. Although it seemed like the two were now cooperating and had each other''s back, this was exactly the situation Rio wanted.


    ''When there''s only one opponent and there''s one ally on my side, I make two decisions most of the time... either charge head on and do a risky attack while relying on the ally for support or just go with defense and don''t attack...''


    Earlier, Rio tried to create a situation where one clone will go for defense and one will go for a risky offense, but both clones were going for defense and Rio had to try this a few more times before he was able to create a favorable situation.


    Finally, he used the poison swap to narrow the ''elemental types'' that he will use in a situation like that.


    Rio mostly would go for ''Frost type'' if it''s defense and will use ''Wind type'' if it''s a risky offense.


    ''And whenever I use ''Frost Type'' there''s always a slight dy of a ''millisecond'' as after freezing something with the sword my sword also get stuck in that ice and I have to break it out of the ice... that''s where I get dyed for a ''millisecond''.


    For others, this ''millisecond'' might not be anything much, but for a speed reliant person like him, a mere ''millisecond'' can make a huge difference.


    Rio nced at the clone who used ''Frost type'' andpletely ignored the clone which was


    making a risky move.


    ''Hehe... got you!''


    [Sword Intent: Maximum Output!]


    [Elemental Sword Art: Space Type: Spatial Bypass Thrust!]


    As a technique copied from Link, Rio modified it to suit himself more.


    He used sword intent to copy the effects and manipted the space elementals to open an extremely small portal that was only enough for his sword to pass through.


    He thrust his sword into the portal and the sword bypassed the shadow robe of the clone that was using ''Frost Type''.


    It directly pierced the heart of the clone making the clone stop in it''s track.


    ''Ah, yes, I know I won''t die so easily even if my heart gets destroyed... just that much isn''t


    enough...''


    [Elemental Sword Art: Fire Type: Spiked explosion!]


    While the sword was still stuck in the body of the clone, Rio used ''Fire Type'' to make a powerful explosion that burst out mes in spike like manner.


    The clones whole upper torso blew apart like a balloon and it''s death was quite tragic.


    ''Ugh... it kind of feels weird seeing something that looks so identical to yourself die such a


    miserable death...''


    [DarkWing Movement Art!]


    Rio didn''t dilly-dally, he immediately used the movement art to dodge and he even left his


    sword behind to dodge the attack faster.


    *Boom*


    Looking back, the spot he was standing on was now trembling like crazy.


    The clone had used ''spatial type'' to try to hit Rio''s hand that was holding the sword.


    If Rio hadn''t moved away on time while abandoning his sword, his forearm would have been sliced off at that moment and even the Shadow robe wouldn''t have been able to protect him.


    ''Of course I knew you will attack...''


    When the allies are in trouble, Rio always uses most lethal attacks to stop the opponent, Rio knew this, thus he was always ready to dodge from the start.


    The real reason why Rio wasn''t worried that the clone would use the same tactic on him and would use space type to directly bypass his shadow robe and pierce his heart is because he already knew that the clone couldn''t do it even if it wanted to.


    ''The only reason I can do all this is because of ''Sword Intent'' and the ''Imperfect Sword Heart''


    afterall...''


    Without the help of these two things, Rio couldn''t have boosted his ''Space type'' technique to the point that it would ignore all defenses and restrictionspletely. Opening even that small portal for his sword to pass through is already a very difficult task.


    Usually only SS-rankers are capable of opening portal and bend the ''Space-time'' fabric to


    such extent.


    Rio was only able to imitate that because he has a legendary skill and an imperfect divinity


    helping him do so.


    If not for them, this trick wouldn''t have been feasible as he couldn''t have opened a portal at


    all.


    ''Well I also have Jin to thank for that...''


    Rio and Jin trained together for a while as Jin wanted to learn sword intent, at that time, Rio


    got to see the portal opening abilities of an SS-ranker from a very close distance for a very


    long time.


    With his insane ''Sword Aptitude'' Rio was easily able to imitate and learn that skill for himself


    even if barely.


    All Rio needed to do was assume the ''Space-time'' fabric itself as his ''sword'' then ''Sword


    Intent'' would apply to it too.


    Although it sound simple, unless you have insanely high ''Sword Aptitude'' you can''t


    aplish this insane feat of copying an SS-rankers unique ability.


    [Vinash: Re-Summon!]


    Rio re-summoned his sword as he had abandoned it to dodge the attack.


    With the sword once again in his hand a rare smirk appeared on Rio''s face.


    ''Now will be the most difficult part...''


    After losing all allies to an opponent, Rio will definitely get a bit angry at the opponent and


    the attacks will be more dangerous.


    ''Here ites...''


    *BOOM!*


    The clone took his stance and ced the sword beside his waist.


    His eyes stared at Rio and it had the same expressionless face as him.


    The clone then used ''Time Type: Thousand Mirages'' to attack. That skill fires thousand condensed time elemental arcs in all directions.


    And If you get touched by it even in the slightest, the body part that got touched by it will


    rapidly age and will turn into dust.


    Moreover, this skill was learned from Alverto and then modified by Rio, it can easily pass


    right through his shadow robe.


    The reason the clones didn''t use it before was because this skill is uncontroble and it will


    target everything in the vicinity.


    It can only be used when you are having a one versus one battle with someone.


    ''I have to acknowledge it... you are quite the high quality copy of me...''


    Rio smiled at the face of danger and was very satisfied with these mimics.


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    Author''s Notes.


    Question of the day.


    What skill do you think will be perfect and most powerful to use against Rio?


    (Tell me your thoughts in thements)


    By the way, don''t forget to use those power stones!!