Chapter 170: Emily vs Udana. Duel to the Death!

Chapter 170: Emily vs Udana. Duel to the Death!

Emily and Udana meet face to face once again for their final confrontation!

Udana draws her sword, pointing the blade directly at Emily.

“I will kill you. Master Kogen demands it.”

Emily pulls her tiny sledgehammer from her pouch, and it increases to full size once in her hands. She brings it up into a ready stance. “If you think it will be easy, then you are mistaken.”

“I didn’t say it would be,” Udana replies. “By becoming an Enigmus, you are a lot stronger than you were the last time we fought.”

Udana bursts forward with impressive speed and slashes at Emily. Emily blocks the strike with her sledgehammer, the impact ringing through the otherwise quiet room. Udana spins in a full circle and slashes again. This time, Emily dodges and swings her hammer, barely hitting Udana’s arm.

Udana grabs her injured arm with her free hand and snaps a kick into Emily’s chin, knocking her backward. She shakes off the pain and steadies herself.

“Sword. Yellow,” Udana commands.

Her sword glows yellow.

She rushes forward again, unleashing rapid slashes. Emily tries to block, but the yellow blade moves too fast, its strikes light but relentless. Several blows land.

Emily stows her sledgehammer and draws a dagger. With the smaller weapon, she manages to block more effectively. She catches Udana’s sword on the dagger and then punches Udana in the face, knocking her back.

Emily puts the dagger away and pulls out her bow.

“Sword. Green,” Udana commands.

Her sword shifts to a green glow. She bends her knees and grips the hilt with both hands, holding the blade above her head and pointing it toward Emily.

Emily draws an arrow and fires.

In an instant, eight identical Udanas appear in the room, all in the same stance. The one Emily shoots vanishes.

The remaining Udanas speak in unison.

“Do you like this ability? My green sword gives me this ability. Only one of me is real. Can you guess which one?”

Emily readies another arrow as the Udanas charge.

One swings at her. Emily judges it to be fake, and she’s right as the slash passes straight through her. She hesitates for a fraction of a second too long. The third Udana to strike is real.

Emily is sent flying into a wall, pain tearing through her back as a deep cut opens.

“That could have cut me in half with more power! Damn, it hurts!” Emily cries.

“You’re very fortunate that my sword can’t use more than one mode at once,” Udana states.

Emily pushes herself up, blood dripping down her back. She draws another arrow, focusing on the Udanas again. She fires, but the one she hits vanishes.

She immediately drops the bow and pulls out her dagger, blocking a slash from the real Udana.

Emily smirks. “I guessed correctly this time!”

“You blocked my attack. So what?” Udana asks.

“You don’t know all of my tricks!” Emily replies.

The arrow Emily fired ricochets off a wall and comes flying back.

Knowing which Udana is real, Emily jumps over her, snatches the returning arrow out of the air, and drives it into Udana’s back.

“Gahh!” Udana shouts in pain.

Emily follows with a kick that sends Udana crashing forward onto the floor. Udana lands face down, blood spreading across her back around the embedded arrow.

The green glow fades from Udana’s sword, and the fake Udanas disappear. She rises, grips the arrow, and rips it out.

“As I said, I didn’t think this would be easy,” she says. “You have validated why the Enigmus Project is so important. Before you became an Enigmus, you stood no chance against me. Now, look at you.”

“What are you getting at?” Emily asks.

“With an army of trained Enigmuses, we would not need the help of the divine light to fight the darkness.”

“To me, you all seem like the darkness.”

“I suppose I can see your point of view. However, you are on the wrong side. If you wish to continue fighting then pull out your Shadow Sword.”

“You really want me to use it?”

“Of course. It’s sword against sword, and if I can’t defeat you even at your best, then I deserve death as I can no longer fulfill Master Kogen’s desires.”

“Fine.”

Emily draws the Shadow Sword. Her irises darken to a deep red. “There is no going back now.”

Emily’s duel to the death with Udana enters its next phase.

Chapter 170 END

To be Continued in Chapter 171: Shadow Sword Against Ability Sword