The scythe was the Shadow Demon Bloodline Armant: Reaper, and its summoning was always ant to be subtle in the sense that it wasn't a sticker for chants.
Red Beard furrowed his brow at the speed Hal had just showcased and that was followed by the widening of his eyes at the feeling Hal was giving off even as he held him back with the handle of his large war hamr.
The feeling that supported the hypothesis he had had for a while that this young man was a demon.
Only a Demon could have been able to perform the feats that he had perford thus far.
He pushed Hal back but only did so to create a small distance between them and then swung his hamr at him.
However, before the hamr, which did not look to weigh anything with the way It was being wielded by the Bandit leader, made contact with Hal who was still within reach,
Hal's form shimred with a Dark smoky vapor and he vanished altogether. Moving at a speed that boggled the bandit leader's mind.
Suddenly, he was at Red Beard's side and kicked at his face.
Red Beard once again relied solely on his sharp instincts and intercepted the kick.
Hal was still smiling manically and his eyes completed the image that he was a dented Devil,
"Co on R.B... Let see it..." He said and twisted to slash his scythe at Red Beard's side,
*Slash*
It connected and made a cut that would have been much more serious if the bandit leader had not leaped back just in ti to avoid getting skewered.
However, Red Beard was not rolling on the floor or on one knee groaning in pain. He was charging up a cosmic attack which he imbued with a cosmic phenonon and tossed at Hal who had once again vanished from where he used to be.
He was now behind Red Beard and swinging his weapon at him however, the bandit leader surrounded himself with cosmic energy which helped avoid Hal drawing blood again.
Speaking of blood, the wound at his side was bleeding quite profusely and he was quick to swallow a nding pill that began to stop his bleeding and alleviated the pain once the cosmic energy shield gave him a mont of reprieve.
Hal on the other hand had been launched away quite a far distance after the repulse of his scythe against the shield.
This was the disadvantage of making use of the shadow demon Bloodline. Fad as one of the fastest races of higher beings, the shadow demonic bloodline granted Hal Incredible speed by reducing his density.
The speed he already had on account of his cultivation, as well as his bloodline, beca tripled but not without reducing his strength by half. The fact that his density had been reduced made it so that a successful hit from Red Beard would have him launching quite far away and create the perfect opening for an attack from his opponent.
The truth was that this was not exactly perfect for frontal combat.
It was good for reconnaissance.
It was good when Hal was assured of ending his opponent's life with one solid blow but it was not advisable for confrontations such as this.
The bloodline armant tried to make up for this by being large, swift, and very deadly but it was just not enough.
That was why the shadow bloodline's abilities were all perfect for espionage and assassinations rather than this but Hal was not quite ready to kill Red Beard just yet...
Once he had ascertained his bearing and was solidly rooted to the ground, Hal pointed his scythe at the bandit leader,
"Show ... Your ordinance"
Rearing from Hal successfully landing a hit on his side, Red Beard was visibly angry,
"What the hell are you talking about?" He asked and seeing that he was clearly not ready to open up, Hal felt he might as well continue,
He vanished once again, dashing towards Red beard who had not missed how far Hal had gone upon rebounding from the Cosmic energy shield and made his won assessnt,
"Speed is all you have..."
However, while that was true it was still enough to make Hal troubleso to deal with.
And that was why even though he took on a defensive stance, Red Beard did not actually make any moves, he simply waited for Hal to connect with his weapon which did not take that long.
Only then... Right at the last minute did he make a move to protect himself with the handle of his hamr.
Hal, being much faster than him saw this and smirked before changing the direction he had been swinging in to catch his opponent off guard but he had been wrong!
Red Beard was never really after the scythe itself but the hand which was being used to swing it which did not really change position all that much. Hal had opted for a more subtle change in trajectory and that was his undoing...
Red Beard grabbed his hand and pulled him closer. Hal was not strong enough to resist the pull and neither was he strong enough to not be knocked back several feet when the bandit leader headbutted him,
*Bam!*
Hal groaned and his forehead was bruised quite badly but that was far from the end.
Being sent backward and lacking any actual control of his body, there was no way Hal could have defended himself when Red Beard covered the distance to sink his knee into his stomach...
*Bam!*
*Crack!"
... And break a few of his ribs.
Hal groaned in pain and was without a weapon since Reaper had fallen from his hand following that headbutt.
Sassy hissed, being the only one who was really paying attention to the battle as everyone else was preoccupied, and she slithered towards Red Beard but Hal reached out to her through their link and told her to remain where she was.
Red Beard hefted his hamr and brought it down towards Hal's head but the Devil blasted at him with a Cosmic attack imbued with a cosmic phenonon.
Red Beard was easily able to blast it aside but Hal user that mont to summon Reaper to his hand once again and cut the bandit leader's calf as he slid out of attacking range.
Red beard groaned in annoyance before,
*Bam!*
Hal punched him in the face and then hit him in the midsection with the butt of Reaper in a clear retaliation for the knee to his ribs.
"Enough!!!' Red Beard yelled and released a violent blast of bright orange flas from out of nowhere while his eyes looked to be smoldering with flas of the sa color.
"Enough. The longer this drags on, the more of my n et their deaths" he growled.
Hal rolled his eyes,
"You are just figuring that out?" He said with a glance towards Karn who was whirling through bandits and hacking away at anyone unfortunate enough to be at the end of her Cosmic armant or Executioner.
Then he focused on Red Beard who seed to be charging himself up,
"So that's an ordinance. Impressive" He said with an approving nod.
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