—FWOOOSH!
The mont Lucavion raised his blade, the air around him shifted. It wasn't just the pressure of his presence—it was sothing deeper, sothing celestial.
Starlight mana erupted from his body in a luminous cascade, flooding the battlefield with its brilliance. The air warped, space itself bending as his core ignited.
Aldric's crimson eyes glead behind his midnight helm, his smirk widening ever so slightly.
"Knight of the Wind."
Lucavion's voice was steady, cold.
Aldric tilted his head, almost amused.
"Oh… is that the na you have given to ?"
Lucavion didn't answer.
He simply moved.
—BOOM!
One instant, he was standing—
The next—
He was already there.
Aldric barely had ti to register the shift before—
—SHRING!
Lucavion's estoc descended, a streak of pure devastation. His body blurred as the celestial force of his core ignited—
「Void Starfall Blade, Starsurge.」
A single stroke—swift, absolute. The air trembled under its might. The night sky above them seed to distort, stars flickering unnaturally as though drawn into the blade itself.
Aldric's instincts scread. His spear flashed up—
—CLAAAANG!
Their weapons t in a catastrophic collision.
The rooftop beneath them shattered. The sheer force of impact sent shockwaves rippling outward, buildings groaning as windows exploded into shards. The stone cracked beneath Aldric's feet, yet—
He didn't break.
The wind around him scread, coiling, twisting—
His counterattack ca instantly.
「Stormpiercer: Tempest Thrust.」
His spear blurred, a silver streak cutting through the chaos. The air itself bent, compressed into a singular, piercing force.
Lucavion vanished.
No—
—He had already dodged.
His foot barely touched the ground before he pivoted, his blade carving a streak of white light through the night.
Aldric's grin widened beneath his helm.
This—this—
Was getting interesting.
—SWOOSH!
Wind exploded from his form, a violent storm twisting into existence. The force lifted loose debris into the air, turning shattered stone into lethal projectiles.
Lucavion didn't hesitate.
—THOOM!
He tore through the storm, his starlight mana devouring the turbulence as he surged forward. His estoc struck again—
But Aldric had already moved.
Their weapons clashed in rapid succession—
—CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Each impact sent sparks flying. Each strike shattered the air between them.
They weren't just fighting.
They were unraveling the battlefield.
Lucavion twisted mid-air, using the montum of Aldric's last parry to redirect his blade. A downward stroke—fast, relentless—
Aldric parried with a flick of his spear, his footwork seamless as he flowed into another attack—
—WHOOOSH!
Lucavion barely had ti to twist his body, the spear grazing past his ribs, slicing clean through his coat. Blood spattered against the cracked stone.
But he was already retaliating.
He lunged—faster, sharper—his estoc striking like a cot falling from the heavens.
Aldric grinned.
「Stormpiercer: Gale Rend.」
He twisted.
His spear ca down in a brutal arc, wreathed in razor-thin wind.
Lucavion's eyes narrowed.
He t the attack head-on.
—CRASH!
The impact sent another shockwave tearing through the cityscape, wind and starlight colliding in a whirlwind of destruction.
Lucavion gritted his teeth.
Aldric was powerful. Too powerful.
His wind affinity wasn't just an enhancent—it was an extension of his instincts. His movents weren't just fast; they were fluid, adaptive, natural.
But Lucavion—
Lucavion had spent his entire life fighting against forces greater than himself.
And he was not going to lose.
—FWOOOOOM!
Lucavion's mana surged, void-starlight radiating in waves from his core. His estoc burned with celestial brilliance, distorting the very air around him.
Aldric's crimson gaze glead behind his dark helm, the wind twisting around his form in a furious storm.
"You fight well," Aldric mused, his voice laced with amusent. "But—"
His spear blurred.
—BOOOM!
A single thrust. Not just fast—instantaneous.
Lucavion barely reacted in ti.
—SWOOSH!
He pivoted, the spear's tip slicing through his coat, grazing his ribs. A thin line of red blood across his side, pain flaring through his nerves.
That one almost ran through.
But he didn't slow.
Instead, his grin widened.
"You talk too much."
Lucavion exhaled, releasing all hesitation.
—His movents shifted.
The wildness of his style, the sharp, unpredictable footwork—they refined.
Aldric sensed it imdiately.
A shift. A transition.
The boy who had once fought recklessly was now wielding discipline.
And that was far more dangerous.
Lucavion lifted his estoc.
—Mana erupted.
「Void Starfall Blade: Celestial Spiral」
Starlight burst forth, spiraling around him, warping gravity itself. His body beca weightless, his next step impossible to track.
Then—
—FWOOOSH!
He disappeared.
Aldric's instincts flared. He pivoted—
Too late.
Lucavion was already above him.
His estoc descended, a streak of void-laced light aid at the exposed joint in Aldric's armor—
—CLANG!
Aldric barely twisted his spear up in ti, deflecting the fatal strike.
But Lucavion wasn't done.
The mont their weapons t—he flowed into his next technique.
「Void Starfall Blade: Eclipse Requiem」
—BOOOOOM!
The air imploded.
Lucavion's blade split into dozens of afterimages, a constellation of lethal strikes raining down at once.
Aldric's expression shifted.
—He was forced onto the defensive.
—CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Each strike chipped away at him. His wind armor crackled, flickering with instability.
Lucavion's eyes glead.
He saw the opening.
—And took it.
His blade pierced forward.
—SHNK!
Aldric grunted.
The estoc pierced through the gap in his pauldron, slicing deep into his shoulder.
A spatter of blood hit the ground.
For the first ti—
Aldric was injured.
Lucavion's smirk sharpened.
"Looks like you're not untouchable after all."
Aldric exhaled, staring at the wound.
Then—
He laughed.
Low. Amused.
"Not bad."
His grip on his spear tightened.
—FWOOOOOSH!
A sudden burst of wind exploded outward.
Lucavion's instincts scread—
But it was too late.
—THWACK!
Aldric's knee slamd into his ribs.
Pain shot through his body, his breath escaping in a sharp exhale.
—SWOOSH!
Before he could recover—
Aldric's spear lashed out.
Lucavion barely raised his estoc in ti—
—CLAAAANG!
The force sent him flying backward.
His body crashed against the stone rooftop, skidding until he ca to a stop. His breath ca ragged, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.
Pain.
But—
Lucavion only grinned.
His fingers curled around the hilt of his estoc.
Lucavion exhaled slowly, rolling his shoulders. His ribs ached where Aldric's knee had landed, his muscles screaming from the relentless pace of the battle. Yet none of that mattered.
Because now—
He saw it.
The air around Aldric shifted.
No—
It wasn't just the air.
It was the wind itself.
For the first ti, the storm surrounding Aldric wasn't just raw elental energy—it was controlled. Refined.
Lucavion's pupils constricted.
The swirling mana around Aldric's body wasn't just an extension of his attacks anymore. It was a part of him.
He's finally using it.
Aura Body.
The very technique that marked the difference between 5-star and 6-star.
Lucavion had read about it, studied the theory behind it—but he had never fought soone who truly used it.
The reason?
Because so few people ever reached this stage.
—3-star ant a knight could materialize mana, projecting their energy outward.
—4-star introduced intent, allowing their will to shape how mana flowed through their techniques.
—But 6-star?
That was different.
That was one of the most important and most difficult breakthroughs.
Because at 6-star, a knight could achieve sothing that transcended re skill.
They could forge an Aura Body.
A compressed, refined form of mana—one that rged with their very being.
Different from the normal mana that one would use to coat their bodies.
It augnted them, reinforced them, made them sothing more than human.
And now—Aldric stood before him, wrapped in it.
Lucavion clenched his jaw, his grip on his estoc tightening.
None of his previous opponents had ever used this technique. Not even those who were supposedly stronger than him.
Yet Aldric—
Aldric was using it now.
The wind howled as the aura around Aldric settled into his body, the storm condensing into sothing sharper. More lethal.
Then—
Aldric exhaled, rolling his shoulder. His voice ca low, amused.
"You have made use it."
His crimson eyes glead beneath his dark helm.
"You are not bad."
Lucavion breathed in.
A slow inhale. A steadying mont.
"…That so?"
His black eyes glead with sothing wild.
Sothing untad.
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