The void blade, that was how Luke named that attack, moved for several kilometers and ate everything on its path. The speed didn’t decrease until it disappeared in the distance since it could devour everything, even the friction that the attack could have against things that could decrease its speed. It was one hell of an ability...

In any case, the other guys decided to give support to the dark armored woman from a distance since they didn’t want to get caught in her crazy attacks, and they didn’t have the confidence to dodge the Void Blade if they were too close to it. The spearman also could use Sonic Blade, and even though it couldn’t be compared to the arrows of the archer or the lightning bolt of the mage, he could spam it and annoy the heck out of Luke.

The dark armored woman suddenly disappeared, and then Luke used Stinger to the front. He barely escaped the attack... the enemy appeared behind him and slashed her sword. Still, Luke felt a small cut on his armor appearing. Teleportation and an unblockable blade... quite the nasty combination.

The woman repeated that several times and eventually got sick of missing. She clicked her tongue, wondering how Luke could be that troublesome when he was weaker than her, even in her weakest form. The answer lies in the fact that Luke was focusing his mana on his speed and strength buff. That was also why he was sweating gold, wondering what might happen if he got hit. Still, it wasn’t like increasing his endurance would change anything since that sword could eat everything, matter, and energy. Still, even the bonus in speed alone wouldn’t be enough against that creature... That was why Luke buffed his strength and was kicking the ground just like that overlord that left craters on the places he stepped...

Since she wasn’t making any progress, the dark armored woman decided to take the next step. To the point that even Luke frowned when he saw that... From her shadows, three other shadows appeared and then moved to surround Luke after assuming shapes that resembled her. That was the most literal form of the shadow clone technique... She even replicated the sword with the shadows.

"I want to learn that, how much do you want to teach this skill?" Luke asked.

"The price will be your life!" The woman shouted and raised her sword, and the shadows copied her.

"Do you accept coupons?" Luke asked while raising his guard.

The original and the cloned used Void sword, and Luke jumped to evade it. While he succeeded somehow, the skills collided and then began to fuse with each other... Creating a black hole that began to pull Luke down. He used an ice platform to escape, but then the attacks of the other annoying worms hit him and pushed him down.

Luke suddenly had one nasty idea of escaping using space magic and then pulling those three to that space as well before throwing them into the black hole, but that would be a waste of gear and status that he could obtain. In the end, he just used his katana and fired a blast of ice toward the black hole. That thing must have a limit on how much energy and matter it can absorb after all.

Somehow, Luke’s plan worked. His theory was correct. While the nature of the attack was to destroy everything and everyone it touches, it has a limitation. The limitation was the mana used by the caster of the skill... Putting that aside, the dark armored woman clicked her tongue and then sent her shadows to attack Luke. They could even be controlled like that... Luke truly wanted to learn that skill.

The shadows normally approached instead of using the same method that the woman used, but their speed still was the same. They began to swing their swords from the front and Luke’s sides, and he saw the space distorting where the blades passed. He couldn’t afford to get hit by any of those...

While running away and dodging the strikes, Luke wondered how he should take those down, and then he felt a shiver and a presence behind him. Naturally, it was the dark armored woman who waited for that opening. Still, Luke was faster and touched the ground with his sword. A cold wave crossed the area and froze their legs in the blink of an eye. The swords weren’t affected by the attack, but the shadows and the dark armored woman lost their power to move for a moment.

Luke quickly projected three copies of the soul eater sword and put them in the heads of the shadows. Just as he had expected, they had stopped moving. To creatures that were essentially made of mana, a weapon like that was no different than holy water to the undead. Eventually, with brute strength alone, the dark armored woman freed herself, but not in time to prevent the disappearance of her shadows.

When she planned to attack Luke again, she saw herself surrounded by countless swords made of ice that flew toward her. Using her own weapon, the dark armored woman destroyed them completely...

"I suppose not even spells with high concentrations of mana can stop that sword..." Luke thought. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

The other three began to attack Luke again while he was trying to get some distance over the dark armored woman, and that made him sigh. He needed some time to plan ahead for a way to deal with her, so he was considering using spatial magic. At that point in time, it was clear that she won’t run out of mana... he began to seriously consider that when the dark armored woman suddenly stopped, and then the glow of her sword began to increase in length and in Aura. Something bad was coming...

"It is risky, but... I should try," Luke thought after a long sign. "I am running out of ideas and I don’t want the easy way out."